User:Trackerwannabe

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en This user is a native speaker of the English language. fr-2 Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau intermédiaire en français.

Worthy of consideration

• "Editors are encouraged to add an archive link as a part of each citation..." Please. Doing so helps prevent link rot.
• Countering Systemic Bias on Wikipedia
• On redirects
  • Essay countering the "Pandora's Box" argument
  • Keeping redirects - "If someone says they find a redirect useful, they probably do."
• "You can contribute to Wikipedia without needing to know what the rules are." — glad that's the case.
• Random good article

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Questions to which I would like answers

Data duplication

How can I avoid data duplication in a table such as the one here? Is there a way to store/use a value into/from a variable? In the example cited, I am duplicating data three times in each row. There must be a better way!

How to hide entire rows of a table?

I hid individual cells of a table here. How can I hide entire rows?

Pages holding interest for me

Pages I watch and to which I occasionally contribute

Page	Last modification	Last modified by	Views this year
Draft:List of contributors to Project 2025	2025-05-20 16:52	ToadetteEdit	122
List of birds of Vermont	2025-04-29 02:15	Ser Amantio di Nicolao	4,362
List of mammals of Vermont	2025-10-03 16:49	Monkbot	1,785
List of amphibians of Vermont	2025-03-04 17:34	Andy02124	381
List of reptiles of Vermont	2025-08-14 18:45	Trackerwannabe	198
List of fishes of Vermont	2025-06-23 22:10	Plantdrew	110
List of birds of New Hampshire	2025-11-26 23:11	Waterfaux	5,748
List of mammals of New Hampshire	2025-10-03 10:20	Monkbot	287
User:Trackerwannabe/Draft:List of trees of Vermont	2025-01-09 10:15	Fayenatic london	34
User:Trackerwannabe/Draft:List of amphibians of New Hampshire	2024-08-28 15:04	Trackerwannabe	110
User:Trackerwannabe/Draft:Thomas F. Tyning	2024-09-01 21:04	Trackerwannabe	216

Pages at which I occasionally glance and to which I may contribute at some point.
(Someday, I may also use one or more of these as the basis for a new page.)

Page	Last modification	Last modified by	Views this year
List of birds of New York (state)	2025-11-15 23:39	Waterfaux	22,026
List of mammals of New York	2025-06-28 06:28	GreenC bot	7,476
List of birds of Massachusetts	2025-11-25 00:33	SchreiberBike	9,051
List of mammals of Massachusetts	2025-10-04 11:58	Monkbot	5,804
List of amphibians of Massachusetts	2025-04-29 02:04	Ser Amantio di Nicolao	670
List of reptiles of Massachusetts	2025-04-29 02:24	Ser Amantio di Nicolao	2,181
List of birds of Maine	2025-07-30 20:15	172.101.51.227	6,752
List of mammals of New England	2026-01-02 06:01	CaribDigita	6,216
List of trees of Georgia (U.S. state)	2025-12-21 23:54	Mitch Ames	4,540

of limited import

À propos of Wikipedia General This user has been on Wikipedia for 17 years, 1 month and 24 days. Language en-US This user is a native speaker of American English. fr-2 Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau intermédiaire en français. Me on Wikipedia This user is still trying to figure out how to effectively navigate around Wikipedia. This user reserves the right to completely fork up edits. (Furthermore, this user sometimes uses euphemisms and malapropisms.) This user is a userbox kleptomaniac. This editor has thanked these Wikipedians. This user wishes you could thank IP editors. This user is a donor to the Wikimedia Foundation. You can be one, too. This user works on articles related to Nature. Perspectives This user believes that userboxes do not divide the Wikipedia community, but rather emphasise its diversity. Wikipedia is not censored for minors. Stats 'n stuff For more of Trackerwannabe's statistics on Wikipedia, click here. This editor is a Novato and is entitled to display this Wikipedia Picture Story Book. 1,000+ This user has made more than 1,000 contributions to Wikipedia. This user completed the introductory tutorial series on 5 August 2024. Pages created Top edits per namespace Edit count My userspace pages

About me General This user is a citizen of the USA, a member state of the United Nations. Language This native speaker of American English speaks with an accent. y'all This user thinks y'all serves a useful purpose as a second-person plural pronoun, and would like to see y'all use it more often. ? This user tends to misuse (in so-called proper usage) that and which. Expertise ? This user is an expert in being wrong Interests This user is interested in the Planet Earth. This user is interested in the belief that death is an acceptable part of life. This user is interested in and draws sustenance from nature. This user is interested in mycology. This user is interested in Human Prehistory This user likes bears. This user is interested in language. This user is a musician. Personal This user is a book lover. PC This user listens to podcasts. This user listens to NPR. This user likes cats. o.O This user is weird This user is lazy. This user remembers using a rotary dial telephone. This user remembers (with nostalgia) having to use punch cards to run Fortran programs in college. Silly but true This user is diurnal. This user is a mammal. The ancestors of this user hunted mammoth and mastodon. So how was your day?

Some of my perspectives General This user knows that Democracy Matters. This user knows that Black Lives Matter. Academic...ish This user recognizes the importance of the scientific method. This user is an advocate of open research and open access. τ This user believes tau should replace pi as a mathematical constant. Political This user is concerned about the country's sprint towards fascism. This user thinks it is well worth asking the question Do I really want to be a collaborator? This user opposes slavery. This user opposes torture under all circumstances. This user is opposed to online censorship. This user is opposed to virtually all forms of censorship. This user supports free speech. This user supports protection of the environment. PC This user is pro-choice. This user supports equal rights for LGBT people. This user supports marriages of both the monogamous and polyamorous varieties between expressly consenting persons of any gender. This user is against the war on drugs. Other This user believes that a tomato is biologically a fruit, but socially a vegetable. This user believes that 42 is the answer to life, the Universe, and everything.[humor]

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