I use Matchups as a username all over the place, including my domain www.matchups.com which I later sold. 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 October 2013, I have 4234live edits. Though most are small, nearly all have edit summaries.

To-dos

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Articles to create

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Ongoing projects

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Other

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  • 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

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Wikiphilosophy

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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

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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

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Mainspace articles

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  • OEISA157425 Numbers which can be represented using fewer symbols than the number of decimal digits in the number.

Other

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Friends

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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:

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

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Upcoming (?) dates not to be missed:

Userboxen

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 This user enjoys playing bridge.
ObieThis user attends or attended Oberlin College.
 This user is a bicyclist.
 This editor is a Grognard Extraordinaire and is entitled to display this Wikipedia Vest Pocket Edition.
 This user has visited 38 of the 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.38