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Hi, I'm Crestfalling, and welcome to my userpage! It's nice to meet you, and thanks for your contributions, whoever you may be.

Notices
What are these edits for? For a long time, {{Infobox sportsperson}} has had many parameters with the same function but different names, in violation of MOS:INFOBOXNAME. These frequently cause parameter conflict errors due to the lack of a single standardized parameter. In addition, deprecated parameters cause preview warnings on a large number of pages, which can be fixed by replacing them with the correct ones. See this discussion on a highly-trafficked noticeboard regarding consensus on the usefulness of these edits. Other infoboxes have been cleaned up similarly through semi-automated editing efforts; for example, {{Infobox event}}, {{Infobox sports league}}, {{Infobox university}} in the past week alone. Since these edits substantively affect the administration of the encyclopedia via reducing preview and conflict syntax errors as well as maintaining hidden error categories, they're an accepted semi-automated task even though they're not (immediately) visible to readers. How do I hide these edits? See User:Crestfalling/Watchlist-hideAllWB. Other questions? I'm responsive on my talk page; although the error rate should be close to zero, it's always possible I might've made a mistake. If you have questions about the cleanup work in general, Zackmann08 has significant expertise in this area, having made hundreds of thousands of edits to fix similar infoboxes.

Notices

What are these edits for?
- For a long time, {{Infobox sportsperson}} has had many parameters with the same function but different names, in violation of MOS:INFOBOXNAME. These frequently cause parameter conflict errors due to the lack of a single standardized parameter. In addition, deprecated parameters cause preview warnings on a large number of pages, which can be fixed by replacing them with the correct ones.
  - See this discussion on a highly-trafficked noticeboard regarding consensus on the usefulness of these edits.
  - Other infoboxes have been cleaned up similarly through semi-automated editing efforts; for example, {{Infobox event}}, {{Infobox sports league}}, {{Infobox university}} in the past week alone.
  - Since these edits substantively affect the administration of the encyclopedia via reducing preview and conflict syntax errors as well as maintaining hidden error categories, they're an accepted semi-automated task even though they're not (immediately) visible to readers.
How do I hide these edits?
- See User:Crestfalling/Watchlist-hideAllWB.
Other questions?
- I'm responsive on my talk page; although the error rate should be close to zero, it's always possible I might've made a mistake. If you have questions about the cleanup work in general, Zackmann08 has significant expertise in this area, having made hundreds of thousands of edits to fix similar infoboxes.

About
About I've been using Wikipedia for many years. I joined out of a desire to improve long-underdeveloped articles, particularly ones with available references that simply haven't been used. So far, I've greatly enjoyed my experience here, and hope to continue helping out. If you're an editor here, thank you; if you're not, then it's a great time to start. Projects I usually work in the area of WikiProject Anime and manga, a personal interest of mine. I focus on adding details about series' productions and receptions, which are crucial for establishing real-world context and notability. I also assist with internal project pages, such as by updating listings of reliable sources at WP:A&M/ORS. While the media I work on overlap with my personal interests to some extent, the degree of available sourcing is what usually takes precedence. In a few cases, I've even improved articles about series I'm personally not a fan of, which, if I've done my job well, should look pretty much the same as the ones I do enjoy. It also means my openness to collaborating on an certain article might be greater than you expect, so always feel free to ask. Aside from that, I'm part of WikiProject California and WikiProject Music, two topics quite important to me. I also enjoy copyediting; I see it as a small amount of work to help improve the impact of others' efforts. If that sounds appealing, considering joining the Guild of Copy Editors. Finally, I do a mishmash of cleanup and maintenance work, including standardizing formatting with AutoWikiBrowser (and its amazing relative, wAwB), adding citations to unreferenced articles, and reviewing new articles. I'm interested in editor retention, and have signed up as a mentor for new users, along with welcoming them whenever possible. I encourage others to do the same.

About

I've been using Wikipedia for many years. I joined out of a desire to improve long-underdeveloped articles, particularly ones with available references that simply haven't been used. So far, I've greatly enjoyed my experience here, and hope to continue helping out. If you're an editor here, thank you; if you're not, then it's a great time to start.

