XanSurnamehere

Xan

About me

I like software and customization.
I've made a few contributions.
I answer messages on my talk page.
I'm exceptional at procrastinating

Userboxes

This user is a WikiCat.

This user has lived in the Western United States their entire life.

This user is bold, but not reckless, in updating pages.

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This user prefers to be referred to using masculine gender pronouns.

This user is an expert in Nothing
Do not trust this user in any topic!

This user prefers Mozilla Firefox.

This user is a participant in
WikiProject Cats.

This user is a member of the Wikipedia Department of Fun.

This user is a participant in
WikiProject Userboxes.

It is approximately 5:41 PM where this user lives (Pacific Northwest in the United States).

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

This user uses Windows but just because most games are not released for Linux.

This editor thinks Wikipedia should readily allow copyrighted images and supports fair use. We should teach and not let copyright stop learning.

This user uses HotCat.

This user is against DRM.

This user watches videos on YouTube.

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This user chats on the Wikimedia Community Discord server as XanSurnamehere.

This user uses Twitter.

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This user lives an ordinary life.

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This user is a WikiChild.

This user tracks what they listen to on Last.fm (XanSurnamehere).

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This user is sad that Xan Surnamehere isn't notable enough to have a Wikipedia article.

This user is a Pirate. Arrr!

This user prefers PC.

This user is a scary Ghost.

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This user has been spirited away.

YGS

This user thinks Your Grammar Sucks.

This user thinks they might have too many userboxes. Oh well...

More 😅 userboxes

This user has totally not destroyed Wikipedia.

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This user is at an intermediate comedic level. They can back slap with the best of them.

This user will never give you up, let you down, run around or desert you.

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This user may get around to being a professional procrastinator. Someday. Maybe.

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This user is weird

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This user's favorite number is 42.

This user is a certified whack-job, who does not know how to use userboxes!

This userbox is crooked.

This userbox was put here by mistake.

My name's Xan ✨ and I'm on the en wikipedia and wikimedia commons.

About edit

Avid internet user and probable Wikipedia contributor. Has a website that's kept up to date with the latest and greatest information about them. Likes adding more info to articles about interests like software and making adjustments to sentences grammar & punctuation (this sentence probably messed up both of those).

Notes edit

Curious as to why there seems to be no userboxes about liking indie pop or alternative rock music genres or artists. I might figure out how to make some or another contributor could.
I really like how Wikipedia is so customizable, enjoyed reading some Wikipedia Essays, and understand why it makes it harder for Tor users to contribute in some scenarios.
Messed around in the settings to enable the Vector '22 theme and HotCat + dark mode toggle + Justify paragraphs + Twinkle gadgets; all of which are pretty cool.
My last user page was deleted because of U5. A non-contributor's misuse of Wikipedia as a web host. Hopefully this iteration closely relates to Wikipedia's goals more so than previously.
I once got to Tinnitus from Looksmaxxing through Mewing (orthotropics)

Favorite contribs edit

A few edits to Scratch (programming language)
This user page 🧐

Speed dial edit

Editing must-haves: User:XanSurnamehere/sandbox, Template:Reply_to, Wikimedia Commons Upload Wizard
Wholesome wiki things: (especially essays) Wikipedia:What "Ignore all rules" means, Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits, Wikipedia:Guidance for younger editors, Wikipedia:Polling is not a substitute for discussion
More humorous: Wikipedia:April Fools, Wikipedia:The end of Wikipedia, Help:Buying Wikipedia, Wikipedia:Don't delete the main page, User:Example2, User_talk:Example, Wikipedia:Wikipediholism test, User:Jimbo Wales/WikiProject Wikipedians for Jimbo's beard
Interesting articles: Larry (cat), Procrastination, Social conservatism in the United States, Five Nights at Freddy's (soundtrack), GEN Z, Birds Aren't Real
Simply saving for later: 🗿

User page inspiration edit

Pages: Wikipedia:User_page_design_guide/User_page_Hall_of_Fame, Category:User_top_icon_templates, Category:Userboxes

User pages: AxG, Levi_OP, Taltos, Materialscientist, Xeroctic, BEEFITRON, Bishzilla, East718, JRPG, The_prophet_wizard_of_the_crayon_cake, xaosflux, Jimbo_Wales, BDD, JoeNMLC, Theooolone & ThatOneWolf.

Finding userboxes: The_Young_Skeptic ☑️, Therealelizacat, NyanKatGrrrl, Whoop_whoop_pull_up, CamiTheWitch, Mgreason, I_dream_of_horses & AFirefoxUser

To do edit

Draft pages edit

In progress: ROUNDS ➡️ Draft:ROUNDS (video game)
Not started: West Hunt, CoCo, Firefish, Pleroma, microblog.pub

Improve articles edit

Bitwarden
Third-party Firefox forks
Fediverse software (add soapbox & others)

Make user templates edit

A userbox for each WikiProject about Jimbo's beard (for, against, uncaring) .
A top icon for WikiProject Cats. (There's one for WikiCat but not this?)
A top icon for WikiKitten.
A userbox for users who Prefer Firefox for Android.

Miscellaneous edit

Setup ClueBot_III on user talk.

More things edit

Currently, this editor has earned the Registered Editor, level 3 service award.

To get to the next level, Registered Editor, level 4, they need to meet the editing requirement.

Progress towards the next level (by edits): [ 1 / 50 ]

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Tip of the day...

Using templates

Templates are a type of page that contain boilerplate text that is intended to be displayed on more than one page in Wikipedia.

This Tip of the day box is an example of a template (there are several versions actually), and besides being displayed here it is displayed on many userpages as well.

Template names start with the prefix "Template:" followed by the page name. The main version of the template you are reading right now is called "Template:totd".

To display a template on a page, go to the target page, click "edit", and add the template's name (with or without the prefix) surrounded by double curly brackets to the page's source text. (The text you see in the edit box when you click edit this page is called "source text", because it is a lot like programming code, which is called "source code").

Including a template on a page in this way is called "transclusion". Here's an example:

To include the Template:Philosophy topics, type this at the end of the philosophy article you wish to place it on::

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