User:I JethroBT


SEMI-RETIRED

I have less time to volunteer than I used to, and hope to come out of semi-retirement in the future.
This user is no longer very active on Wikipedia.


Restored version of Mice in Council, by Hokusai



This user used to be I Jethrobot, but he never was a bot, nor did he ever own one like Susan Calvin.

This user is a host at the Teahouse.


I'm just this guy, you know?

Who am I?

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I'm just this guy, you know? You can call me Jethro.

Why is my username I JethroBT?

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Jethro was a nickname given to me by friends who liked this rock band with a flautist. Jethrobot was inspired by the same friends after watching I, Robot (I haven't seen it). In the weird way that nicknames tend to stick, it did. And so it became I, Jethrobot.

I later changed the ending to -BT because "bot" might cause folks to think I'm not a real boy. The BT doesn't stand for anything in particular (but you can pretend it stands for "Big Time" if you want).

Why Wikipedia? & editing history

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I joined Wikipedia on Sunday, August 13th in 2006, making some edits to Dragon Quest Yangus and Game Boy, but I wasn't really active until 2011. I was curious about deletion then; I knew it was easy to add stuff to articles, but didn't know much about how content was removed. So, I started spending my time watching and participating in deletion discussions and letting this sink in. It's been a fun ride since learning how this fantastic project gets built. It's not magic, but it sure feels that way sometimes.


Notice

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What I do

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I do some content work and these activities:

I also have had a major role in these initiatives:

It's a good life.

To-do

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Get to FA

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Get to GA

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Clean-up / Content Work

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Articles I have created

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Articles I have worked hard on and made them pretty OK

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An essay I started

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Admin Stuff

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Requests for adminship and bureaucratship update
No current discussions. Recent RfAs, recent RfBs: (successful, unsuccessful)
Admin statistics
Action Count
Edits 20414
Edits+Deleted 22554
Pages deleted 317
Revisions deleted 42
Logs/Events deleted 1
Pages restored 7
Pages protected 30
Pages unprotected 3
Protections modified 3
Users blocked 100
Users reblocked 12
Users unblocked 7
User rights modified 4
Users created 3
Mass messages sent 7





I like these things that Wikipedians have said (at least in part)

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  • [1] - On edit counts and RfAs, from Coffee (talk · contribs)
  • [2] Some words from Drmies (talk · contribs) on a lot of stuff, like curbing your enthusiasm, though I don't care so much for the old vs. young stuff.
  • [3] A new editor has this to say after being feeling pushed away by warnings and incorrect reverts identified as vandalism to her contributions. We all need to be careful of being BITEy.
  • [4] Iryna Harpy (talk · contribs) comments on how in their (and definitely my) childhood, Wikipedia is the blow-your-mind kind of futuristic stuff we dreamed about: "the stuff of science fiction", she says. I definitely agree.
  • [5] [6] This exchange between Jimbo Wales and Robert McClenon about acknowledging that our community tolerates incivility, and considerations on what we might do about it.

COI declarations

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I have recently worked at or been closely affiliated with the following institutions / companies and will never edit these articles for any reason:

Generous words

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