User:Alzarian16/Mistakes compilation

I'm generally felt to be a fairly decent user. But I'm not perfect. Here's some examples of where one or more of my contributions was somewhat less than perfect. If you see another one, feel free to add it to a relevant section. But make sure it's funny and not too degrading...

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To get in to this section, the mistake needs to be more than a simple typo, as these can happen to anyone. A broken redirect, accidental redlink or something particularly funny is a good starting point.

• A pair of edits that inspired the title of this section.
• A bit earlier on, I accidentally cut a sentence in half while removing outdated info. Seven months and seventeen edits later, no-one had noticed, so I ended up fixing it myself!
• This seemed to have gone well at first. The next edit said otherwise. It was worth it for that edit summary...
• Ignore for a minute that this isn't exactly the strongest RfA oppose ever and just look at the formatting. Why I put a bullet point rather than a hash before it? I still don't know. Fixed quickly enough, and the candidate passed anyway.
• Redirecting an unsourced BLPs of a non-notable person seemed like a good idea, but putting a typo in the redirect probably wasn't...
• Always check for capitalisation, especially in usernames. Fixed after one minute.
• Not one, not two, but three typos in a single edit!
• First day back after a Wikibreak, and what happens? Two cite errors, three consecutive typos in a single AfD !vote, and another bulleting error.
• Seeing the bigger picture isn't always good.
• Half a ref template appears in article text

Logic errors

• Bad AfD !vote here. I based a keep opinion on a bunch of sources that turned out to be copies of press releases. By the time that came out I was on Wikibreak and couldn't correct myself. Debate was closed delete, of course.
• And one the other way. Two other users found sources, but I totally failed. Had time to reverse this one, as did the nom. Closed speedy keep.
• Not even going to suggest how big a lapse in concentration this must have required. To be fair, I had been making a lot of talk page edits on the same day... not very convincing, is it?
• New article created at Chesham branch. Spot that infobox is too big on my computer. Try to reduce size of infobox. Make infobox bigger by mistake. Reverted as vandalism by creator. Discussion on talk page. Article passes GA review. Another user sorts out infobox. Further discussion. Everybody happy. Could have happened much earlier if I was any good with infoboxes...

Edit summaries

• Good edit, bad summary. Too late to fix it now...
• This was a correct removal of a footballer who hadn't joined the relevant club yet. But it certainly wasn't "rubbish". So I tried to fix it by reverting myself, which was fairly stupid in its own right.