User:Erik

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This user has been on Wikipedia for 18 years, 11 months and 25 days.

This user is one of the 1000 most active English Wikipedians of all time.

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This user has created 268 articles on Wikipedia.

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Hello, I'm Erik, and I have been editing Wikipedia since 2005–06. My primary focus is on articles related to film. Since articles about films often appear at the top of search engine results, Wikipedia has a unique opportunity to educate readers about these works. I am a member of WikiProject Film and an active contributor to the project's talk page. Additionally, I have contributed to the development of the Manual of Style for film. I historically worked on creating or expanding articles about upcoming films, consolidating all available development and production information to ensure comprehensive coverage. Nowadays, I contribute to various film and filmmaker/actor topics of interest to me and also track active discussions to weigh in on.

I authored the Featured Article Fight Club, which was showcased on Wikipedia's main page on October 15, 2009, to mark the film's 10th anniversary. I have also written several Good Articles, both independently and collaboratively. Examples include Apt Pupil (film), Doomsday (2008 film), The Fountain, Hancock (film), The Martian (film), Valkyrie (film), and Wolf Totem (film). If you scroll down further, you’ll find a list of articles I have created or expanded in the past.

Quick links

• User:Erik/Best practices, listing what I consider best practices in writing film articles that has not been explicitly covered by MOS:FILM
• WikiProject Film talk page discussions
• The Wikipedia Library

To-do

1. Create List of films featuring Atlantis; finish Draft:List of films featuring Atlantis
2. Create List of pandemic films (User:Erik/List of pandemic films)
3. Create List of Asian-American films
4. Create Female superheroes in film
5. Create List of TV shows within TV shows (User:Erik/List of fictional television shows)
6. Create twist film

Research links

• EBSCOhost
• HighBeam
• JSTOR
• Project MUSE

Articles I've created or expanded in the 2020s

• The American Society of Magical Negroes – expanded in March 2024 onward
• Charles Graeber – created in October 2022
• Duane Adler – expanded in March 2020
• Michael P. Shawver – created in April 2020
• Michael Sarnoski – overhauled in July 2024
• Mark Steadman – created in April 2020
• Kaylee Hottle – recreated in March 2024
• Kyliegh Curran – created in January 2020
• Lauren Ridloff – overhauled in May 2020
• List of cult films – overhauled in 2024
• List of fictional badgers – overhauled in March 2020
• List of fictional Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom – overhauled in May 2020
• Polly Morgan – created in March 2020
• RDA (Avatar) – restored in November-December 2024
• Ryan Condal – created in May 2021
• The Silent War – created in February 2020
• The Swerve (film) – created in October 2023
• Virtual cinema – created in April 2020

Articles I've created or expanded in 2019

• Alexandra Essoe – created in July 2019
• A Boy, A Girl, A Dream – created in March 2019
• Driveways – created in May 2019
• List of film director and actor collaborations – overhauled in September 2019
• Premature – created in December 2019
• Sophie Thatcher – created in March 2019
• Zackary Momoh – created in September 2019

Articles I've created or expanded in 2018

• Ace Ventura: Pet Detective – expanded in 2018 (diff)
• Afrofuturism in film – created in January 2018
• Black film – created in January 2018
• List of black films of the 2010s – created in April 2018
• Christopher Cantwell (filmmaker) – created in January 2018
• Danny Murphy (British actor) – created in January 2018
• Darren Lemke – created in January 2018
• Death of a Nation: Can We Save America a Second Time? – expanded in August 2018
• Doctor Sleep – expanded in October 2018
• The H Collective – created in October 2018
• The House with a Clock in Its Walls (book) – expanded in August 2018
• Long Duk Dong – created in April 2018
• List of films featuring miniature people – created in June 2018
• Ngoc Lan Tran – created in January 2018
• Owen Vaccaro – created in August 2018
• The Parts You Lose – expanded in January 2018 (diff)

Articles I've created or expanded in 2017

• De-aging in film – created in June 2017
• Drone (2017) – created in April 2017
• Evil corporation – overhauled in January 2017
• List of films featuring the deaf and hard of hearing – created in October 2017
• List of films featuring eclipses – created in September 2017
• List of films featuring fictional films – created in February 2017
• Fionn Whitehead – created in June 2017
• Hong Chau – created in September 2017
• Millicent Simmonds – created in May 2017
• PostTrak – created in December 2017
• A Quiet Place (2018) – created in November 2017
• The Rack Pack (2017) – created in April 2017
• RogerEbert.com – created in June 2017
• Supernatural horror film – created in November 2017
• White savior – created in February 2017
• Trope (cinema) – created in February 2017

