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This user rewrote Lazare Ponticelli, a featured article. This user wrote 2002 Bou'in-Zahra earthquake, a featured article. This user wrote Minnesota Mr. Basketball, a featured list. This user wrote Mary Meader, a good article. This user wrote 1992 Nicaragua earthquake, a good article. This user helped with Félix Houphouët-Boigny, a good article. This user rewrote Jean-Hilaire Aubame, a good article. This user wrote Nki National Park, a good article. This user wrote Paul Gondjout, a good article. This user rewrote 1970 Tonghai earthquake, a good article. This user rewrote Drum (2004 film), a good article. This user wrote 1964 Gabon coup d'état, a good article. This user wrote Al Pollard, a good article. This user wrote Magnum Rolle, a good article. This user rewrote Dan Borislow, a good article.This user rewrote Alphonse Alley, a good article. This user wrote Juan Fernandez (basketball), a good article. This user wrote 2010–11 Temple Owls men's basketball team, a good article. This user wrote Lavoy Allen, a good article. This user wrote Ramone Moore, a good article. This user wrote Khris Middleton, a good article. This user rewrote (Don't Fear) The Reaper, a good article. This user wrote Jack Ely, a good article. This user wrote Ryan Arcidiacono, a good article. This user helped with Darby Creek (Pennsylvania), a good article. This user rewrote Ithan Creek, a good article. This user rewrote Darrun Hilliard, a good article. This user wrote Kellen Dunham, a good article. This user wrote Kelan Martin, a good article. This user wrote Roosevelt Jones, a good article. This user wrote Khadeen Carrington, a good article. This user helped with Grandy Glaze, a good article. This user wrote Donte Ingram, a good article. This user wrote Naji Marshall, a good article. This user helped with Brad Davison, a good article. This user wrote Zach Hankins, a good article. This user helped with Akwasi Yeboah, a good article. This user wrote Sandro Mamukelashvili, a good article. This user wrote Jermaine Samuels, a good article. This user wrote Jahaad Proctor, a good article. This user wrote Quincy McKnight, a good article. This user wrote Myles Cale, a good article.

Editorofthewiki is currently: talking in the third person

Please update this if I have my grammar right!

Today is Thursday, June 13, 2024, 04:57 (UTC/GMT).
There are 6,834,757 articles on the English Wikipedia.
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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]

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8 June 2024
 

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.
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3		This user can help out at an advanced level of Simple English.


States and countries visited[edit]

U.S. States visited
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Countries visited
United States Dominican Republic Iceland Germany Costa Rica

Toolbox[edit]

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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):
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N
New page
m
Minor edit
b
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13 June 2024


Tip of the Day[edit]

How to insert a picture into an article

The syntax used for displaying an image is:

[[File:{name}|{type}|{location}|{size}|{alt=}|{caption}]]

Only [[File:{name}]] parameter is required.
Do not put spaces between parameters. The other parameters are optional and can be placed in any order. Some infoboxes do not require the brackets. Keep parameters in lower case. The other parameters are:
Type
'thumb' / 'thumbnail' or 'frame'. This causes image to be displayed with specific formatting. "thumb" is normally preferred.
Location
'right', 'left', 'center' or 'none'. Determines placement of the image on the page. "Left" or "right" is the norm, but large panoramas or timelines can be displayed in the center.
Size
{width}px or {width}x{height}px (e.g. 50x40px, would limit width to 50 pixels and height to 40 pixels). Normally only one variable is used. Use common sense when determining the sizes; you can use the "Show preview" button if you need to. If thumb or thumbnail is chosen, size should normally be left out, so that the size defaults to the size set in a user's preferences.
alt=
(keep it lower case). This is the "alternate image" parameter used to describe the image for screenreaders or for people with low-vision. It should be more descriptive than the caption alone. Do not use this for another copy of the caption or of the article title, as the reader will already be aware of these.
Caption
Any element which cannot be identified as one of the above is automatically treated as caption text. It is traditional to put this last. The caption should identify what the image is, and ideally be a complete sentence that adds to the article by pointing out something a casual reader would not have noticed otherwise, or add information the pertains to the image. Full sentence or multi fragment captions require full stop punctuation.

If you have created a picture that is not already in Wikipedia's image collection on the Commons that you want to include in an article, you will need to upload it first. Bonus tip: Similar formatting is used to insert basic audio or basic video clips into articles.

Read more (includes examples):  
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Today's featured article[edit]

Wreckage from the Battle of Villers-Bocage
Wreckage from the Battle of Villers-Bocage

The Battle of Villers-Bocage took place in Normandy, France, on 13 June 1944 during World War II. Following the D-Day landings on 6 June, the Germans established defences in front of Caen. The British attacked to attempt to exploit a gap in the German defences west of the city. They reached Villers-Bocage without incident in the morning but were ambushed by Tiger I tanks as they left the town and numerous tanks, anti-tank guns and transport vehicles were destroyed. The Germans then attacked the town but were repulsed. The British withdrew west of Villers-Bocage that evening and repulsed another attack the next day. The British conduct in the battle was controversial because their withdrawal marked the end of the post–D-Day "scramble for ground" and the start of an attritional battle for Caen. Some historians wrote that the British attack was a failure caused by a lack of conviction among some senior commanders; others judged the British force to be insufficiently strong for the task. (Full article...)

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