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WP:CHICAGO Director (2006–present) | |
WP:FOUR Director (2009–2014) (disputed, 2013–2014) | |
WP:WAWARD Director (2010–present) | |
M:WALRUS Committee (2011–2013) (2016–present) | |
WP:Ambassadors (2011–2012) |
“ | Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'—Martin Luther King Jr. | ” |
“ | Have nunchucks. Will travel. - Antonio "Tony The Tiger" Vernon | ” |
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2010 WP:CUP submissions (finalists) – WP:CHICAGO – WP:CHIFTD – WP:FOUR – WP:WAWARDS
My edit stats pages created
The following articles that I have nominated for the WP:OTD section of the main page seem to have generated 12,000 additional page views. Some were indirectly nominated at User:Zzyzx11/Archive24#Opinion request on prospective SAs.
Image | Hook | Date | Date views | Next day views | Month total views | Days with data | Other days average | Net views |
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2008 – Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich was arrested for a number of corruption crimes, including attempting to sell the U.S. Senate seat that was being vacated by then-U.S. President-elect Barack Obama. | 12/9/2009 | 23,674 | 15,842 | 63,237 | 31 | 818.0 | 37,880.1 | |
1941 – Willie Gillis, one of Norman Rockwell's trademark characters, debuted on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post. | 10/4/2012 | 26,868 | 995 | 29,821 | 31 | 67.5 | 27,728.0 | |
2003 – After Chicago police detective Jon Burge was discovered to have forced confessions from more than 200 suspects, Governor of Illinois George Ryan commuted the death sentences of 167 prisoners and pardoned four more. (Stats based on Burge) | 1/11/2013 | 23,193 | 1,126 | 29,200 | 31 | 168.3 | 23,982.4 | |
1943 – The Saturday Evening Post published the first of Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms, some of the most widely distributed paintings ever produced, in support of U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt's "Four Freedoms". | 2/20/2013 | 23,064 | 1,334 | 32,900 | 28 | 327.0 | 23,744.0 | |
1963 – Whaam!, now considered one of Roy Lichtenstein's most important works, debuted at an exhibition held at the Leo Castelli Gallery, New York City. | 9/28/2015 | 21,910 | 1,189 | 28,020 | 30 | 175.8 | 22,747.5 | |
1920 – The Fountain of Time (detail pictured) opened as a tribute to the 100 years of peace between the United States and Great Britain following the Treaty of Ghent. | 9/1/2011 | 18,630 | 20,415 | 29 | 66.1 | 18,497.8 | ||
1919 – Red Summer: Race riots erupted in Chicago after a racial incident occurred on a South Side beach, leading to 38 fatalities and 537 injuries over a five-day period. | 7/27/2010 | 14,999 | 339 | 18,048 | 26 | 112.9 | 15,112.2 | |
2007 – Airport police officer María del Luján Telpuk discovered a suitcase containing US$800,000 as it went through an x-ray machine in Buenos Aires, sparking an international scandal involving Venezuela and Argentina known as "Maletinazo" | 8/4/2011 | 12,547 | 491 | 13,659 | 31 | 21.4 | 12,995.2 | |
1962 – In a seminal moment for pop art, Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans exhibition opened at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles. | 7/9/2012 | 12,662 | 993 | 25,648 | 31 | 413.6 | 12,827.9 |