User:Royalbroil/Milestones

Wikipedia Milestones

 * June 16 2005 - Edited first WIKI article with details about the Alan Kulwicki feature film (after only a few anon edits)


 * February 18 2006 - Distinct page edit #100 was for Bill Weir - former local sportscaster now ABC Good Morning America Weekend Edition host


 * February 26 2006 - Edit #500 was detailing the death of my racing hero Alan Kulwicki


 * March 1 2006 - Distinct page edit #200 was in the late Rob Moroso article, another of my NASCAR heroes


 * March 3 2006 - Distinct page edit #250 was adding Northeast Wisconsin Technical College to WikiProject Wisconsin


 * March 16 2006 - Edit #1000 was creating a category of Segrave Trophy winners


 * March 19 2006 - Distinct page edit #500 was thanking User:Mervyn for helping make Henry Segrave and the Segrave Trophy worthy of "Did You Know".


 * March 30 2006 - Edit #1500 was adding information to the WISS Trivia Contest article. I was a team member in 17 of the 24 WISS trivia contests.


 * April 1 2006 - first upload to Wikimedia Commons was Image:Joe Nemechek.jpg.


 * April 18 2006 - Edit #2000 was moving Lee Petty's picture for better visibility.


 * Late April 2006 - Distinct page edit #1000


 * May 2 2006 - Edit #2500 was adding NASCAR's first female driver Sara Christian to my To-do list.


 * May 20 2006 - Edit #3000 was adding Pete DePaolo to the Category:NASCAR owners


 * July 6 2006 - Edit #4000 was creating the Herman C. Timm House article


 * August 2 2006 - Edit #5000 was creating the National Dirt Late Model Hall of Fame article


 * September 12 2006 - Edit #6000 was creating the Elliott Forbes-Robinson article


 * September 23 2006 - #1584 on the List of Wikipedians by number of edits


 * October 18 2006 - first edit on German Wikipedia, adding images of local cities in an area of Wisconsin with mainly German descendents. I do not speaker German even though I am 15/16 German descent (okay maybe 20 words total, including counting 1 to 10). Please review my edits if you speak German.


 * October 26 2006 - Edit #7000 was using my AutoWikiBot to fix disambiguous links to Titan Stadium


 * October 30 2006 - Edit #7500 was using my AutoWikiBot to add articles to WikiProject American Open Wheel Racing


 * November 3 2006 - Edited 3500th unique article


 * November 4 2006 - #1315 on the List of Wikipedians by number of edits


 * November 21 2006 - Edit #8000 was voting on Categories for Deletion


 * December 4 2006 - #1256 on the List of Wikipedians by number of edits


 * December 18 2006 - Edit #500 on Wikimedia Commons was uploading Image:SheboyganWisconsinDowntown3.jpg


 * December 24 2006 - Edited 4000th unique article


 * December 25 2006 - Edit #9000 was adding Image:USRoute151NorthTerminus2.jpg to U.S. Route 151


 * February 2 2007 - #1075 on the List of Wikipedians by number of edits


 * February 5 2007 - Edit #10,000 was adding the winners list and referencing the Turkey Night Grand Prix. I have edited 4,373 unique articles out of 1.6 million articles, which is 0.27%.


 * March 8 2007 - Edit #11,000 was creating the article Holman Moody about the former NASCAR championship owners. The article was featured on the Did You Know section of the main page on March 12 2007, and it was my sixteenth article to be featured. I have edited 4912 unique articles.


 * Mid March 2007 - Edited 5000th unique article.


 * April 5 2007 - edit #1000 Wikimedia Commons was uploading Image:KielWisconsinSign.jpg.


 * April 15 2007 - Edit #12,000 was cleaning up the Mario Andretti article in preparation for a run for Good Article status. I have edited 5217 unique articles of 1,739,232 articles (0.300%).


 * April 29 2007 Second edit #12,000 was removing a spam link to lyrics in the article Dead Poetic. I lost around 300 edits to images that I had to upload to Wikimedia Commons.


 * May 17 2007 - Edit #12,500 was welcoming new user User:Rmitch08.


