User:Georgeryp

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Holy Cross Crusader
"... and a Chu-Chu Rah-Rah!"
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I'm George.

My first contribution was on 20 Sept. 2004 to the G. H. Hardy article, under my old account George3 but I didn't become more active until 2006.

Currently, most of my contributions are over at Wikispecies. For a graph of my activity on Wikipedia, click on PARC's wikidashboard on me.

[edit] Started (articles, categories, images, redirects, etc.)

  • 2006
Image:US-CT-Enfield.png (ref) (Derived from Image:US-CT-Fairfield.png)
Redirect Jerry Levin to Gerald M. Levin
  • 2007
commons:Category:College of the Holy Cross (ref)
Tunxis Community College, Housatonic Community College (after blanking out copyvio.)
Several of the state subcategories under commons:Category:Churches in the United States (ref)
A few of the state subcategories under commons:Category:Schools in the United States (ref)
commons:Category:Built in 1924 (technically, I created "Builded in 1924", keeping consistent with other subcats. under Buildings by date at the time)
Category:College of the Holy Cross alumni (ref)
Category:Enfield, Connecticut (ref)
Created templates and some taxon pages at wikispecies:Special:Contributions/Georgeryp (ref)
  • 2008
Created Template:TSE for stock symbols on the Taiwan Stock Exchange.
? Create a Template:User committed identity
? move or redirect - see Talk:Brambles Industries‎
? +"G. Kenneth Heebner, Kenneth Heebner, or Ken Heebner - since Peter Lynch is here, CGM Focus has had one of the best longterm records, guest on CNBC and in print media often.
? Joyce Jameson - actress (9 articles already link to her + 1 find-a-grave). Discovered on as Jan 3rd birthday on Left-Hander's Calendar
? Maurice Flynn Maurice "Lefty" Flynn (actor) Feb4th
More Left-Hander's Calendar (but won't start these articles):

[edit] Edited (selected list, mostly minor)

  • Longstanding errors fixed:
  1. Edward Lampert - corrected a Sept.2005 vandal joke that survived for >1.5 years (fixed)
  2. Lee Iacocca - removed attempts at humor that were around for ~9 months. (see Talk:Lee Iacocca#Wuh.3F)
  3. Eugene Fama - "Random Walks in Stock Market Prices" article had an incorrect publication year for 4 years, 7 months. (fixed)

[edit] At other Wikimedia projects

(TODO: convert this into a matrix like EVula's page)

      see also: http://en.wikizine.org/

See also all Interwiki prefixes (most outside the Wikimedia Foundation)

Links to my talk pages on WikiMedia Projects (List of all WikiMedia Sister Projects)

No contributions (yet?)
  • OmegaWiki (latest hist) - not part of Wikimedia Foundation?
  • Ontoworld - not part of Wikimedia Foundation?
  • Wikinews n:
  • Wikimedia Incubator incubator: (for proposals like Wikistock)
  • MediaWiki mw:
  • MediaZilla [[mediazilla:7495]] (search on real names/user names unreliable?)
Remaining WikiMedia Projects