User:Gary King

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This user has made over 70,000 contributions to Wikipedia.

This user has been on Wikipedia for
4 years, 8 months, and 21 days.

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This user has written or expanded 74 DYK articles on Wikipedia.

This user has created 350 articles on Wikipedia.

This user has created 92 templates on Wikipedia.

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This user helped promote 8 Featured topics on Wikipedia.

This user has written or significantly contributed to 14 featured articles on Wikipedia.

This user has written or significantly contributed to 57 featured lists on Wikipedia.

This user helped promote 3 Good topics on Wikipedia.

This user has significantly contributed to 85 Good Articles.

This user has reviewed 222 Good Article nominations on Wikipedia.

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Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (November 6, 2007 – 4 months)
Flag of Canada ( June 14, 2008)
Half-Life 2: Episode One (June 1, 2006 – 11 months)
Half-Life 2: Lost Coast (October 27, 2005 – 3 months)
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (November 16, 2004 – 4 months)
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (August 27, 2007 – 52 days)
New Super Mario Bros. ( May 16, 2009)
Noble gas ( August 18, 2008)
Scene7 ( February 28, 2009)
StarCraft: Ghost (September 20, 2002 – 2 months)
The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II (March 2, 2006 – 7 months)
The Simpsons Game (October 30, 2007 – 3 months)
The Simpsons Hit & Run (September 16, 2003 – 2 months)
Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses) (May 25, 2004 – 10 months)

