Hi. You can call me "Vindicator" or just "V". Normally, on pages like this, I ask "how the heck did you find me", but you probably found me on the leaderboard thing because I edit this wiki a fair bit.
Discord notice: I don't use Discord. Privacy policy and all that rubs me the wrong way. If you need to get ahold of me, feel free to post on my discussion page. If it's relevant to a specific article I've edited or made, you can also @ me on the article in question's discussion page; every page I edit is on my watchlist, so it should notify me.
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What do you do on the wiki? edit
I mostly edit existing wiki pages for grammar, spelling, formatting, and clarity. Might add onto a page or make one if I'm feeling particularly passionate about a topic. Despite how much I edit, I am not an admin or anything; I'm just some rando who likes editing pages. :P In fact, I'm pretty new to this. This is my first wiki editing account, and I don't think I've ever edited any other wikis anonymously in the past.
You also will notice that I may have one (usually minor) edit right after another sometimes. This is just because I almost always finish editing and then realize I forgot to do something minor on the page (i.e., put a period somewhere) and I'm a forgetful perfectionist who has to fix it immediately, lol. I know this does kind of bloat my edit count a bit, but it's not my intention to manipulate the leaderboard thing (I don't really care about being high up on it).
Why'd you decide to start editing the wiki? edit
Probably the same reason you likely visited or started editing: saw one of Louis Rossmann's videos where he mentioned it and wanted to help out. It wasn't until I kind of started editing in detail that I remembered that I sort of have skills and interests that would help a lot with this project.
What kind of "skills and interests" do you have that would help? edit
Almost ten years ago now, I edited articles and wrote a monthly editorial for my high school newspaper (that nobody read except the Boomer teachers at the school, lol). Nonetheless, I enjoyed it so much that I'd wanted to pursue journalism in college. There are many (often personal) details to why that fell through that I won't get into, but the significant thing that I will mention is that I had some concerns with the integrity of the field that made me hesitant to get into it. Once again, without too many details, though my personal beliefs have shifted much in (almost) ten years, I'm not convinced that my younger self's concerns were totally unfounded.
I'm hesitant to go as far as to call editing wiki articles "journalism", but editing and making wiki articles for a project like this really isn't much different from writing an unbiased news article, so it kind of satisfies the same interest for me. You need to try to follow a lot of the same base standards to make a good article: present the facts and let people come to their own conclusions without leading them in one particular direction.
How'd you come up with your username? edit
Technically, a username generator on a password manager. Probably about a year or two ago, I made a "throwaway" account on another website, and needed a username. I usually click until I find something that I'll remember, and for that website, it came up with... "Vindicate". I just changed it to "Vindicator".
What's funny is that I use this pseudonym on many websites- with random number combinations on the end ("4021" does not mean anything). That was actually my intention here as well, just to maintain a vague sense of anonymity, but then I accidentally ended up making myself known from editing a lot and ending up on the "Top Contributors" page. Whoops! :P