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[edit] Milestones
Note: All edit count milestones are as of the time the edits were made - or when I realized and checked a week or two after. I have made over 530 deleted edits (as of January 2008) so there is a bit of uncertainty here.
[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
- 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
- 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 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)
- March 25, 2007 - my 6500th edit, adding to Trough Creek State Park (which I have never been to)
- April 9, 2007 - my second image on the Main Page, when Image:Eagle Grange.JPG is featured in Did you know ...that Eagle Grange No. 1 (pictured) in Clinton Township, Lycoming County was the first grange to be established in Pennsylvania? (Thanks Dincher, for making the article and getting it on DYK!)
- April 13, 2007 - my 7000th edit, reverting vandalism on Messiah College
- April 23, 2007 - Did you know ...that in the Big Runaway during the American Revolution in Pennsylvania in 1778, Rachel Silverthorn (pictured) rode to warn settlers on Muncy Creek of impending attack when no man would? (Thanks to Dincher for coauthoring. This is the third image I have had on the Main Page, although I just uploaded and cropped it, the article links to the full mural.)
- May 2, 2007 - my 7500th edit, adding an infobox to Big Runaway (I keep hearing the Talking Heads singing Run run run run run run away!)
- May 10, 2007 - my 8000th edit to User talk:Ruhrfisch/Archive2 (update archivebox)
- May 18, 2007 - Ohio Wesleyan University, which I peer reviewed and made some edits to, is Today's Featured Article (congrats to LaSaltarella)
- May 25, 2007 - my 8500th edit, assesing Bellefontaine, Ohio as B class on its talk page (To B or not to B, that is the question)
- May 31, 2007 - May 2007 was the first month I exceeded 1000 edits (actually 1259)
- June 3, 2007 - Did you know ...that Peter Herdic, a 19th century Pennsylvania lumber baron, millionaire, and philanthropist, also invented the horse-drawn herdic, an early form of taxicab? (Many thanks to Dincher, who actually wrote the article, and added me to the DYK nomination for my copyedits and seven photos I added)
- June 4, 2007 - Did you know ...that the Susquehanna Boom led to Williamsport, Pennsylvania having more millionaires per capita than any other city at the time? (another collaboration - thanks Dinch!)
- June 17, 2007 - my 9000th edit to Mecklenburg County, North Carolina (added a county map I made from a Census map)
- July 25, 2007 - my 9500th edit to LaSalle Lake State Fish and Wildlife Area (added a locator dot to the Infobox for and changed "&" to "and" throughout - maybe I've become a WikiElf)
- August 9, 2007 - Did you know ...that although Plunketts Creek in Pennsylvania was named for a suspected Loyalist during the American Revolution, by 1838 he was so controversial that Plunketts Creek Township was named for the creek instead? (Thanks to Dincher for asking to write the article and advice on the DYK hook)
- August 12, 2007 - my 10,000th edit to Plunketts Creek (Loyalsock Creek) (expanding the lead paragraph)
- August 15, 2007 - Plunketts Creek (Loyalsock Creek) makes Good Article
- September 5, 2007 - my 10,500th edit to Tiadaghton State Forest (adding counties to the Geobox Protected Area)
- September 8, 2007 - my fourth image on the Main Page, when a picture I uploaded from Flickr is the photo for Today's Featured Article Renewable energy in Scotland (congrats to Ben MacDui!)
- October 2, 2007 - my 11,000th edit to Cummings Township, Pennsylvania (remove duplicate picture, fix ref)
- October 4, 2007 - Did you know ...that the Old Loggers Path, a loop hiking trail in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, uses old logging railroad grades and roads, and its trailhead is a lumber ghost town? (a joint effort with Dincher - thanks!)
- October 14, 2007 - Plunketts Creek (Loyalsock Creek) makes Featured Article (thanks again to Dincher and Ben MacDui for all their help)
- October 19, 2007 - Larrys Creek is Today's Featured Article and a photo I took of it and the Cogan House Covered Bridge is the fifth I uploaded used on the Main Page. I started Larrys Creek on February 27, 2006. It had received 231 edits as of October 18, 2007, none of which were vandalism. In the twenty fours hours it was "Today's Featured Article", it received 133 edits. I classified 15 as good faith edits, 55 were clearly vandalism, 1 took me two weeks to be sure it was vandalism, and 59 edits were reversions of vandalism or good faith edits. Of the good faith edits, only 6 were helpful and added content or made changes which remain in the article. In the 24 hours after TFA, there were 5 good faith edits, 1 vandalism, and 2 reversions. All of these good faith edits are still in the article, if tweaked a bit (the Hoover visits, my post TFA cleanups).
