User:Dr vulpes

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Dr vulpes

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Pronouns	He/Him
Country	United States of America
Current location	California
Time zone	Pacific Time Zone
Current time	Current time for UTC-8 is 17:43
Account statistics
Joined	May 7, 2017
First edit	May 7, 2017
Autoconfirmed	February 16, 2019
Extended confirmed	May 20, 2022
New page reviewer	June 27, 2022
Pending changes reviewer	June 15, 2022
Rollbacker	April 9, 2023
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This user has AutoWikiBrowser rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify) This user has pending changes reviewer rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify) This user has new page reviewer rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify) This user is an articles for creation reviewer on the English Wikipedia. This user is identified to the Wikimedia Foundation. (verify) This user has rollback rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify) This user operates a bot, VulpesBot (talk · contribs · logs). This User went through the rigors of WP:NPP school and graduated!! This user successfully nominated 1 article by others that featured in the Did you know... section on the Main Page. This user has helped promote 1 good article on Wikipedia. About Me PhD(c)This user is a doctoral student in Psychological Sciences. This user has an undergraduate degree in Psychology with a minor in Political Science. This user is interested in evidence synthesis and meta-analysis. =4This user is a psychologist with an Erdős number of 4. This user has donated blood 21 times. This user is a platelet donor. This user has donated bone marrow. This user has been vaccinated and also received a bivalent booster against COVID-19. This user is an Eagle Scout. R-4This user is an expert R programmer. Travel This user has visited 4 of the countries of the world.4 This user has visited 25 of the 50 U.S. states,  Washington, D.C., and none of the 5 U.S. territories.26 This user has visited 2 of the 10 provinces and none of the 3 territories of Canada.2 This user has visited none of the 6 states and 1 of the 10 territories of Australia.1 Wiki Projects This user is a member of WikiProject Check Wikipedia. This user is a participant in WikiProject Short descriptions. This user is a member of the lichen task force. This user is a member of WikiProject Plants. This user is a member of the WikiProject Amateur radio This user participates in WikiProject California.
Contributions
Manual Edits Experienced Editor Automated Edits Veteran Editor IV
Articles Redirects File uploads Move log AfC History AfD history CSD log PROD log NPP log Review log

Current Major Projects

Plants and Nature

I'm not a botanist, I'm a psychologist so I'm not a professional I just think plants and nature are kinda neat.

Plant Conservation Status

My current big project is adding conservation statuses to plant articles. After I complete get this going at a nice pace I place to start including range maps. I've started working with the Nature Conservancy conservation classification system and since they have a lot of entries for North America I've started this project with plants in North America. I've created a category with plants that do not have a TNC conservation status and this will be my starting point for articles to improve. In this category I've also included plants from Hawaii and a few other Pacific islands so the current category is mostly but not exclusive North American plants. Part of this project includes a bot I've written and when it gets approved this whole process should move a lot faster.

Plant Photos

When I get some time I also want to work on getting images off of iNaturalist for plant articles without photos. This isn't easy as iNaturalist has a lot of great photos they are by default licensed CC BY-NC-SA which doesn't really mesh with Wikipedia.

Sierra Backcountry

When I'm tired of working with plant data I work on articles about the Sierra Nevada backcountry and am slowly working to improve and expand the articles in these wilderness areas. There is a lot of interesting history and science that has happened out there and I really enjoy finding old government reports and scientific papers documenting these areas.

Tools and Code

Plants Project

• Adding conservation status of plants to Wikidata and then porting it over to articles on Wikipedia.

WikiProject Short descriptions

• Adding short descriptions to articles about geography related articles.

