User:StefenTower

the Stefen 𝕋ower (StefenTower)
Ultimate Vanguard Editor

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the Stefen 𝕋ower, standing in front of a fallen sequoia, the only thing on Earth taller than him (summer 2001 in Sequoia National Park)
Born	Steven Paul Magruder (1966-11-29) November 29, 1966 Louisville, Kentucky
Name in real life	Steve Magruder
Pronouns	Heehee/him
Nationality	American
Country	United States
Current location	Louisville, Kentucky
Languages	English, French (un peu)
Time zone	Eastern Time Zone
Current time	Current time for UTC-5 is 22:02
Ethnicity	Scottish (mostly)
Race	Human (race is a fiction)
Height	6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Weight	Unhappily chubby
Hair	Gray / dark blonde mix
Eyes	Blue
Handedness	Right
Sexuality	Gay
IQ	Higher than yours
Personality type	Funny, witty, direct, sarcastic, ambiverted, egocyclic, malhumorado sin café, sometimes anxious or somber, prone to hangriness (Myers–Briggs is insufficient)
Family and friends
Marital status	Single
Siblings	2
Pets	Love other people's pets
Education and employment
Occupation	Sit-down comedaean (/ˈkɑːmʌˌdaɪʌn/)
Primary school	Auburndale
Intermediate school	Lassiter
High school	Fairdale
College	Speed Scientific School
University	University of Louisville
Hobbies, interests, and beliefs
Hobbies	Computers, cooking, vinyl record collecting/sales
Religion	Strong atheist / Secular humanist
Politics	Left-libertarian / Social democrat / Anti-fascist
Aliases	Stevie, SPaM, Guder
Shows	Always Sunny, Are You Being Served?, The Golden Girls, Sanford and Son, Schitt's Creek, Weeds, WKRP in Cincinnati
Music	Rock
Contact info
Website	stefentower.com
YouTube	StefenTower
Bluesky	stefentower.com
Account statistics
Joined	March 20, 2004 (as Stevietheman)
First edit	March 20, 2004
Autoconfirmed	April 13, 2004
Extended confirmed	April 5, 2016
New page reviewer	October 31, 2016
Pending changes reviewer	June 19, 2010
Rollbacker	January 10, 2008
Userboxes
This user has a channel on YouTube. This user posts on Bluesky. This editor is an Ultimate Vanguard Editor and is entitled to display this Meitnerium Editor Star with the Neutronium Superstar hologram. This user has been editing Wikipedia for more than twenty years—since March 20, 2004. 37%This user has been a Wikipedian for 37% of his life. This user is one of the 300 most active English Wikipedians of all time. 220,000+This user has made more than 220,000 contributions to Wikipedia. W!This user edits Wikipedia too much to take the Wikipediholism test! This user is from Louisville, hometown of Muhammad Ali. UofLThis user attends or attended the University of Louisville. This user participates in WikiProject Louisville. This user is a participant in WikiProject Kentucky. This user is a participant in WikiProject Indiana. This user has AutoWikiBrowser rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify) This user has access to the Wikipedia Library. NEWSThis user has access to Newspapers.com through The Wikipedia Library. This editor is a WikiGnome. This user is a template maker SQLThis user can program in SQL. {{tone}} This user tags articles for maintenance with Twinkle! This user thinks that peacocks and weasels should be extinct in Wikipedia. <sum>:1This user believes that every edit should have a summary. This user is bold and proud. This user tries to do the right thing. If he makes a mistake, please let him know. This user is willing to be slapped with a trout, should he need it. This user has strong political views, but feels that Wikipedia is not the proper place to express them. This user believes in equality for all This user identifies as a gay male.

the Stefen 𝕋ower (né Steve Magruder; heehee/him) is a sit-down comedaean (/ˈkɑːmʌˌdaɪʌn/) from The Ville. Heehee is currently developing a YouTube program to be entitled Stefen 𝕋ower Presents!!1! Starring Stefen 𝕋ower.

