User:SpuriousQ

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I am an administrator (verify, RfA, logs) on the English Wikipedia.

[edit] What's a SpuriousQ?

I'm gonna write this down for the curious and before I forget myself.

I was in the university lab doing some compilers project with my friend. We'd alternate between working and browsing Wikipedia. At one point we arrived at an article about a professor whose selected bibliography was missing something, so I added it in my first ever edit. It was an anon edit.

Back to our project, we were stuck tracking down some nasty bug. Finally we discovered the cause: in one of our input files, there was, randomly, off by itself many columns away, a lone q character.

"It's a spurious q," one of us remarked, as we deleted our mysterious visitor. And on we continued.

Next time I wanted to make an edit, I decided to register an account. Obviously, this is what came to mind.

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