User:Kingturtle

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D & D Character sheet This user is a bureaucrat on the English Wikipedia. (verify) This user is an administrator on the English Wikipedia (verify). en This user is a native speaker of English. It is approximately 5:33 AM where this user lives. (New York) This user has been on Wikipedia for 7 years and 2 days. This user believes in the power of nonviolence. This user is an Anarchist who believes violence is incompatible with the principles of Anarchism.‡ This user knows the Ultimate Answer. uke This user plays the ukulele. This user has given 17 barnstar(s) to others. This user has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian and was awarded their own day. This user has contributed 30 images to Wikipedia and Commons. This user keeps delicious weblinks as kingturtle. This user is a Thingamabrarian. Click here to see my books.  :) This user is an optimist According to the Political Compass this user is: Economic Left (-7.00) and Social Libertarian (-6.05) This user supported Dennis Kucinich for President in 2008. This user knows civility is policy on Wikipedia and tries always to operate within behavioral guidelines. This user supports equal rights for queer people. CG This user aligns Chaotic Good This user supports immigration and the right to travel freely upon the planet we share. This user is a birder. Don't worry Pluto, I'm not a planet either. This user attends or attended The Harley School. UCSC This user attends or attended the University of California, Santa Cruz UR This user attends or attended the University of Rochester. 9 This user has been to 9 Major League Baseball stadiums. This user abides. This user's got a case of the Mondays. This user believes every time a bell rings, an angel gets its wings. For me, Greta Garbo is... divine. This user is a Monty Python fan. PEE-WEE This user said the Secret Word. Q This user is an omnipotent member of the Q Continuum. This user has a cunning plan, my lord ½ You are halfway through this user's userboxes. This user enjoys music by Ludwig Van Beethoven. This user is thankful to Bob Dylan for going electric. Here's another clue for you all. This user was Paul. This user don't use jelly. This user listens to The Only Band That Matters. M.D. This user watches House. This user is married. This user is a Goth. This user is a mutt lover. This user believes that caffeine is necessary in large doses daily. This user eats Swedish Fish. This user likes Chocolate Chip Cookies. This user is interested in Genealogy and has started plotting their family tree. This user is interested in Japanese history. This user plays Diplomacy. This user is interested in art history. This user is interested in the history of the Cold War. This user is interested in Buddhism. This user is interested in existentialism. ath This user is an atheist. This user wants to believe. Verifiability is policy. This user is bold, but not reckless, in updating pages. incl This user is an inclusionist. This user feels that fair use images have no place in a free content encyclopedia. GN This user is a Grammar Ninja and says "WAAAAAAAAAA!!!!" as proof. <sum>:1 This user believes that every edit should have a summary.

Treasure each day you're alive.

No matter what our differences, I'm glad you're here
& that you care as much as I do.

The best way to stop a troll is to not take the bait.

Kingturtle (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · moves · rights)
Kingturtle (rights • renames • contribs) Although I don't participate in all Bureaucrat and RfA related discussions, I definitely read them all closely.
Kingturtle's Awards - Kingturtle's RfA !votes
I am Kingturtle on MetaWiki - I am Kingturtle on Uncyclopedia - my screenname is 亀王/kame Ō in Japanese.

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In my 6+ years with Wikipedia I have participated in many ways, but my gradual focus on maintenance and vandal-fighting led me away from the topics that brought me here in the first place: Afghanistan, baseball, birds, and event calendars (four things that appear disparate, but explain very much who I am). Now it is time for me to get back to article writing, and to get focused on one specific project, WikiProject Nonviolence. I need to do this for my own sanity and for the betterment of my self.

I have cut my watchlist from ~2900 to ~750. I will cease from copyediting and wikifying articles outside WikiProject Nonviolence (except for fixes on the articles that remain in my watchlist). I will no longer patrol the LGBT Watchlist, nor will I assist with the Article Rescue Squadron and the New Page Patrol. I will no longer update Wikipedia:Recent changes article requests or track down useful public domain images. I honestly enjoyed helping Wikipedia in these ways, but you can see how all of these tasks severely hampered my article writing. I have also de-activated my membership in the WikiProjects Afghanistan, Baseball, Birds, and Days of the Year; I wasn't exactly participating in them as a member should.

