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History

- Hi! I’m Dan, a.k.a. Λυδαcιτγ
- I’ve been editing Wikipedia since 2005
- I’ve contributed to one (former) featured article,
Backmasking, and to one featured portal,
Portal:Music - I became an administrator in 2007
- I’ve made some inappropriate edits along the way
- I don’t edit frequently these days but I do often correct out-of-date content assessments using the extremely handy Wikipedia:Metadata gadget
- I grew up in West Hartford, Connecticut, went to college at St. John’s College in Annapolis, and currently live in Beijing, China
- I know User:AubreyEllenShomo, User:Mwfogleman and User:HarbisonSchwartzkopf from college) and User:AstoVidatu, User:Hey jude, don’t let me down from high school
- Articles I’ve created:
APEC China 2014
Rodney Vaccaro
Joe Martin (cartoonist)
Forum (legal)
Monroe Calculator Company
Ruth Duskin Feldman
Mike Sui
Sedgwick Middle School
Zhang Yong (politician)
Ule (company)
Beijing Tourism Group
King Liu
Peter Putnam (scientist)
List of backmasked messages- Articles/pages I’ve improved significantly:
Portal:Music
Backmasking
Stairway to Heaven
Parents Music Resource Center
Subliminal stimuli / hidden message
News
- In basketball, the New York Knicks defeat the San Antonio Spurs to win the NBA Finals (MVP Jalen Brunson pictured).
- Elon Musk becomes the world’s first US-dollar trillionaire after his company SpaceX raises the largest initial public offering.
- Princess Bajrakitiyabha of Thailand, a possible heir to the throne, dies at the age of 47 after a three-year comatose state.
- English artist David Hockney dies at the age of 88.
- In athletics, Ja’Kobe Tharp sets a new world record in men’s 110 metres hurdles.
To do
Currently, this editor has earned the Veteran Editor IV service award.
To get to the next level, Senior Editor, he needs to meet the editing requirement.
Progress towards the next level (by edits): [ 46 / 4000 ]1.2% completed
- Merge meeting and Meeting (parliamentary procedure)
- China–United States relations
- List of St. John’s College (Annapolis/Santa Fe) people
- Higher Brothers
- Butler Capital Partners
- New Oriental
- Real estate in China
- Update Metropolitan regions of China
- Write a bot to check for articles with {{more citations needed}} and >25 citations
Personal life
- Awards I’ve received:
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Welcomer’s Barnstar
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Blueprint Barnstar
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Barnstar of Diligence
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Modest Barnstar
- My RFA standards
- To search for my signature on a page:
Λυδαcιτγ
{{subst:User:Audacity/Welcome|me=<your username>|type=<user/anon/userexp>|article=<article name>}}
- Sandboxes: /Sandbox, /Dirtbox, /Claybox, /Temporary
See also
- Recent changes likely to need reversion
- Wikipedia IRC channels: #wikipedia, #wikipedia-en, #wikipedia-en-functionaries
- Delete things: speedy | uncontested | contested
- Enhance your editing with scripts
- Warnings and other user talk messages
- Magic words
- ParserFunctions
- Automatic references
- User:Flominator/WikiBlame (for when you can’t find who added a particular sentence to an article)
- The Missing Manual
- User:Antandrus/observations on Wikipedia behavior
- Article improvement: Wikipedia:Article development, User:AndyZ/Suggestions, Wikipedia:What is a good article?, Wikipedia:Featured article criteria & Wikipedia:Featured article advice, Wikipedia:The perfect article
External links
- Interesting Magna Carta (An Embroidery) | Project A119 | An epic talk page battle in the beautiful prose of Peter Hitchens
- Strange: Longest article name on Wikipedia? | Accidental vandalism
- Funny: Epic run-on | Friends of gays | All articles are notable
- Meta: Wikipedia:Wikipediology | Wikipedia:Missing Wikipedians | Special:Random/User | Spanish editcountitis


