User:Chris 73

I discovered Wikipedia on October 17 2003, 11:26.

If you're wondering about my choice of user name, well, I just picked a somewhat random one to do an edit, since I was sure that I would not really come back to Wikipedia. After all, a encyclopedia edited by everyone is a project destined to fail, right? That was more than 20,000 edits ago.

I lived in Australia, America, Europe and Asia for longer periods of time, currently living in Japan. English is not my first language, although I think i speak it pretty well. Nevertheless I focus on adding content researched from the WWW and other sources rather than editing the language of articles.

I became an Administrator on May 8, 2004, with 16 votes for, 0 against, and 1 neutral. Thank you to everybody who voted for me, and to RickK for nominating me.

Featured Articles
The following articles are featured articles with significant contributions by me.
 * Pufferfish
 * Pufferfish is no longer featured, since most of the information was moved to Fugu.
 * Cathedral of Magdeburg
 * Coconut crab
 * Japanese toilet (The article with the fastest time between creation and featuring at that time)

Good articles
The following articles are good articles with significant contributions by me.
 * Suikinkutsu
 * Fugu

Featured Images
The following images were either created or uploaded by me, and are now a Featured Image.


 * Image:Water drop animation enhanced small.gif, Images by Chris 73, arranged by Gmaxwell
 * Fractal broccoli from pdphoto.org at Fractal and broccoli (uploaded and nominated by me)
 * Cockroach closeup from Jo&#259;o Est&#281;v&#259;o A. de Freitas from the Stock.xchng (uploaded to the English Wikipedia by me)

Formerly featured images
The following images were either created or uploaded by me, and were once a Featured Image, but have been defeatured since.


 * Onsen in Nachikatsuura at Onsen by Chris 73
 * Barlach Magdeburger Ehrenmal in Degenerate art, by Chris 73
 * Cathedral of Magdeburg in Cathedral of Magdeburg, by Chris 73
 * Mark 48 Torpedo testing from the US Navy (Pictures arranged and uploaded by me)
 * Edo period Wakizashi in the Tokyo National Museum, by Chris 73

Did you know...
The following new articles were created by me and made it on the front page:


 * ...that a suikinkutsu is a type of Japanese garden ornament and a music device?
 * ...that the first military plane mass-produced in Germany was the Rumpler Taube in 1910?
 * ...that Hans Guido Mutke claimed to be the first person to break the sound barrier?
 * ...that the United States Navy practiced burial at sea as recently as World War II?
 * ...that the Coconut Crab is the world's largest terrestrial arthropod?
 * ...that the Cathedral of Magdeburg is the highest church in East Germany and houses the grave of Emperor Otto I. the Great?
 * ...that Japanese toilets are the most technologically advanced toilets in the world today?
 * ...that Chindonya are are elaborately costumed Japanese street musicians that advertise for shops and other establishments?
 * ...that Sano Fusako was kidnapped in Niigata, Japan in 1990 at age 10 and was not freed until nine years and two months later?

Awards

 * Japanese toilet won the second place of the first Danny's contest. See Danny's contest/winners.

Goofs
I don't make any goofs. Don't read the small print.


 * Nominating 72 articles for VfD at once. What was I thinking.

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