I will certainly continue to address vandals I encounter, and I will also continue with my responsibilities as a Bureaucrat, reading all Bureaucrat related pages, the Administrator Noticeboard, etc. and executing necessary Bureaucrat tasks. But my focus will be directed specifically on WikiProject Nonviolence. Kingturtle (talk) 00:04, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

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Although my first edit took place on November 26, 2002, I didn't really catch onto Wikipedia until the evening of February 27, 2003 while searching for information on the internet to fatten a lecture I was writing on prohibition for my U.S. History class (I was a high school teacher at the time; I am now getting my PhD in education). The discovery of Wikipedia matched love-at-first-sight. For years, I've been collecting old almanacs and encyclopedia. I bandied about different ideas regarding sharing and documenting the information revealed in these discarded sources, but Wikipedia was by far the best idea out there. To stumble on a thriving community devoted to sharing information gave me a tremendous thrill and a curious sense of relief. Thank heavens you're all out there!

In my first edit I changed Camel case to CamelCase. I became an admin 16:15 May 12, 2003 (UTC); at that point I had 3,944 edits and 75 days experience. I became a Bureaucrat February 28, 2004. Here is a summary of my all my edits and of my edit summary rates in my mainspace edits.

According to Political Compass, I belong to the economic left (-7.00) and am a social libertarian (-6.05). That puts me in good company with the Dalai Lama and Dennis Kucinich.

Contents 1 Quotes 2 Articles I've contributed to substantially 3 Articles I've started 3.1 Regarding Afghanistan 3.2 Regarding baseball, board games, and sports 3.3 Regarding birds and nature (and toxonomy-related topics) 3.4 Regarding health, psychology, math and science 3.5 Regarding history, government, business, geography, religion, scholarship and current events 3.6 Regarding Wikispace 3.7 Regarding entertainment 3.8 Regarding literature & books & art & architecture 3.9 Regarding the trivial 3.10 Regarding WikiBooks 3.11 Image I've scanned that are in use 3.12 Photos I have taken that are in use 3.13 Images I've scanned that are not in use 3.14 Images I've uploaded from other sources that are in use 3.15 Images I've uploaded from other sources that are not in use

[edit] Quotes

• "Develop your legitimate strangeness." - Rene Char
• "People think it's a cluster of junk. I see it as a cluster of possibilities. Each object gives a direction; each is a line picked up here and there - indeed, gleaned - and which become my paintings. The aim of art is to tidy up one's inner and exterior worlds." - Louis Pons discussing his paintings, but I think it applies to our work here at Wikipedia.
• "the revolution will not be televised. but it WILL be wikified." - Kingturtle
• "There is such a thing as a free lunch. You just have to offer it." - Kingturtle
• "I long to accomplish some great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble." - Helen Keller
• "Foreigners, because they never have enough words to express their ideas, often invent remarkable new modes of expression. Poets are all foreigners." - Denis Diderot
• "Me fail English? That's unpossible." - Ralph Wiggum
• "I'm not here for rage; I'm here for revenge!" - George Costanza
• "Maintaining one's own dignity hangs on maintaining the dignity of others." Kingturtle
• "Follow Jesus, not Christ." Kingturtle (talk) 05:27, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
• Pete Rose, Barry Bonds and Ty Cobb are the top three all-time leaders in Major League Baseball times on base. You heard it from me first. Kingturtle (talk) 23:55, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

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Through 21 April 2009 I have created 725+ articles and 1070+ redirects.