 * May 24 2007 - Edit #13,000 was adding drivers from Category:NASCAR drivers to Category:American racecar drivers using my AutoWikiBot. I have edited 5651 unique articles out of 1,799,234 articles (0.314%). 8079 edits were in article space.


 * May 27 2007 - #973 on the List of Wikipedians by number of edits


 * June 13 2007 - Edit #14,000 was wikifying Eel River Racing. I have edited 5944 unique articles out of 1,832,860 articles (0.324%). 8686 edits were in article space.

July 16 2007 - Mario Andretti became the first Good Article that I have been involved with. At the time there were approximately 4070 articles either good or featured. I helped develop the article that was strong in Formula One, but weak in all other aspects especially IndyCar. Thanks to User:4u1e for guidance.


 * July 17 2007 - Edit #1,500 on Wikimedia Commons was dealing with the Deletion request for the Florida Photographic Images


 * July 18 2007 - Uploaded my 500th image to Wikimedia Commons, Image:ElkhartLakeWisconsinDowntown2.jpg


 * July 19 2007 - Edit #15,000 was reverting vandalism on the Trivia page. Reverting vandalism is not a trivial matter. I have edited 6211 articles out of 1,890,257 articles (0.329%). 9318 edits were in mainspace.


 * August 2 2007 - #859 on the List of Wikipedians by number of edits


 * September 5 2007 - Edit #16,000 was adding the Image:MenomineeMichiganSign.jpg to the Menominee, Michigan article. 10,000th edit to mainspace also happened on that day.


 * September 12 2007 - #810 on the List of Wikipedians by number of edits
 * September 18 2007 - Edit #2000 on Commons was uploading flickr Creative Commons Image:DaytonaBeachMay2006.jpg using the Flickr_upload_bot. It's a very useful tool used to upload CC images rapidly and easily.


 * October 16 2007 - Edit #18,000 was adding credit boxes to contributors who's articles were currently listed on the mainpage in the Did You Know section. They had been missed. Changed method of counting edits. This method counts all edits instead of only non-deleted edits.


 * November 1 2007 - #754 on the List of Wikipedians by number of edits


 * November 18 2007 - Edit #19,000 was adding an image of Ward Burton's 2007 NASCAR car to his article


 * November 26 2007 - I became an administrator. Here is my Request for adminship.


 * December 10 2007 - Edit #20,000 was promoting the next update for DYK diff


 * December 20 2007 - Edit #2500 on Wikimedia Commons was adding a category to Image:DonNicholsonInterviewedABCWideWorldOfSports.jpg


 * December 22 2007 - #661 on the List of Wikipedians by number of edits


 * December 30 2007 - Edit #21,000


 * January 18 2008 - Edit #22,000 was adding Jessie Bartlett Davis to my articles started list


 * January 20 2008 - #613 on the List of Wikipedians by number of edits


 * February 2 2008 - Edit #22,500 was adding a meaning to the disambiguous page UMP


 * February 21 2008 - Edit #23,000 was working on the Ray Fox article in my sandbox


 * March 11 2008 - #603 on the List of Wikipedians by number of edits


 * March 13 2008 - Edit #24,000 was adding my 50th Did You Know article Jack Chrisman to User:Anonymous Dissident/List of Wikipedians by number of DYKs


 * April 1 2008 - Edit #3,000 at Wikimedia Commons was using the flickruploadbot to upload Image:JohnAndretti1997Pocono.jpg from a flickr contributor

April 2 2008 - Alan Kulwicki became the first Good Article that I did alone.


 * April 9 2008 - Edit #25000 was improving a reference on the Alan Kulwicki article while improving it towards Featured Article


 * May 2 2008 - I co-wrote an article on DYK for The Wikipedia Signpost


 * May 6 2008 - Edit #26000 was giving the Spam2 warning to User talk:Johnnydepps


 * May 23 2008 - #564 on the List of Wikipedians by number of edits


 * June 18 2008 - Edit #27000 was referencing the poorly referenced Tommy Bartlett


 * July 23, 2008 - #570 on the List of Wikipedians by number of edits, the first time the rank dropped


 * August 14, 2008 - Edit #28000 was starting the Potawatomi State Park article


 * September 8, 2008 - Edited 10,000th unique article

September 11, 2008 - Eddie Hill became the third Good Article that I helped improve.


