AviationFreak

This user is a native speaker of American English.

This user helped promote 2 featured articles on Wikipedia.

This user was identified as an awesome Wikipedian on October 27, 2020.

Howdy! I'm AviationFreak.

I work a little in a lot of places on Wikipedia, in terms of both the types of articles I write/edit and the project-facing venues I frequent. My interests are all over the place, but a few highlights are aviation (duh), linguistics, and, occasionally, individually-notable animals. A couple of my bigger content contributions to the site were getting Ted Kaczynski to FA and a four award for Strom Thurmond filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1957. I'm also a reviewer at Articles for Creation and sometimes do anti-vandal work.

Many of my contributions are in smaller mainspace maintenance work, creation of smaller articles about topics I stumbled upon, GOCE copyedits, AfD comments, etc. I enjoy working with other editors, so if there's a topic you're working on that you think I might find interesting, give me a shout at my talk page! I'm happy being referred to using any pronouns.

Contributions edit

Major Content Improvement
Ted Kaczynski
Strom Thurmond filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1957
Chesapeake Bay Bridge

Did You Know...
... that U.S. senator Strom Thurmond's aides set up a bucket for him to relieve himself during his 24-hour filibuster?
... that the Korea Central Zoo houses a chimpanzee that smokes a pack of cigarettes a day?
... that Paleo-Indians began inhabiting Maryland around 10,000 BC?
... that nervous drivers can purchase a shuttle ride to get across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge?
... that all three engines on Aeroflot Flight 6709 stopped at the same time, resulting in a deadly crash?
... that a 14-foot (4.3 m) steel cutout of Donald Trump stands outside the Trump House in Latrobe, Pennsylvania?
... that Michelle Curran is the only female flying with the United States Air Force Thunderbirds in the 2020 season?
... that although fracking is banned in Maryland, state officials support the Eastern Shore Pipeline, which carries fracked gas?
... that more than 41 million hours of online chess have been watched on Twitch during the COVID-19 pandemic?
... that Wahsayah Whitebird's Communist Party membership was not publicly known until after he was elected?
... that Joe the Pigeon was granted a pardon by the Australian government after being sentenced to euthanasia?
... that Magawa, an African giant pouched rat, sniffed out more than 70 land mines in Cambodia?
... that Magnus Carlsen, the current World Chess Champion, resigned a recent tournament game after only one move?
... that a donut has a donutussy?

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This user has been on Wikipedia for 6 years, 3 months and 8 days.

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This user's favourite subject is Linguistics.

This user enjoys playing Chess.

This user may sometimes share an IP address with Aethemos.

This editor won the Million Award for bringing Ted Kaczynski to Featured Article status.

This user has an alternative account named AutomationFreak.

This user received a Four Award for working on Strom Thurmond filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1957.

Bling & kind messages :)

From	Date	Note
Gog the Mild	March 30, 2021	The Featured Article Medal By the authority vested in me by myself it gives me great pleasure to present you with this special, very exclusive award created just for we few, we happy few, this band of brothers, who have shed sweat, tears, and probably blood, in order to be able to proudly claim "I too have taken an article to Featured status".
FwinterHygge	July 12, 2021	A goat for you! Thanks for approving my article!
WP:AFC	September 5, 2021	Congratulations from WikiProject Articles for Creation! You have earned The Brownie for reviewing 21 drafts during the WikiProject Articles for creation July 2021 Backlog Drive. Thank you for your work to improve Wikipedia!
WP:GOCE	October 24, 2022	October blitz bling This barnstar is awarded to AviationFreak for copy edits totaling over 10,000 words (including rollover words) during the GOCE October 2022 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions!
Ahn María	July 11, 2023	A kitten for you! Thank you for the warm welcome! :-)
WP:GA	September 6, 2023	The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar We really appreciate that you reviewed several GANs during the drive. Due in part to your efforts, the backlog of unreviewed nominations was reduced by 440 articles, an astonishing 69 percent.

Maryland

Thank you for quality articles arout Maryland such as Chesapeake Bay Bridge, Carolyn A. Guertin and Native American tribes in Maryland, and beginnings of lists of historical markers, for dealing with articles for creation, for patiently explaining reverts, for a clear airy user page, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

You are recipient no. 2462 of Precious, a prize of QAI. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:20, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

To-Do

Most of these will sit here, undone, until the end of time. With that said, if you see something that interests you, run with it!

Waffle House marker system [1] [2] [3] [4]
Terminology of Quakerism [5] [6] [7] [8]
Improve Quaker business method
Yareni Rios-Gonzalez
Plains Indian Sign Language to GA - Source repo: [9]
Introduction to Chess
8485 [10] [11] [12] [13] [14][15]
Umru [16] [17] [18] [19] [20]
Bernie Sanders filibuster of the 2010 Tax Relief Act
Marine life of the Chesapeake Bay (Overharvesting, economy, biology, etc.)
Expand Massawomeck tribe and work on destubbing Category:Indigenous peoples of North America stubs
WP:WikiProject Aviation/Soviet aviation task force/missing articles
Amtrak Connects US