User:Clarityfiend

With the coming of the Internet, many eyes turned hopefully, or desperately, toward the freedom of Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org became the great embarkation point. But, not everybody could get to it with a high-speed connection, and so a tortuous, roundabout trail sprang up, by dial-up. Here, the fortunate ones through money, or influence, or luck, might break their addiction and scurry back to the Real World. But the others edit in Wikipedia... and edit... and edit... and edit.
 * It is better to turn on a light than to curse the darkness, but they're not mutually exclusive, so, fie on thee, darkness. BulbgraphOnOff.gif
 * My favorite quote was uttered by Norm on the TV show Cheers: "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear."
 * Callipygian is my favorite word (who thinks up these things?). Other fun words: mattoid, pleonasm.
 * Most beloved movie of all time? Casablanca, hands down.
 * My lifelong ambition is to be accepted into Densa. No luck so far...
 * I do not suffer from Witzelsucht, though it may appear at times that I do, for example here and here (the space elevator is sometimes nicknamed the "beanstalk").
 * The person I admire the most is Raoul Wallenberg. His deeds speak for themselves.
 * For Star Trek and specifically Worf fans: Today is a good day to edit.
 * Philosophically, I'm a "minist" ("minimalist" has too many letters). Also a delet ion ist.
 * If I had written some of Shakespeare's plays in seven words, they'd have read like this:
 * False friend incites jealous husband to Moor-der.
 * To D (Dithering Dane debates, defeats dead dad's deposers) or not to D (Dithering Danish prince avenges his father's murder), that is the question.
 * Scottish thane falls victim to "witch"ful thinking.
 * Oldest number one hit song: "In the Good Old Sumer Time"?
 * I once played a Pokerstars one-table freeroll tournament with Chris Moneymaker. In addition to the prize money, there was a bounty for knocking Moneymaker out. When we got to heads up, I ad-libbed, "Mr. Chris-tian, I want your bounty", but I don't think he got it.
 * Best spelling mistake I've run across in a while: "one dementional".
 * What is the moral of the story of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer? That you can have two-faced, fair-weather friends once they realize they need you? That Santa should be reported to the authorities for allowing a hostile work environment to fester? Ho, ho, huh?
 * People who should be posthumously given Darwin Awards:
 * Thomas Biddle and Spencer Darwin Pettis, for participating in a pistol duel at a distance of five feet(!)
 * The transgender version of Moby-Dick begins with "Call me Male-ish."
 * In traditional Chinese medicine, they use fecal matter from bats in many concoctions, so I can truthfully say those who believe in it are batshit crazy.
 * How are male fashion designers different from regular Joes: When they see a pretty woman, they dress her with their eyes.
 * I am sorely tempted to create a separate account, User:AllHope, ... and then abandon it.
 * You make sixteen edits, what do you get? Another day older and deeper on The List.
 * There are now four kinds of people:
 * those who make things happen
 * those who watch things happen
 * those who ask, "What happened?"
 * those who claim, "It never happened."

'*' - Not article creator

Films
My most edited article is Casablanca. I wasn't able to contribute as much material as I would have liked (1,000,000,000,000,000 other people got there first), but I have rewritten sizable portions of it to improve the style. Trivia: As of November 3, 2010, I had edited this article one more time (441) than the next three contributors combined.

I wrote the first plot summary for Lawrence of Arabia. I'm also rather pleased with the synopsis of I Know Where I'm Going!

