User:Lineagegeek

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This user has been editing Wikipedia for at least ten years.
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Apparently, also known as بحث کاربر and 刷新缓存。 or 利用者

This editor is a
Grandmaster Editor
and is entitled to display this
Lapis Philosophorum Editor Star
with the
Neutronium Superstar.
Coordinator of the Military History Project, September 2016 – September 2017

General[edit]

Today is 23 April 2024
This user is of Irish ancestry.
This user prefers using userboxes to fill up his user page instead of actually writing something useful.
OSHThis user has made the pilgrimage to the EAA AirVenture Oshkosh
This user has been editing Wikipedia for more than ten years.

Expertise[edit]

Organizational history of United States Air Force and predecessors:

Experience[edit]

  • more than 20 years of active service with US Air Force
  • Served at headquarters of two Major Air Commands in the plans function
  • Approved unit histories as squadron commander
  • Served as squadron historical officer

Memberships[edit]

Goal[edit]

That no United States Air Force unit's Wikipedia article will ever say it was deactivated. And don't think you can avoid me with de-activated, Dea-ctivated might be overlooked, though.

Wiki Editing

Wiki Editing[edit]


49,000+
This user has made over 126,000 edits on Wikimedia Commons.
2033This user is ranked 2033 on the list of Wikipedians by number of edits.
Quality, not quantity.This user believes that a user's edit count does not necessarily reflect on the value of their contributions to Wikipedia.
This editor is a Grand High Togneme Vicarus and is entitled to write the Book of All Knowledge: 2nd Edition.
This user reserves the right to completely screw up his own edits.
MistEYkThis user does not always see his grammar mistakes. It would be nice of you to correct them.
This user is a member of
the Guild of Copy Editors.
This user uses HotCat.
This editor is a WikiGnome.
This user has taken and uploaded images to Wikipedia and Commons.


#REDIRECTThis user creates useful redirects.
<ref>This user would like to see everyone using inline citations. Please...
+ This user adds interwiki links to articles.
This user believes that adding relevant links is never a bad thing.
WTF?This user ALWAYS TRIES to leave an edit summary
Noah WebsterThis user honors Noah Webster
for saving the English language
from the Saxon hordes.
less & fewerThis user understands the difference between less & fewer.
’sThi's user know's that not every word that end's with s need's an apostrophe and will remove misused apostrophe's from Wikipedia with extreme prejudice.
to¦goThis user chooses to sometimes use split infinitives.
…in.Ending a sentence with a preposition is something that this user is okay with.
y'allThis user thinks y'all serves a useful purpose as a second-person plural pronoun, and would like to see y'all use it more often.
Latin Plurals: "Insignia is are..." This user uses "insignia" as the plural of "insigne".
This user has rollback rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify)


Wiki Articles

Wiki Articles[edit]

As of 14 September 2021, Wiki says I have created 3428 articles. However, most are redirects and some are disambiguation pages, and others are really moves of articles to new names. Articles created (83) as of September 2022 (all about United States Air Force organizations -- a couple were built on redirects to entirely different organizations):

Commands

Army Air Forces Antisubmarine Command I Bomber Command

Wings

11th Fighter Wing 64th Flying Training Wing 90th Missile Wing 106th Fighter-Interceptor Wing 322d Tactical Airlift Wing 4620th Air Defense Wing South Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command

Groups

1st Expeditionary Rescue Group 1st Ferrying Group 2nd Aircraft Delivery Group 3rd Ferrying Group 4th Ferrying Group 6th Ferrying Group 32d Air Expeditionary Group 65th Military Airlift Support Group 116th Operations Group 117th Operations Group 131st Operations Group 133d Operations Group 136th Operations Group 137th Operations Group 140th Operations Group 317th Operations Group 323d Expeditionary Operations Group 329th Armament Systems Group 330th Aircraft Sustainment Group 337th Aeronautical Systems Group 408th Armament Systems Group 427th Aircraft Sustainment Group 438th Air Expeditionary Group 443d Operations Group 459th Operations Group 463d Operations Group 464th Troop Carrier Group 516th Aeronautical Systems Group 545th Test Group 582d Helicopter Group 738th Air Expeditionary Advisory Group

Squadrons

12th Aeromedical Airlift Squadron 13th Aeromedical Airlift Squadron 55th Aeromedical Airlift Squadron

910th Air Refueling Squadron 914th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron 928th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron

58th Air Transport Squadron

10th Airborne Command and Control Squadron

345th Airlift Squadron

51st Bombardment Squadron (Light) 385th Bombardment Squadron

26th Expeditionary Rescue Squadron

705th Combat Training Squadron

5th Helicopter Squadron (redirect to newly created article) 72nd Helicopter Squadron

10th Fighter Squadron, Commando (redirect to newly created article) 315th Fighter Squadron 450th Fighter Squadron 544th Fighter Squadron 545th Fighter Squadron

