User:Torchiest

Torchiest This editor is a Senior Editor and is entitled to display this Rhodium Editor Star. This user has been on Wikipedia for 17 years, 8 months and 9 days. 27,000+ This user has made more than 27,000 contributions to Wikipedia, over 15,000 of which were to articles. This user has an alternative account named Tourchiest. This user has written or significantly contributed to 1 Featured article on Wikipedia. This user has reviewed 17 Good Article nominations on Wikipedia. This user has helped promote 11 good articles on Wikipedia. This user has written or expanded 8 articles featured in the Did You Know section on the Main Page. This user is a Coordinator emeritus of the Guild of Copy Editors. This user is the supreme overlord of WikiProject Industrial This user is a participant in WikiProject Electronic Music. member of WikiProject Video games . This user participates in the WP:VG Newsletter department. Sign up for the new VG Newsletter. D&D This user is a member of WikiProject Dungeons & Dragons. This user is a member of WikiProject Cognitive science. This user is a participant in WikiProject Linguistics.

About me

I have eclectic tastes, so I will make minor corrections and changes to all kinds of seemingly random pages. I'm interested in

• KMFDM: 1 2 3
• Xtort: 1
• Starflight: 1

WP:GAN

articles

• The Dig
  • "So, a Giant Asteroid is Heading for Earth…Again…"
  • "LucasArts' Secret History: The Dig"
  • PC Mag "The Many Paths Toward Adventure"
  • Billboard "CD-ROM Pack-Ins Move Soundtracks"
  • Music and Game: Perspectives on a Popular Alliance "Beyond MIDI - The Dig"
• Cellular automaton
• Oversteps
• The Ancient Art of War
  • PC Magazine "Playing with Fire on Land and Sea: Broderbund's Ancient Art of War Series"

For far-in-the-future targets, see the long list.

Other

• Gulf Freeway work
• Deal with all unreferenced industrial music articles
• Split
  Raymond Watts and Pig (musical project)
  back into two separate articles.
• Fix the Kompressor cluster of articles.
• Write new articles related to Drowned God:
  • The Ogopogo: My Journey with the Loch Ness Monster article
    • Harry Horse Bio
    • "A Man Horse Called"
  • Algy Williams
  • Babel Media
    • Translating the video games’ appeal
• Write article for Mari Weiss (The Dig)
• Write article for Bomb Gang Girlz and/or A Taste 4 Trouble
  • "Bomb Gang Girlz – A Taste For Trouble (Sleazebox)"
• Copy edit D&D articles
• Write article for William Dimond and/or "The Broken Sword" play.
  • Alex Horne (2011). Wordwatching: One Man's Quest for Linguistic Immortality. Random House.
    ISBN 9780753547885
  • Elizabeth Reitz Mullenix (2000). Wearing the Breeches: Gender on the Antebellum Stage. Palgrave Macmillan.
    ISBN 9780312223496
• Money:
  • option review
  • trouser press review

Featured articles

Article	Date
Drowned God	December 19, 2012

• Drowned God – October 31, 2016 (20th anniversary)

Fantasy

• KMFDM – February 29, 2024 (40th anniversary)
• Nihil – April 4, 2025 (30th anniversary)
• The Dig – November 30, 2025 (30th anniversary)
• Xtort – June 25, 2026 (30th anniversary)
• Starflight – August 15, 2026 (40th anniversary)

Good articles

I've written

Article	Date
Xtort	April 4, 2010
KMFDM	April 7, 2010
Mythmaker	May 9, 2010
Industrial music	June 27, 2010
Drowned God	July 15, 2012
Nihil	July 20, 2012
WTF?!	July 30, 2012
Command & Conquer (1995 video game)	December 12, 2012
Starflight	December 21, 2012
Dwarf (Dungeons & Dragons)	January 23, 2013
Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn	January 30, 2013
Adventure (Atari 2600)	April 8, 2016

