User:Airplaneman/Desk

(chat · email me · 747 · subpages · numbers · blocks · protections · deletions · moves · rights · all logs)

Total articles: 6,838,427       Good articles: 39,772       Featured articles: 6,520

Tip of the day...

Screenshots

If you need to illustrate an article about software or a website, a good tip is to take screenshots.

In Microsoft Windows, a screenshot of the entire monitor, complete with taskbar, can be copied to the system clipboard by pressing the Prt Sc key. Alternatively, pressing Alt+Prt Sc will copy just the active window to the clipboard. You can then paste the clipboard into a program like MS Paint or Paint.NET using Ctrl+V, and then save it as an image file (for uploading to Wikipedia, for instance).

In Mac OS X, simply prepare your screen to how you want it to look, then hit ⌘ Cmd+⇧ Shift+3 (not the number pad 3) simultaneously. The new image will appear as a PNG on your desktop. Additionally, if you only want to capture part of the screen, you can hit ⌘ Cmd+⇧ Shift+4, click and drag over the part of the screen you would like to capture and release, also saving it as a PNG on your desktop.

When uploading, be sure to use an appropriate copyright tag, such as web-screenshot.

Prior tip – Tips library – Next tip

Read more:

Screenshot  

Become a Wikipedia tipster

To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd}}

Notices

Requests for adminship and bureaucratship update

RfA candidate	S	O	N	S %	Status	Ending (UTC)	Time left	Dups?	Report
HouseBlaster	112	7	0	94	Open	00:50, 23 June 2024	2 days, 11 hours	no	report

Rick Riordan Task Force Alerts
Announcements:
Current Focus: Got an idea for the project? Edit this template to send out a new announcement!
Recent publications: TBA See RickRiordan.com for information on upcoming (currently non-notable) books.
Want to help out? Patrol this watchlist for vandalism and potential new members!
Add this template to your userpage and receive updates! Just add {{Wikipedia:RRTF/Update}}.

Aviation WikiProject Articles for review

Peer review Granville Gee Bee Model A 2013 Eberswalde-Finow Zlin crash Fresno Yosemite International Airport

WikiProject Novels • (inc. novellas, novelettes & short stories) Announcements and open tasks (watch • edit • discuss • changes)

→ Please help with tagging articles!

• Critique (Featured article): 33 achieved
• Novels WikiProject Peer reviews: • Sector General • Petals of Blood • Flowers for Algernon
• Improve: Oberon Old and New • The Age of Reason • Furies of Calderon • Wolf Brother • The Monk • The English Patient • Bones of the Moon
• Create: To the Vanishing Point • Spoilt City
• Recently a new worklist had been created and quietly arrived, the Cleanup listing which gives a fairly comprehensive hit list of "novels" related articles that have been tagged for something or other.
• Since then a new Article alerts listing has also been added of more topic and "urgent" items worthy of our attention.

Useful stuff

From ThaddeusB's page:

Editing Help/Guideline		Useful Tools
Manual of Style Weasel Words List of English words with disputed usage List of commonly misused English words List of common misspellings and typos Creating Tables		Recent changes patrol – warning templates Full list of stub types List of templates / Cleanup tags List of tasks in need of attention

