User:Ruhrfisch/Milestones

Milestones

I have created 131 articles and 79 redirects as of March 2, 2009 - see here.

Note: All edit count milestones are as of the time the edits were made - or when I realized and checked a week or two after. I have made over 530 deleted edits (as of January 2008) so there is a bit of uncertainty here.

2005

July 8 2005: My first edit as a registered user, on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Matthew 1:verses, which eventually gets me accused of being a sockpuppet. Thanks to the kindness of Jwrosenzweig and the highly addictive nature of Wikipedia, I perservere.
August 2005: Steamtown National Historic Site featured in Portal:Trains/Did you know?

2006

March 25 2006 - my 500th edit (I made Weiser State Forest, Pennsylvania into a redirect from a duplicate stub, now that's quality editing!)
April 12 2006 - Larrys Creek makes Good Article
April 22 2006 - my 1000th edit (added the school district and a map of Berks county to Leesport, Pennsylvania)
June 21 2006 - my 1500th edit (school district work on Bermudian Springs School District)
July 26 2006 - my 2000th edit (→Geology - better links to Allegheny, Appalachian, added USGS groundwater recharge on Larrys Creek)
August 5 2006 - Did you know ...that the Fair Play Men, a group of squatters in colonial Pennsylvania, made their own Declaration of Independence from Britain on July 4, 1776 on the banks of Pine Creek? (DYK #1)
August 26 2006 - my 2500th edit (thanks on User talk:Kmusser)
August 30 2006 - Larrys Creek makes Featured Article
September 7 2006 - Did you know ...that Chiques Creek in Pennsylvania, named for the Lenape word Chiquesalunga (meaning place of crayfish), has 13 variant names according to the USGS? (DYK #2)
September 14 2006 - Did you know ...that although the name of Pennsylvania's western Conewago Creek means at the rapids in the Lenape language, there are no rapids in the creek itself? (DYK #3)
October 10 2006 - my 3000th edit (reverting vandalism on Abington Heights School District - thanks kids)
October 26 2006 - my 3500th edit (to List of Registered Historic Places in Pennsylvania (added link to List of Registered Historic Places in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania) - an 'historic' edit)
November 17 2006 - my 4000th edit (moved User talk:Ruhrfisch to User talk:Ruhrfisch/Archive2 - a whole lot of talkin' going on)
December 8 2006 - Did you know ...that the Native American Sheshequin Path along Lycoming Creek, Pennsylvania was prone to such bad weather that an evil spirit was believed to reside there? (DYK #4)
December 10 2006 - White Deer Hole Creek makes Featured Article
December 13 2006 - my 4500th edit (reverting nonsense in Talk:Pleasant Valley School District) Why are so many of my milestone edits related to school districts?

December 18 2006 - my first image on the Main Page, when Image:Worlds End State Park Loyalsock Creek.JPG is featured in Did you know ...that Worlds End State Park (pictured) in Pennsylvania is sometimes erroneously known as "Whirls End State Park", its official name for seven years?? (Thanks Gerry D, for expanding the article and getting it on DYK!) (DYK #5)

