User:Wcquidditch

I've been editing Wikipedia for over 20 years now, though I had been reading it for a few months beforehand. I first started editing as an unregistered user on September 6, 2005, with my first two edits being the additions of {{Infobox broadcast}} (forerunner to today's {{Infobox television station}}) to the WBPX and WUNI-TV articles. After that, I returned on September 19 and started the article on WWDP (in those days, there was no Articles for Creation process, and unregistered users could still create articles in mainspace; just months later, the Wikipedia Seigenthaler biography incident brought that practice to an end); from there, I continued to create and edit articles on broadcast stations, especially TV stations — as well as a number of other things. A few days later (on September 25, 2005) I registered my account (the first edits simply picked up where my anon edits left off), and since then I have done many more edits to articles related to broadcasting, as well as the occasional other thing (such as roads) — though as the years have gone by the non-broadcasting-related edits have all but dried up, and a substantial amount of those that I do still make gravitate towards other media topics. (As for how many more edits have I made? Well, in the 20 years I've had this account, I've racked up well over 163,000 edits — good enough to rank 427th on the list of Wikipedians by number of edits (as of March 1, 2026). (That's just the edits that remain visible in page histories; it's over 172,000 edits when factoring in since-deleted edits.) Additionally, I've revamped several template series' into more uniform styles (for their series — this was back in the days before {{ambox}}, {{imbox}}, and {{cmbox}}), and I make the occasional comment at XfD discussions (but nowadays my main presence there, at least at AfD, is in deletion sorting and other gnomish-tasks like cleaning up malformed nominations).

Of course, when I'm aware of vandalism that hasn't been reverted, that's exactly what I do — I revert it. I have been also known to discover when an article is about something that isn't really true. In fact, debunking a K07RE that was affiliated with five networks at once (and predated LPTV, the type of station it was purported to be, by some 20-25 years) as a hoax led to the first barnstar I received, which was a Barnstar of Diligence that was given to me by Firsfron (talk · contribs) on August 22, 2006. (By the way, while there was a K07RE, it was actually a relay of the Alaska Rural Communications Service…)

How active I've been has constantly varied; sometimes I'm quite active, sometimes I'm not. (On the other hand, I've had an editing streak — both in articles and the wiki as a whole — for three years running (and these rank in the top 20 in mainspace and top 50 sidewide); it's been a while since my last spell of complete inactivity.) Fret not, though — I'm not going away anytime soon.

(And yes, even my userpage has seen vandalism, even though I'm not necessarily one of the more high-profile editors — an admittedly odd self-description of someone who edits at least one article every day and is omnipresent in many a delsort notice, though it may make more sense in the context of having only made 0.01% of Wikipedia's edits and editing 0.09% of the total pages. It's not something that happens too often, thank goodness, and in recent years the edit filters prevent virtually any such attempts from having any effect.)

If you want to know about my interests (even off-wiki), take a peek at my userboxes.

Right now, it is 20:18, March 22, 2026 — and that means it's Sunday!
NOTE: Above timing information is given in UTC, and may not match your local time.

For info on the number of articles (which is given here on most days), see the Sunday StatChart below. More statistics are located here. Please purge the cache if the given information is now incorrect.

The featured picture and more

Sunday StatChart edit | purge NOTE: Information about wikis other than the English Wikipedia may be out of date; their display here is updated only every six hours. All other information given is current as of 20:18, 22 March 2026 (UTC) unless otherwise noted. Article count: 7,156,157 (and growing! In all of the 362 Wikipedias that have ever existed, there have collectively been 66,789,492 articles (we represent 10.71% of this), but the number of topics covered on all Wikipedias might be a bit smaller than that as articles may exist in multiple languages.) Local file count: 963,756 (These are only the locally-uploaded files.) Commons file count: 136,830,209, for a total of 137,793,965 available files (with so many files, it's inevitable that we still don't have enough articles for them all yet… and only 0.7% are locally uploaded. Across all of Wikimedia there are 139,927,241 files, 2,898,968 (2.07%) of them on Wikipedias and 3,097,032 (2.21%) not on Commons in general.) Overall page count: 65,337,809 (There might not be many websites with that many pages. It's even harder to imagine someone having been to all of those pages, especially since this number, too, is ever-growing! But even that might be nothing compared to the estimated 682,620,760 pages that comprise all of Wikimedia, of which we only have 9.57%…) Registered user count: 52,039,320 (Wikipedia's popular, I can tell you that! In all of Wikimedia, there are about 236,775,795 accounts, though I can't confirm if unified logins inflate that count in any way; in any case, 21.98% of them are here.) Active registered users: 282,288 (At this juncture this probably gives a better impression of the size of the Wikipedia community. Note that this does include temporary accounts—when we were showing IP addresses instead, those were not—along with some one-or-done users that happen to have actually edited something in the past month. The number jumps up to 738,330 users across all of Wikimedia, though again, I can't confirm whether unified logins are counted multiple times; I can at least say we have 38.23% of that.) My edit count (excluding deleted edits): 163,741 edits on 56,572 pages (From XTools edit counter; more info here. This info is as of 23:59, 1 March 2026 (UTC). Note that this does mean that I have essentially only touched about 0.09% of Wikipedia's pages.) Deleted edits: 8,290 edits, for a total of 172,031 edits (From XTools edit counter. This info is as of 18:42, 1 February 2026 (UTC).) Global edit count: 187,312 edits (From XTools edit counter; more info here. This info is as of 23:59, 1 March 2026 (UTC). Note that this section of the counter has an 3,936-edit discrepancy in my English Wikipedia editcount (they are included here, but excluded above); I cannot confirm which number is more accurate (note that it is the larger of the two that gets pushed to the list of Wikipedians by number of edits), and the gap tends to go up and down (but mostly up)…) Overall edit count: 1,340,069,753 (Certainly makes my numbers—which represent all of 0.01% of the edits ever made—look more quaint, doesn't it? How about the 8,034,221,995 or so edits to all Wikimedia projects, of which the English Wikipedia represents 16.68%, but between all projects only 0.002% can be attributed to me?) My upload count: 1,664 files on the English Wikipedia, and 598 on Commons, for a total of 2,252 files (From XTools edit counter; more info here (Wikipedia) and here (Commons). This info is as of 18:42, 1 February 2026 (UTC). I am not sure how deletions and moves (and most of my Commons files were moved from here) affect these counts, but this represents a mere 0.17% of our local files, a very paltry 0.0004% of the Commons library, and thus just 0.002% of the available files.) MediaWiki version number: 1.46.0-wmf.20 (212dc13) Other stats - Statistic milestones and more

