User:ColinLikesTea
Hello! I have yet to make any major edits so if you're reading this then either
- You've gotten so bored you're reading random user pages for fun
- I'm in trouble
- I made a major edit and now your reading my page just to see what's up with this hip and important editor
Regardless of what brought you here I hope you enjoy your stay, though I imagine that may be somewhat difficult if I'm in trouble.
How to Contact Me[edit]
Leave something on this pages talk section. I will get around to it eventually. Maybe. Idk. Perhaps in the future I'll leave an email address here, though I doubt there will ever be a time my presence is that necessary.
Stuff I Felt Like Sharing[edit]
- On the Félicette page it used to say that the cat was killed two months after her flight. On march 9th 2023 an unregistered user changed it to instead say euthanized for pretty flimsy reasons. On March 17th user Pkanella changed it again on the basis that it would only have counted as euthanasia if it was done to end Félicette's suffering, but as she was instead killed to examine her brain it does not. But for some reason instead of simply reverting the previous edit, they instead changed the article to say she was destroyed. This went back and forth for a while and as of writing the article reads euthanized (which, as previously established, is the wrong word) and has been incorrectly added to the list of Animal Deaths by Euthanasia.
- To anyone who wondered why the horses page used to be locked I'll save you some time. It, dissapointingly, was not because of people making horse penis jokes. It was vegans vandalizing the page.
- One time I saw a typo in the description of one of the "On this day" events. How embarrasing.
- The page for The Tale of Genji uses the word "recent" to describe computer analysis mentioned in Royall Tyler's translation of the work. Besides the fact that the translation itself gives no further elaboration or citation of this supposed analysis, I don't think "recent" really applies for a book published in 2001.
- The Félicette page now contains a decent amount of misinformation about the nature of her significance, incorrectly stating that she was the only cat to experience space flight. This is false, as numerous space agencies have sent cats into space since and even in the same program were other cats launched. Félicette was simply the first. I've tried to undo the damage but I fear that the current state of the page is worse than when I first found it about a year ago. I am massively tempted to revert the whole thing to a much older version, add some necessary corrections, and be done with it.
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