2007

January 10, 2007 - Paulins Kill, an article I peer reviewed and made some contributions to, makes Featured article (congrats to ExplorerCDT)
January 11 2007 - my 5000th edit (reformatting my user page) and to to think I used to add content...
January 22 2007 - Did you know ...that Maurice K. Goddard helped create 45 Pennsylvania state parks? (Thanks to Gerry D, who started the article, and listed me as coauthor (for my additions) on the nomination for DYK) (DYK #6)
February 13 2007 - my 5500th edit (leaving {{test1}} on an IP user's page after reverting this vandalism to Pennsylvania)
March 1 2007 - I reach 1000 articles on my watch list (and promptly delete a bunch)
March 4 2007 - my 6000th edit (on Talk:List of Pennsylvania state parks, getting things ready for WP:FLC) at least I am talking about content...
March 9 2007 - Ohio Wesleyan University, an article I peer reviewed and made some contributions to, makes Featured article (congrats to LaSaltarella)
March 12 2007 - Did you know ...that Madame Montour, of Native American and French Canadian heritage, was paid the same as a man when she worked as an interpreter for the colonial governments of New York and Pennsylvania in the first half of the 18th century? (Thanks again to Gerry D, who started the article, and listed me as coauthor (for my additions) on the nomination for DYK) (DYK #7)
March 16 2007 - Did you know ...that the forty-six Recreational Demonstration Areas, built as model parks near urban areas in the United States during the Great Depression, later became national and state parks, and in one case, Camp David? (grew out of a stub I made for a red link in List of Pennsylvania state parks) (DYK #8)
March 25 2007 - List of Pennsylvania state parks is promoted to Featured List (I am a main author, along with Gerry D and VerruckteDan)
March 25 2007 - my 6500th edit, adding to Trough Creek State Park (which I have never been to)

April 9 2007 - my second image on the Main Page, when Image:Eagle Grange.JPG is featured in Did you know ...that Eagle Grange No. 1 (pictured) in Clinton Township, Lycoming County was the first grange to be established in Pennsylvania? (Thanks Gerry D, for making the article and getting it on DYK!) (DYK #9)
April 13 2007 - my 7000th edit, reverting vandalism on Messiah College
April 23 2007 - Did you know ...that in the Big Runaway during the American Revolution in Pennsylvania in 1778, Rachel Silverthorn (pictured) rode to warn settlers on Muncy Creek of impending attack when no man would? (Thanks to Gerry D for coauthoring. This is the third image I have had on the Main Page, although I just uploaded and cropped it, the article links to the full mural.)

(DYK #10)
May 2 2007 - my 7500th edit, adding an infobox to Big Runaway (I keep hearing the Talking Heads singing Run run run run run run away!)
May 10 2007 - my 8000th edit to User talk:Ruhrfisch/Archive2 (update archivebox)
May 18 2007 - Ohio Wesleyan University, which I peer reviewed and made some edits to, is Today's Featured Article (congrats to LaSaltarella)
May 25 2007 - my 8500th edit, assesing Bellefontaine, Ohio as B class on its talk page (To B or not to B, that is the question)
May 31 2007 - May 2007 was the first month I exceeded 1000 edits (actually 1259)
June 3 2007 - Did you know ...that Peter Herdic, a 19th century Pennsylvania lumber baron, millionaire, and philanthropist, also invented the horse-drawn herdic, an early form of taxicab? (Many thanks to Gerry D, who actually wrote the article, and added me to the DYK nomination for my copyedits and seven photos I added) (DYK #11)
June 4 2007 - Did you know ...that the Susquehanna Boom led to Williamsport, Pennsylvania having more millionaires per capita than any other city at the time? (another collaboration - thanks Dinch!) (DYK #12)
June 17 2007 - my 9000th edit to Mecklenburg County, North Carolina (added a county map I made from a Census map)
July 25 2007 - my 9500th edit to LaSalle Lake State Fish and Wildlife Area (added a locator dot to the Infobox for and changed "&" to "and" throughout - maybe I've become a WikiElf)
August 9 2007 - Did you know ...that although Plunketts Creek in Pennsylvania was named for a suspected Loyalist during the American Revolution, by 1838 he was so controversial that Plunketts Creek Township was named for the creek instead? (Thanks to Gerry D for asking me to write the article and advice on the DYK hook) (DYK #13)
August 12 2007 - my 10,000th edit to Plunketts Creek (Loyalsock Creek) (expanding the lead paragraph)
August 15 2007 - Plunketts Creek (Loyalsock Creek) makes Good Article
September 5 2007 - my 10,500th edit to Tiadaghton State Forest‎ (adding counties to the Geobox Protected Area)