 * September 16, 2008 - #563 on the List of Wikipedians by number of edits


 * September 30, 2008 - Edit #29000 was expanding the Rockford Speedway article in my sandbox before posting


 * October 20, 2008 - Edit #4000 at Commons was using my trusted user status to verify that Image:Enda Muldoon.jpg had valid licensing as a flickr derivative


 * November 5, 2008 - Edit #30000 was editing an article for the Wikipedia Signpost on the 2008 Halloween Main Page


 * November 8, 2008 - I was one of four contributors who helped write the Wikipedia Signpost article Dispatches: Halloween Main Page contest generates new article content
 * November 9, 2008 - For the first time, one of my images made the main page. Image:AmericanMarramGrassKohlerAndraeStateParkLakeMichigan.jpg was featured beside the Kohler-Andrae State Park article, which was the 69th DYK article that I helped write.


 * November 20, 2008 - #546 on the List of Wikipedians by number of edits


 * January 11, 2009 - Edit #31,000 was reverting vandalism to the Matt Kenseth article


 * January 11, 2009 - The Signpost published an article that I co-wrote about the 2008 Did You Know Christmas theme in December 2008


 * February 25, 2009 - Edit #32,000 was improving the Tim Richmond article toward Good Article status

February 28, 2009 - Rescued A. J. Foyt IV at Good Article reassessment to become the 4th GA that I helped


 * February 25, 2009 - #559 on the List of Wikipedians by number of edits. Decline was expected after this, as I finally have a job!


 * March 21, 2009 - Edit #33,000 was adding a nomination to Template:Did you know/Next update


 * April 6, 2009 - Became administrator on Wikimedia Commons

April 11, 2009 - Tim Richmond became the fifth Good Article that I helped on


 * April 22, 2009 - #538 on the List of Wikipedians by number of edits


 * April 23, 2009 - Edit #34,000 was promoting a group of Did You Know hooks (diff) to the main page


 * April 27, 2009 - Edit #5000 on Commons was applying a protection template after protecting File:HMS Seine and Vengeance.jpg before it appeared on the English Wikipedia main page.


 * June 3, 2009 - My second photograph appeared on main page. File:SturgeonBayBridgeJuly2008WIS42WIS57.jpg was used in the Did You Know section with the Sturgeon Bay Bridge article that User:TheCatalyst31 developed.


 * June 13, 2009 - Edit #35000 was giving a handwritten warning to User:Lhen yeyem about recreating a vanity article about him/herself


 * July 1, 2009 - #558 on the List of Wikipedians by number of edits


 * August 6, 2009 - My third photograph appeared on main page in DYK. File:TraxxasTORCSeriesClassixCar607.jpg was featured with the articles Traxxas TORC Series and Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series that I developed.


 * August 16, 2009 - Edit #6000 on Commons was uploading File:ValmyWisconsinDowntown1WIS57.jpg.


 * August 31, 2009 - Edit #36000 was swapping an image on the Bowman Gray Stadium from the English Wikipedia version to the Commons duplicate to allow cleanup


 * October 14, 2009 - #587 on the List of Wikipedians by number of edits


 * December 19, 2009 - Edit #37000 was expanding the David Pearson article in my sandbox while improving it toward a GA run.


 * December 23, 2009 - David Pearson became my 100th DYK article on the main page (includes 10 nominations)


 * December 30, 2009 - #595 on the List of Wikipedians by number of edits


 * February 4, 2010 - Edit #38000 was cleaning up the Lake Geneva Raceway article

February 14, 2010 - David Pearson (NASCAR driver) has passed Good Article review


 * March 7, 2010 - Edit #7000 on Commons was uploading File:LomiraWisconsinTrainDepot.jpg


 * April 3, 2010 - 100th article that I created/expanded myself appeared on main page (Norm Nelson, USAC Stock Car, Las Vegas Park Speedway) along with image


 * April 17, 2010 - Edit #39000 was adding images to Montello, Wisconsin


 * September 14, 2010 - Edit #40000 was removing peacock statements from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh article


