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About me
[edit ]I have eclectic tastes, so I will make minor corrections and changes to all kinds of seemingly random pages. I'm interested in video games, cellular automata, Dungeons & Dragons , cognitive science, politics, astronomy, programming, linguistics, cosmology, electronic music, homebrewing, yoga...
To do list
[edit ]For far-in-the-future targets, see the long list.
Other
[edit ]- Gulf Freeway work
- Deal with all unreferenced industrial music articles
- Split Raymond Watts and Pig (musical project) back into two separate articles.
- Fix the Kompressor cluster of articles.
- Write new articles related to Drowned God:
- Write article for Mari Weiss (The Dig)
- Write article for Bomb Gang Girlz and/or A Taste 4 Trouble
- Copy edit D&D articles
- Write article for William Dimond and/or "The Broken Sword" play.
- Alex Horne (2011). Wordwatching: One Man's Quest for Linguistic Immortality. Random House.ISBN 9780753547885
- Elizabeth Reitz Mullenix (2000). Wearing the Breeches: Gender on the Antebellum Stage. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780312223496
- Money :
Featured articles
[edit ]| Article | Date |
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| Drowned God | December 19, 2012 |
TFA dates:
- Drowned God – October 31, 2016 (20th anniversary)
Fantasy TFA dates:
- KMFDM – February 29, 2024 (40th anniversary)
- Nihil – April 4, 2025 (30th anniversary)
- The Dig – November 30, 2025 (30th anniversary)
- Xtort – June 25, 2026 (30th anniversary)
- Starflight – August 15, 2026 (40th anniversary)
Good articles
[edit ]I've written
[edit ]I've reviewed
[edit ] Right Round
Warpig (band)
The Future Sound of London
Badmotorfinger
Crazy for You (song)
Office of Strategic Influence (album)
Hard (song)
Hurricane Ida (2009)
G-Spot
Kepler-11
History of Western role-playing video games
Houston Rockets
Temple Run
Betelguese, a Trip Through Hell
Transformers: Fall of Cybertron
The Game (mind game)
Gravity Bone
Did you know articles
[edit ]Handy links
[edit ]- CatScan – this is a fantastic tool for creating a list of articles to fix issues with. I've used it extensively to do copy editing on articles in my areas of interest, and am currently using it to deal with ~400 unsourced articles in the industrial music categories.
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Articles I have created
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Copy editing backlog elimination drives
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- Total articles for all drives: 528
- Total words for all drives: 272,236
Barnstars and awards
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What a Good Idea. "Collapsing our articles" Here. What a page saver this is going to be ! THANX ! Mlpearc MESSAGE 17:13, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
For reviewing 6 good article nominations during the April 2010 GAN backlog elimination drive, I hereby present you The Working Man's Barnstar. Nice job! –MuZemike 23:16, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
The Perfectly Balanced Barnstar is awarded on the occasion of your achieving exactly 250 articles edited, for exactly 125,000 words, during the May GOCE Backlog Elimination Drive. Excellent! --Diannaa TALK 06:08, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
The Guild of Copy Editors' Award
It is with great pleasure, that I bestow on you the Guild of Copy Editors' Gold Star Award, for completing the largest number of articles (an astounding 250!) during the May 2010 Backlog Elimination Drive. Your contributions accounted for about a fifth of the total articles edited in the drive! Congratulations from the GOCE. ɳorɑfʈ Talk! 04:07, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
For exceptional copyediting efforts during the May 2010 Guild of Copy Editors Backlog Elimination Drive, editing 250 articles with a combined total of 125,000 words, Torchiest is presented with this exclusive, brilliant, Most Excellent Order of the Caretaker's Star. Congratulations and thank you for all your hard work! --Diannaa TALK 04:20, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
For exceptional copyediting efforts during the Guild of Copy Editors May and July 2010 Backlog Elimination Drives, copy editing articles with a combined total of 129,512 words, Torchiest is presented with this exclusive, brilliant, Most Excellent Order of the Caretaker's Star. --Diannaa (Talk) 17:36, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Torchiest for copy editing 100 articles during the WP:GOCE July 2010 Backlog Elimination Drive. Thank you so much for your contributions to the project. --Diannaa (Talk) 17:01, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
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This barnstar is awarded to Torchiest for copy editing articles totalling over 12000 words in the January GOCE Backlog elimination drive. Thank you for participating! Diannaa (Talk) 17:43, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
Awarded to Torchiest for the following amazing copy editing:
during the Guild of Copy Editors' January 2011 Backlog Elimination Drive. – SMasters (talk) 16:12, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
The Guild of Copy Editors' Award
Leaderboard Award–Most Articles–First Place