Articles I've created or expanded in 2016

• The Birth of a Nation (2016) – expanded in January 2016
• Box office territory – created in December 2016
• English-language accents in film – created in January 2016
• A House Divided: Denmark Vesey's Rebellion (1982) – created in January 2016
• Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property (2003) – created in January 2016
• Thriller film – created in December 2016

Articles I've created or expanded in 2015

Films

• Drone (2014) – created in February 2015
• Gods of Egypt (2016) – expanded in December 2015
• Rotor DR1 (2015) – created in October 2015

Film-related

• Alibaba Pictures – created in January 2015
• Danny Torrance – expanded in September 2015 (article rescue)
• List of films set on Mars – created in September 2015
• List of Star Wars films and television series – created in November 2015
• Gothic film – created in October 2015
• Gothic romance film – created in October 2015
• Racebending – overhauled in October 2015 (diff)
• Whitewashing in film – created in September 2015

Other

• Bridge of Spies (book) – created in October 2015

Articles I've created or expanded in 2014

Films

• Cane River (1982) – created in December 2014
• Edge of Tomorrow (2014) – expanded in May 2014
• Eye in the Sky (2015) – created in September 2014
• I Origins (2014) – created stub in January 2014
• America: Imagine the World Without Her – expanded in November-December 2014
• Tiger House (2015) – created in February 2014

Film-related

• Black and white hat symbolism in film – revamped in September 2014
• Counterprogramming (film distribution) – created in June 2014
• Hoth – expanded in November 2014 (article rescue)
• IndieCollect – created in December 2014
• List of films featuring drones – created in September 2014
• List of films featuring Frankenstein's monster – created in January 2014
• List of films featuring Hercules – created in January 2014
• List of films featuring the United States Navy SEALs – created in January 2014
• Pan African Film Festival – expanded in January 2014
• Phoenix Pictures – created in January 2014
• White savior narrative in film – created in May 2014

Actors and filmmakers

• John-Henry Butterworth – created in June 2014
• Kevin Tod Haug – created in October 2014
• Fleur van Eeden – created in September 2014

Articles I've created or expanded in 2013

Films

• 12 Years a Slave (2013) – expanded in January 2013
• About Last Night (2014) – expanded in May 2013 (article rescue)
• Broken City (2013) – expanded in January 2013
• Chameleon (1995) – expanded in January 2013 (article rescue)
• Deep Blue (2003) – created in May 2013
• The East (2013) – expanded in January 2013
• A Field in England (2013) – created in May 2013
• Interstellar (2014) – revised and expanded in August 2013
• Mud (2012) – partially expanded in February 2013
• Out of the Dark (2014) – created in May 2013
• The Rewrite (2014) – expanded in July 2013 (article rescue)
• Solomon Northup's Odyssey (1984) – created in January 2013
• State 194 (2012) – created in May 2013
• Transcendence (2014) – expanded in May 2013
• Unclaimed (2013) – expanded in April 2013
• Walking with Dinosaurs (2013) – created in May 2013
• Wolf Totem (2014) – created in June 2013

Film-related

• DMG Entertainment – created in August 2013
• Film-poem – created stub in May 2013
• Film4.0 – created in July 2013
• List of films featuring hallucinogens – created in July 2013
• Non-narrative film – created in July 2013
• List of films featuring powered exoskeletons – created in July 2013
• Second weekend in box office performance – created in June 2013
• Scott Free Productions – created in May 2013
• List of films featuring slavery – created in July 2013
• List of films featuring space stations – created in July 2013
• Survival film – created in February 2013
• Vigilante film – created in July 2013

Actors and filmmakers

• Zal Batmanglij – created in January 2013
• Barry Cook – created in December 2013
• Michael Costigan (film producer) – created in May 2013
• Nathan Crowley – expanded in August 2013
• Jay Hart – created in November 2013
• James Haygood – created in November 2013
• Paul Franklin (visual effects supervisor) – created in August 2013
• Marco Marenghi – created in December 2013
• Mary Zophres – expanded in November 2013

