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Freedom of expression does not truly exist if the right can be exercised only in an area that a benevolent government has provided as a safe haven for crackpots. - Abe Fortas 393 U.S. 503 (1969) |
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Tony The Tiger interpretation: Freedom of expression does not exist unless freedom of expression is protected when and where the audience exists.
Recently listed good articles: "Yes/No" — Battle of Beaufort — SMS Mainz — Granderson, Curtis — Urinary tract infection — Nicola, Lewis — "Novacane" (song) — California State Route 149 — Delaware Route 41 — Labyrinth — Traveling Salesmen" — "The Return" (The Office) — Grand Palace — 7 Independent Company (Rhodesia) — Hyderabad, India
The oldest unreviewed good article nominations are: Jabari Parker • Michel Aflaq • Hispania F110 • Chinese Indonesians • Timeline of the 2011 Egyptian revolution under Hosni Mubarak's rule
Articles currently listed for Good article community reassessment: The Muppets' Wizard of Oz • Consolation of Philosophy • Boron • Martin Luther •
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I am a Wikipedia:Online Ambassador. I serve as the WP:CHICAGO director and the Chicago representative to the Wikimedians Active in Local Regions of the United States (WALRUS) committee. I also oversee both WP:FOUR and WP:WAWARDS. On August 27, 2011, I had been scheduled to speak as a wikipedian at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in conjunction with the August 28 Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial dedication ceremonies. but due to Hurricane Irene the weekend events were postponed and my portion of the event was eventually cancelled. On August 24, 2011, I was the first Wikipedian recognized for having achieved 100 WP:DYKs, 100 WP:GAs and 100 WP:FC, a feat known as the The Marco Polo Centurion triple crown. Since the award had been seemingly unachievable, it was previously named the Ultimate Triple Crown with an explanation that the winner "eats Jimbo Wales for lunch and takes over Wikipedia". Now the 250 level (the new unachievable level of the WP:CROWN award) is called the Ultimate Triple Crown. On May 2, 2010, I became the first recipient of wikipedia's WP:GOLDENW award, which recognizes achieving the wikipedia editorial pentathalon. On June 4, 2011, I became the fourth wikipedian to achieve the Golden WP:STEEPLEchase. I held the lead with the most WP:FOUR awards from April 14, 2009 until May 9, 2010. There have been 16,161,507 registered users of wikipedia of which about 90,000 are regular contributors. In July 2011, I moved in, out and back in to the top 40 wikipedians in terms of most edits, which led to a celebration or two. I competed in the 2010 WikiCup, which is the Wikipedia world championships of encyclopedic content creation, where I advanced to the final round of eight competitors (note that you can see my round by round contributions by clicking here). I placed second although two people had higher point totals. One of those withdrew before the contest ended. I finished second when the judges ruled it O.K. for a project to set up a review system that enabled all of Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history's participants in its drive to review one participant's work. My work had a 6-10 week queue for reviews while the winner had about a 3 day queue for all his work. Thus, I could not accumulate points for my work at the end, which made it fruitless to produce work in the final month. admittedly, however, during the competition I participated in far fewer reviews than I put into the system, which may have driven the judges to make what seems to me to have been such an unfair ruling. Note that one of the primary judges is also a member of the Military History project. As a result of what I view as idiotic, biased judging I regard myself as the Armando Galarraga of wikipedia, which I guess means that there is both a Jim Joyce and Jason Donald of wikipedia.
You may note that both WP:FS and WP:VPICS have been turned inactive after I promoted a bunch of media through both processes. Is this a coincidence? I hope so or else WP:GA is in danger.
