User:Johntex
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This user [1] an administrator on the English Wikipedia. |
vn-7 | This userpage has been vandalized 7 times. |
15 000 | This user has over 15 000 edits on the English Wikipedia. |
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Awards and Service Badges
An Award | ||
I, Scm83x, award this Barnstar to Johntex for his constant work in maintaining all things Longhorn and recently, his initiative to create Category:Texas Longhorns athletics and Texas Longhorn Athletics. Congratulations! |
The Running Man Barnstar | ||
The Running Man Barnstart: given in appreciation for so many substantial contributions to existing articles about University of Texas, 2005 Texas Longhorns football team and college football - CJC47 21:41, 22 November 2006 (UTC) |
The College football Barnstar | ||
I, User:BigDT, present you with the new college football barnstar for your work with college football articles this season, most notably, continuing work on the 2005 Texas Longhorn football team article. BigDT 22:35, 3 January 2007 (UTC) |
The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar | ||
Thank you for brightening up my afternoon! Frickeg 04:43, 3 February 2007 (UTC) |
The Original Barnstar | ||
I award this Barnstar (the first I ever awarded) to Johntex for his kindess and patience. You are really helpful person. :)--NAHID 18:14, 2 March 2007 (UTC) |
An Award | ||
The Commons Barnstar - Just because it was a good idea --evrik (talk) 23:23, 6 March 2007 (UTC) |
The Commons Ambassador Barnstar, Redux | ||
I know you already got one, but I wanted to acknowledge all the work you've done uploading free images and integrating them into the project, especially public domain United States government-produced works. Thank you. Yours, Smee 16:38, 15 March 2007 (UTC) |
to John for his positive attitude by Rgulerdem |
This editor is a Veteran Editor, and is entitled to display this Iron Editor Star |
This editor is a Tutnum, and is entitled to display this Book of Knowledge |
The Scouting Barnstar - A hearty thank you for your steadfast, tireless, and quality contributions to Scouting articles over many months. Rlevse |
Wow! Quick work on creating Interdental plate per my request on the rewards board. A barnstar for you -- Spawn Man 06:50, 14 March 2007 (UTC) |
Meet Met JIMBO!
Jimbo Wales came to San Diego, California for a Wiki-Meetup on October 18, 2005. Some pictures from AllyUnion can be found here:
Special Pages
Johntex (talk • contribs • blocks • protects • deletions • moves)
Where to find me
I have a variety of interests on Wikipedia, including:
- Creating/improving articles related to Texas, History, Science, Geography and College football.
- Working on the Texas Portal, Texas Wiki Project and the Texan Collaboration of the Month.
- Working on the new UT Wiki Project and the new UT Portal
- Working on the new Indigenous people Wiki Project and Portal.
- Also Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history, Wikipedia:WikiProject Ships, Wikipedia:WikiProject Oklahoma, Portal:Oklahoma, Portal:Scouting, Wikipedia:WikiProject Scouting
- And of course Wikipedia:WikiProject College football and College football portal
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check and Wikipedia:WikiProject Moving free images to Wikimedia Commons
- Greeting new users with a {{Welcome}} message.
- Patrolling Special:Newpages for articles that need to be improved or deleted
- Voting on Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion
- Contributing to policy discussions
- Answering questions at Help:Contents
- Following the wiki trail to related articles, like Hipparchus (astronomer) to Farnese Atlas to Museo Archeologico Nazionale Napoli to Atlas (cartography) to Atlas (mythology)...
- Improving any article linked from the front page, since these reach the most people we want them to be good!
- Clicking the Special:Random feature for a new article to learn about and hopefully improve!
Some pages I've created or contributed to
Bold articles have been deemed to be Good Articles or Featured Article
- Anahuac - my first edit, but I was really looking for Anahuac, Texas
- San Bernard River - my first new article
- Stratellite
- Hook 'em Horns
- Texas longhorn
- Texas Longhorn Athletics - now moved to Texas Longhorns
- Vince Young
- Dusty Mangum
- Mack Brown
- Farnese Atlas
- Culture of Egypt
- Effect of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans
- Rockall
- NASA
- Cichlid
- Acu-gen - now moved to Baby Gender Mentor as per Peer Review suggestion
- Red River Shootout - was copied by WOAI on their website. They took it down when I contacted them about their need to properly cite Wikipedia and comply with GFDL.
