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| # Cool! ] is the first successful DYK article I nominated but didn't create! I had, however, helped to get the article up to DYK length, because it was still a little too small. I said it before, with nominating the pages I've made for DYK, and I'll say it again for nominating others: This looks like the beginning of a ''ba-yootiful'' friendship!!! | # Cool! ] is the first successful DYK article I nominated but didn't create! I had, however, helped to get the article up to DYK length, because it was still a little too small. I said it before, with nominating the pages I've made for DYK, and I'll say it again for nominating others: This looks like the beginning of a ''ba-yootiful'' friendship!!! | ||
| # "]", the second DYK article I nominated but didn't create. This is nice, because my Mum and my Grandpa are fans of '']''. | # "]", the second DYK article I nominated but didn't create. This is nice, because my Mum and my Grandpa are fans of '']''. | ||
| # ], the third article I nominated for DYK but did not create. | |||
| ==The funnies== | ==The funnies== | ||
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My Misplaced Pages milestones
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The following is a list of experiences I consider to be noteworthy milestones from my time in Misplaced Pages.
In general
- Imagine, here, I've met the Will Ferrell!!! What are the chances of that? Wow!
- My very first rollback revert, with heartfelt thanks to User:Fritzpoll, who made it possible!!!
- This is not a milestone specific to me, but I view it as a big milestone for all of Misplaced Pages: I say kudos (if that's how it's spelt) to Beate Eriksen, for being officially the three millionth (3 000 000!) article entered into the Wikipedian database!!!
DYKs
My DYKs
- In this copy of the main page, the Did You Know? section contains a fact from one of my child articles; that being George Davenport. Here is a copy of the template itself, which shows the fact which was used. That makes an article's momma proud!!!
- Well, well, well. It looks as though my little article of Joseph M. Street also had a fact used in the Did You Know? template. All the better!!!
- And here, another one of mine was selected to be featured in the Did You Know? Template. Here is where I first nominated Equality North Carolina.: And this is where I realised the list goes upwards, not downwards. Here I learned many of the rules for a Did You Know? nomination (Nothing is ever as simple as seen on first sight!!!). I also learned that ENC needed a lot of touchups. Here I asked if it was better now, after much work and improvements. Whew! And here I was a little concerned that nobody was going to respond to me, so I gave a little more detailed question. And here I found out it was finally long enough per the requirements. So here I needed one last confirmation.: And here I got that confirmation!!! And here the final confirmation for the article was performed, and she was declared able to be used in Did You Know? Someday, she'll appear on the main page again, as a Featured article, though I doubt that will happen for a long time...
- Alright! Another one came through!!! Hold on, and I'll get the links - my, this is like the wiki-version of putting your children's most cherishable baby pictures in an album! Okay, so here's where I nominated the article: , and this is where I corrected the name, upon remembering that it contains a comma (this came right after!). Finally, though it seemed like ages, it was worth it, because with little discussion required, the article and the fact from it were both deemed suitable for Did You Know? Yippity Yay!!!
- And here a fact from Rachel Wall was used in Did You Know?! I'll get the links of the nomination in a moment... Here they are!!! Here I nominated Rachel Wall. Here User:Bedford suggested using the fact that she was the first American-born female pirate. Here I wrote that as an alternate hook. Here Bedford suggested combining both hooks together. Here, User:Ian Rose supported the second alternate hook (it was the best one, by far!!!). Here the article and fact were confirmed as ready for Did You Know?, and the date was also corrected (I could've sworn I made that one on the 23rd, however, not the 22nd...) And finally, here the fact was moved to be included in the next update of the Did You Know? template. Hooray!!!
- And now Gerobatrachus has become a Did You Know? article. I'll get the links of the nomination process in a moment!!! Here I nominated the article. Here User:Daniel Case confirmed it was ready for Did You Know? And here, User:BorgQueen moves it out of the discussion range, to be included in the next update. That is now six Did You Know? articles I've been responsible for creating. Yippity-yay!!!
- I didn't realize it till the seventeenth of June, but Daniel Montbars also became a Did You Know? article. Hooray!!!
- And here, Nathaniel Reed became a Did You Know? article. I did not participate in the nomination, so there will be no further links for this one. But this is amazing; my first B-class article, and now he is also a Did You Know? article!!!
- At last, another Did You Know? article! Jan Willems, this one is. Yippity-yay!
- Hooray!!! John Nutt is my tenth DYK article!!! Yippee!
- And here, a fact from Charlotte Badger's article was used. Yippity-yay!!!
- Yippity-yay! Rick Rhodes is now a DYK article!!! Yeah!!!
- And now, the little article about Matsuura Takanobu is a Did You Know? article! Yay!!!
- And here comes John D'Andrea's article, my latest DYK article!!! Yes!!!
- Now Southern Woolly Lemur is also a DYK article! But here's a funny story, behind this. Look at the fact which was used. Another user posted that all animals who live in degraded habitats' birthrates are affected by the degradation levels. Another user then posted an alternate hook. Hold on and I'll fish out a link from the sea of edits since then... Couldn't find one. Oh well. Anyway, another user suggested that the fact that the Southern Woolly Lemur is a recently-discovered species (which is a rare event these days) be used instead. I liked this, myself, but apparently the administrators liked my original hook better... Heehee!!!
