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the Stefen Tower
Sagacious Editor
— Wikipedian  ♂ —
left: the Stefen Tower, standing in front of a fallen sequoia, the only thing on Earth taller than him (summer 2001 in Sequoia National Park); right: Stefen's cousin in Paris
BornSteven Paul Magruder
(1966年11月29日) November 29, 1966 (age 59)
Name in real lifeSteve Magruder
PronounsHeehee/him
NationalityAmerican
Country United States
Current locationLouisville, Kentucky
LanguagesEnglish, French (un peu)
Time zoneEastern Time Zone
Current timeCurrent time for UTC-4 is 22:26
EthnicityScottish (mostly)
RaceHuman
(race is a fiction;
unfortunately racism is real)
Height6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
WeightUnhappily chubby
HairGrey / dark blond mix
EyesBlue
Handedness Right
SexualityGay
IQ Higher than yours
Personality type Funny, witty, direct, sarcastic, ambiverted, egocyclic, malhumorado sin café, occasionally anxious or somber, prone to hangriness
(Myers–Briggs is insufficient)
Family and friends
Marital statusSingle
Siblings2 bros
Parents
  • "Mommy"
  • "Daddy" (deceased)
PetsLove other people's pets
Education and employment
OccupationSit-down comedaean
(/ˈkɑːmʌˌdaɪʌn/)
Primary schoolAuburndale
Intermediate schoolLassiter
High schoolFairdale
CollegeSpeed Scientific School
UniversityUniversity of Louisville
Hobbies, interests, and beliefs
Hobbies
ReligionStrong atheist / Secular humanist
PoliticsLeft-libertarian / Social democrat / Anti-fascist
Aliases Stevie, SPaM, Guder
Movies
Shows
Music
Interests
Contact info
Websitestefentower.com
Discord stefentower
YouTube StefenTower
Bluesky stefentower.com
StefenTower subpages
Account statistics
JoinedMarch 20, 2004
(as Stevietheman)
First editMarch 20, 2004
Autoconfirmed April 13, 2004
Extended confirmed April 5, 2016
New page reviewer October 31, 2016
Pending changes reviewer June 19, 2010
Rollbacker January 10, 2008
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This user is one of the 250 most active English Wikipedians of all time.
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This user has been editing Wikipedia for more than twenty years —since March 20, 2004.
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Collaborate and Correct, not Control!
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This user tries to do the right thing. If he makes a mistake, please let him know .
This user is willing to be slapped with a trout , should he need it.
tyop
typo This user is a member of the
Wikipedia Typo Team .
This user believes that WikiProjects are vital to the future of Wikipedia.
This user is a WikiProject mechanic who helps overhaul and maintain project infrastructure.
This user is a participant in
WikiProject Indiana.
This user is a member of
WikiProject Chicago.
This user is a participant in
WikiProject LGBTQ+ studies .
This user has AutoWikiBrowser rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify)
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Wikipedia Library .
NEWS This user has access to Newspapers.com through The Wikipedia Library.
IA This user uses the Internet Archive.
This editor is a WikiGnome .
Template icon This user is a
template maker
This user curates database reports to help WikiProject participants and editors-at-large discover and prioritize necessary work.
SQL-3 This user is an advanced SQL programmer.
{{tone }}

This user tags articles for maintenance with Twinkle!

<ref> This user recognizes the importance of citing sources .
Don't Wedge In This user believes in maintaining
citation integrity .
This user protects Wikipedia's integrity by opposing conflict of interest edits.
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Collegial, collaborative editors fill in the edit summary to explain their changes.
I'M NOT A @#$%&! TELEPATH!!
This user has strong political views , but feels that Wikipedia is not the proper place to express them.
This user believes in
equality for all
This user identifies as a gay male .
This user is from Louisville ,
hometown of Muhammad Ali.
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This user has a channel on YouTube .
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the Stefen Tower (né Steve Magruder; heehee/him), formerly known on Wikipedia as Stevietheman, is a sit-down comedaean (/ˈkɑːmʌˌdaɪʌn/ ) from The 'Ville. Heehee is currently developing a YouTube program to be entitled Stefen Tower Presents!!1! Starring Stefen Tower.

