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Editorofthewiki is currently: talking in the third person

Please update this if I have my grammar right!

Today is Saturday, June 8, 2024, 11:53 (UTC/GMT).
There are 6,832,823 articles on the English Wikipedia.
Today is

My bot, EditorBot, was for approval at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/EditorBot, but it failed. The Bot account is reserved, however, and whether or not it will ever be used remains a mystery.

Welcome to my user page. You really should be editing right now. So why are you wasting your time reading this sentence? I could just go on an on about myself, but why should I? Since you are still here right now, I will welcome you under this comfy blanket.

Apparently only 56 or soWikipedians have created more articles than me.

About Me[edit]

I started editing under this account shortly after the New Year, 2008, after editing under an IP for a while. My username is derived from that of User:Destroyerofthewiki, a sockpuppet of User:DavidYork71. Instead of destroying the wiki, I want to edit it, and I would have chosen a better username, but all the good ones are taken. I think that I did quite well with what's left, don't you think?

I have been active member of Wikipedia:WikiProject Earthquakes. I don't really have much of a liking of these destructive ruptures, in case you're wondering. They are pretty fun to write about however. My time there has not been wasted: I basically wrote FA 2002 Bou'in-Zahra earthquake (with some copyediting help and some small additions, mostly from User:Ceranthor) and GA 1992 Nicaragua earthquake (also written from scratch--this was speedied while a stub!).

I have also been active writing basketball articles, among other subjects.

I will tell you nothing about my personal life, since I don't know who you are, except I am a male human from the Planet Earth who was born sometime in the 20th century.

I am a bit of a linguist, as demonstrated by my languageboxes below:

enThis user is a native speaker of the English language.
es-2Este usuario puede contribuir con un nivel intermedio de español.
fr-2Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau intermédiaire en français.
de-1Dieser Benutzer hat grundlegende Deutschkenntnisse.
simple
3
This user can help out at an advanced level of Simple English.


States and countries visited[edit]

U.S. States visited
Pennsylvania New Jersey Delaware Maryland Virginia North Carolina Florida West Virginia New York Tennessee Connecticut Massachusetts Colorado New Hampshire Maine Rhode Island
Countries visited
United States Dominican Republic Iceland Germany Costa Rica

Toolbox[edit]

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  • <ref name=>{{cite news |title= |curly=y| work = [[Time (magazine)|Time]] |publisher=[[Time Inc.]]|date= |accessdate=2024-06-08 |url= }}</ref>
  • <ref name=>{{cite news |first= |last= |coauthors= |title= |curly=y| work = [[BBC News]] |publisher=[[British Broadcasting Corporation]]|date= |accessdate=2024-06-08 |url= }}</ref>
  • {{subst:User:Editorofthewiki/Sandbox/map|subst:}}

On other Wikis[edit]

I have accounts on the following sister projects:

Commons
Wikinews
Wiktionary
Wikiquote
Wikibooks
Wikisource
Wikispecies
Wikiversity
Meta-Wiki

Stuff to do[edit]

About Wikipedia[edit]

Basics
Help
Policies, Guides, and Resources

The Community
Things to do
Miscellaneous

Tasks that you can do[edit]

You can help improve the articles listed below! This list updates frequently, so check back here for more tasks to try. (See Wikipedia:Maintenance or the Task Center for further information.)

Help counter systemic bias by creating new articles on important women.

Help improve popular pages, especially those of low quality.


Tower of Wikipedia[edit]

WP:AIV
WP:WARN
WP:ANI
WP:SPI
WP:RCP
WP:RPP
WP:RFA
WP:AFD
WP:XFD
WP:DRV
CAT:SPEEDY
WP:CSD
WP:RM
WP:FA
WP:RFC
WP:RAA
WP:ER
WP:TM
WP:LOP
WP:PNT
WP:BACK
CAT:HELP
WP:VP
WP:HAHA
WP:BARN
WP:RD

Recent Changes[edit]

List of abbreviations (help):
D
Edit made at Wikidata
r
Edit flagged by ORES
N
New page
m
Minor edit
b
Bot edit
(±123)
Page byte size change

8 June 2024


Tip of the Day[edit]

Talking to Wikipedians

Besides the Village pump and article-related talk pages, there are other ways to talk to Wikipedians. The English IRC channel is quite popular, regularly reaching up to 300 users. If you care about our policies and general Wikimedia-related matters, you may also want to consider subscribing to one of the mailing lists (high traffic!).

Read more:
To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd}}

Today's featured article[edit]

Bill Newton

Bill Newton (8 June 1919 – 29 March 1943) was an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, honoured for his actions as a bomber pilot in Papua New Guinea during March 1943. Raised in Melbourne, he joined the Citizen Military Forces in 1938 and enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) in February 1940. He served as a flying instructor in Australia before being posted to No. 22 Squadron, which began operating Boston light bombers in New Guinea late in 1942. Having just taken part in the Battle of the Bismarck Sea, he was on his fifty-second mission when he was shot down. Newton was still posted as missing when given the Victoria Cross in October 1943. It later emerged that he was captured by the Japanese and beheaded. Newton was the only Australian airman to receive a Victoria Cross for action in the South West Pacific theatre of World War II, and the sole Australian to be so decorated while flying with an RAAF squadron. (Full article...)