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... that the support website Get Satisfaction was created after its founders realized that on the Internet, when people had issues with companies, other people were often willing to help out?
... that the gambling magazine Total Gambler was Britain's most widely circulated monthly men's magazine when it launched in August 2005, with an initial print run of 650,000 copies?
... that downloads from the Microsoft Update Catalog are accelerated with Microsoft's Background Intelligent Transfer Service, a technology that attempts to use as little bandwidth as possible?
... that after realizing the blogosphere was similar to a stock market, Seyed Razavi created BlogShares to allow people to buy shares of blogs with virtual currency?
... that Russian politician Vladimir Nikolayev became mayor of Vladivostok, Russia, after his opponent was killed by a grenade left outside his office?
... that the Canadian Mohawk chief, the Flemish Bastard, was considered the primary spokesman for the pro-French faction of Canada in the 17th century?
... that television writer Steve Higgins was nominated for two Emmy Awards for his work on Saturday Night Live before becoming the announcer for NBC's Late Night with Jimmy Fallon?
... that Japanese video game designer Makoto Kanoh worked on the first three Metroid games, as well as 17 other games for Nintendo?
... that heavy metal band Lamb of God was banned from performing in Los Angeles, for The Subliminal Verses World Tour because their former name was Burn the Priest?
... that members of metal band Slipknot found the masks that they wear on stage to be particularly uncomfortable during their Tattoo the Earth concert tour?
... that the comedy film Skills Like This, created by a first-time director, won the award for Best Narrative Feature at the 2007 South by Southwest film festival?
... that Welcome to Macintosh, a documentary focusing on Apple Inc. and its Macintosh line of computers, was praised by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak for being the most accurate film about the company?
... that John Adams served as a member of the Executive Council of Nova Scotia for 20 years, making him one of the council's longest-serving members?
... that in the Wii video game Neighborhood Games, when playing with more than one person, player characters can taunt opposing players to break their concentration?
... that the Hudson's Bay Company's Joseph Adams oversaw the creation of a trading post from which Ontario's first English settlement originated?
... that the Nintendo DS video game, Elebits: The Adventures of Kai and Zero, requires that players catch "elebits", which are small beings that pulse with electricity?
... that the 2007 French science fiction film Eden Log, created by first-time director Franck Vestiel, was shot using only hand-held cameras?
... that Ray Edwin Powell was the president of Alcan, a Canadian aluminum company, before becoming the 10th Chancellor of McGill University in 1957?
... that William Agar Adamson, the personal chaplain to Lord Sydenham, the first Governor of the Province of Canada, also wrote a book on salmon fishing?
... that while Auguste Achintre was traveling to New York City as Haiti's ambassador to the United States, the Haitian government was overthrown, revoking his role as ambassador?
... that Brian Hill is the only head coach for the Orlando Magic to serve during two non-consecutive periods?
... that the book Outliers, written by Malcolm Gladwell, claims that the key to success in any field is practicing a specific task for 10,000 hours?
... that the Nintendo DS video game Texas Hold 'Em Poker allows players to mimic certain nuances such as a card player's tell?
... that François Charles Archile Jeanneret was a student, chairman, and principal at the University of Toronto before becoming its 22nd Chancellor in 1959?
... that the educational Nintendo DS video game futureU helps students prepare for the SATs?
... that the Nintendo DS video game, Cradle of Rome, requires that players match jewels of the same type to build the Roman Empire?
... that Robert McKechnie was the University of British Columbia's longest-serving chancellor?
... that the 21st Chancellor of the University of Toronto, Samuel Beatty, was the first person to receive a PhD in mathematics from a Canadian university?
... that celebrity chef Jamie Oliver narrates the Nintendo DS cooking video game What's Cooking? with Jamie Oliver?
... that the first head coach of Cleveland Browns, Paul Brown, coached the team for 17 complete seasons?
... that Ira Needles co-founded the University of Waterloo in 1957 with Gerald Hagey, and later served as the university's second chancellor?
... that the subprime mortgage crisis, among several other factors, led to a negative demand shock in the U.S. economy, which causes demand for goods and services to decrease?
... that Symantec was originally founded by Gary Hendrix to focus on AI-related projects such as natural language processing?
... that Microsoft made its largest acquisition ever when it purchased digital marketing company aQuantive for over US$6 billion?
... that when Adobe Systems acquired the company Scene7 in May 2007, its CEO, Doug Mack, became vice president of the Creative Solutions Services division at Adobe?
... that magazine publishing company Condé Nast Publications made its largest acquisition ever when it purchased Fairchild Publications for US$650 million?
