User:The Kip

I have nothing to say (mostly).

I primarily specialize in pages relating to the Vegas Golden Knights prospect system (and others), having created Brayden Pachal, Kaedan Korczak, Isaiah Saville, Jiri Patera, Lukas Cormier, Layton Ahac, Mikael Hakkarainen, and Matt Murray, while having significantly updated Logan Thompson and Zach Dean. I also significantly contributed to Vegas Golden Knights and Thompson achieving Good Article status, as well as List of Vegas Golden Knights draft picks achieving Featured List status, and created the NHL All-Decade team article.

I'm also effectively the founder, leader, and sole member of WikiProject Ice Hockey's Vegas Golden Knights task force.

My XTools analytics/statistics can be found here.

Hockey-related

 * Brayden Pachal
 * Kaedan Korczak
 * Isaiah Saville
 * Jiri Patera
 * Lukas Cormier
 * Layton Ahac
 * Mikael Hakkarainen
 * Matt Murray (no, not that one.)
 * Chris Patrick
 * NHL All-Decade team
 * 2022–23 USHL season
 * 2024 Stanley Cup Finals
 * 2022 in ice hockey
 * 2023 in ice hockey
 * 2024 in ice hockey
 * Bosnia and Herzegovina men's national junior ice hockey team
 * Belgium women's national under-18 ice hockey team
 * Latvia women's national under-18 ice hockey team
 * 2026 National Hockey League All-Star Game
 * 2026 NHL Entry Draft
 * 2024–25 Vegas Golden Knights season
 * 2024–25 NHL suspensions and fines
 * 2025 Stanley Cup playoffs (redirect, for now)

Non-hockey

 * 2021 All-Pro Team
 * 2022 All-Pro Team

Hockey-related

 * Logan Thompson, including his article photos and getting it to GA
 * Zach Dean
 * Macklin Celebrini
 * Mason Morelli
 * Alexander Karachun
 * Vegas Golden Knights, including getting it to GA
 * Utah NHL team
 * 2023 Stanley Cup Finals
 * 2024 Kelly Cup playoffs
 * 2019–20 Vegas Golden Knights season (retroactive)
 * 2020–21 Vegas Golden Knights season (retroactive)
 * 2021–22 Vegas Golden Knights season
 * 2022–23 Vegas Golden Knights season
 * 2023–24 Vegas Golden Knights season
 * 2024–25 Utah Hockey Club season
 * 2020–21 NHL season
 * 2021–22 NHL season
 * 2022–23 NHL season
 * 2023–24 NHL season
 * 2024–25 NHL season
 * 2022–23 NHL transactions
 * 2023–24 NHL transactions
 * 2024–25 NHL transactions
 * 2023–24 NHL suspensions and fines
 * 2023–24 Czech Extraliga season
 * 2023–24 USHL season
 * 2020 in ice hockey
 * 2021 in ice hockey
 * 2024 NHL entry draft
 * Potential National Hockey League expansion
 * History of the National Hockey League (2017–present)
 * List of NHL players with 1,000 games played
 * List of New York Islanders draft picks
 * List of Utah Hockey Club draft picks
 * List of Vegas Golden Knights award winners
 * List of Vegas Golden Knights draft picks, including getting it to FL
 * List of Vegas Golden Knights records
 * List of Vegas Golden Knights players
 * The infobox photos for Mark Stone, Paul Cotter, Pavel Dorofeyev, and Jonas Røndbjerg
 * WikiProject Ice Hockey‎

Non-hockey

 * Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship
 * Lance Reddick
 * List of Arena Football League teams
 * List of PWG World Champions
 * Tatoi Palace