September 8 2007 - my fourth image on the Main Page, when a picture I uploaded from Flickr is the photo for Today's Featured Article Renewable energy in Scotland (congrats to Ben MacDui!)
October 2 2007 - my 11,000th edit to Cummings Township, Pennsylvania‎ (remove duplicate picture, fix ref)
October 4 2007 - Did you know ...that the Old Loggers Path, a loop hiking trail in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, uses old logging railroad grades and roads, and its trailhead is a lumber ghost town? (a joint effort with Gerry D - thanks!) (DYK #14)
October 14 2007 - Plunketts Creek (Loyalsock Creek) makes Featured Article (thanks again to Gerry D and Ben MacDui for all their help)

October 19 2007 - Larrys Creek is Today's Featured Article and a photo I took of it and the Cogan House Covered Bridge is the fifth I uploaded used on the Main Page. I started Larrys Creek on February 27 2006. It had received 231 edits as of October 18 2007, none of which were vandalism. In the twenty fours hours it was "Today's Featured Article", it received 133 edits. I classified 15 as good faith edits, 55 were clearly vandalism, 1 took me two weeks to be sure it was vandalism, and 59 edits were reversions of vandalism or good faith edits. Of the good faith edits, only 6 were helpful and added content or made changes which remain in the article. In the 24 hours after TFA, there were 5 good faith edits, 1 vandalism, and 2 reversions. All of these good faith edits are still in the article, if tweaked a bit (the Hoover visits, my post TFA cleanups).

October 20 2007 - Did you know ...that the Cogan House Covered Bridge (pictured) in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, USA was built by a millwright who preassembled the frame in a field beside the sawmill to make sure it all fit? Thanks to Elkman who requested this article back when Larrys Creek was in FAC - I took the picture and it is the sixth image I uploaded that has been on the Main Page. (DYK #15)
October 24 2007 - my 11,500th edit started Template:Lycoming County Pennsylvania Map‎ (for use in List of municipalities in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania)

November 7 2007 - Did you know ...that the Joseph Priestley House (pictured) in Northumberland, Pennsylvania was the site of the first and only laboratory Priestley designed, built and outfitted himself, as well as several American Chemical Society celebrations? - thanks to Awadewit who greatly expanded it, I provided the picture (my seventh on the Main Page), made some edits, and wrote the DYK hook (DYK #16)
November 12 2007 - my 12,000th edit (reverting vandalism on Youghiogheny River Trail‎)
November 14 2007 - List of municipalities in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania makes Featured List - thanks to Gerry D for starting it, doing most of the work, and asking me to write Plunketts Creek to fill in a red link
November 26 2007 - Presque Isle State Park makes Featured Article - I had made 20 edits before FAC then 42 more in FAC to help bring it up to FA standards, thanks to Gerry D, Niagara, Tomdonohue1, Finetooth, and Trey

December 1 2007 - Did you know ...that the new Market Street Bridge (pictured) over the West Branch Susquehanna River between Williamsport and South Williamsport in Pennsylvania is the seventh on that site, and that three of the previous bridges were destroyed by floods? Thanks to Gilliganzeemo for starting the article, Gerry D for expanding it and including me in the DYK nom - I took the picture and it is the eighth I uploaded to appear on the Main Page. (DYK #17)
December 5 2007 - my 12,500th edit, reverting a link not meeting WP:EL on Altoona, Pennsylvania‎ (spam, spam spam, spam!)
December 14 2007 - sixty-two otherwise sane users agreed to make me an administrator on Wikipedia.
December 17 2007 - Did you know ...that Snyder Middleswarth Natural Area lost its status as a Pennsylvania state park in the 1990s despite being a National Natural Landmark and Snyder County's only state park? (if only I could find out exactly when this happened...) (DYK #18)
December 31 2007 - my 13,000th edit, to Laurel Hill State Park‎ (switch from {{cite news}} to {{cite map}})

2008

January 1 2008 - White Deer Hole Creek is the Geography Portal's Featured article for January 2008
January 20 2008 - my 13,500th edit, moving a peer review to Wikipedia:Peer review/Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series/archive1‎ for archiving
January 28 2008 - Did you know ...that when the first portion of the Lackawanna and Bloomsburg Railroad opened in 1856, it led to the incorporation of Kingston, Pennsylvania, and to the establishment of Kingston's first public transit line? - I started this get rid of a red link in Joseph Priestley House (DYK #19)
January 29 2008 - my 14,000th edit, reverting vandalism to Dare County, North Carolina‎ (Truth or dare?)

