User:Royalbroil/Milestones

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[edit] Wikipedia Milestones

• June 16, 2005 - Edited first WIKI article with details about the Alan Kulwicki feature film (after only a few anon edits)

• February 18, 2006 - Distinct page edit #100 was for Bill Weir - former local sportscaster now ABC Good Morning America Weekend Edition host

• February 26, 2006 - Edit #500 was detailing the death of my racing hero Alan Kulwicki

• March 1, 2006 - Distinct page edit #200 was in the late Rob Moroso article, another of my NASCAR heroes

• March 3, 2006 - Distinct page edit #250 was adding Northeast Wisconsin Technical College to WikiProject Wisconsin

• March 16, 2006 - Edit #1000 was creating a category of Segrave Trophy winners

• March 19, 2006 - Distinct page edit #500 was thanking User:Mervyn for helping make Henry Segrave and the Segrave Trophy worthy of "Did You Know".

• March 30, 2006 - Edit #1500 was adding information to the WISS Trivia Contest article. I was a team member in 17 of the 24 WISS trivia contests.

• April 1, 2006 - first upload to Wikimedia Commons was Image:Joe Nemechek.jpg.

• April 18, 2006 - Edit #2000 was moving Lee Petty's picture for better visibility.

• Late April 2006 - Distinct page edit #1000

• May 2, 2006 - Edit #2500 was adding NASCAR's first female driver Sara Christian to my To-do list.

• May 20, 2006 - Edit #3000 was adding Pete DePaolo to the Category:NASCAR owners

• July 6, 2006 - Edit #4000 was creating the Herman C. Timm House article

• August 2, 2006 - Edit #5000 was creating the National Dirt Late Model Hall of Fame article

• September 12, 2006 - Edit #6000 was creating the Elliott Forbes-Robinson article

• September 23, 2006 - #1584 on the List of Wikipedians by number of edits

• October 18, 2006 - first edit on German Wikipedia, adding images of local cities in an area of Wisconsin with mainly German descendents. I do not speaker German even though I am 15/16 German descent (okay maybe 20 words total, including counting 1 to 10). Please review my edits if you speak German.

• October 26, 2006 - Edit #7000 was using my AutoWikiBot to fix disambiguous links to Titan Stadium

• October 30, 2006 - Edit #7500 was using my AutoWikiBot to add articles to WikiProject American Open Wheel Racing

• November 3, 2006 - Edited 3500th unique article

• November 4, 2006 - #1315 on the List of Wikipedians by number of edits

• November 21, 2006 - Edit #8000 was voting on Categories for Deletion

• December 4, 2006 - #1256 on the List of Wikipedians by number of edits

• December 18, 2006 - Edit #500 on Wikimedia Commons was uploading Image:SheboyganWisconsinDowntown3.jpg

• December 24, 2006 - Edited 4000th unique article

• December 25, 2006 - Edit #9000 was adding Image:USRoute151NorthTerminus2.jpg to U.S. Route 151

• February 2, 2007 - #1075 on the List of Wikipedians by number of edits

• February 5, 2007 - Edit #10,000 was adding the winners list and referencing the Turkey Night Grand Prix. I have edited 4,373 unique articles out of 1.6 million articles, which is 0.27%.

• March 8, 2007 - Edit #11,000 was creating the article Holman Moody about the former NASCAR championship owners. The article was featured on the Did You Know section of the main page on March 12, 2007, and it was my sixteenth article to be featured. I have edited 4912 unique articles.

• Mid March 2007 - Edited 5000th unique article.

• April 5, 2007 - edit #1000 Wikimedia Commons was uploading Image:KielWisconsinSign.jpg.

• April 15, 2007 - Edit #12,000 was cleaning up the Mario Andretti article in preparation for a run for Good Article status. I have edited 5217 unique articles of 1,739,232 articles (0.300%).

• April 29, 2007 Second edit #12,000 was removing a spam link to lyrics in the article Dead Poetic. I lost around 300 edits to images that I had to upload to Wikimedia Commons.

