I'm Herostratus, I'm a Wikipedia editor and have been since 2005.
My user name was taken in ironic memorialization of the original Herostratus, the greatest vandal of all time, who destroyed the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
I created the Wikipedia Service Awards, which I conceived, wrote, made the images for, published, and shepherded thru deletion attempts. (Other talented editors and better artists have since expanded and improved the awards, of course.)
If I should ever abruptly stop editing, the explanation is probably related to this.
I have no particular focus and perform a number of random tasks depending on fancy: translating articles from the Russian Wikipedia, writing articles, article cleanup, watching pages, participating in discussions, closing an occasional RfC, and other stuff. I have no areas of content expertise, and write, translate, and edit articles on a wide variety of subjects.
I've written or started about 330 articles.
Almost all of these are pretty short, but on the other hand I greatly expanded or effectively rewrote a few articles, too ( Baby Huey (singer), Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe, SpinnWebe, Battle of annihilation, Child sexuality, Ansel Franklin Hall, George Frazier, William Turnbull (artist), Kostroma River, Julia Pirie, 2 Rossi Street, List of Katy Perry songs, Bergen Davis, Gırgır, Trud (newspaper), Curtis Gans, Press-Telegram, Forest Tennant, American Pie Council, James Cox (labourer), Bob Emery (broadcaster), Bishops and archbishops of Bolnisi, Edward Aswell, Kennedy Report on the Reserve Army, Neo-American Church, Lafayette Place Mall, Karin Hübner, Charles Feltman, Battle of Volochayevka, Bouncy ball, Judy Valentine, Kekionga Ball Grounds, Ox Eckhardt, Sailor Song, Castlewood State Park, Loudest band, Steve Sesnick, Edward Whitehead, Wikipedia:Alphabetical order (article names), Aloe Plaza, Hugh James (RAF officer), Turkish coup d'état, others).
But then on the other hand, I've never contributed to any Good Articles or Featured Articles. (I think the GA/FA program is a fine thing, it just don't seem to grab my interest; I guess moving articles from "not really all that good" to "not so bad", and working on my own, suits me better. I have at least one Featured List though.) I have 12 DYKs: . Most of my stuff is serious, but I do have at least two articles at Wikipedia:Unusual articles.
I've translated 120 articles from the Russian Wikipedia.
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I've drawn or patched together a few article graphics, and graphics for internal use such as vandal-warning templates. I mean I'm no artist (I have been informed) and some of them were made in PC-Paint, but still, I made them and I might as well own up to them I guess.
Gale warning. (Moderate to high level of
vandalism) 4.48 RPM according to EnterpriseyBot15:10, 28 April 2024 (UTC) change |
(In the last one, I only added the the "no" circle-slash to an existing graphic.)
I'm a former administrator on the English Wikipedia. I was made an admin in 2006 but I was recalled for cause in 2010, which is how it's supposed to work. My admin logs: block, deletion, protection. When I stopped keeping count, I had the following AfD contribution stats: of 607 AFD comments, 32% were "Keep" and 68% were "Delete"; but 25% of the articles on which I voted "Keep" were deleted, while only 16% of the articles on which I voted "Delete" were kept. These stats indicate that I'm slightly more inclusionist than the general population. UPDATE: found this cool tool which seems to show that I'm just about at the center of the deletionist–inclusionist bell curve.
Modo aliquid addere debebam ut insigne not tatam paginae format, sic hic accedit.
Solus editor sum, qui se sponte obtulit ad revocandum et processum usque ad finem secutus. Unicus. Sperabam fore ut haec praxis interdum regularus fieret et auxilium impediret vel saltem tardaret, ah processu cui omnes humanae consociationes subiciuntur.
Certe nigrum novum non fiebat, quod dissapointum sed non miror, et non est futurum etiam si vellemus. Vides ergo ubi sumus, aut fortasse non. Alioqui homines, et de eo nimium solliciti esse non potes.
Iuppiter, imple vacuum. Recte igitur hoc: "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua... tristique senectus. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames. Et malesuada fames ac turpis... Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet... memento mori." -- Ethan Shredlew
I've had the good fortune to have been awarded 45 barnstars.
