User talk:Bielle/Archives/2012/May

My real life
Hello Bielle

Elsewhere, you noted that my getting to 1,000 articles must indicate a lack of real life, if only because of the time involved in researching etc. I'd been meaning to do it for a long time, but your comment spurred me on to doing an analysis of my creations. The results are interesting:

Of the 1,003 pages I've now made:
 * 21 are disambiguation pages
 * 272 are categories
 * 177 are redirects
 * 13 are templates
 * leaving only 520, or not much more than 50%, as articles proper.

That's not to say the others are trivial; they involve a degree of careful and painstaking work (although admittedly, redirects take all of a minute).

Those 520 articles are spread over 9 calendar years:
 * 2004: 9
 * 2005: 11
 * 2006: 40
 * 2007: 29
 * 2008: 113
 * 2009: 143
 * 2010: 78
 * 2011: 81
 * 2012: 16 to date.

The heaviest year was 2009, with 143 articles, or an average of one every 2.6 days. That's really not hard to do. Once I've got all my sourced info together (or all that's currently available to me), which typically takes less than an hour (thank you, God, for the internet), I can put it together quite quickly into something reasonably readable. I do agonise over finer points of expression, but I've learnt to agonise quickly. I guess a certain level of confidence with my writing skills helps a lot, too.

Believe it or not, I do have a real life; it's just that my idea of fun and relaxation is unlike that of anyone else I've ever known, so I am not to be compared to other humans.

So, there you have it. I'll keep you posted when I reach my real, real 1,000th article. :) -- ♬  Jack of Oz  ♬  [your turn]  22:39, 22 April 2012 (UTC)


 * I am quite impressed as it is. Mostly I read, do a little gnome work and play at the Ref Desks, carefully avoiding both Mathematics and Computing. I suspect it is a good thing that your idea of fun and relaxation is unique -there won't be any line-up.  Regards, Bielle (talk) 15:16, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

Kantor question
Many thanks for answering it. Kudos. Kittybrewster  &#9742;  13:06, 6 May 2012 (UTC)


 * You are quite welcome, though what I found was not as clear as I would have liked. Bielle (talk) 15:18, 6 May 2012 (UTC)