User:The Editor's Apprentice

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Hello, and welcome to my user page! I've been editing Wikipedia for 10 years and am still learning! Feel free to contact me on my talk page if I've made a mistake, if you have any questions, or if you just wanna chat! I test things out in my first sandbox as well as in my second sandbox, all my changes on English Wikipedia can be found in my edit history, and a comprehensive analysis of my edits can be found at my user stats page. I have a lot of ideas, but am not so quick to implement them, so I keep  track of ideas on my to do list.

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