User:Colin M

Hi, my name is Colin and I love Wikipedia.

Some of my areas of interest include:

• Linguistics
• Magellan's circumnavigation
• Early gay history and culture (circa late 19th to mid 20th century)

My favourite 'meta' activities on Wikipedia are:

• Cleaning up disambiguation pages
• Participating in (and occasionally closing) requested move discussions
• Performing good article reviews

Below are a few of my favourite articles which I've created or contributed to substantially:

• Magellan's circumnavigation, Ferdinand Magellan
• Physique magazine, Physique photography
• Cow Tools
• List of gay novels prior to the Stonewall riots
• Question, Echo question
• Sophie (musician)

(I have a full list of my article creations here.)

My first edit under this username was the creation of the article for the Canadian trampolinist Jason Burnett in January 2007, but I was not very active until 2019. This account was originally named "Dindon" (the French word for "turkey"). In 2015, it was forcibly renamed to "Dindon~enwiki" during the transition to a system of unique usernames across Wikimedia projects. In January 2019, it was renamed to "Colin M", at my request.

I'm also semi-active on Wikimedia Commons and Wiktionary.

I keep a somewhat neglected list here of some of my idiosyncratic views on matters that I think we currently get wrong, in terms of policies and guidelines or their application. I also keep a todo list here with some of the major pieces of wiki work I'm planning to work on next.

If life ever gets me down, I like to just remember that American opossum in baby grand piano.jpg is a thing that exists (and is even currently included in the article Virginia opossum!). I love to ponder the circumstances that led to the creation of this photo, and just be thankful that c:User:Jkatsis2 was moved to not just take it, but upload it to Wikimedia Commons (under such a delightfully literal, precise filename), where it could bring joy, mirth, and wonder to so many.