User:Eostrix

Eostrix

This user is a member of
WikiProject Birds.

This user is a participant in
WikiProject Palaeontology.

I am Eostrix. In case you were wondering, Eostrix is an extinct genus of owls. E. gulottai is the smallest known owl fossil. I prefer they/their/them, in the singular, as personal pronouns, but this is not a big deal for me personally so no need to fret if it is mixed up somewhere.

Articles I've worked on

Creations

Protostrigidae, this the family Eostrix belongs to, a subject in which my conflict of interest is evident to a bot.
Cécile Mourer-Chauviré, A paleontologist, I noticed she was missing an article while working on Protostrigidae, and she is easily notable. I did use the French Wikipedia article as a guide, and was aided by one good retrospective source.
2020 Hpakant jade mine disaster , my motivation here was to cast a spotlight on a disaster in a country that is less covered than similar disasters in Western countries. This jade is consumed by rich countries, not so much domestically in Myanmar. This was featured as in the in the news section of the main page, and ended up being translated to several other languages. Interestingly, the Burmese version was translated as well on 5-7 July 2020, 3 days after the English version.
2020 Lekki shooting, a human disaster on a different continent that merited attention in my eyes.
Apaa, I saw this while patrolling Ababiku Jessica (an Ugandan MP) and seeing that page mentioned clashes in Apaa. But I wasn't able to find anything on Wikipedia on Apaa, so I though this should be at least a stub.
2021 Mount Nyiragongo eruption , eruption of large volcano in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Ann Weick, a social work academic created after it was pointed out in an AfD to be missing.

Words of wisdom

AfD

Another practice that I think would do us well to consider is that there is no obligation for us to be the most effective prosecutors that we can be once an article is already at AfD. While you should write a clear opening statement that identifies an article's shortcomings, it's important to remember that the goal of AfD is not to win. From the perspective of new page patrol, once you have decided to send an article to AfD, you've fulfilled your job: now it's the community's turn to decide whether the article should be kept or not. As a new page reviewer, you are likely going to be better at making AfD arguments than the editors who have contributed to the article, and thus will often be in a position where you could "win" the AfD even if a stronger keep argument could have been made than what was actually presented in the discussion.

--User:Rosguill at User:Rosguill/New pages patrol is racist#Behavior at AfD

Rosguill described me in some of my early AfD nominations. I acted as a prosecutor, striving to "win" the argument and in some cases this engendered needless conflict. Yes, I might have "won" some of those arguments. Yes, possibly an article with a borderline notability failure would've been kept if I were less aggressive. But in many cases it would've been harmless (yes, an argument to avoid at AfD). There are exceptions (e.g. some living person biography articles), but generally the resulting energy expenditure and possible aggravation aren't worth the benefit. Wikipedia is a community process, and after reading Rosguill's commentary I've become much more tempered at AfD, making less rebuttal comments. Sometimes less is more.

Wikipedia whimsy

Possibly growing list of things only a Wikipedia editor would find funny:

Successfully nominating Draft:Fucking for speedy deletion as a blatant hoax.
Paul wijerathne, the unholy trinity of A7 (no indication of importance), G11 (advertising), and G12 (copyright, copied from LinkedIn). While G11 and G12 often go hand in hand, the G11-A7 combo is relatively rare as most advertising makes a claim of significance.