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The Kip

Joined 4 December 2016

I have nothing to say (mostly).

I primarily specialize in pages relating to the Vegas Golden Knights prospect system (and others), having created Brayden Pachal, Kaedan Korczak, Isaiah Saville, Jiri Patera, Lukas Cormier, Layton Ahac, Mikael Hakkarainen, and Matt Murray, while having significantly updated Logan Thompson and Zach Dean. I also significantly contributed to Vegas Golden Knights and Thompson achieving Good Article status, as well as List of Vegas Golden Knights draft picks and List of Vegas Golden Knights players achieving Featured List status, and created the NHL All-Decade team article.

I'm also the founder, leader, and sole member of WikiProject Ice Hockey's Vegas Golden Knights task force.

My XTools analytics/statistics can be found here.


Articles I've created

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Non-hockey

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Articles I've heavily contributed to, at somepoint or another

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To-do

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Completed tasks
  • Finish up Draft:2024 in ice hockey.
  • Remember to add Cormier, Morelli, Tobias Bjornfot, Grigori Denisenko, Brendan Brisson, Anthony Mantha, Noah Hanifin, and Tomas Hertl to List of Vegas Golden Knights players at season's end.
    • Note the end of Pachal, Miromanov, and Bjornfot's tenures on the same page.
    • Update VGK coaches and players articles after conclusion of playoffs.
  • Remember to add Victor Hedman, Brad Marchand, and John Carlson to the Lightning, Bruins, and Capitals sections on List of NHL players with 1,000 games played.
  • Note Logan Thompson's improvement in play resulting in NHL Star of the Week award, then a slump in February followed by a one-goal-against stretch in March, another star of the week, and 100th game, then playoff start(s)
  • Expand VGK article with 2023-24 season upon completion, including:
    • Departures post-cup win, but mostly preserved roster
    • Longest season-opening win streak of a defending champion, hot start
    • Injuries in November/December/January causing slump and multiple debuts
    • Winter Classic loss
    • Maloofs sell most of remaining stakes in January
    • Hill return in January
    • Pietrangelo's 1,000th game
    • February slump
    • Mantha, Hanifin, Hertl acquisitions at TDL
    • March surge/recovery
    • Playoff clinch in April
    • First-round exit vs Dallas
  • Expand on a certain LTA w/ grandiose claims about self.
  • Add Fredrik Pettersson.jpg and Wikipedia:Featured topics/West Coast Express to Wikipedia:WikiProject Ice Hockey/Recognized content if the bot doesn't update it.
  • Update archived HockeyRef and HockeyDB links on VGK draft picks article - Wayback Machine isn't working atm
  • Fix Panthers cup champ articles - remove from not-auto-eligible guys, re-order awards tables
  • Convert VGK barnstar (credit XR228) into template form, for easier awarding
  • Categorize/tag articles w/ WP:VGK
  • Ensure all VGK UFAs (Amadio, Carrier, Mantha, Marchessault, Martinez, Stephenson, Patera, Froese, Rempal) and RFAs (Dorofeyev, Morozov, Primeau, Ahac, Korczak, Saville, Schmid) are accounted for on the upcoming 2024-25 season page.
    • Update all VGK pages for offseason

Longer-term

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Main page: Wikipedia:WikiProject Ice Hockey/Vegas Golden Knights task force
  • Get VGK season articles to GA
  • Get VGK lists to FL
  • Get VGK article itself to FA
  • Take Mark Stone to GA

(formerly User:The Kip/Golden Knights)

Milestones

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Recognition

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  The Minor Barnstar
Thank you for making a minor edit which had a big impact (to at least one editor). Your efforts are appreciated. Adam Black talk • contribs 05:23, 27 May 2024 (UTC)
  The Hockey Barnstar
I am truly shocked on how you didn't have this. Anyways, you 100% deserve it after all the work you've put into Hockey Wikipedia! Congratulations!. 45BearsFan (talk) 18:35, 17 July 2024 (UTC)
  The Vegas Golden Knights Barnstar
@The Kip, this is for you! From day one of being on Wikipedia, I have noticed your love for ice hockey—and for the Golden Knights. You've gotten Logan Thompson to GA, the Golden Knights themselves to GA, and created many articles about their prospects. The Kip, you were one of the editors who inspired me to edit Wikipedia, and because of that, I bestow upon you this specially made barnstar! XR228 (talk) 01:49, 2 August 2024 (UTC)
  The Hockey Barnstar
For everything that you do to improve ice hockey articles. You're awesome. Hey man im josh (talk) 12:25, 23 September 2024 (UTC)

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Screaming into the void

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The ARBIPA area, which is objectively overrun with POV-warriors seeking to "win" the propaganda narrative, would be far better if most (if not all!) of its most-active editors, backing either side of the conflict, were indefinitely topic-banned. You know who you are.

Nuking the topic's userbase and starting from scratch would be a great idea to try, but some apparently consider my opinion both a PA and casting aspersions on their behavior. Sorry that someone's finally seeing through your Wikilawyering, "but I'm just showing the facts!" garbage and calling you out on it. The Kip (contribs) 22:11, 22 June 2024 (UTC)

As of the last month or two, admin consensus also seems to be that a prolific edit count/contributions in the area also effectively grants immunity from reports of incivility, battleground behavior, and AE weaponization, among other things; at worst, users get a weak-worded warning or two. The message is effectively that only new/uninvolved users have to play by the rules, while established ones have free range to be as toxic and/or manipulative as they want. Ain't that grand? The Kip (contribs) 20:00, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

On a partly-related note, I find the notion that some users are simply unblockable to be utter garbage. We all play by the same rules here, and managing to have your contribution count/quality outrun your policy violations shouldn’t grant you any degree of immunity from sanctions, including indefs. The idea that “well, their contributions are valuable” or “but they’re correct” effectively arbitrarily creates a class system in which experienced editors can get away with things that less-experienced editors would’ve quickly been blocked for, due to some warped conception of opportunity cost. There is no such thing as an irreplaceable editor. The Kip (contribs) 16:17, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

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