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the Stefen 𝕋ower
Sagacious Editor
— Wikipedian ♂ —
the Stefen 𝕋ower, standing in front of a fallen sequoia, the only thing on Earth taller than him (summer 2001 in Sequoia National Park)
the Stefen 𝕋ower, standing in front of a fallen sequoia, the only thing on Earth taller than him (summer 2001 in Sequoia National Park)
BornSteven Paul Magruder
(1966-11-29) November 29, 1966 (age 59)
Louisville, Kentucky
Name in real lifeSteve Magruder
PronounsHeehee/him
NationalityAmerican
Country United States
Current locationLouisville, Kentucky
LanguagesEnglish, French (un peu)
Time zoneEastern Time Zone
Current timeCurrent time for UTC-4 is 15:41
EthnicityScottish (mostly)
RaceHuman
(race is a fiction;
unfortunately racism is real)
Height6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
WeightUnhappily chubby
HairGrey / dark blond mix
EyesBlue
HandednessRight
SexualityGay
IQHigher than yours
Personality typeFunny, witty, direct, sarcastic, ambiverted, egocyclic, malhumorado sin café, occasionally anxious or somber, prone to hangriness
(Myers–Briggs is insufficient)
Family and friends
Marital statusSingle
Siblings2 bros
Parents
  • "Mommy"
  • "Daddy" (deceased)
PetsLove other people's pets
Education and employment
OccupationSit-down comedaean
(/ˈkɑːmʌˌdaɪʌn/)
Primary schoolAuburndale
Intermediate schoolLassiter
High schoolFairdale
CollegeSpeed Scientific School
UniversityUniversity of Louisville
Hobbies, interests, and beliefs
Hobbies
ReligionStrong atheist / Secular humanist
PoliticsLeft-libertarian / Social democrat / Anti-fascist
AliasesStevie, SPaM, Guder
Movies
My Fav Mooovies
Shows
My Fav Teevee
Music
My Fav Music
Interests
Contact info
Websitestefentower.com
Discordstefentower
YouTubeStefenTower
Blueskystefentower.com
StefenTower subpages
Account statistics
JoinedMarch 20, 2004
(as Stevietheman)
First editMarch 20, 2004
AutoconfirmedApril 13, 2004
Extended confirmedApril 5, 2016
New page reviewerOctober 31, 2016
Pending changes reviewerJune 19, 2010
RollbackerJanuary 10, 2008
Userboxes
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This user is one of the 250 most active English Wikipedians of all time.
230,000+This user has made more than 230,000 contributions to Wikipedia.
This user has been editing Wikipedia for more than twenty years—since March 20, 2004.
37%This user has been a Wikipedian for 37.3% of his life.
W!This user edits Wikipedia too much to take the Wikipediholism test!
This user is bold and proud.
This user is a steward of policy and quality in articles, while mindful that
no article has an owner.
Collaborate and Correct, not Control!
This user prefers to avoid Wikipedia drama and focus on editing.
This user tries to do the right thing. If he makes a mistake, please let him know.
This user is willing to be slapped with a trout, should he need it.
tyop
typo		This user is a member of the
Wikipedia Typo Team.
This user believes that WikiProjects are vital to the future of Wikipedia.
This user is a WikiProject mechanic who helps overhaul and maintain project infrastructure.
This user participates in
WikiProject Louisville.
This user is a participant in
WikiProject Kentucky.
This user is a participant in
WikiProject Indiana.
This user is a member of
WikiProject Chicago.
This user participates in
WikiProject Illinois.
This user has AutoWikiBrowser rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify)
This user has access to the
Wikipedia Library.
NEWSThis user has access to Newspapers.com through The Wikipedia Library.
IAThis user uses the Internet Archive.
This editor is a WikiGnome.
Template iconThis user is a
template maker
This user curates database reports to help WikiProject participants and editors-at-large discover and prioritize necessary work.
SQL-3This user is an advanced SQL programmer.
{{tone}}

This user tags articles for maintenance with Twinkle!

<ref>This user recognizes the importance of citing sources.
Don't Wedge InThis user believes in maintaining
citation integrity.
This user protects Wikipedia's integrity by opposing conflict of interest edits.
This user thinks that peacocks and weasels should be extinct in Wikipedia.
Collegial, collaborative editors fill in the edit summary to explain their changes.
I'M NOT A @#$%&! TELEPATH!!
This user has strong political views, but feels that Wikipedia is not the proper place to express them.
This user believes in
equality for all
This user identifies as a gay male.
This user is from Louisville,
hometown of Muhammad Ali.
UofLThis user attends or attended the University of Louisville.
This user has a channel on YouTube.
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the Stefen 𝕋ower (né Steve Magruder; heehee/him), formerly known on Wikipedia as Stevietheman, is a sit-down comedaean (/ˈkɑːmʌˌdaɪʌn/) from The 'Ville. Heehee is currently developing a YouTube program to be entitled Stefen 𝕋ower Presents!!1! Starring Stefen 𝕋ower.

