User:Snapplejackalope

--Currently, I am working largely on taxonomic updates (as opposed to article content), in both wiki and commons

Userboxes This user likes seahorses. This user likes Nudibranchs. This user tries to do the right thing. If they make a mistake, please let them know.

--I am aware I need to clean up my recent commons edits in terms of wikidata associations. Sorry about that.

--Also, the Taxonavigation on those pages have been bugging me. Might try and make a new one, likely Bouchet&Rocroi2017 but with key updates? (Namely, details like forgoing the outdated Flabellinoidea for Aeolidioidea). I would do Korshunova2025, except for the issue of Trinchesiidae. even Bouchet himself is taking a breather before updating Trinchesiidae on WoRMS, camping out until the dust settles, and man, i just redid like all of Trinchesiidae and friends on wiki and commons (this was before I got access to the Korshunova et al. 2025 doc). Like, I'll redo all of it if I gotta in the name of taxonomic integrity, but I'd like to wait at least a week, y'know?

Hello. I am new here and still learning the technological aspects of editing. I am taking the advice to edit boldly, but please inform me if I am stepping on toes and/or inadvertently creating an administrative nightmare.

I joined wikipedia with the intention of reducing the rate of readers making incorrect identification of species due to lack of information and misinformation on Wikipedia. It is a cause I am quite passionate about. In ocean life especially, the internet is flooded with misidentifications, lack of research, and relevant information stuck behind paywalls. I have spent hundreds of hours sorting nudibranchs as a hobby, and I am fed up with inconsistency not only across different sources, but within wikipedia.

iNaturalist has the wikipedia pages not just linked to, but embedded within their own species pages. That means every bit of misinformation published on wikipedia is further reinforced and propagated by casual or confused folks simply doing their best to contribute to community research efforts.

I have already made thousands of edits on commons re-categorizing incorrectly identified nudibranchs, and revamping taxonomy. In my fugue state of hyperfocus I may become overzealous, so I welcome feedback when my ambition overreaches my accuracy, mortifying as it may be.

No one has seemed to notice me yet, which I am taking as a good sign. Though every day my anxiety grows. In the event you are reading this because I have done everything horribly, catastrophically, disastrously wrong, and you simply just had to try and figure out what sort of person would do this...hi there. Very sorry. If I've made a nightmare mess, I am happy to reverse it. I probably will have to anyways, depending on when WoRMS decides to update Trinchesiidae and friends...or when the opposing camp drops their next rebuttal.