Of these 8 (*) are arguably questionable as 1) logrolling (barnstars received from someone to whom one has given a barnstar), 2) barnstars from a Wikifriend, 3) barnstars in excess of one received from the same person, or 4) barnstars received from someone whom one has supported on some issue or in some situation.
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Of these 2 (*) are arguably questionable as 1) logrolling (barnstars received from someone to whom one has given a barnstar), 2) barnstars from a Wikifriend, 3) barnstars in excess of one received from the same person, or 4) barnstars received from someone whom one has supported on some issue or in some situation.
And this was nice: " Herostratus: you are doing great work here." -- Jimbo Wales, Nov 24 2010
To clarify, this is stuff I find useful in my work. I'm not saying that these are necessarily useful to anyone else.
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''{{interlanguage link|Hooglede town hall|nl|Gemeentehuis van Hooglede}}'' gives "[[Hooglede town hall]] [nl]" which points to the Dutch Wikipedia article "Gemeentehuis van Hooglede"
Google Trends shows google searches for a term Google Ngram scrapes a plethora of books for a term
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{{ Do not move to Commons}}, used when the file would violate Commons policy {{ Keep local}}, used when the file is probably eligible for Commons but you prefer that a local copy be kept too
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Arbitration Enforcement Requests for Immediate Vandalism Intervention Requests for Page Protection |
Herostratus writes essays.
Some quotes (by other people, not by me) that I find interesting or instructive.
Volume 20, Issue 6 — 2024-04-25
Old archives, garbage, &c. solely of interest to Herostratus and kept for his personal use.
Hi, I see you're looking for information on [subject]. We could have an article on this subject. In fact we did have an article on this subject, a nice one. But we deleted it! Because, while we are here to provide information, we don't think you should have too much information. But we wish you luck on your Google search on this topic, and we hope and assume that you have time, interest, and skill to re-create the equivalent collection of sourced data on your own (just as all the other people reading this message will have to do individually, unless they just give up or settle for a lesser amount of information). Have a nice day! |
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I'm Herostratus, I'm a Wikipedia editor and have been since 2005.
My user name was taken in ironic memorialization of the original Herostratus, the greatest vandal of all time, who destroyed the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
I created the Wikipedia Service Awards, which I conceived, wrote, made the images for, published, and shepherded thru deletion attempts. (Other talented editors and better artists have since expanded and improved the awards, of course.)
If I should ever abruptly stop editing, the explanation is probably related to this.
I have no particular focus and perform a number of random tasks depending on fancy: translating articles from the Russian Wikipedia, writing articles, article cleanup, watching pages, participating in discussions, closing an occasional RfC, and other stuff. I have no areas of content expertise, and write, translate, and edit articles on a wide variety of subjects.
I've written or started about 330 articles.
Almost all of these are pretty short, but on the other hand I greatly expanded or effectively rewrote a few articles, too ( Baby Huey (singer), Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe, SpinnWebe, Battle of annihilation, Child sexuality, Ansel Franklin Hall, George Frazier, William Turnbull (artist), Kostroma River, Julia Pirie, 2 Rossi Street, List of Katy Perry songs, Bergen Davis, Gırgır, Trud (newspaper), Curtis Gans, Press-Telegram, Forest Tennant, American Pie Council, James Cox (labourer), Bob Emery (broadcaster), Bishops and archbishops of Bolnisi, Edward Aswell, Kennedy Report on the Reserve Army, Neo-American Church, Lafayette Place Mall, Karin Hübner, Charles Feltman, Battle of Volochayevka, Bouncy ball, Judy Valentine, Kekionga Ball Grounds, Ox Eckhardt, Sailor Song, Castlewood State Park, Loudest band, Steve Sesnick, Edward Whitehead, Wikipedia:Alphabetical order (article names), Aloe Plaza, Hugh James (RAF officer), Turkish coup d'état, others).
But then on the other hand, I've never contributed to any Good Articles or Featured Articles. (I think the GA/FA program is a fine thing, it just don't seem to grab my interest; I guess moving articles from "not really all that good" to "not so bad", and working on my own, suits me better. I have at least one Featured List though.) I have 12 DYKs: . Most of my stuff is serious, but I do have at least two articles at Wikipedia:Unusual articles.
I've translated 120 articles from the Russian Wikipedia.
