User:Daftation

Not to be confused with Daft, DAFT, Daft Punk, or Daft Club.

"From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia"
Wikipedia is extremely cool.
This single website is a main source of knowledge for 4.3 billion people!
And I am one out of 47 million Wikipedians,
a drop of water in this ocean,
This ocean of dedicated people to expanding this awesome base of human knowledge.

“I came to the idea of how fine it would be to think of an encyclopedia of an actual world, and then of an encyclopedia, a very rigorous one of course, of an imaginary world, where everything should be linked.”

— Jorge Luis Borges, Interview with Denis Dutton, 1977

"From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia"

I bet people would laugh at the idea of a massive encyclopaedia completely written by random people contributing randomly on random topics from random places in random languages purely voluntarily. Well, we are in one now. We have created this linked encyclopaedia like what Jorge Luis Borges envisioned.

Yes, I'm still just a novice editor, and I still struggle to get my citations perfect and still have to search up text formatting code (those three sentences above took me about half an hour); I love Wikipedia. The pure thought that I, just one of 8 billion, can contribute with my little bit of knowledge to this forest of wisdom, gives me a sense of accomplishment I cannot describe. Perhaps this is why I am slowly transforming into a Wikipediholic.

The name 'Daftation' comes from my Minecraft username I made around 5 years ago. My teacher used to call me daft all the time, and I thought I might make a tribute to him through my username. He left us with Leukemia four years ago.

Well, thanks for visiting my user page. I hope you are here not because I made a mistake. If you do have any questions, please contact me on my talk page. I will reply as soon as I see it.

Articles I Have Created

• QSZ-11
• QSB-11
• CS/LR19
• CS/VP3 MRAP
• The Grove, Harrow School
• Banque de l'Indochine Building, Shanghai
• Glen Line Building
• Lumina Shanghai

Articles I Have Significantly Improved

• List of outstanding historic buildings of Shanghai

My Story?

I started writing Wikipedia articles about firearms. When I was young, I wanted to be a soldier, defending my people and my country. What fascinates me about firearms is their engineering beauty, not the death that comes with them. I am against war and all the terror it brings along with it. My first article was about the QSZ-11, and I wrote it because, like most first Wikipedians, I couldn't find an article about it.

As my career path became clearer, I slowly realized that architecture is my real passion. I wrote my first architecture article on the Banque de l'Indochine Building, and it turned out to be my best article yet.

My mum brought me to Barcelona when I was around 7. The stunning architecture of Gaudi and the aesthetically perfect city made me fall in love with architecture. It became my second dream job, after the common first-child dream job of being a police officer.

I will continue to write more articles, and please improve them or delete them (if they are actually bad). I will find you if you delete them if there are no problems. Do whatever you want for the best cause of Wikipedia.

I write in British English only. Maybe Wikipedia should be spelt Wikipaedia. I love adding the Use British English template on the top of my articles.

Now, please enjoy my blood, sweat, and tears by reading all my articles. You can't be bothered? At least read some of them...

Drafts in Work

This, or these, are, or is, my draft, or drafts, that I am currently working on. Please take a look and correct me on errors and make suggestions. If there's a '(in AfC)' next to them, or it, please help me by reviewing it. I always make articles with article wizard so reviewers can check my work.

• Draft:Hongkou Fire Station

Artlicles I Want to Create

I will get to these. One day.

• Capitol Theater Building, Shanghai
• Russel & Co. Building
• Qiantan Centre
• Hongkou Fire Station

Artlicles I Want to Improve

I will also get to these. One day.

• List of historic buildings in Shanghai
• Sino-Portuguese Joint Declaration
• Oriental Pearl Tower

Honours

These, or currently this, is why I don't run out of fuel for contributing to Wikipedia! So, if you are kind enough, and if I do deserve one, drop me one of these in my talk page, and I will gloriously display your generous award right here.

		The People's Republic of China Barnstar
		For your excellent contribution on spreading awareness on China's militaristic weapons. OdinOblivion (talk) 13:20, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

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