User:RoyBoy/WikiHistory

Found out about Wikipedia from somewhere, created an account immediately and my first edit was a rhetorical question to my talk page @ 17:44, 20 October 2004. By edit 1000 I was adding images to AdBusters. Edit #1307 (including this one) is when I found out about the edit counter, from Dbenbenn RfA comment. - RoyBoy [ &#8734; ] 06:11, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)

2010

 * 3 Jan 2010 Begin work on G-spot, should make it a GA

2009

 * 31 May 2009 Using AutoWikiBrowser
 * 27 Oct 2009 Last Sci-Tech edit, dominated my Wikitime
 * 20 Dec 2009 Come back to RC patrol after hiatus, instead of competing with bots and tools, specialize in finding obvious vandalism hours old.
 * 22 Dec 2009 create a COI for User:William_M._Connolley for the topic Global warming

2008

 * 22 Jan 2008 ABC mediation started.
 * 4 Feb 2008 Began maintaining Sci-Tech
 * 8 Jun 2008 Dundas, Ontario pictures uploaded 1 2 3 4 5 6
 * 2 Jul 2008 Created proposal for choosing Today's FA, pending template improved
 * 24 Jul 2008 ABC listed as GA by User:Derek.cashman
 * 1 Sep 2008 Created colon cleansing as I got annoyed by repeated radio ads

2007

 * 10 Jan 2007 Started editing Objections to evolution
 * 22 Mar 2007 Slowed down RC patrol
 * 1 Sep 2007 Cirque du Soleil passed GA
 * 16 Nov 2007 Phyesalis begins ABC debate

2006

 * 01:39, 15 January 2006 RoyBoy (Talk | contribs | block) protected Louisiana Baptist University (edit war [edit=sysop:move=sysop]) Then engaged in a lengthy discussion on LBU trying to contain User:Jason Gastrich and his NG opponents. Eventually Gastrich and his many sock/meatpuppets were banned indefinitely.


 * 27 Mar 2006 – Awarded the long in making Barnstar Cluster for User:William M. Connolley.
 * 28 Mar 2006 – Participated in 3RR notice against User:Pro-Lick and their changes to the Abortion intro.
 * 5 Apr 2006 – Began dealing with Pro-Lick, Alienus and eventually Severa believing ABC to be pseudoscience.
 * 3 May 2006 – New Abortion lead done after much discussion.
 * 16 Jun 2006 – Changed Age of the Earth significantly and started what became the Creationist_objections section.
 * 1 Aug 2006 – Started a peer review for Abortion-breast cancer hypothesis.
 * 11 Sep 2006 – Started and finished new Loose Change (video) criticism section.
 * 22 Sep 2006 – Conducted a test on Assault rifle, a secondary article to the featured AK-47, and was dissappointed it took 10 minutes to be reverted. So decided to do some more anti-vandalism for a while. But VandalFighter 2.2 wasn't working.
 * 27 Sep 2006 – Speedy delete vote and rationale on Meta for Jason Gastrich's user page.
 * 28 Sep 2006 – Signed up for VandalProof and that didn't work either. Updated my Java to 5.0 (Update 6) and got VF 3.3 to work. (although the auto-blacklist does not work)
 * 2 Oct 2006 – First vandalism of my user page since my anti-vandal comeback.
 * 17 Oct 2006 was my most edits (474) in a day: First at 00:00 UTC and last 19:45 UTC

2005

 * 25 Jan 2005 – First edit on Blade Runner
 * 9 Feb 2005 – First edit on the Creation-evolution controversy
 * 13 Feb 2005 – The 800 Club founded
 * 18 Feb 2005 – Reexistance on Talk:Death which I discovered is called Eternal return
 * 31 Mar 2005 – First vote on WP:RfA for Mel Etitis
 * 24 Apr 2005 – Nominated Cburnett for admin
 * 1 May 2005 – Cburnett made an admin (33/1/1)
 * 15 May 2005 – Submitted Blade Runner for its second FA nomination
 * 18 May 2005 – Uploaded downtown image of Dundas, Ontario
 * 13 Jul 2005 – Yakuzai thought Blade Runner was FA quality, so I did a peer review
 * 25 Jul 2005 – Chemical Galaxy image I got from Philip Stewart shown in a Signpost article
 * 3 Sep 2005 – Nominated Blade Runner a third time
 * 14 Sep 2005 – Blade Runner is made a Featured Article by Raul654

