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Torchiest
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This user has been on Wikipedia for 6 years, 9 months, and 1 day. |
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About me
My nickname has a long and complicated history. Back when I was a wee lad in the 1980s, I received a Christmas gift of the totally obscure text adventure game Questprobe featuring Human Torch and the Thing. In 1990, I logged into my first bulletin board system (BBS), where of course you had to create an account to participate. After struggling mightily due to every variation on my quite-common name I could think of already being used, I thought, oh, the Human Torch is cool in that game, I'll try that. It worked, and I used that handle through the early part of the 90s. After the advent of the Internet, I started shortening it to Torchie for both my convenience and to avoid the occasional text parsing problems brought on by the spaces in the full name. But then I ran into the original problem: other people on this wild and woolly web were using that same nickname. So I decided I was the superlative instance of the name, and added the "st" to the end to indicate that. I've been using that name for more than a decade now, but some of my oldest online accounts still go by Torchie.
I have eclectic tastes, so I will make minor corrections and changes to all kinds of seemingly random pages. I brew my own beer, though not as much as I used to before I started having kids. I do yoga, though not as much as I used to before I got a day job on the far side of town. I have a wonderful loving wife and two toddler sons, with plans to have more kids. I'm interested in video games, cellular automata, Dungeons & Dragons, cognitive science, astronomy, programming, linguistics, cosmology, electronic music, industrial music...
I have a Steam Workshop page with test chambers for Portal 2.
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I've written
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| Xtort |
April 4, 2010 |
| KMFDM |
April 7, 2010 |
| Mythmaker |
May 9, 2010 |
| Industrial music |
June 27, 2010 |
| Drowned God |
July 15, 2012 |
| Nihil |
July 20, 2012 |
| WTF?! |
July 30, 2012 |
| Starflight |
December 21, 2012 |
| Dwarf (D&D) |
January 23, 2013 |
| Baldur's Gate II |
January 30, 2013 |
I've reviewed
↑Jump back a sectionHandy links
- CatScan – this is a fantastic tool for creating a list of articles to fix issues with. I've used it extensively to do copy editing on articles in my areas of interest, and am currently using it to deal with ~400 unsourced articles in the industrial music categories.
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↑Jump back a sectionCopy editing backlog elimination drives
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- Total articles: 250
- Total words: 125,000
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- Total words: 4,512
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- Total words: 592
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- Total words: 51,672
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- Total articles: 50
- Total words: 20,000
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- Total words: 26,868
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- Total words: 25,100
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- Total articles for all drives: 528
- Total words for all drives: 272,236
↑Jump back a sectionBarnstars and awards
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What a Brilliant Idea Barnstar |
| What a Good Idea. "Collapsing our articles" Here. What a page saver this is going to be ! THANX ! Mlpearc MESSAGE 17:13, 2 May 2010 (UTC) |
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The Perfectly Balanced Barnstar |
| The Perfectly Balanced Barnstar is awarded on the occasion of your achieving exactly 250 articles edited, for exactly 125,000 words, during the May GOCE Backlog Elimination Drive. Excellent! --Diannaa TALK 06:08, 1 June 2010 (UTC) |
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The Guild of Copy Editors' Award |
| It is with great pleasure, that I bestow on you the Guild of Copy Editors' Gold Star Award, for completing the largest number of articles (an astounding 250!) during the May 2010 Backlog Elimination Drive. Your contributions accounted for about a fifth of the total articles edited in the drive! Congratulations from the GOCE. ɳorɑfʈ Talk! 04:07, 10 June 2010 (UTC) |
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The Most Excellent Order of the Caretaker's Star |
| For exceptional copyediting efforts during the May 2010 Guild of Copy Editors Backlog Elimination Drive, editing 250 articles with a combined total of 125,000 words, Torchiest is presented with this exclusive, brilliant, Most Excellent Order of the Caretaker's Star. Congratulations and thank you for all your hard work! --Diannaa TALK 04:20, 10 June 2010 (UTC) |
| For exceptional copyediting efforts during the Guild of Copy Editors May and July 2010 Backlog Elimination Drives, copy editing articles with a combined total of 129,512 words, Torchiest is presented with this exclusive, brilliant, Most Excellent Order of the Caretaker's Star. --Diannaa (Talk) 17:36, 1 August 2010 (UTC) |
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Leaderboard Award—Number of Articles—4th Place |
| This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Torchiest for copy editing 100 articles during the WP:GOCE July 2010 Backlog Elimination Drive. Thank you so much for your contributions to the project. --Diannaa (Talk) 17:01, 2 August 2010 (UTC) |
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The Spamstar of Glory |
| To Torchiest for diligence in the tireless battle against Linkspam on Wikipedia. --Hu12 (talk) 20:47, 7 December 2010 (UTC) |
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Copy Editor's Barnstar |
| I award you this Copy Editor's Barnstar for insisting on clear, comprehensible, and grammatically correct articles. For copy editing 80 articles with a total of 53,741 words (including rollover and bonuses) during the Guild of Copy Editors' March 2011 Backlog elimination drive. Thanks for all your contributions!-SMasters (talk) 05:39, 4 April 2011 (UTC) |
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The Cleanup Barnstar |
| This Barnstar is awarded to Torchiest for copy edits of over 12,000 words during the GOCE May 2011 copy edit drive. Your help is appreciated! -- Diannaa (Talk) 02:00, 5 June 2011 (UTC) |