To the best of my knowledge, I am English Wikipedia's most prolific reviewed-class (WP:FA, WP:FL, WP:GA) encyclopedic content contributor in terms of total number of reviewed articles for which I was a significant contributor. I do believe others may have contributed more quality encyclopedic content than myself. For example, someone such as User:Cbl62 who is a prolific producer WP:DYKs may have contributed more quality encyclopedic content without having it reviewed. I am also under the impression that this claim may be short lived. My WikiCup 2010 rival, User:Sturmvogel 66, will soon surpass me in current GAs, then career GAs and eventually in total reviewed class contributions. Nonetheless, for a generalist contributor to a wide variety of topics on wikipedia (Sturmvogel is almost all WP:MILHIST), my contributions are significant. You may want to assess my involvement in these pages using this tool. I seem to have become a footnote in the sports world now that I have been blasted as a University of Michigan-crazed superuser on the March 29, 2010 Slate podcast (Hang Up and Listen: The Fight at TGI Friday's Edition, starting at 39:10) by Josh Levin. On August 10, 2011, the Chicago Branch of The A.V. Club said of me: "If knowledge is power, then this guy is a veritable nuclear plant." You should notice that I am a major editorial contributor to each claimed GA. However, since I have mostly good articles I am far down the lists at WP:WBFAN and WP:WBFLN. This is largely my own fault. Generally, when choosing between allocating my time between an article that is extremely deficient in (if not devoid of) encyclopedic content and an article rich in encyclopedic content in need of stylistic refinements, I choose to contribute my time to the former. In fact, in addition to the nine WP:FOUR awards I have earned, I have taken 132 articles from being non-existent through the WP:DYK process and then to GA status. Here is my overall Article review record. This is how I have allocated my wikipedia editing time during my last 45,000 edits. One knock against my penchant for creating articles is that I have not had much impact on raising the quality of the 10,000 most vital articles. It is now possible to see daily page view statistics for wikipedia pages. In the cases of the more recent WP:DYK nominations, you can determine how many page views and article received while it was linked to the main page by checking its discussion page to see the DYK date and using this page view tool.
Among the articles I have taken to WP:GA level are nine articles which I created because I found they were notable subjects whose articles had previously been deleted (John W. Rogers, Jr., Manny Harris, Nate Parker, PokerTracker, Toni Preckwinkle, Brandon Minor, Obi Ezeh, Kevin Lowe and Tory Burch), and three of which have survived a WP:AFD challenges after my initial page creation (Thomas Wilcher, Louie Caporusso and María del Luján Telpuk). I have also been largely responsible for raising the following articles to GA-Class as a major editor: Chicago Race Riot of 1919, which had been restored through WP:DRV after deletion before my involvement, E'Twaun Moore, Tate Forcier and Brandon Graham which had been speedily deleted but recreated before my involvement and Justine Ezarik and Jennifer Brunner, both of which had been recreated after multiple deletions before my involvement. I also re-created the twice-deleted {{Ben Affleck}} and the deleted {{Tom Hanks}}. I serve as an ambassador and the articles that have been improved under my mentorship are Chartered Financial Analyst and Rights-based approach to development.
Since the conclusion of the CUP, I have been focusing on writing and creating a television show. I have essentially discontinued creating WP:GA, WP:FA and WP:FL content and have been focusing my time on writing material that may help pay the rent. I am still trying to get some of my articles through the WP:GAC process. I still try to watch all of the articles that I have created and will be continuing to monitor WP:CHIAA as I am able. At a time when 5 of the top ten shows on television are crime dramas and four are reality television elimination competition shows (see 2010–11 United States network television schedule), I have developed a spec script for each genre with one being a combination of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and 24 and the other being a combination of American Idol and The Bachelor. Tony continues to seek an agent.
Apologies to Jason Avant, Jason Garrett, Derrick Rose, Ryan Mallett, Burnham Plan, Chicago Stadium and many of the world's beautiful women, but my GA production days are winding down. My first GA was Campbell's Soup Cans, which also became my first FA. My 250th GA was Justin Boren. My last flurry of GA nominations occurred during the 2011 March Madness when both of the teams that I root for made the NCAA tournament for only the fourth time (first since 1998) since I have rooted for both, I don't expect to nominate more than an occasional one here and there if they are little work but not any GA efforts like Jack Kemp, Juwan Howard or Byron Brown that required hundreds of citations. My first FL was National Recording Registry (which evolved from my first edit on WP) and my first DYK was Rob Pelinka and my 500th was John Grisham's 25th novel, The Litigators on the day it was released. Of course, if either of my spec scripts is successful, I may come out of retirement to produce some GAs. I also apologize to Arthur Eve (probably my oldest WP:FOUR - eligible GA) who would probably be the next FA attempt although, I may help Ruhrfisch fix up Lurie Garden in hopes of a 20th FA. I have already helped it climb from GA level toward FA level and think it may get there with his editorial assistance, which he has lent to several other Millennium Park FAs. While talking about the FA-horizon, I should mention my biggest FA failures. The following are articles that I have nominated multiple times at WP:FAC without success: 2008–09 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team, Bob Chappuis, Michelle Obama, Jack Kemp and Juwan Howard.