- October 20, 2007 - Did you know ...that the Cogan House Covered Bridge (pictured) in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, USA was built by a millwright who preassembled the frame in a field beside the sawmill to make sure it all fit? Thanks to Elkman who requested this article back when Larrys Creek was in FAC - I took the picture and it is the sixth image I uploaded that has been on the Main Page.
- October 24, 2007 - my 11,500th edit started Template:Lycoming County Pennsylvania Map (for use in List of municipalities in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania)
- November 7, 2007 - Did you know ...that the Joseph Priestley House (pictured) in Northumberland, Pennsylvania was the site of the first and only laboratory Priestley designed, built and outfitted himself, as well as several American Chemical Society celebrations? - thanks to Awadewit who greatly expanded it, I provided the picture (my seventh on the Main Page), made some edits, and wrote the DYK hook
- November 12, 2007 - my 12,000th edit (reverting vandalism on Youghiogheny River Trail)
- November 14, 2007 - List of municipalities in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania makes Featured List - thanks to Dincher for starting it, doing most of the work, and asking me to write Plunketts Creek to fill in a red link
- November 26, 2007 - Presque Isle State Park makes Featured Article - I had made 20 edits before FAC then 42 more in FAC to help bring it up to FA standards, thanks to Dincher, Dtbohrer, Tomdonohue1, Finetooth, and Trey
- December 1, 2007 - Did you know ...that the new Market Street Bridge (pictured) over the West Branch Susquehanna River between Williamsport and South Williamsport in Pennsylvania is the seventh on that site, and that three of the previous bridges were destroyed by floods? Thanks to Gilliganzeemo for starting the article, Dincher for expanding it and including me in the DYK nom - I took the picture and it is the eighth I uploaded to appear on the Main Page.
- December 5, 2007 - my 12,500th edit, reverting a link not meeting WP:EL on Altoona, Pennsylvania (spam, spam spam, spam!)
- December 14, 2007 - sixty-two otherwise sane users agreed to make me an administrator on Wikipedia.
- December 17, 2007 - Did you know ...that Snyder Middleswarth Natural Area lost its status as a Pennsylvania state park in the 1990s despite being a National Natural Landmark and Snyder County's only state park? (if only I could find out exactly when this happened...)
- December 31, 2007 - my 13,000th edit, to Laurel Hill State Park (switch from {{cite news}} to {{cite map}})
[edit] 2008
- January 1, 2008 - White Deer Hole Creek is the Geography Portal's Featured article for January 2008
- January 20, 2008 - my 13,500th edit, moving a peer review to Wikipedia:Peer review/Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series/archive1 for archiving
- January 28, 2008 - Did you know ...that when the first portion of the Lackawanna and Bloomsburg Railroad opened in 1856, it led to the incorporation of Kingston, Pennsylvania, and to the establishment of Kingston's first public transit line? - I started this get rid of a red link iJoseph Priestley House
- January 29, 2008 - my 14,000th edit, reverting vandalism to Dare County, North Carolina (Truth or dare?)
- January 31, 2008 - Did you know ...that Carl Frederik von Breda (pictured), a Swedish portraitist who trained with Joshua Reynolds, was unable to complete his two largest commissions due to a coup and lack of studio space? - the ninth image I uploaded that has been on the Main Page, and the other article I started to get rid of a red link in Joseph Priestley House
- January 31, 2008 - this is the second month I made over 1000 edits (actually 1131)
- February 2, 2008 - Joseph Priestley House makes Featured Article, thanks to Awadewit (we jointly authored it in her words, I think she did more of the work ;-) )
- February 6, 2008 - my 14,500th edit, adding a DYK notice to Talk:Yellowtail scad (something fishy here)
- February 15, 2008 - Did you know ...that Laporte (courthouse pictured), one of thirteen municipalities in Sullivan County, is Pennsylvania's smallest county seat by population? - thanks to Dincher, my coauthor on this list. The picture is the tenth image I uploaded that has been on the Main Page
- February 15, 2008 - my 15,000th edit (eek!), archiving the peer review on the talk page for South Atlantic Medal (once I wrote articles on creeks...)