[edit] Articles I've contributed to substantially

• John William Yettaw

[edit] Articles I've started

[edit] Regarding Afghanistan

Timeline of Afghan history (and all the sub-links) - International Security Assistance Force - North Zone of Afghanistan - Taliban members - Afghan National Army - Badar - Orfeo Bartolini - Haji Bashar - BearingPoint - Benazir Bhutto - Dasht-i-Leili massacre - International Resources Group - Jaghalkani-i-Takhta Pul massacres - Displaced person - Abdullah Gan - Haji Gilani - Durand line - Viktor Karpukhin - Zalmay Khalilzad - Juma Khan - List of Afghan Transitional Administration personnel - Juma Mohammad Mohammadi - Zacarias Moussaoui - Ricardo Munguia - Operation Blessing International - Mohammed Qalamuddin - Mohammad Rabbani - Ahmed Ressam - Mullah Salam - Vice and Virtue Ministry - Albert Wohlstetter - Haji Mohammed Zaher - Ishaq Shahryar - Ali Ahmad Jalali - Yusuf Nooristani - Anwar ul-Haq Ahadi - Telephone Systems International - Afghan Wireless Communication Company - Heather Mercer - Sediq Afghan - Richard Green (soldier) - John Vines - Bacha Khan Zadran - Women's Edge - Afghan Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration Program - Hedayat Arsala - Syed Ishay Ghalani - Operation Haven Denial - Faryadi Sarwar Zardad - Operation Warrior Sweep - AINA (organization) - OMAR Mine Museum - Zabul Province - Gul Agha Sherzai - Operation Mountain Viper - Provincial reconstruction team - Camp Julien - Civil-Military Co-operation - Operation Avalanche (Afghanistan) - 2003 Loya jirga - Hezb-e Jomhorikhahan - Comprehensive Disabled Afghans Program - Operation Headstrong - 100 Classrooms program - Operation Mountain Resolve - Kuchis - Kabul Soccer Club - Kabul University - The Afghan Women - Abdul Ahad Mohmand - Muhammad Ismail Agha - Asadullah Abdul Rahman - Afghanistan Meteorological Authority - Kabul-Kandahar highway - Daikondi Province - Panjshir Province - Economic Cooperation Organization - Abdullah Shah - Sayed Nabi Siddiqui - William Umbach - Reza Khan (Taliban) - Afghan New Beginnings Programme - Brent Bennett - Jamal Naseer - Afghan Special Narcotics Force - Counter Narcotics Police of Afghanistan - Six-plus-two nations - Alfredo Witschi-Cestari - Mohammad Saleheen - Radio Shariat - Istalif - Norbert Holl - Growler (vehicle)

[edit] Regarding baseball, board games, and sports

Bill Buckner - List of lifetime home run leaders through history - Triple crown (baseball) - List of Major League Baseball players - List of highest paid baseball players - Rafael Palmeiro - Bobby Bonds - 30-30 club - List of Major League Baseball franchise post-season droughts - Major League Baseball titles streaks - Major League Baseball titles leaders - Hitting streak - Wahconah Park - Major League Baseball attendance records - Ray Chapman - Major League Baseball home run milestones - List of Major League Baseball principal owners - List of Major League Baseball stadiums - List of Major League Baseball retired numbers - Jack Beckley - List of most experienced baseball players never to play in a World Series - U.S. cities with teams from four major sports - Pete Franklin - List of National Football League franchise post-season droughts - List of NBA franchise post-season droughts - Jon Rauch - Yankee Clipper - Nelson Doubleday Jr. - List of Major League Baseball players suspended for performance-enhancing drugs - Beetle Cat - Rosie Bonds - George Sisler, Jr. - Johnny Berger - Doug Clarey - Astyanax Douglass - Valmy Thomas - Carl Spongberg - Bob Harris (baseball) - Armando Marsans - Rafael Almeida - Jake Gettman - Jeff Bronkey - Tillie Shafer - 1890 Rochester Broncos season - Big Jeff Pfeffer - John Fitzgerald (baseball) - Bob Miller (19th-century pitcher) - Leo Smith (baseball) - Dan Burke - Jim Field - Dave McKeough - Ted Scheffler - Marr Phillips - Major League Baseball All-Star Game venues - Runs produced - Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball/Team abbreviations - List of World Series starting pitchers - London Cabbie - Gnip Gnop - Template:Monthsbaseball - Pittsfield Electrics (Canadian-American League) - Multiple major sports championship seasons - List of most experienced baseball managers never to manage in a World Series

[edit] Regarding birds and nature (and toxonomy-related topics)

