Toadspike is taking a short wikibreak to get ready for exams and will be back on Wikipedia once the exams are over on 20 June 2024.
Toadspike
Contact
Please always
ping me in conversations on-wiki! I do not always check talk pages unless I get a notification. You can also contact me by pinging me on the
Wikimedia Discord server. Email is less reliable, but I'll probably see the message eventually.
I would prefer to be referred to by he/him or they/them pronouns. I prefer the former, but they/them is generally a safe bet on the Internet. :)
My previous signature was Toadspike. I've updated it to remove the shadow, which looked cool but made reading it difficult.
About me
Hello there! I speak
English,
German, and
Chinese, and will gladly do translations when they are within my competence. I play the
double bass and
piano. The major edits I make often focus on
history, especially that of places I've
visited or
lived. I started out making many
minorcopyedits to fix
spelling,
grammar, and
double spaces, add
serial commas, and improve weird formatting, quirks which have been generously distributed throughout Wikipedia by my peers and, occasionally, myself. Nowadays, I sometimes write content, too!
Advice and criticism are always welcome; simply leave a message on
my Talk page. I love to teach new editors the mysteries of Wikipedia and will answer questions as best I can. I occasionally make mobile edits, although I find it more convenient to edit with a tangible keyboard and arrow keys to navigate.
I have created a few articles, including
Anna Pestalozzi-Schulthess,
5 Broadgate,
Yunxian Man, and
Tuas Lamp Post 1. Maybe one day I'll improve them to B-class or GA. I occasionally edit current-events topics. I was involved with writing
2022 Ukraine cyberattacks as they occurred. That article sadly required constant updating and could still be improved.
I am variously active at
NPP,
AfD,
AfC, and
pending changes – I will happily answer questions about any, or work on a backlog in an emergency.