Barnstars

(Barnstars etc. copied from my talk page)

The Resilient Barnstar Of all the editors I’ve come across recently, you’re probably the most candid one that I’ve seen in a while. It’s difficult to admit your own mistakes, but I’m glad that you’re transparent of your own shortcomings. Cheers to you! CollectiveSolidarity (talk) 20:55, 30 June 2022 (UTC)

The Citation Barnstar For your expansion of List of most-followed Twitch channels with citations. Ss112 21:41, 26 April 2023 (UTC)

The Citation Barnstar Thanks for making List of most-followed Twitch channels go from 2 sources to dozens! 123957a (talk) 23:38, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

The DYK Barnstar Thanks for all the hard work in getting Clipperon Island first to GA status and now featured in DYK! —Carter (Tcr25) (talk) 01:50, 29 June 2023 (UTC)

New Page Patrol

The Content Review Medal of Merit This award is given to Dr vulpes for accumulating the most points in the July NPP backlog reduction drive. Your contributions played a part in the 9895 reviews that took place during the drive.Zippybonzo | Talk (he|him) 07:46, 3 August 2022 (UTC)

The Order of the Superior Scribe of Wikipedia This award is given to Dr vulpes for 879 reviews and 92 re-reviews in the July NPP backlog reduction drive. Zippybonzo | Talk (he|him) 07:46, 3 August 2022 (UTC)

The Teamwork Barnstar Awarded to Dr vulpes for re-reviewing 92 articles, a very impressive feat. Thank you for your contributions. Zippybonzo | Talk (he|him) 15:19, 3 August 2022 (UTC)

Special Edition New Page Patroller's Barnstar This award is given to Dr vulpes for collecting more than 200 points doing reviews and re-reviews, in the October NPP backlog reduction drive. Thank you for your contributions. Zippybonzo | Talk (he|him) 09:47, 30 October 2022 (UTC)

Planetary gear Award This award is given to Dr vulpes for collecting more than 100 points per week doing reviews, in the October NPP backlog reduction drive. Thank you for your contributions Zippybonzo | Talk (he|him) 09:47, 30 October 2022 (UTC)

Team Barnstar This award is given to Dr vulpes for doing more than 25 re-reviews, in the October NPP backlog reduction drive. Thank you for your contributions. Zippybonzo | Talk (he|him) 09:47, 30 October 2022 (UTC)

Redirect Ninja Award For over 2,000 redirect reviews during 2022. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 02:51, 2 January 2023 (UTC)

The New Page Reviewer's Bronze Award For over 1,000 article reviews during 2022. Well done! Keep up the good work! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 02:51, 2 January 2023 (UTC)

Special Edition New Page Patroller's Barnstar This award is given to Dr vulpes for collecting more than 800 points doing redirect reviews, in the May 2023 NPP backlog reduction drive. Thank you for your contributions. Zippybonzo | Talk (he|him) 16:27, 4 June 2023 (UTC)

Rack and pinion Award This award is given to Dr vulpes for collecting more than 60 points per week doing reviews, in the May 2023 NPP backlog reduction drive. Thank you for your contributions Zippybonzo | Talk (he|him) 16:27, 4 June 2023 (UTC)

Guild of Copy Editors

The Minor Barnstar This barnstar is awarded to Dr vulpes for copy edits totaling between 1 and 3,999 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE September 2022 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 19:33, 6 October 2022 (UTC)

The Minor Barnstar This barnstar is awarded to Dr vulpes for copy edits totaling between 1 and 3,999 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE October 2022 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 20:23, 24 October 2022 (UTC)

The Cleanup Barnstar This barnstar is awarded to Dr vulpes for copy edits totaling over 12,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE May 2023 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 14:53, 3 June 2023 (UTC)

Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Total Articles, 3rd Place This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Dr vulpes for copyediting 17 articles during the GOCE May 2023 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 14:53, 3 June 2023 (UTC)

Vital Articles

Vital Barnstar For your one-shot edit at Inorganic chemistry. You're truly a referencing madlad. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 10:06, 22 August 2022 (UTC)  

