I practically could’ve written this myself. Most of my original work is about descriptions of books I’ve read, the law, American history, Hollywood trivia, science fiction and militaria. Most of the stuff I write tends to stick around, so maybe I have been favored by the Wiki gods.
I would have been disappointed if someone with the user name ‘Hari Seldon’ hadn’t contributed to Wikipedia! 
I rewrote the article on baseball’s Hall of Fame into the first version of it that was not actually a peice of crap; until my version it was short, what it had was rife with factual errors, and referred to the institution as the “United States Baseball Hall of Fame.”
It’s since been punched up by others but essentially follows the flow of my version.
I’ve always wondered why institutions like that don’t just get in there are write their own articles.
They do, but it is always the morons from the marketing department who cut and paste their boilerplate promotional glurge, which immediately gets reverted.
Marketing morons are constitutionally incapable of grasping the freely distributable nature of Wikipedia. I’ve had this fight any number of times with MMs who insist on trying to put an artist’s standard promotional photo up on Wikipedia.
I’ve edited and added links to a few Wikipedia articles but nothing really that major. One article I edited was klunkily written (I think it had been awkwardly translated from a non-English language source) so I rephrased a few paragraphs so it read more smoothly.
I’ve done a tiny bit of editing, but no original pages (or maintenance) is mine.
No I haven’t. Nor do I have any real plans to do so in the future.
But thanks for asking.
I have corrected quite a bit, but the only pages I have authored have been removed, even though I think they have relevance (they were schools), they are always taken down.
Apparently, unless a person of note attended, or something of the sort, having a separate entry for a school isn’t enough to keep it listed, depending on who else chooses to fact check your work.
And never mind that there are articles exactly like that on there, ‘someone else did it’ isn’t an answer!
Yeah, the deletionists are an annoyance. The only solution I’ve found is to start with multiple references in the first version you post. One that I created from scratch had a dozen references in the very first version posted. You learn to post defensively.
I haven’t done much lately, but I’ve contributed much on etymology and food items history amongst others.
I corrected some egregiously erroneous information regarding the Rangsit area north of Bangkok, but that was the only time.
I have an account and I am active, mostly correcting spelling, grammar, and coding errors and fixing vandalism.
I started off making the occasional spelling correction, but then I joined the Typo Team and gradually went completely overboard with it. Now I do periodic searches for particular errors (accomodate, cemetary, prarie, resevoir, etc.) and purge them.
I’ve also been doing a lot of disambiguating lately. Just a reminder – if you’re writing an article, please check your links to make sure none of them are pointing at a disambiguation page. They should go to the specific article you’re referring to.
I haven’t created any articles myself (other than redirects) but I’m planning to write one shortly. I had to make a visit to the library to collect some offline newspaper references.
I hit the 15,000 edit mark earlier this week. It’s really getting to be a bad habit.
I’m not a “real” editor, but I do occasionally come across things that should be adjusted by a couple of words for accuracy.
I’ve also been part of a two-year long battle to keep a celebrity’s date of birth in line with the official records, as opposed to what his parents told the studio. It’s still ongoing.
Where is the count? I’ve been editing since 2006 and can’t see where my statistics are.
Go to the My contributions link in the upper right, then scroll all the way to the bottom and click Edit count.
Cool, thanks!
I have an account. I use it to correct spelling and grammar errors when I see them as well as update dates (I’ll change “Set to release in March, 2010” to “Released in March, 2010” for example). Just little things like that.
I know this is just an example you’re giving, but I can’t resist pointing out that there shouldn’t be a comma after the month there.
Like I said, a bad habit.
We are all the Powers That Be. Do you have a reference? PM me the article title and I’ll look back through the history and attempt to find a cite.