January 31 2008 - Did you know ...that Carl Frederik von Breda (pictured), a Swedish portraitist who trained with Joshua Reynolds, was unable to complete his two largest commissions due to a coup and lack of studio space? - the ninth image I uploaded that has been on the Main Page, and the other article I started to get rid of a red link in Joseph Priestley House (DYK #20)
January 31 2008 - this is the second month I made over 1000 edits (actually 1131)
February 2 2008 - Joseph Priestley House makes Featured Article, thanks to Awadewit (we jointly authored it in her words, I think she did more of the work ;-) )
February 6 2008 - my 14,500th edit, adding a DYK notice to Talk:Yellowtail scad (something fishy here)

February 15 2008 - Did you know ...that Laporte (courthouse pictured), one of thirteen municipalities in Sullivan County, is Pennsylvania's smallest county seat by population? - thanks to Gerry D, my coauthor on this list. The picture is the tenth image I uploaded that has been on the Main Page (DYK #21)
February 15 2008 - my 15,000th edit (eek!), archiving the peer review on the talk page for South Atlantic Medal (once I wrote articles on creeks...)
February 16 2008 - my first nomination for Did you know ...that the Pine Creek Rail Trail, a 65 mile (105 km) rail trail along Pine Creek in Pennsylvania, was named one of "10 great places to take a bike tour" in the world by USA Today? - congrats to Thomaswagner who wrote the article - I added some pictures and the DYK hook material (DYK nom #1)
February 25 2008 - my 15,500th edit, nominating Frederic A. Godcharles at Template talk:Did you know‎
February 27 2008 - Did you know ...that Frederic A. Godcharles served as a Pennsylvania Representative and Senator, as director of its state library and museum, and wrote twelve volumes on its history? I wrote this to take care of a red link in List of municipalities in Sullivan County, Pennsylvania (DYK #22)
February 29 2008 - List of municipalities in Sullivan County, Pennsylvania makes Featured List! Thanks (as always) to Gerry D, with whom I wrote it
February 29 2008 - most edits in one month to date (1660), first time I made over 1500 edits in one month (must be Leap Day)

March 1 2008 - a color image of Joseph Priestley I uploaded is used in Today's Featured Article: Joseph Priestly. Congratulations to Awadewit for a great article (this is the eleventh image I uploaded that has been on the Main Page)
March 6 2008 - my 16,000th edit, adding a map of the park I made to Black Moshannon State Park (a lovely place)
March 9 2008 - Did you know ...that Larrys Creek in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania has 42 named tributaries in its watershed, including one named "Little Dog Run"? I expanded the list five-fold and got a DYK to boot, next I will try for WP:FL with it (DYK #23)
March 17 2008 - my 16,500th edit, doing a peer review of Government of Kerala
March 19 2008 - Geometry guy and I write a Dispatch on changes at Peer review in the Wikipedia Signpost
March 27 2008 - my 17,000th edit, adding a DYK notice to Talk:Dermestidae‎
April 1 2008 - my first April Fools Did you know ...that six latrines at Black Moshannon State Park in Pennsylvania are listed on the National Register of Historic Places? Thanks to Gerry D, who wrote most of the article and graciously included me (DYK #24)
April 1 2008 - my second April Fools Did you know ...that the 31 mi (50 km) West Rim Trail along the Grand Canyon was selected by Outside Magazine as the best hike in Pennsylvania? (I had the idea April 1, 2007) (DYK #25)

