User:Frecklefoot

I'm a software engineer by trade, and a husband and dad by leisure. I've spent most of my professional career in the game industry, but currently I'm working in a non-entertainment sector (*whimper*). If you want to know more about me, visit my official web site: Frecklefoot's Flat. Being a video game developer, I got an entry on MobyGames: my Rap Sheet. If you really feel the need to, you can email me, however, most comments can go on my talk page.

I've edited thousands of articles, usually with just small changes to grammar and formatting. But here's a list (in chronological order, more or less) of articles with which I've had a great deal to do with. Some articles I've created, others I've just greatly expanded (man, this list has gotten long!). I haven't included stubs that I've created (they don't count!) unless I later expanded it into a significant article. Newest work appears at the bottom of the below list.

Contents

1 Notable contributions

2 Bragging Dept.

3 Projects

4 Genuinely interesting

5 To do

6 Handy stuff

Notable contributions

I've also created numerous categories. But since the 'pedia has about 16,000,000,000 categories right now, I'm not sure that's something to be proud of...

^* Indicates entry was a featured article
^†Indicates the article was featured in the "Did you know..." section of the Main page when the article was new.

Bragging Dept.

I'm proud of all my contributions to the 'pedia, but my article the Golden Age of Arcade Games was edited mercilessly within the first few hours of posting. It was then featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know..." section! The edits made it a much better article, but most of my original content is still there. Check it out if you get a chance... :-)

Update: WOO-HOO! This article became a featured article on September 2 2004. My first featured article ever! Though I didn't write the current revision all myself, I started it baby! :-D

Update: WOO-HOO! The article was featured on October 6 2004. Do I rock or what?!

April 17 2005: My article on Will Harvey was featured in the "Did you know..." section of the Main page!

Projects

Projects I'm officially interested in, but not necessarily a member of.

Wikipedia:WikiProject Arcade games (started by me)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer and video games
Wikipedia:WikiProject Writing Captions (not an official member)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Movies (not an official member)

Genuinely interesting

Though I didn't contribute a whole lot to these articles, they are interesting nonetheless:

Steve Wozniak: A true hero to every nerd
Voynich Manuscript: Truly weird, a hoax or genuine?
Alexander "Sawney" Bean: Strange legendary bandit family. Did they really even exist?

To do

Go through and correct all of AshSert 's evil-doing on the arcade game articles, per this discussion .
Write the Articfox computer game article.
Add screenshots to The Sims article.
Add screenshots for Lode Runner
Add picture of an Apple IIe or II+ and add it to History section of Game programmer and Apple II family article.

Handy stuff

Guide to table "pipe" syntax
Extended image syntax
Actor IMDb template: {{imdb name|id=0xxxxxx|name=<actor's name>}}
Film IMDb template: {{imdb title|id=0xxxxxx|title=<movie title>}}