About me
Hello world.
I'm a motorcycling nut and enjoy having OCPD and depression. I dropped out of school during the dot-com boom and worked at MP3.com, Amazon.com, and finally a miserable, confusing year at Big Fish Games. We downsized from our large Seattle home and moved into a tiny Downtown Portland apartment, attended school at PSU, and I got my degree in Computer Science. We moved to Koreatown in Los Angeles, and I worked for Demand Media.
Interests
I'm a fan of Adam Carolla and the shows he's done over the years, as well as the umbrella of related individuals: Teresa Strasser, Dr. Drew Pinsky and Loveline, Jeffrey Ross, David Alan Grier, Joel McHale and The Soup, etc.
Since getting involved with Wikipedia:WikiProject Oregon, I have taken on a couple of tasks that were needing a not-owner: mainly, fulfilling requests for photos in Oregon and creating/expanding every high school article in Oregon with sources and infoboxes. I've never attended a primary/secondary school in Oregon, nor do I have children, but that hasn't stopped me from learning and contributing as I can.
Good times!
Meta
Policy pointers
Semi-amusing comments about me follow. You can get on this list, just keep a few things in mind:
And the comments:
- "Fascist admin deleting all relevent information."
- "(...) to satisfy your ego? Seriously, what is someone from Seattle who is an Athiest doing on a Canadian catholic highschool page? Troll!(angreh that catholics beat a recard arent you, you poor wittle athiest?)" (later) "And I still think his motivation for what he did was based on his hatred of catholics/christians (...) and mods will always side with the person whose been here for the longest. Meh."
- "F-U Tedder!"
- "Hey, Fuck You Too! And Get a Life (..) Asscheese"
- "Tedder, who are you to judge the events (at my high school...) Stop being a creeper and just edit the stuff in your state."
- "YER A MAGGOT" (page blanking)
- "Tedder you've got to be s-hitting me!!! STOP F-UCKING WATCHING MY F-UCKING TALK PAGE, J-ERKOFF!!! GO BACK TO WATCHING Mr. HANDS!!!" (blocked user page)
- I'm a gay sex nut, enjoy having unwarrented self importance and emo (..)
- Fuck off tedder. You are part of the problem, and not part of the solution. The sooner we get rid of fucking asshole admins like you, the better wikipedia will be. (Tedder's current award-winner for best attack/rant ever)
- I'm a ball and nut kinda person and enjoy slipping a cheeky little cock up my bum,
- Who has the substantial authoritative support here, Teddy-Poo? A real biker corroborated by Google search results? Or a geek poser with delete privileges? (...) I don't expect you to embarrass yourself and Wikipedia further by leaving this definition on line for very long, geek boy.
- Pedantic souls such as yourself who secretly wish to rule the world but can only find power in the confines of a public wiki are a nothing but little Hitlers.
Weird accusations
Awards and contributions
Lurkers: Please feel free to clean this up. It looks weird.
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The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar |
| Thanks for patrolling the 'pedia. Keep up the good work! Eustress (talk) 19:52, 17 February 2009 (UTC) |
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The COTW award from WPOR. |
Thanks for leading the way in last week's Collaboration of the Week!
For all the pictures added over the last few weeks. Aboutmovies (talk) 07:35, 6 June 2009 (UTC) |
WP:RFA maximum concurrent candidates, per month
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The Working Man's Barnstar |
| Awesome job on Oregon's high schools! LittleMountain5 20:53, 3 July 2009 (UTC) |
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The Anti-Spam Barnstar |
| For beating me to all those spamlinks, you deserve this. -- Oldlaptop321 (talk · contribs) 22:57, 8 July 2009 (UTC) |
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This user has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian and was awarded their own day. |
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The Working Man's Barnstar |
| I've seen your hard work. You seem to be popping up everywhere. Don't think it goes unnoticed or unwelcomed, it's most welcome. You're doing a great job. :) Steve Crossin The clock is ticking.... 06:52, 20 September 2009 (UTC) |
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The Photographer's Barnstar |
| This Photographer's Barnstar is for all your pics on your WikiPhotoRide. Great job, and good to hear you didn't have another accident. Aboutmovies (talk) 08:49, 12 October 2009 (UTC) |
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The Working Man'sBarnstar |
| I've seen your hard work at making wikipedia a better place and it inspires others to keep going and reminds us what we do here matters. Thanks for getting involved on all levels. IlliniGradResearch (talk) 21:38, 1 December 2009 (UTC) |
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The Admin's Barnstar |
| For your regular hard work at RPP, which is a personal boon to me! GedUK 09:53, 15 December 2009 (UTC) |
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The COTW award from WPOR. |
Thanks for leading the way in last week's Collaboration of the Week!
Aboutmovies (talk) 09:42, 30 January 2010 (UTC) |
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The da Vinci Barnstar |
| Awarded for your work on TedderBot. WikiProject Oregon thanks you! Steven Walling 20:54, 1 February 2010 (UTC) |
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WPOR Award: Sponsored in part by the Big Gold Dude. |
You are hereby granted this shiny object for all your hard work at WikiProject Oregon!
