User:Apelcini
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| Nationality | Jewish |
| Occupation(s) | 1,753 edits and 11 new articles |
| Years active | Joined wikipedia yyyy/mm/dd |
| Known for | Creation of new articles |
| Notable work | Murder of Ruth Waymire, Murder of Shirley Soosay, List of ghost towns in Georgia (U.S. state) |
| Criminal charges | Being bad at math, not knowing how to use userboxes |
| Awards | 1 normal barnstar |
Wikipedia user Apelcini is an editor and unpaid volunteer on the community-run internet encyclopedia Wikipedia. Apelcini's contributions are mostly in the form of the creation of new articles, particularly articles pertaining to unidentified decedents and formerly unidentified decedents. Apelcini is quoted as saying "and as such, it is my greatest wish that I never have a conflict of interest,". As of 17 February 2023, Apelcini has made 1,753 edits to Wikipedia and has created 11 new articles (not including multiple stubs). Apelcini is also reported as being interested in graffiti, ghost towns, Eastern Europe, cats, charts and graphs (see below), infrastructure in America, industrial disasters, paleozoology, and archaeology. Apelcini is afraid of plane crashes and rabies and hates cruise ships, the myth of the "good ol' days", the ocean, condescension towards rural folk, Indiana Jones, and conspiracy theories. Apelcini is currently working on a project regarding the racial gap in coverage of unidentified decedents, both in sources and on Wikipedia. There is a section regarding this project below.
Talk to me! I write and overhaul articles regularly, and I'm more than happy to work on an article that you wish existed or was vastly overhauled. You can see examples of past requests at Male Mona Lisa theories, Murders of Dean and Tina Clouse, Murder of Tammy Zywicki, and Chenega, Alaska. I do best writing about the likes and dislikes mentioned above, but I'll give most any subject a shot. Just don't ask me to write about math.
Only through the light of information can we lift ourselves out of the darkness of our past[edit]
America's even silenter mass disaster: the racial gap in coverage of missing and unidentified[edit]
The problem of the missing and unidentified dead is often referred to as "America's silent mass disaster". In summer of 2022, I hoped to make a difference in this issue by writing Wikipedia articles centering unidentified decedents, pages that present the facts of this issue without sensationalizing the murder aspect. I've researched many different cases of unidentified decedents, several of which have moved me enough to create articles for them, such as Elizabeth Ann Roberts and Spokane Millie Doe. One case which has moved me significantly is the case of Bayonne Jane Doe, a teenaged girl murdered and left face down on a jughandle in Bayonne, New Jersey. Bayonne Jane Doe was found wearing socks with teddy bears printed on them, and this has always reminded me of a quote said in relation to the Tammy Jo Alexander case, "How could someone just throw away a child like that?". The similarities between the two cases have always struck me, but not as much as how when I wanted to write an article about Bayonne Jane Doe, I couldn't, because there was not sufficient coverage to prove notability. When trying to think of Wikipedia articles for missing and unidentified people of color, the only ones I could recall were Tempe Girl and Disappearance of Asha Degree. Now I'm on a mission to write pages for unidentified and formerly unidentified decedents of color to try and close the gap. Currently, I'm gathering a list of cases and checking to see which of those cases fit the criteria for Wikipedia notability. So far I've personally written Angela Toler, Smurfette Jane Doe, and Shirley Soosay
| Unidentified | Formerly unidentified | Missing |
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| Tempe Girl - A teenaged girl of uncertain race who died of an accidental cocaine overdose in Tempe, Arizona in 2002. Tempe Girl has never been identified. | Shirley Soosay - A Candian Cree woman murdered in California and unidentified for 30 years. Soosay's case is held up as a prime example of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women. | Asha Degree - A 9 year old Black girl who disappeared mysteriously from her family's home in Shelby, North Carolina in 2000. Asha has never been found. Asha's mother has said that she believes that Asha's disappearance would have gotten more publicity if Asha was white. |
| Bayonne Jane Doe - A Black teenaged girl who was murdered and dumped on the side of the road in Bayonne, New Jersey in 2007. Despite the parallels to the Tammy Alexander murder, Bayonne Jane Doe has 2 news article written about her.[1][2] | Lyle Stevik - A Native American man who committed suicide under an alias in 2001 and was identified in 2018. Stevik's real name has not been publicly released. The DNA Doe Project has said that they had trouble tracing Stevik's identity due to a lack of genetic data for Native Americans | Sofia Juarez - A Mexican-American toddler who disappeared from Washington state in 2003. Sofia has never been found |
| St. Louis Jane Doe - A young Black girl who was murdered in 1983. she has never been identified. | Bobby Whitt and Myoung Hwa Cho - An Asian woman and her young son murdered in South Carolina in 1998 and both identified in 2019 | Anthonette Cayedito - A Navajo and Hispanic young girl who disappeared from New Mexico in 1986. Anthonette has never been found. |
| Smurfette Jane Doe - A mixed race Black and White teenaged girl who was found concealed in a trash bag in Houston in 2012. The girl may have been a victim of sex trafficking. | Angela Toler - A Black woman from North Carolina who died of accidental hypothermia in Richmond, Virginia in 1992 and was identified in 2012. This is the first article that I wrote myself for this project. | Susan Poupart - An Indigenous woman who went missing from Wisconsin in 1990 and was found murdered in a National Park 6 months later |
