Kilopylae is an online persona active on Wikipedia and the RailUK forums. On Wikipedia, Kilopylae concerns themselves largely with trying to improve the style of its prose, especially in lede sections. These efforts have been dismissed online as "disgusting".[1] They have also written a small selection of articles themselves.
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Etymology
editThe word "Kilopylae" is from Phillip Reeve's Railhead, where it is a name for the Network, an ancient web of interplanetary railway lines that run through portals named gates: "Raven smiled. 'When I was a boy, we called it "Kilopylae". That means "the thousand gates" in one of the languages of Old Earth. That was the ancient name for it, the Guardians' name. It seems to have fallen out of fashion now.'"
Notable contributions
editArticles I claim vague custodianship over
edit- Kings Nympton railway station, jointly with Geoff Sheppard
- Queerplatonic relationship
- Devon Metro
Other articles that were largely written by me
edit- Lands common to Axminster and Kilmington
- Exeter College, Exeter
- Panhumanism
- Pilton West
- Pizza Club
- Stannary Convocation of Devon
- Tarka Line
- Tsüngkotepsü
- West Exe School
- X17 particle
And the graveyard:
- Critical social justice [deleted]
- Lo-fi hip-hop [merged]
- Thameslink core [merged]
- Ready to Learn [draftified for alleged conflict of interest...ouch!]
- Over 22,000 bytes of West Exe School [overuse of primary sources]
Other notable contributions
edit- I am the reason the lede of SARS-CoV-2 mentions the name "human coronavirus 2019 (HCoV-19 or hCoV-19)"
- Rewrote the lede of Homestuck to avoid calling it just a "webcomic" in wiki-voice