User:Cricket02

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Wikipedian since August 2006 11,000+ This user has made more than 11,000 contributions to Wikipedia. This user has pending changes reviewer rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify) This user is a member of the Guild of Copy Editors. This user is a member of WikiProject Musicians. This user helped promote Bradley Joseph to featured article status. This user simplifies Wikipedia referencing with ProveIt. This user reserves the right to completely screw up their own edits. This user is old enough to remember what a typewriter is, and that's all you need to know. This user is owned by one or more dogs. This user likes most types of music. fan-3 This user loves Gilmore girls. This user spends WAY too much time on Wikipedia and really needs to get off the computer... after one more edit. This user has been meaning to join the Procrastinators' Club for several years. Don't click this userbox.

Contributions

I've lost count, but have contributed more than 35 musician articles, 43+ album articles, plus helped to significantly improve many others and enjoy working with the Musicians Workgroup...♫ Cricket02

I also edit radiology case files at Radiopaedia.

Points of interest related to Music on Wikipedia: History – Portal – Category – WikiProject – Alerts – Deletions – Stubs – Style – To-do

• Page View Counter (special thanks to Henrik)
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Outreach/Newsletter/Issue 005

Helpful links

Help:Cheatsheet Wiki markup

Audio notes (Finally figured it out - kinda sorta)

• Wikipedia:Media#Audio
• Wikipedia:Media help (Ogg) (VLC Media player)
• Smart Audio Converter (free download - only converts 60% of file but should be enough to catch a good 30-second clip)
• Audacity (free digital audio editor)
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Composers#Guidelines for using sound excerpts, *Wikipedia:Music samples
• Other:
• RIAA searchable database
• Category:Automatically assessed biography articles
• Wikipedia:Article Rescue Squadron
• Wikipedia:Requesting free content
• WP:Contact us - Subjects

Bling

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  Exceptional Newcomer Award
  For your maintainance work on music-related articles. 10/30/06 utcursch | talk 08:36, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
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  The Barnstar of Music
  I, Heaven's Wrath, would like to award Cricket02 with the Music Barnstar for his great contributions to Bradley Joseph and its recent improvement to GA status. – Heaven's Wrath   ^Talk  01:37, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
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  'The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
  I award this barnstar to Cricket02 for being really nice to me this evening, (and backing me up in a deletion debate in the most complimentary way!) making me feel better about my contributions, myself, and Wikipedia, right when I needed it. J Milburn 20:20, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
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  contribs) 22:58, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
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  The Minor Barnstar
  Awarded to CricketTwo by Λυδαcιτγ for updating Portal:Music/Important.
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  The Original Barnstar
  To Cricket02, for innumerable contributions to Wikipedia and WikiProject Minnesota as well as the Bradley Joseph featured article. Your edits are smiling. -Susanlesch 12:07, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
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  The Armenian Barnstar
  I, VartanM, hereby award you this Armenian Barnstar of National Merit for all the work you have done to improve the coverage of Armenian music related articles. Keep up the great work! --VartanM 18:27, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
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  What a Brilliant Idea Barnstar
  To Cricket02, on the occasion of Portal:Minnesota becoming featured. Thanks to you, every visitor can tell how much their suggestions count. What a brilliant idea seen through to implementation! -Susanlesch (talk) 21:21, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
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  The Working Man's Barnstar
  I, Audacity, award Cricket02 this Barnstar for his diligent updating of Portal:Music/Important. Λυδαcιτγ 04:03, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
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  The Modest Barnstar
  This Modest barnstar is awarded to Cricket02 for copy editing articles totalling 4,501 words during the Guild of Copy Editors July 2010 backlog drive. Your contributions are appreciated!--Diannaa ^(Talk) 14:52, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
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  The Modest Barnstar
  This barnstar is awarded to Cricket02 for copy editing articles totalling 4000 words or more during the WP:GOCE January 2014 Backlog elimination drive. Thank you for participating! Diannaa (talk) 00:05, 2 February 2014 (UTC)