User:Crunchydillpickle
I like a lot of things. I often find myself maintaining Wikipedia articles for social media influencers, mostly because I often find their representations on Wikipedia lopsided or nonexistent. Bringing an awkward but highly-viewed biography to a serviceable ~C-class is such a high-impact way to spend an hour or three. I also like the regularly-updated list of popular low quality articles. For personal enjoyment, I created a list of unusual anniversaries or "on this day" events which you can read and contribute to, if you so desire. I'm pretty nice (I think) and I genuinely enjoy helping brand-new Wikipedians learn the ropes. If you're one of those brand-new Wikipedians, welcome! I hope you kick off your shoes and stay a while. Perhaps you'll find Molly White's editing tutorial useful. There's a lot to do!
I am really inspired by fellow editors and I feel privileged to improve the 'pedia with all of you. If I make a mistake or do something stupid, please trout me!
This week's backlog of the week is:
Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Shields task force/Requests
Today's backlog of the day is:
Goofy user subpages
I try not to waste too much time on barely-encyclopedic rabbit holes but sometimes I cannot resist.
- User:Crunchydillpickle/cool — sprawling list of things I think are cool on Wikipedia
- User:Crunchydillpickle/List of unusual anniversaries
- User:Crunchydillpickle/Palindromic Wikipedia titles
- User:Crunchydillpickle/Articles with delightful photos
- User:Crunchydillpickle/Quotes about Wikipedia
- User:Crunchydillpickle/Edit summary museum
- User:Crunchydillpickle/Data viz ideas
- User:Crunchydillpickle/Real article titles
- User:Crunchydillpickle/Cool photos
- User:Crunchydillpickle/parentheticals in article titles
Articles I wrote in 2023
Not all of them are great but they've all been fun to make.
- Penelope (platypus), marsupial at the center of a 1950s media frenzy. My favorite article I've ever written!
- Emily Meggett, Gullah grandma who put several generations' recipes into a cookbook
- MILF Manor, lol
- Wisconsin Butter Fire, bizarre 1991 disaster in the center of Madison
- Peanut butter and pickle sandwich
- Barbie Dreamhouse
- Elf Bar, ubiquitous but nominally illegal vapes that aren't regulated. a more important topic than most of my other articles
- Bumpits
- Parade (company), underwear company that got a lot of press for its marketing strategies
- Emma Allen, New Yorker cartoon editor
- Great Star Theater, historic venue in San Francisco's Chinatown with amazing history. I had a lot of fun digging through old newspapers for this one
- Orfield Laboratories
- The Pez Outlaw, documentary
- The Dare (musician), wrote this in a café on vacation when I was sick of walking
- All the Knowledge in the World, book about encyclopedias
- Bama Rush (documentary)
- Chillin Island, reality TV series
- Praxis (proposed city), wrote this after a big NYT article came out
- Chloe Troast, wrote this the day SNL announced she was joining the cast
- Claw clip, thought this article would have existed earlier
- The Drift (magazine)
Articles I wrote in 2024
*expanded from stubs
- John Wilson (Texas politician), elected to the Texas Senate despite being dead
- Francesca Scorsese, daughter of Martin
- Ballerina Farm*, influencer who was getting ~20k monthly pageviews to a stub that was wildly outdated. Did a rewrite
- Jon Agee, author of pun books
- Emily Mariko, influencer who meets WP:NBIO by a mile
- Betty Crocker Homemakers of Tomorrow, an extremely 1950s American award
- Twiggy the Water-Skiing Squirrel* this little guy is an icon
- The ick, featuring a photo of my partner's feet
- Because Internet, a book I like
- Dawn Baillie, woman whose iconic movie posters are being shown in an NYC art gallery!
- Devon Lee Carlson, another influencer
- Lookout Santa Cruz, I whipped up this article after this newsroom won a Pulitzer
- Chris Olsen, did a quick rewrite of an AfC submission when I was in a time crunch. need to spend another 20 minutes or so on it until I feel okay about it
Things I'm very proud of
- I added the shower beer photo
To-do list (long version)
- Hadley Duvall
- Vaginal flatulence, sexual partner both are bad articles but get lots of views
- Route 66 stuff like Cozy Dog, Bob Waldmire, etc
- Improve citizenship test and add info about German citizenship test (already covered on other languages) to standalone or relevant existing article
- Name tag#"Hello my name is" stickers. Add info about 1880 "Hello" name tags.
- User:Crunchydillpickle/sandbox/List of elections won by dead people
- User:Crunchydillpickle/sandbox/Romy Mars
- User:Crunchydillpickle/sandbox/Mark Laita
- User:Crunchydillpickle/sandbox/Madeline Argy
- User:Crunchydillpickle/sandbox/Ashley Padilla
- User:Crunchydillpickle/sandbox/Thank You, Mr. Falker
- User:Crunchydillpickle/sandbox/Cloud watching
- User:Crunchydillpickle/sandbox/Truck spill
- User:Crunchydillpickle/sandbox/World Palindrome Championship
- merge stuff: ReFrame Media and Ministries; Black Lives Matter street mural (Santa Cruz, California)
- need to ask around about the phrase "first coined by". it should just be "coined by", right???
- Airport Homes race riots improve
- List of festivals in Michigan is full of so many crappy articles about fascinating small town shindigs!
Handy links
- The Wikipedia Library
- the whole backlog!
- Wikipedia:Goings-on
- Special:PrefixIndex/User:Crunchydillpickle
- AfDs for internet stuff
- Tools by Sigma: Edits a user made to a page , Editor interaction (similar one), search a user's edit summaries
- Special:NewPagesFeed
- Top-viewed articles I've created.
- Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion
- Wikiscan has the most detailed breakdown of contribs of any of the edit count tools and its analyses of individual users even estimate time contribution!
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19 October 2024 |
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This user enjoys being a pickle. |
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- ^ Allen Koenigsberg (1999). "All Things Considered". National Public Radio. Archived from the original on 9 March 2009. Retrieved 13 September 2006.