Wiki facepalm moments and fails

I remember one day in November 2010 I filled my userpage with userboxes and it took me like fucking idk more than 30 minutes to do so and then i somehow closed the browser before saving it.
 
I just saw Tucayo delete a whole bunch of some of me and my twin's old filenames we used

Can anyone lend me a used plastic spork? I know what to with them.
 
First edit (January 2008), was creating my userpage, in which I established myself as the world's leading expert on every single game. Sort of.
hi! whats up? my nickname its tucayo, im here to help you in whatever i can. i like too much the mario games, i know a lot about nintendo and mario history. if you have any problem in a game dont doubt to ask me
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And, just to get my point across, I created my talk page with the exact same text.

Four months later, and having edited the Mainspace around 0 times (exactly 0 times), I decided to sign up for The 'Shroom.

But, for real facepalm moments, take a look at my 2008 proposal to create a User Page of the Month system. Pure genius.


This one was not committed by me but he's not here any more so whatever. When Nerdy Guy was just promoted, he ended up blocking himself almost right away. I saved the day and brought peace to the galaxy.
 
I guess the wiki didn't have the big, bold, red-fonted "You are about to block yourself! Are you sure you want to do that?" message on the block interface back then.
 
Hobbes said:
When Nerdy Guy was just promoted, he ended up blocking himself almost right away. I saved the day and brought peace to the galaxy.
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you

shouldn't have.
 
Walkazo said:
I guess the wiki didn't have the big, bold, red-fonted "You are about to block yourself! Are you sure you want to do that?" message on the block interface back then.
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lol I didn't know that was a thing, it's good it is. Oh, and you even have to check the additional "Confirm block" box.

Glowsquid said:
Hobbes said:
/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=block&user=&page=User%3ANerdy_Guy&year=&month=-1&tagfilter=&hide_patrol_log=1]blocking himself[/url] almost right away. I saved the day and brought peace to the galaxy.
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you

shouldn't have.
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maybe more like "brought chaos to the galaxy"
 
Hobbes said:
Walkazo said:
I guess the wiki didn't have the big, bold, red-fonted "You are about to block yourself! Are you sure you want to do that?" message on the block interface back then.
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lol I didn't know that was a thing, it's good it is. Oh, and you even have to check the additional "Confirm block" box.
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lol, I hadn't scrolled down and seen that on my own. I like how it's the only one in bold.
 
Here was my enigma of a userpage back in January 2014.

Helllllllo everybody It's The Golden Yoshi here. As for my profile look below

.favorite Characters: Yoshi Baby Luigi, Baby Mario, Luigi, Mario, Bowser Jr, Toad and Waluigi

.favorite games: Mario Kart Wii, Super Mario Bros 3, Smash Bros Brawl.

.Country: Australia

.Age:11
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I legitimately can't stand looking at that thing. I had so many unconstructive edits on it.
 
isn't it fun to look at the past and say "what was i thinking?"
 
The major thing that I didn't have my English together, that means that I didn't understand half the sentences that other people said. That also means that I was considered rude by multiple people.


Hobbes said:
This one was not committed by me but he's not here any more so whatever. When Nerdy Guy was just promoted, he ended up blocking himself almost right away. I saved the day and brought peace to the galaxy.
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That gave me like a continuous 5 minutes laugh. Nice
 
The Golden Yoshi said:
Here was my enigma of a userpage back in January 2014.

Helllllllo everybody It's The Golden Yoshi here. As for my profile look below

.favorite Characters: Yoshi Baby Luigi, Baby Mario, Luigi, Mario, Bowser Jr, Toad and Waluigi

.favorite games: Mario Kart Wii, Super Mario Bros 3, Smash Bros Brawl.

.Country: Australia

.Age:11
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I legitimately can't stand looking at that thing. I had so many unconstructive edits on it.
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well at least you put baby luigi under your favorite characters so i forgive your sins
 
Tbh, not a lot of my old stuff is super cringey. A lot of older embarrassments is just me opening my mouth when I should have kept it shut, but overall I was quiet. This may or may not continue today, but it was a lot worse back then. One of my first articles resulted in me getting into an argument with an admin, so that was fun. If I had to pick on anything, some of my old writing is still floating on the wiki, back when I didn't know the first thing about writing standards, and I should really rewrite that stuff at some point.

However, if we were talking about Roblox...
 
