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This user has autopatrolled, new page reviewer, pending changes reviewer, and rollback rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify)

Against all odds, this user — ladies and gentlemen — does it for free.

This user writes free (as in freedom) software, and uses GNU/Loonix.

This user believes that laughter is a medicine that should be taken several times a day!!!

Elsewhere, I have been a manager, mechanical engineer, programmer, writer, welder, fabricator and forklift driver (albeit not in that order). On here, I'm just some guy who's an editor for fun.

I take lots of photos: one is a Featured Picture. Check out my Commons userpage if you want to see more. Below is some of the stuff I've done around here, mostly so I can keep track of it. If you are trying to form an opinion of me quickly, take a look at this software and this article.

Dogs.

Software[edit]

All AfDs from 2005 to 2020, analyzed with the Oracle

These will help you be a cool guy, like me.

Oracle for Deletion: a live dashboard of all open AfD discussions. You can click to instantly sort by age, subject, keep/delete ratio, number of comments, page size, et cetera. There are also detailed statistics and sortable month summaries for all 482,281 discussions going back to 2005 (including sick-ass graphs). You ever wonder what the biggest deletion discussion of all time was? Now you know.

PressPass: a collection of tools for using Newspapers.com, including enhanced search and configurable auto-citation in five different formats. This will automatically generate fully formatted {{cite news}} templates from n.com clippings (not that half-assed Citoid output), from the convenience of your own browser window.

CurrentSwitcher: this gives you links on your contribs page to hide duplicate entries, current revisions, rollbacks, huggles, twinkles, and redwarns. This allows you to use your contribs page as an easy way to check if people have responded to your comments/questions, or look at which discussions/pages have been active since your last post.

I've made a couple Solarized versions of Wikipedia skins, here and here (which look like this). Only the Vector (and legacy Vector) skin (here) is actively maintained.

The ones after this are pretty boring, and recommended only for extreme nerds.

TrackSum: this lets you automatically sum the lengths of tracks in templates like {{track listing}} and get total runtimes.
WigOut: this gives you clickable links to Earwig's Copyvio Checker next to each diff on a CCI casepage.
Unbreaker: this gives you a button to fix those messed-up <br /> tags (i.e. <br>) which cause the syntax highlighter to go bonkers.
CopyTitle: a fork of Novem Linguae's CopyTitle.js, which puts a small button next to the title of an article which copies it to your clipboard. Mine makes it a little smaller and shortens it from "copy" to "c".
Monthcounter: A very, very niche script: adds a button to the "more" tab at the top of the page which goes through the text in the edit box, counts the occurrences of "January", "February" [...] "December", and outputs a tab-delimited summary of each count in the edit box. I made this for the sole purpose of tallying up arb enforcement log entries for arbitration reports in the Signpost. Maybe it will be useful for something else.

Articles created[edit]

This user has created and written 1 Featured Article on Wikipedia.^[1]

This user has created and written 24 GAs.

This user has created and written 42 articles featured in the Did you know... section on the Main Page.

This user has created and written 156 of the 6,497,914 articles on Wikipedia.

1 of this user's photographs is a Featured Picture on Wikipedia.^[1]

This user has created 2 articles featured in the Main Page's In The News section.^[1][2]

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The best[edit]

The rest[edit]

Stubs—or as I call them, "GAs that haven't been finished yet".

Essays / templates / categories[edit]

Other[edit]

This editor won the Million Award for bringing Simp to Good Article status.

This user has been awarded the Triple Crown for outstanding contributions relating to Gateway Generating Station.

This user was awarded the Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award, Total Articles for copyediting 15 articles during the GOCE January 2021 Backlog Elimination Drive.

This user was awarded the Cleanup Barnstar for copy edits totaling over 12,000 words during the GOCE January 2021 Backlog Elimination Drive.

This user was awarded the Modest Barnstar for copy edits totaling over 4,000 words during the GOCE March 2021 Backlog Elimination Drive.

This user was awarded the Multiple Good Article Reviewer's Barnstar for completing 21 reviews in the March 2021 GAN Backlog Drive.

This user was awarded the Anti-Vandalism Barnstar on three^[1][2][3] occasions.

This user was awarded the Tireless Contributor Barnstar.

This user was awarded the GA Barnstar.

This user was awarded the Citation Barnstar for sourcing Passive attack after 17 years, 79 days, at the time the longest any Wikipedia article had been unsourced.

This user was awarded the Sewer Cover Barnstar: "You can read through anything. You don’t know the meaning of attention deficit disorder, laugh in the face of boredom, and are wasting your talents if you don’t become a patent examiner."

This user is a recent changes patroller.

This user is a member of
the Guild of Copy Editors.

I did a contributor copyright investigation on 1,650 articles once, and copyedited a few hundred of them so that they no longer contained huge quotes from copyrighted sources. What a mess.
There are a lot of potentially dated statements in articles. Sometimes I update them, and sometimes I restructure them so that historical information is placed in proper context. Either way, I emptied out 1990 (22 articles) and 1991 (20 articles).
On March 13, 2021, there were 1,564 articles in Category:Articles needing unspecified expert attention, of which I added template parameters to categorize all of.
At some point in late 2021, this search would produce about 1,200 articles; as of November 20, it produced 297.
Category:Articles with citation needed in ref field had 28 articles in it, and had 9 as of November 20, 2021.

GA reviews I've done of others' articles[edit]

Islands[edit]

This is an adapted version of {{Islands of Suisun Bay and the Sacramento–San Joaquin River delta}}, but instead of all 100 islands, it only lists the 75 I wrote articles for.

This is the same thing, for 26 of the 60 articles in {{Islands of the San Francisco Bay Area}}.