User:Callitropsis

I like trees and other green things and I visit them whenever I can.

Userboxes

This user is a participant in
WikiProject
Copyright Cleanup.

This user has rollback and pending changes reviewer rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify)

This user has access to
The Wikipedia Library Bundle.

#This user chats on the Wikimedia Community Discord server.

This user contributes to
iNaturalist.

♂This contributor to Wikipedia is male and uses the personal pronouns he, him.

Because of real life, this user will be editing on and off.

My IRL first name is Sam, so you can call me that if you'd like. No comment on whether or not my surname contains the letter X. I only use this username on Wikipedia and related sites, so if you see a SamX somewhere else on the internet, it's not me. I went by a different name long ago, but I had it changed to this one.

I've been around here since 2013, although my editing history contains several very long periods of inactivity. Most of my activity here could be described as maintenance or quality control, with a particular focus toward copyright cleanup. My (rather sparse) content creation is mostly in the topic areas of natural history and physical geography, which are my IRL interests. I'm studying environmental science as an undergraduate at a mid-sized public university in the United States, so I have access to some (but certainly not all) peer-reviewed academic publications through my institution.

I value accountability and I always welcome feedback and constructive criticism, so feel free to leave me a note on my talk page, ping me, or use some other means to get my attention if you think there's something I could be doing better. I can be reached via email, although I prefer to keep conversations public unless there's a compelling reason for privacy. I don't check my Wikipedia email all that often, so I'm more likely to respond if you notify me of the email on my talk page.

Disclosures

I operate two alternate accounts: SamX Public, which I use for editing from public computers and non-secure networks, and SamX's Test Account, which I mostly use for testing default settings for brand-new accounts, particularly the Vector 2022 skin. No substantive edits will be made from my test account. I also created a few doppelgangers for Jimbo Wales in 2013 when I was a new user before being informed that this practice was frowned upon. I no longer have access to these accounts. I was renamed by a bureaucrat before global renames were implemented so I still have access to an account with my old username, although I do not edit from it.

To-do list

Here are some things I'm working on or hoping to work on in the future, in decreasing order of priority:

1. Review my old content creation for close paraphrasing issues. I didn't have a great understanding of what was and wasn't close paraphrasing when I was starting out, so it's possible that some content I wrote long ago still has close paraphrasing issues. I understand close paraphrasing much better now.
2. Finish Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20231015 and clean up the mess left behind by m:Deforestation in Nigeria
3. Check the articles listed at User talk:Vami IV § Articles to be checked for copyvio
4. Evaluate the Storm598 / Mureungdowon sockfarm for copyright violations and list at User:Moneytrees/requiredCCIs if enough copyvios are found. Currently underway at User:SamX/sandbox; help from other editors is welcome. See the associated SPI and linked noticeboard threads for background.
5. Finish the following CCI subpages: Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Chamaemelum and Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20130908
6. Bring Abies amabilis and Thuja plicata to GA