User:Johntex

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Where to find me
I have a variety of interests on Wikipedia, including:
 * Creating/improving articles related to Texas, History, Science, Geography and College football.
 * Working on the Texas Portal, Texas Wiki Project and the Texan Collaboration of the Month.
 * Working on the new UT Wiki Project and the new UT Portal
 * Working on the new Indigenous people Wiki Project and Portal.
 * Also WikiProject Military history, WikiProject Ships, WikiProject Oklahoma, Portal:Oklahoma, Portal:Scouting, WikiProject Scouting
 * And of course WikiProject College football and College football portal
 * WikiProject Fact and Reference Check and WikiProject Moving free images to Wikimedia Commons
 * Greeting new users with a message.
 * Patrolling Special:Newpages for articles that need to be improved or deleted
 * Voting on Articles_for_deletion
 * Contributing to policy discussions
 * Answering questions at Help:Contents
 * Following the wiki trail to related articles, like Hipparchus to Farnese Atlas to Museo Archeologico Nazionale Napoli to Atlas (cartography) to Atlas (mythology)...
 * Improving any article linked from the front page, since these reach the most people we want them to be good!
 * Clicking the Special:Random feature for a new article to learn about and hopefully improve!

Contributions table
This is an experiment with listing some of my contributions in a sortable table. I have edited thousands of articles, so this is just a sample.

I am listed at List of Wikipedians by featured article nominations for the successful nomination of Baby Gender Mentor and 2005 Texas Longhorn [[2005 Texas Longhorn football team to FA status.

Notes:

A few more contributions: 2007 Fiesta Bowl - 2007 Sugar Bowl -   50-Miler Award -   Boy Scouts of America -  Cedric Griffin, DYK 2006 May 1. - Cichlid -  Clinton-Sherman Industrial Airpark -   Crystal Gail Mangum -   Culture of Egypt  -   Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium  -   Effect of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans -   Farnese Atlas -  Fernando Jara -  Gourd Dance, featured in "Did You Know" on the Wikipedia Main Page on 2006 February 14. - Gustav Klimt  -   Hook 'em Horns  -   Houston Chronicle -   Jamarat Bridge -  Jazil -  JetBlue Airways Flight 292  -  John Kerry  -  Lolicon  -   Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod (where else can you find Lolicon next to the Lutheran Church?) -   Mack Brown –  Main Building of The University of Texas at Austin,  featured in "Did You Know" on the Wikipedia Main Page on 2006 January 20. - Michel Rodange -    Mustelus hacat -   NASA -   Opie Otterstad -   Philmont Scout Ranch  - Product Placement -  Ramonce Taylor  -      Rénert the Fox  -   Rockall  -  SS Nicaragua  -  SS Petersburg (T-AOT-9101)  -  Stardust (spacecraft)  -  Stratellite -   Texas Exes -  Texas longhorn (the large mammal) -   Texas Longhorns  (the sports teams) – Texas Longhorns football  -     Texas Tech Red Raiders  -   The University of Texas Longhorn Band -   USS Texas (BB-35) -  Vailulu'u  -   Vince Young  -   World Crest

Photos I have uploaded
Please see the Image Gallery

Milestones in Edit Count

 * 12 December 2004 - made my first edit
 * Sometime in 2005 - passed Jimbo Wales in editcount. :-)
 * 28 September 2005 - reached 2001 Total edits
 * 5 October 2005 - reached 1,006 distinct pages edited (approximately 2.23 edits / page)
 * 10 October 2005 - branching out a little, made my first edit to WikiTravel.
 * 15 October 2005 - now listed in the List of Wikipedians by number of edits at
 * Main Article Space - #1642 with 1557 edits
 * All namespaces - #1435 with 2438 edits


 * 21 October 2005 - passed 2500 Total edits
 * 15 January 2006 - passed 3500 Total edits
 * 11 February 2006 - passed 4000 Total edits
 * 12 February 2006 - passed 4100 Total edits
 * 2 March 2006 - passed 4500 Total edits
 * 11 March 2006 - now listed in the List of Wikipedians by number of edits at
 * Main Article Space - #1699 with 2253 edits
 * All namespaces - #1219 with 4904 edits


 * 15 March 2006 - passed 5000 Total edits
 * 16 March 2006 - passed 5100 Total edits
 * 17 March 2006 - passed 5200 Total edits
 * 19 March 2006 - passed 5300 Total edits
 * March 2006 - the first time I ever had >1,000 edits in one month, also the first month > 2,000 edits
 * 20 March 2006 - passed 5400 Total edits
 * 29 March 2006 - passed 6000 Total edits
 * 30 March 2006 - passed 6200 Total edits
 * 2 May 2006 - passed 7100 Total edits
 * 16 June 2006 - created my first page on the Portuguese Wikipedia.
 * 27 June 2006 - passed 8300 Total edits
 * 12 July 2006 - passed 9000 Total edits
 * 4 August 2006 - passed 10,000 Total edits
 * 23 September 2006 - now listed in the List of Wikipedians by number of edits at number 798.
 * 10 October 2006 - passed 11,000 Total edits
 * 4 November 2006 - now listed in the List of Wikipedians by number of edits at number 779.
 * 30 November 2006 - now listed in the List of Wikipedians by number of edits at number 790.
 * 12 December 2006 - my second anniversary - 12,555 Total edits on the English Wikipedia.
 * 9 February 2007 - now listed in the List of Wikipedians by number of edits at number 710 with 13,967 edits.
 * 18 March 2007 - passed 15,000 edits.
 * 18 April 2007 - passed 16,000 edits.
 * 2 August 2007 - now listed in the List of Wikipedians by number of edits at number 756 with 16,663 edits.
 * 20 August 2007 - passed 17,000 edits.
 * 12 September 2007 -now listed in the List of Wikipedians by number of edits at number 715 with 18,097 edits.
 * 1 November 2007 - now listed in the List of Wikipedians by number of edits at number 694 with 19,356 edits.
 * 12 March2008 - passed 20,200 edits.
 * 18 November 2008 - now listed in the List of Wikipedians by number of edits at number 993 with 21,033 edits.
 * Edit counts aren't everything, but for what it is worth, here is the current
 * If that edit counter is broken for en.wiki, you can use this one instead.

Resources
Here are some of my favorite Resources for editing Wikipedia.

Useful quote: "...as a general rule, I think that almost any argument, on any topic, which has premises beginning with 'Jimbo said...' is a pretty weak argument. Surely the merits of the proposal should be primary, not what I happen to think.' - Jimbo Wales"