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User:GRuban

Our work together here should be our armor, not some sharp, angry, burning sword. I would strongly recommend that everyone here find an article to work on for a while; not the cliche "random article", but something that gives you a nice tug at the heartstrings. It feels great to be out there doing work on something you genuinely care about, and I assure you it'll help you regain the sense of why you're here.

— User:The Blade of the Northern Lights, vectored by User:Keilana

Personal

My Wiki-bio, circa 2015, for an article about me by a journalist.

Professionally, I'm a software engineer. (That's a computer programmer that's more full of themselves.) My longest stint was for a company which knows everything except how to spell its name, then another few years for a small software company; I currently work for my uncle. I've written most of a few articles about each, see the box to the right. I've been a Wikipedian longest.

I got to do this neat thing for the earlier one, which helps lots of people find free (as-in-speech) images, including those usable for this project. Using it and other tools I've found over 4,000 images to illustrate articles and put them on Wikimedia Commons. Here is my images to-do list.

You'll notice the articles I've written have mostly gotten better over time. The little icons by the name of each article are the quality rating, assigned by other people. They are, in order: Stub: very short/incomplete (but most of the articles on the Wikipedia are in this category); Start: just the bare minimum; : C; B; Good article (1/200); A (rarely used); Featured Article: one of the best on the project (1/1000). My early articles, at the tops of the lists below, are mostly start and stub class, while my more recent ones, usually at the bottoms are mostly Bs. None of the last grades yet, but eventually! The numbers following are the average daily page views for each.

Barnstars

Informal awards, when editors liked something I did. Appreciated! Actual awarding thereof may generally be found in my talk page archives.

Games

Role-Playing Games

Cthulhu for President

Besides minor edits, my early work was in Category:Role-playing games.

Magic: The Gathering

Other Games

Laura M. Robinson

Wikipedia Support

Wikipedia:Requested articles

I wrote or stubbed the following as part of fulfilling Wikipedia:Requested articles (and the former Wikipedia:Articles requested for more than two years):

Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias

This project tries to make up for the fact that most Wikipedia editors are technically savvy first world males.

Collaborations

One of the best things about Wikipedia is the ability to work with the other dedicated editors. These are articles that I wrote based on starts or ideas by other Wikipedia editors.

SusunW articles

User:SusunW is the real author of these articles about historical women, mostly Wikipedia:Good articles, that she gave me joint DYK credit for, which I don't really deserve. For most of these I only uploaded an image or two (which Susun usually found herself), occasionally translated, consulted, helped with research ... in short, my contribution is under 10% of any of these, under 1% of most. But she gave me that credit, so I'm taking it!

Other

Creationist museums

From an Articles for deletion discussion where I was challenged to create some articles to prove it could be done.

Not creationist museum

James Jones Literary Society First Novel Fellowship authors

Leslie Schwartz

From another Articles for deletion discussion where the claim was made that winners of this award aren't notable. So far - well, as I look into it, some were, and some weren't. These are some that were. Also expanded article on the society and award. The article in question was deleted anyway, but restored eight years later.

Ukraine

I have the honor or misfortune of having been born in Russia, so the 2022 Russo-Ukrainian War has been particularly poignant.