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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar |
| This barnstar is awarded to Torchiest for copy editing articles totalling over 20,000 in the GOCE May copy edit drive. Your contributions are greatly appreciated! -- Dianna (talk) 23:51, 2 June 2012 (UTC) |
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Leaderboard Award – Number articles edited – 4th place |
| This Leaderboard Award is awarded to Torchiest for copy editing 50 articles during the Guild of Copy Editors May 2012 drive. Congratulations on winning this prestigious award. Thank you for your efforts. -- Dianna (talk) 23:51, 2 June 2012 (UTC) |
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The Original Barnstar |
| Thanks a lot Torchiest for helping me correct and fix my user page quickly! Your efforts have been very helpful :) TheGeneralUser (talk) 10:30, 29 June 2012 (UTC) |
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The Barnstar of Diligence |
| I want to thank you for all your work going through and re-wikiftying Deathlaser's submissions. You didn't have to do that at all, but did and I really appreciate that. Thank you! Nolelover Talk·Contribs 23:09, 2 July 2012 (UTC) |
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The Working Wikifier's Barnstar |
| For scoring position #8 (as ChrisGualteri opted out) on the June 2012 Wikification drive's leaderboard, I am proud to present you with this fine Working Wikifier's Barnstar! Congratulations! Like my singing? Ha-la-la-la-la-la-LA-LAAA!!! (talk) 03:23, 8 July 2012 (UTC) |
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Leaderboard Award – Number of 5K articles edited – 4th Place |
| This Guild of Copy Editors Silver Award is awarded to Torchiest for copy editing two articles of 5,000 words or more during the Guild of Copy Editors July 2012 GOCE drive. Congratulations on winning this prestigious award. Thank you for your efforts. -- Dianna (talk) 01:46, 11 August 2012 (UTC) |
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Leaderboard Award – Longest Article – 3rd Place |
| This Guild of Copy Editors Silver Award is awarded to Torchiest for copy editing Ghostbusters (franchise) (11,772 words) during the Guild of Copy Editors July 2012 GOCE drive. Congratulations on winning this prestigious award. This was the third-longest article edited during the drive. -- Dianna (talk) 01:46, 11 August 2012 (UTC) |
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The Teamwork Barnstar |
| On behalf of the entire Wikipedia Community, this award is hereby presented jointly to the team of Stfg, Diannaa, Torchiest, and Allens for their hard work and superb cooperation in planning and executing the highly successful July 2012 Wikipedia Backlog Reduction Drive for the Guild of Copy Editors. With very best regards: Cliff (a/k/a "Uploadvirus") (talk) 15:06, 11 August 2012 (UTC) |
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The Barnstar of Diligence |
| For being observant enough to perceive an apparent problem and your prompt efforts eliminate copyright violations at cellular automaton Jclemens (talk) 17:51, 28 August 2012 (UTC) |
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The Music Barnstar |
| I'm giving you this Barnstar as I see us both working on spreading the awesome that is industrial music. dashiellx (talk) 19:58, 30 August 2012 (UTC) |
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The Good Article Barnstar |
| Your recognition for 1 GA reviews at the last June-July GAN Review Round. Regards. — ΛΧΣ21™ 16:06, 23 September 2012 (UTC) |
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Leaderboard Award – Number of articles edited – 5th Place |
| This Leaderboard Award is awarded to Torchiest for copy editing 18 articles during the Guild of Copy Editors September 2012 GOCE drive. Congratulations on winning this prestigious award. Thank you for your efforts. --Stfg (talk) 10:52, 3 October 2012 (UTC) |
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Leaderboard Award – Number of oldest-category articles – 5th Place |
| This Leaderboard Award is awarded to Torchiest for copy editing 11 articles from the oldest monthly copyedit categories during the Guild of Copy Editors September 2012 GOCE drive. Congratulations on winning this prestigious award. Thank you for your efforts. --Stfg (talk) 10:52, 3 October 2012 (UTC) |
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Leaderboard Award – Number of 5k articles edited – Equal 5th Place |
| This Leaderboard Award is awarded to Torchiest for copy editing 2 articles of 5000 words or more during the Guild of Copy Editors September 2012 GOCE drive. Congratulations on winning this prestigious award. Thank you for your efforts. --Stfg (talk) 10:52, 3 October 2012 (UTC) |
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The Original Barnstar |
| For your help on the statewide opinion polling for the United States presidential election, 2012 and your idea Thanks alot ^-^ Knowledgekid87 (talk) 17:05, 13 October 2012 (UTC) |
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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar |
| For the cleanup at this list. Diego (talk) 07:17, 20 November 2012 (UTC) |
It gives me great pleasure to award this Triple Crown to Torchiest for work on improving content on wikipedia. Well done sir, Casliber ( talk · contribs) 20:04, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
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The Copyeditor's Barnstar |
| I award this barnstar to Torchiest for copy editing 32 articles for a total of 30,127 words in the GOCE January copy edit drive. Thanks for participating! --BDD (talk) 02:33, 3 February 2013 (UTC) |
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Leaderboard Award—Most 5k Articles—4th Place |
| I award this Leaderboard Barnstar to Torchiest for copy editing two articles of 5000 or more words during the during the WP:GOCE January 2013 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations! --BDD (talk) 02:33, 3 February 2013 (UTC) |
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The Modest Barnstar |
| I award this barnstar to Torchiest for copy editing nine articles for a total of 4665 words in the GOCE March copy edit drive. Thanks for participating! --BDD (talk) 17:56, 3 April 2013 (UTC) |
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The Barnstar of Diplomacy |
| Thank you for your help! FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 02:10, 9 April 2013 (UTC) |
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