This user is taking a wikibreak and may be away or inactive for varying periods of time.
Although they may occasionally be able to do some editing, messages left for them may not be repliedto forawhile.
They will be back on Wikipedia when college is over.
I joined Wikipedia in February 2019 and made my first edits to Hippocamp, a Neptunian moon that just got named at the time. Now, my main activities on Wikipedia include expanding and completing articles up to Good Article (GA) status, keeping important lists (i.e. Moons of Jupiter) up to date, and creating new articles on new discoveries or other interesting astronomical objects. As of January 2023[update], I've written at least 15 articles that got promoted to GA status, albeit most of these were written before 2020, when I was less experienced. These old GAs are now fairly outdated and I don't have the motivation to rewrite these unfortunately.
There are so many interesting planetary science articles that are poorly written and incomplete, and I wish I had more free time and energy to polish all of these up. But alas... I am a mere student and it is simply impossible to hold up the entirety of small Solar System body science myself.
Beyond this, I occasionally make typo corrections and small updates to minor planet and comet articles on Wikipedia. When I get bored enough, I turn to creating userboxes and decorating my user page. My custom userboxes are listed at User:Nrco0e/Userboxes; feel free to use them for your own user page!
I'm only active here intermittently and I may take long breaks from Wikipedia if I get burnt out. Do not expect me to immediately respond to talk page interaction or article maintenance here. If there are urgent matters and concerns about my decisions, please do message me in my talk page or ping me elsewhere with the template {{ping|Nrco0e}}. I'm open to feedback about my actions, so please do let me know if I've made a mistake!
I adhere to the Wiki philosophy of being bold and ignoring the rules when necessary. If you're gonna add something within the lines of original research (not [[WP:CB|cruft hopefully), do still go for it—as long it clarifies the content more and you have the proper sources to support and justify it.[original research]
What does my username mean?
It means nothing. When I was creating my Wikipedia account back in 2019, I was originally going to use my gaming username for my Wikipedia account. But it turned out that was already used, so I did a random keysmash of letters on the spot. "Nrco0e" was what I got from that, and I decided to keep that because why not. (so ingenious am I right?)
Why is your userpage so fancy?
Personally, I believe every site including Wikipedia needs a bit of personalized spicing. The Internet is too uniform and bland nowadays, and I'm tired of seeing the same old flat design everywhere. So, how about we bring back our beloved GeoCities/Myspace website aesthetic with some CSS magic?
awaiting updates in the near-future, because they are the subject of ongoing studies (e.g. Chiminigagua Hubble observations, Weywot lightcurve, new Kallichore occultations)
Pages are listed with their original names upon creation, and ratings after overhaul
Over my many years on Wikipedia, I have written many articles, usually focusing on a certain type of astronomical object. They usually turn out pretty similar (for example, making articles about different asteroids), with a few distinguishing subcategories (for example, that asteroid is in the main asteroid belt, while the other is a centaur). For fun, I like to keep track specific categories of topics I've dealt with.
As a researcher, I have been involved in the discovery and naming of some minor planets that have articles on Wikipedia. I am also responsible for precoveries of some minor planets like 2014 UZ224 and Valetudo (moon), although they do not affect the article commentary significantly to warrant declaration of conflict of interest. For personal reasons, I do not want to reveal my personal details here, although you can probably figure those out on your own.
☆ Wiki writing tips ☆
Write for the sake of explaining a genuinely interesting topic, not for a lengthy "good" article. Word count ≠ quality—there's a reason why Wikipedia follows summary style!
Focus on clarity and conciseness, not length. What I did to 2018 VG18 is the epitome of how to not write a good Wikipedia article—it's too inflated with trivial and wordy details. (Maybe I should WP:BLOWITUP...)
If you get stuck thinking about how to word a specific sentence, replace it with simple terms as a temporary placeholder, and then continue on with the rest of the paragraph. You can revisit that sentence later.
You may use an AI/LLM to help or get ideas for how to phrase sentences (and sometimes Grokipedia can be helpful for finding sources), but please don't straight up copy whatever it writes. AI is a tool, not a replacement. So it shouldn't just write for you. It can get things wrong, so you must always fact-check and change its results.
Note that LLMs often write in a very wordy, flowery, and promotional prose that exaggerates significance of the topic. Don't do this. It's distracting and violates WP:PUFFERY.
Avoid unnecessary trivial details (i.e. listing out an asteroid's location, constellation, brightness, and speed at the time of discovery. Nobody needs to know that, nor would they care about it.)
Organize your code and wikimarkup formatting consistently. I highly recommend using spaces to separate parameters for templates and tables, especially if they're large.
Please please please put all your references in the {{reflist|refs= }} under the References section and define each reference with a refname. I seriously can't stand editing when there's a huge mess of citation and ref templates in the way like this:This is an example.<ref>{{cite web|title=Example|url=example.com|date=2009-09-09|accessdate=2015-07-14}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Example1|url=example.com|date=2005-04-20|accessdate=2019-01-01}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Example3|url=example.com|date=2009-09-09|accessdate=2015-07-14}}</ref>
Copy and save your wiki draft to a .txt file. I cannot emphasize this enough—please save your work as you can easily lose progress in the website editor because of a dead battery, power outage, or accidentally closing the tab.
Most importantly, just have fun and take breaks when you need to! If you're feeling stressed or feel like you have a nagging obligation to do things on Wikipedia (i.e. monitoring pages for vandalism, getting involved in debates and discussions, etc.), then it's best that you take a break, cool off, and touch some grass.
☆ Other Wiki notes ☆
If you're going to add artist's impressions of astronomical objects and phenomena, make sure it is scientifically accurate, comes from a reliable source, and follows guidelines on WP:ASTROART!
NO AI UPSCALING ALLOWED!!! That simply takes away the real data and authenticity of the original image!
Names of telescopes – Space-based telescopes are in italics (e.g. HST, Planck, Herschel), whereas ground-based telescopes are not (e.g. Keck, Gemini, VLA)
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