- So this one here: is a big first for me. Psephophorus became a DYK article about two and two thirds-months after the article was first created! I really wanted the article to be successful, so I worked really hard to bring it up to a fivefold expansion. Luckily, Psephophorus seems to be a widely-covered topic in the realm of extinct turtles. Yippity-yay!!!
- And now, George Scott (wrestler) is a DYK article. Doing good so far!
- Bronko Lubich is also a DYK now. And there are three more. What a pleasant surprise to come back to after my wikibreak!!!
- The little article on Daniel Elfrith...
- ...And the little articles on Ctenochelys and Vincent Gambi! Yahoo!!!
- And finally, Polyptychoceras is in on the game!!!
- Now, at last, Mesotherium is also a DYK! What's more, he's the first DYK article I've created, in which a picture was used - in other words, he was the first hook in the list!!! Yippity-yay!!!
- Since I have been gone, these articles have also been promoted to DYK status: Samuel S. Adams...
- ...And Oioceros...
- ...Bette Sussman...
- ...And Lee Holdridge! What a surprise!!!
- My, am I ever glad to come back and see this! Another son-article, David Nichtern, got in!
- This just goes to show what happens when you treat Karma with respect. Jamie Howarth's article got in, and I didn't even have to participate!!! Hee-hee!!!
- As did little Jillian Clare! I declare, I'm speechless.
- Finally, another DYK (Gregg Groothuis)! It's good to be back in the game again! And I'm glad that the little article now has something special to say about himself.
- Rob Stewart (filmmaker) is now in. Tired at the moment, so I'll just raise a tiny flag and say "Yay!"
- And Millennium Wrestling Federation is also in DYK now! Not to mention the second DYK article I created in which a picture accompanied the fact (making it the fact at the top of the list)! I almost thought she wasn't going to get in, because it was taking so long for someone to verify the length, date and reference. Glad she made it!!!
- And while Kim Oler's musical tracks for Little Women may not have made it to Broadway, his Misplaced Pages-article most certainly made it to the Did You Know Column of the main page!!! I'd say that's way better than Broadway!!!
- Alas, my first DYK child in many, many weeks. Little Scott Thompson Baker had a rough struggle at it, but he finally managed to pull through. (Hey, the article did better at it than his sister-article Tina Andrews did!!!)
- My first DYK-child of the year 2009; the article on actress Yanna McIntosh. I'm slowly progressing on my way to my goal...
- Y'all thought I'd retired, didn't you? Well, here's a reminder that no change is permanent - except DYK status - Gallardosaurus made it in!!!
- Carniadactylus: My first pterosaur article (if I recall correctly) and she got into DYK! Hopefully I can take it as a marvellous sign that I'm good with pterosaur articles...
- How I love it when firsts go hand-in-hand: The first turtle skull described from the pre-Holocene era in Madagascar is what made Kinkonychelys my first DYK article of the year 2010!!!
- Well, with Yongjiacaris having gotten in, that adds up to forty DYKs. Winks, or DYKs? I'm glad I chose the latter...
- Alright!!! And my second dinosaur article, Linheraptor, also got in!!! I hope she has this kind of luck with ITN...
- This one proved an intriguing case. In this one, Periclimenes dardanicola becomes my 42nd DYK child-article, and shares the promotion with Dardanus pedunculatus, which User:Stemonitis expanded 5x. Though I was only affiliated with P. dardanicola, I received DYK credit for the both of them! Luckily, Stemonitis assurred me that was alright. Plus, it makes the story that much more interesting!
Other
- In this DYK queue, the last hook in the list is the first DYK hook I officially reviewed and confirmed. I think that's both cool and significant enough for inclusion.
- Cool! Jean-Joseph Marcel is the first successful DYK article I nominated but didn't create! I had, however, helped to get the article up to DYK length, because it was still a little too small. I said it before, with nominating the pages I've made for DYK, and I'll say it again for nominating others: This looks like the beginning of a ba-yootiful friendship!!!
- "Warning, It's Dirty", the second DYK article I nominated but didn't create. This is nice, because my Mum and my Grandpa are fans of Two and a Half Men.
- Robert S. Lancaster, the third article I nominated for DYK but did not create.
The funnies
- I'm actually amazed that he didn't want his name removed from the credits of The Alamo simply because of the name! No offence intended, but it's not every day you here of someone with a name like "Lon Tinkle"!!!
- I like this message I left to this dissatisfied knowledge-customer.
- It turns out that I couldn't see the bottom messages due to a malfunction with a template I used in one of my replies, but I still think this is funny.
- I know DYK is occasionally themed for special occasions, and I presume this one is for April Fool's Day. I just had so much fun reading this copy; I'd like to always have easy access to it, so here it is.
- Apparently I was the first case in which User:Hi878 had to say someone found the wrong secret page three times!