459th Flying Training Squadron

27th Intelligence Squadron 30th Intelligence Squadron

5th Liaison Squadron 10th Liaison Squadron (redirect to newly created article) 72d Liaison Squadron (redirect to newly created article) 158th Liaison Squadron

5th Observation Squadron (redirect to newly created article)

2d Reconnaissance Squadron 7th Reconnaissance Squadron 14th Reconnaissance Squadron 26th Reconnaissance Squadron 29th Reconnaissance Squadron 33d Reconnaissance Squadron 35th Reconnaissance Squadron 36th Reconnaissance Squadron

24th Tactical Air Support Squadron

346th Tactical Airlift Squadron 347th Tactical Airlift Squadron 348th Tactical Airlift Squadron 536th Tactical Airlift Squadron

43d Tactical Missile Squadron

471st Tactical Electronic Warfare Training Squadron

10th Transport Squadron (redirect to newly created article)

3d Troop Carrier Squadron 30th Troop Carrier Squadron 31st Troop Carrier Squadron 320th Troop Carrier Squadron 330th Troop Carrier Squadron

Flights

55th Airlift Flight 923d Expeditionary Air Refueling Flight

  • Rescues

A number of USAF articles have been deleted or tagged for deletion due to WP:COPYVIO. I've rescued or restored the following articles by rewriting them.

4th Fighter Wing 56th Fighter Wing 63d Air Expeditionary Wing 66th Air Base Wing 71st Flying Training Wing 96th Test Wing

My usual goal for USAF articles is to get existing articles to B level. I did manage to get a Good Article rating for: 563d Rescue Group

Education

Education[edit]

UF  This user is a Gator.
UMThis user attends or attended the University of Miami.
ΦKΦ This user is a member of the
Phi Kappa Phi honor society.
ΠKAThis user is a member of the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity.
Barnstars

Barnstars[edit]

The Hats Off Barnstar
I hereby bestow this Hats off Barnstar to User:Lineagegeek for his outstanding and extensive participation in the Jorge Otero Barreto discussion. Your civility in the discussion is greatly appreciated. My hats off to you Lineagegeek. Tony the Marine (talk) 18:36, 7 September 2012 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar
For your, er, rescue of the 57th Rescue Squadron!! Now we know where it came from, and that it's not the 56th!! Buckshot06 (talk) 21:02, 2 May 2015 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar
For your sterling work on Draft:1st Expeditionary Rescue Group. Buckshot06 (talk) 12:14, 20 August 2016 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar
For improvements to the 303d Air Expeditionary Group - is it just a paper unit right now? Buckshot06 (talk) 23:58, 12 December 2015 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar
For all your hard work on WP, but presently, specifically, 35th Fighter Squadron.. Buckshot06 (talk) 00:39, 15 February 2018 (UTC)
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
By order of the Military history WikiProject coordinators, for your contributions to the WikiProject's June 2013 backlog reduction drive, I hereby award you this Military history WikiProject award. Anotherclown (talk) 12:58, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
I hereby award you this as a token of the project’s appreciation for your contributions during the October 2015 Military history project backlog drive. AustralianRupert (talk) 11:35, 1 December 2015 (UTC)


The Writer's Barnstar
For placing second in the April 2014 Military History Article Writing Contest with 43 points from nine entries, I am delighted to present you with The Writer's Barnstar. Well done! Cheers, Peacemaker67 (send... over) 05:56, 2 May 2014 (UTC)


The Writer's Barnstar
For placing second in the June 2014 Military history WikiProject contest with 24 points from five entries, I am delighted to present you with The Writer's Barnstar. Well done! Cheers, Peacemaker67 (send... over) 04:13, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
The Writer's Barnstar
On behalf of the Milhist Coordinators, I hereby award you the Writer's Barnstar, for placing second in the October 2015 Milhist article writing contest, with 25 points from seven articles. Cheers, Peacemaker67 (crack... thump) 07:22, 11 November 2015 (UTC)


The Editor's Barnstar
Thanks for your participation in April 2014 Wikiproject Wikify drive and your merger contributions. All of your efforts are appreciated. Skr15081997 (talk) 15:39, 3 May 2014 (UTC)
The Editor's Barnstar
Thanks for the minor edit on the AFCENT page. jacob abrahamson (talk) 00:24, 12 May 2014 (UTC)
The WikiChevrons
I hereby present you with the Military history WikiProject WikiChevrons for your outstanding contributions to Wing, Group and Squadron articles of the United States Air Force. Thank you for all your hard work and dedication to improving these articles. —  dainomite   06:25, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
The WikiChevrons
On behalf of the Wikiproject Military History coordinators, I hereby award you the Wikichevrons for placing first in the September 2015 Milhist article writing contest with 36 points from ten articles. Congratulations! Peacemaker67 (crack... thump) 01:34, 3 October 2015 (UTC)
The WikiChevrons
By order of the Military history WikiProject coordinators, for scoring 762 points during the February–March 2014 backlog drive, I hereby award you these Chevrons. AustralianRupert (talk) 11:13, 22 March 2014 (UTC)
Three Stripes
By order of the Military history WikiProject coordinators, for your contributions to the WikiProject's September–October 2014 backlog reduction drive, I hereby award you this Military history WikiProject award. Peacemaker67 (crack... thump) 05:40, 22 October 2014 (UTC)
Military history reviewers' award
For completing 1 review during October–December 2014, on behalf of the Wikiproject Military History coordinators, I hereby award you the Military history reviewers' award. Cheers, Peacemaker67 (crack... thump) 23:29, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
Military history reviewers' award
On behalf of the Milhist coordinators, you are hereby awarded the WikiChevrons for reviewing a total of 1 Milhist articles at PR, GAN, ACR or FAC during the period October to December 2016. Your ongoing efforts to support Wikipedia's quality content processes are greatly appreciated. Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) 04:22, 7 January 2017 (UTC)

