User:David Johnson

I have been a Wikipedia member since February 17, 2004 and a Wikibooks member since November 21, 2004 where I contribute to the Cookbook (my Cookbook contributions).

What I do on Wikipedia

In addition to the articles I have started or contribute to, I am on a mission to keep Wikipedia free from vandalism, spam, nonsense and vanity. As a result, I have developed somewhat deletionist tendancies.

I don't like the standard Wikipedia {{Image source}} and {{Image copyright}} tags - they contain too much information which new users just don't understand. With this in mind, I've created my own replacement for them both: {{User:David Johnson/nolicense}}. Feel free to use it and/or improve it.

I also take and upload photos for use on Wikipedia. Here's a gallery of my photos.

Recognition

• Three of the recipes I have created on Cookbook have reached featured status: Hamburger, Chicken Tikka and Chicken Tikka Masala!
• This is hardly recognition, but a vandalism warning I posted to the talk page of an anonymous IP address (which I knew to belong to the BBC) was read-out on national radio since one of the presenters had committed the vandalism (I knew this since they discussed it on the show...). I like to think that this told listeners (many of whom were by this time vandalising articles referenced on the show) that Wikipedia takes vandalism seriously and perhaps made them think twice about continuing to do it or about doing it in the future.
• A photo I took is used in a userbox!

	This user likes a 'proper' Pasty.

Legal

My image contributions, all of which I upload to the Commons, are dual-licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License and the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.0 England & Wales license.

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Now stop looking at my user page and do something useful! Here are some tasks you can do:

• Wikify: ARENA... of the Young Arts, Greenbank Football Club, Central Public Works Department, India, Wipe Out Kids Cancer, Brooke Evans, More...
• Orphans: Gajedi Taal, Diana Raab, GE Artesia Bank, Lee Wilder Thomas, Deon St. Mor, Pen tilt, Thrace (mythology), Nacho King!, More...
• Copyedit: Ejigbo Palace Organization, Al Fondo Hay Sitio, StarStruck (season 5), PXL-2000, Grozny OMON fratricide incident, More...
• Update: 2010–11 BCHL season, Future Force Warrior, Alperin v. Vatican Bank, Wokingham & Emmbrook F.C., Secretaría de Gobernación, More...
• Style: Gore Orphanage, History of Hindustani, Tourism in Italy, Stanislavski's system, Ah! My Goddess: The Movie, Tonic Trouble, More...
• Translation: Higüey (city), 2008 Chilean telethon, Greek National Road 76, Außerparlamentarische Opposition, Ukita Kōkichi, More...
• Cleanup: VS Knight Lamune & 40 Fire, Holy Week in Seville, Jelly Jiggler, Viscounty of Limoges, W. J. Young, Kingdom of Majorca, More...
• Verify: Zimbabwe African National Union – Ndonga, Cocos Islands Mutiny, Musiq Soulchild, Female sex tourism, Bioglass, Family literacy, More...
• Neutrality: Anticipatory democracy, Emergy synthesis, Indigenous Communists in Hong Kong, Osroene, Uses of torture in recent times, More...
• Original research: Teora, History of the punk subculture, Contemporary Islamic philosophy, Cuisine of the Midwestern United States, More...
• Merge: PARCS (radar), Rhinoceros dolphin, Nuclear Winter Wonderland, Shaaga (food), CG-1432 Crash, Apparition of Our Lady at Batim, More...
• Split: Ultra high frequency, Pluralism (philosophy), Asbestos, Sakis Rouvas, Culture of Georgia (U.S. state), List of Unilever brands, More...
• Stubs: South Dakota Messenger, Sutter's Mill meteorite, Monastery of the Angels, Snow guard, Universal File Format, Cserháti Zsuzsa, More...
• Expand: Hinduism in Gujarat, The Triple Hoax, The Curious House Guest, Planetary Report, Bashir Al Helal, New Jersey State Auditor, More...
• Article Incubator: Imperator class ocean liner, Scottish Uruguayan, Google Technology User Group, Climategate, Michael Alford, More...
• Article deletion discussions: Behavioural science, Netherlands, Fashion, Bands and musicians, Comics and animation, More...
• Article Requests: Dunnett's test, Teresa H. Meng, Energy in Israel, Megaduodenum, Banking in Scotland, Catumbela River, More...
• Image Requests: Mount Diablo buckwheat, Hanukkah bush, Cockernonnie, Manatee River, Northern hairy-nosed wombat, More...
• Mediation Cabal: or Help mediate an open case!

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