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This editor is a
Senior Editor II
and is entitled to display this Rhodium
Editor Star
.

This is the user page for:
WCQuidditch
my talk | my contribs

Hello. You've reached the user page of another of the 47,569,585 registered contributorstoWikipedia (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 popular wiki.

I hope you like what you see! Oh, and by the way, I will NOT welcome vandalism. 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, just drop me a line. (I recommend starting a new section to keep new discussions separate from older, unrelated discussions.)

And remember:

This userpage has been brought to you by...

My history here[edit]

I've been editing Wikipedia for over 18 years now, though I had been reading it for a few months beforehand. I first started editing as an unregistered user on September 6, 2005, with my first two edits being the additions of {{Infobox broadcast}} (forerunner to today's {{Infobox television station}}) to the WBPX and WUNI-TV articles. After that, I returned on September 19 and started the article on WWDP (in those days, there was no Articles for Creation process, and unregistered users could still create articles in mainspace; just months later, the Wikipedia 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 I do still make gravitate towards other media topics. (As for how many more edits have I made? Well, in the 18 years I've had this account, I've racked up well over 107,000 edits — good enough to rank 739th on the list of Wikipedians by number of edits (as of June 2, 2024). (That's just the edits that remain visible in page histories; it's over 114,000 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 at XfD discussions.

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 a K07RE that was affiliated with five networks at once (and predated LPTV, the type of station it was purported to be, by some 20-25 years) as a hoax led to the first barnstar I received, which was a Barnstar of Diligence that was given to me by Firsfron (talk · contribs) on August 22, 2006. (By the way, while there wasaK07RE, it was actually a relay of the Alaska Rural Communications Service…)

How active I've been has constantly varied; sometimes I'm quite active, sometimes I'm not. Fret not, though — I'm not going away anytime soon.

(And yes, even my userpage has seen vandalism, even though I'm not one of the more high-profile editors. It's not something that happens too often, thank goodness.)

If you want to know about my interests (even off-wiki), take a peek at my userboxes.

Useless information[edit]

Right now, it is 12:18, June 20, 2024.
NOTE: Above timing information is given in UTC, and may not match your local time.

There are currently 6,838,418 articles in the English Wikipedia, and growing...

More statistics are located here. Please purge the cache if the given information is now incorrect.

The featured picture and more[edit]

Picture of the day

Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II

The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is an American family of single-seat, single-engine, stealth multirole combat aircraft designed for air superiority and strike missions; it also has electronic warfare and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities. The aircraft descends from the Lockheed Martin X-35, with development funded principally by the United States, with additional funding from program partner countries from NATO. Its first flight took place in 2006 and it entered service with the United States Air Force in 2015. Its first combat operation was in the 2018 Operation House of Cards by the Israeli Air Force. The F-35 Lightning II has three main variants: the conventional takeoff and landing F-35A, the short take-off and vertical-landing F-35B, and the carrier-based F-35C. This photograph shows an F-35C conducting a test flight over Chesapeake Bay in 2011.Photograph credit: Andy Wolfe

Tip of the day

Tip of the day...
Screenshots

If you need to illustrate an article about software or a website, a good tip is to take screenshots.

InMicrosoft Windows, a screenshot of the entire monitor, complete with taskbar, can be copied to the system clipboard by pressing the Prt Sc key. Alternatively, pressing Alt+Prt Sc will copy just the active window to the clipboard. You can then paste the clipboard into a program like MS PaintorPaint.NET using Ctrl+V, and then save it as an image file (for uploading to Wikipedia, for instance).

InMac OS X, simply prepare your screen to how you want it to look, then hit Cmd+⇧ Shift+3 (not the number pad 3) simultaneously. The new image will appear as a PNG on your desktop. Additionally, if you only want to capture part of the screen, you can hit Cmd+⇧ Shift+4, click and drag over the part of the screen you would like to capture and release, also saving it as a PNG on your desktop.

When uploading, be sure to use an appropriate copyright tag, such as web-screenshot.

Read more:

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To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use
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Guide to the above:

What can I 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.)

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

    Help improve popular pages, especially those of low quality.

    You can, if you want, use my little Page Create Tool to create the article you are interested in writing. Please use search first, whether on Special:Search, in your skin, or my Wikisearch.

    If you're too bored, you can stare at these compare and contrasts.

    Contributions licensing[edit]

    Licensing rights granted to Wikimedia Foundation
    I grant non-exclusive permission for the Wikimedia Foundation Inc. to relicense my text and media contributions, including any images, audio clips, or video clips, under any copyleft license that it chooses, provided it maintains the free and open spirit of the GFDL. This permission acknowledges that future licensing needs of the Wikimedia projects may need adapting in unforeseen fashions to facilitate other uses, formats, and locations. It is given for as long as this banner remains.


    Fine print[edit]

    I am not responsible for lost, stolen, or deleted articles, media files, categories, templates, redirects, pages of other types, prodded pages, or even speedied pages, though all of that is because I have no powers to delete under the deletion system. (I also take no responsibility for any deletion debate result questioning unless I otherwise feel differently. Also, deletion debates that I start or pages that I place either {{subst:prod}} or one of the speedy 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 to leave 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 should not be left on this page, it should instead be directed to my talk page through that link. Features are generated either by dates or by any editing of the templates, either anyone or admins (but, barring some exceptions, not by any bot). If you are not visiting this page from Wikipedia, then you are at a Wikipedia mirror, and you should be aware that you are not viewing an encyclopedia article, that the page may be outdated, and that the user to whom this page belongs may have no personal affiliation with any site other than Wikipedia itself. Please direct yourself to the real thing at https://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.


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