In the Wikipedia, 𝕋ower is an article doctor (if not meatball surgeon) and very often a WikiGnome (a doer of maintenance gruntwerk hardly anyone else wants to do yet needs to be done). His main mode of work in the Wikipedia has been improving existing articles and the "connective tissue" between them. Heehee has admittedly not created many articles, but has created mounds of categories and redirects, as well as some pretty cool WikiProject pages/reports.

Further, 𝕋ower is a total spelling crank, thus his multitudinous AutoWikiBrowser (AWB) cleanups. In his typo-hunting adventures, heehee's come to know our beloved encyclopedia as riddled with typos, grammar flaws, MOS violations and more. Someone's gotta fix this mess. (Note: Did you notice his typos and gross violations of MOS:CONTRACTION in this paragraph? Since this ain't a real article, heehee can get away with it here.)

Last, yes, 𝕋ower refers to himself in the third person because heehee wished to write some crapola as a boilerplate for his future Wikipedia article, like that's gonna happen.

Ongoing Wikipedia efforts

• Ad hoc article improvements
• Ad hoc category creations: Most of my recent category creations have been Louisville-related.
• Gradually improving WikiProject Louisville's priority articles to move them toward WP:GA and WP:FA
• Cross-project work
  • WikiProject Insights: Building a library of database queries and reports, which together help editors gain data-driven insight into how they may assist WikiProject efforts. Currently this is informal in the form of a list of queries on Quarry and their implementations in only two WikiProjects, but I will be formalizing it at some point. (I've also created a few queries I call "Editor Insights", listed at the same location.) See my database report deployments below.
  • Structural improvements: Most of my work as been on WikiProject Louisville so far, but I've also tweaked WikiProject Kentucky somewhat.
  • Cataloging of existing articles/pages: I've been concentrating on WP Louisville, WP Kentucky, and WP Indiana recently, but I will gradually expand this region, perhaps to Chicago and Cincinnati next.
  • Categorizing WikiProjects and their components, concentrating in assessments and reports recently.
• Enhancing RegExTypoFix (new typos to fix, avoiding false positives): I haven't done this much recently, but I've been building a list of potential new typo fixes to add.

Semi-automated mass article cleanup (past year)

Mass cleanup to address typos, general fixes and serendipitous cleanup concerns is done running AutoWikiBrowser (AWB) on article lists based on the following areas (either WikiProject- or category-based), subject orbits (an article's outgoing and incoming links), or ad hoc generation (e.g., last n contributions). As some of these runs are repeated, the date shown is the day of the latest run.

Run (Area / Subject orbit / Ad hoc)	Link vector	Article count (upon run)	Complete date
WikiProjects in my region (Louisville metropolitan area, Kentucky and Indiana combined)	—N/a	44,129	Feb 5, 2026
Revisiting my last 25,000 contributions	—N/a	11,140	Feb 14, 2026
User:StefenTower	Outgoing	142	Feb 23, 2026
1973 Kentucky Derby	Outgoing	265	Sep 14, 2025
	Incoming	519	Sep 14, 2025
Jefferson County Public Schools (Kentucky)	Outgoing	60	Feb 11, 2026
	Incoming	74	Feb 14, 2026
Muhammad Ali	Outgoing	1,407	Mar 2, 2026
	Incoming	4,032	In progress

Stefen's Top 50 edited articles (past year)

This list is updated by a bot on a daily basis.

