User:Casualdejekyll/Mainspace quest

The problem

Recently, I've noticed that I've sort of lost "the magic" of editing Wikipedia that drew me here in the first place. I haven't made any substantial mainspace contributions since my DYK Synapturanus danta in May 2022, over a year ago. And guess what? Since that DYK, I've made over 2,000 edits.. which is over half of my edit count. (How have I not been blocked as NOTHERE yet?)

A bit ago, I joined the WikiCup 2023 to try to motivate myself to go back to mainspace and that.. didn't really work, as you can tell. Did you know, that despite never making a report to AN/I, never being reported to AN/I, and never being an administrator, I've made almost a hundred edits to AN/I? (Seriously, I'm genuinely concerned that nobody's ever called me out on this.) casualdejekyll 22:55, 1 September 2023 (UTC)

The proposed remedies

1. Effective immediately, I will be removing AN/I from my watchlist, and not adding it back again. This is to constitute me "page-banning" myself from AN/I, with the obvious exception of if anybody reports me to AN/I.

   I have decided to enact this remedy. casualdejekyll 22:55, 1 September 2023 (UTC)

2. I will temporarily restrict myself from making any edits to projectspace until I have made "substantial content contributions" as defined by myself.

   Before enacting, I need to figure out the finer details of this. It will probably include exceptions for anything related to DYK/GA/FA, but I'm pretty sure only FA is in projectspace and I'm unlikely to write one of those any time soon. casualdejekyll 23:01, 1 September 2023 (UTC)

   The reason I want to do this is because the greatest part of my edits (37%) are in projectspace, as opposed to only 19% in mainspace. I want to increase the meaningfulness of my contribution to the encyclopedia, as most of my mainspace edits are very small. casualdejekyll 23:01, 1 September 2023 (UTC)

3. Adding an "emergency user shutoff button" to this page would both be extremely funny and, at the same time, emphasize that I'm capital-S Serious about this. casualdejekyll 23:26, 1 September 2023 (UTC)

   Enacted. casualdejekyll 23:28, 1 September 2023 (UTC)

Defining "substantial content contributions"

(Anyone is free to add ideas to this section if they so desire.)

• My two main ideas are either defining this by bytes or by WikiCup points. casualdejekyll 23:10, 1 September 2023 (UTC)

WikiCup Points

• I withdrew from the WikiCup during the first round, so I will be keeping track of these points myself for myself in an "unofficial" capacity if I decide to go down this route. casualdejekyll 23:10, 1 September 2023 (UTC)

Suggestions on what content, exactly, to write

Feel free to add your own comments. The following two comments are copied from Special:Diff/1173363410.

Book articles are a good niche, there’s tons of notable ones with plenty of sources that don’t have articles (some stuff Angela Davis wrote for example) Moneytrees🏝️(Talk) 23:17, 1 September 2023 (UTC)

You can always go to every movie article and remove all but the first and last sentences of each paragraph in the plot section. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 23:40, 1 September 2023 (UTC)

Various articles listed in User:Casualdejekyll/Collections, a page I completely forgot about and haven't edited in almost a year - oops! casualdejekyll 23:53, 1 September 2023 (UTC)

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