I think it would be quite amusing if everyone was to share their funny wikiHow memories. Once, when I first started, I accidently wiped an article. When trying to put it right, I managed to put a deletion tag on there. I don’t think I was even aware of how to use tags at that point. I left a message with someone, and they fixed it. Not really a funny memory, but it’s the best I could come up with on the first morning of the summer holidays…
How did you manage that? O.o
@Lillyshak
, here’s
the edit page for the Main Page, which right now is rightfully protected. Maybe there was one times when it wasn’t.
Yep, they need to be able to edit it regularly for FAs (unless that’s automated).
Oh, okay
That would be funny, but if I did it I would feel like a numpty for about 10 weeks
That WAS funny - I do remember following that thread around for a while and laughing when I saw that. Once my computer auto-corrected the word ‘as’ in a new article so that it had double s. What does that say about me?
I was once editing a reallyhorrible article from the accuracy patrol, about some random thing I knew nothing about. I added like 25 {{fact}} tags and then I went to add tags to the top. So I started with {{accuracy}}, and then it moved on to {{personal}}, {{cleanup}}, {{stub}}, {{clarity}}, and after a while with like 10 tags I just realized to make something better out of this article, so I erased all those and added {{nfd|acc}}. @Cece123
can attest to this, because she patrolled it. And I know because she left me a message on my talk page about it.
Once I had a sticky key on S and I typed the word as. -______________________________-
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Hmm… Probably when I left @BR
a message saying that I reverted his edit about leaving some {{NFD|something}} tag on someone’s talk page (I was patrolling and it didn’t show what it did). Thankfully, he as very good humor and he explained what it does.
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@AndrewG1999
Yes, I remember, and geez child, you had some issues with that article! I believe your edit summary was: “This article is just…wow.” So I told him that that edit was just…y’know, wow.
I remember I was blabbering to my mom about how much I loved wikiHow and how every problem could be fixed with wikiHow. And I continued blabbering to her about things that I did using wikiHow. Constantly. Until one day, my mom sent me a nice little e-mail of things she learned how to do…using wikiHow - How to Ignore Someone you Live With - How to Make Someone Shut Up - How to Control a wikiHow Addiction - How to Get Your Adult Children to Move Out - How to Deal With Someone Who Really Annoys You And many other hurtful things…Along with that she gave me the dates and the address of my “therapy sessions”. How fun!
Yep. I still never shut up about it.
There was that one time when I deleted the Main Page by mistake.
