While Ezratrumpet once edited Wikipedia often, and was once a bane of many WikiTrolls, he grew weary of endless WikiBattles, and now limits his editing to punctuation, oddly constructed sentences, and other such oddities.

He has yet to receive a Pulitzer Prize, win a popular election, or make a discovery of such significance as to merit a Wikipedia article of his own.

Nonetheless, he remains ambitious and optimistic.



Ezratrumpet's Userboxes
poxThis user is suffering from userpox. Goggles seem to prove ineffectual.
This user contributes using Firefox.
trpt-4This user is a professional trumpet player.
BAThis user has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music.
This user is a teacher.
This user is a member of the
Counter-Vandalism Unit.
ΦΜΑThis user is a brother of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia. OAS AAS LLS!
MAThis user has a Master of Arts degree in Music.
This user was a volunteer mediator in the Mediation Cabal before it was closed.
This user takes his/her coffee with 2 creams and 4 sugars.
en-5This user can contribute with a professional level of English.
This user almost has the Master of Arts in History from Sam Houston State University.
"Clearly now is the perfect time to practice your philosophy." Marcus Aurelius
This user enjoys reading almost anything.
HDMThis user loves His Dark Materials. And is Dusty too, by the way..
A lion similar to Aslan, the Lion This user loves The Chronicles of Narnia, both the books and the movies.
This user loves Hot Dogs in all his varieties.
G This user is a Gryffindor.
DON'T PANICThrough a time warp this user edits the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
This user is a native Appalachian.
This user enjoys their egg with the sunny side up.
This user is not a Wikipedia administrator but would like to be one someday.
BOOKThis user is working on publishing a book.
400+This user has made more than 400 contributions to Wikipedia.
This user is a WikiAngel.
This user is interested in The Jedi Order.
My ally is the Force. And a powerful ally it is.
to¦goThis user chooses to sometimes use split infinitives.
less & fewerThis user understands the difference between less & fewer.
Y'allThis here user talks Southern, y'all.
MixThis user has been influenced by too many dialects of English to use one orthography, vocabulary and grammar consistently.
AIM-AbleThis user understands AIM talk perfectly well, and sometimes uses it, but not excessively.
OpenOffice.org This user writes with the OpenOffice.org suite.
This user's favorite color is gray.
This user is aware of how silly this huge table looks on his user page, but acknowledges that its real purpose is twofold: statistics and standardization.


Tip of the moment...
How to easily recall a username

Trying to recall an editor's username can be challenging. There are various ways to solve this:

  1. If you remember the beginning of the username:
    1. Click on: user-contributions or contributions link either at the top or side of any article page
    2. Type the first couple of letters in the username box: wait 15-seconds and the box will magically appear with usernames starting with that letter combination
    3. If the username is still not there, type in another letter and wait. Usernames are case, punctuation, and space sensitive, so if a username is CamelCased, has punctuation, or has spaces, you will have to try those variations too.
  2. If you have ever conversed with them, you could check the histories of your own talk page and talk page archives. Set your view to (500).
  3. In your contributions, you could limit the namespace to user talk, and that would give you the names of all the users you have posted to on their talk pages. The same with the talk namespace (via your contributions).
  4. You could also search the talk namespace for your own signature, to locate the threads where others may have replied to you
  5. Where do they hang out? What are they renowned for? If you can remember where they have posted messages, then you can find their username.
  6. Users Search box for users by name or official capacity
To add this auto-randomizing template to your user page, use {{totd-random}}


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Anning, depicted with her dog
Anning, depicted with her dog

Mary Anning (21 May 1799 – 9 March 1847) was an English fossil collector and palaeontologist. She made discoveries of Jurassic marine fossil beds in the cliffs along the English Channel at Lyme Regis, which changed the scientific thinking about prehistoric life and the history of the Earth. Her discoveries included the first correctly identified ichthyosaur skeleton, the first two nearly complete plesiosaur skeletons, and the first pterosaur skeleton outside Germany. Her observations helped prove that coprolites were fossilised faeces and that belemnite fossils contained ink sacs. As a woman, Anning could not join the Geological Society of London and struggled to receive credit for her contributions. Henry De la Beche painted Duria Antiquior based on fossils Anning had found and sold its prints for her benefit. After her death, an article about her life was published in Charles Dickens's literary magazine All the Year Round. A statue of Anning was erected in 2022, and she has been depicted in film and in manga. (Full article...)