In the Wikipedia, Tower is an article doctor (if not meatball surgeon), a template tinkerer, a WikiProject mechanic, a database reports curator, and very often a WikiGnome (a doer of maintenance gruntwerk hardly anyone else wants to do yet needs to be done). His main mode of work in the Wikipedia has been improving existing articles and the "connective tissue" (categories, links, navigation templates, etc.) between them. Heehee has admittedly not created articles very much, but heehee has created mounds of categories (600+) and redirects (1,500+), as well as some pretty cool WikiProject pages/reports. Heehee prefers the grunt existence and therefore typically eschews admin-like work and has no interest in becoming an admin.

Further, Tower is a total spelling crank, thus his multitudinous AutoWikiBrowser (AWB) cleanups. In his typo-hunting adventures, heehee's come to know our beloved encyclopedia as riddled with typos, grammar flaws, MOS violations and more. Someone's gotta fix this mess. (Note: Did you notice his typos and gross violations of MOS:CONTRACTION in this paragraph? Since this ain't a real article, heehee can get away with it here.) And sometimes doing these cleanups comes with the discovery of much more serious problems, such as major unsourced additions, LLM use, and outright vandalism. All in all, AWB enables great wiki-oriented hall monitoring, even at the scale of WikiProjects!

Last, yes, Tower refers to himself in the third person because heehee wished to write some crapola as a boilerplate for his future Wikipedia article, like that's gonna happen.[1]

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Ongoing Wikipedia efforts

250,730 users actively edit Wikipedia, and you should too.

Following are the Stefen Tower's ongoing pursuits on this wild ride we call Wikipedia:

  • Ad hoc article improvements
  • Ad hoc category creations – Most of Tower's category creations have been Louisville-related.
  • Gradually improving WikiProject Louisville's priority articles to move them toward WP:GA and WP:FA
  • Enhancing RegExTypoFix (new typos to fix, avoiding false positives) – Tower hasn't done this much recently, but heehee has been building a list of potential new typo fixes to add.

Cross-project work

  • WikiProject Insights – Building a library of database queries and reports, which together help editors gain data-driven insight into how they may assist WikiProject efforts. Currently this is informal in the form of a list of queries on Quarry and their implementations in several WikiProjects, but Tower will be formalizing it at some point. (Heehee has also created a few queries heehee calls "Editor Insights", listed at the same location.) See his database report deployments below.
  • Structural improvements – Most of Tower's work as been on WikiProject Louisville so far, but heehee has also revised WikiProject Kentucky somewhat. Heehee has made a few minor changes to WikiProjects Chicago, Indiana and Illinois as well.
  • Cataloging of existing articles/pages – Tower has been concentrating on WikiProjects Louisville, Kentucky and Indiana (including the Indianapolis department) recently, and intends to expand to WikiProjects Chicago, Cincinnati, Illinois and Ohio.
  • Categorizing WikiProjects and their components, concentrating in assessments and reports recently.
  • WikiProject 2.0 – Where Tower asks the semi-loaded question: "How can we reignite WikiProjects?"

Semi-automated mass article cleanup (past year)

Mass cleanup to address typos, general fixes and serendipitous cleanup concerns is done running AutoWikiBrowser (AWB) on article lists based on the following areas (either WikiProject- or category-based), subject orbits (an article's outgoing and incoming links), or ad hoc generation (e.g., last n contributions). As some of these runs are repeated, the date shown is the day of the latest run.

Run
(Area / Subject orbit / Ad hoc)		 Link vector Article count
(upon run)		 Complete date
WikiProjects in my region
(Louisville metropolitan area, Kentucky and Indiana combined) 		N/a 45,283 Jul 24, 2026
Revisiting my last 25,000 contributions N/a 13,733 Jul 26, 2026
User:StefenTower
(including select subpages) 		Outgoing 450 Jul 26, 2026
1973 Kentucky Derby Outgoing 265 Sep 14, 2025
Incoming 519 Sep 14, 2025
Churchill Downs Outgoing 499 May 1, 2026
Incoming 1,412 May 3, 2026
Jefferson County Public Schools (Kentucky) Outgoing 60 Feb 11, 2026
Incoming 74 Feb 14, 2026
Kentucky Derby Outgoing 991 May 3, 2026
Incoming 2,736 Jun 6, 2026
Muhammad Ali Outgoing 1,407 Mar 2, 2026
Incoming 4,032 In progress

User scripts

Database report deployments

Following are database queries and corresponding reports the Stefen Tower has deployed in various spots in the Wikipedia:

WikiProject Insights

Please feel free to copy/modify any of the following reports for use in WikiProjects of your choice or to your user pages for testing. Alternatively, if you'd like for me to make a version for your WikiProject, just ask on my talk page. I would be delighted to help!