List of birds of Santa Cruz County, California - Pied-billed Grebe - Clark's Grebe - American White Pelican - Brown Pelican - Brandt's Cormorant - Double-crested Cormorant - Pelagic Cormorant - American Bittern - Mei (dinosaur) - GoldenPalace.com Monkey - Neltje Blanchan - Avian Brain Nomenclature Consortium - Huayna Picchu - Temple of the Moon - Lake Buel - Great pond - Common Shiner - Scirpus fluviatilis - Pontederia cordata - Carex stricta - Sparganium eurycarpum - Cirsium discolor - Spiraea latifolia - Geum laciniatum - Ranunculus longirostris - Macrophyte - Bosmina - Potamogeton amplifolius - Potamogeton illinoesis - Potamogeton robbinsii - Potamogeton praelongus - Abortive flower - John Noble Wilford

[edit] Regarding health, psychology, math and science

Spina bifida - Arnold-Chiari malformation - Hydrocephalus - Neural tube - Shunt (medical) - Paul Petard (botanist) - Comprehensive health insurance (Maine) - Temik - Rychard Bouwens - Isosorbide dinitrate/hydralazine - Aggregate data - Chained dollars - Decathexis - Chickenpox party - Flux transfer event - LEBU

[edit] Regarding history, government, business, geography, religion, scholarship and current events

Albert Wohlstetter - United States casualties of war - Wilfred Burchett - List of civil wars - Iraqi no-fly zones - Bernard Dowiyogo - Rick Santorum - Declaration of Windhoek - World Press Freedom Day - Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf - Securities and Exchange Commission appointees - James M. Landis - Charles Thomson - Transylvania (colony) - James Stockdale - UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador - Kim Phuc Phan Thi - Nathanael Greene - Aspasia - Servilius Casca - John Carver - Harriet Acland - Paul O'Neill - Gong Shengliang - Rafael E. Martinez - David Ahenakew - Billboard (advertising) - War Crimes Law (Belgium) - Iraqi dinar - Casey Jones - CARE (relief) - 10-in-1 food parcel - Irvin McDowell - Alain-René Lesage - Baghdad zoo - SAGEM Sperwer - Miantonomoh - List of United States Presidents by military rank - Operation Enduring Freedom - Philippines - Eurocorps - Hazel Carter - Anton Dostler - List of current monarchs - Nicaraguan Institute of Natural Resources and the Environment - List of United States Presidential assassination attempts - List of people granted honorary French citizenship during the French Revolution - United States Office of Economic Opportunity - Robert A. Lovett - Neil H. McElroy - Thomas S. Gates Jr. - James R. Schlesinger - Harold Brown (Secretary of Defense) - War Cabinet - Presidential Emergency Operations Center - Larry Thompson - Nuclear Risk Reduction Center - Office of Net Assessment - Andrew Marshall (foreign policy strategist) - Operation Orient Express - Diplomats and Military Commanders for Change - Emmet John Hughes - Harvey Matusow - Owen Lattimore - Deterrence theory - Panic of 1907 - Narodnaya Volya - Narodnaja Volya (newspaper) - Harry Fischel - George Opdyke - Abraham Cahan - Abraham Jacobi - Night letter - Salah Khalaf - Operation Red Dog - Beate Sturm - Dalal Mughrabi - Callixte Mbarushimana - Jobs created during U.S. presidential terms - Philadelphia Liberty Medal - List of United States presidential vetoes - Arab Islamic Republic - Herbert Porter - Central Asian Cooperation Organization - Robert Preston (private) - Victor Samuelson - Watergate Seven - Talon News - Curveball (informant) - Children's Environmental Exposure Research Study - Hippolyte Havel - Jennifer Wilbanks - Jerrie Mock - NICE Systems - WorldTeach - United States general elections, 2005 - UN Security Council Resolution 688 - List of UN Security Council Resolutions 1 to 100 (and the associated subpages with the assistance of User:IceKarma) - 1856 Republican National Convention - Michael Taylor - Denny Altes - Mark Rosenker - Clement Eaton - World Assembly of Youth - Michael Froman - Julius Genachowski - Donald Gips - Sonal Shah - Mark Gitenstein - Michael Strautmanis - Cassandra Butts - Melody Barnes - Dan Pfeiffer - Patrick Gaspard - Phil Schiliro - Thomas C. Reeves - Wisconsin Policy Research Institute - Hilary Michael Milko - George C. Mathews - 139th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment - Diablo Management Group - Center for Cultural Studies at UC Santa Cruz - Américo Paredes Center for Cultural Studies - List of places named for their units of production - I didn't start John William Yettaw, but I did a great deal of work on it - Sonam Lhundrup