 * November 20, 2010 - Edit #8000 on Commons was creating a category for Gays Mills, Wisconsin


 * December 14, 2010 - Edit #41000 was adding images to my "To Do" list for upcoming articles


 * March 27, 2011 - Edit #42000 was rolling back vandalism to the Manzanita Speedway article


 * March 28, 2011 - Edit #9000 on Commons, using Commonist to upload an image


 * April 3, 2011 - 4th picture on main page in DYK, showing world record set at Gravity Park USA


 * October 14, 2011 - Edit #43000 was adding content to Jaci Velasquez


 * January 14, 2012 - Edit #10000 on Commons, uploading File:Charlevoix Historical Society Harsha House.jpg


 * January 16, 2012 - Edit #44000 was using the AWB to add area code to Center, Rock County, Wisconsin


 * January 22, 2012 - Edit #45000 was using the AWB to add area code to Bevent, Wisconsin


 * February 11, 2012 - File:TimGeorgeJr2010Bucyrus200RoadAmerica.jpg on the main page while Tim George Jr. article on DYK


 * June 10, 2012 - File:Nationwide 52 Tim Schendel 2011 Road America Bucyrus 200.jpg becomes my 6th on the main page with the Tim Schendel article on DYK


 * September 5, 2012 - Edit #46000 was adding my image to the Frank Boutin Jr. House


 * September 6, 2012 - Edit #11000 on Commons was uploading File:Annala Round Barn Buildings Hurley Iron County Wisconsin.jpg


 * February 10, 2013 - Edit #47000 was adding the area code (phone number) to Gilman, Taylor County, Wisconsin


 * March 13, 2013 - Edit #12000 on Commons was creating a category for Shawano, Wisconsin


 * July 20, 2013 - Edit #13000 on Commons was creating a category for Pavilions in Wisconsin


 * August 27, 2013 - Edit #48000 was adding a challenge to the NRHP Fall 2013 photo contest
 * November 13, 2013 - File:Mason Mingus 2013 ARCA car at Road America.jpg becomes my 7th image on the main page with the Mason Mingus article on DYK


 * January 14, 2014 - Edit #14000 on Commons was refining categories for File:Engine of Denny Hamlin's Toyota.jpg


 * March 24, 2014 - Edit #49000 was assessing Talk:Peerless-Premier Appliance Company


 * September 28, 2014 - Edit #15000 on Commons was uploading File:Florence Yates House Beloit WI.jpg


 * December 17, 2014 - Edit #50000 was removing the Inuse tag from the Bob Ryan (mayor) article - cited reliable sources during its AFD.


 * August 31, 2015 - Edit #16000 to Commons was recategorizing File:Sam Hornish Jr 2014 Gardner Denver 200 at Road America.jpg


 * December 19, 2015 - Edit #51000 was adding a wikilink for the upcoming article about the National Speed Sport News


 * April 3, 2017 - Edit #1000 on Commons for my alternative account User:RoyalbroilAlt was uploading File:Birchwood Wisconsin Sign WIS48.jpg


 * October 4, 2017 - Edit #52000 was adding 2017 results in the ARCA series for the Ty Majeski article


 * January 1, 2018 - Edit # 17000 to Commons was renaming the category "NBA Development League" to "NBA G League" with the Commons Delinker (administrator) tool
 * May 26, 2018 - File:M35G12Forest (cropped).jpg is featured on the main page as the main image for the featured article M-35 (Michigan highway)


 * August 29, 2018 - File:PauldingMichiganUS45.jpg is featured on the main page as the main image for the featured article U.S. Route 45 in Michigan


 * May 27, 2019 - Edit # 53000 was reassessing Talk:National Tractor Pullers Association


 * October 10, 2019 - Edit # 18000 to Commons was recategorizing File:Tim Schendel Infield Rockford 2011 NSTC.jpg


 * July 26, 2020 - Edit #54000 was adding a national championship to Chandler Smith's page


 * May 8, 2021 - Edit #55000 was adding images to Oswego Speedway article


 * September 5, 2021 - Edit # 19000 to Commons was uploading File:DirtCityMotorplexStartFinishLine.jpg