† Deployed by another editor

Report name Deployments / Tools / Tests Query Notes
Archive.today Query This report is based on live Archive.today (and related) links in articles. They may end up being migrated to a citation maintenance category, where many already show up in my CiteMaint report.
CiteErrors Query
CiteMaint Query
Featuredarticles WP Louisville Query
Fewcats Query
FewProjects Query
Forgotten Query
Hot Articles 2
Query This is my modified version of the list generated by HotArticlesBot. Not all columns of the query are utilized.
Leaderboard Query
LeastLinkDense Query
MostEdited Query Similar to Hot Articles, but is a full report with more columns and considers edits over the past 30 days.
MostIsolated Query
MostVolatile Query
New WikiProjects Database reports/WikiProjects Query This was originally a direct replacement fixing a breakdown due to database changes, but I've added a minor feature since.
Nursery Query
OldIssues Query This report shows dated WikiProject issues more than a decade old.
OOCO reviews WP Louisville (tool) Query This report is for personal use by an editor in their user space rather than deploying to WikiProjects. The results contain many false positives but as a whole can still be used to tease out articles outside a WikiProject's category orbit that are missing from inclusion in that WikiProject. Their categorization related to the WikiProject would ordinarily be improved at the same time.
Potential inclusions Query This report is for personal use by an editor in their user space rather than deploying to WikiProjects. The results contain many false positives but as a whole can still be used to tease out articles, templates and (sub)categories within a WikiProject's categories that are missing from inclusion in that WikiProject.
Priorityarticles Query
StubMissing Query
Subject page edits
  • WP California (test)
  • WP Chicago (test)
  • WP Cincinnati (test)
  • WP Illinois (test)
  • WP Indiana (test)
  • WP Indianapolis (test)
  • WP Kentucky (test)
  • WP Louisville ("Project Statistics" in infobox)
  • WP Ohio (test)
 Query This just returns the count of edits to in-project pages in the past 30 days, excluding talk pages and edits made by bots.
Watchall2
  • WP Kentucky
  • WP Louisville
 Various queries These are a collection of link dumps used for change patrol via "Related changes".
WikiProjects by human changes Database reports/WikiProjects Query This was a major rewrite of an existing report, "WikiProjects by changes".
WikiProjects with no activity Database reports/WikiProjects Query This report was carved out of the effort to create "WikiProjects by human changes".

Editor Insights

Report name Deployments / Tests Query Notes
TopEditedPastYear Stefen Tower's userpage Query

Stefen's Top 50 edited articles

Past year
Following are the Stefen Tower's 50 most edited articles in the past year, updated by a bot on a daily basis:

  1. Andy Beshear (108)
  2. UPS Airlines Flight 2976 (81)
  3. Mitch McConnell (77)
  4. Hunter S. Thompson (74)
  5. George Rogers Clark (65)
  6. Great Black Swamp (62)
  7. Kentucky Derby (61)
  8. Kentucky (55)
  9. Elmer Lucille Allen (51)
  10. Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport (51)
  11. Louisville, Kentucky (50)
  12. Madison Bumgarner (48)
  13. Muhammad Ali (47)
  14. Disappearance of Nancy Guthrie (43)
  15. Jaime Laredo (43)
  16. Presbyterian Church (USA) (40)
  17. Sonny Liston (38)
  18. Cage the Elephant (37)
  19. Tony Ardizzone (37)
  20. Craig "Gator" Bodzianowski (36)
  21. Louis Brandeis (35)
  22. Thomas Merton (35)
  23. Dan Quayle (34)
  24. Macedonian Tribune (32)
  25. Joe Jackson (talent manager) (30)
  26. Yum! Brands (30)
  27. Elaine Chao (29)
  28. Kentucky Kingdom (29)
  29. Bill Livers (28)
  30. Jimmy Hart (28)
  31. Ohio River (28)
  32. Diane Harper (27)
  33. Transit Authority of River City (27)
  34. University of Louisville (27)
  35. Frances Farmer (26)
  36. KFC (26)
  37. Lucy Bowen McCauley (25)
  38. 2025 Kentucky State University shooting (24)
  39. Jefferson County Public Schools (Kentucky) (24)
  40. Matt Drenik (24)
  41. Thomas Massie (24)
  42. Booker Griffin (23)
  43. Boxing career of Muhammad Ali (23)
  44. Churchill Downs (23)
  45. Elvis Presley (23)
  46. My Old Kentucky Home (23)
  47. Speed Art Museum (23)
  48. Thomas Large (22)
  49. 1974 Super Outbreak (21)
  50. Anna Nicole Smith (21)

