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NOTE: This user is not a bot, nor does he own one like Susan Calvin.
If you are concerned about my username ending in "bot," there was a Request for Comments regarding the issue. The result of that discussion was Keep. Due to the consensus and my personal opinion that my username is not disruptive, please do not ask me to voluntarily change my username.
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Who are you?
A wise man once said, I'm just this guy, you know?
Why I, Jethrobot?
My name is Jethro. My username is a variation on it and was given to me by some friends of mine who liked this rock band with a flautist. Jethrobot was inspired by the same group of friends after watching the movie I, Robot (film). In my friends' opinions, the story should have remained a book by Issac Asimov. But anyway, in the weird way that nicknames tend to stick and how their recipients have no control over this, the name Jethrobot stuck. And so it is I, Jethrobot.
Why Wikipedia? & editing history
I joined Wikipedia on Sunday, August 13th in 2006 as a user, though I did make occasional revisions as an anonymous WikiGnome prior to that. I made an account when I decided to make additions and load the cover art for the game Dragon Quest Yangus. I was also disappointed at the lack of content on Game Boy circa 2006, so I tried to improve it as best I could. I still continue to make small improvements.
I didn't edit under this account between 2007-2011 (because I forgot my password); I probably made a handful of minor, anonymous contributions under IPs, though I no longer remember them.
You'll notice some breaks in my edit history if you check it out. I took these breaks because I was in graduate school and I prioritized my research and work over other interests. I'm now finished with school, and can edit more regularly.
What I do
I write some articles, but I take a lot more interest in these activities:
- welcoming new users at The teahouse and using Snuggle,
- answering OTRS e-mails about images and general questions as a volunteer,
- performing non-admin closures of AfDs and RfCs, and...
- patrolling the new pages feed.
I'm also broadly interesting in retaining editors, both new and old. It's a good life!
Articles I have created
- All Saints Episcopal Church (Chicago, Illinois) - My very first article-- it's the oldest wooden-frame church in Chicago.
I am hoping it will get up to a DYK! :)Things be praised-- it got a DYK! :D - Retrieval-induced forgetting as a major contributor.
- Happy Wheels! - A fantastic game by Jim Bonacci.
- Square Roots (music festival)
- Davis Theater
- The Chicago Lincoln
Articles I have worked hard on and made them pretty OK
- Game Boy - Added a lot of technical information, initial release information, and have just generally cleaned up the page since 2006. I still keep an eye on it.
- Leon Daniel - Vietnam War and US Civil Rights Movement reporter with UPI. Saved from its AfD. And have vastly improved. This page is some of my best work, and I feel very proud of it as an editor.
- Veet - Hair removal product and chemical depilatory. Also has an interesting history. I even found a few old ads that were pretty funny to read that I've included as sources. Saved from its AfD.
- Dog camp - Helped find sources during the AfD to keep this concept afloat that was, at first, considered a hoax. I helped with clean-up, but most of that was done by Tomwsulcer.
- Steaz - Well, it certainly looked like this page was going to get deleted at first, until I stumbled upon some sources. Now, it's looking pretty good!
- Heroes in Hell (and other books in the series) - Major clean-up due to some COI- and notability-related issues.
- Edward Francis Anhalt - A community organizer in Milwaukee, and probably one of the most challenging articles I've had in the face of an AfD.
- Engineering psychology - Mostly got involved in this one during its AfD. I initially thought it should be deleted, but I ended up cleaning it up and making fixes during the AfD and after it was kept.
- Benjamin Moore & Co. - Kind of looked like a copyvio at first, but wasn't. This isn't a particularly long article, but the company received some coverage and several awards for its paint products, so I added in content to reflect these findings.
- Merz Apothecary - Started as a stub, and found some decent sources about its history to flesh out the article a bit more.
RfA discussion
RfA candidate | S | O | N | S % | Status | Ending (UTC) | Time left | Dups? | Report |
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Numberguy6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Open | 01:36, 1 June 2024 | 6 days, 15 hours | no | report |
The best thing ever (at the moment)
Working on an essay on civility: User:I Jethrobot/Imagine other editors complexly. Feel free to leave comments or make changes to it directly as I go along.
I like these things that Wikipedians have said (at least in part)
- [1] - On edit counts and RfAs, from Coffee (talk · contribs)
- [2] Some words from Drmies (talk · contribs) on a lot of stuff, like curbing your enthusiasm, though I don't care so much for the old vs. young stuff.
- [3] A Teahouse question prompts an thoughtful and respectful answer from Demiurge1000 (talk · contribs)-- this is where they make you "read", not where they make you "real."
- [4] A new editor has this to say after being feeling pushed away by warnings and incorrect reverts identified as vandalism to her contributions. We all need to be careful of being BITEy.
AfD matters
Want to Help me DelSort?
Have you seen notes like these before on Articles for Deletion discussions?:
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of Awesome-related deletion discussions. I, Jethrobot drop me a line (note: not a bot!) 05:51, 20 July 2011 (UTC)
Well, they don't just get up and walk over to the discussion all by themselves! I hang out on WP:AfD and make those notes, a task called Deletion Sorting or DelSorting for short. It helps deletion discussions get more visibility from editors interested in those topics. And there's nothing worse than a stale deletion discussion with no comments.
If you want to help out with this task, check out the page on DelSorting at WP:DELSORT.
Other awesome people who DelSort:
AfD Pages I find Hilarious
- Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Gus_Giesebrecht: Not only was Giesebrecht a Detroit Red Wings player, but he scored the game-winning goal that sent the Red Wings to the Stanley Cup finals 1941. I also like the recommendation from Pparazorback: Snowstorm in the middle of July Keep
- Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Fred_Moosally: Oh look, a Featured Article was up for deletion. Wonder how that one ended.
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kevin Marc: "KEVIN IS MAH BOI" is not a rationale for keeping, but it sure makes me chuckle.
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Criminal creology: One of the sockiest of sockfests. Thankfully, it was also the blockiest of blockfests thanks to the resulting SPI.
Barnstars!
These make me feel like a million bucks!
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