In the Wikipedia, 𝕋ower is an article doctor (if not meatball surgeon), a template tinkerer, a WikiProject mechanic, a database reports curator, and very often a WikiGnome (a doer of maintenance gruntwerk hardly anyone else wants to do yet needs to be done). His main mode of work in the Wikipedia has been improving existing articles and the "connective tissue" (categories, links, navigation templates, etc.) between them. Heehee has admittedly not created articles very much, but heehee has created mounds of categories (600+) and redirects (1,500+), as well as some pretty cool WikiProject pages/reports. Heehee prefers the grunt existence and therefore typically eschews admin-like work and has no interest in becoming an admin.

Further, 𝕋ower is a total spelling crank, thus his multitudinous AutoWikiBrowser (AWB) cleanups. In his typo-hunting adventures, heehee's come to know our beloved encyclopedia as riddled with typos, grammar flaws, MOS violations and more. Someone's gotta fix this mess. (Note: Did you notice his typos and gross violations of MOS:CONTRACTION in this paragraph? Since this ain't a real article, heehee can get away with it here.) And sometimes doing these cleanups comes with the discovery of much more serious problems, such as major unsourced additions, LLM use, and outright vandalism. All in all, AWB enables great wiki-oriented hall monitoring, even at the scale of WikiProjects!

Last, yes, 𝕋ower refers to himself in the third person because heehee wished to write some crapola as a boilerplate for his future Wikipedia article, like that's gonna happen.[1]

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Ongoing Wikipedia efforts

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274,712 users actively edit Wikipedia, and you should too.

Following are the Stefen 𝕋ower's ongoing pursuits on this wild ride we call Wikipedia:

  • Ad hoc article improvements
  • Ad hoc category creations: Most of 𝕋ower's category creations have been Louisville-related.
  • Gradually improving WikiProject Louisville's priority articles to move them toward WP:GA and WP:FA
  • Cross-project work
    • WikiProject Insights: Building a library of database queries and reports, which together help editors gain data-driven insight into how they may assist WikiProject efforts. Currently this is informal in the form of a list of queries on Quarry and their implementations in several WikiProjects, but 𝕋ower will be formalizing it at some point. (Heehee has also created a few queries heehee calls "Editor Insights", listed at the same location.) See his database report deployments below.
    • Structural improvements: Most of 𝕋ower's work as been on WikiProject Louisville so far, but heehee has also revised WikiProject Kentucky somewhat. Heehee has made a few minor changes to WikiProjects Chicago, Indiana and Illinois as well.
    • Cataloging of existing articles/pages: 𝕋ower has been concentrating on WikiProjects Louisville, Kentucky and Indiana (including the Indianapolis department) recently, and intends to expand to WikiProjects Chicago, Cincinnati, Illinois and Ohio.
    • Categorizing WikiProjects and their components, concentrating in assessments and reports recently.
  • Enhancing RegExTypoFix (new typos to fix, avoiding false positives): 𝕋ower hasn't done this much recently, but heehee has been building a list of potential new typo fixes to add.

Semi-automated mass article cleanup (past year)

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Mass cleanup to address typos, general fixes and serendipitous cleanup concerns is done running AutoWikiBrowser (AWB) on article lists based on the following areas (either WikiProject- or category-based), subject orbits (an article's outgoing and incoming links), or ad hoc generation (e.g., last n contributions). As some of these runs are repeated, the date shown is the day of the latest run.

Run
(Area / Subject orbit / Ad hoc)		 Link vector Article count
(upon run)		 Complete date
WikiProjects in my region
(Louisville metropolitan area, Kentucky and Indiana combined) 		N/a 44,323 Apr 15, 2026
Revisiting my last 25,000 contributions N/a 11,140 Feb 14, 2026
User:StefenTower
(including select subpages) 		Outgoing 396 Apr 27, 2026
1973 Kentucky Derby Outgoing 265 Sep 14, 2025
Incoming 519 Sep 14, 2025
Churchill Downs Outgoing 499 May 1, 2026
Incoming 1,412 May 3, 2026
Jefferson County Public Schools (Kentucky) Outgoing 60 Feb 11, 2026
Incoming 74 Feb 14, 2026
Kentucky Derby Outgoing 991 May 3, 2026
Incoming 2,724 In progress
Muhammad Ali Outgoing 1,407 Mar 2, 2026
Incoming 4,032 In progress

