User:Matchups

I use Matchups as a username all over the place, including my domain www.matchups.com which is fairly out-of-date. The original source was a Scrabble newsletter I edited, which was an ironic comment on "matchups" not being in the official dictionary.

My main interest (from the Wiki point of view at least) is games, and bridge in particular, though I spend most of my time these days being a wikignome.

As of August 2011, I have 4027live edits. Though most are small, nearly all have edit summaries.

• My 1000th edit (January 19, 2007, to NMP)
• My 2000th edit (December 31, 2007, to List of Oberlin College alumni, an article I update frequently based on information in the alumni magazine)
• My 3000th edit (October 15, 2009, to Template:Rfd bottom, correcting wording)
• My 4000th edit (June 23, 2011, creating a talk page for Math Overflow after the original talk page had been deleted for consisting solely of a request for homework help)

To-dos

Articles to create

• Noted author Reuben Frank
• Frank W. Lewis, cryptographer and crossword setter Nation Obituary
• Dan Pallotta and the AIDS Rides
• Obie graduate Sarah Pirtle
• John Train (disambiguation) & include Phil Ochs Done!
• List of fictional salespeople: the quintessential Willy Loman, Harold Hill, and many more found by Special:Search&search=fictional+salesman Done!

Ongoing projects

• Work on bridge articles
  • Convention articles
• Look at entries on List of titles of works based on Shakespearean phrases with no Act/Scene references
• Work on backlog at Category:Articles needing sections
• See Special:Prefixindex/User:Matchups/ sometimes for more

Other

• Find more documentation on wiki markup, or create it if necessary
• Add more userboxes to this page
• Merge two Metallikats articles
• Add self-referential comment to {{mosdab}}

Images

• Hankus Netsky
• William Worthy
• Prince Hall Cemetery on Memorial Day

Wikiphilosophy

I consider myself an encyclopedist, similar to what WP would classify as a Delusionist. In general, if there is information for which members of the general public would tend to go to an encyclopedia, it should be in WP. If it is information which one would expect to find in a telephone directory, almanac, yearbook, annual report, or other specialized reference, or if it is not of interest to the general public, then it should not be here.

Although I would love to do more substantial contributing, and perhaps be an admin someday, parenthood currently limits me mostly to wikignome activities.

Silly season

For some reason, no-hitters seem to bring out the silliness in people. Please check out this edit to Brandon Morrow, together with the few that followed it, and this no-hitter–related AFD.

Some articles I created

Mainspace articles

• Bob Blue, singer/songwriter
• Ephron, surname
• List of fictional librarians
• List of fictional salespeople, which survived an AFD
• List of Oberlin College alumni
• Michael Rosenberg, bridge player
• Mikado yellow, one of the Oberlin College colors
• Prostate saturation biopsy, a medical diagnostic procedure
• Soledad Mexia, Mexican supercentenarian
• Stephen Zunes‎, political writer

Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences

•  A157425 Numbers which can be represented using fewer symbols than the number of decimal digits in the number.

Other

• {{Bridge-game-stub}}
• Claus Wilhelm, redirect
• {{mosdab}}
• User Talk:x.y.z.w, usually with {{uw-test1}}
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Jewish American social and political scientists (succeeded)

Friends

There are (or should be) Wikipedia articles on several friends and acquaintances of mine. Not to drop names, but just so you know where my biases may lie:

• Eric Albert
• Bob Blue
• Libby Frank and Reuben Frank
  • but not Lawrence Frank, though we were born in the same city, grew up in the same town, now live in the same metro area, and have the same last name.
• Oberlin College
• Ken Olum
• Jim Propp
• Oren Rudavsky
• Stephen Zunes

There has also been an article titled Alan Frank twice; deleted once due to copyright infringement; the second time it was a dumb redirect about me and deleted on my proposal.

Future dates

Upcoming (?) dates not to be missed:

• 2012
  • April 10: End of regular support for Office 2007
  • April 20: Fenway Park centennial
  • July: World population reaches 7 billion
  • July 14: Woody Guthrie centennial
  • December 21: End of the world, supposedly according to Mayan calendar

• 2013
  • April 8: End of support for MS SQL 2000
  • May 15 (approximate): Boston Red Sox potentially pass Portland Trail Blazers for longest consecutive sellout streak for a major USA professional sports team.
  • October 1: Use of ICD-10 begins in the U.S.

• 2014
  • April 8: End of extended support for Office 2003
  • September 7: The Star-Spangled Banner bicentennial
  • Unspecified: Roger Clemens receives final deferred salary payment (per CBC Sports)

• 2015
  • January 25: Ewan MacColl centennial
  • March 14: Pi Day (3/14/15 9:26:54)

• 2016
  • March 14: Pi Day (3/14/16 by rounding)
  • Summer: 200th anniversary of 1816 year without a summer
• 2017, August 21: Next solar eclipse visible from the United States
• 2019, May 3: Pete Seeger centennial
• 2030, September 17: 400th anniversary of founding of Boston
• 2033, September 2: Oberlin College bicentennial
• 2037, November 15: My father becomes eligible for List of living supercentenarians
• 2061, July 28: The next predicted perihelion of Halley's Comet
• 2114, October 16: MUMPS $Horolog will reach 100,000, likely causing failures of any MUMPS software still running

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