AstralAlley

^{making sure this page wont show red link >:3 -Astral-(he/him/his) 22:09, 19 February 2024 (UTC) 22:07, 19 February 2024 (UTC)}

Your signature

Your signature - a dark color against a black background - is hard to read. David notMD (talk) 17:56, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

my pc brightness is very high, so i thought the colour i chose was bright enough, i will lighten it, tysm for letting me know >:3 -Astral-(he/him/his) 18:04, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

@David notMD this *should* be good, although i dont know if the colour is too light now, but it should be easier to read. -Astral~(he/him/his) 18:10, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

That works. Thank you. David notMD (talk) 21:08, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

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Our tastes are so similar

Hey. Sorry if this message is weird, but I read your userpage after seeing you were copyediting Worlds (thank you, btw!). I never expected to find someone else who also was a fan of Porter Robinson, Radiohead, Aphex Twin, Ecco2K, 100 gecs, OneShot, and osu! (and probably other things I didn't mention). And on top of all that, a Wikipedian. I think I'll never find someone else with so many similar tastes. What can I say, your tastes are really good! (Again sorry if this comes off as weird, but I couldn't not drop a message). Skyshiftertalk 18:36, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

no its ok lol! i saw the request the day the drive started and i love porters work so im glad i can help, and we have such a large overlap lol >:3 -Astral~(he/him/his) 18:39, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

Are you sure this is even related to Wikipedia?

This just seems like a place for your own personal page and doesn't even seem remotely wikipedia related. read WP:UPNOT 4.39.220.106 (talk) 17:11, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

I get where you're coming from, because I more or less ramble about my special interests and things i'm interested in editing as general editing concepts. Though i've seen some more biography centered user pages in the userpage hub (and is also listed here that it's not abnormal to do) i try to make it wikipedia centered, and i've been learning html to hopefully fix up the clutter and make it more wiki centered on the main userpage, with some sub pages. it's still a wip, as it says on the page, but i'll fix it up in the next coming months >:3 astral ▪️ he/him ▪️ >:3 17:25, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

what do you mean with mad or evil cat face? idk what it means 4.39.220.106 (talk) 18:04, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

and I know that you can write about your interests, but this seems almost entirely about that and its very long. 4.39.220.106 (talk) 18:29, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

maybe just shorten it a bit and I think it will be fine 4.39.220.106 (talk) 18:29, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

yeah, it's still a work in progress as i learn how to format my userpage {as it says on the tin}, but once i do it'll be a lot comfier to read, dw >:3 (also this is a happy/silly cat face i guess? idk I just like it bcz silly cat and i use it alot in edit summaries for my userpage) astral ▪️ he/him ▪️ >:3 20:09, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

i mean it doesn't look happy its like >:) or >:( like evil or mad but I guess it could be happy 4.39.220.106 (talk) 20:15, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

i've always associated it with happy/silly idk lol astral ▪️ he/him ▪️ >:3 20:16, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

March 2024 GOCE drive awards

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to AstralAlley for copy edits totaling over 20,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE March 2024 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 07:39, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Long Articles, 5th Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to AstralAlley for copyediting 2 long articles during the GOCE March 2024 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 07:39, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Longest Article, 5th Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to AstralAlley for copyediting one of the five longest articles – 11,496 words – during the GOCE March 2024 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 09:30, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️ i had so much fun w/ my first drive, this motivates me sm for the next one aaaah! astral ▪️ he/him ▪️ >:3 11:31, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

Enhanced search engine

Hi AstralAlley. I noticed your post at the Teahouse yesterday about the enhanced Google search engine and tried it today for an article I was working on. I found it excellent, which immediately led me to wonder if you can point me to any documentation about it? The URL you supplied seems to have some key data that leads to its utility for Wikipedia but I confess I don't understand why it works! Mike Turnbull (talk) 13:48, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

honest to god I have no idea. it's on the AFD pages whenever articles get nominated so there's that. but yeah i have 0 clue how it works or who made it i just know it's official and uses wikipedia approved sources. glad it could help you with your research though! it's been an amazing help for me aswell. astral ▪️ he/him ▪️ >:3 17:30, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

Ah, yes, I now see that it is part of the template {{Find sources}}. Thanks, that gives me enough of a clue to investigate further.... Turns out it is documented at WP:WRS. Mike Turnbull (talk) 12:07, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

omg, thank you for going down that rabbit hole. now I have the plain link for myself lol. >:3 ur awesome astral ▪️ he/him ▪️ >:3 13:41, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

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thank you Mr bot. I will add this on the article so it wont die >:3 astral ▪️ he/him ▪️ >:3 11:35, 8 April 2024 (UTC)

Message from April

hiiiiiiiiiii i dont know if this page will ever be active again but if so this is april and I miss you and would like to stay in touch if you do too. I hope things are going alright for you and hunter, melody, max, and destiny all miss you and we wish you the best. I dont use wikipedia that much so incase I forget to check this thread you can message me on discord at 1pril love, april Imnotnew (talk) 21:29, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

have a grape day

Imnotnew (talk) 21:34, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:Milgram (music project)

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 16:08, 7 August 2024 (UTC)

on the shortdesc thing

accidentally pressed enter before finishing the summary, whoops

anyway, what i was going to say is that short descriptions usually only follow a "[year] [medium]" pattern, as is exemplified with stardew valley and doom eternal cogsan _{(nag me) (stalk me)} 01:01, 23 August 2024 (UTC)

understood! im coming off of a long wikibreak so thank you for refreshing my memory! astral ▪️ he/him ▪️ >:3 01:30, 23 August 2024 (UTC)

mika where did u go

we miss u :( Imnotnew (talk) 15:39, 28 August 2024 (UTC)