User:Local Internet User

I started out by mostly fixing and adding citations in my spare time, an electronic version of raking a rock garden. I also like working on backlogs because seeing the numbers go down feels good and seeing them go up feels bad. Now I'm branching out to de-stubbing because it's a chance to learn about new topics and then share what I've learned.

Currently participating in: Unreferenced article backlog drive March 2026

Finally starting to participate in:

Wikipedia:The 50,000 Destubbing Challenge &
Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The 10,000 Challenge

Locations I've destubbed an article from:
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Currently focused on Top/High-importance stubs in Africa. My goal is to get them up to at least C-Class.

I succeeded in my goal to get the number of Top-importance African stubs down under 100, and now I'm making sure we keep it below 100. The count is currently: 92.

A few destubs I'm happy with:

Also working on Language stubs, including:

Projects I participate in

This user is a member of WikiProject Unreferenced articles.

This user is a participant
in WikiProject Stub Improvement.

This user is a participant in WikiProject Articles for improvement.

This user participates in
WikiProject Africa.

This user is a participant in
WikiProject Baseball.

This user participates in WikiProject Languages.

Recently participated in:

Stuff I like to check on:

Sumner's book

Page views by category if I'm trying to decide between options

Searching for "possibly unreferenced" articles by WP using ARandomName123's database

Ongoing tasks when I get stuck:

alphabetic characters in post-Soviet languages
defunct minor league baseball teams
adding sources and details to writing systems' pages and alphabets' letters: Abkhaz ATM
seeing if there's anything useful I can add to linguistics articles lacking sources:
fixing missing/broken ethnologue references on language pages (changing ref name e18, etc. to template e18)
adding coordinates to various articles:

Completed(?) tasks in case I want to return to them:

adding infoboxes, improved info on the Category:City gates in Tunis
replaced Somali vowels on Somali phonology and Somali language (via transclusion)
fixing up the Islam in Lebanon page

Stuff to do when I'm out of ideas:

List of backlogs
Missing Coords, with Wikidata
Reference fixing: Broken names, Duplicate names
Unsourced quotes
Failed verification, (Linguistics)
Needs coords by country

Barnstars

		The Anti-Systemic Bias Barnstar
		For your work destubbing Iyive language, the endangered African language. Keep up the good work! QuicoleJR (talk) 21:22, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

		Citation Barnstar
		This award is given in recognition to Local Internet User for collecting more than 202.0 points during the WikiProject Unreferenced articles's JUN25 backlog drive. Your contributions played a crucial role in sourcing over 9,500 unsourced articles during the drive. Thank you so much for participating and helping to reduce the backlog! – DreamRimmer Alt ■ 15:49, 14 July 2025 (UTC)

		Citation Barnstar
		This award is given in recognition to Local Internet User for collecting more than 203.5 points during the WikiProject Unreferenced articles's NOV25 backlog drive. Your contributions played a crucial role in sourcing over 6,000 unsourced articles during the drive. Thank you so much for participating and helping to reduce the backlog! ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 14:25, 22 December 2025 (UTC)

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