User:ferret

ferret This user has pending changes reviewer rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify) This user has rollback rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify) This user has template editor rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify) This editor is a Veteran Editor III and is entitled to display this Silver Editor Star. 18,500+ This user has made more than 18,500 contributions to Wikipedia. 4068 This user is ranked 4068 on the list of Wikipedians by number of edits. 9 This user joined Wikipedia 9 years, 5 months, and 2 days ago as of October 11, 2016. 89% This user's !votes match the ending decision 89% of the time at AFD. This user is a member of WikiProject Video games. This contributor to Wikipedia is a male. vn-12 This user page has been vandalized 12 times.

About

Howdy. I mostly patrol various VG related articles for vandalism, but also help with sources, rewrites, and adding recent developments. I'm also involved in helping maintain templates and modules for the WP:VG project. I do a fair amount of gnome-like minor cleanup. I try to keep an eye on edit requests and pending changes but don't always remember to check.

Some articles I've put some effort into shaping up include Steam (software), Fallout 4, Fallout Shelter, and Banished (video game). I also keep an eye on and help maintain most of the articles for The Elder Scrolls, Call of Duty, Fallout (series), Half-Life (series), Blizzard Entertainment (Warcraft, StarCraft and Diablo (series)) and many others. I created the article for Space Run, and hopefully will create more in the future.

I occasionally help with articles I don't have a particular interest in myself, such as aiding a Romanian editor with Maria Gheorghiu or fulfilling VG project requests like Desi Adda.

My username comes from my gaming handle, which I picked many (many) years ago because I had some pet ferrets, which are awesome. I always spell it lowercase, because I like how f and t in most fonts appear to be flipped. :)

Much of this user page design shamelessly stolen from User:Sergecross73.

Article work

Created or heavy contributions

Articles I have either created, or heavily contributed in the form of a rewrite or long time maintenance. This list may be incomplete.

Article	Note
Banished (video game)	Heavy rewrite
Desi Adda	Brand new, project request
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare	Created from redirect, but AdrianGamer and others did a lot of expansion as well
Edge Games	Major rewrite in response to NPOV discussions
Fallout 4	From redirect
Fallout Shelter	Copy editing, mostly
Kiesel Guitars	From redirect, split and expanded from Carvin Corporation
List of game engines	Merged disparate section formats into same table, took a while.
Maria Gheorghiu	Copy editing and sourcing aid for a Romanian editor
Space Run	Brand new and taken to GA.
Steam (software)	Several rewrite efforts and long maintenance
World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria	Some early rewrite/contribution efforts, and long term maintenance

Watching

Some of the areas that I pay particular attention to and help keep maintained, within WP:VG. Typically, if I have linked a media series or franchise here, I will be watching most of the related articles. This is not my full watch list by far.

• Baldur's Gate
• Battlefield
• BioShock
• Call of Duty
• Counter-Strike
• Crysis
• Diablo
• Fallout
• Far Cry
• Half-Life
• History of video games
• Just Cause
• Most Sega consoles
• Most Nintendo consoles
• PlayStation
• Souls (series)
• StarCraft
• The Elder Scrolls
• Warcraft
• Xbox

Template work

I help maintain several templates and modules. I wrote Module:Video game wikidata, which I then utilized in the modules behind {{Video game reviews}} and {{Video game series reviews}} for pulling review scores from Wikidata. I also implemented Wikidata support for {{Infobox video game}}. These efforts had a lot of input and advice from Czar, Izno, RexxS and other WP:VG members.

Barnstars

		The Original Barnstar
		Thanks for helping me with the List of Sonic the Hedgehog video game characters article. (I imagine you saw my request at WP:VG?) I've gotten it semi-protected now, so hopefully it should taken care of. Thanks! Sergecross73 msg me 15:44, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

	The Editor's Barnstar
	Congratulations, Ferret, you've recently made your 1,000th edit to articles on English Wikipedia! Thank you for helping improve video game related content, and for all your contributions to the encyclopedia. Keep up the great work! :) Maryana (WMF) (talk) 22:49, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

	The Special Barnstar
	Thank you for your advice and opinions on my talk concerning Video Games. I have only just joined the Video Game WikiProject and am a little new to it all. It's all so wonderful being invited onto a project like this. ProtoDrake (talk) 19:54, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

	The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
	For your tireless work of fighting vandalism and original research in different popular video games articles. AdrianGamer (talk) 12:48, 8 October 2015 (UTC)

	The BarnTwinkle
	This was for you. since you're very great at Twinkle. This was because Reverting was never been so bad.. revert mean undo spamming. Chazpelo (talk) 21:23, 11 November 2015 (UTC)