It is with great pleasure that I bestow on Torchiest the prestigious Guild of Copy Editors' Gold Star Award, for completing the most articles (80) – 1st Place – during the Guild of Copy Editors' March 2011 Backlog Elimination Drive . Thank you for your contributions. – SMasters (talk) 05:39, 4 April 2011 (UTC) I award you this Copy Editor's Barnstar for insisting on clear, comprehensible, and grammatically correct articles. For copy editing 80 articles with a total of 53,741 words (including rollover and bonuses) during the Guild of Copy Editors' March 2011 Backlog elimination drive. Thanks for all your contributions!-SMasters (talk) 05:39, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
This Barnstar is awarded to Torchiest for copy edits of over 12,000 words during the GOCE May 2011 copy edit drive. Your help is appreciated! -- Diannaa (Talk) 02:00, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
This barnstar is awarded to Torchiest for efforts during the GOCE July 2011 copy edit drive. Thank you for participating! -- Chaosdruid (talk) 01:52, 7 August 2011 (UTC)
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This barnstar is awarded to Torchiest for copy editing articles totalling over 20,000 in the GOCE May copy edit drive. Your contributions are greatly appreciated! -- Dianna (talk) 23:51, 2 June 2012 (UTC)
This Leaderboard Award is awarded to Torchiest for copy editing 50 articles during the Guild of Copy Editors May 2012 drive. Congratulations on winning this prestigious award. Thank you for your efforts. -- Dianna (talk) 23:51, 2 June 2012 (UTC)
Thanks a lot Torchiest for helping me correct and fix my user page quickly! Your efforts have been very helpful :) TheGeneralUser (talk) 10:30, 29 June 2012 (UTC)
I want to thank you for all your work going through and re-wikiftying Deathlaser's submissions. You didn't have to do that at all, but did and I really appreciate that. Thank you! Nolelover Talk ·Contribs 23:09, 2 July 2012 (UTC)
For scoring position #8 (as ChrisGualteri opted out) on the June 2012 Wikification drive's leaderboard, I am proud to present you with this fine Working Wikifier's Barnstar! Congratulations! Like my singing? Ha-la-la-la-la-la-LA-LAAA!!! (talk) 03:23, 8 July 2012 (UTC)
For wikifying 30 articles during the drive, I also present you with this bronze wikification barnstar. Well done! :) Like my singing? Ha-la-la-la-la-la-LA-LAAA!!! (talk) 03:23, 8 July 2012 (UTC)
For merging Character point into another article. Why didn't I think of that? I dream of horses If you reply here, please leave me a {{Talkback}} message on my talk page. @ 06:02, 8 July 2012 (UTC)
The Good Article Barnstar
Thanks Torchiest for helping to promote Nihil to Good Article status. Please accept this little sign of appreciation and goodwill from me, because you deserve it. Keep it up, and give someone a pat on the back today. --Sp33dyphil ©hat ontributions 04:14, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
This barnstar is awarded to Torchiest for copy editing articles totalling over 30,000 words during the Guild of Copy Editors July 2012 Backlog Elimination Drive. Your contributions are greatly appreciated. -- Dianna (talk) 01:46, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
This Guild of Copy Editors Silver Award is awarded to Torchiest for copy editing two articles of 5,000 words or more during the Guild of Copy Editors July 2012 GOCE drive. Congratulations on winning this prestigious award. Thank you for your efforts. -- Dianna (talk) 01:46, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
This Guild of Copy Editors Silver Award is awarded to Torchiest for copy editing Ghostbusters (franchise) (11,772 words) during the Guild of Copy Editors July 2012 GOCE drive. Congratulations on winning this prestigious award. This was the third-longest article edited during the drive. -- Dianna (talk) 01:46, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
This special 10k Copyedit Barnstar is awarded to Torchiest for copy editing Ghostbusters (franchise) (11,772 words) during the Guild of Copy Editors July 2012 GOCE drive. Your efforts are appreciated! Dianna (talk) 01:46, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
On behalf of the entire Wikipedia Community, this award is hereby presented jointly to the team of Stfg, Diannaa, Torchiest, and Allens for their hard work and superb cooperation in planning and executing the highly successful July 2012 Wikipedia Backlog Reduction Drive for the Guild of Copy Editors. With very best regards: Cliff (a/k/a "Uploadvirus") (talk) 15:06, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
For being observant enough to perceive an apparent problem and your prompt efforts eliminate copyright violations at cellular automaton Jclemens (talk) 17:51, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
I'm giving you this Barnstar as I see us both working on spreading the awesome that is industrial music. dashiellx (talk) 19:58, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
The Good Article Barnstar
Your recognition for 1 GA reviews at the last June-July GAN Review Round. Regards. — ΛΧΣ 21TM 16:06, 23 September 2012 (UTC)
This barnstar is awarded to Torchiest for copy editing 18 articles to a total of 32,555 words during the Guild of Copy Editors September 2012 Backlog Elimination Drive. Thank you for your contribution. --Stfg (talk) 10:52, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
This Leaderboard Award is awarded to Torchiest for copy editing 18 articles during the Guild of Copy Editors September 2012 GOCE drive. Congratulations on winning this prestigious award. Thank you for your efforts. --Stfg (talk) 10:52, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