1. Hunter S. Thompson (71)
2. Great Black Swamp (63)
3. UPS Airlines Flight 2976 (60)
4. Andy Beshear (49)
5. Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport (44)
6. Muhammad Ali (39)
7. Elmer Lucille Allen (37)
8. Tony Ardizzone (37)
9. Disappearance of Nancy Guthrie (34)
10. Kentucky Derby (31)
11. Sonny Liston (31)
12. Cage the Elephant (30)
13. Louisville, Kentucky (29)
14. Diane Harper (27)
15. Kentucky (27)
16. Killing of Breonna Taylor (27)
17. Madison Bumgarner (27)
18. Frances Farmer (26)
19. Jimmy Hart (26)
20. Ohio River (26)
21. Matt Drenik (24)
22. Transit Authority of River City (24)
23. 2025 Kentucky State University shooting (23)
24. Elvis Presley (23)
25. Jefferson County Public Schools (Kentucky) (23)
26. Lucy Bowen McCauley (23)
27. Macedonian Tribune (22)
28. Thomas Large (22)
29. Traditions at the University of Kentucky (22)
30. University of Louisville (22)
31. Arrested Youth (musician) (21)
32. Kent Parker (21)
33. List of attractions and events in the Louisville metropolitan area (21)
34. Allen Whitehill Clowes (20)
35. Boxing career of Muhammad Ali (20)
36. Glenn Hummer (20)
37. Louisville Metro Police Department (20)
38. Presbyterian Church (USA) (20)
39. Dead Man's Wire (19)
40. Hazel Miller (19)
41. Jaime Laredo (19)
42. Charles Sink (18)
43. De Leon & Primmer Architecture Workshop (18)
44. Ohio Valley Wrestling (18)
45. KFC (17)
46. Link-Belt Cranes (17)
47. The Bar Complex (17)
48. Alonzo Pearl Troth (16)
49. Grand Rapids (baseball) (16)
50. Kentucky–Louisville rivalry (16)

Stefen's Top 50 edited articles (all-time)

Following are Stefen's 50 most edited articles of all time (as of March 1, 2026):

1. Louisville, Kentucky
   (#1 in authorship, edits, and added text; over 2,300 edits!)
2. Muhammad Ali
   (second-most editor in a heavily edited article; #3 in authorship; #4 in added text)
3. Kentucky
   (#1 in authorship and edits)
4. List of attractions and events in the Louisville metropolitan area
   (#1 in authorship, edits, and added text)
5. Sexual slang
   (#1 in edits; did I do that??🤓)
6. History of Louisville, Kentucky
   (#1 in authorship, edits, and added text)
7. University of Louisville
   (#1 in authorship, edits, and added text; my alma mater)
8. Kentucky Derby
   (#1 in authorship and edits; #4 in added text)
9. PHP
   (#1 in edits, for a programming language I haven't used in many years; #7 in added text)
10. Democracy
    (#2 in edits)
11. KFC
    (#2 in edits; #3 in authorship)
12. Blog
    (#1 in edits)
13. Direct democracy
    (#1 in edits; #7 in added text)
14. Louisville in the American Civil War
    (created by me with assistance of a Civil War historian; #1 in authorship, edits, and added text)
15. E-democracy
    (created by me; #1 in edits)
16. Bryson Tiller
    (#2 in edits; #6 in added text; #7 in authorship)
17. List of people from the Louisville metropolitan area
    (#1 in edits; #2 in authorship and added text)
18. Waverly Hills Sanatorium
    (#1 in authorship and edits; #2 in added text)
19. Hunter S. Thompson
    (#1 in edits; #4 in authorship)
20. Louisville Cardinals football
    (#1 in edits; #2 in authorship; #3 in added text; secret: I don't even watch football)
21. Old Louisville
    (#1 in edits; #2 in authorship and added text)
22. George Rogers Clark
    (#1 in edits; #4 in authorship; #6 in added text)
23. Cheeseburger
    (#1 in edits; related to Louisville history, yes, really)
24. Downtown Louisville
    (#1 in edits; #2 in authorship and added text)
25. Loretta Lynn
    (#2 in edits; #6 in authorship; #10 in added text)
26. Humana
    (#1 in authorship and edits; #2 in added text)
27. Ohio River
    (#1 in edits; #2 in added text; #3 in authorship)
28. Geography of Louisville, Kentucky
    (#1 in authorship, edits, and added text)
29. Ben Sollee
    (#1 in edits; #4 in authorship; #5 in added text; note: I didn't write any of the fancruft in it)
30. Colonial Gardens
    (#1 in authorship, edits, and added text)
31. Lewis and Clark Expedition
    (#1 in added text; #2 in edits; #6 in authorship)
32. Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport
    (#1 in authorship; #2 in edits; #5 in added text)
33. Open-source model
    (merged into Open source; #1 in edits before merge)
34. Sonny Liston
    (#2 in edits; #4 in authorship; #7 in added text)
35. Colonel Sanders
    (#1 in authorship; #2 in edits; #6 in added text)
36. KFC Yum! Center
    (#1 in edits; #2 in authorship; #4 in added text)
37. Economy of Louisville, Kentucky
    (created by me; #1 in authorship, edits, and added text)
38. Presbyterian Church (USA)
    (#1 in authorship and added text; #2 in edits)
39. Andy Beshear
    (#1 in authorship, edits, and added text)
40. Internet democracy
    (merged into E-democracy, #1 in edits and #4 in added text before merge)
41. History of Kentucky
    (created by me; #4 in edits; #5 in added text; #8 in authorship)
42. Kentucky in the American Civil War
    (#1 in edits; #3 in authorship; #4 in added text)
43. Anna Nicole Smith
    (#1 in authorship; #2 in edits; #9 in added text)
44. Lexington, Kentucky
    (#1 in authorship; #2 in edits; #3 in added text)
45. Mitch McConnell
    (#4 in authorship and edits; #7 in added text; I can imitate the senior senator from my state🐢)
46. Louisville Metro Council
    (created by me; #1 in authorship, edits, and added text)
47. Duke University
    (#8 in edits; my alma mater beat 'em in '86)
48. Internet forum
    (#1 in edits)
49. My Old Kentucky Home
    (#2 in edits; #3 in authorship; #5 in added text)
50. Ohio River Bridges Project
    (created by me; #1 in authorship, edits, and added text)