- World Crest
- Jamarat Bridge - would love to find a picture usable under GFDL
- Texas Ranger Division - now a Featured Article and featured on the Main Page, on January 16, 2006
- 2005 Texas Longhorn Football Team
- Gustav Klimt
- Stardust (spacecraft)
- Vailulu'u
- Main Building of The University of Texas at Austin - featured in "Did You Know" on the Wikipedia Main Page on January 20, 2006.
- Gourd Dance - featured in "Did You Know" on the Wikipedia Main Page on February 14, 2006.
- The University of Texas Longhorn Band
- Joseph McCoy - I choose to believe it was our one-millionth article
- Mustelus hacat
- Michel Rodange
- Rénert the Fox
- Texas Exes
- Philmont Scout Ranch
- 50-Miler Award
- David Heymann
- Texas Tech Red Raiders
- The Masked Rider
- Raider Red
- Charles Whitman
- MQ-8 Fire Scout
- Hubbert peak theory
- Cedric Griffin - DYK 1 May 2006
- Opie Otterstad
- The University of Texas National Championship 2005
- Fernando Jara
- Jazil
- Daniel Merriam
- Cow's Skull: Red, White, and Blue
- Hoi polloi
- SS Nicaragua
- Valiant Shield
- SS Petersburg (T-AOT-9101)
- Clinton-Sherman Industrial Airpark
- 2006 Alamo Bowl - DYK on January 4, 2006
- 2007 Sugar Bowl
- 2007 Fiesta Bowl
- 2006 Texas Longhorn football team
- Colt McCoy
- USS Texas (BB-35)
- University of Texas at Austin
- JetBlue Airways Flight 292
- Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium
- Red River Shootout
- Lolicon
- John Kerry
- Jordanhill railway station
- Houston Chronicle
- Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod
- Crystal Gail Mangum
- Boy Scouts of America
Photos I have uploaded
Please see the Image Gallery
DYK
Milestones in Edit Count
- 12 December 2004 - made my first edit
- Sometime in 2005 - passed Jimbo Wales in editcount. :-)
- 28 September 2005 - reached 2001 Total edits
- 5 October 2005 - reached 1,006 distinct pages edited (approximately 2.23 edits / page)
- 10 October 2005 - branching out a little, made my first edit to WikiTravel.
- 15 October 2005 - now listed in the Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits at
- Main Article Space - #1642 with 1557 edits
- All namespaces - #1435 with 2438 edits
- 21 October 2005 - passed 2500 Total edits
- 15 January 2006 - passed 3500 Total edits
- 11 February 2006 - passed 4000 Total edits
- 12 February 2006 - passed 4100 Total edits
- 2 March 2006 - passed 4500 Total edits
- 11 March 2006 - now listed in the Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits at
- Main Article Space - #1699 with 2253 edits
- All namespaces - #1219 with 4904 edits
- 15 March 2006 - passed 5000 Total edits
- 16 March 2006 - passed 5100 Total edits
- 17 March 2006 - passed 5200 Total edits
- 19 March 2006 - passed 5300 Total edits
- March 2006 - the first time I ever had >1,000 edits in one month, also the first month > 2,000 edits
- 20 March 2006 - passed 5400 Total edits
- 29 March 2006 - passed 6000 Total edits
- 30 March 2006 - passed 6200 Total edits
- 2 May 2006 - passed 7100 Total edits
- 16 June 2006 - created my first page on the Portuguese Wikipedia.[2]
- 27 June 2006 - passed 8300 Total edits
- 12 July 2006 - passed 9000 Total edits
- 4 August 2006 - passed 10,000 Total edits
- 23 September 2006 - now listed in the Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits at number 798.
- 10 October 2006 - passed 11,000 Total edits
- 4 November 2006 - now listed in the Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits at number 779.
- 30 November 2006 - now listed in the Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits at number 790.
- 12 December 2006 - my second anniversary - 12,555 Total edits on the English Wikipedia.
- 2 February 2007 - now listed in the Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits at number 720 with 13,967 edits.
- 18 March 2007 - passed 15,000 edits.
- Edit counts aren't everything, but for what it is worth, here is the current Edit count for Johntex
- If that edit counter is broken for en.wiki, you can use this one instead.
Resources
Here are some of my favorite Resources for editing Wikipedia.
Useful quote:
...as a general rule, I think that almost any argument, on any topic, which has premises beginning with "Jimbo said..." is a pretty weak argument. Surely the merits of the proposal should be primary, not what I happen to think."[3] - Jimbo Wales
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