User:Frecklefoot
Frecklefoot is busy and is going to be on Wikipedia in off-and-on doses, and may not respond swiftly to queries. |
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I'm a
Wiki History
I've started scores of articles, but the ones I'm most proud of deal with the video game industry, which I used to be a proud part of. With a few exceptions, I either completely authored or totally overhauled all the articles below. Of course I can't take credit (or blame) for the current state of any of the articles (Wikipedia is a community effort), but I'm proud that I was able to give birth to such important and interesting articles:
- Video game developer
- Video game publisher
- Video game industry
- Video game producer
- Game programmer
- Game programming
- Game tester
- Game testing
- Game designer
- Game design
- Level designer
- Level design
- Level editor
- Game development tool
I often edit articles about subjects I have no particular interest in, usually with just small changes to grammar and formatting (in this sense, I'm often a WikiGnome). But here's a list (in chronological order, more or less) of articles with which I've had a great deal to do with. Some articles I've created, others I've just greatly expanded. I haven't included stubs that I've created (they don't count!) unless I later expanded it into a significant article. Newest work appears at the bottom.
Notable contributions
See also: my edit stats, or my edit stats according to a different tool
I've also created numerous categories. But since the 'pedia has about 16,000,000,000 categories right now, I'm not sure that's something to be proud of...
† Indicates the article was featured in the
Projects
Projects I'm officially interested in, but not necessarily an official member of.
- the arcade game task force)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games (member)
Genuinely interesting
Though I didn't contribute a whole lot to these articles, they are interesting nonetheless:
- Steve Wozniak: A true hero to every nerd
- Voynich Manuscript: Truly weird; a hoax or genuine?
- Alexander "Sawney" Bean: "Father" of a cannibalistic, legendary bandit family. Did they really even exist?
- Spring Heeled Jack: Probably just a time-traveler using futuristic technology to scare English residents (my theory)
- Sieve of Eratosthenes: A cool, ancient way to find prime numbers!
- List of French words and phrases used by English speakers: sprinkle these phrases throughout your daily dialogue in order to sound intelligent
Awards and accolades
User:Frecklefoot has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian, |
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar | ||
I award this barnstar to Frecklefoot for his contributions to most every computer game and video game article on Wikipedia. His continual work on improving this realm of the encyclopedia is very appreciated. Tempshill 21:40, 8 March 2006 (UTC) |
The CVG Barnstar
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Frecklefoot has been award the CVG Star for his tireless contributions to, and protection of the Game designer article Konman72
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The Copy Editor Barnstar | ||
For catching a very subtle, yet important error in ) 20:51, 22 October 2009 (UTC) |
giving birth to important and interesting articles
Thank you, veteran editor mentioning leisure early, knight, gnome and fairy, proud that you were "able to give birth to such important and interesting articles" as
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:53, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
The Writer's Barnstar | |
Thank you very much for writing very important articles. Smilingpinkamena (talk) 16:46, 16 November 2014 (UTC) |
To do
- If you're bored, help with disambiguation: Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links
- Add screenshots to Clue article
Handy stuff
- Guide to table "pipe" syntax
- Extended image syntax
- Sandbox
- Wikipedia:Editor's index to Wikipedia
- Conversion template
- Inflation template
- WP:SPIfor dealing with vandals and sockpuppets
- Actor IMDb template: {{IMDB name|id=0xxxxxx|name=<actor's name>}}
- Film IMDb template: {{IMDB title|id=0xxxxxx|title=<movie title>}}
- Rotten Tomatoes template: {{rotten-tomatoes|id=<ID>|title=<TITLE>}}
- Home of the Underdogs template: {{hotu|id=xxxx|name=<gamename>}}
- MobyGames game template: {{MobyGames|id=<everything in the URL after "game">|name=<game title>}}
- MobyGames developer template: {{moby developer|id=xxx|name=<developer's name>}}
- KLOV template:{{KLOV game|id=xxxx|name=<game name> (optional)}}
- Video game barnstar: {{Barnstar VG|Text saying why Barnstar was awarded}}