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Database report deployments

Following are database queries and corresponding reports I have deployed in various spots in the Wikipedia:

Editor Insights

Report name	Deployments / Tests	Query	Notes
TopEditedPastYear	Stefen 𝕋ower's userpage	Query

WikiProject Insights

Report name	Deployments / Tests	Query	Notes
CiteErrors	WP Louisville	Query
CiteMaint	WP Louisville WP Viruses (test)	Query
Featuredarticles	WP Louisville	Query
Fewcats	WP Kentucky WP Louisville	Query
Forgotten	WP Kentucky WP Louisville	Query
Hot Articles 2	WP Kentucky WP Louisville ("Past Week's Hot Edits" in infobox)	Query	This is my modified version of the list generated by HotArticlesBot. Not all columns of the query are utilized.
Leaderboard	WP Kentucky WP Louisville WP Indiana (test)	Query
LeastLinkDense	WP Louisville	Query
MostEdited	WP Kentucky WP Louisville	Query	Similar to Hot Articles, but is a full report with more columns and considers edits over the past 30 days.
MostIsolated	WP Kentucky WP Louisville	Query
MostVolatile	WP Louisville	Query
New WikiProjects	Database reports/WikiProjects	Query	This was originally a direct replacement fixing a breakdown due to database changes, but I've added a minor feature since.
Nursery	WP Louisville	Query
OldIssues	WP Kentucky WP Louisville WP Indiana (test)	Query	This report shows dated WikiProject issues more than a decade old.
Priorityarticles	WP Louisville WP Indiana (test) WP Kentucky (test)	Query
StubMissing	WP Kentucky WP Louisville	Query
TotalEdits	WP Louisville ("Project Statistics" in infobox) WP Indiana (test) WP Kentucky (test)	Query	This just returns the count of edits to in-project pages in the past 30 days, excluding talk pages and edits made by bots.
Watchall2	WP Kentucky WP Louisville	Various queries	These are a collection of link dumps used for change patrol via "Related changes".
WikiProjects by human changes	Database reports/WikiProjects	Query	This was a major rewrite of an existing report, "WikiProjects by changes".
WikiProjects with no activity	Database reports/WikiProjects	Query	This report was carved out of the effort to create "WikiProjects by human changes".

