Michael Q. Schmidt, an American film and television actor and art model, died on August 20, 2025, at the age of 72. He made over 60,000 edits from 2008 to 2020 and became an admin in 2011. He frequently edited film articles, had 100 "Did you know" features to his name, and proudly saved pages from deletion with the article rescue squadron. To help newer editors, he wrote the page Wikipedia:A primer for newcomers and reworked their draft pages from the incubation process so that they could become fully fledged articles.

Sad to hear the news that Michael Q. Schmidt passed away. ... He was always VERY quick to get fully nude for us and he fit perfectly into our little world. He was kind, friendly and always up for trying something weird with us. A true original!