User:Herostratus

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

If I should ever abruptly stop editing, the explanation is probably related to this.

Editor

Areas of activity

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.

Articles

I've written or started about 330 articles.

Translations

I've translated 120 articles from the Russian Wikipedia.

Graphics

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.

Some sample graphics

         

Small craft advisory. (Low to moderate level of vandalism) 2.23 RPM according to EnterpriseyBot11:10, 27 April 2024 (UTC) change

(In the last one, I only added the the "no" circle-slash to an existing graphic.)

Former administrator

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.

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Recognition

Barnstars

I've had the good fortune to have been awarded 45 barnstars.

Not Barnstars

Useful Links

To clarify, this is stuff I find useful in my work. I'm not saying that these are necessarily useful to anyone else.

• Wikipedia:List of policies and guidelines
• Wikipedia:Backlog | Wikipedia:Contribution Team/Backlogs | Wikipedia:Page Curation

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• reference generatator | article link checker | webcite (request that a URL be archived)
• Category Tracker | Dashboard | Feedback requests | Open RfC's
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• Round robin page move

''{{interlanguage link|Hooglede town hall|nl|Gemeentehuis van Hooglede}}'' gives "[[Hooglede town hall]] [nl]" which points to the Dutch Wikipedia article "Gemeentehuis van Hooglede"

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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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