User:Ched/Content

Articles I've worked on (see - I do try to edit!)

• Soxred Contribs
• Top Article edits
• Commons page ~ My old pics
• User:Ched/Pics: (my commons photos listed on my 'pedia page.)

• Wikipedia talk:Deceased Wikipedians/Proposal to establish practices to be followed for deceased Wikipedians
• Heidelberg Raceway
• I'll elaborate and maybe add a couple later (hopefully)

I see that you have articles in back to back Did You Know queues! The Heidelberg Raceway article should appear at about 10pm Chicago time and the second one for Rex White should appear at about 4am Chicago time. A nominated an image of White's NASCAR car which will be pictured beside your expansion - you got the precious top spot! I uploaded that picture from a flickr friend and I already notified him. I might do the 10pm update (I'll get someone else to credit me for the article). I suggest that you record a list your Did You Know articles - I like how some people keep the hooks. You might want to add {{User Did You Know2}} to you userpage. I'm very proud to say that I started that template (diff) to tally my DYK articles and it has achieved widespread usage. Royalbroil 00:19, 20 March 2009 (UTC)[...]

On March 20, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Heidelberg Raceway, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Congratulations on your first DYK! I'm happy that I got to promote it, and to work on the article with you. Here's to many more! Royalbroil 03:15, 20 March 2009 (UTC)[...]

On March 20, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Rex White, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Dravecky (talk) 09:51, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

On May 12, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article 1952 in NASCAR, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Dravecky (talk) 13:49, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Good, glad it made it in. Thanks for the note Dravecky ;) — Ched :  ?  20:07, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

On August 29, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article 1966 Daytona 500, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Wikiproject: Did you know? 11:15, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

On September 13, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article 1966 in NASCAR, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Wikiproject: Did you know? 00:28, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

On 9 August 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Nels Running, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that US Air Force Major General Nels Running, a recipient of seven Distinguished Flying Crosses, had never boarded an airplane until he left his home town to attend the Air Force Academy? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Casliber (talk · contribs) 08:06, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

note: didn't really do much for this one .. just a bit of copy editing — Ched :  ?  18:51, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

• First, full credit for article contributions and improvements must go to TechOutsider. Given that my actual contributions are not particularly notable, I would like to think that my contributions in talk pages, peer reviews, GAR comments, and editor assistance did help get this article to GA status.

• Primary work was done by User:Royalbroil, but he pulled me in to research, copyedit, expand, and reference, encouraged me to help, and showed me how things work. After sitting for almost a month in request, it was finally reviewed, we addressed the issues, and it's now a GA

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• Worked with User:BarkingMoon on this. I still have strong emotional attachments to it.

Wikipedia:WikiProject NASCAR and Portal:NASCAR

Nascar notes:

• 1949 NASCAR Strictly Stock Series --> 1950 NASCAR Grand National Series --> * 1971 NASCAR Winston Cup Series -->
• 2004 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series --> * 2008 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series --> * 2017 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series

NASCAR seasons that need created

• Tier I: 1956, 1958, 1962, 1964, 1967, 1968, 1969
• Tier II: 1984 - 87,
• Tier III:
• Convertible - all seasons
• DAB: 1985

Going through articles and checking that all pages linked there have wikidata short description wikidata - add Wikipedia:Short description to links in following articles, also a lot of knife/weapon articles, some tennis, legal documents, etc.

see: {{short description}} ex: 1960 NASCAR Grand National Series

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I've also started going through various sports teams seasons from their first season through 2020 to make sure they have a {{short description}}. A couple teams had their first years already done, and as I spot checked each decade, it seems their entire history had the SD already added. It's possible I missed a few, and I've noted that they were done by others. As of this writing I've completed all the active NFL teams (for each year) and started on the NHL hockey articles.

These are the NFL teams I've done:

• Actually this has become far too expansive to keep a detailed list. Some of the things I've worked on include pages in sports (NASCAR, NFL, NHL, MLB) and various seasons; including teams (Steelers, Penguins). I have and am also going through Movies, Comics (DC and Marvel), Sci-Fi (Star Trek, Star Wars), Philosophy, a few Medical articles, a lot of UK books, movies, actors, directors, producers, etc.. I've found list pages to be helpful in going through a large group of pages with a similar theme. As of the April 2021 I'm estimating I've touched over 30,000+ articles for short description. I haven't been too concerned about internal pages (projects, portals, WP:anything, drafts, etc.). This effort may not improve content much, it's a rather tedious and thankless task, but apparently it's something that we've agreed to do because it helps the accessibility for users on smaller devices; such as tablets and phones. I dedicate a lot of this to a wiki-friend who's no longer editing, and that is thanks to one individual and the group that's supposed to defend and support our project: Arbcom 2021. Here's to RexxS. Thank you for all you have given us.

A LOT of our film articles don't have plots or cast members included - so from time to time I try to fix that. These are a few I've done since early 2021. Some of them, especially the early ones, are just a brief synopsis of the film. This is usually either because the film is either unavailable for me to watch, and/or has little note in my reference material. Other films, usually the later ones, are more detailed plots.

added plot to:

• 1961 Daytona 500
• 1965 Daytona 500
• 1968 Daytona 500

• 1961 in NASCAR
• 1964 in NASCAR
• 1965 in NASCAR

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Administrator (fail)
• Helping Hands (fail)
• Civility discussion (fail)
• WP:FIXNF (advice on non-free images) (fail)
• for WP:RIP started: RfC which led to this Guideline

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• User:Ched/communication (essay)
• Quotes (deleted)
• Wiki Lions (humor) (deleted)

• BLP Uncat
• BLP Watchlist
• example: Wikipedia:Uncategorized biographies of living people/BLPPotential/5
• Categorize: WP:UBLP
• Check new BLPs: WP:NEWBLP
• Participate in AFDs: BLP AFDs
• Help resolve content issues: WP:BLP/N
• Monitor recent changes to BLPs: BLP watchlist
• Remove BLP vios: WP:BLPFIX, Unsourced statements, All unreferenced BLPs, BLPs lacking sources
  Possible vandalism or libelous edits, as detected by edit filters 39 and 189. Removal of Category:Living people (filter 117)
• User:Risker/SV/FA-GA: Started by Risker, done to honor a much beloved editor SlimVirgin aka Sarah (SV) Last known good copy: User:Ched/Obituary/FA-GA
• my preferred version of Risker/SV: [1]

WP:NPP (back in the old 2008 days), also tried a little WP:AIV, WP:RFPP, WP:REFUND just to get a feel for what they were and how they worked. Most of that I did when I first got admin. bits. Did a bit of the merge stuff too - but it's more complex than I wanted to work on. I tried to work a bit on Stargate - SG 1 way back when, but soon learned that they don't keep individual articles for each episode (Star Trek does). I put a lot of hard hours into trying to work on the Larry Sanger article, but the resistance there wasn't worth the arguments.

• RfA

• bold usually indicates I spent a little bit of time on it.
• col=colaboration .. m= very minor .. ce=copyedit .. r=redirect
• PR ~ FLC ~ dyk=DYK ~ GA ~ AfD=rescue from AfD
• originally had My Worklist - but merged with this page
• User:WereSpielChequers/Going off the boil (no idea why I have this link listed)