User:Giants2008

Hello there. I started editing Wikipedia as an anon in February 2008, and I opened this account the following month. My specialty on Wikipedia is improving sport-related articles, and you can often find me editing pages on my favorite teams and players. Most of my edits are small formatting fixes, including improved reference formatting and Manual of Style compliance. You might know me from my history at Featured article candidates, where I once attempted to review all articles on sports that came along. I haven't been as active there lately, but still have an occasional review or two in me. I like to think that my reviews have helped raise the level of recently promoted sports featured articles.

Featured list candidates is another place where you can find me. After pushing some lists to featured status, I became a director of the featured list process in early 2011. I frequently close candidates, and am responsible for choosing lists that appear in the Today's featured list section of the Main Page. My skill in writing original prose was not great at first, but has improved over time. I've started numerous articles, some of which have appeared in the Did you know section on the Main Page. A few articles I've written have reached good article status, and I was even able to get a couple to become featured. I also have a (little-used) account on Wikimedia Commons, which can be found here, and clean up vandalism on Wikidata when I spot it in articles on my watchlist. I'll see you around, and long live David Tyree!

Featured articles

 * Doc Adams
 * History of the New York Yankees

Good articles

 * 1998–99 NBA lockout
 * Bill Spivey
 * Joe Lillard
 * 2007 Indy Japan 300 (improved and nominated by Z105space)
 * 1938–39 Oregon Webfoots men's basketball team
 * 2001 American Memorial (improved and nominated by Bcschneider53)
 * Doubleday myth

Featured lists

 * List of New York Yankees seasons
 * List of New York Giants seasons
 * List of New York Knicks seasons
 * List of New York Rangers seasons
 * Super Bowl Most Valuable Player Award
 * List of New York Yankees team records
 * 1998 Winter Olympics medal table
 * List of New York Mets seasons
 * List of NCAA Division I men's basketball champions
 * List of New York Giants first-round draft picks

DYK nominations
Also see User:Giants2008/DYK • Dave Noble

• Bill Wilkinson (baseball)

• Jane Park

• 1998–99 NBA lockout

• Saucon Valley Country Club

• Brent Peterson (ice hockey, born 1972)

• 2001 American Memorial

• 1938–39 Oregon Webfoots men's basketball team

• 1938 Orange Bowl

• Bill Spivey

• 1999 Major League Umpires Association mass resignation

• Bills–Dolphins rivalry

• Bill Linderman

• 2007 Indy Japan 300

• List of NCAA Division I men's basketball champions

• Leslie MacMitchell

• Alberto Dávila

• Arthur Lees

• Guppy Troup

• Battle of Quebec (ice hockey)

• Everett Bowman

• Neil Stevens

• Garry Bjorklund

• John Danowski

• Doc Adams

• Roy Cooper (rodeo)

• Doubleday myth

• Roy Simmons Jr.

• Marion Irvine

• 1982 Virginia vs. Chaminade men's basketball game

• List of New York Giants first-round draft picks

• Fay Crocker

• Walt Nielsen

• 1961 Major League Baseball expansion

• 1979 NCAA Division I Basketball Championship Game

• History of the New York Yankees

• Roy Simmons Sr.

• 1962 Major League Baseball expansion

• 1985 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game

• Sports Phone

• Alice Bauer

• 1966 NCAA University Division Basketball Championship Game

• William Shuttleworth

• Phil Lyne

• 1963 NCAA University Division Basketball Championship Game

• Gene Rambo

• 2009 Sky Blue FC season

• Sally Sessions

• Frank Pidgeon

• Stanley Woodward (editor)

• 1939 NCAA Basketball Championship Game

• Louis Brooks (rodeo cowboy)

• Annie Park

• 1978–79 Penn Quakers men's basketball team

• List of United States women's national soccer team hat-tricks

• 1973 NCAA University Division Basketball Championship Game

• The Baseball Encyclopedia

• Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak

• 1976 NCAA Division I Basketball Championship Game

• Denise Wescott

• Tri-Cornered Baseball Game

• Lloyd Percival

• 1940 NCAA Basketball Championship Game

• Canada v United States (2012 Summer Olympics)

• 1959 NCAA University Division Basketball Championship Game

Articles created
See User:Giants2008/Articles created

Barnstars, awards, and other nice things


Dcoll ins52 Give me a yell has bought you a pint! Sharing a pint is a great way to bond with other editors after a day of hard work. Spread the WikiLove by buying someone else a pint, whether it be someone with whom you have collaborated or had disagreements. Cheers!

Spread the good cheer and camaraderie by adding {{subst:WikiPint}} to their talk page with a friendly message. I saw from here that it's been exactly one since you joined the project. Happy WikiBirthday! Keep up the good work, r ʨ anaɢ talk/contribs 21:33, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Couldn't make it earlier, anyway, Happy New Year now!

Zia Khan 04:57, 2 January 2013 (UTC)  On behalf of WP:CHICAGO, I would like to thank you for your editorial contributions to Joe Lillard, which has recently become a GA. --TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 00:52, 22 January 2013 (UTC)   Pony!

Congratulations! For your support of the William Robinson Brown FAC, you have received a pony! Ponies are cute, intelligent, cuddly, friendly (most of the time, though with notable exceptions), promote good will, encourage patience, and enjoy carrots. Treat your pony with respect and he will be your faithful friend! Montanabw (talk) 23:10, 8 March 2013 (UTC) To send a pony or a treat to other wonderful and responsible editors, click here.   Pony!

Congratulations! For your comprehensive FAC review of Oxbow (horse), you have received a pony! Ponies are cute, intelligent, cuddly, friendly (most of the time, though with notable exceptions), promote good will, encourage patience, and enjoy carrots. Treat your pony with respect and he will be your faithful friend! Montanabw (talk) 18:11, 11 July 2013 (UTC) To send a pony or a treat to other wonderful and responsible editors, click here.

-- EMP (talk 00:05, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

  teams and players

Thank you for quality articles on your your "favorite teams and players", such as Doc Adams and List of New York Giants seasons, for attempting "to review all articles on sports that came along" for FA (such as William Robinson Brown), for tirelessly maintaining article quality by adding citations and removing spam, for serving as a director of the featured list process, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:55, 1 November 2014 (UTC)

To You and Yours! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 16:54, 19 December 2015 (UTC)

From the icy Canajian north; to you and yours! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 02:01, 27 December 2016 (UTC)

...to you and yours, from the Great White North! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 17:22, 23 December 2017 (UTC)

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:39, 1 November 2021 (UTC) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:59, 1 November 2022 (UTC) 

Happy New Year! Giants2008, Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.

MasterMatt12(talk) 23:35, 31 December 2022 (UTC)

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MasterMatt12(talk) 23:35, 31 December 2022 (UTC) 

Happy New Year! Giants2008, Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.

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