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Hello. You've reached the user page of another of the 49,870,305registered contributors toWikipedia (that may be a high number, but trust me: every good contribution I made is just as valuable as anyone else's). The reason of this page is to tell you a little about my editing habits, and show you some interesting things relating to what appears to be the world's most popularwiki.
I hope you like what you see! Oh, and by the way,I will NOT welcomevandalism. If I find out about it,it will be removed!(Assuming it had not been reverted anyway.)
If you need to inform me of something, justdrop me a line. (I recommendstarting a new section to keep new discussions separate from older, unrelated discussions.)
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I've been editing Wikipedia for over 20 years now, though I had been reading it for a few months beforehand. I first started editing as anunregistered user on September 6, 2005, with my first two edits being the additions of{{Infobox broadcast}} (forerunner to today's{{Infobox television station}}) to theWBPX andWUNI-TV articles. After that, I returned on September 19 and started the article onWWDP (in those days, there was noArticles for Creation process, and unregistered users could still create articles in mainspace; just months later, theWikipedia Seigenthaler biography incident brought that practice to an end); from there, I continued to create and edit articles on broadcast stations, especially TV stations — as well as a number of other things. A few days later (on September 25, 2005) I registered my account (the first edits simply picked up where my anon edits left off), and since then I have done many more edits to articles related to broadcasting, as well as the occasional other thing (such as roads) — though as the years have gone by the non-broadcasting-related edits have all but dried up, and a substantial amount of those that Ido still make gravitate towards other media topics. (As for how many more edits have I made? Well, in the 20 years I've had this account, I've racked up over 152,000 edits — good enough to rank 469th on thelist of Wikipedians by number of edits (as of October 5, 2025). (That's just the edits that remain visible in page histories; it's over160,000 edits when factoring in since-deleted edits.) Additionally, I've revamped several template series' into more uniform styles (for their series — this was back in the days before{{ambox}},{{imbox}}, and{{cmbox}}), and I make the occasional comment atXfD discussions (but nowadays my main presence there, at least atAfD, is indeletion sorting and other gnomish-tasks like cleaning up malformed nominations).
Of course, when I'm aware of vandalism that hasn't been reverted, that's exactly what I do — I revert it. I have been also known to discover when an article is about something that isn't really true. In fact, debunking aK07RE that was affiliated with five networks at once (and predatedLPTV, the type of station it was purported to be, by some 20-25 years) as a hoax led to the firstbarnstar I received, which was a Barnstar of Diligence that was given to me byFirsfron (talk ·contribs) on August 22, 2006. (By the way, while therewas aK07RE, it was actually a relay of theAlaska Rural Communications Service…)
How active I've been has constantly varied; sometimes I'm quite active, sometimes I'm not. (On the other hand, I've had an editing streak — bothin articles andthe wiki as a whole — for two years running; it's been a while since my last spell of complete inactivity.) Fret not, though — I'm not going away anytime soon.
(And yes, even my userpage has seenvandalism, even though I'm not necessarily one of the more high-profile editors — an admittedly odd self-description of someone who edits at least one article every day and is omnipresent in many a delsort notice, though it may make more sense in the context of having only made0.01% of Wikipedia's edits and editing0.08% of the total pages. It's not something that happens too often, thank goodness, and in recent years theedit filters prevent virtually any such attempts from having any effect.)
If you want to know about my interests (even off-wiki), take a peek at myuserboxes.
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I am not responsible for lost, stolen, ordeletedarticles,media files,categories,templates,redirects,pages of other types,prodded pages, or evenspeedied pages, though all of that is because I have no powers to delete under thedeletion system. (I also take no responsibility for any deletion debate resultquestioning unless I otherwise feel differently. Also, deletion debates that I start or pages that I place either {{subst:prod}} or one of thespeedy deletion tags do not count in above. In short, I just make it clear if a page should go.) If for some reason I decide toleave Wikipedia, anything that appears above this fine print is effectively null and void, and likely will be removed anyway. Any comments regarding anything I do on Wikipedia shouldnot be left on this page, it should instead be directed tomy talk page through that link. Features are generated either by dates or by any editing of the templates, either anyone oradmins (but, barring some exceptions, not by anybot). If you arenot visiting this page fromWikipedia, then you are at aWikipediamirror, and you should be aware that you arenot viewing an encyclopedia article, that the page may be outdated, and thatthe user to whom this page belongs may have no personal affiliation with any site other thanWikipedia itself. Please direct yourself to the real thing athttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Wcquidditch. This fine print will exist on this page until I decide to remove it, which could be if I depart or if I don't like it anymore. This concludes my user page. Thank you.