Barnstars I've given to others

Shushugah The Barnstar of Good Humor! I don't know why I was looking up your recent contributions but I'm really glad I did. Your edit summary "McUnion was my first article title idea but that wouldn't fry 🍟" in the McDonald's and unions article was unexpected and pure gold. Thanks for making me laugh and for showing me that you can add emojis to edit summaries. Dr vulpes (💬 • 📝) 06:33, 13 June 2023 (UTC) The Barnstar of Good Humor Your joke at the De Mirage AfD was great 10/10. I always love to see that kind of humor around here. Thanks for keeping this place fun. Dr vulpes (💬 • 📝) 05:39, 13 May 2023 (UTC) Yuchitown The Original Barnstar Thank you for all the work you did on Crow Village Sam, I was really bummed that I couldn't find resources to save it at AfD but I just saw how much work you and others put into saving it and it made me really happy. Your works is important and I look forward to seeing more of it here. Dr vulpes (💬 • 📝) 21:46, 5 May 2023 (UTC) Moncrief The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar I wanted to recognize you for how you stepped up and helped contain the slow growing mess that was starting to take shape over at the Shooting of Ralph Yarl article. Dr vulpes (💬 • 📝) 08:55, 18 April 2023 (UTC) Dusteg The Original Barnstar Your article Dust astronomy was a real treat to review. The work you're putting out is great and I hope to see more of you around here. Dr vulpes (💬 • 📝) 04:55, 17 April 2023 (UTC) Tcr25 The Copyeditor's Barnstar Thank you for all the work you've been putting into the Clipperton Island article. I spent a lot of time expanding it and was kind of dreading going back over and copyediting it. You've done some really good work and I appreciate it. Dr vulpes (💬 • 📝) 23:38, 5 April 2023 (UTC) Partofthemachine Short Description Barnstar I know we didn't see eye to eye with the Indigenous science article a couple months back. But after reviewing your edits I got really interested in the short description wikiproject. It has been so much fun! Thanks for introducing this to me and for all the work you put into Wikipedia. Dr vulpes (💬 • 📝) 08:53, 8 October 2022 (UTC) Red-tailed hawk The da Vinci Barnstar Your NCORP table generator is amazing. When I see it come up in AfD I know that real work has gone into that nomination. Just wanted to recognize you and your work that you do here. I look forward to using it in the future! Dr vulpes (💬 • 📝) 08:49, 8 October 2022 (UTC) Penitentes The Excellent New Editor's Barnstar A new editor on the right path I just reviewed your article on Tulainyo Lake and it was GREAT. I learned a lot from it and discovered there are people willing to hike up to places like that with scuba gear. Here I was thinking hiking with ham radio gear was nuts! I have a soft spot for the Sierra backcountry, as a Boy Scout I really enjoyed my time backpacking so these articles always make my day and when they're well written it's even better. I hope you write more articles and if you need help or run into problems please reach out on my talk page. Dr vulpes (💬 • 📝) 21:12, 26 August 2022 (UTC) Magnolia677 The Copyeditor's Barnstar I am a native English speaker, I'm finishing my PhD, I think I'm smart. I am not. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for pointing out my mistake with State vs state. I want to recognize your professionalism and kindness in the face of my ~2000 edits worth of errors. Wikipedia is better because of people like you and again, thank you. Dr vulpes (💬 • 📝) 07:07, 21 August 2022 (UTC) Shushugah The Barnstar of Diligence I just wanted to let you know that I've seen all the work you do around here. It has not gone unnoticed. For what it's worth you'll have my support again in your next RfA. Thank you for all you do around here and all the work you put in. Dr vulpes (💬 • 📝) 08:32, 18 August 2022 (UTC) Rwiggum The Civility Barnstar Uggg my mistake on the Kicker (EP) article, I went through all the interviews on Billboard and FINALLY found one that talked about Kicker making it to number 10 on the Billboard Vinyl chart which was all it really needed. The Indie chart that's listed on the bands discography is behind a paywall. Thanks for being chill and responsive, I almost made a really stupid mistake to an important article. You were super cool and professional which I really appreciate. Thanks again! Dr vulpes (💬 • 📝) 01:54, 7 July 2022 (UTC)