April 6 2008 - my 17,500th edit, peer reviewing the Blow fly article
April 10 2008 - Did you know ...that Mid-State Regional Airport is a Keystone Opportunity Zone to promote economic growth, but, to protect the Pennsylvania state park and forest (pictured) it was formed from, cannot legally expand? A double DYK - Gerry D wrote the KOZ article and I wrote the airport article, both to get rid of redlinks in Black Moshannon State Park as we get ready for FAC. The twelfth image I uploaded (and seventh I took) on the Main Page. (DYK #26)
April 14 2008 - List of tributaries of Larrys Creek‎ makes Featured List (insert witty / humorous comment here)
April 15 2008 - my 18,000th edit, archiving the peer review for Campus of Texas A&M University‎, which I did peer review
April 18 2008 - Did you know ...that river miles measure distances along a river from its mouth and are used to reference locations and to name islands? (I have always made a new article for each FA and FL, so this was for the Larrys Creek tributaries FL) (DYK #27)
April 24 2008 - Black Moshannon State Park makes Featured article, thanks to Gerry D who is the main author and let me help
April 25 2008 - my 18,500th edit, thanking Gerry D for all his work on Black Moshannon State Park
May 7 2008 - my 19,000th edit, fixing a link on the Louvre article - yes my work is displayed in the Louvre (article)
May 18 2008 - my 19,500th edit, leaving a "goofy question" on User talk:ThinkBlue‎
May 27 2008 - my 20,000th edit, leaving a "Request for Peer Review help" at User talk:JayHenry, who gets a star in my book for his PR help:
May 28 2008 - Cogan House Covered Bridge makes Featured article
June 7 2008 - my 20,500th edit, a response to a comment on Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Worlds End State Park‎
June 12 2008 - Did you know ... that of the 30 covered bridges that once stood in Sullivan County, Pennsylvania, only Forksville, Hillsgrove, and Sonestown remain, all of which were built in 1850? - my first triple DYK (DYK #28)
June 13 2008 - Worlds End State Park makes Featured article, thanks to Gerry D who is the main author and let me help
June 19 2008 - my 21,000th edit, finishing my peer review comments on Wikipedia:Peer review/Chris Long (American football)/archive1‎
June 19 2008 - Forksville Covered Bridge make Good Article, thanks to Juliancolton for reviewing it and Gerry D for help
July 2 2008 - my 21,500th edit, cleaning up Augustus Lutheran Church‎ as part of Wikiproject NRHP's National Historic Landmark drive
July 20 2008 - Forksville Covered Bridge makes Featured article
July 20 2008 - my 22,000th edit, explaining policy at Wikipedia talk:Peer review‎

