EpicWitch

Welcome

Hello, EpicWitch! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. You may benefit from following some of the links below, which will help you get the most out of Wikipedia. If you have any questions you can ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or by typing four tildes "~~~~"; this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you are already excited about Wikipedia, you might want to consider being "adopted" by a more experienced editor or joining a WikiProject to collaborate with others in creating and improving articles of your interest. Click here for a directory of all the WikiProjects. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field when making edits to pages. Happy editing! Randykitty (talk) 10:21, 27 December 2012 (UTC) ====reply==== Thank you for the warm welcome Randykitty, I appreciate it! Being adopted sounds like fun too, when did WP start doing that? EpicWitch (talk) 10:37, 27 December 2012 (UTC) Getting Started The five pillars of Wikipedia • Tutorial • Your first article How to: edit a page • upload an image Getting Help Frequently Asked Questions New contributors' help page Where to: ask questions • make requests Request administrator attention Policies and Guidelines Neutral point of view • Reliable sources Verifiability • Citing sources • No original research What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Simplified Manual of Style • Three-revert rule Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism • Sock puppetry Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The Community Community Portal • Adopt-a-user program Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • Resolving disputes Build consensus • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Things to do Be bold in editing • Help develop an article Maintenance • Peer review • Requested articles Join a WikiProject • Translating articles Cleaning up: General • Spam • Vandalism Miscellaneous Categories • Disambiguity • Stubs User pages • Talk pages Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

About adoption

Hi there! My name is Brambleberry. I see that you wish to be adopted by a more experienced user. When adopters are looking for possible adoptees, they generally want to get an idea of what your interests are on Wikipedia. This involves telling a little bit about yourself, your interests, and your hobbies on your user page. This would involve more than just the three userboxes you have on their now. For example, on my user page, I include what WikiProjects I'm in, what languages I speak, animals, music, video games, and media I like, and what pages I wrote. öBrambleberry_{_ meow _ watch me in action} 22:43, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

Well, it's not perfect, but I updated by about me page to be more in-depth. I should've done that from day one. Thanks for the prompt ;) EpicWitch (talk) 17:29, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

I'd be happy to adopt you

Hello, I'm The Transhumanist.

I've been a participant since Fall 2005. I'm a very active editor (I've contributed over 100,000 edits, including 16,000 on early accounts). I've recently returned from a several month long (and badly needed) wikivacation (though I still dabbled and kept an eye on things). I'm back at full speed now. Feels good.

I like your user page and personal profile.

Probably due to my RPG background, I like spell metaphors and metaphorical spells. Like how templates are portrayed as spells at WikiWitch. Another type of wikispell are shortcuts, which teleport you all over the wiki. My favorite type of wikispell are scripts (including gadgets).

There are many mental counterparts to wikispells, like mnemonic devices for recalling (summoning) memories, moods, and entire states of mind. Psychological self-control techniques, such as NLP, classical conditioning, autogenics, and autosuggestion can be applied through roleplaying as mental "spells", to "charm" oneself into taking specific action, or to "summon" new attitudes, new virtues, new habits, or new abilities within oneself for the purpose of attaining them. Or to strengthen convictions when needed (similar to prayer), or formalize (i.e. ritualize) procedures. The spells in The Book of Abramelin are especially interesting when "cast" within the imagination (one's personal virtual reality) to stimulate ideas or to vent one's frustrations.

I've mentored before, but it was under the (now defunct) Admin Coaching program (though I am not, and never have been an admin). Seven of my students went on to survive RfA and receive their mops (admin status). One of them is now a Bureaucrat, and another is on ArbCom.

Some of the projects I've spearheaded include the Help index system, the Tip of the day (displayed on the Community portal), Wikipedia's department directory, revamping the Welcoming committee and its welcome templates, building the User page design center, and running the outline department.

My favorite article is meaning of life, with many other articles coming in a close second. I love knowledge in general, and have edited over 18,000 pages on WP. I hope you feel that I'm qualified to show you "the way of the wiki".

I look forward to your reply to my offer. Sincerely, The Transhumanist 19:48, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

P.S.: Feel free to ask me any questions you may have. If I don't know the answers, I'm sure I can help you find them. –TT

Honored By Your Offer!

Greetings Transhumanist! I have to say that I am honored that you would consider adopting me, and I'm sorry that it took me so long to get on and check my inbox. I've been over-working myself making movie magic on fiverr, creating scribed animations and powtoons for the worlds online businesses, lol.

Thank you also, for the detailed and relevant info about wikispells, I definitely would like to learn more about using them in the right places and at the right times. Especially the Shortcuts and Mnemonic Devices, which I've always had a bit of trouble with using. Though I'm sure with a responsive mentor like yourself around, it would be easy enough to learn. =)

Well, what is a good place for us to start our adoptee-adopter relationship? Do we exchange any badges/tags? Or do we jump into a project your working on or maybe create our own? I'm up for just about anything.

ttfn EpicWitch (talk) 03:33, 2 February 2013 (UTC)

Another welcome for you....

Welcome!   The Transhumanist 19:27, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

Invite

EpicWitch, you are invited to join WikiProject Dragons. Although this WikiProject has not gotten off the ground yet, your experience would be invaluable in helping to set up this WikiProject. See you there! -- Thus Spake Lee Tru. 20:51, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

P.S. As you can probably tell, this is not a template. -- Thus Spake Lee Tru. 20:51, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

P.P.S. I found that I have very similar interests to you, interesting. -- Thus Spake Lee Tru. 20:51, 4 June 2013 (UTC)