Projects

I usually work in the area of WikiProject Anime and manga, a personal interest of mine. I focus on adding details about series' productions and receptions, which are crucial for establishing real-world context and notability. I also assist with internal project pages, such as by updating listings of reliable sources at WP:A&M/ORS.

While the media I work on overlap with my personal interests to some extent, the degree of available sourcing is what usually takes precedence. In a few cases, I've even improved articles about series I'm personally not a fan of, which, if I've done my job well, should look pretty much the same as the ones I do enjoy. It also means my openness to collaborating on an certain article might be greater than you expect, so always feel free to ask.

Aside from that, I'm part of WikiProject California and WikiProject Music, two topics quite important to me. I also enjoy copyediting; I see it as a small amount of work to help improve the impact of others' efforts. If that sounds appealing, considering joining the Guild of Copy Editors. Finally, I do a mishmash of cleanup and maintenance work, including standardizing formatting with AutoWikiBrowser (and its amazing relative, wAwB), adding citations to unreferenced articles, and reviewing new articles.

I'm interested in editor retention, and have signed up as a mentor for new users, along with welcoming them whenever possible. I encourage others to do the same.

Contact
As of May 2026, I'm active here and should see any talk page messages quickly. If I don't reply within a day, feel free to follow up. If you'd like to send a file or discuss something over email, please message my alternate account, Crestfalling's mail. This is only necessary if the email involves attached files or requires a reply from me; otherwise, you can email this account. Alternatively, I have an account on the Wikimedia Discord server (just type my username in the search bar). If you contact me via email, please notify me somehow, since I don't check it very often. Thank you! Also, there are many accounts named Crestfalling on the internet. Only a few of them are mine, but feel free to ask about one anyway if you're curious; I won't consider this outing.

Contact

As of May 2026, I'm active here and should see any talk page messages quickly. If I don't reply within a day, feel free to follow up.

If you'd like to send a file or discuss something over email, please message my alternate account, Crestfalling's mail. This is only necessary if the email involves attached files or requires a reply from me; otherwise, you can email this account. Alternatively, I have an account on the Wikimedia Discord server (just type my username in the search bar). If you contact me via email, please notify me somehow, since I don't check it very often. Thank you!

Also, there are many accounts named Crestfalling on the internet. Only a few of them are mine, but feel free to ask about one anyway if you're curious; I won't consider this outing.

Editing standards
Inspired by both things I've seen and users who I admire. Although my main topic areas are rarely ones that involve any contention, it never hurts to be accountable. I pledge to: be willing to explain any edit I've made. never undo someone's work without explaining why. never re-revert any edits unless necessary to prevent core policy violations. seek and respect uninvolved third opinions in case of disagreement. pursue all possible informal methods of dispute resolution before seeking formal ones. If I haven't upheld this, please let me know on my talk page and I'll make it right.

Editing standards

Inspired by both things I've seen and users who I admire. Although my main topic areas are rarely ones that involve any contention, it never hurts to be accountable.

I pledge to:

be willing to explain any edit I've made.
never undo someone's work without explaining why.
never re-revert any edits unless necessary to prevent core policy violations.
seek and respect uninvolved third opinions in case of disagreement.
pursue all possible informal methods of dispute resolution before seeking formal ones.

If I haven't upheld this, please let me know on my talk page and I'll make it right.

Userboxen

This user has been on Wikipedia for 7 months and 22 days.

This user has new page reviewer rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify)

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This user lives or has lived in both Canada and the USA.

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This user can contribute at a professional level of American English.

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This user has an advanced understanding of Canadian English.

This user participates in WikiProject Anime and manga.

This user is a member of
the Guild of Copy Editors.

This user participates in
WikiProject California.

This user invites you to visit
California.

This user is a participant in WikiProject Music.

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This user is an intermediate guitarist.

What did you do?

This user includes edit summaries in their contributions and thinks that everyone else should use them too.

This user believes in maintaining
citation integrity.

This user has their good article nominations reviewed more quickly with good article review circles.

Wish A were B? There's wAwB!

This user has access to the
Wikipedia Library.

This user uses HotCat.

This user likes to welcome new users to Wikipedia.

This user tries to do the right thing. If they make a mistake, please let them know.

This user's editing philosophy:
Contribute, let go...

Licensing

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