Good day! I'm Brambleberry of RiverClan, but feel free to call me Brambleberry or Bram. Just please refrain from "Bramble", as that's a little too prickly for my tastes. My username comes from a medicine cat in the Warriors series; she was a clever white cat with black spots and blue eyes. I'm usually on every day, but of course there are things such as vacations and computer meltdowns that may prevent that.
I also have accounts activated on Wikidata and Wiktionary.
About me
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My favorite novel is Animal Farm by Eric Arthur Blair (sorry, "George Orwell") and I read it to help deal with my insomnia, which is so frequent some of it is memorized. I like other anthropomorphized animal books, such as the Warriors series, from which I draw my username (see above) and Watership Down. I also love Ireland. It's quite scary, actually. History, culture, everything except for food. And its love of killing wolves. But that's about it.
On Wikipedia, my main work is with animals, media, animals in media, mythology, and the occasional dabble in the Philadelphia Phillies. I'm a WikiPuma, which means that I make large edits but am also obsessed with little details such as misspellings and bad grammar. A page that I will make frequent edits to is Wikipedia:WikiProject Mammals/Missing mammal species, as I like to get that down as low as possible. Obviously my goal is to get everything finished, although the disputed binomial nomenclature of some (particularly the Mongolian saiga) is enough to give anyone a headache, and I already get enough of those.
I'm both an inclusionist and a deletionist. I'm autopatrolled and have written over 50 articles, but I'm a frequent participant at AfD, where most of my votes are delete, redirect, or merge. Therefore, I'm going with the idea that I'm a precisionist.
I also like adding infoboxes to things. I find it very zen. As part of this, I add infoboxes to baseball articles and have found that it seems like many of the baseball players lacking infoboxes were members of the Kansas City/Philadelphia/Oakland Athletics. Has anyone else noticed this?
I speak English as a native language (although many would say sarcasm as well), I'm learning Italian, I know a little Spanish and Lapine, and I know bits and pieces of Irish, Latin, and French.
My favorite species are: the puma (first), gray wolf (second), domestic cat (third), and hooded crow (fourth).
I can and probably will completely screw up my own edits and then quickly revert them with a frantic apology during the time that you know me. Just bear with me when that does happen.
Wiki beliefs
In AfD, non-notable songs should always be directed to their albums, non-notable albums should always be redirected to their artist, and non-notable artists should always be deleted. If the album or artist page does not exist, the song or album should just be deleted.
Fun is at the heart of Wikipedia and should be employed in the proper situations liberally.
It is perfectly fine for reputable users to have many edits in userspace, as it probably means they are either having fun, doing work in their sandbox, or both.
Any text that is deleted should have an edit summary explaining why you are deleting the text, even if you are a bureaucrat.
In some cases, personal attacks and not assuming good faith are worse than vandalism.
In RfAs and RfBs, a user's username should not be used against them unless it is offensive. Therefore, users like User:Σ and User:I Jethrobot should have just the same chance at becoming admins as anyone else.
At least 90% of the time in AfDs, it makes much more sense to merge, redirect, userfy, or keep than to delete.
Being the one who created the WikiPuma page, when I see someone who has identified themselves as a WikiPuma and expresses the qualities of one, I feel the need to give them an award for how much they fit the description. That's why I invented the WikiPuma Awesomeness Award.