- February 16, 2008 - my first nomination for Did you know ...that the Pine Creek Rail Trail, a 65 mile (105 km) rail trail along Pine Creek in Pennsylvania, was named one of "10 great places to take a bike tour" in the world by USA Today? - congrats to Thomaswagner who wrote the article - I added some pictures and the DYK hook material
- February 25, 2008 - my 15,500th edit, nominating Frederic A. Godcharles at Template talk:Did you know
- February 27, 2008 - Did you know ...that Frederic A. Godcharles served as a Pennsylvania Representative and Senator, as director of its state library and museum, and wrote twelve volumes on its history? I wrote this to take care of a red link in List of municipalities in Sullivan County, Pennsylvania
- February 29, 2008 - List of municipalities in Sullivan County, Pennsylvania makes Featured List! Thanks (as always) to Dincher, with whom I wrote it
- February 29, 2008 - most edits in one month to date (1660), first time I made over 1500 edits in one month (must be Leap Day)
- March 1, 2008 - a color image of Joseph Priestley I uploaded is used in Today's Featured Article: Joseph Priestly. Congratulations to Awadewit for a great article (this is the eleventh image I uploaded that has been on the Main Page)
- March 6, 2008 - my 16,000th edit, adding a map of the park I made to Black Moshannon State Park (a lovely place)
- March 9, 2008 - Did you know ...that Larrys Creek in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania has 42 named tributaries in its watershed, including one named "Little Dog Run"? I expanded the list five-fold and got a DYK to boot, next I will try for WP:FL with it
- March 17, 2008 - my 16,500th edit, doing a peer review of Government of Kerala
- March 27, 2008 - my 17,000th edit, adding a DYK notice to Talk:Dermestidae
- April 1, 2008 - my first April Fools Did you know ...that six latrines at Black Moshannon State Park in Pennsylvania are listed on the National Register of Historic Places? Thanks to Dincher, who wrote most of the article and graciously included me
- April 1, 2008 - my second April Fools Did you know ...that the 31 mi (50 km) West Rim Trail along the Grand Canyon was selected by Outside Magazine as the best hike in Pennsylvania? (I had the idea April 1, 2007)
- April 6, 2008 - my 17,500th edit, peer reviewing the Blow fly article
- April 10, 2008 - Did you know ...that Mid-State Regional Airport is a Keystone Opportunity Zone to promote economic growth, but, to protect the Pennsylvania state park and forest (pictured) it was formed from, cannot legally expand? A double DYK - Dincher wrote the KOZ article and I wrote the airport article, both to get rid of redlinks in Black Moshannon State Park as we get ready for FAC. The twelfth image I uploaded (and seventh I took) on the Main Page.
- April 14, 2008 - List of tributaries of Larrys Creek makes Featured List (insert witty / humorous comment here)
- April 15, 2008 - my 18,000th edit, archiving the peer review for Campus of Texas A&M University, which I did peer review
- April 18, 2008 - Did you know ...that river miles measure distances along a river from its mouth and are used to reference locations and to name islands? (I have always made a new article for each FA and FL, so this was for the Larrys Creek tributaries FL)
- April 24, 2008 - Black Moshannon State Park makes Featured article, thanks to Dincher who is the main author and let me help
- April 25, 2008 - my 18,500th edit, thanking Dincher for all his work on Black Moshannon State Park
- May 7, 2008 - my 19,000th edit, fixing a link on the Louvre article - yes my work is displayed in the Louvre (article)
- May 18, 2008 - my 19,500th edit, leaving a "goofy question" on User talk:ThinkBlue
- May 27, 2008 - my 20,000th edit, leaving a "Request for Peer Review help" at User talk:JayHenry, who gets a star in my book for his PR help:
- May 28, 2008 - Cogan House Covered Bridge makes Featured article