To-do

 * Fill in the blanks of Lukas Cormier, which skips from the QMJHL finals to his NHL debut.
 * Expand Jonas Røndbjerg, which currently doesn't even mention his debut that came two seasons ago.
 * Expand the college section of Mason Morelli, which barely covers anything after his freshman year. Maybe even take it to GA.
 * Update Patrick Roy with info from his 2018-2023 Remparts stint, which is currently entirely unmentioned on his page.
 * Update prior VGK season articles with summaries, transactions (19/20 and 20/21), etc.
 * Ensure all VGK UFAs ( Amadio, Carrier, Mantha, Marchessault, Martinez, Stephenson, Patera, Froese, Rempal ) and RFAs ( Dorofeyev, Morozov, Primeau, Ahac, Korczak , Saville, Schmid ) are accounted for on the upcoming 2024-25 season page.
 * Update all VGK pages for offseason
 * Create Turkmenistan men's national under-18 ice hockey team

Longer-term

 * Get VGK season articles to GA
 * Get VGK lists to FL
 * Get VGK article itself to FA
 * Take Mark Stone to GA

Edits
''As of May 6, 2024. Might be off due to deleted pages/drafts.''
 * First (registered) edit – 1:19, December 5, 2016 on The Wyatt Family
 * 100th edit – 18:53, February 17, 2017, on World Xtreme Wrestling
 * 500th edit – 16:39, September 29, 2019, on Carolina Hurricanes
 * 1,000th edit – 5:53, March 14, 2021, on Template:2020–21 NHL North Division standings
 * 5,000th edit – 18:36, April 13, 2023, on In the news/Candidates
 * 10,000th edit – 23:09, April 15, 2024, on Potential National Hockey League expansion

Yes, I went about a year between edits 5,000 and 10,000, after it took me over six years to get from 1 to 5,000.

Articles

 * First article – 2021 All-Pro Team, published 18:54 on January 14, 2022.
 * Fifth article – Isaiah Saville, published 00:18 on March 29, 2022.
 * Tenth article – 2022 All-Pro Team, published 19:56 on January 12, 2023.
 * 20th article – 2026 NHL Entry Draft, published 21:02 on March 10, 2024.
 * First GA (review) – Vegas Golden Knights, promoted 16:01 on June 28, 2023.
 * First FL (candidacy) – List of Vegas Golden Knights draft picks, promoted 12:25 on July 2, 2024.
 * First DYK (front-page entry) – Vegas Golden Knights, posted to front page on July 8, 2023.
 * First ITN item (recognition) – Bob Plager, RD published 4:15 on March 30, 2021
 * First ITN blurb (recognition) – 2023 NBA Finals, blurb published 5:35 on June 13, 2023
 * First barnstar - The Minor Barnstar, for adding an unsigned template to a comment at WP:AN at 5:06 on May 27, 2024

Screaming into the void
The ARBIPA area, which is objectively overrun with POV-warriors seeking to "win" the propaganda narrative, would be far better if most (if not all!) of its most-active editors, backing either side of the conflict, were indefinitely topic-banned. You know who you are.

Nuking the topic's userbase and starting from scratch would be a great idea to try, but some apparently consider my opinion both a PA and casting aspersions on their behavior. Sorry that someone's finally seeing through your Wikilawyering, "but I'm just showing the facts!" garbage and calling you out on it. The  Kip  (contribs) 22:11, 22 June 2024 (UTC)
 * As of the last month or two, admin consensus also seems to be that a prolific edit count/contributions in the area also effectively grants immunity from reports of incivility, battleground behavior, and AE weaponization, among other things; at worst, users get a weak-worded warning or two. The message is effectively that only new/uninvolved users have to play by the rules, while established ones have free range to be as toxic and/or manipulative as they want. Ain't that grand? The   Kip  (contribs) 20:00, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

On a partly-related note, I find the notion that some users are simply unblockable to be utter garbage. We all play by the same rules here, and managing to have your contribution count/quality outrun your policy violations shouldn’t grant you any degree of immunity from sanctions, including indefs. The idea that “well, their contributions are valuable” or “but they’re correct” effectively arbitrarily creates a class system in which experienced editors can get away with things that less-experienced editors would’ve quickly been blocked for, due to some warped conception of opportunity cost. There is no such thing as an irreplaceable editor. The  Kip  (contribs) 16:17, 11 July 2024 (UTC)