User:The Green Star Collector

Hello?

Can anyone hear me?

What is this place?

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Oh, right. Wikipedia.

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Good morning, good evening, and good afternoon, everyone.

I'm trying to make the world a better place, one edit at a time.

Biography
Hello. I'm a Wikipedia editor from Chicago, Illinois. I'm greatly interested in politics, true crime, and video games; hence, I tend to edit articles of these subjects most frequently, with contributions ranging from minor edits to rewriting and expanding entire articles. Occasionally, I write articles on these topics from scratch.

I also enjoy adding infoboxes to articles and fixing the formatting of pre-existing infoboxes. Projects of mine have also included fixing bare URLs and adding citations.

I graduated from John C. Dore Elementary School as valedictorian, then graduated from St. Laurence High School with a standard degree, as well as an IB diploma. I'm currently pursuing an education at Elmhurst University, majoring in computer science with a minor in multimedia journalism.

If you're wondering where my username comes from, look no further than the Super Mario Galaxy duology. Collecting the 120 Green Stars in Super Mario Galaxy 2 was my favorite part of the game, though I also enjoy collecting them in Super Mario 3D World. I also have a newsletter on Substack named after a location from Paper Mario; I'm fond of that series as well. I also have a separate newsletter, WikiGems, where I write exclusively about Wikipedia content.

In addition to video games, I'm also interested in (and passionate about) writing, typing, coding, etc.

Here's two of my favorite rap verses, for some reason. Coincidentally, they both involve burgers and fries.

""Who am I? I'm that guy. I'm the burger with the fries.""

- Chris Webby

""We ordered two Big Macs and two large fries with Cokes.""

- Parents Just Don't Understand

Over 90% of my edits are mainspace edits, and over 99% of all my edits are live edits. For additional information regarding my Wikipedia contributions and activity, see here.

I run a gimmick account on Twitter called Depths Of Super Mario Wiki. It's like Depths of Wikipedia, but with content from the Super Mario Wiki.

Feel free to fix any redirects and miscellaneous info on this page as you see fit.

Suggestions
If you're looking for something to do on Wikipedia, I have a few suggestions:
 * If you have the ability to do so, create articles in need of creation.
 * Rewrite and expand articles in need of rewritting and expansion, otherwise known as stubs.
 * Update articles in need of updating.
 * Skim articles for grammatical errors and typos. Copyediting is important, too!
 * Add infoboxes to biographical articles, or correct the formatting of pre-existing infoboxes. Check here for suggestions.
 * Go to the list of new pages and check the most recently created articles for spelling, grammar, formatting, etc. A good number of these articles will lack references, a DEFAULTSORT value, and/or categories. You can add some yourself, or add a template or two to alert other editors if you're not sure what to do.
 * Welcome new users, providing them with information about the basics of editing Wikipedia.
 * Give barnstars to users in recognition of major (or minor) contributions.
 * Check the recent changes page and thank users for their contributions. It's nice to feel appreciated!
 * If you're able to, create your own user page. Add on to your user page as desired. Create a userbox tower and award yourself a ribbon.
 * Create your own sandbox.
 * Customize your signature.
 * Fix bare URLs and other reference formatting errors. For a list of articles that contain at least one bare URL, see here.
 * Add italics to the titles of books, newspapers, magazines, etc.
 * Work on this article.
 * ???

Did you know?
Some interesting tidbits, courtesy of Wikipedia:
 * The plural of attorney general is attorneys general, not attorney generals. (↗)
 * Referring to Democrats as Democrats is offensive. (↗)
 * The world's smallest park measures just 452 square inches. (↗)
 * A man on death row escaped from prison, only to become the victim of an unsolved murder later that night. (↗)
 * A U.S. senator lost re-election to someone who had been deceased for three weeks. (↗)
 * Wikipedia was red pilled. (↗)
 * There's a miniature version of Wikipedia. (↗)
 * The DK Rap has its own Wikipedia article, for some reason. (↗)
 * The inventor of the saxophone had numerous near-death experiences as a child. (↗)
 * Greta Thunberg and Kyle Rittenhouse were born on the exact same day. (↗)
 * A debate over whether to capitalize the "I" in Star Trek Into Darkness required more than 40,000 words on the article's talk page before a consensus was reached. (↗)
 * You can combine a fork, a knife, and a spoon into one eating utensil. (↗)
 * Frosty Boss Ribs is the name of a politician from Montana, not a dish. (↗)
 * Thomas Lawyer was a lawyer who died in Lawyersville, New York. (↗)
 * George F. Burgess (George Farmer Burgess) "engaged in agricultural pursuits"; in other words, he became a farmer. (↗)
 * Seventeen people were killed in a riot that unfolded over a stolen slice of watermelon. (↗)

Personal BJAODN

 * "Eventually, Mabel eventually pulls out two tacos, and Pacifica eventually accepts a taco." — The Golf War
 * "The film was released in U.S. theaters August 3, 2012." — Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (film) (This sentence, which was added in May 2022, did not include a period until October 2023.)