Mary Berry said:
fortunately i haven't gotten one

i almost got one from Number 1! which i would have appealed
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correction: I did get a sigfix once but that's not really a reminder per se
 
oh ok

then I was wrong

but I was right that I've never gotten a formal reminder
 
I got one because of prior shitty filenames that I want to forget that I've done those.
 
my biggest fail was the worst article ever made, In the Clouds

so awful a petition was made

i also had a lot of n00by moments when i first started out, made a few spam articles by accident, and it's not technically on this wiki, but when i was on Userpedia i had a VERY bumpy ride before i got where i am today

i even had one or two cock-ups on this very forum, most notably "HE'S NOT DEMANDING SHIT"

that left a scar on my profile

not to mention the bowserpedia wars

in fact i'm surprised i didn't go the way of Max2

but yeah, lots of fails and shit like that, in the end they all made me a better person
 
I've made a completely random talk page proposal on Watchitt and that other person. It miserably failed.
 
Ultron said:
my biggest fail was the worst article ever made, In the Clouds
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n the clouds is a level in yoshi's island ds. it has many enimies and here are some:

flip guy mufti guy pihranha plants lakuitus sluggers spineys

where you start of you go to the first cloud. it would be quite usefull to use peach. bounce up the clouds to get to the moving cloud with the dots. once you jump on it, you will be moved up to the first flower.when it is about to go of the edge, jump right on the cloud in bettween the two cloud drops.jump that cloud onto the second cloud then keep jumping on the clouds. when on the last cloud where you cant see any more, flutter jump on forward to get onto a big cloud with a flip guy and a cloud above you. jump onto the cloud with dotted lines coming out of the cloud shaping a hook. jump down to the cloud in bettween the cloud your on and the cloud next to it and jump up to the cloud above then jump of that cloud onto the cloud at the top and jump up that cloud to see a cloud with arrows pointing right. continue on. now it gets tricky.get onto the first cloud circling around and then get onto the cloud that goes up the big 's' infront of you. when at the top, you wait till the cloud circling gets to a point where you can get on it. then once it gets to the backwards 's' you either jump onto the cloud that is availible or flutter down the 's' till you get onto that cloud (depends on timing). after that there is a cloud on yet another backwards 's' that always meets with your cloud. when you get to this point jump onto the cloud. after that you then meet another circling cloud and you flutter onto it. you then meet another cloud that will follow the dotted line. jump on it. once you get to the curve at the top, quickly jump of onto the small cloud and bounce onto the bigger cloud you will see an arrow in the sky. follow that way. if you have dk then you can explore around that part but if not then ignore it. keep following the arrows in the sky.once you get to the end of the bouncy clouds then you need to bounce up to the cloud following the dotted lines. heads up for the cloud drop that id above the dotted lines. once you get off the cloud you follow the arrows to the next area. continue on and get the middle ring. jump on to the cloud with the three coins. then you jump on the mufti guy (shy guy in a bunch of flowers) or hit him with an egg (if you have any...) to get him into the museum. then jump on to the bouncy cloud to get to the cloud with an arrow on it. this part is harsh. jump on to the fickle blocks and hit the switch and jump onto the 3 fickle blocks. jump onto the top and jump at the switch andgo onto the flip side. jump to the next 3 fickle blocks. keep going till you reach the next set and hit the switch to get onto the next set. then hit the switch to flip them and there will be loads of fickle blocks to stand on. jump and in mid-air hit the switch do the same again and get on to the next set of fickles where there is an arrow pointing at the switch. set your egg to hit the block and flutter towards the outlined blocks while hitting the block (try and calculate how to do this). when you got to the last two fickle blocks, hit the piranha plant with an egg (or jump over it and hit the middle ring to get an extra star!!!). continue on.this is much harder when it is in the moon light with the screen moving you forward while dropping down holes with lakuitus throwing spineys at you!!! 'course it wont afect me because i have 381 lives!!! anyway moving on. just keep to the screen and jump across the clouds to safety. don't worry about the falling seeds they can only hurt you if they hit you. lakuitus are easy to avoid as well. if you have made it of the bouncy clouds you will find a stork stop. change to peach if you havn't already. get to the point with the circle-moving cloud. look in front- there is a slugger (batsman). slam down on him to defeat him. keep going along the clouds kill the third slugger and don't worry about the piranha plant (unless you are realy dum and decided to go under the cloud!!). He can't hurt you. jump of that cloud and jump onto the bouncy cloud. bounce up to the next bouncy cloud. then jump onto the cloud that goes up and down. jump onto the next cloud (at this point it gets faster!!). make your way across the clouds and when you get to the cloud with the last flower above it, it gets slower! now if you are dk the you can get the character coin and jump over the piranha. if not, then hit the pirahna with an egg. if no eggs the you will have a lucky jump over it!!! well we made it to the finish!!!!
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This made my day.
 