Stefen's Top 50 edited articles (past year)

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Following are the Stefen 𝕋ower's 50 most edited articles in the past year, updated by a bot on a daily basis:

  1. Andy Beshear (84)
  2. Hunter S. Thompson (73)
  3. UPS Airlines Flight 2976 (64)
  4. George Rogers Clark (63)
  5. Great Black Swamp (63)
  6. Kentucky Derby (60)
  7. Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport (54)
  8. Elmer Lucille Allen (51)
  9. Muhammad Ali (50)
  10. Disappearance of Nancy Guthrie (42)
  11. Kentucky (42)
  12. Louisville, Kentucky (41)
  13. Sonny Liston (37)
  14. Tony Ardizzone (37)
  15. Craig "Gator" Bodzianowski (36)
  16. Cage the Elephant (35)
  17. Jaime Laredo (35)
  18. Churchill Downs (32)
  19. Macedonian Tribune (32)
  20. Transit Authority of River City (32)
  21. Madison Bumgarner (29)
  22. University of Louisville (29)
  23. Bill Livers (28)
  24. Thomas Merton (28)
  25. Diane Harper (27)
  26. Jimmy Hart (27)
  27. Killing of Breonna Taylor (27)
  28. Elvis Presley (26)
  29. Frances Farmer (26)
  30. Joe Jackson (talent manager) (26)
  31. Ohio River (26)
  32. Yum! Brands (25)
  33. Jefferson County Public Schools (Kentucky) (24)
  34. Kentucky Kingdom (24)
  35. Matt Drenik (24)
  36. 2025 Kentucky State University shooting (23)
  37. Booker Griffin (23)
  38. KFC (23)
  39. Lucy Bowen McCauley (23)
  40. My Old Kentucky Home (23)
  41. Boxing career of Muhammad Ali (22)
  42. Thomas Large (22)
  43. Traditions at the University of Kentucky (22)
  44. Anna Nicole Smith (21)
  45. Arrested Youth (musician) (21)
  46. Earl McDonald (21)
  47. Kent Parker (21)
  48. List of attractions and events in the Louisville metropolitan area (21)
  49. Marion County Sheriff's Office (21)
  50. Allen Whitehill Clowes (20)

Stefen's Top 50 edited articles (all-time)

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Following are the Stefen 𝕋ower's 50 most edited articles of all time (as of May 11, 2026):

