User:Toadspike

Please ping me in conversations on-wiki! I do not always check back on talk pages unless I get a notification. I try to subscribe to Talk page discussions, but I cannot subscribe to some pages (e.g. AfDs, SPIs, and GA or DYK reviews).

Advice and criticism are always welcome; simply leave a message on my Talk page. You can also contact me by pinging me on the Wikimedia Discord server. Email is less reliable, but I'll probably see the message eventually; leaving a You've got mail message on my talk page is the best way to get a prompt reply.

You may refer to me by he/him or they/them pronouns. I prefer the former, but the latter is generally a safe bet on the Internet. :)

Hello there! I am Toadspike,^[a] a reader, editor, and administrator here on the English Wikipedia. Globally, I am also a member of the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C). I speak English, German, and Chinese, and have limited knowledge of several other languages and scripts, which comes in handy. I will gladly do translations or search for obscure sources.

I started out making many minor copyedits to fix spelling, grammar, and double spaces, add serial commas, and improving weird formatting, quirks which have been generously distributed throughout Wikipedia by my peers and, occasionally, myself. I moved on to adding lots of short descriptions. Nowadays I even write and review content!

My interests vary widely. I am variously active at SPI (where I am a clerk), AfD (esp. DSCH and DSZH), RM/TR, NPP, AfC, and pending changes – I will happily answer questions about any, or work on a backlog in an emergency. I sometimes close discussions; I appreciate criticism and advice on my closes. I have written some advice on RM/TR and advice on AfD, which I hope you find helpful.

I have created a few articles, including Anna Pestalozzi-Schulthess, 5 Broadgate, Yunxian Man, and Tuas Lamp Post 1. A more complete list is at User:Toadspike/Articles. I've also done a handful of FLC, FAC, GAN, and DYK reviews. Feel free to ask me for a review, especially in topic areas I have previously reviewed or where my language skills are of use.

I have one alternative account: User:Toad's Pike. ■しかく

• WP:CENT
• Sfn generator: [1]
• Template:Cite sign seems epic! I have a lot of signs to cite.
• Fill out User:Generalissima/Administration of Cultural Heritage top ten archaeological discoveries with translations from dewiki, zhwiki articles. Perhaps create articles on interesting entries that don't have any yet.
• Check out Wikipedia:Typo Team/moss
• Check Template:Retracted, Category:Articles citing retracted publications, and Category:Articles citing publications with errata
• Category:Disambiguation pages containing one non-primary topic
• Sandals [2]
• Pending AfC search [3]
• AfD close analyzer [4]
• User:Uhai/Pages without short descriptions by view count
• Keep an eye on User:Toadspike/New CJKV disambiguation pages

A goat for you.

Jjgg713 (talk) 11:54, 22 April 2021 (UTC)

• "Wikipedia needs admins, not the other way around" - Chaotic Enby
• An admin, an IP, and a sockpuppet walk into a bar...

...and the bartender says, "what're you having?" The admin says, "I'll have a glass of your finest champagne." The IP says, "Give me your cheapest draft beer." The sockpuppet says, "Just water for me; I can't afford a third drink." – the best thing to come out of the 2024 RfA review? (2025 update: Thankfully, this was not the best thing to come out of the 2024 RfA review.)

• "Maybe we need a new policy, WP:No episcopal threats."

"We can pair that with WP:No threats of divine retribution" – EEng and Rosguill at ANI

• "Yes, we have to rely on WP:YUCKY." Liz at AfD
• "It's not the hookiest hook of all time, but they can't all be category five bangers." PMC, on Organization of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a hook I personally found fairly hooky, if not "category five".
• "You’re not saving anyone here. You are a volunteer Wikipedia editor, not a volunteer firefighter." -HyperAccelerated at ANI
• "Arming individual Wikipedians does not seem like a particularly effective response" – Rosguill, on the Heritage Foundation's plans to mass-dox Wikipedians
• "I can't say I have the emotional bandwidth to do that every day, but fortunately no one can hear me swearing at my computer." – Beland, closing a close review of an RfC trying to overturn a close [5]
• "Contentious topics [...] correlate with a high concentration of either special interests or special interests." – Tamzin on tropical cyclones as a CTOP