Aviation WikiProject announcements and open tasks
We encourage all members of Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation to use the translation feature more often. There are many articles that can be created or expanded via translation. The Soviet Aviation Task force needs articles translated into English! Please feel free to join! The Aviation accident task force has a list of missing articles of major aviation accidents that aren't covered on English Wikipedia. Missing women aviators is a small redlist of women aviators for whom we lack biographies. The defunct airlines project is now a task force of WikiProject Airlines – check it out and join today! Find images for Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of aircraft A quick reference to aviation articles that are up for discussion and deletion is available - watchlist it and use it! Wikipedia:WikiProject Aircraft/Missing articles lists over 500 articles that require creating or redirecting. Dig in! A template is available to quickly create articles. Go to Template:WPAVIATION creator and start creating! The collaboration and review departments are open. Please visit and nominate or help review articles!
Did you know 07 Jun 2024 – Ernest J. King (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Hawkeye7 (t · c); see discussion Articles for deletion 18 Jun 2024 – Shayna Richardson (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Fences and windows (t · c); see discussion (4 participants) 18 Jun 2024 – VanGrunsven RV-2 (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Air on White (t · c); see discussion (0 participants) 18 Jun 2024 – Angara Airlines Flight 200 (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Aviationwikiflight (t · c); see discussion (4 participants) 17 Jun 2024 – Campo de Lorenzo Skypark (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Allan Nonymous (t · c); see discussion (4 participants) 13 Jun 2024 – 2023 Port Phillip Bay mid-air collision (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Aviationwikiflight (t · c); see discussion (4 participants) 31 May 2024 – Manx Aviation and Military Museum (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Wikilover3509 (t · c); see discussion (9 participants; relisted) 11 Jun 2024 – 2024 F-35 crash (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Rosbif73 (t · c) was closed as redirect by Malinaccier (t · c) on 18 Jun 2024; see discussion (8 participants) 08 Jun 2024 – Really Cool Airlines (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Bidgee (t · c) was closed as delete by RL0919 (t · c) on 15 Jun 2024; see discussion (8 participants) 06 Jun 2024 – 2020 Bluebird Aviation crash (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Aviationwikiflight (t · c) was closed as delete by Explicit (t · c) on 13 Jun 2024; see discussion (3 participants) 04 Jun 2024 – List of preserved Boeing aircraft (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Noha307 (t · c) was closed as keep by Jake Wartenberg (t · c) on 18 Jun 2024; see discussion (14 participants; relisted) (1 more...) Proposed deletions 19 Jun 2024 – Aergo Capital (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by InvadingInvader (t · c): Unable to find sufficient significant coverage which sufficiently or exceedingly demonstrates Aergo's notability 13 Jun 2024 – VSS Imagine (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Ultimograph5 (t · c) was deproded by Rlandmann (t · c) on 16 Jun 2024 06 Jun 2024 – Vistara-Air India merger (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Pureeminences (t · c) was deleted A-Class review undated – Granville Gee Bee Model A (talk · edit · hist) was put up for A-Class review undated – Ernest J. King (talk · edit · hist) was put up for A-Class review undated – Henry Biard (talk · edit · hist) was put up for A-Class review undated – List of aviation shootdowns and accidents during the Iraq War (talk · edit · hist) was put up for A-Class review Good article nominees 15 Jun 2024 – Chennai International Airport (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Magentic Manifestations (t · c); start discussion 14 Jun 2024 – John S. McCain Sr. (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Hawkeye7 (t · c); see discussion 13 Jun 2024 – Gerrit Johannes Geysendorffer (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by AddWittyNameHere (t · c); start discussion 01 Jun 2024 – Bill Crawford-Compton (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Zawed (t · c); see discussion 04 May 2024 – Gotha WD.7 (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Sturmvogel 66 (t · c); start discussion 03 May 2024 – Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Czarking0 (t · c); start discussion 27 Apr 2024 – Gubir shootdown (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by PenangLion (t · c); start discussion 20 Jan 2024 – Aérospatiale SA 330 Puma (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Kyteto (t · c); start discussion 10 Jun 2024 – Mary Myers (talk · edit · hist) GA nominated by GreenLipstickLesbian (t · c) was closed Featured article reviews 20 May 2024 – Northrop YF-23 (talk · edit · hist) was put up for FA review by Steve7c8 (t · c); see discussion Requested moves 14 Jun 2024 – Cross-Strait charter (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Cross-strait charter by BarrelProof (t · c); see discussion 12 Jun 2024 – List of surviving Boeing B-29 Superfortresses (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to List of preserved Boeing B-29 Superfortresses by Airbus A320-100 (t · c); see discussion Articles to be merged 19 May 2024 – Advanced technology engine (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Variable cycle engine by Lfstevens (t · c); see discussion 19 May 2024 – Variable cycle engine (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Advanced technology engine by Lfstevens (t · c); see discussion Articles to be split 10 Sep 2023 – Ibaraki Airport (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Harashisaki (t · c); see discussion 04 Dec 2022 – Wankel engine (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Thumperward (t · c); see discussion Articles for creation 15 Jun 2024 – Draft:My Freighter Airlines (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Iwaqarhashmi (t · c) 10 Jun 2024 – Draft:SXM Airways (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by A Guy Like Ivan (t · c) 08 Jun 2024 – Draft:Anguilla Air Services (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by A Guy Like Ivan (t · c) 01 Jun 2024 – Draft:Zhaslyk (airfield) (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Chaotic Enby (t · c) 26 May 2024 – Draft:1987 Egyptair Airbus A300 crash (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by CreatorOfMinecraftHerobrine (t · c) 22 May 2024 – Draft:8tree (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Rosguill (t · c) 19 May 2024 – Draft:PAVE (aviation mnemonic) (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Tylerfh2012 (t · c) 15 May 2024 – Draft:John Kline (general) (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Hrhoa001 (t · c) 05 May 2024 – Draft:AirSeven (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by BluePlanespotter (t · c) 30 Apr 2024 – Draft:F-WWEY (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Qwerfjkl (bot) (t · c) (10 more...)
View full version (with review alerts)

— Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of recent edits —

— A nice page stat counter —

Random stuff

Interesting Miscellany

• Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo
• Copyleft
• Green Wall of China
• Exploding tree
• Uncyclopedia
• Moore's Law
• Drive-by tagging
• This essay that links from the new page patrol page is interesting.
• Some cool WikiStats from WolframAlpha
• My old userpage design.

Music

I'm a violinist, currently playing:

• Violin Concerto in E major (Bach)
• Vittorio Monti's Csárdás
• Méditation from Thaïs
• Violin Sonata No. 21 (Mozart)

Evolution of my signature

• Airplaneman (talk) 02:11, 25 July 2009 (UTC) – Up to July 25, 2009
• Airplaneman ^talk 17:14, 25 July 2009 (UTC) – Up to July 28, 2009 (thank you Pmlineditor!)
• Airplaneman ^talk 21:10, 28 July 2009 (UTC) – Up to March 23, 2010
• —Airplaneman— – Up to March 27, 2010 Wings!
• Airplaneman ✈ – Current (airplane)!
• Airplaneman ✈ ^Review? – For my editor review

Edits

• 1000 – June 9, 2009
• 5000 – September 7, 2009
• 10000 – December 19, 2009
• 15000 – March 8, 2010
• 20000!!! according to X!'s edit counter – May 5, 2010 (Wiki-time: 02:35, 6 May 2010 (UTC))

Wikipedia

• 3,000,000 articles! – August 17, 2009

Signpost

• I am the signpost's 959^th subscriber, subscribing on August 3, 2009.

Spell check, anyone?

Eye have a spelling chequer,
It came with my Pea Sea.
It plane lee marks four my revue
Miss Steaks I can knot sea.

Eye strike the quays and type a whirred
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am write oar wrong
It tells me straight a weigh.

Eye ran this poem threw it,
Your shore real glad two no.
Its vary polished in its weigh.
My chequer tolled me sew.

A chequer is a bless thing,
It freeze yew lodes of thyme.
It helps me right all stiles of righting,
And aides me when eye rime.

Each frays come posed up on my screen
Eye trussed too bee a joule.
The chequer pours o'er every word
Two cheque sum spelling rule.

Copied from Spell Checker.
Thanks to whoever contributed this!