As of January 21, 2016, I have 75k edits (everything included; I've forgotten where to find the edit counter breaking it down into article edits, user page edits, etc.). This is not a brag but a cautionary statement. Wikipedia is one of the all-time great concepts in history, but it is REPLETE with gag.
(1 Aug 2013, updated 24 Jan 2014, 30 Jan 2015, 21 October 2015) And that was then! It has now been estimated that there is enough gag within these cyber pages to choke every man, woman, child, and frog on the face of the earth twice overfour times overeight times over sixteen times over (it's growing geometrically as we speak). I'm sure this is truer than ever, but I've stopped letting it bother me.
TODAY
Edit count
Jan 18, 2016: Buckboard 24788 (February 4, 2006); Reedmalloy 50498 and counting (April 11, 2008); logged out: ? Combined this would place me 605th among addicted wikipedians world-wide
I picked three musical user boxes, but there are more than two dozen I could rotate, Debussy, Chopin and AC/DC foremost. Without music, we are drones.
I am not an expert on anything. But I once learned to read, and to think, and to correct my many mistakes.
I recently found this (slightly pretentious) infobox and making one for myself seems the best use of it, and that questionable, but just the same you'll still have to decipher for yourself where these places are.
Quotes to live by
Martin Brody: "I can do anything. I'm the chief of police."
The motto of the AIW is conservata veritate, which translates to "with the preserved truth".
This motto reflects the inclusionist desire to change Wikipedia only when no knowledge would be lost as a result.
To Reedmalloy, for his extraordinarily hard work editing, maintaining and generally helping out on articles about airborne warfare. Skinny87 (talk) 16:27, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
Thank you, thank you , thank you for the outstanding work you did on the 38th Bomb Group page. My father served in the 822nd, and I am webmaster for the 38th Bomb Group Association. I'm also a Buckeye! Tombehrens (talk) 00:09, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar
For you work on the article about The Hump -- PBS (talk) 11:20, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
The Half Barnstar
For your collaboration with Hawkeye7 (talk·contribs) on the articles Silverplate and Paul Tibbets, you are hereby awarded the Right Half of the Half Barnstar. Congratulations! For the Military history Wikiproject Coordinators, TomStar81 (Talk) 07:29, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
The Epic Barnstar
For your 2014 contributions to multiple history related articles you are hereby award this Epic Barnstar. Congratulations! For the Military history Wikiproject Coordinators, TomStar81 (Talk) 07:37, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar
I'm writing a biography of pioneer aviator Eugene Ely. In an Afterword, I'm summarizing the post-1911 lives of other aviators whose lives intersected his. Your Wikipedia article on Beck is outstanding. Jzobel (talk) 19:13, 5 October 2015 (UTC)
Sergeant: 11-21-1978
Chief: 6-14-1992
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