Johntex | Photography | Resources | To-Do | Talk |
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20,000+ |
This user has helped promote 11 good articles on Wikipedia. |
This user has written or significantly contributed to 2 Featured articles on Wikipedia. |
This user has been a major contributor to 12 articles featured in the Did you know... section on the Main Page. |
vn-7 | This user page has been vandalized 7 times. |
This editor is a Veteran Editor IV and is entitled to display this Gold Editor Star. |
Awards and Service Badges
I, Scm83x, award this Barnstar to Johntex for his constant work in maintaining all things Longhorn and recently, his initiative to create Category:Texas Longhorns athletics and Texas Longhorn Athletics. Congratulations! |
The Running Man Barnstar | ||
The Running Man Barnstart: given in appreciation for so many substantial contributions to existing articles about University of Texas, 2005 Texas Longhorns football team and college football - CJC47 21:41, 22 November 2006 (UTC) |
The College football Barnstar | ||
I, User:BigDT, present you with the new college football barnstar for your work with college football articles this season, most notably, continuing work on the 2005 Texas Longhorn football team article. BigDT 22:35, 3 January 2007 (UTC) |
The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar | ||
Thank you for brightening up my afternoon! Frickeg 04:43, 3 February 2007 (UTC) |
The Original Barnstar | ||
I award this Barnstar (the first I ever awarded) to Johntex for his kindess and patience. You are really helpful person. :)--NAHID 18:14, 2 March 2007 (UTC) |
An Award | ||
The Commons Barnstar - Just because it was a good idea --evrik (talk) 23:23, 6 March 2007 (UTC) |
The Commons Ambassador Barnstar, Redux | ||
I know you already got one, but I wanted to acknowledge all the work you've done uploading free images and integrating them into the project, especially public domain United States government-produced works. Thank you. Yours, Smee 16:38, 15 March 2007 (UTC) |
The Barnstar of Peace | ||
I award Johntex the Barnstar of Peace for his efforts in calming down a contentious discusson on the Fightin' Texas Aggie Band webpage. Your efforts to bring about a peaceful resolution are much appreciated. Karanacs 18:01, 12 September 2007 (UTC) |
The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar | ||
Thank you for your work (over 1400 edits) to Texas A&M's pages. Thanks again, Basketballone10 03:43, 29 January 2008 (UTC) |
The Special Barnstar | ||
For the argument of common sense in the non-free content discussion, staying cool under fire, and doing a great job representing the College Football Wikiproject. --Geologik (talk) 02:27, 12 December 2008 (UTC) |
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to John for his positive attitude by Rgulerdem
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The Scouting Barnstar - A hearty thank you for your steadfast, tireless, and quality contributions to Scouting articles over many months. Rlevse
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I, Waya sahoni, award you this Legion of Merit for your exceptional contributions, leadership, and guidance with the Indigineous Peoples Project. Your efforts have produced articles of exceptional quality related to Native American Subjects.
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Wow! Quick work on creating Interdental plate per my request on the rewards board. A barnstar for you -- Spawn Man 06:50, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
Special Pages
Johntex (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA)
Where to find me
I have a variety of interests on Wikipedia, including:
- Creating/improving articles related to Texas, History, Science, Geography and College football.
- Working on the Texas Portal, Texas Wiki Project and the Texan Collaboration of the Month.
- Working on the new UT Wiki Project and the new UT Portal
- Working on the new Indigenous people Wiki Project and Portal.
- Also Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history, Wikipedia:WikiProject Ships, Wikipedia:WikiProject Oklahoma, Portal:Oklahoma, Portal:Scouting, Wikipedia:WikiProject Scouting
- And of course Wikipedia:WikiProject College football and College football portal
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check and Wikipedia:WikiProject Moving free images to Wikimedia Commons
- Greeting new users with a {{Welcome}} message.
- Patrolling Special:Newpages for articles that need to be improved or deleted
- Voting on Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion
- Contributing to policy discussions
- Answering questions at Help:Contents
- Following the wiki trail to related articles, like Hipparchus to Farnese Atlas to Museo Archeologico Nazionale Napoli to Atlas (cartography) to Atlas (mythology)...
- Improving any article linked from the front page, since these reach the most people we want them to be good!
- Clicking the Special:Random feature for a new article to learn about and hopefully improve!
Sample Contributions
Contributions table
This is an experiment with listing some of my contributions in a sortable table. I have edited thousands of articles, so this is just a sample.
