User:Ruhrfisch/Milestones
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[edit] Milestones
[edit] 2005
- July 8, 2005: My first edit as a registered user, on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Matthew 1:verses, which eventually gets me accused of being a sockpuppet. Thanks to the kindness of Jwrosenzweig and the highly addictive nature of Wikipedia, I perservere.
- August 2005: Steamtown National Historic Site featured in Portal:Trains/Did you know?
[edit] 2006
- March 25, 2006 - my 500th edit (I made Weiser State Forest, Pennsylvania into a redirect from a duplicate stub, now that's quality editing!)
- April 12, 2006 - Larrys Creek makes Good Article status
- April 22, 2006 - my 1000th edit (added the school district and a map of Berks county to Leesport, Pennsylvania)
- June 21, 2006 - my 1500th edit (school district work on Bermudian Springs School District)
- July 26, 2006 - my 2000th edit (→Geology - better links to Allegheny, Appalachian, added USGS groundwater recharge on Larrys Creek)
- August 5, 2006 - Did you know ...that the Fair Play Men, a group of squatters in colonial Pennsylvania, made their own Declaration of Independence from Britain on July 4, 1776 on the banks of Pine Creek?
- August 26, 2006 - my 2500th edit (thanks on User talk:Kmusser)
- August 30, 2006 - Larrys Creek makes Featured Article
- August 30, 2006 - won the 'Donut Star Award for sustained effort over an extended length of time in making Larrys Creek a Featured Article, and showing us all that "there are no small articles, there are only small editors". Given with respect and admiration by ClairSamoht 04:38, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
- September 7, 2006 - Did you know ...that Chiques Creek in Pennsylvania, named for the Lenape word Chiquesalunga (meaning place of crayfish), has 13 variant names according to the USGS?
- September 14, 2006 - Did you know ...that although the name of Pennsylvania's western Conewago Creek means at the rapids in the Lenape language, there are no rapids in the creek itself?
- October 10, 2006 - my 3000th edit (reverting vandalism on Abington Heights School District - thanks kids)
- October 26, 2006 - my 3500th edit (to List of Registered Historic Places in Pennsylvania (added link to List of Registered Historic Places in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania) - an 'historic' edit)
- November 17, 2006 - my 4000th edit (moved User talk:Ruhrfisch to User talk:Ruhrfisch/Archive2 - a whole lot of talkin' going on)
- December 8, 2006 - Did you know ...that the Native American Sheshequin Path along Lycoming Creek, Pennsylvania was prone to such bad weather that an evil spirit was believed to reside there?
- December 10, 2006 - White Deer Hole Creek makes Featured Article
- December 11, 2006 - I am awarded The Original Barnstar by Daniel Case "For all your work making White Deer Hole Creek not only a featured article, but a standout featured article"
- December 13, 2006 - my 4500th edit (reverting nonsense in Talk:Pleasant Valley School District) Why are so many of my milestone edits related to school districts?
- December 18, 2006 - my first image on the Main Page, when Image:Worlds End State Park Loyalsock Creek.JPG is featured in Did you know ...that Worlds End State Park (pictured) in Pennsylvania is sometimes erroneously known as "Whirls End State Park", its official name for seven years?? (Thanks Dincher, for expanding the article and getting it on DYK!)
[edit] 2007
- January 10, 2007 - Paulins Kill, an article I peer reviewed and made some contributions to, makes Featured article (congrats to ExplorerCDT)
- January 11, 2007 - my 5000th edit (reformatting my user page) and to to think I used to add content...
- January 22, 2007 - Did you know ...that Maurice K. Goddard helped create 45 Pennsylvania state parks? (Thanks to Dincher, who started the article, and listed me as coauthor (for my additions) on the nomination for DYK)
- February 13, 2007 - my 5500th edit (leaving {{test1}} on an IP user's page after reverting this vandalism to Pennsylvania)
- March 1, 2007 - I reach 1000 articles on my watch list (and promptly delete a bunch)
- March 4, 2007 - my 6000th edit (on Talk:List of Pennsylvania state parks, getting things ready for WP:FLC) at least I am talking about content...
- March 9, 2007 - Ohio Wesleyan University, an article I peer reviewed and made some contributions to, makes Featured article (congrats to LaSaltarella)
- March 12, 2007 - Did you know ...that Madame Montour, of Native American and French Canadian heritage, was paid the same as a man when she worked as an interpreter for the colonial governments of New York and Pennsylvania in the first half of the 18th century? (Thanks again to Dincher, who started the article, and listed me as coauthor (for my additions) on the nomination for DYK)
- March 16, 2007 - Did you know ...that the forty-six Recreational Demonstration Areas, built as model parks near urban areas in the United States during the Great Depression, later became national and state parks, and in one case, Camp David? (grew out of a stub I made for a red link in List of Pennsylvania state parks)
- March 25, 2007 - List of Pennsylvania state parks is promoted to Featured List (I am a main author, along with Dincher and VerruckteDan)