July 31 2008 - Did you know ... that the Pine Creek Path, a Native American trail along Pine Creek in Pennsylvania, was later used by lumbermen, then its course was followed by a railroad, and today it is a rail trail (pictured)? - made for a red link in Leonard Harrison State Park, which Gerry D and I are expanding for FAC (DYK #29)
August 5 2008 - my 22,500th edit leaving a {{uw-v2}} template on an IP user's talk page (and making a typo too, so I had to go back and fix it with edit 22,501)
August 18 2008 - Leonard Harrison State Park makes Featured article, thanks to Gerry D as always
August 18 2008 - my 23,000th edit, leaving thank-spam on my friend Gerry D's talk page for all his work on Leonard Harrison State Park
September 4 2008 - my 23,500th edit, leaving a DYK noitice for User:Aboutmovies
September 7 2008 - Stigand makes Featured article - thanks to the extreme kindness of Ealdgyth, who listed me as a conominator at WP:FAC for my two peer reviews (I'm not worthy!).
September 13 2008 - Hillsgrove Covered Bridge makes Featured article
September 17 2008 - Did you know ... that a splash dam was a temporary wooden dam used to raise the water level in streams to float logs downstream to sawmills? - thanks to Choess who suggested I write this to make Leonard Harrison State Park clearer (DYK #30)
September 19 2008 - my 24,000th edit, doing the partial transclusion trick on Wikipedia:Peer review/Léon M'ba/archive2 to reduce the size of WP:PR
September 20 2008 - I am interviewed on my work at Peer review in the Wikipedia Signpost
October 8 2008 - my 24,500th edit, asking Brianboulton a question about the palcement of the Pine Creek Gorge section of Colton Point State Park
October 11 2008 - Colton Point State Park makes Featured article, thanks to Gerry D as always
October 30 2008 - my 25,000th edit, simplifying {{convert}} templates in Bucktail State Park Natural Area - I saved a special edit for 25K (not)
November 26 2008 - my 25,500th edit, congratulating Brianboulton on his latest FA
December 4 2008 - Did you know ... that the mid-19th century stone arch Bridge No. 3 over Plunketts Creek in Pennsylvania, USA, is listed on the Historic American Engineering Record even though it was destroyed in a 1996 flood? (I wrote this to get rid of a red link in Sonestown Covered Bridge) (DYK #31)
December 13 2008 - Sonestown Covered Bridge makes Featured article
December 21 2008 - my 26,000th edit, updating Wikipedia:Peer review/backlog/items after a review
December 26 2008 - Did you know ... that to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Christmas lights and decorations on Summer Street in Duboistown, Pennsylvania, the mayor proclaimed "December as Candy Cane Lane month forever more"? (DYK #32)
December 31 2008 - my 601st peer review for the year, reviewing Florida Marlins seasons

2009

January 13 2009 - my 26,500th edit, taking a break from peer reviews for a week (change to my talk page)
February 4 2009 - my 27,000th edit, replying to IvoShandor about deleting a problem image
February 19 2009 - Plunketts Creek Bridge No. 3 makes Featured article
February 20 2009 - my 27,500th edit, updating this page for 2009 (three items above)
March 5 2009 - my 28,000th edit, leaving a message at Wikipedia talk:Did you know after doing an update
March 27 2009 - my 28,500th edit, to Cherry Springs State Park- the edit summary says it all clarify latrines associated with picnic areas
April 8 2009 - my second nomination for Did You Know ... that the tradition of a themed White House Christmas tree was started in 1961 by First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy (pictured, with JFK and tree)? - congrats to IvoShandor, the author ((DYK nom #2)
April 8 2009 - Did You Know ... that Cherry Springs Airport in Potter County, Pennsylvania, was closed because the night sky there was too dark? I wrote this to take care of red link in Cherry Springs State Park (DYK #33)

April 13 2009 - White Deer Hole Creek is Today's Featured Article and a photo I took of it is the fourteenth I uploaded used on the Main Page.
April 14 2009 - my 29,000th edit, leaving thanks and planing future state park FACs at User talk:Niagara

April 18 2009 - Joseph Priestley House is Today's Featured Article and a photo I took of it became the first image I uploaded used on the Main Page twice (my seventh image in DYK, and fifteenth Main Page image here).
May 6 2009 - my 29,500th edit, archiving the peer review to get ready for WP:FAC at Talk:Cherry Springs State Park
May 8 2009 - Did You Know ... that the 85-mile (137 km) Susquehannock Trail System hiking trail passes through the 30,253-acre (12,243 ha) Hammersley Wild Area, the largest area in Pennsylvania without a road? I wrote both of these to take care of red links in Cherry Springs State Park (DYK #34), (DYK #35)
May 12 2009 - Cherry Springs State Park makes Featured article - a joint effort with Gerry D
May 15 2009 - Did You Know ... that the only surviving structure from the Coudersport and Port Allegany Railroad is a train station that is now the town hall of Coudersport, Pennsylvania? I wrote the station to take care of a red link in a navbox at the bottom of Cherry Springs State Park (I think I have OCD with respect to red links anywhere in an article at FAC) (DYK #36)
May 23 2009 - my 30,000th edit, giving Gerry D a well deserved barnstar
June 1 2009 - my 30,500th edit, fixing a redirect in Dover Area School District after an article move
June 10 2009 - my 31,000th edit, fixing links in Hilltown, Pennsylvania after a move
June 12 2009 - Did You Know ... that Upper Pine Bottom Run in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania was home to an iron furnace and sawmills in the 19th century, but today is home to state forest land and the 5-acre (2.0 ha) Upper Pine Bottom State Park? (with my friend Gerry D) (DYK #37)
June 16 2009 - BP Pedestrian Bridge makes Featured article - TonyTheTiger and Torsodog graciously included me on the FAC nomination for my extensive copyedit
June 29 2009 - my 31,500th edit, removing spam from Edinboro, Pennsylvania
August 3 2009 - my 32,000th edit, reverting vandalism at Ernest Shackleton
September 13 2009 - my 32,500th edit, commenting on the Post Oak Mall peer review
October 3 2009 - I tend to write articles on obscure topics, so I was very glad when a photo I took was used in Inner German border, which was Today's Featured Article - congratulations to ChrisO for a great article on an important topic