  1. Louisville, Kentucky
    (#1 in authorship, edits, and added text; over 2,300 edits!)
  2. Muhammad Ali
    (second-most editor in a heavily edited article; #3 in authorship; #4 in added text)
  3. Kentucky
    (#1 in authorship and edits)
  4. List of attractions and events in the Louisville metropolitan area
    (#1 in authorship, edits, and added text)
  5. Sexual slang
    (#1 in edits; did I do that??🤓)
  6. History of Louisville, Kentucky
    (#1 in authorship, edits, and added text)
  7. University of Louisville
    (#1 in authorship, edits, and added text; my alma mater)
  8. Kentucky Derby
    (#1 in authorship and edits; #4 in added text)
  9. PHP
    (#1 in edits, for a programming language I haven't used in many years; #7 in added text)
  10. Democracy
    (#2 in edits)
  11. KFC
    (#2 in edits; #3 in authorship)
  12. George Rogers Clark
    (#1 in edits; #2 in authorship; #4 in added text)
  13. Blog
    (#1 in edits)
  14. Direct democracy
    (#1 in edits; #7 in added text)
  15. Louisville in the American Civil War
    (created by me with assistance of a Civil War historian; #1 in authorship, edits, and added text)
  16. E-democracy
    (created by me; #1 in edits)
  17. Bryson Tiller
    (#2 in edits; #6 in added text; #7 in authorship)
  18. List of people from the Louisville metropolitan area
    (#1 in edits; #2 in authorship and added text)
  19. Waverly Hills Sanatorium
    (#1 in authorship and edits; #2 in added text)
  20. Hunter S. Thompson
    (#1 in edits; #4 in authorship)
  21. Louisville Cardinals football
    (#1 in edits; #2 in authorship; #3 in added text; secret: I don't even watch football)
  22. Old Louisville
    (#1 in edits; #2 in authorship and added text)
  23. Cheeseburger
    (#1 in edits; related to Louisville history, yes, really)
  24. Andy Beshear
    (#1 in authorship, edits, and added text)
  25. Downtown Louisville
    (#1 in edits; #2 in authorship and added text)
  26. Loretta Lynn
    (#2 in edits; #6 in authorship; #10 in added text)
  27. Humana
    (#1 in authorship and edits; #2 in added text)
  28. Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport
    (#1 in authorship; #2 in edits; #3 in added text)
  29. Ohio River
    (#1 in edits; #2 in added text; #3 in authorship)
  30. Geography of Louisville, Kentucky
    (#1 in authorship, edits, and added text)
  31. Lewis and Clark Expedition
    (#1 in added text; #2 in edits; #6 in authorship)
  32. Ben Sollee
    (#1 in edits; #4 in authorship; #5 in added text; note: I didn't write any of the fancruft in it)
  33. Sonny Liston
    (#2 in edits; #4 in authorship; #7 in added text)
  34. Colonial Gardens
    (#1 in authorship, edits, and added text)
  35. Open-source model
    (merged into Open source; #1 in edits before merge)
  36. Anna Nicole Smith
    (#1 in authorship; #2 in edits; #10 in added text)
  37. Colonel Sanders
    (#1 in authorship; #2 in edits; #6 in added text)
  38. KFC Yum! Center
    (#1 in edits; #2 in authorship; #4 in added text)
  39. My Old Kentucky Home
    (#2 in edits; #3 in authorship; #4 in added text)
  40. Economy of Louisville, Kentucky
    (created by me; #1 in authorship, edits, and added text)
  41. Kentucky Kingdom
    (#2 in authorship; #3 in edits and added text)
  42. Presbyterian Church (USA)
    (#1 in authorship and added text; #2 in edits)
  43. Internet democracy
    (merged into E-democracy, #1 in edits and #4 in added text before merge)
  44. History of Kentucky
    (created by me; #4 in edits; #5 in added text; #8 in authorship)
  45. Kentucky in the American Civil War
    (#1 in edits; #3 in authorship; #4 in added text)
  46. Mitch McConnell
    (#4 in authorship and edits; #7 in added text; I can imitate the senior senator from my state🐢)
  47. Churchill Downs
    (#1 in authorship, edits, and added text)
  48. Lexington, Kentucky
    (#1 in authorship; #2 in edits; #3 in added text)
  49. Louisville Metro Council
    (created by me; #1 in authorship, edits, and added text)
  50. Duke University
    (#8 in edits; my alma mater beat 'em in '86)
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Database report deployments

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Following are database queries and corresponding reports the Stefen 𝕋ower has deployed in various spots in the Wikipedia:

Editor Insights

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Report name Deployments / Tests Query Notes
TopEditedPastYear Stefen 𝕋ower's userpage Query

WikiProject Insights

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Please feel free to copy/modify any of the following reports for use in WikiProjects of your choice or to your user pages for testing. Alternatively, if you'd like for me to make a version for your WikiProject, just ask on my talk page. I would be delighted to help!
Report name Deployments / Tools / Tests Query Notes
Archive.today
Query This report is based on live Archive.today (and related) links in articles. They may end up being migrated to a citation maintenance category, where many already show up in my CiteMaint report.
CiteErrors
Query
CiteMaint
Query
Featuredarticles WP Louisville Query
Fewcats
Query
FewProjects
Query
Forgotten
Query
Hot Articles 2
Query This is my modified version of the list generated by HotArticlesBot. Not all columns of the query are utilized.
Leaderboard
Query
LeastLinkDense
Query
MostEdited
Query Similar to Hot Articles, but is a full report with more columns and considers edits over the past 30 days.
MostIsolated
Query
MostVolatile
Query
New WikiProjects Database reports/WikiProjects Query This was originally a direct replacement fixing a breakdown due to database changes, but I've added a minor feature since.
Nursery
Query
OldIssues
Query This report shows dated WikiProject issues more than a decade old.
OOCO reviews WP Louisville (tool) Query This report is for personal use by an editor in their user space rather than deploying to WikiProjects. The results contain many false positives but as a whole can still be used to tease out articles outside a WikiProject's category orbit that are missing from inclusion in that WikiProject. Their categorization related to the WikiProject would ordinarily be improved at the same time.
Potential inclusions
Query This report is for personal use by an editor in their user space rather than deploying to WikiProjects. The results contain many false positives but as a whole can still be used to tease out articles, templates and (sub)categories within a WikiProject's categories that are missing from inclusion in that WikiProject.
Priorityarticles
Query
StubMissing
Query
Subject page edits
  • WP Chicago (test)
  • WP Cincinnati (test)
  • WP Illinois (test)
  • WP Indiana (test)
  • WP Indianapolis (test)
  • WP Kentucky (test)
  • WP Louisville ("Project Statistics" in infobox)
  • WP Ohio (test)
 Query This just returns the count of edits to in-project pages in the past 30 days, excluding talk pages and edits made by bots.
Watchall2
  • WP Kentucky
  • WP Louisville
 Various queries These are a collection of link dumps used for change patrol via "Related changes".
WikiProjects by human changes Database reports/WikiProjects Query This was a major rewrite of an existing report, "WikiProjects by changes".
WikiProjects with no activity Database reports/WikiProjects Query This report was carved out of the effort to create "WikiProjects by human changes".