Notable contributions

 * Every Minnesota State Auditor now has an article!
 * Cleaned up my high school's Wikipedia article. (I don't consider this a conflict of interest, since I've graduated and have no other reason to edit the article than simply trying to help out my alma mater.)
 * Helped promote Mario Party DS to good article status.
 * Added information about a deadly 2017 prison escape attempt to the Pasquotank Correctional Institution article.

Crime articles created
Disappearance of Adele Marie Wells ★ Disappearance of Amy Billig ★ Disappearance of Bianca Piper ★ Murder of Gretchen Anthony

Politician articles created
("*" indicates that an image was also added.)

C. H. Wilcox ★ Cash Cole* ★ Charles McIlrath ★ Henry J. Pariseau* ★ James T. Maxfield ★ Orville E. Atwood ★ Stanley McCutcheon* ★ Thomas F. Conlon Jr. ★ William W. Braden

Crime stub articles rewritten and/or expanded
2024 Rockford stabbings ★ Disappearance of Maureen Kelly ★ Disappearance of Sara Anne Wood ★ James Hubbard (murderer) ★ Sagarejo shooting

Politician stub articles rewritten and/or expanded
("*" indicates that an image was also added. Articles in italics were upgraded on Wikipedia's content assessment scale following my contributions.)

Albert Gallatin Marchand ★ Alphonse Roy Lejk* ★ Alvin Endt ★ Andrew Boden ★ Anna B. Miller ★ Benjamin Franklin Junkin ★ Bill Guffey ★ Bob Atwater ★ Bob Deig ★ Burke Jackson ★ Caleb Sawyer ★ Carl Rudolf Berghult ★ Charles Billinghurst ★ Charles E. Grainger ★ Charles L. Chase ★ Charles Leonard Todd* ★ Charles Sweetser ★ Chilton C. Baker* ★ Clark William Trisler ★ Curt Hofstad ★ Daniel H. Miller ★ Daniel Sheffer ★ David Asay ★ David C. Cloud* ★ David Hogg (American politician)* ★ David L. Wilkinson ★ David N. Hitchcock ★ Dean Clukey ★ Delwyn Gage ★ Dennis Iverson (politician) ★ Douglas Cordier ★ Douglas K. Bryant ★ Earl L. Engbritson* ★ Earnest Lynde ★ Edward D. Ziegler ★ Edward L. Garden ★ Enos Hook ★ Ernest A. Beedle* ★ Ezekiel S. Candler Jr. ★ Ezra Baker ★ Ezra Wheeler ★ Fannie M. Buzzell ★ Francis L. Wing ★ Frank P. Coburn ★ Gail D. Zimmerman ★ Garfield W. Brown* ★ George B. Shaw ★ George Peter Madden* ★ George W. Armstrong ★ Greg Beumer ★ Gustav A. Anderson ★ Harry W. Griswold ★ Henry White Beeson ★ Jack Beauchamp ★ Jack P. King ★ Jacob Richards ★ James Gerry ★ James L. Applegate ★ James M. Lewis ★ James Nolan (politician)* ★ Jane Warren ★ John Bermingham ★ John Brisbin* ★ John D. Cummins ★ John Freedley ★ John B. Randolph ★ John Robert Beach* ★ John W. Cox (Minnesota politician)* ★ Joseph Kille ★ Joseph Lefever ★ Josephine Fagan ★ Larry Derryberry ★ Larry Grinde ★ Lettie D. Campbell ★ Lewis D. Thill ★ Loraine Rollins ★ Lori Millin ★ Lorraine Quarberg ★ Lucile Connaghan ★ Mable Mathews ★ Madge Enterline ★ Marie E. Howe ★ Morna Wood ★ Nathaniel Terry ★ Nettie Truax ★ Ole Aarsvold ★ Oscar A. Hall ★ Otto Armstrong* ★ Otto Rachals ★ Owen A. Wells ★ Pleasant B. Tully ★ Richard Fitzgerald (Minnesota politician) ★ Robert Allison (Pennsylvania politician) ★ Roy E. York* ★ Ruth N. Edelman ★ Sam Blackwell ★ Sam D. Bundy ★ Samuel Myron Brainerd ★ Shirley S. Kastor ★ Scott Court ★ Thomas Butler (Louisiana politician) ★ Thomas G. McCullough ★ Thomas H. Horton* ★ Thomas M. Bell (Ohio politician) ★ Thomas M. Fagan ★ Thomas Marshal Bibighaus ★ Thomas Ross (Pennsylvania politician) ★ Tim Gay ★ Warren Vertress* ★ William Elijah Bloom* ★ William Geister* ★ William G. Hardwick ★ William H. Mellen ★ William S. Ramsey ★ William Theopilus Jones ★ William Wilson (Pennsylvania politician) ★ Willis Bagley ★ Winant Van Winkle ★ Wyatt Agar

Miscellaneous articles created
Benjamin Clark (chef) ★ Rachel Powell

Miscellaneous articles rewritten and/or expanded
Samuel M. Lambert

Goals
I'm currently on a mission to get at least one infobox added to as many articles as possible in Category:Biography articles without infoboxes. Is it as exciting as Team 0%'s journey to clear every level in Super Mario Maker? Probably not. But I'm sure I'll enjoy it.

This adventure began on April 4, 2024, when an estimated 19,399 biographical articles had infobox requests.