October 4 2009 - an image of Murray Chotiner I cropped and uploaded is used in Today's Featured Article: Murray Chotiner. Congratulations to Wehwalt for a great article (this is the sixteenth image I uploaded that has been on the Main Page)
October 10 2009 - my 33,000th edit, add {{fact}} tags to Pennsylvania State Capitol as part of a peer review (now that's quality editing!)
October 28 2009 - Nansen's Fram expedition makes Featured article - Brianboulton actually wrote the article and graciously co-nominated me at FAC for making the maps
October 31 2009 - my 33,500th edit, switching the infobox in Colton Point State Park to {{Geobox}} 2

November 6 2009 - Did You Know ... that caterpillars of the Oak leafroller (pictured) and Oak leaftier moths are major defoliators of oak trees, with leafroller timber losses in Pennsylvania of over $100,000,000 in the early 1970s? (Double DYK and the seventeenth time an image I have uploaded has been on the Main Page. Wrote the articles for red links in Upper Pine Bottom State Park) (DYK #38), (DYK #39)
November 10 2009 - Upper Pine Bottom State Park makes Featured article - a joint effort with Gerry D
November 10 2009 - I discover I now have over over 1000 deleted edits
November 16 2009 - my 34,000th edit, tallying the votes on the photo poll for Sheldon Reynolds waterfall at User talk:Ruhrfisch/Waterfalls (really building the encylopedia with that one!)

December 2 2009 - my 34,500th edit, adding the infobox image to Canfield Island Site
December 8 2009 - an image of the Canfield Island Site I took and uploaded is used in Did You Know (with my hook). Congratulations to Nyttend for a great article (this is the eighteenth image I uploaded that has been on the Main Page)
December 14 2009 - Did You Know ... that Bald Eagle Creek Path along Bald Eagle Creek in central Pennsylvania was a major connecting path between the Iroquois in the north and the Carolinas in the south? Wrote the article for a red link in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania. (DYK #40)
December 23 2009 - my 35,000th edit, adding an image of the Webster-Donora Bridge to National Register of Historic Places listings in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (what an awful image - but hey, it was FREE!)

December 29 2009 - Did You Know ... that the Falls Trail along the 24 named waterfalls (Ganoga Falls pictured) in Ricketts Glen State Park has been called "the most magnificent hike" in Pennsylvania? - a joint effort with Gerry D (this is the nineteenth image I uploaded that has been on the Main Page) (DYK #41)
December 31 2009 - I discovered that none of the Featured Articles or Featured Lists I am a major contributor to are watched by even 30 editors, see this nifty tool.