Picture of the day

Zhuhai Fisher Girl is a granite statue in Zhuhai, China, designed by Pan He and completed between 1979 and 1982. Standing 8.7 metres (29 ft) tall in Xianglu Bay and weighing about 10 tonnes, the statue is of a fisherwoman holding a pearl high in the air, inspired by a local legend recorded in various versions. Commissioned during the development of the Zhuhai Special Economic Zone, the statue was cited by supporters as enabling the city to establish its own cultural identity, though its cost and depiction sparked some controversy at the time. Since its installation, it has become part of Zhuhai's growing tourism industry. Zhuhai Fisher Girl was designated a cultural relic in 2014, and later plans have proposed expanding the surrounding area into a larger recreational and tourist site. This photograph of the statue was taken in 2024, with part of the Zhuhai skyline in the background.Statue credit: Pan He; photographed by Daniel Lawrence Lu

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Tip of the day

Tip of the day... Searching Wikipedia with regular expressions (regex) Searching with regex online To search Wikipedia live with regular expressions, use the insource: parameter, followed by your regex search string enclosed in forward slashes, like this: /regular expression/. Here is an example: insource:/(Abraham|Abe) Lincoln/ insource searches the wikitext version of articles, and so, wikiformatting codes can be included in the search string. If any characters you wish to find are used as special characters within regex, they will need to be "escaped" by preceding each with a backslash. For a cheat sheet on writing regexes, see Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Regular expression. For case insensitive searches, include an "i" after the closing forward slash. Searching with regex offline To search all of Wikipedia offline using regex, you need to download the Wikipedia database and do the search offline with AutoWikiBrowser's Database Scanner. Activate it from the tools menu in AutoWikiBrowser (AWB). It returns the names of the pages that match your query, which you can have sent directly to AWB's list maker (then you can use AWB to view them all). The Database Scanner has many features, and each query can be easily configured to match, exclude, specify namespaces, ignore redirects, etc. as you see fit. Other methods of searching Wikipedia with regular expressions To search Wikipedia titles with regex, use Grep. To search within the current page use the edit window: If source editing, use the "Search and replace" dialog by clicking the magnifying glass icon at the far right of the "Advanced" toolbar. If visual editing, type Ctrl-F to get the search box, then click the "(.*)" icon for regular expressions. Regular expressions are also supported by the WikEd text editor gadget. AutoWikiBrowser can do regex search/replaces, on a list of articles that you provide it. Prior tip – Tips library – Next tip Read more: The insource: parameter Regular expression (regex)   AutoWikiBrowser (AWB)   WikEd help   Become a Wikipedia tipster To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{tip of the day}}

Guide to the above:

• Monday-Saturday: The picture of the day from the list of featured pictures, and today's tip of the day for improved Wikipedia efficiency.
• Sunday: Same as above, but I also give my weekly Sunday StatChart. I have had it since October 7, 2005, when I made my first major revamp of my userpage.

I am not responsible for lost, stolen, or deleted articles, media files, categories, templates, redirects, pages of other types, prodded pages, or even speedied pages, though all of that is because I have no powers to delete under the deletion system. (I also take no responsibility for any deletion debate result questioning unless I otherwise feel differently. Also, deletion debates that I start or pages that I place either {{subst:prod}} or one of the speedy deletion tags do not count in above. In short, I just make it clear if a page should go.) If for some reason I decide to leave Wikipedia, anything that appears above this fine print is effectively null and void, and likely will be removed anyway. Any comments regarding anything I do on Wikipedia should not be left on this page, it should instead be directed to my talk page through that link. Features are generated either by dates or by any editing of the templates, either anyone or admins (but, barring some exceptions, not by any bot). If you are not visiting this page from Wikipedia, then you are at a Wikipedia mirror, and you should be aware that you are not viewing an encyclopedia article, that the page may be outdated, and that the user to whom this page belongs may have no personal affiliation with any site other than Wikipedia itself. Please direct yourself to the real thing at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Wcquidditch. This fine print will exist on this page until I decide to remove it, which could be if I depart or if I don't like it anymore. This concludes my user page. Thank you.