For all your work on the high schools and getting pics for many of them. Peace out. Aboutmovies (talk) 20:25, 25 March 2010 (UTC) |
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The Schools Barnstar |
| I think this is incredibly overdue... Kudpung (talk) 05:16, 12 January 2011 (UTC) |
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Bot operator's barnstar |
| For resuming the highly useful New Article Reports. — HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 19:02, 16 August 2011 (UTC) |
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The Barnstar of Diplomacy |
| Tedder is hereby bestowed the Barnstar of Diplomacy for his measured contribution to the dispute of November 2011 involving Chris Hardwick's Nerdist Podcast page. Tedder's contribution to the dispute discussion exceeded the confines of Wikipedia. Following Tedder's mediation efforts he went on to admirably serve as an ambassador for Wikipedia, participating in a substantive conversation on Chris Hardwick's Nerdist Podcast regarding the dispute which brought positive attention to Wikipedia, the philosophies of its editors, and its oft-unseen processes. LeonidasSpartan (talk) 16:37, 22 November 2011 (UTC) |
DYKs and page improvements
- Clatskanie Middle/High School, May 2009 (504 hits)
- Oregon Connections Academy, September 2009 (1400 hits)
- Weatherly Building, December 2009 (1200 hits)
- Team Oregon, December 2009 (1000 hits)
- Redmond Caves, December 2009 (1400 hits)
- Jody Trautwein, December 2009 (3300 hits)
- Lincoln Hall (Portland, Oregon), January 2010 (1300 hits)
- Pine Grove, Hood River County, Oregon, January 2010 (1200 hits)
- Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, January 2010 (1100 hits)
- Deseret Manufacturing Company, January 2010 (1700 hits)
- Henry Arthur Benning, February 2010 (517 hits)
- Amalgamated Sugar Company, February 2010 (1900 hits)
- Director Park
, February 2010 (GA June 2011)
- Oregon Field Guide, March 2010 (323 hits)
- South Park Blocks, March 2010 (1400 hits)
- Tanner Springs Park, March 2010 (1200 hits)
- Admiral Apartments, March 2010 (7400 hits!)
- Alkali Lake Chemical Waste Dump, March 2010 (5200 hits)
- Keller Fountain Park , March 2010 (1200 hits)
- Jacob Kamm House, March 2010 (3000 hits)
- Jacob Kamm, April 2010
- South Park Blocks , April 2010
- Spruce Production Division, December 2010 (3300 hits)
- THUMS Islands, February 2011 (5300 hits)
- Los Angeles fetus disposal scandal, June 2011 (4400 hits)
Articles created
Code
Convert requested photos from KML to Garmin Mapsource:
wget --output-document=/tmp/wiki.kml \
'http://toolserver.org/~para/cgi-bin/kmlexport?article=\
Category:%20Wikipedia_requested_photographs_in_Oregon&l=0'\
&& gpsbabel -i kml -f /tmp/wiki. kml -o gdb -F \
wikipedia-requested-photos-oregon.gdb\
&& echo "saved to wikipedia-requested-photos-oregon.gdb"
(Poor formatting to make it not break my entire page)
Cut/paste code
AFD: '''Note: this is not my AFD, I'm [[WP:AGF|good-faith]] submitting it for the IP who wanted it.''' Alumni: not notable by Wikipedia's standards: [[WP:BIO]], see also [[WP:WTAF]]
FAQ
Pointers to things.
General
COI
TODO
My todo list:
- cleanup: DataDirect Ultra Music Festival, Abraham Busset, MDU Resources Group, Inc., Mercury_Rev, Kettering University#Notable alumni, List of Kettering University people, Catholic Memorial High School (Waukesha, Wisconsin), Sheldon High School (Eugene, Oregon), Azbuka Academy (PDX? Columbia City?)
- notability followup: Ape Machine (album) This House Has Been Condemned (AFD for band late april 2010)
- write: William Henry Grier, news amzn, "lives in encinitas" (ACP 3/3/09), Colin Ferguson (convict) used black rage defense, Talk:Armadillo Technical Institute refs to article, make all redlinks be redirs to Oregon schools, Genevieve Bell (gsearch, gnews, gnews2 doctorate in anthropology at Stanford University.<ref>{{cite news|title=ALASKA NATIVE LED WAY TO BIG TIME SPORTS|last=Carey|first=Michael|date=12-30-1997|work=[[Anchorage Daily News]]|accessdate=2009-09-30}}</ref>, research hint: "Genevieve Bell NARA database Record Group 75, File 1327 National Archives."), Oregon Hatchery Research Center, news web
- Portland Bottling Company Iconic Portland sign changes brands: What was 7-Up is now Guayaki, Helen Jung, 20100224, gnews, gbooks, NRHP listing: "The Portland Bottling Company Building, with its curved windows, rounded corners, and smooth surface is a particularly fine example." per Rosalind Clark, "Oregon Style, Architecture from 1840 to the 1950's" (Portland, OR: Professional Book Center, Inc. by the City of Albany,1983), pg195?
- photos waiting for a primary article:
- de usurpation followup
- Photos I want to take:
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, February 2010 (GA June 2011)
