User:Matchups

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 4234 live 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

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

OEIS: 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:

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