User:Rst20xx/Contributions and Awards

Articles
The sole article primarily written by me is the completely unsourced Marvel Masterworks. This was back in 2005!

Templates
I have created many templates in my time at Wikipedia. These include the following:
 * Tennis tournament templates:
 * TennisEventInfo, currently used in about 450 articles, was adapted by me from {{GrandSlamInfo}} for use in non-Grand Slam tennis tournament articles
 * TennisEventInfo2, a variant of TennisEventInfo
 * GrandSlamEvents (okay, I didn't create this one) looked like this before I started with it. It is used by over 150 articles
 * TennisEvents, used in about 150 articles
 * TennisEvents2, a variant of TennisEvents, used in over 300 articles
 * TennisEvents3, a second variant
 * Draw key, used in over 500 articles
 * Various minor templates, such as Hamburg Masters tournaments and countless others (I lose track)


 * Oxfordshire locality templates:

The great WikiProject Tennis tagging spree
One of my projects was to tag every tennis article on Wikipedia as being part of WikiProject Tennis (as well as give importance levels to all non-players and classes to all non-articles), as tennis articles were woefully undertagged. If you can't even see what articles are within the scope of your WikiProject, how are you meant to improve them?!? The tagging spree took WP:Tennis from this: to this: And, additionally: and:
 * NA-importance = 0 -> 1918
 * Image-Class = 0 -> 56
 * Template-Class = 0 -> 343
 * Project-Class = 0 -> 27
 * Category-Class = 0 -> 1314
 * Disambig-Class = 0 -> 145
 * NA-Class = 70ish -> 0 (all went to Template-Class or Category-Class)
 * Portal-Class = 0 -> 36

I'd call that successful! 4652 articles newly tagged, and before I tagged the players, Unknown-importance was down to 327 articles, so I gave importance levels to most of the articles originally in there.

See also User:Rst20xx/Tennis.

Good topics
I was the proposer and implementer of Good topics. Featured topics require a certain percentage of the content contained within them to be featured. As of writing, this is currently 25%, however it has a history of increasing, and this looks set to continue. As a result, there is a recurring trend of topics getting pushed out of WP:FT every few months, when the criteria goes up.

I originally proposed Good topics to help deal with this problem, envisioning that the good topic criteria would be more static (at around 25% say), and then the featured topic criteria would be more free to jump to 50%. Cirt had the bright idea of setting the good topic criteria to 0%, i.e. requiring no featured content at all, and brought forth a straw poll to this effect. The poll passed, and so next came the implementation plan.

The implementation of good topics is the most complicated piece of editing I have ever done. As the only difference between good and featured topics is the percentage of articles that need to be featured, I was able (using categories and templates) to set good topics up such that promotions and demotions between the two would be automatic. This involved writing the subsidiary templates FeaturedTopicSum and TopicTransclude, as well as heavily modifying ArticleHistory, Featured topic box and Featuredtopictalk. It also involved setting up a dummy WikiProject so we can easily monitor the promotions/demotions of articles involved in good and featured topics, and make sure everything is running as it should be (so far, it has been).

Recieved
(In the unlikely event you want to give me an award, please do so on my talk page!)

Given

 * To Tenebrae:
 * To Bencherlite: