User talk:Johnny Au

This user is a veteran Wikipedian among the top 1495 Wikipedians in edit count, editing since December 21, 2006, as a registered user. This user also holds the record for the longest current editing streak on the English Wikipedia since November 2007, the only one whose current streak began before 2008 and the top of the two whose current streak began before the SOPA boycott of January 18, 2012, despite participating in said boycott and the boycott is based on Eastern Standard Time as it is a United States congressional bill and all such bills are made in the capital of Washington, D.C., while the streak is based on Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), as with the rest of Wikipedia. Read more in the Wikimedia Diff blog entry here. This user is also featured in a major nationally distributed reputable newspaper of a G7 country (see below).

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Welcome!

Hello, Johnny Au, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

• The five pillars of Wikipedia
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• How to write a great article
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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! Just H 19:20, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

15 years of editing! Wow!

Hi, Johnny! As many people have already noticed, your editing streak is absolutely amazing. And worth celebrating! I would like to invite you to be part of WikiCelebrate project, as someone who is celebrated. You can find the details at the page, but is just a simple way of telling the movement about amazing Wikimedians. If you would like to be one of the Wikimedians we celebrate there, please drop me an email: nszafranwikimedia.org. It would be great to tell the movement more about your wiki-work (It makes a difference, for example, because of you I feel more motivated to edit regularly on my volunteer account!). Thank you for the awesome work that you are doing! NSzafran-WMF (talk) 15:18, 22 June 2023 (UTC)

I e-mailed you, NSzafran-WMF, as I am interested in being a part of the WikiCelebrate project. I would love to share my achievements. Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 01:34, 23 June 2023 (UTC)

It's me!

I replied to the e-mail you sent me, NSzafran-WMF. I have also filled out the online form, clarified about myself and my role on Wikipedia, and included a recent photograph of myself that can be uploaded to Commons (in a nod to the 2015 Toronto Star article about myself and my contribution to the Toronto Blue Jays baseball team article, I wore a Majestic Toronto Blue Jays T-shirt and a New Era Jays baseball cap as seen on the right). Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 15:47, 23 June 2023 (UTC)

I have also added my photo to the top of my userpage because I am now considered notable within the Wikipedia community (but not notable enough for a Wikipedia article yet, despite there being a few non-WMF-affiliated reliable sources about myself as linked at the top of the page, including the Toronto Star article about myself). Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 00:28, 1 November 2023 (UTC)

Comment by 2406:7400:51:9972:2996:BE3C:331E:6AF5

Found out about you through X (formerly known as Twitter), just wanted to convey my admiration and awe for the work you do. godspeed. 2406:7400:51:9972:2996:BE3C:331E:6AF5 (talk) 17:27, 11 November 2023 (UTC)

Thanks. Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 01:27, 3 January 2024 (UTC)

Editor experience invitation

Hi Johnny Au. :) I'm looking for people to interview here. Feel free to pass if you're not interested. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 12:33, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

@Clovermoss:  Done I have provided extensive details of myself for the interview. Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 00:49, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Day!

Thank you so much for recognizing my Wikipedia contributions. Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 00:05, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

Toronto WikiClub 2024

Just to let everyone reading my talk page know that I am attending the event. Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 00:39, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

The Toronto WikiClub 2024 event went well for me and made new friends there. I get to meet some Wikipedia admins in person including Clovermoss, OhanaUnited, and Xeno. The event came with a pizza lunch delivered from Domino's ordered by SophieWMCA. Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 00:20, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Real Life Barnstar
	Thank you for participating in Toronto's Wikipedia Day :) Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 18:31, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

You are very welcome, Clovermoss. I am very impressed with your Wikipedia contributions too, like the Ketchup chip article you have created that I find fascinating. I would not have imagined the article existing otherwise if it weren't for your amazing contributions and research, but keep up the great work! I have added it to my ever-growing barnstar collection. Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 01:02, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

Next Toronto WikiClub meetup

Hi Johnny. Thanks again for attending the last Toronto WikiClub in January! If you want to help plan the next meeting, please add your name in the designated section of the WikiClub page. Please do not worry if you are not interested in the organizing aspect. We will keep everyone informed once the meetup is scheduled through the WikiClub page. SophieWMCA (talk) 16:16, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the offer, but I would wait and see first. It depends on where and when the meetup is scheduled as I have many real-life commitments outside of Wikipedia. There's also the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024, despite it being on a Monday and being at least ten kilometres outside Toronto's city limits on land and I have plans to go to West Harbour GO station in Hamilton by GO Train on the Lakeshore West line to see the eclipse as Hamilton is easily accessible from Toronto by GO Train. Not just that, but there may be various Pokémon Go events I would like to attend. Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 00:13, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

The next meeting may not occur in the foreseeable future due to lack of interest and communication from Wikipedians who attended the previous meeting, including myself. Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 01:00, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

My photo

Hi Johnny, I'm sorry you didn't like my photo. I hope you are not too annoyed by it. I will not add it to the article about Earl Bales Park again. Félix An (talk) 03:17, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

@Félix An: I accept your apology. Thanks. You contribute well to the project. Just remember that self-promotion is highly discouraged on Wikipedia for the same reason why the photo of myself wearing Toronto Blue Jays-branded clothing does not belong in the Toronto Blue Jays article; it belongs on my userpage however. Your photo however would belong on your userpage as it is about you. I have no problems with the photo itself, actually. It would look good on your userpage and only your userpage, nowhere else though. Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 13:12, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
	Congrats on 6,000 consecutive days of editing! Well, at least according to this tool. From 2007 to 2024; 16 whole years of editing! Have a nice day and keep up the good work. Wolverine XI (talk to me) 07:17, 14 April 2024 (UTC)

Thank you so much for the barnstar! I have added it to my ever-growing barnstar collection. Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 15:49, 14 April 2024 (UTC)

Toronto WikiClub meetup

Hello! The Toronto WikiClub is hosting a meetup event on 7 July 2024. We have a photowalk and an editathon planned, as well as time for discussion! More info here: Wikipedia:Meetup/Toronto/2024 July 7

SophieWMCA (talk) 17:05, 28 June 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the invite. However, I am busy on that day as I have other plans. Oh, and I post plenty of photos of buildings under construction on UrbanToronto anyways, especially The One, which anyone can see without needing to register. However, uploading my photos to Wikipedia or Wikimedia Commons requires my permission as I took these photos on my iPhone 15 Pro Max. Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 00:52, 29 June 2024 (UTC)

UAA and deleted pages

I saw your comment on a UAA report. Since pages demonstrating that a username is promotional are often promotional themselves, it's pretty common for them to be deleted before the report's closed. It's not an issue for the closing admin, since they can see deleted pages, but you might be interested in two ways that non-admins can see them too:

• Special:Log/Jlwoodwa shows all page creations by a user, including their edit summaries. If they don't use an edit summary (new users often don't), the automatic edit summary will include the page's content (sometimes truncated to fit).
• Special:AbuseLog?wpSearchUser=Jlwoodwa shows all filtered edits by a user. If the edit triggered a public filter (problematic pages often do), the "details" link will include the page's content.

Both these pages are linked from the standard Special:Contributions page, under the names "logs" and "filter log" respectively. jlwoodwa (talk) 02:15, 24 July 2024 (UTC)

Thank you so much for the clarification regarding deleted pages when it comes to UAA. Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 14:57, 24 July 2024 (UTC)