Anthony Trollope

 * He Knew He Was Right

Chronicles of Barsetshire

 * Doctor Thorne*

Palliser novels

 * Phineas Finn*
 * Phineas Redux*
 * The Eustace Diamonds*

Fredric Brown

 * "Arena"

Alliance–Union universe

 * Cyteen
 * Downbelow Station
 * Finity's End
 * Mazianni - not a novel
 * Merchanter's Luck
 * Regenesis*
 * Rimrunners
 * The Scapegoat - replaced redirect page

The Morgaine Stories

 * Gate of Ivrel - converted redirect page into an article
 * Well of Shiuan - former redirect page
 * Fires of Azeroth - once a redirect page

Theodore Cogswell

 * The Specter General
 * The Wall Around the World

Andre Norton

 * The Stars Are Ours!
 * Witch World

H. Beam Piper

 * Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen
 * Space Viking

Mack Reynolds

 * Mercenary From Tomorrow

Jack Vance

 * Emphyrio
 * Maske: Thaery
 * Marune: Alastor 933
 * Trullion: Alastor 2262
 * "Gateway to Strangeness"

Tschai, Planet of Adventure tetralogy

 * City of the Chasch
 * Servants of the Wankh
 * The Dirdir
 * The Pnume

Stanley G. Weinbaum

 * "The Adaptive Ultimate"

Miscellaneous

 * List of Vorkosigan Saga characters

Gillian Bradshaw

 * Hawk of May
 * Kingdom of Summer
 * In Winter's Shadow

Glen Cook

 * The Black Company
 * Shadows Linger
 * The White Rose

Other

 * Fools and Mortals
 * "The Last Encounter", the final Horatio Hornblower story
 * War Lord

Television

 * The Duchess of Duke Street*
 * Sharpe*


 * Sharpe's Rifles*
 * Sharpe's Eagle*
 * Sharpe's Company
 * Sharpe's Enemy
 * Sharpe's Honour


 * Sharpe's Gold
 * Sharpe's Battle
 * Sharpe's Sword
 * Sharpe's Regiment
 * Sharpe's Siege


 * Sharpe's Mission
 * Sharpe's Revenge
 * Sharpe's Justice
 * Sharpe's Waterloo
 * Sharpe's Challenge

Biographies

 * Jacob Bayley
 * Frederick J. Becton (by request)
 * Jacob Ben-Ami
 * Eddie Brandt
 * Ed Clark (photographer)
 * Charles T. Coiner
 * Peggy Converse
 * Mildred Cram
 * William H. Crook
 * Austin Dabney (by request)
 * Martin Dardis
 * Doug Davis (aviator)
 * Robert Edson Dornin (by request)
 * Elvin C. Drake
 * Howard Finnell
 * Farnum Fish
 * James L. Fisk (by request, as I recall)
 * John D. Foley
 * Gander (dog)
 * Ivan R. Gates
 * Richard Gerstein
 * Samuel Gist
 * George Givot*
 * Gabriel Grant
 * Samuel Grashio
 * Colin Falkland Gray
 * Fitz W. Guerin
 * James M. Guffey
 * Charles K. Hamilton
 * Dirk Hannema
 * Betsy Heard
 * Raymond Hesselyn
 * Richard Hollingshead
 * Oscar Holmes
 * Bernhardt Holtermann
 * Tom Howard (comedian)
 * Helen Hunt (hair stylist)
 * Roger Imhof
 * Kenneth Jernstedt
 * Pete Jimenez (by request)
 * Isha Johansen
 * Fanny Kelly
 * Nelson King
 * Barry Landau
 * Viola Lawrence
 * T. S. Lippy
 * Robert Little (Flying Tiger)
 * Dale Maple
 * Maurice Marsac
 * Oliver T. Marsh
 * Spider Matlock
 * Mitzi Mayfair
 * Alex McDonald (prospector)
 * Herb McDonald
 * William Madison McDonald
 * William Henry McGarvey
 * Mary C. McCall Jr.
 * Buck McNair
 * Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco
 * Richarda Morrow-Tait
 * C. C. Moseley
 * Boy Mould
 * Belinda Mulrooney
 * Eric P. Newman
 * Charlie O'Connell (roller derby)
 * Harry Fusao O'Hara
 * Mary Owens (Abraham Lincoln fiancée)
 * Eddie Parker (pool player)
 * Arevik Petrosyan
 * Jeffry Picower
 * Nikolaj Pirnat
 * Rajko Pirnat
 * Robert William Prescott
 * Harriet Pullen
 * Edwin Ramsey (per request)
 * William Norman Reed
 * Alan Rosen
 * Frank Ross (producer)
 * Lawrence Rousseau
 * David Rubitsky
 * Richard Sakakida
 * Soichi Sakamoto
 * Mandy Sellars
 * Jack Shackelford
 * Walter L. Shaw
 * Joe Silver
 * James Smith (frontiersman) (by request)
 * Chérif Souleymane
 * Percival G. Spencer
 * Ulrich Steinhilper
 * Charles Sweeny
 * Charles Francis Sweeny, nephew of the above
 * Robert Sweeny Jr., brother of the above
 * John Tarleton (American settler) (by request)
 * Lucky Teter
 * James Tilton (surveyor)
 * Philip Tonge
 * Isabelle Urquhart (by request)
 * Dale Van Every
 * Swede Vejtasa
 * Nina Vyroubova
 * Charles Waldron
 * P. V. H. Weems
 * Ira Wolfert
 * Ida Wood
 * Yang Miaozhen