Iggy Waffles said:
I've gotten 2 reminders in my Wiki career. One for unconstructive edits and another for an overly large signature.
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I only had one for removing a comment. Oh wait, i said that already. But I got a Sigfix shortly after for a large signature. No reminders, warnings for that, I fixed the signature. I was good to near perfect the rest of my career. Only legitimately coming back and editing something is signing up on Award related things when it comes. I'm too lazy to log out of sites.

Dr. Mario said:
I've made a completely random talk page proposal on Watchitt and that other person. It miserably failed.
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I made a proposal, and it got deleted as I can go do whatever I proposed. I wasn't discouraged afterward, I just didn't do proposals after that.
 
The only successful proposal I made was because of Walkazo's help.
 
Andymii said:
Ultron said:
my biggest fail was the worst article ever made, In the Clouds
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n the clouds is a level in yoshi's island ds. it has many enimies and here are some:

flip guy mufti guy pihranha plants lakuitus sluggers spineys

where you start of you go to the first cloud. it would be quite usefull to use peach. bounce up the clouds to get to the moving cloud with the dots. once you jump on it, you will be moved up to the first flower.when it is about to go of the edge, jump right on the cloud in bettween the two cloud drops.jump that cloud onto the second cloud then keep jumping on the clouds. when on the last cloud where you cant see any more, flutter jump on forward to get onto a big cloud with a flip guy and a cloud above you. jump onto the cloud with dotted lines coming out of the cloud shaping a hook. jump down to the cloud in bettween the cloud your on and the cloud next to it and jump up to the cloud above then jump of that cloud onto the cloud at the top and jump up that cloud to see a cloud with arrows pointing right. continue on. now it gets tricky.get onto the first cloud circling around and then get onto the cloud that goes up the big 's' infront of you. when at the top, you wait till the cloud circling gets to a point where you can get on it. then once it gets to the backwards 's' you either jump onto the cloud that is availible or flutter down the 's' till you get onto that cloud (depends on timing). after that there is a cloud on yet another backwards 's' that always meets with your cloud. when you get to this point jump onto the cloud. after that you then meet another circling cloud and you flutter onto it. you then meet another cloud that will follow the dotted line. jump on it. once you get to the curve at the top, quickly jump of onto the small cloud and bounce onto the bigger cloud you will see an arrow in the sky. follow that way. if you have dk then you can explore around that part but if not then ignore it. keep following the arrows in the sky.once you get to the end of the bouncy clouds then you need to bounce up to the cloud following the dotted lines. heads up for the cloud drop that id above the dotted lines. once you get off the cloud you follow the arrows to the next area. continue on and get the middle ring. jump on to the cloud with the three coins. then you jump on the mufti guy (shy guy in a bunch of flowers) or hit him with an egg (if you have any...) to get him into the museum. then jump on to the bouncy cloud to get to the cloud with an arrow on it. this part is harsh. jump on to the fickle blocks and hit the switch and jump onto the 3 fickle blocks. jump onto the top and jump at the switch andgo onto the flip side. jump to the next 3 fickle blocks. keep going till you reach the next set and hit the switch to get onto the next set. then hit the switch to flip them and there will be loads of fickle blocks to stand on. jump and in mid-air hit the switch do the same again and get on to the next set of fickles where there is an arrow pointing at the switch. set your egg to hit the block and flutter towards the outlined blocks while hitting the block (try and calculate how to do this). when you got to the last two fickle blocks, hit the piranha plant with an egg (or jump over it and hit the middle ring to get an extra star!!!). continue on.this is much harder when it is in the moon light with the screen moving you forward while dropping down holes with lakuitus throwing spineys at you!!! 'course it wont afect me because i have 381 lives!!! anyway moving on. just keep to the screen and jump across the clouds to safety. don't worry about the falling seeds they can only hurt you if they hit you. lakuitus are easy to avoid as well. if you have made it of the bouncy clouds you will find a stork stop. change to peach if you havn't already. get to the point with the circle-moving cloud. look in front- there is a slugger (batsman). slam down on him to defeat him. keep going along the clouds kill the third slugger and don't worry about the piranha plant (unless you are realy dum and decided to go under the cloud!!). He can't hurt you. jump of that cloud and jump onto the bouncy cloud. bounce up to the next bouncy cloud. then jump onto the cloud that goes up and down. jump onto the next cloud (at this point it gets faster!!). make your way across the clouds and when you get to the cloud with the last flower above it, it gets slower! now if you are dk the you can get the character coin and jump over the piranha. if not, then hit the pirahna with an egg. if no eggs the you will have a lucky jump over it!!! well we made it to the finish!!!!
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This made my day.
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yep, that's the one...

I originally wrote it as a wiki answers article, and I put it on the wiki

it's embarrassing, yet I'm proud of it
 
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