| Girl from the Main - An adolescent girl of uncertain race found abused and murdered in a river in Germany. She likely entered the country illegally, and diplomatic privilege likely protects her abusers, further complicating identification. | Gordon Sanderson - A First Nations man murdered in Alberta, Canada in 1977 and identified in 2021 |
Library[edit]
| article | what responsible is this? | article | what responsible is this? |
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| Murder of Elizabeth Roberts | I wrote this one | Murder of Cynthia Gastelle | added significantly to this stub, maybe you can too |
| Suicide attacks in the North Caucasus conflict | dynamic list i'm currently updating | Japanese urban legend | I wrote the part about ghost taxi passengers |
| Murder of Dawn Olanick | I was there when she was identified! I neatened it a little | Pistachio pudding | Stub that is testing my sanity |
| Cairn | Article I'm adding citations to | Mona Lisa Man Theories | I wrote this one |
| Pelagornis sandersi | Bird I'm interested in | Sippy cup | I wrote the section for prehistoric sippy cups |
| New York City rat chasm | I wrote this one | Rats in New York City | I restructured and expanded the notable incidents section |
| Spokane Millie Doe | I wrote this one | Murders of Dean and Tina Clouse | I wrote this one |
| Ghost shoes (traffic fatality memorial) | I wrote this one | Murder of Tammy Zywicki | Article I expanded |
| Murder of Linda Pagano | I wrote this one | List of murdered American children | I add descriptions sometimes |
| Arborglyph | I added an image to this one | Don't Stop Believin' | I added an image to this one |
| Murder of Carla Walker | I added images to this one | Death of Angela Toler | I wrote this one |
| Smurfette Jane Doe | I wrote this one | Carl Koppelman | I wrote this one |
| Arctic Archipelago | I help make sure the individual pages for smaller islands are up to snuff | Chenega, Alaska | I'm helping to expand this article |
| Murder of Shirley Soosay | I wrote this one |
Ghost Townie[edit]
| List of ghost towns in Georgia (U.S. state) | I reordered this entire list, expanded it from 20 towns to more than 50, and added summaries | Thalmann, Oscarville | I wrote all these ghost towns |
| List of ghost towns in Maryland | I reordered the entire list and added summaries | Harmony Grove, Blooming Rose, Dodson, Frankville, Kempton, Kendall, | I wrote all these ghost towns |
| List of ghost towns in Pennsylvania | I'm fixing this entire list | ||
| List of ghost towns in Alaska | I'm fixing this list | ||
| List of ghost towns in Wyoming | I reordered this entire list | ||
| List of ghost towns in Arkansas | I'm supplimenting this list |
Growing up in the south, I was aware from a very young age about the ways that racism has shaped our settlements through redlining, sundown towns, and segregation. While reordering the list of ghost towns in Georgia, I wish it was surprising to find that Oscarville, one of Georgia's most infamous ghost towns with several sources of media coverage, was the only one on the list with no Wikipedia article until I found a source referencing an obscure town called Rollo. So I wrote the article for it myself.
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Own work uploads gallery[edit]
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Wall of names[edit]
| Elizabeth Ann Roberts
"Precious Jane Doe" |
Sonja Blair Adams
"Mountain Jane Doe" |
Clara Birdlong | Dawn Olanick
"Princess Doe" |
Ruth Belle Waymire"Millie Doe" |
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| "this young girl was precious to somebody, so she's precious to me"
"But no justice will give her her 18th birthday back" |
"I always wondered why you never came to get me. now I've come to get you" | "A great person who would have made a wonderful wife" | "Princess Doe - missing from home - dead among strangers - remembered by all" | "There's another person in the room,so we ought to name her. Let's call her Millie."
"She'd given birth before. That means someone is looking for their mother" |
| Wendy Stephens
"Bones 10" |
Tammy Jo Alexander
"Cali Doe" |
"Bayonne Jane Doe" | Carolyn Eaton
"Valentine Sally" |
Asha Degree |
| "we found her in the fetal position"
The youngest green river victim, 14 years old |
"how could someone just throw away a child like that?"
"Lest we forget - unidentified girl" |
found in teddy bear socks
The unidentified black girl never gets an article. |
"if you find the bastard, give him hell for me" | The missing black girl never gets an article. |
| "Julie Doe" | "Boy in the Box" | Debra Jackson | "Who put Bella in the Wych Elm?" | Peggy Johnson
"Racine County Jane Doe" |
| Unidentified female | "America's unknown child" | Socks are a noun, not a person | the enduring nature of graffiti | "Daughter - Jane Doe" |
| "Miss X" | Dean and Tina Clouse
"Harris County Does" |
Sherri Ann Jarvis
"Walker county Jane Doe" |
Aundria Bowman | Margaret Fetterolf
"Woodlawn Jane Doe" |
| "Regardless, someone felt enough guilt over her death to leave her by the side of the road" | Wrote to her mother and promised to come home | "Oh, that man killed my daughter" | ||
| Marcia Sossoman King
"Buckskin Girl" |
Cynthia Gastelle | Tammy Jo Zywicki | Michelle Garvey
"Baytown Jane Doe" |
Margaret Ellen Fox |
| Linda Pagano
"Strongsville Jane Doe" |
Calista Springer | "Long Beach Anna Doe" | Angela Toler
"Richmond Jane Doe" |
Smurfette Jane Doe |
| Shirley Ann Soosay
"Kern County Jane Doe" |
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| "Always hope" |
Graffiti Alley[edit]
- ^ Reporter, Hudson (2017-08-28). "Who is Bayonne's Jane Doe?". Hudson Reporter. Retrieved 2022-12-05.
- ^ Journal, The Jersey (2010-10-18). "The Jersey Journal: Bayonne Times Edition: Monday, Oct. 18". nj. Retrieved 2023-06-02.
- ^ Leffler 3, David (2021-11-09). "How Walker County Jane Doe Was Identified at Last". Texas Monthly. Retrieved 2022-11-25.
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