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12 October 2009

Memorial and Collaboration

Fg2 memorial

By Draeco and Kaldari, October 12, 2009

This photograph of a lotus bud by Fg2 was the Commons Picture of the Day on April 14, 2006.

Wikipedian Fg2 has died according to this obituary and outside corroboration by his friend and co-worker Shirley Tamura. In life he was Frank J. Gualtieri Jr., a native of Canton, Massachusetts who traveled to Japan extensively and worked as an educator and translator.

He shared his love with the world by contributing heavily to Japan-related topics in Wikipedia. He amassed nearly 25,000 edits on the English Wikipedia, hundreds more as 二八 on the Japanese Wikipedia, and nearly 2,000 image uploads with his account on Wikimedia Commons, including these examples. He also created the English Wikipedia's Japan Portal.

In memoriam, three of Fg2's photographs have been nominated to be featured pictures on the English Wikipedia. As a further memorial, a group of editors have chosen Mount Fuji, one of his favorite articles, as a memorial collaboration to bring to featured article status. All editors are invited to collaborate.

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• Some of User:Fg2's pictures are up for FP candidate. (See here Wikipedia:Featured_picture_candidates). Hopefully, one will pass. Additionally, someone might want to add his information to this page Wikipedia:Deceased Wikipedians. Remember (talk) 12:44, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

Added. - Draeco (talk) 01:57, 11 October 2009 (UTC)

• salute - Skysmith (talk) 08:25, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

• so sad. I have seen many of his image contributions and I think they will be a great asset for the world. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 10:46, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
• It seems a sad thought that deaths of Wikipedians are only going to get more common. Rest in peace, Fg2. - Jarry1250 ^{[ In the UK? Sign the petition! ]} 16:12, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
  • Look at it this way, Jarry: hopefully this will be due to more of us making a career of Wikipedia, & only leaving due to something like this -- not because of WikiBurnout. -- llywrch (talk) 16:33, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

• Update, two of Fg2's pictures have been promoted to FP status. See Wikipedia:Featured_picture_candidates/HoryujiYumedono0363.jpg and Wikipedia:Featured_picture_candidates/Morning-glory-C6295b.jpg. Remember (talk) 13:55, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

• Fg2 was one of the best contributors I've worked with. He will be sorely missed. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 14:04, 17 October 2009 (UTC)

• Fg2 was a wonderful contributor to the Japan project and the Tokyo task force. I started his memorial section at Meta:Deceased editors#Fg2 - Also he has a memorial in Japanese here: ja:利用者:二八/Obituary, posted by ja:User:Makotoy WhisperToMe (talk) 00:49, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

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