Awards for StefenTower/Stevietheman

Stefen isn't here for collecting awards, but they sure are nice to receive. Thank you!

	The Technical Barnstar
	Thank you very much for looking into all of my JWB settings and such to try to find out what the issue was. It was really helpful!!! Thank you very much! Geardona (talk to me?) 17:06, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

		Citation Barnstar
		This award is given in recognition to StefenTower for collecting more than 5 points during the WikiProject Unreferenced articles's FEB24 backlog drive. Your contributions played a crucial role in sourcing 14,300 unsourced articles during the drive. Thank you so much for participating and helping to reduce the backlog! – – DreamRimmer (talk) 17:58, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

		The Original Barnstar
		For your tireless work in maintaining and improving RegExTypoFix. Wikipedialuva (talk) 09:44, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

	The Barnstar of Good Humor
	Thank you for gently and kindly making smart, fair edits to a momentarily sloppy change I made and for all the great work it looks like you do RYPJack (talk) 18:06, 8 February 2017 (UTC)

	The Original Barnstar
	Stevietheman helped me learn the ropes of Wikipedia after I jumped into editing. Thanks! Zach Murrell (talk) 00:24, 2 February 2017 (UTC)

	The Original Barnstar
	Thank you for the great job you are doing on the editing of articles especially mine. Chitt66 (talk) 22:29, 10 January 2017 (UTC)

		The Special Barnstar
		For your efforts at the Muhammad Ali page in fighting vandalism and disruptive edits as well as for your constructive editing on this page. May you continue to keep an eye on this page always. Soham321 (talk) 17:40, 4 December 2016 (UTC)

	The Citation Barnstar
	Thank you. Here's a barnstar for your citation cleanups and also for the much-needed images you added to Lincoln Memorial at Waterfront Park Mitzi.humphrey (talk) 13:48, 27 August 2016 (UTC)

		The Special Barnstar
		In appreciation of your important contributions to Wikipedia. You are an asset to this website. And Adoil Descended (talk) 17:06, 10 August 2016 (UTC)

		100000 Edits
		Congratulations on reaching 100000 edits. You have achieved a milestone that only 363 editors have been able to accomplish. The Wikipedia Community thanks you for your continuing efforts. Keep up the good work!

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	The Original Barnstar
	Well...I like your user page. Add and Got (talk) 15:11, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

	The Original Barnstar
	Thanks for your help. I appreciate your attention to the Louisville-related articles. Mitzi.humphrey (talk) 17:16, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

	The Barnstar of Diligence
	Thanks for your watchful eye! It is greatly appreciated. Taxee (talk) 16:15, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

		The Original Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to everyone who - whatever their opinion - contributed to the discussion about Wikipedia and SOPA. Thank you for being a part of the discussion. Presented by the Wikimedia Foundation.

		The Bluegrass Barnstar
		I hereby award you with this bluegrass barnstar for your invaluable work to improve articles for the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Keep up the outstanding work! -- Steven Williamson (HiB2Bornot2B) - talk 17:56, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		Thanks for your help in preventing recent vandalism at Louisville, Kentucky and at other articles in the past. Your efforts are much appreciated! Seicer (talk) (contribs) 04:30, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

		The Editor's Barnstar
		For all you have done for Wikipedia, especially in regards to the Louisville Metro, I award you, Stevietheman, the Editor's Barnstar. Keep up the awesome work! --Moreau36 16:48, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

		The Original Barnstar
		I award this Barnstar to Stevie for his tireless efforts in WikiProject Louisville and because he has received entirely too few barnstars for his hard work. --Carl (talk contribs) 06:29, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

		The Original Barnstar
		For your continued excellent work on the PHP article! --james // bornhj (talk) 10:14, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

See also

• List of old Wikipedians who spend way too much time here

External links

• Official website