All-time
Following are the Stefen Tower's 50 most edited articles of all time (as of July 18, 2026):

  1. Louisville, Kentucky
    (#1 in authorship, edits, and added text; over 2,300 edits!)
  2. Muhammad Ali
    (second-most editor in a heavily edited article; #3 in authorship; #3 in added text)
  3. Kentucky
    (#1 in authorship and edits; #8 in added text)
  4. List of attractions and events in the Louisville metropolitan area
    (#1 in authorship, edits, and added text)
  5. Sexual slang
    (#1 in edits; did I do that??🤓)
  6. History of Louisville, Kentucky
    (#1 in authorship, edits, and added text)
  7. University of Louisville
    (#1 in authorship and edits; #2 in added text; my alma mater)
  8. Kentucky Derby
    (#1 in authorship and edits; #3 in added text)
  9. Democracy
    (#2 in edits)
  10. PHP
    (#1 in edits, for a programming language I haven't used in many years; #5 in added text)
  11. KFC
    (#2 in edits; #3 in authorship)
  12. George Rogers Clark
    (#1 in edits; #2 in authorship; #4 in added text)
  13. Blog
    (#1 in edits)
  14. Direct democracy
    (#1 in edits; #5 in added text)
  15. Louisville in the American Civil War
    (created by me with assistance of a Civil War historian; #1 in authorship, edits, and added text)
  16. E-democracy
    (created by me; #1 in edits)
  17. Bryson Tiller
    (#2 in edits; #6 in added text and authorship)
  18. List of people from the Louisville metropolitan area
    (#1 in edits; #2 in authorship and added text)
  19. Waverly Hills Sanatorium
    (#1 in authorship and edits; #2 in added text)
  20. Andy Beshear
    (#1 in authorship, edits, and added text)
  21. Hunter S. Thompson
    (#1 in edits; #4 in authorship)
  22. Louisville Cardinals football
    (#1 in edits; #2 in authorship; #3 in added text; secret: I don't even watch football)
  23. Old Louisville
    (#1 in edits; #2 in authorship and added text)
  24. Mitch McConnell
    (#2 in edits; #3 in authorship; #6 in added text; I can imitate the senior senator from my state🐢)
  25. Cheeseburger
    (#1 in edits; related to Louisville history, yes, really)
  26. Downtown Louisville
    (#1 in edits; #2 in authorship and added text)
  27. Humana
    (#1 in authorship and edits; #2 in added text)
  28. Loretta Lynn
    (#2 in edits; #7 in authorship; #10 in added text)
  29. Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport
    (#1 in authorship; #2 in edits; #3 in added text)
  30. Colonial Gardens
    (#1 in authorship, edits, and added text)
  31. Ohio River
    (#1 in edits; #2 in added text; #3 in authorship)
  32. Geography of Louisville, Kentucky
    (#1 in authorship, edits, and added text)
  33. Lewis and Clark Expedition
    (#1 in added text; #2 in edits; #6 in authorship)
  34. Sonny Liston
    (#2 in edits; #4 in authorship; #7 in added text)
  35. Presbyterian Church (USA)
    (#1 in authorship; #2 in edits and added text)
  36. Ben Sollee
    (#1 in edits; #4 in authorship; #5 in added text; note: I didn't write any of the fancruft in it)
  37. Colonel Sanders
    (#1 in authorship; #2 in edits; #6 in added text)
  38. Open-source model
    (merged into Open source; #1 in edits before merge)
  39. Anna Nicole Smith
    (#1 in authorship; #2 in edits; #7 in added text)
  40. My Old Kentucky Home
    (#2 in edits; #3 in authorship; #4 in added text)
  41. KFC Yum! Center
    (#1 in edits; #2 in authorship; #4 in added text)
  42. Kentucky Kingdom
    (#2 in authorship and added text; #3 in edits)
  43. Economy of Louisville, Kentucky
    (created by me; #1 in authorship, edits, and added text)
  44. Internet democracy
    (merged into E-democracy, #1 in edits and #3 in added text before merge)
  45. History of Kentucky
    (created by me; #4 in edits; #5 in added text; #8 in authorship)
  46. Kentucky in the American Civil War
    (#1 in edits; #3 in authorship; #4 in added text)
  47. Churchill Downs
    (#1 in authorship, edits, and added text)
  48. Lexington, Kentucky
    (#1 in authorship; #2 in edits; #3 in added text)
  49. Louisville Metro Council
    (created by me; #1 in authorship, edits, and added text)
  50. Duke University
    (#8 in edits; my alma mater beat 'em in '86)
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StefenTower is a participant in WikiProject Louisville , an open collaborative effort to coordinate and develop appropriate, comprehensive and well-connected content covering metropolitan Louisville, Kentucky and related subjects in the Wikipedia.
Join us! • Patrol changes • Cleanup issues (3,664 in 2,340 articles) • Project Talk
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Awards for StefenTower/Stevietheman

