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Our work together here should be our armor, not some sharp, angry, burning sword. I would strongly recommend that everyone here find an article to work on for a while; not the cliche "random article", but something that gives you a nice tug at the heartstrings. It feels great to be out there doing work on something you genuinely care about, and I assure you it'll help you regain the sense of why you're here.
— User:The Blade of the Northern Lights, vectored by User:Keilana
Personal
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My Wiki-bio, circa 2015, for an article about me by a journalist.
Professionally, I'm a software engineer. (That's a computer programmer that's more full of themselves.) I currently work for a small software company, after having worked for a company which knows everything except how to spell its name (I've been a Wikipedian longest). I've written most of a few articles about people from each.
I got to do this neat thing for the earlier one, which helps lots of people find free (as-in-speech) images, including those usable for this project. Using it and other tools I've found over 3,000 images to illustrate articles and put them on Wikimedia Commons. Here is my images to-do list.
You'll notice the articles I've written have mostly gotten better over time. The little icons by the name of each article are the quality rating, assigned by other people. They are, in order: Stub: very short/incomplete (but most of the articles on the Wikipedia are in this category); Start: just the bare minimum; : C; B; Good article (1/200); A (rarely used); Featured Article: one of the best on the project (1/1000). My early articles, at the tops of the lists below, are mostly start and stub class, while my more recent ones, usually at the bottoms are mostly Bs. None of the last grades yet, but eventually!
Barnstars
Informal awards, when editors liked something I did. Appreciated! Actual awarding thereof may generally be found in my talk page archives.
Extended content
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(That's referring to the study I did for WikiProject Countering systemic bias/Gender gap task force when someone asked whether it really mattered to Wikipedia article content that only 16% of us editors were female? I showed that at least for one reasonably sized subset of Wikipedia:Featured Articles biographies, women wrote about women 2x as often as about men, and men and undeclared editors wrote about men 5x as often as about women.)
(This is about https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Atmospheric_Refraction_Sunrise.jpg)
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Games
Role-Playing Games
This user is a member of WikiProject Role-playing games. |
Besides minor edits, my early work was in Category:Role-playing games.
- Worlds of Wonder (game) (and stubbed Worlds of Wonder (toy company) to avoid confusion)
- Justice, Inc. (role-playing game)
- Boot Hill (role-playing game)
- Superworld (expanded from stub)
- Template:D&D-stub and Category:Dungeons & Dragons stubs (I called it Category:D&D stubs), to separate from Category: Role-playing game stubs which was overflowing
- Category:Basic Role-Playing System
- Ringworld (RPG) (expanded from stub)
- James Bond 007 (role-playing game)
- Category:Role-playing games - strictly categorized; other WP:RPG participants have since cleaned up much more thoroughly
- Cthulhu for President - RPG supplement, Origins Award winner, and political parody. DYK was a lead for April 1, 2021, and got 24,992 page views, the second most for the month, though only up for half a day.
- GURPS Steampunk - Collaboration with User:Newimpartial and User:BOZ
Other Games
- Down With the King (game) - baroque age political card and counter game
- Hitler's War (game) - very large scale hex wargame
- Dana Fischer - child Magic: The Gathering player
- Laura McKinlay Robinson - actress (Veronica Clare), author, game designer (Balderdash), singer, television producer, author... collaboration with User:Aoba47
Wikipedia Support
Wikipedia:Requested articles
Utah & Ether graffiti
I wrote or stubbed the following as part of fulfilling Wikipedia:Requested articles (and the former Wikipedia:Articles requested for more than two years):
- Catherine McCord model and TV host
- Carolyn Lilipaly Dutch news anchor
- Lane McCotter controversial prison administrator
- Karl Josef Weinmair 1930s German artist
- Kathy Lloyd UK model and TV host
- Beverley Turner UK sports host - redirect, expand stub a bit
- Minjung art 1980s South Korean protest art movement
- Gugum Gumbira Indonesian musician
- Ezquioga/Ezkioga Basque Spanish town that saw visions of Mary in the 1930s
- El Hajj Muhammad El Anka Algerian musician
- Hugo Hans Ritter von Seeliger German astronomer
- Josiah Edward Spurr 1900s American geologist and explorer
- Grant Wallace WWI era American journalist, screenwriter, artist, and occultist
- Thomas Logie MacDonald mayor of Carlisle and lunar crater eponym
- Melissa Bachman TV huntress
- Sophia Kianni teen climate activist
- Utah & Ether graffiti artists (and international criminals!) The DYK got 19802 page views, among greatest for February 2022.
Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias
This user is a member of WikiProject Countering systemic bias. |
This project tries to make up for the fact that most Wikipedia editors are technically savvy first world males.
Shoshong in 1881
Aluminum plant at Tursunzade
- Toni Frissell American photographer; expanded by others five-fold after my start
- Elizabeth Catlett African-American sculptor and printmaker; expanded by others seven-fold after my start
- Muhammad Awzal Moroccan Berber poet
- Marcelle Karp 3rd wave feminist writer & editor
- The Feminists short-lived New York City feminist group, stub
- Shoshong historical town in eastern Botswana.