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I've drawn or patched together a few article graphics, and graphics for internal use such as vandal-warning templates. I mean I'm no artist (I have been informed) and some of them were made in PC-Paint, but still, I made them and I might as well own up to them I guess.
Gale warning. (Moderate to high level of
vandalism) 4.48 RPM according to EnterpriseyBot15:10, 28 April 2024 (UTC) change |
(In the last one, I only added the the "no" circle-slash to an existing graphic.)
I'm a former administrator on the English Wikipedia. I was made an admin in 2006 but I was recalled for cause in 2010, which is how it's supposed to work. My admin logs: block, deletion, protection. When I stopped keeping count, I had the following AfD contribution stats: of 607 AFD comments, 32% were "Keep" and 68% were "Delete"; but 25% of the articles on which I voted "Keep" were deleted, while only 16% of the articles on which I voted "Delete" were kept. These stats indicate that I'm slightly more inclusionist than the general population. UPDATE: found this cool tool which seems to show that I'm just about at the center of the deletionist–inclusionist bell curve.
Modo aliquid addere debebam ut insigne not tatam paginae format, sic hic accedit.
Solus editor sum, qui se sponte obtulit ad revocandum et processum usque ad finem secutus. Unicus. Sperabam fore ut haec praxis interdum regularus fieret et auxilium impediret vel saltem tardaret, ah processu cui omnes humanae consociationes subiciuntur.
Certe nigrum novum non fiebat, quod dissapointum sed non miror, et non est futurum etiam si vellemus. Vides ergo ubi sumus, aut fortasse non. Alioqui homines, et de eo nimium solliciti esse non potes.
Iuppiter, imple vacuum. Recte igitur hoc: "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua... tristique senectus. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames. Et malesuada fames ac turpis... Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet... memento mori." -- Ethan Shredlew
I've had the good fortune to have been awarded 45 barnstars.
Of these 8 (*) are arguably questionable as 1) logrolling (barnstars received from someone to whom one has given a barnstar), 2) barnstars from a Wikifriend, 3) barnstars in excess of one received from the same person, or 4) barnstars received from someone whom one has supported on some issue or in some situation.
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Of these 2 (*) are arguably questionable as 1) logrolling (barnstars received from someone to whom one has given a barnstar), 2) barnstars from a Wikifriend, 3) barnstars in excess of one received from the same person, or 4) barnstars received from someone whom one has supported on some issue or in some situation.
And this was nice: " Herostratus: you are doing great work here." -- Jimbo Wales, Nov 24 2010
To clarify, this is stuff I find useful in my work. I'm not saying that these are necessarily useful to anyone else.
|
{{sfn | Smith| 1924 | p=3}} or pp=3,7-13 additional names after Smith {{rp|37}} for lots of citations to 1 book
url-access=subscription
{{xt|text}} give green text
''{{interlanguage link|Hooglede town hall|nl|Gemeentehuis van Hooglede}}'' gives "[[Hooglede town hall]] [nl]" which points to the Dutch Wikipedia article "Gemeentehuis van Hooglede"
Google Trends shows google searches for a term Google Ngram scrapes a plethora of books for a term
{{WikiProject FOOBAR}} for new articles
{{ Do not move to Commons}}, used when the file would violate Commons policy {{ Keep local}}, used when the file is probably eligible for Commons but you prefer that a local copy be kept too
{{Annual readership|days=90|expanded=true}} editor interaction analyzer
Tools
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Etc. |
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Arbitration Enforcement Requests for Immediate Vandalism Intervention Requests for Page Protection |
Herostratus writes essays.
Some quotes (by other people, not by me) that I find interesting or instructive.
Volume 20, Issue 6 — 2024-04-25
Old archives, garbage, &c. solely of interest to Herostratus and kept for his personal use.
Hi, I see you're looking for information on [subject]. We could have an article on this subject. In fact we did have an article on this subject, a nice one. But we deleted it! Because, while we are here to provide information, we don't think you should have too much information. But we wish you luck on your Google search on this topic, and we hope and assume that you have time, interest, and skill to re-create the equivalent collection of sourced data on your own (just as all the other people reading this message will have to do individually, unless they just give up or settle for a lesser amount of information). Have a nice day! |
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