"Note to self: Next time, take your legal or illegal drug of choiceafter editing Wikipedia..."
Editing under the influence (EUI) refers to editing while not in one's usual state of mind, unlessunder the influence is the editor's usual state of mind. This can obviously have a variety of meanings but often results in an editor reviewing their edits the next day and universally proclaiming "I wrote that?!" and back-tracking to either amend or admire their pronouncements of the prior eve.(The first andbolded (or not) twenty-two reasons are from theoriginal page.)
Please add reasons: To be fair, please add your reason/contribution at the end of the list.If you are reading this then youmaybe are sufferingmaybeparanoia perhaps (or not) ...
These edits may occur as the result of:
Extreme emotional or giddy disturbance.
An intense desire to get away from the family right now.
Anenlightenment as the result of too muchacetaminophen.(In that case you should maybe get your liver checked ... or check if those pills were really what you think they were.)
If I don't add one last comment to that closed discussion, I will go insane.Wait, I'll sort this out, it can't be closed, not now, they didn't even make it grammatical/reachconsensus/solvethe answer tolife, the universe and everything!
I've drunk ten cups of the strongest coffee, and made the mistake of drinking ten more just so I could hog the coffee table while I edit Wikipedia.
Editing under influence just because I can.
I need to listen to all 10,000 songs on my iPod while doing something.
I need to do something constructive, and Wikipedia just happens to be something I can construct something on, therefore counting as being constructive.
My pet hamster is hogging the TV because it's time to watchAirplane!
I have extreme diarrhea and am not wanting to do homework.
I need to educate future generations about editing under the influence.
I am in the middle of law school finals, I edit to think about something else.
I am in the middle of mastering my "English Lit" major with Arts minor. I can idly ad lib ad infinitum withessayist flair.
Because I just read the whole list and still don't understand what "hogging" means...(PraiseUrban Dictionary!)
Pornhub is offline, so I have to release some steam by editing.
What else am I supposed to do when I had one too many shots and gotta take a poopsy?
As usual, I was not in my usual state of mind when editing Wikipedia, as I only ever do that when perceiving Reality, which is of course an Illusion caused by having too muchblood in my alcohol stream, and an Illusion which I have now happily fixed, although letting you know any of this will undoubtedly now get me indefinitely banned as a truly wickedDefender of The Truth.
Those muscle relasxants I took are for bedtime pills and they;er gonna to knock me flat and I gotta gert to bed befor thy do, but I can prop myslef up on tee deskl lung enoug to finsh rthis eidt.
Fortnite servers are down and you don't have agirlfriend to talk to, so you might as well vandaliseEpic Games's page.
Brexit is getting far too complicated for me and my brain, so why not clear AN ENTIRE PAGE? Oooo, what a great idea! Not.
Some years ago – never mind how long precisely – having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world
You feel offended that Wikipedia does not have a page for one of the characters in that indie game you really like.
The marijuana you just smoked is making you paranoid that someone on the Internet may be wrong. If you just edit Wikipedia, they'll finally understand (or something)
I have a photo to add toErection that is far better than all other examples.
I had to do it, or the voices wouldn't stop!
99 bottles of beer on the wall...
iPhone not responding, becomes frozen, screen red and blue, stripes.
I'm stuck at home because of theCOVID-19 pandemic and have absolutely nothing to do.
You decide to read random stuff—but there has to be a comma here. Why is there no comma here?! Hours later, I'm still here, fixing random stuff.
Staying up to make sure you're gonna be the one who does the one billionth edit.
I'm too couch-locked to head to the bathroom, but not too couch-locked to edit some articles, but I really need to pee...oh god oh g
Sleeping and not editing for a week makes you bored, and being bored makes your articles boring, so doing things the other way should make your articles less boring, and interesting articles get featured, so not sleeping at all because you drank pure caffeine should get all your articles featured! That's how logic works, right?
it's 11 pm, i'm on my phone, i notice something that's a glaring error, attempt (<- key word) to fix it, don't press show preview, publish the change, then sleep.
it's like 2-3 am and my step dad invited me to an internet café. i felt like games are boring so i decided to go edit a few wiki articles
(In the morning) I'm sorry, but I forgot to remember to remind myself that I have to finish editing the main page. Hey, where's the main page gone...?
EUI may result in unintentionaldisruptive editing; misedit(s); unpremeditatedreverts,deletion nomination, or anything of the sort. This might cause misunderstanding amongWikipedians, whom everyone considers each other in a normal state of editing. If done several times, an unwantedblock from editing might be done.
Self-awareness and self-control are very required (i.e. making an edit schedule to prevent possible EUI) to refine or lessen the unintended results of your self-administered adventure inaltered states of consciousness orunconsciousness. They can also help as a preventative measure for people who have not gotten EUI, although thePledge of Tranquility may help.