• May 17, 2007 - Edit #12,500 was welcoming new user User:Rmitch08.

• May 24, 2007 - Edit #13,000 was adding drivers from Category:NASCAR drivers to Category:American racecar drivers using my AutoWikiBot. I have edited 5651 unique articles out of 1,799,234 articles (0.314%). 8079 edits were in article space.

• May 27, 2007 - #973 on the List of Wikipedians by number of edits

• June 13, 2007 - Edit #14,000 was wikifying Eel River Racing. I have edited 5944 unique articles out of 1,832,860 articles (0.324%). 8686 edits were in article space.

July 16, 2007 - Mario Andretti became the first Good Article that I have been involved with. At the time there were approximately 4070 articles either good or featured. I helped develop the article that was strong in Formula One, but weak in all other aspects especially IndyCar. Thanks to User:4u1e for guidance.

• July 17, 2007 - Edit #1,500 on Wikimedia Commons was dealing with the Deletion request for the Florida Photographic Images

• July 18, 2007 - Uploaded my 500th image to Wikimedia Commons, Image:ElkhartLakeWisconsinDowntown2.jpg

• July 19, 2007 - Edit #15,000 was reverting vandalism on the Trivia page. Reverting vandalism is not a trivial matter. I have edited 6211 articles out of 1,890,257 articles (0.329%). 9318 edits were in mainspace.

• August 2, 2007 - #859 on the List of Wikipedians by number of edits

• September 5, 2007 - Edit #16,000 was adding the Image:MenomineeMichiganSign.jpg to the Menominee, Michigan article. 10,000th edit to mainspace also happened on that day.

• September 12, 2007 - #810 on the List of Wikipedians by number of edits

• September 18, 2007 - Edit #2000 on Commons was uploading flickr Creative Commons Image:DaytonaBeachMay2006.jpg using the Flickr_upload_bot. It's a very useful tool used to upload CC images rapidly and easily.

• October 16, 2007 - Edit #18,000 was adding credit boxes to contributors who's articles were currently listed on the mainpage in the Did You Know section. They had been missed. Changed method of counting edits. This method counts all edits instead of only non-deleted edits.

• November 1, 2007 - #754 on the List of Wikipedians by number of edits

• November 18, 2007 - Edit #19,000 was adding an image of Ward Burton's 2007 NASCAR car to his article

• November 26, 2007 - I became an administrator. Here is my Request for adminship.

• December 10, 2007 - Edit #20,000 was promoting the next update for DYK diff

• December 20, 2007 - Edit #2500 on Wikimedia Commons was adding a category to Image:DonNicholsonInterviewedABCWideWorldOfSports.jpg

• December 22, 2007 - #661 on the List of Wikipedians by number of edits

• December 30, 2007 - Edit #21,000

• January 18, 2008 - Edit #22,000 was adding Jessie Bartlett Davis to my articles started list

• January 20, 2008 - #613 on the List of Wikipedians by number of edits

• February 2, 2008 - Edit #22,500 was adding a meaning to the disambiguous page UMP

• February 21, 2008 - Edit #23,000 was working on the Ray Fox article in my sandbox

• March 11, 2008 - #603 on the List of Wikipedians by number of edits

• March 13, 2008 - Edit #24,000 was adding my 50th Did You Know article Jack Chrisman to User:Anonymous Dissident/List of Wikipedians by number of DYKs

• April 1, 2008 - Edit #3,000 at Wikimedia Commons was using the flickruploadbot to upload Image:JohnAndretti1997Pocono.jpg from a flickr contributor

April 2, 2008 - Alan Kulwicki became the first Good Article that I did alone.

• April 9, 2008 - Edit #25000 was improving a reference on the Alan Kulwicki article while improving it towards Featured Article

• May 2, 2008 - I co-wrote an article on DYK for The Wikipedia Signpost

• May 6, 2008 - Edit #26000 was giving the Spam2 warning to User talk:Johnnydepps

• May 23, 2008 - #564 on the List of Wikipedians by number of edits