User:Melchoir

"Melchoir" is a semi-intentional bastardization of "Melchior". It started as a misspelling that I became aware of many years before joining Wikipedia, but it has that musical quality, doesn't it? Like the wise man, I take male pronouns.

Most of my watchlist consists of mathematics and physics. I'm currently improving our coverage of elementary mathematics and the history of physics with great deliberation and stealth.

I rarely do the same thing for an extended period, and that includes paying attention to specific articles or users. If I had a longer Wikipedia attention span, I'd have four good articles and three featured articles under my belt already. As it is, I've written none, but as they say, I'm working on it! Meanwhile, you can sometimes find me at the following tasks:

• Patrolling Special:Newpages. I enjoy helping articles get started, welcoming new contributors, and making suggestions for DYK. On the other hand, I have very little tolerance for people who write about themselves.
• Answering questions, serious and otherwise, on the science refdesk, and sometimes on math.
• I used to be more active on AfD and the Village Pump, and I drop by occasionally.
• Finding interlanguage links, especially for categories, which are less likely to have them, and DYK candidates, which draw many eyes and often haven't yet been linked.

From a few titles of my major contributions, you can make:

International Ninja Monkey: Crisis Vector Γ-9

Now that's a video game I would play.

/Random links proposal

Newpages offset • Dragons flight AfD • RD/Science, /Math • Catneeded W • T:TDYK • Special:Random/Category

Stub types • WikiProjects • Cleanup • User talk templates • Generic citations

/Sandbox • /monobook.js • sent • count • commons: • meta: • Up:

New: Grandi's series • Sfumatura • Spotfin croaker • White croaker • Yellowfin croaker • White seabass • Queenfish • California corbina • Noble rhubarb • Hodgsonia • Mixed nuts • Water landing • Cantor cube • Crofton formula • Shelter Island Conference • Ninja rocks

Improved: Medal of Honor • Able Archer 83 • Maraschino cherry • Center of mass / gravity • Three cards problem • Addition • Equation • Dirac adjoint • Gamma matrices • Algebraic structure • Monkey's Bum • International crisis

In progress: Negative temperature • 0.999... • Shelter Island Conference • Addition

Stubs: Blue poppy • Duabanga grandiflora • Nepal poppy • Duabanga • Sonneratiaceae • Sikkim Larch • Magnolia hodgsonii • Cyclobalanopsis lamellosa • Alfred Cogniaux • Thomas Thomson • Rusty tussock moth • Western tussock moth • Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Wallroth • Conopholis • God's Ark of Safety • Johan Eliasch • The Ground of Arts • Martin Ohm • Bethe ansatz • List of African-American mathematicians • Benjamin Kim • Portland Youth Philharmonic

Categories: Jfmamjjasond • Polygonaceae • Palladium • Cherries • Cocktail garnishes • Bible societies • Laundry • Fabless semiconductor companies • Binary operations • Policy debate • Porcelain • Causes of war

To do

Plane (mathematics) • Coordinate vector • Jacob Avshalomov