Article | Rating[1] | Started | Major Contribution[2] |
Added image[3] |
Free image[4] |
Saved [5] | Notes |
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2004 Texas Longhorn football team | B | Yes |
Yes |
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2005 NCAA Division I FBS football rankings | |||||||
2005 Texas Longhorn football team | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
FA on September 8 2007 - Texas Fight!! | |
2006 Alamo Bowl | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
DYK 2007 January 4 | |||
2006 NCAA Division I FBS football rankings | |||||||
2006 Texas Longhorn football team | B | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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2007 Texas Longhorn football team | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Anahuac | Start | My first edit to Wikipedia. Interestingly, my edit was misplaced. I was really looking for Anahuac, Texas. | |||||
Anahuac Disturbances | Yes |
Yes |
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Baby Gender Mentor | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Colt McCoy | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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David Heymann | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Inspired Wikipedia:The Heymann Standard | ||
Smokey the Cannon | Yes |
Yes |
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University of Texas at Austin | Yes |
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San Bernard River | Start | Yes |
Yes |
The first article I ever started | |||
2005 Oklahoma vs. Texas football game | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
DYK – April 2007 | |||
2005 Texas vs. Ohio State football game | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
AfD candidate to GA in less than 1 month | ||
2005 Texas vs. Texas A&M football game | B | Yes |
Yes |
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Dusty Mangum | B | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
The kicker who decided the 2005 Rose Bowl | |
Hoi polloi | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Someone wanted to transwiki to wiktionary, but I pointed out this is well beyond a dicdef. | ||
Hubbert peak theory | Yes |
Yes |
Helped settle edit war. | ||||
Charles Whitman | Long discussions with John Moore and family of Houston McCoy | ||||||
Jordanhill railway station | officially our one-millionth article | ||||||
Joseph McCoy | Start | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
I choose to believe it was our one-millionth article. It was featured in DYK March 2006. | ||
MQ-8 Fire Scout | Start | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Raider Red | Start | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Red River Shootout | B | Yes |
Yes |
Red River Shootout - was copied by WOAI on their website. They took it down when I contacted them about their need to properly cite Wikipedia and comply with GFDL.
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Red River Shootout trophies | B | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
You go, Mack-Daddy! | ||
Texas Ranger Division | Yes |
Featured Article displayed on the Main Page, on 2006 January 16
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The Masked Rider | Start | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Cow's Skull: Red, White, and Blue | Start | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Daniel Merriam | Start | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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The University of Texas National Championship 2005 | Start | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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University of Texas at Austin | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Ralphie | Yes |
Yes |
DYK on Main page with my picture | ||||
Valiant Shield | B | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
DYK on Main page with my picture | ||
October 2007 California wildfires | B | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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2008 Texas Longhorn football team | B | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Texas! | |
Millsaps Majors | Yes |
Yes |
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Trinity Tigers | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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2007 Trinity vs. Millsaps football game | B | Yes |
Yes |
Did you know......that the Longest play in college football history occurred on October 27 2007 when the Trinity Tigers, trailing the Millsaps Majors by two points with two seconds left in the game, used 15 backward passes covering 60 yards for a touchdown to give Trinity the win as time expired? | |||
2007 Navy vs. Notre Dame football game | Yes |
Yes |
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2008 Gator Bowl | Yes |
Yes |
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2007 Texas vs. Oklahoma State football game | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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2007 Texas Longhorns football suspensions | B | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Fort Guijarros | B | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Main Page DYK March 62008 |
I am listed at Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by featured article nominations for the successful nomination of Baby Gender Mentor and [[2005 Texas Longhorn 2005 Texas Longhorn football team to FA status.
Notes:
- ^ "Rating" will list if the article has made GA or FA. I may also include other rankings like "A" and "stub".
- ^ "Major contribution" is a judgment call. Here I will state whether I think I made a major contribution to the article or not. Note that this does not mean I claim to be the major contributor. This is subjective of course. You are welcome to disagree about the impact of my contribution; and of course articles change such that it is essentially impossible to ever say how much of an article was written by whom.
- ^ "Added image" - this means I found an image somewhere and added it to the article, following our image use guidelines of course. It could be a fair-use image that can properly be used in the article. It could be an image I found on the Commons or elsewhere in Wikipedia.
- ^ "Free image" - this means I actually created an image (usually a photograph), released it under a free license, and added it to the article.
- ^ "Saved" means I helped save the article from deletion. Usually by arguing in its behalf on AfD and/or improving the article to make it worthy of keeping.
