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Wikipedia:WikiGremlin

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This is the apostrophe demon. He lurks Wikipedia correcting misuse of apostrophes.

WikiGremlin
Temporal range: Late Nupedian (2003) – Recent
Putatively since Middle Nupedian (2001)
A WikiGremlin hard at work
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Ornithischia
Clade: Neornithischia
Clade: Ceratopsia
Family: Leptoceratopsidae
Genus: Gremlin
Species:
G. wikigremio
Binomial name
Gremlin wikigremio

A WikiGremlin is a microscopic creature that runs the Wikipedia website. Light blue in color, with grey eyes and an orange or fuchsia mohawk, most are good, and generate entries like random page, recent changes and new pages, but a few have unfortunately risked snacks and half a bottle of Grand Marnier after midnight, and now go about titling documents InAVeryOddWay, breaking links and generally causing havoc.

They are cousins to the infamous pencil gremlins, which are peculiar to cylindrical habitats normally resigned to stationery. They feed on graphite, metabolising and excreting dust. They can be found banging pencils around the pencil holder, and are thus directly responsible for the pencil point breakages that inevitably occur at the most crucial of times.