User:Astrophobe
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MY BEST CONTRIBUTIONS:
*Completely rewriting political party
, turning it into a GA
*Creating Simonie Michael
and bringing it to FA
*Completely rewriting Numerical linear algebra
*Creating Qapik Attagutsiak
*Creating Louise Overacker
*Creating Hanes Walton Jr.
*Creating Michele Clark
*Creating Berge equilibrium
*Creating Gender and politics
*Creating Andriamihaja – it was pretty amazing to find a historical national prime minister without a page in 2021.
*Creating Mont Tremblant Conference - People dragged me to this tourist trap a few times when I was a kid, and many years later I was amazed to learn that it hosted a pretty important conference during WWII on the future of countries in East Asia and the Pacific
*At one time I think I had the most-viewed GA on Wikipedia, but nobody knows why or how. An article I brought to GA received more than 20 million pageviews over the following year. How is that possible, when the very top content pages at Wikipedia:Popular pages are getting maybe 17 million views a year? Nobody actually knows. The page I brought to GA is Skathi (moon), its pageviews are up there with the biggest content pages on this website for some unknown reason, and a phabricator ticket on its suspicious pageviews still remains open.
If you're interested in any of those subjects, I really encourage you to take a look and see what you can improve.
*Completely rewriting political party
, turning it into a GA *Creating Simonie Michael
and bringing it to FA *Completely rewriting Numerical linear algebra
*Creating Qapik Attagutsiak
*Creating Louise Overacker
*Creating Hanes Walton Jr.
*Creating Michele Clark
*Creating Berge equilibrium
*Creating Gender and politics
*Creating Andriamihaja – it was pretty amazing to find a historical national prime minister without a page in 2021.
*Creating Mont Tremblant Conference - People dragged me to this tourist trap a few times when I was a kid, and many years later I was amazed to learn that it hosted a pretty important conference during WWII on the future of countries in East Asia and the Pacific
*At one time I think I had the most-viewed GA on Wikipedia, but nobody knows why or how. An article I brought to GA received more than 20 million pageviews over the following year. How is that possible, when the very top content pages at Wikipedia:Popular pages are getting maybe 17 million views a year? Nobody actually knows. The page I brought to GA is Skathi (moon), its pageviews are up there with the biggest content pages on this website for some unknown reason, and a phabricator ticket on its suspicious pageviews still remains open.
If you're interested in any of those subjects, I really encourage you to take a look and see what you can improve.
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Pages I created
Essays
Mainspace
I try to track pages I wrote that have been rated 
class so that I can easily see which pages might be good candidates to try to improve to GA.
SOME MOTIVATION: Do you know about this?
Some pages I made major contributions to
REMEMBERING: Boris Tsirelson זיכרונו לברכה, a prolific mathematician on Wikipedia as User:Tsirel, and a very efficient teacher
Some other things I've done
- I enjoy manually doing gnome work to correct simple MoS violations, especially MOS:CITEPUNCT and MOS:CURLY. It's pretty satisfying to make Wikipedia marginally more readable and standardized.
- I did substantial fact-checking on the List of the first LGBT holders of political offices and the biographies it links to throughout summer 2018. I spent a huge amount of time in summer 2018 removing LGBT tags and categories from the pages of elected representatives when I could find absolutely no evidence that they are LGBT. That could have serious repercussions for people. Before you publicly declare that somebody is LGBT, please triple check your sources!
Goals
Inspired by a note on user:Clovermoss, I'd like to add two references (in the spirit of having multiple reliable sources, even if I can't find ones that are independent) to each page in Category:All unreferenced BLPs.
I'd also like to eventually overhaul the following fundamental/important pages with extremely high page views that are (at best) unpolished:
- Social science
- Politics
- Political science
- First-past-the-post voting
- Election
- Proportional representation
- Street dance
- Election audit
- Many of the political science-related vital articles
- More biographies to write: Colevia Carter, Harold Guetzkow
Some weird ideas
I think I've earned the right, as one of Wikipedia's most prolific writers of biographies, to state an extremely heterodox but sincerely held opinion about them. I think it is a demeaning and pointless practice for wikiprojects to rate the "importance" of pages about human beings. When I sit down to write a page about a person from scratch, I climb inside that person's life for a few hours, learn all about what they did and why it matters, and try to explain their notability in an enduring way that will help make sure that information about that person and their contributions will be freely available in perpetuity. I do that because I think it matters that notable (and, frankly, all) people are remembered, and that the basic facts of their lives are not hidden behind paywalls but are equally available to everyone. How do you think it feels to log in the next morning and see that the page has been rated as "importance=low"? Probably not half as bad as it feels for that person or the people who care about them, if they happen to come across the talk page banners. If you rate the importance of humans for a wikiproject I really think you should ask yourself how you make those judgments, why that's a judgment worth making, and whether it's worth your time as a volunteer.