Lists

 * List of artists and entertainers with advanced degrees
 * List of athletes with advanced degrees
 * List of bets
 * List of denaturalized former citizens of the United States
 * List of film memorabilia
 * List of ice hockey players who died in wars
 * List of individual aircraft
 * List of Major League Baseball players who died in wars
 * List of movie misquotes
 * List of official vehicles of the President of the United States
 * List of people known as ... many, many epithets, e.g. List of people known as the Elder or the Younger
 * List of people who awoke from a coma
 * List of sports desegregation firsts
 * List of surviving examples of mass-produced aircraft
 * List of undefeated world boxing champions
 * List of unfinished novels completed by others
 * List of Vorkosigan Saga characters

Military topics

 * Battle of Zacatecas
 * German submarine U-480''
 * Honorary Marine
 * List of American Civil War legions
 * Hilliard's Legion
 * Holcombe Legion
 * Louisiana Legion
 * Miles' Legion
 * Phillips' Legion
 * Thomas' Legion
 * List of Flying Tigers pilots
 * List of prisoner-of-war escapes
 * Rising from the ranks
 * United States Tank Corps

Ships and vessels

 * Ben Franklin (PX-15)
 * French ship Chameau
 * Golden State (clipper)
 * Hannah (1849 shipwreck)
 * William Brown (ship)
 * William F. Garms

Miscellaneous

 * 13 Black Cats
 * Alcohol consumption in Russia*
 * Bank of Vancouver
 * Big Three (tennis)
 * Boots & Coots
 * Dallas Aces
 * Decommissioning of Russian nuclear-powered vessels
 * Dikko affair
 * Hawaii Five-O Theme
 * Higgins Family
 * Janet Smith case
 * Kapitan China
 * Kelly-Springfield Motor Truck Company
 * King George's Sound Company
 * Morrison v. White
 * National Cartoon Museum
 * Olorgesailie
 * Packers–Seahawks rivalry
 * Panzergruppe Guderian (game), a wargame
 * Perfect 10 (gymnastics)
 * Personal finances of professional American athletes
 * Sleeping positions
 * Shoup Voting Machine Corporation
 * Stafford Hospital scandal
 * Stunt flying
 * Theft of medieval art from Quedlinburg

Barnstars and DYKs

 * /Barnstars and DYKs

Paid editing

 * Created List of accolades received by The Lives of Others
 * Replaced unreliable sources in Atlantic.net
 * Improved David Haberfeld for AfC (successful)
 * Nominated an article for (deserved and successful) deletion
 * Submitted a company article to AfC (rejected)
 * Overhauled Fred Mouawad, particularly replacing unreliable sources; also restored images in Mouawad and Taskworld
 * Two biographies accepted via AfC (Charles P. O'Brien and ?)
 * Phebe Starr initially rejected by AfC, but later accepted after later accomplishments were noted by another editor