User:Crunchydillpickle

I am a pickle trying to contribute to the sum of human knowledge. English Wikipedia has active editors and I believe I am the first to be fermented in brine. Some Wikimedians may know me by my real name and social media, which is fine, but I like to maintain a semblance of privacy on this account. I like writing and maintaining articles about my interests, reviewing AfC submissions, and occasionally chipping away at the edit request backlog and list of potentially dated statements. Before I had this account I edited as an IP for a few years, mostly fixing typos and dead links.

I like a lot of things. I often find myself maintaining Wikipedia articles for social media influencers, mostly because I often find their representations on Wikipedia lopsided or nonexistent. Bringing an awkward but highly-viewed biography to a serviceable ~C-class is such a high-impact way to spend an hour or three. I also like the regularly-updated list of popular low quality articles. For personal enjoyment, I created a list of unusual anniversaries or "on this day" events which you can read and contribute to, if you so desire. I'm pretty nice (I think) and I genuinely enjoy helping brand-new Wikipedians learn the ropes. If you're one of those brand-new Wikipedians, welcome! I hope you kick off your shoes and stay a while. Perhaps you'll find Molly White's editing tutorial useful. There's a lot to do!

I am really inspired by fellow editors and I feel privileged to improve the 'pedia with all of you. If I make a mistake or do something stupid, please trout me!



Goofy user subpages
I try not to waste too much time on barely-encyclopedic rabbit holes but sometimes I cannot resist.
 * User:Crunchydillpickle/cool — sprawling list of things I think are cool on Wikipedia
 * User:Crunchydillpickle/List of unusual anniversaries
 * User:Crunchydillpickle/Palindromic Wikipedia titles
 * User:Crunchydillpickle/Articles with delightful photos
 * User:Crunchydillpickle/Quotes about Wikipedia
 * User:Crunchydillpickle/Edit summary museum
 * User:Crunchydillpickle/Data viz ideas
 * User:Crunchydillpickle/Real article titles
 * User:Crunchydillpickle/Cool photos
 * User:Crunchydillpickle/parentheticals in article titles

Articles I wrote in 2023
Not all of them are great but they've all been fun to make.
 * Penelope (platypus), marsupial at the center of a 1950s media frenzy. My favorite article I've ever written!
 * Emily Meggett, Gullah grandma who put several generations' recipes into a cookbook
 * MILF Manor, lol
 * Wisconsin Butter Fire, bizarre 1991 disaster in the center of Madison
 * Peanut butter and pickle sandwich
 * Barbie Dreamhouse
 * Elf Bar, ubiquitous but nominally illegal vapes that aren't regulated. a more important topic than most of my other articles
 * Bumpits
 * Parade (company), underwear company that got a lot of press for its marketing strategies
 * Emma Allen, New Yorker cartoon editor
 * Great Star Theater, historic venue in San Francisco's Chinatown with amazing history. I had a lot of fun digging through old newspapers for this one
 * Orfield Laboratories
 * The Pez Outlaw, documentary
 * The Dare (musician), wrote this in a café on vacation when I was sick of walking
 * All the Knowledge in the World, book about encyclopedias
 * Bama Rush (documentary)
 * Chillin Island, reality TV series
 * Praxis (proposed city), wrote this after a big NYT article came out
 * Chloe Troast, wrote this the day SNL announced she was joining the cast
 * Claw clip, thought this article would have existed earlier
 * The Drift (magazine)

Articles I wrote in 2024
* expanded from stubs
 * John Wilson (Texas politician), elected to the Texas Senate despite being dead
 * Francesca Scorsese, daughter of Martin
 * Ballerina Farm*, influencer who was getting ~20k monthly pageviews to a stub that was wildly outdated. Did a rewrite
 * Jon Agee, author of pun books
 * Emily Mariko, influencer who meets WP:NBIO by a mile
 * Betty Crocker Homemakers of Tomorrow, an extremely 1950s American award
 * Twiggy the Water-Skiing Squirrel* this little guy is an icon
 * The ick, featuring a photo of my partner's feet
 * Because Internet, a book I like
 * Dawn Baillie, woman whose iconic movie posters are being shown in an NYC art gallery!
 * Devon Lee Carlson, another influencer
 * Lookout Santa Cruz, I whipped up this article after this newsroom won a Pulitzer
 * Chris Olsen, did a quick rewrite of an AfC submission when I was in a time crunch. need to spend another 20 minutes or so on it until I feel okay about it

Things I'm very proud of

 * I added the shower beer photo

To-do list (long version)

 * Improve citizenship test and add info about German citizenship test (already covered on other languages) to standalone or relevant existing article
 * User:Crunchydillpickle/sandbox/List of elections won by dead people
 * User:Crunchydillpickle/sandbox/Romy Mars
 * User:Crunchydillpickle/sandbox/Mark Laita
 * User:Crunchydillpickle/sandbox/Madeline Argy
 * User:Crunchydillpickle/sandbox/Thank You, Mr. Falker
 * User:Crunchydillpickle/sandbox/Cloud watching
 * User:Crunchydillpickle/sandbox/Truck spill
 * User:Crunchydillpickle/sandbox/World Palindrome Championship
 * merge stuff: ReFrame Media and Ministries; Black Lives Matter street mural (Santa Cruz, California)
 * need to ask around about the phrase "first coined by". it should just be "coined by", right???
 * Airport Homes race riots improve
 * List of festivals in Michigan is full of so many crappy articles about fascinating small town shindigs!

Handy links

 * The Wikipedia Library
 * the whole backlog!
 * Goings-on
 * Special:PrefixIndex/User:Crunchydillpickle
 * AfDs for internet stuff
 * Tools by Sigma: Edits a user made to a page, Editor interaction (similar one), search a user's edit summaries
 * Special:NewPagesFeed
 * Top-viewed articles I've created.
 * Redirects for discussion
 * Wikiscan has the most detailed breakdown of contribs of any of the edit count tools and its analyses of individual users even estimate time contribution!

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