User:Frecklefoot

Frecklefoot is busy and is going to be on Wikipedia in off-and-on doses, and may not respond swiftly to queries.

User Info

This user has been on Wikipedia for 22 years, 2 months and 8 days.

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This user is a native speaker of American English.

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This user has made more than 45,000 contributions to Wikipedia.

This user is ranked 1730 on the list of Wikipedians by articles created.

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This user is ranked 1113 on the list of Wikipedians by number of edits.

This user is one of the 4000 most active English Wikipedians of all time.

I'm an awesome Wikipedian!

This user has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian and was awarded their own day.

This user is a participant in WikiProject Video games.

This user is a WikiKnight,
valiantly protecting the Five Pillars of Wikipedia.

This editor is a WikiGnome.

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This user is single.

This user is a Video game developer.

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This user is interested in video game development.

This user lives in the U.S. State of Colorado.

This user is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

This user is Temple Ready.

This user believes that the canon of scripture is NOT closed

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This user's time zone is GMT-7.

This user wants egg, bacon, sausage, and Spam without the Spam!

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**Master Editor**
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Editor Star.

I'm a software engineer by trade, and a dad by leisure. I spent about ten years of my professional career in the game industry. In fact, I was the lead programmer on two of the games I worked on: Clue and Scooby Doo: Mystery of the Fun Park Phantom. Being a video game developer, I got an entry on MobyGames: my Rap Sheet.

Wiki History

I've started scores of articles, but the ones I'm most proud of deal with the video game industry, which I used to be a proud part of. With a few exceptions, I either completely authored or totally overhauled all the articles below. Of course I can't take credit (or blame) for the current state of any of the articles (Wikipedia is a community effort), but I'm proud that I was able to give birth to such important and interesting articles:

I often edit articles about subjects I have no particular interest in, usually with just small changes to grammar and formatting (in this sense, I'm often a WikiGnome). But here's a list (in chronological order, more or less) of articles with which I've had a great deal to do with. Some articles I've created, others I've just greatly expanded. I haven't included stubs that I've created (they don't count!) unless I later expanded it into a significant article. Newest work appears at the bottom.

Notable contributions

I've also created numerous categories. But since the 'pedia has about 16,000,000,000 categories right now, I'm not sure that's something to be proud of...

Indicates entry was a featured article
^† Indicates the article was featured in the "Did you know..." section of the Main page when the article was new.

Projects

Projects I'm officially interested in, but not necessarily an official member of.

Wikipedia:WikiProject Arcade games (started by me, turned into the arcade game task force)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games (member)

Genuinely interesting

Though I didn't contribute a whole lot to these articles, they are interesting nonetheless:

Steve Wozniak: A true hero to every nerd
Voynich Manuscript: Truly weird; a hoax or genuine?
Alexander "Sawney" Bean: "Father" of a cannibalistic, legendary bandit family. Did they really even exist?
Spring Heeled Jack: Probably just a time-traveler using futuristic technology to scare English residents (my theory)
Sieve of Eratosthenes: A cool, ancient way to find prime numbers!
List of French words and phrases used by English speakers: sprinkle these phrases throughout your daily dialogue in order to sound intelligent

Awards and accolades

User:Frecklefoot has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian,
and therefore, is awarded their own day!

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		I award this barnstar to Frecklefoot for his contributions to most every computer game and video game article on Wikipedia. His continual work on improving this realm of the encyclopedia is very appreciated. Tempshill 21:40, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

		The CVG Barnstar
		Frecklefoot has been award the CVG Star for his tireless contributions to, and protection of the Game designer article Konman72

		The Copy Editor Barnstar
		For catching a very subtle, yet important error in Prophecies of Joseph Smith, Jr.. --Noleander (talk) 20:51, 22 October 2009 (UTC)

giving birth to important and interesting articles
Thank you, veteran editor mentioning leisure early, knight, gnome and fairy, proud that you were "able to give birth to such important and interesting articles" as Video game developer and many more fundamental ones in the industry, based on first-hand knowledge, for Expedition to the Barrier Peaks and other expeditions to peaks, for patience in discussion and simply helping out, - repeating: you are an awesome Wikipedian (30 January 2011)!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:53, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

	The Writer's Barnstar
	Thank you very much for writing very important articles. Smilingpinkamena (talk) 16:46, 16 November 2014 (UTC)

To do

If you're bored, help with disambiguation: Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links
Add screenshots to Clue article

Handy stuff

Guide to table "pipe" syntax
Extended image syntax
Sandbox
Wikipedia:Editor's index to Wikipedia
Conversion template
Inflation template
WP:AIV or WP:SPI for dealing with vandals and sockpuppets

Actor IMDb template: {{IMDB name|id=0xxxxxx|name=<actor's name>}}
Film IMDb template: {{IMDB title|id=0xxxxxx|title=<movie title>}}
Rotten Tomatoes template: {{rotten-tomatoes|id=<ID>|title=<TITLE>}}

Home of the Underdogs template: {{hotu|id=xxxx|name=<gamename>}}
MobyGames game template: {{MobyGames|id=<everything in the URL after "game">|name=<game title>}}
MobyGames developer template: {{moby developer|id=xxx|name=<developer's name>}}
KLOV template:{{KLOV game|id=xxxx|name=<game name> (optional)}}
Video game barnstar: {{Barnstar VG|Text saying why Barnstar was awarded}}