Keep track of upcoming reviews. Just copy and paste {{WPMILHIST Review alerts}} to your user space

Military history service award
On behalf of the WikiProject Military history coordinators, I hereby award you this for your contribution of 1 FA, A-Class, Peer and/or GA reviews during the period October to December 2015. Thank you for your efforts! AustralianRupert (talk) 02:45, 9 January 2016 (UTC)
Military history service award
For your efforts during March Madness 2017, You are hereby awarded this barnstar. Thank you for your contributions. Cheers. Catlemur (talk) 07:41, 2 April 2017 (UTC)
The WikiProject Wikify Trophy
For scoring 1st place on the leaderboard during the 2014 Wikification Drive, Lineagegeek, you are hereby awarded the WikiProject Wikify Trophy. Congratulations!
The WikiProject Wikify Trophy
For scoring 1st place on the leaderboard during the October 2014 Wikification Drive, Lineagegeek, you are hereby awarded the WikiProject Wikify Trophy! Congratulations!!!
The WikiProject Wikify Trophy
For scoring 1st place on the leaderboard during the December 2014 Wikification drive, you are hereby awarded the WikiProject Wikify Trophy. Congratulations!
The WikiProject Wikify Trophy
For scoring #1 on the leaderboard during the February 2015 Wikification drive, you are hereby awarded the WikiProject Wikify Trophy! Congratulations!
The Greater Working Wikifier's Barnstar
For scoring 4th place on the leaderboard during the April 2014 wikification drive, Lineagegeek, you are hereby presented with the Greater Working Wikifier's Barnstar. Congratulations!
The Greater Working Wikifier's Barnstar
For scoring 3rd place on the leaderboard during the 2015 Wikification Backlog drive, you are hereby awarded the Greater Working Wikifier's Barnstar! Congratulations!
The Working Wikifier's Barnstar
For scoring #6 on the leaderboard during the December 2013 wikification backlog drive, Lineagegeek (tied with Prof. Squirrel), you are hereby awarded the Working Wikifier's Barnstar. Congratulations!
The Gold Wikification Barnstar
For wikifying 96 pages, you are also awarded the Gold Wikification Barnstar. Keep up the good work! :)
The Gold Wikification Barnstar
For wikifying a total of 105 articles, you are also awarded the Gold Wikification Barnstar. Keep up the good work!!!
The Bronze Wikification Barnstar
For wikifying a total of 33 articles, you are also awarded the Bronze Wikification Barnstar. Keep up the good work! :)
The Bronze Wikification Barnstar
For wikifying 30 articles, you are also awarded the Bronze Wikification Barnstar. Keep up the good work! :)
The Iron Wikification Barnstar
For wikifying 27 articles, you are also awarded the Iron Wikification barnstar. Keep up the good work!!!
The Iron Wikification Barnstar
For wikifying a total of 23 pages, you are also awarded the Iron Wikification Barnstar. Keep up the good work!
The Iron Wikification Barnstar
For wikifying a total of 22 articles, you are also awarded the Iron Wikification Barnstar. Keep up the good work!!! :)
The Iron Wikification Barnstar
For wikifying 19 articles, you are also awarded the Iron Wikification Barnstar. Keep up the good work!
The Teamwork Barnstar
This Teamwork Barnstar is awarded jointly and severally to every member of the Military History Project in recognition of a year of low drama, high activity building of an encyclopaedia. Collegiately you have made the project space a comfortable place to work in such a natural, even graceful, way that what you have achieved seems normal. Which it is not. You have collectively built it by the sweat of your keyboards and the maturity of your inputs. I, for one, intend to revel in it. Thank you. Wear this barn star with pride. Gog the Mild (talk) 17:16, 1 January 2019 (UTC)
Travel

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Countries I have been in that are no longer countries[edit]

Countries I have only flown over as pilot[edit]

Military

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This user is a member of
WikiProject Military history.
This user is a Vietnam Veteran.
This user has flown above the speed of sound in a high performance military aircraft.
This user has flown in combat.
This Wikipedian was a member of the United States Air Force.
This user is a licensed tower controller.