The WikiPuma Awesomeness Award
From the founder of the WikiPumas, I present this award to you because I feel like you truly exhibit the qualities of a WikiPuma: creativity and obsession with pointing out that you are one. Meow! öBrambleberryofRiverClan
Hello Brambleberry of RiverClan, thank you for joining and helping the Feedback Dashboard! Without people like you, this feature would be useless! Webclient101 (talk) 17:44, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
The Writer's Barnstar
I. Love. The. Movies. Best cruft on here in... forever. Keep it up! I may be a gnome for now, but if I grow a bit I may be able to Puma-fy myself. Again, love your WikiFun! Theopolisme TALK 18:46, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
The Special Barnstar
That's a beautiful article you made on animal aggression. Keep up the good job. §§Dharmadhyaksha§§ {T/C} 13:35, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar
For writing Just My Type - a fantastic new article! Keep up the good work :). Ironholds (talk) 10:08, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
The Userpage Barnstar
A lot of effort has been put by you in designing the userpage and ofcourse it is was a delight to read it. All the very best with editing. ⚕ Dr. ANK (｡◕‿◕｡) 07:41, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
The Warriors' Star
This award is given to Brambleberry of RiverClan for your significant contributions to articles related to the Warriors novel series. Your contributions are greatly appreciated, and we at WikiProject Warriors would like to thank you for your work. For your work maintaining the project (making me feel less guilty about not editing so much these days), I hereby present to you the Warriors Star! Thank you, Bramblestar of RiverClan, and keep up the great work! Brambleclawx 01:04, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
The Writer's Barnstar
That's encouraged me to keep going with it, thanks for your ideas Ladytwentytwo (talk) 23:37, 7 February 2013 (UTC)
The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
I'm very impressed with the work you have been doing lately, keep it up! -- Cheers,Riley 04:27, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
The Adopt-a-user Barnstar
Thank you for being the nicest, the funniest and the most helpful adopter ever!!! You totally deserve this barnstar! ~ Anastasia (talk) 21:36, 19 June 2013 (UTC)
This barnstar is awarded for copy editing articles from the Requests page totalling over 4,000 words during the GOCEAugust 2013 Blitz. Although you didn't sign up for the Blitz, we still appreciate your help! Diannaa (talk) 22:44, 19 August 2013 (UTC)
The MOTD Barnstar
We at Motto of the Day (MOTD) would like to thank you for your participation and contributions to MOTD during 2013. We hope to see you around at MOTD next year. Happy 2014!!! –pjoef (talk • contribs) 15:38, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
A good answer is one that fits in with the Teahouse expectations of proper conduct: polite, patient, simple, relies on explanations not links, and leaves a talkback notification.
Experienced editors with this badge have committed to welcoming guests, helping new editors, and upholding the standards of the Teahouse by giving friendly and patient guidance—at least for a time.
Hosts illuminate the path for new Wikipedians, like Tōrō in a Teahouse garden.
Awarded to everyone who participated in the Wikipedia Teahouse during its first year!
To celebrate the many hosts and guests we've met and the nearly 2000 questions asked and answered during this excellent first year, we're giving out this tasty cupcake badge.
I am deeply honored to be awarded as a wikipuma by the very founder herself! I shall endeavour to follow in the pawprints of our great ancestors, and will never bring disgrace upon our clan! I give you this kitten as a token of my sincerity and gratitude. Meow!
Thanks again! I am a big fan of your work. I thought the WikiPuma article among the WikiFauna was postively brilliant! Now, if only I could locate that WikiOtter ;-) Take care,
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A mini puma kitten for you and thanks for your support.
70.181.68.226 has given you a cookie! Cookies promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. You can spread the WikiLove by giving someone else a cookie, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend.
Here's a cookie! Thought I'd drop by and be friendly, because I have a lot of cookies. Oh and I like Warriors too. --70.181.68.226 (talk) 01:45, 18 June 2013 (UTC)
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Upon hearing of my 2013 tendonitis, my talk page stalkers got me special gifts.
Hey Brambleberry! Hope you get well soon. Here's some chicken soup, to make you feel better, and some poppy seeds, like all medicine cats would use. Including Brambleberry. Just remember not to do that in real life. Brambleclawx 20:12, 25 July 2013 (UTC)
Sorry about your wrist, so here's some tea to cheer you up! Let's hope your tendonitis heals soon, or Wikipedia will be missing a major contributer :) Get well soon! ~ Anastasia (talk) 16:29, 27 July 2013 (UTC)
Editor of the Week
Your ongoing efforts to improve the encyclopedia have not gone unnoticed: You have been selected as Editor of the Week, for single-handed maintenance of an entire set of articles, in addition to work with content promotion. Thank you for the great contributions! (courtesy of the Wikipedia Editor Retention Project)
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