the Stefen Tower isn't here for collecting awards, but they sure are nice to receive. Thank you!

The Technical Barnstar
Thank you very much for looking into all of my JWB settings and such to try to find out what the issue was. It was really helpful!!! Thank you very much! Geardona (talk to me?) 17:06, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

Citation Barnstar

This award is given in recognition to StefenTower for collecting more than 5 points during the WikiProject Unreferenced articles's FEB24 backlog drive. Your contributions played a crucial role in sourcing 14,300 unsourced articles during the drive. Thank you so much for participating and helping to reduce the backlog! – – DreamRimmer (talk ) 17:58, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar
For your tireless work in maintaining and improving RegExTypoFix. Wikipedialuva (talk) 09:44, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
The Barnstar of Good Humor
Thank you for gently and kindly making smart, fair edits to a momentarily sloppy change I made and for all the great work it looks like you do RYPJack (talk) 18:06, 8 February 2017 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar
Stevietheman helped me learn the ropes of Wikipedia after I jumped into editing. Thanks! Zach Murrell (talk) 00:24, 2 February 2017 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar
Thank you for the great job you are doing on the editing of articles especially mine. Chitt66 (talk) 22:29, 10 January 2017 (UTC)
The Special Barnstar
For your efforts at the Muhammad Ali page in fighting vandalism and disruptive edits as well as for your constructive editing on this page. May you continue to keep an eye on this page always. Soham321 (talk) 17:40, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
The Citation Barnstar
Thank you. Here's a barnstar for your citation cleanups and also for the much-needed images you added to Lincoln Memorial at Waterfront Park Mitzi.humphrey (talk) 13:48, 27 August 2016 (UTC)
The Special Barnstar
In appreciation of your important contributions to Wikipedia. You are an asset to this website. And Adoil Descended (talk) 17:06, 10 August 2016 (UTC)
100000 Edits
Congratulations on reaching 100000 edits. You have achieved a milestone that only 363 editors have been able to accomplish. The Wikipedia Community thanks you for your continuing efforts. Keep up the good work!

Pony!
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The Original Barnstar
Well...I like your user page. Add and Got (talk) 15:11, 30 April 2015 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar
Thanks for your help. I appreciate your attention to the Louisville-related articles. Mitzi.humphrey (talk) 17:16, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
The Barnstar of Diligence
Thanks for your watchful eye! It is greatly appreciated. Taxee (talk) 16:15, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar
This barnstar is awarded to everyone who - whatever their opinion - contributed to the discussion about Wikipedia and SOPA. Thank you for being a part of the discussion. Presented by the Wikimedia Foundation.
The Bluegrass Barnstar
I hereby award you with this bluegrass barnstar for your invaluable work to improve articles for the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Keep up the outstanding work! -- Steven Williamson (HiB2Bornot2B) - talk 17:56, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
Thanks for your help in preventing recent vandalism at Louisville, Kentucky and at other articles in the past. Your efforts are much appreciated! Seicer (talk) (contribs) 04:30, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
The Editor's Barnstar
For all you have done for Wikipedia, especially in regards to the Louisville Metro, I award you, Stevietheman, the Editor's Barnstar. Keep up the awesome work! --Moreau36 16:48, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar
I award this Barnstar to Stevie for his tireless efforts in WikiProject Louisville and because he has received entirely too few barnstars for his hard work.

--Carl (talk contribs) 06:29, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

The Original Barnstar
For your continued excellent work on the PHP article! --james // bornhj (talk) 10:14, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

See also

References

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