- Ganapatya Hindu sect following Ganesh
- Mary Marvin Breckinridge Patterson American photojournalist and philanthropist
- Esther Bubley American photographer
- Engaruka Tanzanian ruins
- Tsetserleg Mongolian city - stub
- Tursunzade Tajikistan city
- Lisa Fugard actress, writer, daughter of Sheila Meiring Fugard
- Uganda National Rescue Front armed rebel groups
- Yoruba literature
- Grémah Boucar Nigerien journalist
- Philip A. Payton Jr. - the "Father of Harlem", rented properties to African-Americans
Collaborations
William Shatner at Belle Reve Farm
One of the best things about Wikipedia is the ability to work with the other dedicated editors. These are articles that I wrote based on starts or ideas by other Wikipedia editors.
- The Chalk Circle - Yuan Dynasty Chinese play. From a FAC review.
- Modest Stein - Pulp artist and former anarchist; collaboration with User:Newyorkbrad.
- Brad Smith - President and chief legal officer of Microsoft; collaboration with User:CarolAnnBrowne (WP:COI).
- Kathleen Hogan - Microsoft chief human resources officer, collaboration with User:Rnarula (WP:COI).
- Mia Kang - model, Muai Thai fighter, body positivity advocate. Expanded from start by User:Trillfendi.
- Miss and Mister Supranational - beauty pageant; restored and expanded after multiple deletions.
- Belle Reve Farm - horse farm owned by William Shatner - not much text, but lots of research; collaboration with User:Atsme
- Exotic and Unusual Fishes of North America - Television documentary series - not edited by User:Atsme!
- Daniel Madzimbamuto - Zimbabwean / Rhodesian activist; support for User:SusunW's Stella Madzimbamuto article.
- Malika Louback - Djiboutian / French model, engineer; from draft from User:Trillfendi.
- Trilby, or the Fairy of Argyll - 19th century French novella, from wish list by User:Ffranc.
Other
- Lavastorm - Internet boom company.
- Barnaby Conrad III - Author, artist. From a BLPN request from the subject about being confused with his father, also an author.
- Jenni Barber - actress.
- Marie Ragghianti - Parole board administrator, subject of movie.
- Kevin Michael Connolly - photographer without legs who takes photos of people staring at him.
- Cerrie Burnell - one armed British children's TV show presenter.
- New Man - Christian magazine.
- Sachs Electric - Missouri electrical company. From a user page deletion review.
- Somerville Journal - local newspaper.
- TypeRacer - multiplayer online browser-based typing game. After interviewing creator!
- Great Aragonese Encyclopedia a Spanish language, Aragon-themed, encyclopedia
- Braco - Croatian alternative medicine practitioner who treats people with his gaze.
- Robin Abrahams - Boston Globe Magazine weekly ethics and etiquette column "Miss Conduct".
- Fredrick Brennan - developer with brittle bone disease who founded the imageboard website 8chan.
- Rebecca Moore - Computer scientist, founder of Google Earth Outreach and Google Earth Engine (thoroughly vetted for WP:COI).
- Tina Machado - Businesswoman, athlete, and beauty pageant winner; restored and expanded after deletion.
- Becca Pizzi - Local marathon runner.
- Never Again pledge - commitment by IT workers to work against a US government database identifying people by race, religion, or national origin
- Lyndsey Scott - Fashion model and iOS mobile app developer.
- Elly Mayday - Canadian model and ovarian cancer advocate. She died the day after I started on her article; the DYK got 34,666 page views, the most in March 2019, and qualifying for All-time DYK page view leaders.
- Raphaëlle Boitel - French circus performer and director.
- Summer Rayne Oakes - World's first "eco-model". Rewritten after finding it had been deleted.
- Alina Morse - child CEO of multi-million dollar healthy candy company the DYK got 16,583 page views, second greatest for August 2019.
- Honey Badger (men's rights) - female men's rights activists the DYK got 14,307 page views, among greatest for October 2020, even without an image
- Nabil Ahmad - Malaysian entertainer the DYK got 18,726 page views, among greatest for December 2020
- Matthias Hoene - German filmmaker
- Karolína Huvarová - Czech fitness trainer, model, hockey coach the DYK got 13,430 page views, among greatest for December 2021, even without an image
Creationist museums
From an Articles for deletion discussion where I was challenged to create some articles to prove it could be done.
- 7 Wonders Museum
- Akron Fossils & Science Center
- Big Valley Creation Science Museum
- Creation Evidence Museum
- Mt. Blanco Fossil Museum
- Category: Creationist museums
Not creationist museum
- Morro Bay State Park Museum of Natural History - because after making those, I was accused of being a creationist, and counter-challenged to create an article about a "real" museum.
James Jones Literary Society First Novel Fellowship authors
From another Articles for deletion discussion where the claim was made that winners of this award aren't notable. So far - well, as I look into it, some were, and some weren't. These are some that were. Also expanded article on the society and award. The article in question was deleted anyway, but restored eight years later.
- Herta Feely author, editor, and child safety activist (co-founder Safe Kids Worldwide).
- Robin Oliveira author, editor, nurse.
- Greg Hrbek author, educator.
- Leslie Schwartz author, writing teacher
Ukraine
I have the honor or misfortune of having been born in Russia, so the 2022 Russo-Ukrainian War has been particularly poignant.
- Yulia Tolopa - Russian female volunteer fighting for Ukraine. Collaboration with User:SusunW.
- Maria Berlinska - Ukrainian military volunteer and women's rights advocate. Collaboration with User:Vami IV.
- J.T. Blatty - Photojournalist (whom I tried to persuade to release an image of Yulia Tolopa. She didn't!) Among most viewed DYKs in May 2022.
- Inna Derusova / - Ukrainian military medic. From stub by User:Sdkb. Among most viewed DYKs in May 2022.