I've reviewed

Right Round Warpig (band) The Future Sound of London Badmotorfinger Crazy for You (song) Office of Strategic Influence (album) Hard (song) Hurricane Ida (2009)

G-Spot Kepler-11 History of Western role-playing video games Houston Rockets Temple Run Betelguese, a Trip Through Hell Transformers: Fall of Cybertron The Game (mind game) Gravity Bone

Did you know articles

Article	Date	Views
Krank (song)	20 March 2011	776
Twine (band)	04 July 2012	756
Inscape (publisher)	10 July 2012	987
Drowned God	11 July 2012	2853
Missing Foundation	04 August 2012	597
Sexplosion!	24 February 2013	646
Prodigy (video game)	10 April 2014	6473
Adventure (Atari 2600)	17 April 2016	3816

Handy links

• CatScan – this is a fantastic tool for creating a list of articles to fix issues with. I've used it extensively to do copy editing on articles in my areas of interest, and am currently using it to deal with ~400 unsourced articles in the industrial music categories.
• neccessary
• necesary
• neccesary

Articles I have created

Copy editing backlog elimination drives

• Total articles for all drives: 528
• Total words for all drives: 272,236

Barnstars and awards

2010

What a Brilliant Idea Barnstar What a Good Idea. "Collapsing our articles" MESSAGE 17:13, 2 May 2010 (UTC) The Working Man's Barnstar For reviewing 6 good article nominations during the April 2010 GAN backlog elimination drive, I hereby present you The Working Man's Barnstar. Nice job! –MuZemike 23:16, 5 May 2010 (UTC) The Perfectly Balanced Barnstar The Perfectly Balanced Barnstar is awarded on the occasion of your achieving exactly 250 articles edited, for exactly 125,000 words, during the May GOCE Backlog Elimination Drive. Excellent! --Diannaa TALK 06:08, 1 June 2010 (UTC) The Guild of Copy Editors' Award It is with great pleasure, that I bestow on you the Guild of Copy Editors' Gold Star Award, for completing the largest number of articles (an astounding 250!) during the May 2010 Backlog Elimination Drive. Your contributions accounted for about a fifth of the total articles edited in the drive! Congratulations from the GOCE. ɳorɑfʈ Talk! 04:07, 10 June 2010 (UTC) The Most Excellent Order of the Caretaker's Star For exceptional copyediting efforts during the May 2010 Guild of Copy Editors Backlog Elimination Drive, editing 250 articles with a combined total of 125,000 words, Torchiest is presented with this exclusive, brilliant, Most Excellent Order of the Caretaker's Star. Congratulations and thank you for all your hard work! --Diannaa TALK 04:20, 10 June 2010 (UTC) For exceptional copyediting efforts during the Guild of Copy Editors May and July 2010 Backlog Elimination Drives, copy editing articles with a combined total of 129,512 words, Torchiest is presented with this exclusive, brilliant, Most Excellent Order of the Caretaker's Star. --Diannaa (Talk ) 17:36, 1 August 2010 (UTC) Leaderboard Award—Number of Articles—4th Place This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Torchiest for copy editing 100 articles during the WP:GOCE July 2010 Backlog Elimination Drive. Thank you so much for your contributions to the project. --Diannaa (Talk ) 17:01, 2 August 2010 (UTC) The Spamstar of Glory To Torchiest for diligence in the tireless battle against Linkspam on Wikipedia. --Hu12 (talk ) 20:47, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