This Leaderboard Award is awarded to Torchiest for copy editing 11 articles from the oldest monthly copyedit categories during the Guild of Copy Editors September 2012 GOCE drive. Congratulations on winning this prestigious award. Thank you for your efforts. --Stfg (talk) 10:52, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
This Leaderboard Award is awarded to Torchiest for copy editing List of F.E.A.R. characters and organizations (10,079 words) during the Guild of Copy Editors September 2012 GOCE drive. Congratulations on winning this prestigious award. Thank you for your efforts. --Stfg (talk) 10:52, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
This Leaderboard Award is awarded to Torchiest for copy editing 2 articles of 5000 words or more during the Guild of Copy Editors September 2012 GOCE drive. Congratulations on winning this prestigious award. Thank you for your efforts. --Stfg (talk) 10:52, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
This barnstar is awarded to Torchiest for copy editing List of F.E.A.R. characters and organizations (10,079 words) during the Guild of Copy Editors September 2012 backlog elimination drive. Thank you for taking on this major task. --Stfg (talk) 10:52, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
The Guild of Copy Editors' Award
Thanks for your submission to the August 2012 Copy Edit of the Month contest, and congratulations! For your excellent work on Planetary consciousness, please accept this award on behalf of the WP:GOCE. --Stfg (talk) 21:54, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
For your help on the statewide opinion polling for the United States presidential election, 2012 and your idea Thanks alot ^-^ Knowledgekid87 (talk) 17:05, 13 October 2012 (UTC)
This barnstar is awarded to Torchiest for copy editing 4 articles for a total score of 5087 words during the Guild of Copy Editors November 2012 Backlog Elimination Drive. Thank you for your contribution. --Stfg (talk) 13:41, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
The Guild of Copy Editors' Award
For your fine copy edit of Yod (astrology) entered in the October 2012 Copy Edit of the Month contest, please accept this valuable award! --Stfg (talk) 18:15, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
Please accept this barnstar for copy editing articles for a grand total of 9693 words during the Guild of Copy Editors December 2012 Blitz. Merry Christmas! --Stfg (talk) 15:38, 23 December 2012 (UTC)
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I award this barnstar to Torchiest for copy editing 32 articles for a total of 30,127 words in the GOCE January copy edit drive. Thanks for participating! --BDD (talk) 02:33, 3 February 2013 (UTC)
I award this Leaderboard Barnstar to Torchiest for copy editing 32 articles during the during the WP:GOCE January 2013 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations! --BDD (talk) 02:33, 3 February 2013 (UTC)
I award this Leaderboard Barnstar to Torchiest for copy editing 22 old articles during the during the WP:GOCE January 2013 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations! --BDD (talk) 02:33, 3 February 2013 (UTC)
I award this Leaderboard Barnstar to Torchiest for copy editing two articles of 5000 or more words during the during the WP:GOCE January 2013 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations! --BDD (talk) 02:33, 3 February 2013 (UTC)
I award this barnstar to Torchiest for copy editing nine articles for a total of 4665 words in the GOCE March copy edit drive. Thanks for participating! --BDD (talk) 17:56, 3 April 2013 (UTC)
Thank you for your help! FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 02:10, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for copyediting 3 articles (with a total of 404 words) during the April Blitz! All the best, Mini apolis 23:39, 21 April 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for your copyediting efforts during the May GOCE drive, and for all you do to keep the Guild humming! All the best, Mini apolis 13:34, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for (among other things :-)) editing three articles (for a total of 1,025 words) during the June Guild of Copy Editors blitz! All the best, Mini apolis 15:03, 24 June 2013 (UTC)
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Torchiest for copy editing 43 articles during the WP:GOCE July 2013 Backlog Elimination Drive. Thank you so much for your contributions to the project. – Diannaa (talk) 14:04, 7 August 2013 (UTC)
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Torchiest for copy editing two articles of 5000 words or more during the WP:GOCE July 2013 Backlog Elimination Drive. Thank you for tackling these larger articles; your efforts are appreciated. – Diannaa (talk) 14:04, 7 August 2013 (UTC)
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Torchiest for your copy edit of platform game, the fourth-longest article copy edited during the WP:GOCE July 2013 Backlog Elimination Drive. Thank you for taking on this jumbo task. – Diannaa (talk) 14:04, 7 August 2013 (UTC)
This barnstar is awarded toTorchiest for copy editing articles totalling over 30,000 words during the WP:GOCE July 2013 Backlog Elimination Drive. Thanks for all you do to help this important wikiproject! Diannaa (talk) 14:04, 7 August 2013 (UTC)
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