Photos I've donated to Wikipedia
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The mouth of Bear Creek in Bear Creek, Florida -
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HCA Florida Pasadena Hospital -
A sign for South Pasadena, Florida -
The headquarters of Biogen -
186 Hampshire Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts -
Trina's Starlite Lounge in Somerville, Massachusetts -
The 1881 gate on the north side of Harvard Yard -
The Ralph Waldo Emerson plaque on the West side of the Meyer gate -
The Meyer gate on the north side of Harvard Yard -
The First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church in Harvard Square -
The building of the Harvard Extension School. -
The building that contains the National Bureau of Economic Research main offices. -
Troth Yeddha', a cool ridge at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. -
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The Dana building, which houses the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability. -
The other side of Dana. -
The University of Michigan's Hatcher Library. -
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Tower Plaza in Ann Arbor. -
Another view of Tower Plaza. -
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Another view of the University of Michigan Coliseum. -
Other accounts
- From 11 January 2009 to 2 January 2015 I edited (very occasionally) as User:Darth Wombat. The best thing I did on that account was a bit of very early work on Gliese 581g. I also registered an account under my real name (for reasons related to WP:DOPP, and obeying the restrictions of that policy). I also did many years of copy editing as an IP because I didn't really care whether or not I was logged in.
- I have done tiny incremental bits of either basic maintenance work or BLP corrections under the same username at The French Wikipedia, The Portuguese Wikipedia, The Spanish Wikipedia, The Polish Wikipedia, The Javanese Wikipedia, and of course lots of cross-language connections at WikiData.
Magnificent awards/snacks/pets
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Mary Wollstonecraft Award | |
| On behalf of WP:WPWW, thank you for your recent new article on Melissa Schwartzberg, author of Counting the Many, which received the 2016 Spitz Prize. Rosiestep (talk) 17:32, 30 April 2020 (UTC) |
political sciences and Inuit singing
Thank you for quality articles about women such as Kay Lehman Schlozman, Elizabeth Theiss-Morse, Lyn Ragsdale and Aasiva, for translations from French, for service from 2007, for remembering Boris Tsirelson, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!
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Thanks for creating the article on Wendy Rahn. AugusteBlanqui (talk) 21:37, 24 February 2020 (UTC) |
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The Editor's Barnstar |
| For all the work you do, especially on biographies! Kj cheetham (talk) 12:59, 28 November 2020 (UTC) |
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A kitten for you! |
| I know, you don't know me, but I just wanted to say, people like you made my life a lot easier ArriehM (talk) 00:08, 6 December 2020 (UTC) |
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The Women in Red Barnstar | |
| You have really made a big difference to our coverage of women this year, Astrophobe, with over 260 new biographies of women over the past 12 months, all well presented and informative. We look forward to more along the same lines in 2021. --Ipigott (talk) 11:46, 22 December 2020 (UTC) |
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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar |
| Saw your Women in Red post. Exceptional work this year! Essentially triple the number of articles I've been able to create in seven years. Hope you'll keep up the hard work in the new year. :) — Bilorv (talk) 14:01, 22 December 2020 (UTC) |
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The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar |
| Thank you for your continued service adding to Wikipedia throughout 2020. - Cdjp1 (talk) 13:25, 25 December 2020 (UTC) |
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The Writer's Barnstar |
| I'm not the right person to take it for its GA review but I've just seen your work on Political party and it's very much appreciated, excellent stuff: a good read and I hope it'll get GA at some point soon. — Bilorv (talk) 08:09, 13 June 2021 (UTC) |
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A kitten for you! |
| You are an amazing Wikipedian, keep up the great work! LGBTQ+ Pride forever ;)
SassyGamer483 (talk) 19:05, 11 December 2021 (UTC) |
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The Featured Article Medal | |
| By the authority vested in me by myself it gives me great pleasure to present you with this special, very exclusive award created just for we few, we happy few, this band of brothers, who have shed sweat, tears and probably blood, in order to be able to proudly claim "I too have taken an article to Featured status". Gog the Mild (talk) 12:15, 22 January 2023 (UTC) |
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Four Award | |
| Congratulations! You have been awarded the Four Award for your work from beginning to end on Simonie Michael. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 21:12, 22 January 2023 (UTC) |