Awards for StefenTower/Stevietheman

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the Stefen 𝕋ower isn't here for collecting awards, but they sure are nice to receive. Thank you!

The Technical Barnstar
Thank you very much for looking into all of my JWB settings and such to try to find out what the issue was. It was really helpful!!! Thank you very much! Geardona (talk to me?) 17:06, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

Citation Barnstar

This award is given in recognition to StefenTower for collecting more than 5 points during the WikiProject Unreferenced articles's FEB24 backlog drive. Your contributions played a crucial role in sourcing 14,300 unsourced articles during the drive. Thank you so much for participating and helping to reduce the backlog! – – DreamRimmer (talk) 17:58, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar
For your tireless work in maintaining and improving RegExTypoFix. Wikipedialuva (talk) 09:44, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
The Barnstar of Good Humor
Thank you for gently and kindly making smart, fair edits to a momentarily sloppy change I made and for all the great work it looks like you do RYPJack (talk) 18:06, 8 February 2017 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar
Stevietheman helped me learn the ropes of Wikipedia after I jumped into editing. Thanks! Zach Murrell (talk) 00:24, 2 February 2017 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar
Thank you for the great job you are doing on the editing of articles especially mine. Chitt66 (talk) 22:29, 10 January 2017 (UTC)
The Special Barnstar
For your efforts at the Muhammad Ali page in fighting vandalism and disruptive edits as well as for your constructive editing on this page. May you continue to keep an eye on this page always. Soham321 (talk) 17:40, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
The Citation Barnstar
Thank you. Here's a barnstar for your citation cleanups and also for the much-needed images you added to Lincoln Memorial at Waterfront Park Mitzi.humphrey (talk) 13:48, 27 August 2016 (UTC)
The Special Barnstar
In appreciation of your important contributions to Wikipedia. You are an asset to this website. And Adoil Descended (talk) 17:06, 10 August 2016 (UTC)
100000 Edits
Congratulations on reaching 100000 edits. You have achieved a milestone that only 363 editors have been able to accomplish. The Wikipedia Community thanks you for your continuing efforts. Keep up the good work!

Pony!
Congratulations! For saving American Pharoah from an overeager bot, you have received a pony! Ponies are cute, intelligent, cuddly, friendly (most of the time, though with notable exceptions), promote good will, encourage patience, and enjoy carrots. Treat your pony with respect and he will be your faithful friend! Montanabw(talk) 22:25, 11 June 2015 (UTC)

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The Original Barnstar
Well...I like your user page. Add and Got (talk) 15:11, 30 April 2015 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar
Thanks for your help. I appreciate your attention to the Louisville-related articles. Mitzi.humphrey (talk) 17:16, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
The Barnstar of Diligence
Thanks for your watchful eye! It is greatly appreciated. Taxee (talk) 16:15, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar
This barnstar is awarded to everyone who - whatever their opinion - contributed to the discussion about Wikipedia and SOPA. Thank you for being a part of the discussion. Presented by the Wikimedia Foundation.
The Bluegrass Barnstar
I hereby award you with this bluegrass barnstar for your invaluable work to improve articles for the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Keep up the outstanding work! -- Steven Williamson (HiB2Bornot2B) - talk 17:56, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
Thanks for your help in preventing recent vandalism at Louisville, Kentucky and at other articles in the past. Your efforts are much appreciated! Seicer (talk) (contribs) 04:30, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
The Editor's Barnstar
For all you have done for Wikipedia, especially in regards to the Louisville Metro, I award you, Stevietheman, the Editor's Barnstar. Keep up the awesome work! --Moreau36 16:48, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar
I award this Barnstar to Stevie for his tireless efforts in WikiProject Louisville and because he has received entirely too few barnstars for his hard work.

--Carl (talk contribs) 06:29, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

The Original Barnstar
For your continued excellent work on the PHP article! --james // bornhj (talk) 10:14, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

See also

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References

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  1. ^ the Stefen 𝕋ower's bramaged dain
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