Other

• Andrew Simpson (animal trainer) – created in July 2013
• Dark Knight (nickname) – created in July 2013
• The Edge of Tomorrow (1958 book) – created in August 2013

Articles I've created or expanded in 2012

Films

• Abendland (2011) – created in September 2012
• All Is Lost (2013) – created in September 2012
• Djinn (2013) – created in October 2012
• Dreams from My Real Father (2012) – expanded in October 2012
• Frances Ha (2012) – created in December 2012
• Olympus Has Fallen (2013) – created in September 2012
• Promised Land (2012) – expanded in October 2012
• Samsara (2011) – expanded in September 2012
• Samsara: Death and Rebirth in Cambodia (1990) – created in December 2012
• Sea Shadow (2011) – created in October 2012
• Snitch (2013) – expanded in December 2012
• The Two Faces of January (2013) – created in September 2012
• White House Down (2013) – created in September 2012

Film-related

• Image Nation – created in October 2012
• List of films featuring diabetes – created in September 2012
• List of films featuring home invasions – created in September 2012
• List of films featuring surveillance – created in December 2012

Actors and filmmakers

• Ceán Chaffin – created in September 2012
• Nikolaus Geyrhalter – created in September 2012
• Chris Moore (film producer) – expanded in October 2012
• Gavin Polone – expanded in September 2012

Other

• Cogan's Trade – created in September 2012
• Mayhem (advertising character) – created in September 2012
• Silent Horizon – created in September 2012

Articles I've created or expanded in the past

Films

• Apt Pupil (1998) – expanded
• Doomsday (2008) – expanded
• Fight Club (1999) – expanded
• Fight Club, Intepretations of – created
• The Fountain (2006) – expanded
• Hancock (2008) – expanded
• The Illustrated Man (1969) – created
• Last Days Here (2011) – created
• Panic Room (2002) – expanded
• Public Access (1993) – expanded
• Road to Perdition (2002) – expanded
• Season of the Witch (2011) – expanded
• Sunshine (2007) – expanded
• Surf Ninjas (1993) – expanded
• Valkyrie (2008) – expanded

Film related

• Buddy film – expanded
• Buffalo Bill – rescued with partial expansion
• CinemaScore – created
• Damien Thorn – rescued with partial expansion

Actors and filmmakers

• Hossein Amini – expanded
• John Collee – created
• Chris Gorak – created
• Jeff Nichols – created
• Penny Rose – created
• Alex Tse – created
• Andrew Weisblum – created
• Victor J. Zolfo – created

Other

• Operation Breakthrough – created

General links

• General information: Article guidelines (talk) • Naming conventions (films) • Notability (films)
• Project organization: Coordinators (talk) • Participants • {{Film}} • Category:WikiProject Film
• Departments: Assessment • Categorization • Core • Future films (talk) • Outreach • Resources • Review • Spotlight • Topic workshop
• Other: Article alerts • New articles • Deletion sorting/Film • {{Infobox film}} (talk)
• Pages: Page History Statistics • WikiDashboard
• Editors: Edit count • Edit summary usage
• Template messages (User talk namespace)
• AutoWikiBrowser user manual
• CatScan (Wikipedia:CatScan)
• Wikipedia:Recent changes patrol
• Special:Linksearch
• Special:PrefixIndex
• Wikipedia citation tool for Google Books
• IRC/Cloaks

Nominating:

• Wikipedia:Advice for RfA candidates
• User:Kudpung/RfA criteria

Sub-pages

Individual topics User:Erik/Panic Room User:Erik/Apt Pupil (film) User:Erik/Batman Begins User:Erik/Dark City User:Erik/Fight Club (film) User:Erik/The Fountain User:Erik/The Matrix User:Erik/Profanity in film User:Erik/Thriller film

Projects User:Erik/List of topics in film User:Erik/Alcoholism in film User:Erik/Categorization User:Erik/Coordinators User:Erik/Draft User:Erik/Linkspam User:Erik/Register User:Erik/Resources

Essays User:Erik/Planned films User:Erik/Research Miscellaneous User:Erik/Sandbox User:Erik/Awards

Personal links

• Wikipedia Signpost report: WikiProject Film (full interview)
• The Wikipedian Interviews: At the Movies, an interview I did for The Wikipedian