2010

January 3 2010 - Lock Haven, Pennsylvania makes Featured article - thanks to Finetooth for conominating me, mostly for my photos and maps.
January 10 2010 - my 35,500th edit, adjusting the frame displayed in the video clip in Waterfalls in Ricketts Glen State Park
January 25 2010 - Jay Pritzker Pavilion makes Featured article - thanks to TonyTheTiger for conominating me
January 28 2010 - my 36,000th edit, making Tuscarora Falls, which is a redirect to Waterfalls in Ricketts Glen State Park - little did I think when I first started here that 36,000 edits later I would be making redirects for waterfalls...
February 9 2010 - Waterfalls in Ricketts Glen State Park makes Featured article - thanks to Gerry D as always
February 14 2010 - my 36,500th edit, archiving Wikipedia:Peer review/Block code/archive1 (and so romantic for Valentine's Day ;-) )

February 16 2010 - Did you know ...that in the 19th century, Ganoga Lake (pictured) in Pennsylvania had a hotel, its own ice cutting company, and a branch railroad line to serve both? (this is the twentieth image I uploaded that has been on the Main Page, thanks to Ben Kouba on Flickr for it) (DYK #42)
February 28 2010 - my 37,000th edit, commenting on Quehanna Wild Area as a possible April Fools TFA at Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates

March 5 2010 - Congratulations to Niagara on Kinzua Bridge being WP:TFA (this is the twenty-first image I uploaded that has been on the Main Page, thanks to the DCNR for releasing it)
March 20 2010 - my 37,500th edit, copyediting Quehanna Wild Area - I will never work on deadline here again
March 27 2010 - Quehanna Wild Area makes Featured article - thanks to Auntieruth55 for all her work on it too
April 2 2010 - Ganoga Lake makes Good Article, thanks to Arsenikk for reviewing it
April 3 2010 - Jay Pritzker Pavilion is today's featured article!
April 10 2010 - my 38,000th edit, adding {{Commonscat}} to Clemuel Ricketts Mansion, which was a red link in Ganoga Lake
April 10 2010 - Ganoga Lake makes Featured article

April 19 2010 - Did you know ... that when the stone Clemuel Ricketts Mansion (pictured) was built in 1852 on the shores of Lake Ganoga in Pennsylvania, it was so remote it was nicknamed "Ricketts Folly"? (this is the twenty-second image I uploaded that has been on the Main Page, thanks to Ben Kouba on Flickr for it) (DYK #43)
May 7 2010 - my 38,500th edit, fixing a header in Wikipedia:Peer review/St. Michael's Cathedral, Qingdao/archive2
May 22 2010 - Clemuel Ricketts Mansion makes Featured article
June 9 2010 - my 39,000th edit, leaving a note on User talk:Niagara about the Pithole, Pennsylvania peer review
June 12 2010 - Harris Theater (Chicago, Illinois) makes Featured article - thanks to TonyTheTiger for conominating me

July 4 2010 - Did you know ... that the Chetco (pictured) were once one of the largest Native American tribes on the southern coast of Oregon, but now only about 40 of their descendants remain? (I wrote this for a red link in Chetco River when it was at WP:FAC - congratulations to Little Mountain 5 for that article. This is the twenty-third image I uploaded that has been on the Main Page) (DYK #44)

Adams Falls in Ricketts Glen State Park

July 17 2010 - my 39,500th edit, tweaking information on floods in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania
August 8 2010 - Did you know ... that Ricketts Glen State Park (pictured) in Pennsylvania was to have become a national park before budget issues and World War II ended that plan? (Gerry D and I expanded the article in a sandbox so we could try for DYK. This is the twenty-fourth image I uploaded that has been on the Main Page)(DYK #45)
August 9 2010 - my 40,000th edit, fixing boldface in the Grant Park Music Festival section of Millennium Park as part of a copyedit for it at FAC.
August 15 2010 - Ricketts Glen State Park makes Featured article - thanks to Gerry D as always
August 30 2010 - Did you know ... that Red Rock Job Corps Center is within Ricketts Glen State Park in Pennsylvania, uses the facilities of the former Benton Air Force Station, and is still home to an FAA radar? (I made it as the new article for Ricketts Glen at FAC)(DYK #46)
September 25 2010 - Exelon Pavilions makes Featured article - thanks to TonyTheTiger for conominating me