User:johndburger

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Some of my philosophy, Horatio

• I'm pretty much just here to work on an encyclopedia.
• I believe edit summaries are an oft-missed opportunity for communication, and I use them pretty religiously. In fact, I rarely use my rollback privilege, because it leaves uninformative summaries.
• I try to observe a one revert rule, except in obvious cases of repeated vandalism.
• I think references are very important—otherwise, this isn't much of an encyclopedia. I like inline citations.

Articles I've put a lot of work into

Rosie the Riveter • Boston Latin School • Netflix Prize • Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo

See my other edit stats.

Other things I work on

• Developing Navibot. It finds missing disambiguation entries and adds them to the appropriate page—see below
• Developing enwikipedia, a bot that announces featured Wikipedia content on Twitter
• Cleaning up references and citations
• Adding Persondata
• Applying MOSDAB
• Spam
  • unit-converter.org • mycomponents.co.uk • convertunits.com • onlineconversion.com

Tools I use

Citation templates • Last 500 anon. edits • {{subst:unsigned2}}

Bots etc.

I'm working on Navibot. It will find disambiguation entries, e.g.:

• Pages of the form foo (bar) that are missing from a foo (disambiguation) page (or a foo page that's in Category:Disambiguation)
• Pages of the form foo (disambiguation) that do not have a disamb link from foo.
• Missing disambiguation pages—that is, there are three or more real articles named foo, foo (bar), etc., but no foo (disambiguation)

I'm also thinking of writing a formatting bot that would do stuff like this:

• Correctly italicize titles in obvious cases, e.g., this Primeval (film) can be corrected to this Primeval (film).
• Clean up non-standard -th, etc., dates, like in Nicolaus von Amsdorf:

He died at Eisenach on May 14th 1565

But see discussion with idiosyncratic editor: User_talk:Johndburger#What_about_the_dates.3F

A "descriptor" bot (terrible name).

• Find bare mentions of people in lists like "Notable graduates" or "Notable residents"
• Formulate short descriptions from the corresponding article, using WP:Persondata and other heuristics
• Add these descriptions to the bare mentions in the list

This approach could also be used when adding entries to disambiguation pages.

To do list

• Add main pages to categories where appropriate.
• Putting Boston_Latin_School#Notable_alumni in Category:Boston Latin School alumni
• Expand Human language technology

 

Centralized discussion
Proposals	Discussions	Recurring proposals
RFC on appropriate handling/removal of non-free images that breach WP:NFCC policy #9. RfC on the proposed cessation of selective delete (other than history merge fixes) and resulting changes to deletion policies, including the removal of a Revision Deletion criterion. Invitation to comment on candidates standing for 2012 Audit Subcommittee appointment RfC about whether "new messages" banner hoaxes should be prohibited RfC on how files from non-copyright states should be treated and used on WP RfC on aspects of the leadership of the featured article process Note: inactive discussions, closed or not, should be archived.
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