A few more contributions:
2007 Fiesta Bowl - 2007 Sugar Bowl - 50-Miler Award - Boy Scouts of America - Cedric Griffin , DYK 2006 May 1. - Cichlid - Clinton-Sherman Industrial Airpark - Crystal Gail Mangum - Culture of Egypt - Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium - Effect of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans - Farnese Atlas - Fernando Jara - Gourd Dance, featured in "Did You Know" on the Wikipedia Main Page on 2006 February 14. - Gustav Klimt - Hook 'em Horns - Houston Chronicle - Jamarat Bridge - Jazil - JetBlue Airways Flight 292 - John Kerry - Lolicon - Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod (where else can you find Lolicon next to the Lutheran Church?) - Mack Brown – Main Building of The University of Texas at Austin, featured in "Did You Know" on the Wikipedia Main Page on 2006 January 20. - Michel Rodange - Mustelus hacat - NASA - Opie Otterstad - Philmont Scout Ranch - Product Placement - Ramonce Taylor - Rénert the Fox - Rockall - SS Nicaragua - SS Petersburg (T-AOT-9101) - Stardust (spacecraft) - Stratellite - Texas Exes - Texas longhorn (the large mammal) - Texas Longhorns (the sports teams) – Texas Longhorns football - Texas Tech Red Raiders - The University of Texas Longhorn Band - USS Texas (BB-35) - Vailulu'u - Vince Young - World Crest
Photos I have uploaded
Please see the Image Gallery
DYK
Milestones in Edit Count
- 12 December 2004 - made my first edit
- Sometime in 2005 - passed Jimbo Wales in editcount. :-)
- 28 September 2005 - reached 2001 Total edits
- 5 October 2005 - reached 1,006 distinct pages edited (approximately 2.23 edits / page)
- 10 October 2005 - branching out a little, made my first edit to WikiTravel.
- 15 October 2005 - now listed in the Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits at
- Main Article Space - #1642 with 1557 edits
- All namespaces - #1435 with 2438 edits
- 21 October 2005 - passed 2500 Total edits
- 15 January 2006 - passed 3500 Total edits
- 11 February 2006 - passed 4000 Total edits
- 12 February 2006 - passed 4100 Total edits
- 2 March 2006 - passed 4500 Total edits
- 11 March 2006 - now listed in the Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits at
- Main Article Space - #1699 with 2253 edits
- All namespaces - #1219 with 4904 edits
- 15 March 2006 - passed 5000 Total edits
- 16 March 2006 - passed 5100 Total edits
- 17 March 2006 - passed 5200 Total edits
- 19 March 2006 - passed 5300 Total edits
- March 2006 - the first time I ever had >1,000 edits in one month, also the first month > 2,000 edits
- 20 March 2006 - passed 5400 Total edits
- 29 March 2006 - passed 6000 Total edits
- 30 March 2006 - passed 6200 Total edits
- 2 May 2006 - passed 7100 Total edits
- 16 June 2006 - created my first page on the Portuguese Wikipedia.[1]
- 27 June 2006 - passed 8300 Total edits
- 12 July 2006 - passed 9000 Total edits
- 4 August 2006 - passed 10,000 Total edits
- 23 September 2006 - now listed in the Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits at number 798.
- 10 October 2006 - passed 11,000 Total edits
- 4 November 2006 - now listed in the Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits at number 779.
- 30 November 2006 - now listed in the Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits at number 790.
- 12 December 2006 - my second anniversary - 12,555 Total edits on the English Wikipedia.
- 9 February 2007 - now listed in the Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits at number 710 with 13,967 edits.
- 18 March 2007 - passed 15,000 edits.
- 18 April 2007 - passed 16,000 edits.
- 2 August 2007 - now listed in the Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits at number 756 with 16,663 edits.
- 20 August 2007 - passed 17,000 edits.
- 12 September 2007 -now listed in the Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits at number 715 with 18,097 edits.
- 1 November 2007 - now listed in the Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits at number 694 with 19,356 edits.
- 12 March2008 - passed 20,200 edits.
- 18 November 2008 - now listed in the Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits at number 993 with 21,033 edits.
- Edit counts aren't everything, but for what it is worth, here is the current Edit count for Johntex
- If that edit counter is broken for en.wiki, you can use this one instead.
Resources
Here are some of my favorite Resources for editing Wikipedia.
Useful quote:
...as a general rule, I think that almost any argument, on any topic, which has premises beginning with "Jimbo said..." is a pretty weak argument. Surely the merits of the proposal should be primary, not what I happen to think."[2] - Jimbo Wales
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