ABOUT

"Vincent" Yinglong999 is a Wikipedian, hobbyist writer, wushu historian, and former competitive wushu practitioner from the United States. Since 2020, he has been active in researching and perserving the history of wushu in the United States and throughout the international circuit. He has given presentations on history for some collegiate wushu teams in the US.

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Starting in May 2019, Yinglong began researching the complete history of wushu in the United States. In April 2020, he created his Wikipedia account, but only began seriously editing months later. In the summer of 2020, he began researching the history of the collegiate wushu team he was a member of at the time. This research led him to US wushu history of the 1990s and prior. He published the original version of this site in late November 2020, boasting the title as the "longest, most complete, and most detailed list of US Wushu Team athletes to ever exist."

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Yinglong then turned more of his attention to Wikipedia. In December 2020, Yinglong published his first articles in mainspace which were "Wushu at the 2022 World Games," the "1995 World Wushu Championships," the "2021 World Wushu Championships" (postponed to 2023), the "United States of America Wushu Kungfu Federation," the "2014 Nanjing Youth Wushu Tournament," and the "List of international wushu competitions." This was followed by creating articles of athletes from the early 2000s and 2010s including Daria Tarasova, Zhao Qingjian, Jia Rui, and Geng Xiaoling, and he began revising several old wushu articles on Wikipedia including the "2008 Beijing Wushu Tournament," the "World Wushu Championships," and athletes such as "Yuan Wenqing," "Jayden Yuan," and "Jade Xu." He then continuously worked to improve articles by expanding prose, adding sources, adding medal tables, reformatting infoboxes, adding categories, and essentially single-handedly universalizing styles across articles on wushu, especially those related to competitions and athletes. By early March 2021, he had reached 1,000 edits, and began to branch out even more. He created articles of athletes such as "Edgar Xavier Marvelo,""Wu Zhaohua," and "Lai Xiaoxiao" as well as his first "Did You Know" submission "Gao Jiamin," added articles for wushu at the Asian Games from 1900-98, created the entire wushu at the World Games series, continued to heavily revise and expand older articles and began minimally editing on Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and Chinese Wikipedias. By the beginning of July, he had reached 2,000 edits and at the end of August he had already reached 3,000 edits. This summer spree ended with a number of DYK submissions including "Nguyen Thuy Hien," "Li Fai," "Park Chan-Dae,"and gymnast "Zhang Shangwu."

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Starting in early September 2021, Yinglong began editing less on Wikipedia, and over the next two years only made less than 900 edits. He began to create and work on some articles related to music, including publishing the 1732 "Duke of Alcantara" Stradivarius as a DYK submission which reached over 33,000 views in one day, and "Yunchan Lim" just shortly after his historic win at the 2022 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. Around the time of major international wushu competitions such as the 2022 World Games, he would have spurts of activity on Wikipedia. Since the Asian Games in late September 2023, Yinglong has briefly unretired once again also in preparation for the 2023 World Wushu Championships.