... that computer software company Red Hat made its largest acquisition ever when it acquired free software support company Cygnus Solutions for US$674 million?
... that technology company Dell made its largest acquisition ever when it purchased EqualLogic, a storage device manufacturer, for US$1.4 billion in January 2008?
... that Expedia, Inc. made its largest acquisition ever when it purchased Travelscape for over US$89 million?
... that Radiohead have received ten nominations at the Grammy Awards, which won them the Best Alternative Music Performance award twice, for OK Computer in 1998 and Kid A in 2001?
... that Gorillaz received four nominations at the 2006 Grammy Awards for their song "Feel Good Inc.", winning the award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals?
... that the rock band Matchbox Twenty received two Grammy Award nominations in 2004?
... that Gwen Stefani's 2005 song "Hollaback Girl" received four nominations from the MTV Video Music Awards, and won the award for Best Choreography?
... that SearchFox, a website that offers personalized RSS feeds, was co-founded by James Gibbons, a Stanford University professor and former dean of the university's School of Engineering?
... that Akon received five Grammy Award nominations in 2008, including Best Contemporary R&B Album for his album Konvicted?
... that Coolio's 1995 song "Gangsta's Paradise" was nominated at the Grammy Awards in 1996 for Record of the Year and received the award for Best Rap Solo Performance?
... that The Notorious B.I.G., who was killed in 1997 from a drive-by shooting, received three Grammy Award nominations posthumously?
... that Barenaked Ladies has received six Juno Awards from nine nominations, including Group of the Year in 1992?
... that Katy Perry's song "I Kissed a Girl" was nominated for five awards at the MTV Video Music Awards in 2008?
... that rock band Guns N' Roses has been nominated for the Best Hard Rock Performance award from the Grammy Awards three times but has never won it?
... that Ne-Yo received four nominations at the Grammy Awards in 2008, winning the award for Best Contemporary R&B Album for his album Because of You?
... that Beck has received four nominations for Best Alternative Music Performance at the Grammy Awards but only won it once, in 1997 for the album Odelay?
... that Kate Nash won the award for British Female Solo Artist at the BRIT Awards in 2008?
... that Google purchased in-game advertising company Adscape for US$23 million, only five years after the company was founded?
... that Max Blouw was chosen unanimously by Wilfrid Laurier University's selection committee to become its seventh president?
... that BuzzTracker was acquired by Yahoo! to complement its Yahoo! News product, and compete with other news aggregators including Google News and Digg?
... that Wilfrid Laurier University's senate voted unanimously in favor of instating John A. Pollack as the university's seventh chancellor?
... that the fourth president of Wilfrid Laurier University, John Angus Weir, helped form the university's undergraduate music therapy program?
... that ImageAmerica provided Google Earth with high resolution black and white images of New Orleans immediately after the events of Hurricane Katrina?
... that Dave Matthews Band received two Grammy Awards, one in 1997 for the song "So Much to Say" and another in 2004 for the song "Gravedigger"?
... that Nirvana's 1994 song "Heart-Shaped Box" was nominated for five MTV Video Music Awards, winning two of them?
... that alternative rock band The Strokes has been nominated for Best International Band three times from the NME Awards, winning it in 2006?
... that the Australian hard rock band AC/DC has never won a Grammy Award despite receiving four nominations during their career?
... that Ontario has more universities, with 22, than any other Canadian province?
... that anyone who has loaned or borrowed money has participated in the hypothetical loanable funds market that brings savers and borrowers together?
... that Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz studied economics at Harvard University for two years before moving to Palo Alto, California to work on Facebook full-time?
... that Owen Thomas, managing editor of New York City-based gossip and news blog Valleywag, writes most of the website's articles?
... that Adobe Systems made its largest acquisition ever by purchasing rival company Macromedia for over US$3.5 billion?
... that Nintendo plans to release a revised model of the Nintendo DS Lite handheld game console called the Nintendo DSi, with two built-in cameras?
... that the Canadian province of Nova Scotia has 11 universities, including the University of King's College, the oldest university in British North America?
... that the website Techmeme, created by Gabe Rivera, searches for the most popular technology-related news on the Internet and orders them based on an algorithm that determines popularity?
... that Cress Williams portrayed a Jem'Hadar leader in the Star Trek series, in the Deep Space Nine episode "The Jem'Hadar"?
... that the band Green Day has been nominated for 10 American Music Awards, 13 Grammy Awards, and 25 MTV Video Music Awards?
... that "Frog Legs Rag" was the second highest selling ragtime song after "Maple Leaf Rag" in publisher John Stillwell Stark's catalog?

