User:Ericorbit

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It is now: Sunday 1 April 2007; 11:01 UTC/GMT.

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Hi there, I have been a Wikipedian since June 1, 2005.

My contributions usually are minor spelling, grammatical and punctuation fixes along with pop culture and Billboard chart and music artist information and trivia. Although I make no claims to be an expert on anything, I plan to stick around for a good while; I'm sure there's quite enough here to keep my minuscule attention span occupied.

I've created lots of music articles for artists I enjoy, but I also keep my eye on many pop music articles... not because I necessarily like any of it, but moreso because I am a longtime fan of Billboard and their charts. It's just that many pop-oriented pages are filled with fancruft, bad writing, POV and a complete disregard for correct formatting, templates and accurate chart information. Trust me, it's not because I actually listen to that crap. My challenge to the music-fancruft editors is to contribute to articles about artists you neither like nor dislike to refine your use of NPOV tone.

This is my favorite news story about Wikipedia.

[edit] stuff I made

• Hot Dance Club Play
• List of number-one dance hits (United States)
• List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. Dance chart
• List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. Modern Rock chart
• List of artists who reached number one on the Hot 100 (U.S.)
• List of Hot 100 (U.S.) chart achievements and trivia
• Top Heatseekers
• Top Pop Catalog Albums
• Top Electronic Albums
• Billboard Comprehensive Albums
• all the "by year" pages of U.S. dance chart number ones, 1974-2006
• many dance artists, producers, singers, DJs, and remixers that showed up as red links when I created all those pages listed above (too many to list here).
• List of number-one modern rock hits (United States)
• all the "by year" pages of U.S. Modern Rock chart number ones, 1988-2006
• Pre-Hot 100 number-one pages, 1940 - 1954
• Various album pages for Erasure, Siouxsie & the Banshees, The B-52's, Dead or Alive, Bananarama, Shakespears Sister, Lords of Acid, Towa Tei and Voice of the Beehive.
• Singles pages for Erasure, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Bananarama, Eurythmics and Heart.

[edit] things I rewrote/reformatted

• Billboard Hot 100
• Billboard 200
• Number-one Hot 100 hits pages, 1958-2006

So ummmmmm..... I guess I really, really like Billboard charts.

Hopefully my contributions are of some interest or use to people. Have fun, everyone!

Eric

[edit] Pretty Pictures

For adding the lists of number one dance & R&B hits to the Wikipedia, I, FuriousFreddy, hereby award you, e.o., with this Working Man's Barnstar. Wonderful work.

The Tireless Contributor Barnstar: For contributing so much Billboard and other chart information, you truly deseve the tireless contributor's barnstar. Underneath-it-All 19:28, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

For outstanding contributions to music articles, particularly edits involving Billboard magazine charts, I award you The Barnstar of High Culture. Your work deserves much more recognition. Extraordinary Machine 18:01, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

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