[edit] Regarding Wikispace

Template:Merge - Template:WorldCoin - Template:News - Template:UNSCR - Template:Welcomebb - Template:Warningkt - {{User:Kingturtle/Red Hot Pawn|383918}} - Template:2008Demprimaries - Template:2008Repprimaries - Template:Geek-stub - Template:Monthsbaseball

[edit] Regarding entertainment

Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz (song) - Eightball (comic book) - List of historical novels - Cocksucker Blues - Ed Wynn - Jim Backus - Theda Bara - The Bugaloos - Bwana Devil - Jenny Lind - List of songs containing overt references to real musicians - List of band theme songs - List of songs about fictitious bands or musicians - Dirty Mac - The Hit Factory - Fania Marinoff - The Rebels (band) - Flower (band) - Maryline Blackburn - Esoteric Agenda

[edit] Regarding literature & books & art & architecture

John Louis DiGaetani - Oswald Achenbach - Washington Allston - Wilfrid Mellers - Jerome Ch'en - Thomas Bailey Aldrich - Pitts Sanborn - Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession - Louis Pons - Agegnehu Engida - Abecedarian hymn - Church of the Heavenly Rest - Orus Apollo - Traité des fardemens - Letter to King Henri II

[edit] Regarding the trivial

Three-letter vowel-less English word - Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx - Mutt and Jeff - Grant Wood - Eddie Arcaro - BVD - Baker Street Irregulars - Believe It Or Not - Jay Berwanger - Bizarro - Burma-Shave - List of people known as father or mother of something - Bob cut - Charles Atlas - Chattanooga Choo Choo - Colo (gorilla) - Countdown - List of notable occupants of the Watergate Hotel - List of fictional humanoid species - J. Reginald Murphy - George Willig - Darrell Winfield - Wingfoot Express - Van Nuys High School - Tinkerbelle - Skycycle X-2 - List of halls and walks of fame - Camp Half Moon - Elba (person)

[edit] Regarding WikiBooks

The World Series

[edit] Image I've scanned that are in use

DeSoto	Defoe	Corneille	L Alcott
Alcibiades	H Knox	Macaulay	Miltiades
Murillo	Nordenskjold	A Pope	Barbarossa
H Gates	O Goldsmith	Hippocrates	Addison
Bodo Otto

[edit] Photos I have taken that are in use

	MademoisellePogany.jpg	BirdInSpace.jpg	TheKiss1916.jpg

[edit] Images I've scanned that are not in use

Cooper	Bryant	N Green	Meyerbeer
Racine	Brutus	Aspasia	W Hogarth
EK Kane

[edit] Images I've uploaded from other sources that are in use

Thomas Jefferson	Jedgarh.jpe J. Edgar Hoover	FDR & LBJ	Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp
Queen Mary ship	Saipan-WW2.jpg American Memorial Park in Saipan	Marine Raiders	Chief Bender
Recruit training	SS Savannah	Daniel Burnham	Johann Heinrich Lambert
Innoko National Wildlife Refuge	Russian River (Alaska)	American Avocet	Lucretia Mott
William Allen (Congressman)	Hazel Carter	Earl Moore	Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia
Platt Adams	Alfredo de Oro	Pres. Taft @ game	USS Wyoming
Voisin brothers	USS Utah	Left Louie & Gyp the Blood	James Aloysius O'Gorman
Mine rescuer	1912 Red Sox	John Schrank	X-ray of TR
Smoky Joe Wood	Rochester parade	Rochester parade	Wilson inauguration preparations
The center of the U.S. population	De Wolfe Hopper	Ebbets Field opener	Mike Gibbons
Ernestine Rose

[edit] Images I've uploaded from other sources that are not in use

Grey Plover

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