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The Special Barnstar Realist2 I gladly give this Barnstar to Gary King, for going out of his way to help me on Michael Jackson and Thriller (album). It would have taken me hours to do it manually :) — R ² 18:41, 29 March 2009 (UTC)	The Special Barnstar Truco For helping created the pre-load/toolbox subpage for FLC noms. Thanks! <TRUCO> ⁵⁰³ 19:47, 14 February 2009 (UTC)	The Working Man's Barnstar Shapiros10 For assessing my articles. :P Sam ^Blab 19:58, 10 February 2009 (UTC)	The VG Barnstar Guyinblack25 For basically being a video game GA and FA machine the last few months. I don't think you've given the GAN and FAC reviewers a break for some time now. Seriously though, the quality of your articles (as well as the number) are something any editor would be jealous of. Keep up the good work. (Guyinblack25 ^talk 17:23, 23 January 2009 (UTC))	The 50 DYK Medal Cirt Thank you for your multiple contributions to DYK. I took a look through them (at User:Gary_King#Did_you_know) and they are clearly multiple varied articles across different topics which add encyclopedic value to the project. Thanks for continuing to contribute in this capacity. Cirt (talk) 04:37, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar New Age Retro Hippie Wow, I gotta say that I'm impressed with how quickly you improved this article. I swear I looked at it just recently and it was just an average article! Here you go. - The New Age Retro Hippie used Ruler! Now, he can figure out the length of things easily. 08:25, 5 January 2009 (UTC)	Genghis Khan edition triple crown Cirt I, Cirt (talk), am pleased to award the coveted Genghis Khan edition conquest of the wiki world triple crown to Gary King (no actual crown is necessary when you're this good...just show up in white robes and ordinary editors will quiver in your presence). This special award recognizes the rare editor who contributes 40 pieces of featured content, 40 good articles, and 40 "Did you know?" entries. All hail Gary King! Cirt (talk) 23:44, 27 December 2008 (UTC)	The Original Barnstar KnowledgeHegemonyPart2 For his undying will and efforts to constantly improve the quality of articles on Wikipedia ... Gary King definitely deserves much more. --KnowledgeHegemony ^talk 17:44, 23 December 2008 (UTC)	The VG Barnstar Theleftorium For improving so many video game articles, and for giving me advice on how to improve my writing. :) TheLeft orium 21:43, 22 December 2008 (UTC)	The Original Barnstar Ironholds for flip reversing those lists without even a hint of Garage and for your plethora of Featured contributions. Ironholds (talk) 21:18, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
The Simpsons (Annoyed Grunt)-star Scorpion0422 For your excellent (and very quick) work on The Simpsons Game as well as various episode articles. Now if only I could get you interested in joining the Simpsons project... -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 21:30, 15 December 2008 (UTC)	The Way Too Many Barnstars Barnstar Littlealien182 For your five new featured lists and because you already have a ton of barnstars, I hereby award you this Way Too Many Barnstars Barnstar. Keep 'em coming. —Łittle Älien ¹⁸² 03:29, 3 December 2008 (UTC)	The Featured ~~Article~~ List Medal Scorpion0422 For outracing your opponents and co-winning the second ever Featured list contest with the List of mergers and acquisitions by Adobe Systems, List of Tennessee Titans head coaches and List of universities in Nova Scotia. -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 20:39, 15 November 2008 (UTC)	The Tireless Contributor Barnstar Littlealien182 For the four additional featured lists that you helped to create (to add to the countless others that you have already created), I hereby award you this barnstar. I think you are more than deserving of this award. —Łittle Älien ¹⁸² 03:26, 12 November 2008 (UTC)	The Tireless Contributor Barnstar Sephiroth BCR For the absolutely incredible quantity of quality content you have created, and your dedication to the project. Also for eclipsing me here and becoming the first person to obtain the Genghis Khan edition conquest of the wiki world triple crown. You've made your coach proud. Now run already dammit. ;-) — sephiroth bcr ^(converse) 18:29, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
