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Hello. You've reached the user page of another of the 47,319,760 registered contributors to Wikipedia (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:

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My history here

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 101,000 edits — good enough to rank 804th on the list of Wikipedians by number of edits (as of April 21, 2023). (That's just the edits that remain visible in page histories; it's over 108,000 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 was a K07RE, 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

Right now, it is 08:46, April 28, 2024 — and that means it's Sunday!
NOTE: Above timing information is given in UTC, and may not match your local time.

For info on the number of articles (which is given here on most days), see the Sunday StatChart below. More statistics are located here. Please purge the cache if the given information is now incorrect.

The featured picture and more

Sunday StatChart | purge
NOTE: Information about wikis other than the English Wikipedia may be out of date; their display here is updated only every six hours. All other information given is current as of 08:46, 28 April 2024 (UTC) unless otherwise noted.
  • Article count: 6,817,890 (and growing! In all of the 342 Wikipedias that have ever existed, there have collectively been 62,897,209 articles, but the number of topics covered on all Wikipedias might be a bit smaller than that as articles may exist in multiple languages.)
  • Local file count: 916,480 (These are only the locally-uploaded files.)
  • Commons file count: 105,057,975, for a total of 105,974,455 available files (with so many files, it's inevitable that we still don't have enough articles for them all yet… Across all of Wikimedia there are 108,075,404 files, 2,809,266 of them on Wikipedias.)
  • Overall page count: 60,545,646 (There might not be many websites with that many pages. It's even harder to imagine someone having been to all of those pages, especially since this number, too, is ever-growing! But even that might be nothing compared to the estimated 621,016,638 pages that comprise all of Wikimedia…)
  • Registered user count: 47,319,760 (Wikipedia's popular, I can tell you that! In all of Wikimedia, there are about 209,802,287 accounts, though I can't confirm if unified logins inflate that count in any way.)
  • Active registered users: 122,676 (At this juncture this probably gives a better impression of the size of the Wikipedia community, though best I can tell this doesn't include unregistered users and does include some one-or-done users that happen to have actually edited something in the past month. The number jumps up to 370,810 users across all of Wikimedia, though again, I can't confirm whether unified logins are counted multiple times.)
  • My edit count (excluding deleted edits): 99,954 edits on 37,155 pages (From XTools edit counter; more info here. This info is as of 18:16, 7 April 2024 (UTC).)
  • Deleted edits: 6,867 edits, for a total of 106,821 edits (From XTools edit counter. This info is as of 18:16, 7 April 2024 (UTC).)
  • Global edit count (live edits only): 120,816 edits (From XTools edit counter; more info here. This info is as of 18:16, 7 April 2024 (UTC). Note that this section of the counter has an 2,748-edit discrepancy in my English Wikipedia editcount (they are included here, but excluded above); I cannot confirm which number is more accurate (note that it is the larger of the two that gets pushed to the list of Wikipedians by number of edits), but the gap keeps increasing every time I check…)
  • Overall edit count: 1,216,422,581 (Certainly makes my numbers look more quaint, doesn't it? How about the 6,996,749,422 or so edits to all Wikimedia projects?))
  • MediaWiki version number: 1.43.0-wmf.2 (ce9d259)


Libellula depressa
Libellula depressa, commonly known as the broad-bodied chaser or broad-bodied darter, is a dragonfly in the family Libellulidae. One of the most common dragonflies in Europe and central Asia, its range extends to England, central Asia and the Middle East, with a few limited populations in Scotland. It is not found in Ireland or North Africa, however. This insect is around 39 to 48 millimetres (1.5 to 1.9 inches) in length, with both the male and the female having a broad, flattened abdomen which is brown with yellow patches down the sides. In the male, the abdomen develops a blue pruinescence that covers the brown colour. Both fore and hind wings have a dark patch at the base. This male L. depressa dragonfly was photographed at Wolvercote Lakes in Oxfordshire, England.Photograph credit: Charles J. Sharp

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Getting a subpage listing

To get a list of all the subpages for a particular page, go to the page, click on:

  1. The lefthand link labeled Page information
  2. Go to the Basic information section
  3. Click on the Number of subpages of this page link

All the subpages will be listed below the search section.

To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use
{{ tip of the day}}

Guide to the above:

  • Monday-Saturday: The picture of the day from the list of featured pictures, and today's tip of the day for improved Wikipedia efficiency.
  • Sunday: Same as above, but I also give my weekly Sunday StatChart. I have had it since October 7, 2005, when I made my first major revamp of my userpage.

What can I do???


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.

