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ApteryxRainWing
This user shares her name with a hurricane that got its name retired for killing 1,192 people and she does not know how to feel about that
— Wikipedian ♀ —
Name	Apteryx
Name in real life	Hazel
Nationality	Rainforest Kingdom
Country	Pyrrhia
Current location	The RainWing Village
Languages	Dragon
Race	RainWing
Height	Tall
Eyes	Green
Handedness	Lefty
Family and friends
Pets	A small runty Jersey Wooly rabbit
Education and employment
Occupation	Journalist, Redout pilot, storm chaser, YouTuber, Luke Combs fangirl
Employer	Jimmy Wales, I think. I don't know, I just edit the funny puzzle ball website
Education	Doctorate degree in being a goofy silly goober
High school	Jade Mountain Academy
University	Jewel Hive University
Hobbies, interests, and beliefs
Hobbies	Racing and yapping
Religion	Worshipper of Clearsight
Politics	Bernie Sanders-esque progressivism
Movies	Twisters (2024), Twister (1996)
Shows	Discovery Channel's Storm Chasers
Books	Wings of Fire
Music	Whatever Zardonic and Luke Combs puts out
Interests
	Anti-gravity racing games, dragons, meteorology, journalism, politics, D&B music, post-apocalyptic stuff, fantasy, speedrunning, LGBTQ topics, Formula 1, NASCAR

I'm Apteryx, I'm just some RainWing who figured out how to use a laptop. Yes, my name is the scientific name of the kiwi bird, that is intentional since they are my favorite animal behind the dragon. I'm a WikiDragon-WikiGnome thing that makes big edits but I also pay attention to details like spelling and grammar. Sometimes I go back and reword sentences though. Don't believe the propaganda about us WikiDragons, we like being petted.

Notes on my editing style

I am a part of the welcoming committee, so I will sometimes have massive bursts of 25-50 edits where I go through the user creation log and place welcome messages on the talk pages of new accounts that have contributed. Yes, I know it looks like editcountitis, but I just want to help new users out. I've been doing this less since reaching EC status, because I now have the permissions I need to work on whatever articles I want, unimpeded by vandalism protections, but I plan to sometimes go through the user creation log and welcome a few people every now and then.

I will sometimes "adopt" an article and work on it obsessively over the course of a week, so if you see me making a lot of edits to one or two articles, that is likely what I am doing. If you want to see a list of articles I have worked on, you can see it here.

I exclusively use the visual editor because my brain is the size of a grape and it can't grasp the concept of wikitext, although you will occasionally see the "switched" tag in my edit history when I attempt to do something with the source editor that the visual editor is incapable of (such as repositioning userboxes on my userpage or correcting something on a Talk page).

I am a very indecisive writer, and you will often see me rephrasing my sentences until I am happy with them. Sometimes when I am writing, I get so caught up in the flow of "what comes after this sentence/paragraph" that I forget to re-read what I already wrote before I publish it. I also have a tendency to add useless inline links that I then remove as I reread my work and judge which links are helpful. I know it again looks like editcountitis, but that's not the case. I just am dumb.

About me

I'm here on Wikipedia because I want to learn more formal and unbiased writing, and I also want to feel like I am contributing to something. My life goal is to be a storm chaser, which is going great so far. I've already seen a tornado up close, and I am definitely going to be one of those maniacs who make an armored vehicle so they can get inside a tornado. However, storm chasing is an unstable career, and fun things are expensive, so I will probably end up in journalism. If I get lucky, I want to someday be an anchor or political analyst for the a major national news outlet and I hope the high standards of writing on Wikipedia will help with that goal.

Ambitious pipe dreams aside, I like to spend my free time writing, perfecting my racing lines in Redout 2, falling down Wikipedia rabbit holes, and reading Wings of Fire. I love D&B music, country music, and breakcore music (thanks, Ultrakill).

I could probably go on for a dozen more paragraphs about myself, but I also like to have a readable user page, so feel free to ask anything on my talk page. If the banner at the top of the page isn't clear enough, please trout me if I do something dumb. Have a nice day, nerds!