The Special Barnstar kollision For singlehandedly (well, almost) creating and turning List of awards and nominations received by Gorillaz into a featured list in just 12 edits. Impressive and inspirational. - kollision (talk) 11:21, 3 November 2008 (UTC)	The 25 DYK Medal RyanCross I hereby award The 25 DYK Medal to Gary King for his fantastic work and contributions to the Did you know project. Gary, you've created/expanded over 25 DYK articles in the month of October of this year (2008) alone, and you've already shown you are not just dedicated to featured and good articles, but now did you know articles. You've done great things for DYK so far, and I hope you continue your fine work in that area. Your DYK articles on various topics have helped Wikipedia very much, and we appreciate your work. I'm sure you won't stop here. Your contributions have really impressed me. I hope to see you around DYK! Yours, – RyanCross (talk) 07:20, 30 October 2008 (UTC)	The da Vinci Barnstar Tomeasy ... for fixing the [ever recurring sorting problem] of table presented at List of countries by GDP (PPP) per capita Tomeasy _{T C} 19:30, 22 July 2008 (UTC)	The Special Barnstar Qst For your tireless and efficient content contributions. You're making us all look like slackers! ;) Qst (talk) 15:49, 21 July 2008 (UTC)	The Working Man's Barnstar Blackngold29 For an insane amount of GA reviews and contributions to a repletion of FLs, GAs, FAs, and simply making the world a better place. Black ngold29 06:14, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar Ojay123 For defiantly going out of your way to be very kind to all users, and giving me that good feeling as soon as I joined by sending me that welcome message, I hereby present thee the Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar! Ojay123 (talk) 00:13, 2 July 2008 (UTC)	The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar SchfiftyThree Wow, you're reverting very fast, and it seems like you keep beating me! Have this barnstar. -- SchfiftyThree 02:39, 1 July 2008 (UTC)	The da Vinci Barnstar Xenocidic For your help today at Village Pump: Technical which was a perfect solution to my problem, I award you the da Vinci Barnstar! Keep up the great work. Thanks again, xenocidic (talk) 17:12, 12 June 2008 (UTC)	The Special Barnstar Xenocidic For helping out this newbie admin figure out how to efficiently do my work on AIV! ;> xenocidic (talk) 21:06, 5 June 2008 (UTC)	The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar Red Thunder Aremith's not the only one being beaten... RedThunder 20:45, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar Aremith Wow! You keep on beating me! Good job and keep it up! Aremith ^{tlk \| eml} 20:30, 5 June 2008 (UTC)	The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar Shapiros10 Are you using a tool? Because I am, and you keep beating me to reverts! Shapiros10 WuzHere 20:34, 4 June 2008 (UTC)	The Original Barnstar Marlith For the completion of 10000 edits at the time of the giving of this Barnstar, you deserve this. Marlith (Talk) 23:58, 5 May 2008 (UTC)	The Tireless Contributor Barnstar Drewcifer3000 So I think I count 10 lists at FLC, two articles at FAC, and six at GAN! I think you've broken Wikipedia. Keep it up! Drewcifer (talk) 18:16, 2 May 2008 (UTC)	The Original Barnstar Luksuh For your tireless contributions of over 1000 edits in the month of April, I award thee with an Original Barnstar! Luk suh 16:39, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
The AFD Barnstar Milk's Favorite Cookie For taking the challenge and making over 50 contributions to AFD, I Milk’s Favorite Cookie ^(Talk) hereby award you this Barnstar. Congrats! Milk’s Favorite Cookie ^(Talk) 20:20, 24 April 2008 (UTC)	The Good Article Medal of Merit Pagrashtak For improving several Zelda articles to Good Article status, thereby making the series a potential featured topic, I hereby award you the Good Article Medal of Merit. Pagra shtak 19:17, 18 April 2008 (UTC)	The Tireless Contributor Barnstar Gonzo_fan2007 I count 7 current WP:FLCs!!! and along with all your other great work, you are a true asset to the project; keep up the great work!!! « Gonzo fan2007 (talk ♦ contribs) 07:49, 16 April 2008 (UTC)	The Video Game Barnstar Judgesurreal777 This is for making Zelda II: The Adventure of Link a Good Article, and making us dream of FA, which I didn't think was possible. Judgesurreal777 (talk) 23:31, 6 April 2008 (UTC)	The Working Man's Barnstar Sephiroth BCR For your incredible volume of work towards improving articles, especially the featured lists and good articles you have worked on, as well as your work elsewhere. Keep it up. Sephiroth BCR ^(Converse) 06:47, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar Yamla Looking through your contributions, I see you spend a significant amount of time fighting vandalism. Thank you! Yamla (talk) 16:59, 12 March 2008 (UTC)	The Original Barnstar The Rambling Man For your concerted efforts at WP:FLC and on your first successful promotion, I, TRM, award you this shiny barnstar! Keep up the great work....!! The Rambling Man (talk) 18:46, 6 March 2008 (UTC)	The Editor's Barnstar PeterSymonds For a genuine desire to improve Wikipedia articles and lists, I, PeterSymonds \| talk, award Gary King with the Editor's Barnstar. Best, PeterSymonds \| talk 20:19, 28 February 2008 (UTC))