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

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

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.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 47,319,760 registered contributors to Wikipedia (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

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 101,000 edits — good enough to rank 804th on the list of Wikipedians by number of edits (as of April 21, 2023). (That's just the edits that remain visible in page histories; it's over 108,000 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 was a K07RE, 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

Right now, it is 08:46, April 28, 2024 — and that means it's Sunday!
NOTE: Above timing information is given in UTC, and may not match your local time.

For info on the number of articles (which is given here on most days), see the Sunday StatChart below. More statistics are located here. Please purge the cache if the given information is now incorrect.

The featured picture and more

Sunday StatChart | purge
NOTE: Information about wikis other than the English Wikipedia may be out of date; their display here is updated only every six hours. All other information given is current as of 08:46, 28 April 2024 (UTC) unless otherwise noted.
  • Article count: 6,817,890 (and growing! In all of the 342 Wikipedias that have ever existed, there have collectively been 62,897,209 articles, but the number of topics covered on all Wikipedias might be a bit smaller than that as articles may exist in multiple languages.)
  • Local file count: 916,480 (These are only the locally-uploaded files.)
  • Commons file count: 105,057,975, for a total of 105,974,455 available files (with so many files, it's inevitable that we still don't have enough articles for them all yet… Across all of Wikimedia there are 108,075,404 files, 2,809,266 of them on Wikipedias.)
  • Overall page count: 60,545,646 (There might not be many websites with that many pages. It's even harder to imagine someone having been to all of those pages, especially since this number, too, is ever-growing! But even that might be nothing compared to the estimated 621,016,638 pages that comprise all of Wikimedia…)
  • Registered user count: 47,319,760 (Wikipedia's popular, I can tell you that! In all of Wikimedia, there are about 209,802,287 accounts, though I can't confirm if unified logins inflate that count in any way.)
  • Active registered users: 122,676 (At this juncture this probably gives a better impression of the size of the Wikipedia community, though best I can tell this doesn't include unregistered users and does include some one-or-done users that happen to have actually edited something in the past month. The number jumps up to 370,810 users across all of Wikimedia, though again, I can't confirm whether unified logins are counted multiple times.)
  • My edit count (excluding deleted edits): 99,954 edits on 37,155 pages (From XTools edit counter; more info here. This info is as of 18:16, 7 April 2024 (UTC).)
  • Deleted edits: 6,867 edits, for a total of 106,821 edits (From XTools edit counter. This info is as of 18:16, 7 April 2024 (UTC).)
  • Global edit count (live edits only): 120,816 edits (From XTools edit counter; more info here. This info is as of 18:16, 7 April 2024 (UTC). Note that this section of the counter has an 2,748-edit discrepancy in my English Wikipedia editcount (they are included here, but excluded above); I cannot confirm which number is more accurate (note that it is the larger of the two that gets pushed to the list of Wikipedians by number of edits), but the gap keeps increasing every time I check…)
  • Overall edit count: 1,216,422,581 (Certainly makes my numbers look more quaint, doesn't it? How about the 6,996,749,422 or so edits to all Wikimedia projects?))
  • MediaWiki version number: 1.43.0-wmf.2 (ce9d259)


Libellula depressa
Libellula depressa, commonly known as the broad-bodied chaser or broad-bodied darter, is a dragonfly in the family Libellulidae. One of the most common dragonflies in Europe and central Asia, its range extends to England, central Asia and the Middle East, with a few limited populations in Scotland. It is not found in Ireland or North Africa, however. This insect is around 39 to 48 millimetres (1.5 to 1.9 inches) in length, with both the male and the female having a broad, flattened abdomen which is brown with yellow patches down the sides. In the male, the abdomen develops a blue pruinescence that covers the brown colour. Both fore and hind wings have a dark patch at the base. This male L. depressa dragonfly was photographed at Wolvercote Lakes in Oxfordshire, England.Photograph credit: Charles J. Sharp

Tip of the day

Tip of the day...
Getting a subpage listing

To get a list of all the subpages for a particular page, go to the page, click on:

  1. The lefthand link labeled Page information
  2. Go to the Basic information section
  3. Click on the Number of subpages of this page link

All the subpages will be listed below the search section.

To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use
{{ tip of the day}}

Guide to the above:

  • Monday-Saturday: The picture of the day from the list of featured pictures, and today's tip of the day for improved Wikipedia efficiency.
  • Sunday: Same as above, but I also give my weekly Sunday StatChart. I have had it since October 7, 2005, when I made my first major revamp of my userpage.

What can I do???


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.

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

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

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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