By edit 2000 I was getting involved in Votes for Deletion; which is now Articles for Deletion. Edit 3000 saw me contributing to Star Trek lists with images and summaries and the STNG list will likely be featured. At 4000 I was involved in a lengthy discussion on Abortion regarding the veracity of a study indicating abortion increased the risk of preterm delivery. Then by 4500 I was deep into reverting vandalism.

I was nominated for adminship by Ral315 on September 21st and made an administrator by Nichalp around 2 Oct2005 after a glitch in Special:makesysop was fixed.


 * 2 Oct 2005 – Nichalp Rights for "User:RoyBoy" set (+sysop)
 * 2 Oct 2005 – My first rollback: abortion
 * 2 Oct 2005 – Proposed a shorter Watchlist blurb to fit one line
 * 4 Oct 2005, RoyBoy blocked 129.15.120.186 (expires 02:38, 5 October 2005) (Repeated vandal of music pages) – First block, which helped NickBush24
 * 4 Oct 2005, RoyBoy blocked #42036 (expires 14:12, 5 October 2005) (Autoblocked because your IP address has been recently used by "Pie on wheels". The reason given for Pie on wheels's block is: "on wheels sockpuppet".) – First encounter with an "on wheels" account
 * 5 Octr 2005 – First WP:AfD since renamed
 * 6 Oct 2005 – First admin misconduct, nominating James DeBello for AfD, then when Rogerd showed I missed the obvious notability I deleted the AfD, which was also my first deletion, and my first confrontation as an admin with Calton resulted
 * 7 Oct 2005 – First copyvio: Speedballs
 * 02:14, 7 October 2005 – First speedy delete, nominated by CambridgeBayWeather
 * 7 Oct 2005 – Tried out monobook.js
 * 11 Oct 2005 – Created monobook.css to round corners
 * 14 Oct 2005 (blank .js, seems to be slowing me down)
 * 2 Nov 2005 RoyBoy unblocked User:O^O – First incorrect block
 * 3 Nov 2005 – Added tabs to monobook.js for test notices
 * 5 Nov 2005 – Tried the new Test5 template (rv)


 * 11 Nov 2005 Stole my bike bot vandalism using proxies.


 * 21 Nov 2005 – Took over Features and admins beat on the Signpost.
 * 05:23, 28 November 2005 Petaholmes deleted RoyBoy avatar
 * 30 Nov 2005 – Added critique of Walt Brown (creationist) after a supporter tried POV edits in Oort cloud.
 * 13 Dec 2005 – Started what later evolved into Misunderstandings about modern evolutionary biology.
 * 16 Dec 2005 – This message on the Admin board got me onto Daniel Brandt's Wikipedia Watch HiveMind.

Around edit 9,000 I was taking care of the missionary position and then I gotz serious and by 03:07, 1 December 2005 was my 10,000th edit on Talk:Intelligent design. On 15 Dec 2005 I created my Meta account from which I could coordinate the largest most elaborate barnstar template collaboration Wikipedia has ever seen!

2004

 * October 20, 2004 – Joined Wikipedia
 * 15:31, 22 October 2004 – First edit to an article: abortion
 * 23 October 2004 – Uploaded first image Royboy.gif, and earliest (top) edit
 * 28 Oct 2004 – First new article: Hijacking Catastrophe
 * 3 Nov 2004 – Started ABC draft in Sandbox
 * 7 Dec 2004 – Moved Abortion-breast cancer (ABC) hypothesis draft from sandbox
 * 12 Dec 2004 – First template work
 * 13 Dec 2004 – My first reversion
 * 25 Dec 2004 – First Wikify: Kashan
 * 28 Dec 2004 – First vote on a VfD
 * 25 Jan 2005 – First VfD nomination: Erotica (madonna)