User:Departure–

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Hi, my name is Departure–.[a] I'm a contributor to the English edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. I primarily contribute to WikiProject Weather, a collaboration between editors to create and improve articles related to weather and meteorology. My primary target for improvement is severe weather events in Iowa and northern Illinois, especially tornadic events and anything well-documented, but I also work on newer articles related to severe weather. In addition to my work creating articles, I also improve existing ones, with my contributions leading to multiple Good Articles,[b] in addition to one Featured Article.[c] In addition, I had a editing streak between 14 April 2024 and November 11, 2025, or 576 days (Streaks tool at ToolForge - enwp active streak leaderboard). I lost it because I was preoccupied on the 12th of November and forgot to edit while my streak was active (thankfully the result of this is my real-life health and wellbeing improved). As of 16:18, 6 September 2025 (UTC), I have 8000 edits.

I'm not now nor have I ever been subject to any individual sanctions,[d] nor do I have any special authority on Wikipedia beyond respect.[e] I find the BRD process very helpful and avoid edit wars whenever possible. I am aware of contentious topic restrictions related to the Arab-Israeli conflict, Armenia and Azerbaijan-related topics, and post-1992 American politics. Due to persistent sockpuppetry and other forms of disruption, I am under the impression severe weather will be made into a contentious topic, but this wouldn't be the worst thing to happen to the weather community recently. Also, for what it's worth, I started this, which led to this, which then came to this, which ended up at ArbCom. I wouldn't have thrown a match into the powder keg if I knew it would burn in all of its fiery glory for eight straight months.

I'm the author of two Wikipedia-space essays,[f] Wikipedia:Not too soon, an essay about allowing new topics to keep an article, and Wikipedia:Headcount alone does not constitute consensus, an essay about how consensus should be read during near-unanimous !votes.[g] In addition to those essays, I'm the author of the userspace essay User:Departure–/How to write a tornado article, a sort of companion to EF5's Guide to writing about tornadoes. Mine is quite a bit shorter but covers the same beats.

Note: If I leave a warning for vandalism on a talk page, note that I will assign a warning based on what I perceive as conscious disruption, and may escalate warnings quicker than most if it's clear a user is consciously disrupting the project. Remember, competence is required, and I'm of the opinion that rope is often handed in excess.

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  1. ^ This is my username on Wikipedia. My previous usernames on this site were DontBanMeThanks (an alternative account I used until 2023) and GeorgeMemulous (until 2024). As of 16:18, 19 October 2025 (UTC), I do intend to change my username by next spring. The endash gets in the way and I've got my eye on a particularly snappy and Wiki-sounding username to use instead.
  2. ^ On Wikipedia, "Good Article" is a formal term for a content assessment class of peer-reviewed and verified articles.
  3. ^ Belvidere Apollo Theatre collapse, of which I have around 90% authorship of.
  4. ^ The same cannot be said for the two editors who left me my first {{subst:welcome}} messages, blocked as CIR and LTA respectively.
  5. ^ What goes around comes around.
  6. ^ Essays on Wikipedia are used to share one editor or more's interpretation on Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. They are not policies nor guidelines in of themselves.
  7. ^ Wikipedia is not a democracy, but the !vote is frequently used as a way to build consensus.