Meet the man who edited 130,000 Wikipedia articles

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“At the point where I was really bored out of my mind and could not find any work for anyone to give me to do, I discovered Wikipedia.”

[thekohser]

Media confusing "edits" for "articles".

They really can't get right any Wikipedia-related story, can they?

[EricBarbour]

Funny---no mention of his username, not even a clue.

[Mason]

Funny---no mention of his username, not even a clue.

Neelix (T-C-L).

IIRC, most of those 4500 articles are disambiguation pages.

[EricBarbour]

Neelix (T-C-L).
IIRC, most of those 4500 articles are disambiguation pages.

Ah, now we're getting somewhere. Most of you know damn well who Neelix is--one of the most robotic, blind, obsessed gnomes Wikipedia has ever seen.
This is a typical chunk from his contrib list. If it's not redirection or renaming, utter trivia, or somehow connected to Canada or Star Trek, he's not interested.

01:59, 15 November 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+22)‎ . . N Un-covered ‎ (←Redirected page to Uncovered) (top)
01:59, 15 November 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+23)‎ . . N Un-covers ‎ (←Redirected page to Apocalypse) (top)
01:58, 15 November 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+23)‎ . . N Un-cover ‎ (←Redirected page to Apocalypse) (top)
01:58, 15 November 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+23)‎ . . N Uncovers ‎ (←Redirected page to Apocalypse) (top)
01:58, 15 November 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+23)‎ . . N Un-covering ‎ (←Redirected page to Apocalypse) (top)
01:58, 15 November 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+23)‎ . . N Uncovering ‎ (←Redirected page to Apocalypse) (top)
01:55, 15 November 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+23)‎ . . N Apocálypsis ‎ (←Redirected page to Apocalypse) (top)
01:52, 15 November 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+23)‎ . . N Apocalypses ‎ (←Redirected page to Apocalypse) (top)
01:51, 15 November 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+27)‎ . . N Apocalypticists ‎ (←Redirected page to Apocalypticism) (top)
01:50, 15 November 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+27)‎ . . N Apocalypticisms ‎ (←Redirected page to Apocalypticism) (top)
01:49, 15 November 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+27)‎ . . N Apocalyptics ‎ (←Redirected page to Apocalypticism) (top)

Adds almost no content, of course. Ignores the rest of Wikipedia, unless they harass him, of course.The perfect Wiki-Slave.
He was attacked in his RFA for "not doing enough patrolling" and "not participating on noticeboards enough".
Got the mop anyway. They love their slaves.

[Hersch]

Media confusing "edits" for "articles".

They really can't get right any Wikipedia-related story, can they?

Ironically, it now becomes true for "articles," because a media outlet is a "reliable source."