2011

The Cleanup Barnstar This barnstar is awarded to Torchiest for copy editing articles totalling over 12000 words in the January GOCE Backlog elimination drive. Thank you for participating! Diannaa (Talk) 17:43, 4 February 2011 (UTC) The 10k Copy Edit Barnstar Awarded to Torchiest for the following amazing copy editing: 12,478 words Greyhawk during the Guild of Copy Editors' January 2011 Backlog Elimination Drive. – SMasters (talk ) 16:12, 6 February 2011 (UTC) The Guild of Copy Editors' Award Leaderboard Award–Most Articles–First Place It is with great pleasure that I bestow on Torchiest the prestigious Guild of Copy Editors' Gold Star Award, for completing the most articles (80) – 1st Place – during the Guild of Copy Editors' March 2011 Backlog Elimination Drive. Thank you for your contributions. – SMasters (talk ) 05:39, 4 April 2011 (UTC) Copy Editor's Barnstar I award you this Copy Editor's Barnstar for insisting on clear, comprehensible, and grammatically correct articles. For copy editing 80 articles with a total of 53,741 words (including rollover and bonuses) during the Guild of Copy Editors' March 2011 Backlog elimination drive. Thanks for all your contributions!-SMasters (talk ) 05:39, 4 April 2011 (UTC) The Cleanup Barnstar This Barnstar is awarded to Torchiest for copy edits of over 12,000 words during the GOCE May 2011 copy edit drive. Your help is appreciated! -- Diannaa (Talk) 02:00, 5 June 2011 (UTC) The Modest Barnstar This barnstar is awarded to Torchiest for efforts during the GOCE July 2011 copy edit drive. Thank you for participating! -- Chaosdruid (talk ) 01:52, 7 August 2011 (UTC)

