User:Xeroctic - Wikiwand

I'm a British user who edits in various parts of Wikipedia. I have a deliberately meaningless username (pronounced approximately /zərɒktɪk/ / zər-OK-tihk in British English), which sounds a bit like Ancient Greek (which I do not know).

This user may reduce activity sometime in the next few weeks, possibly in March, due to personal reasons mostly unrelated to Wikipedia.

Xeroctic

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This user is from the United Kingdom.

This user lives in England.

Red

This user's favorite colour is Red.

ATH

This user is an atheist.

♂

This contributor to Wikipedia is male.

This user is a member of
Generation Z.

This user is younger than Wikipedia.

This user is a native speaker of the English language.

This user is right-handed.

Interests

Technology

This user contributes using Google Chrome.

This user contributes using
Windows 11.

This user can program in Python.

This user can code in Scratch.

Wikipedia

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This user is not an administrator and has no desire to be one.

This user uses HotCat.

This user contributes with Twinkle.

This account

I created this account in May 2020, originally under the username CrimsonComputer, after my favourite shade of red and the topic area I would often edit in, but I renamed to my current username in October 2022. I became more active here from June 2023 onwards. I have no other accounts on Wikipedia; I had made several IP edits between 2017 and 2020 before creating this account.

Wikipedia activity

Usual areas I edit in include:

Redirect creating and categorising (some categorising is also done on Commons)
XfD (mostly MfD or RfD) nomimations
The Deleted articles with freaky titles list and WP:Unusual articles
Wikidata edits, mostly connecting entries with other websites
Popular music (usually UK singles chart songs)

Less frequently, I may edit (or not as frequently as I used to):

Computer or programming-related topics
Languages, often tying in with edits on Wikifunctions or Wiktionary
The Eurovision Song Contest
Scientology
Short descriptions
Subtitling (here and Commons)
The Simpsons

While I have created several pages in mainspace (mostly Simpsons episodes or London Overground services), all of them were done as redirects.

Accounts on other wikis

A lot of my editing experience on wikis comes from a small-ish wiki known as the Scratch Wiki, about the Scratch programming language (the wiki is mentioned briefly in the article), where I use the username Jammum (I previously used the username SausageMcSauce on the main Scratch website from 2019 to 2024), which I had edited since late 2018. I am a form of partial-admin there known as an "Experienced Wikian", but I slowed down editing since early 2024 to focus on Wikipedia and real life, which I now edit sporadically.

Some of my contributions on Wikipedia contain content that is not allowed on Scratch (specifically profanity and some nudity), so I do not mention this account on Scratch or related websites.

I also use the Xeroctic username on other wikis or wiki-like websites I edit less often: the Minecraft Wiki (minecraft.wiki), MusicBrainz, SecondHandSongs, OpenStreetMap, and Miraheze.

I also have an account on another wiki, unrelated to Scratch or Wikipedia, which I have decided not to associate with my Wikipedia profile, and is not under this username.

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