2012

The Tireless Contributor Barnstar This barnstar is awarded to Torchiest for copy editing articles totalling over 20,000 in the GOCE May copy edit drive. Your contributions are greatly appreciated! -- Dianna (talk) 23:51, 2 June 2012 (UTC) Leaderboard Award – Number articles edited – 4th place This Leaderboard Award is awarded to Torchiest for copy editing 50 articles during the Guild of Copy Editors May 2012 drive. Congratulations on winning this prestigious award. Thank you for your efforts. -- Dianna (talk ) 23:51, 2 June 2012 (UTC) The Original Barnstar Thanks a lot Torchiest for helping me correct and fix my user page quickly! Your efforts have been very helpful :) TheGeneralUser (talk) 10:30, 29 June 2012 (UTC) The Barnstar of Diligence I want to thank you for all your work going through and re-wikiftying Deathlaser's submissions. You didn't have to do that at all, but did and I really appreciate that. Thank you! Talk·Contribs 23:09, 2 July 2012 (UTC) The Working Wikifier's Barnstar For scoring position #8 (as ChrisGualteri opted out) on the June 2012 Wikification drive's leaderboard, I am proud to present you with this fine Working Wikifier's Barnstar! Congratulations! Like my singing? Ha-la-la-la-la-la-LA-LAAA!!! (talk) 03:23, 8 July 2012 (UTC) The Bronze Wikification Barnstar For wikifying 30 articles during the drive, I also present you with this bronze wikification barnstar. Well done! :) Like my singing? Ha-la-la-la-la-la-LA-LAAA!!! (talk) 03:23, 8 July 2012 (UTC) The Article Rescue Barnstar For merging Character point into another article. Why didn't I think of that? I dream of horses If you reply here, please leave me a {{Talkback}} message on my talk page . @ 06:02, 8 July 2012 (UTC) The Good Article Barnstar Thanks Torchiest for helping to promote give someone a pat on the back today. --Sp33dyphil ©hatontributions 04:14, 21 July 2012 (UTC) The Copyeditor's Barnstar This barnstar is awarded to Torchiest for copy editing articles totalling over 30,000 words during the Guild of Copy Editors July 2012 Backlog Elimination Drive. Your contributions are greatly appreciated. -- Dianna (talk ) 01:46, 11 August 2012 (UTC) Leaderboard Award – Number of 5K articles edited – 4th Place This Guild of Copy Editors Silver Award is awarded to Torchiest for copy editing two articles of 5,000 words or more during the Guild of Copy Editors July 2012 GOCE drive. Congratulations on winning this prestigious award. Thank you for your efforts. -- Dianna (talk ) 01:46, 11 August 2012 (UTC) Leaderboard Award – Longest Article – 3rd Place This Guild of Copy Editors Silver Award is awarded to Torchiest for copy editing Guild of Copy Editors July 2012 GOCE drive. Congratulations on winning this prestigious award. This was the third-longest article edited during the drive. -- Dianna (talk ) 01:46, 11 August 2012 (UTC) The 10k Copy Edit Barnstar This special 10k Copyedit Barnstar is awarded to Torchiest for copy editing Guild of Copy Editors July 2012 GOCE drive. Your efforts are appreciated! Dianna (talk ) 01:46, 11 August 2012 (UTC) The Teamwork Barnstar On behalf of the entire Wikipedia Community, this award is hereby presented jointly to the team of Stfg, Diannaa, Torchiest, and Allens for their hard work and superb cooperation in planning and executing the highly successful July 2012 Wikipedia Backlog Reduction Drive for the Guild of Copy Editors. With very best regards: Cliff (a/k/a "Uploadvirus") (talk) 15:06, 11 August 2012 (UTC) The Barnstar of Diligence For being observant enough to perceive an apparent problem and your prompt efforts eliminate copyright violations at cellular automaton Jclemens (talk) 17:51, 28 August 2012 (UTC) The Music Barnstar I'm giving you this Barnstar as I see us both working on spreading the awesome that is industrial music. dashiellx (talk) 19:58, 30 August 2012 (UTC) The Good Article Barnstar Your recognition for 1 GA reviews at the last June-July GAN Review Round. Regards. — 21™ 16:06, 23 September 2012 (UTC) The Copyeditor's Barnstar This barnstar is awarded to Torchiest for copy editing 18 articles to a total of 32,555 words during the Guild of Copy Editors September 2012 Backlog Elimination Drive. Thank you for your contribution. --Stfg (talk ) 10:52, 3 October 2012 (UTC) Leaderboard Award – Number of articles edited – 5th Place This Leaderboard Award is awarded to Torchiest for copy editing 18 articles during the Guild of Copy Editors September 2012 GOCE drive. Congratulations on winning this prestigious award. Thank you for your efforts. --Stfg (talk ) 10:52, 3 October 2012 (UTC) Leaderboard Award – Number of oldest-category articles – 5th Place This Leaderboard Award is awarded to Torchiest for copy editing 11 articles from the oldest monthly copyedit categories during the Guild of Copy Editors September 2012 GOCE drive. Congratulations on winning this prestigious award. Thank you for your efforts. --Stfg (talk ) 10:52, 3 October 2012 (UTC) Leaderboard Award – Longest article – 5th Place This Leaderboard Award is awarded to Torchiest for copy editing Guild of Copy Editors September 2012 GOCE drive. Congratulations on winning this prestigious award. Thank you for your efforts. --Stfg (talk ) 10:52, 3 October 2012 (UTC) Leaderboard Award – Number of 5k articles edited – Equal 5th Place This Leaderboard Award is awarded to Torchiest for copy editing 2 articles of 5000 words or more during the Guild of Copy Editors September 2012 GOCE drive. Congratulations on winning this prestigious award. Thank you for your efforts. --Stfg (talk ) 10:52, 3 October 2012 (UTC) The 10k Copy Edit Barnstar This barnstar is awarded to Torchiest for copy editing Guild of Copy Editors September 2012 backlog elimination drive. Thank you for taking on this major task. --Stfg (talk ) 10:52, 3 October 2012 (UTC) The Guild of Copy Editors' Award Thanks for your submission to the WP:GOCE. --Stfg (talk ) 21:54, 8 October 2012 (UTC) The Original Barnstar For your help on the statewide opinion polling for the United States presidential election, 2012 and your idea Thanks alot ^-^ Knowledgekid87 (talk) 17:05, 13 October 2012 (UTC) The Tireless Contributor Barnstar For the cleanup at this list. Diego (talk ) 07:17, 20 November 2012 (UTC) The Modest Barnstar This barnstar is awarded to Torchiest for copy editing 4 articles for a total score of 5087 words during the Guild of Copy Editors November 2012 Backlog Elimination Drive. Thank you for your contribution. --Stfg (talk ) 13:41, 3 December 2012 (UTC) The Guild of Copy Editors' Award For your fine copy edit of Yod (astrology) entered in the October 2012 Copy Edit of the Month contest, please accept this valuable award! --Stfg (talk) 18:15, 3 December 2012 (UTC) The Cleanup Barnstar Please accept this barnstar for copy editing articles for a grand total of 9693 words during the Guild of Copy Editors December 2012 Blitz. Merry Christmas! --Stfg (talk ) 15:38, 23 December 2012 (UTC)

2013

The Copyeditor's Barnstar I award this barnstar to Torchiest for copy editing 32 articles for a total of 30,127 words in the GOCE January copy edit drive. Thanks for participating! --BDD (talk) 02:33, 3 February 2013 (UTC) Leaderboard Award—Total Articles—4th Place I award this Leaderboard Barnstar to Torchiest for copy editing 32 articles during the during the WP:GOCE January 2013 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations! --BDD (talk ) 02:33, 3 February 2013 (UTC) Leaderboard Award—Most Old Articles—3rd Place I award this Leaderboard Barnstar to Torchiest for copy editing 22 old articles during the during the WP:GOCE January 2013 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations! --BDD (talk ) 02:33, 3 February 2013 (UTC) Leaderboard Award—Most 5k Articles—4th Place I award this Leaderboard Barnstar to Torchiest for copy editing two articles of 5000 or more words during the during the WP:GOCE January 2013 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations! --BDD (talk ) 02:33, 3 February 2013 (UTC) The Modest Barnstar I award this barnstar to Torchiest for copy editing nine articles for a total of 4665 words in the GOCE March copy edit drive. Thanks for participating! --BDD (talk) 17:56, 3 April 2013 (UTC) The Barnstar of Diplomacy Thank you for your help! FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 02:10, 9 April 2013 (UTC) The Minor Barnstar Thanks for copyediting 3 articles (with a total of 404 words) during the April Blitz! All the best, Miniapolis 23:39, 21 April 2013 (UTC) The Minor Barnstar Thanks for your copyediting efforts during the May GOCE drive, and for all you do to keep the Guild humming! All the best, Miniapolis 13:34, 4 June 2013 (UTC) The Minor Barnstar Thanks for (among other things :-)) editing three articles (for a total of 1,025 words) during the June Guild of Copy Editors blitz! All the best, Miniapolis 15:03, 24 June 2013 (UTC) Leaderboard Award—Number of Articles—2nd Place This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Torchiest for copy editing 43 articles during the WP:GOCE July 2013 Backlog Elimination Drive. Thank you so much for your contributions to the project. – Diannaa (talk ) 14:04, 7 August 2013 (UTC) Leaderboard Award—5K Articles—4th Place This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Torchiest for copy editing two articles of 5000 words or more during the WP:GOCE July 2013 Backlog Elimination Drive. Thank you for tackling these larger articles; your efforts are appreciated. – Diannaa (talk ) 14:04, 7 August 2013 (UTC) Leaderboard Award—Longest Article—4th Place This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Torchiest for your copy edit of WP:GOCE July 2013 Backlog Elimination Drive. Thank you for taking on this jumbo task. – Diannaa (talk ) 14:04, 7 August 2013 (UTC) The Copyeditor's Barnstar This barnstar is awarded toTorchiest for copy editing articles totalling over 30,000 words during the WP:GOCE July 2013 Backlog Elimination Drive. Thanks for all you do to help this important wikiproject! Diannaa (talk ) 14:04, 7 August 2013 (UTC)