I have begun attempting to create WP:FSs in order to pursue the WP:PLATINUMW before all the audiofiles have picked all the low hanging fruit. Upon learning how to create .ogg filetypes, it became clear that the landscape was fertile for me to help WP:SONGS add WP:SAMPLEs to their articles. I noticed that although about 5000 sample files had been created, many of the most popular and most critically-acclaimed songs had been overlooked. I have been able to help out by creating samples for twenty Grammy Award for Song of the Year winners and twenty-six Grammy Award for Record of the Year winners. Of the Billboard Year-End #1 songs from the Billboard Hot 100, I have produced 13 samples (including the All-time #1 best-seller "Candle in the Wind 1997"), from the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs I have produced 22 year-end #1s (including the #1 All-time best chart-performer, "Be Without You"), and from the Hot Country Songs, I have 2 year-end #1s. While doing all this work, I noticed that musicians were bereft of templates and created several types of templates for Golden Globe, Oscars, Grammy, UK sales and Billboard success and began creating an article for the only modern Record of the Year without an article, Here We Go Again (Ray Charles song). Unfortunately, three songs that I attempted to contribute samples to had no articles ("International Lover", "Numbers" and "What People Do For Money"). As my mantle blossoms with featured sounds, you may wonder why I only have one featured picture. It is because I was not willling to buy a good enough camera to get a lot of them.
[edit] Tigers on my userpage (feel free to add "free use" tiger)
If you appreciate my work above leave a tiger below. If you have trouble finding one that you don't see below go to http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tiger and click on any of the subspecies to see more |Images.
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APK 03:43, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
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Geaux Tigers! User:Dank 18:29, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
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In "Sansindo" (Painting of a Sansin, mountain deity), a shamanistic picture of Korea. Caspian blue 21:52, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
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Tiger and magpie, a minhwa (Korean folk painting) Caspian blue 21:55, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
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TonyTheTiger helping a "newbie" find his way. User:Buster7 7 January 2010 (UTC)
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TonyTheTiger conversing with a vandal. User:Buster7 9 June 2010 (UTC)
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Yourrr'e grrrreat! He looks like you even. Bearian ( talk) 16:17, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
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Tiger in the water Buster7 11:05, 09 Nov 2011 "
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I uploaded this one and the meanies at FP rejected it. TCO 16:59, 23 November 2011
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I have assumed the Manager/Director duties of the Chicago WikiProject as well as the Coordinator duties for the Assessment department of the project. Below are current statistics for the project, and here is a project log. Follow the bot tagging for WP:WPChi here. In April 2007, before Elkman helped us set up {{ChicagoWikiProject}}, SatyrTN helped us add this tag with his bot to articles and Speciate donated inordinate amounts of time parameterizing the template on talk page after talk page our project looked like this. Here is a sumary of the current state of the project. After SatyrTN retired, StepShep and Xeno ran bots that tagged articles for the project.
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Low |
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Total |
FA |
2 |
3 |
18 |
34 |
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2 |
59 |
FL |
1 |
4 |
6 |
10 |
1 |
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22 |
FM |
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1 |
3 |
1 |
1 |
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6 |
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GA |
4 |
15 |
84 |
130 |
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21 |
254 |
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13 |
32 |
188 |
301 |
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232 |
766 |
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18 |
15 |
86 |
397 |
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283 |
799 |
| Start |
9 |
39 |
590 |
3,533 |
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2,871 |
7,042 |
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14 |
305 |
4,944 |
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8,097 |
13,360 |
| List |
5 |
2 |
32 |
36 |
27 |
41 |
143 |
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1 |
1 |
4 |
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6 |
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1 |
772 |
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773 |
| Disambig |
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1 |
21 |
18 |
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40 |
| File |
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2 |
4 |
124 |
159 |
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289 |
| Portal |
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1 |
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16 |
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17 |
| Project |
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54 |
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54 |
| Redirect |
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1 |
4 |
45 |
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50 |
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1 |
205 |
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206 |
| Assessed |
52 |
128 |
1,319 |
9,539 |
1,302 |
11,547 |
23,887 |
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1 |
10 |
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2,006 |
2,017 |
| Total |
52 |
128 |
1,320 |
9,549 |
1,302 |
13,553 |
25,904 |
[edit] External Links
- Current list of pages I watch for vandalism and editorial propriety:Donald Trump, Jesse Jackson, Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Bill Clinton, Pamela Anderson, Heather Graham, Jenny McCarthy, Anna Kournikova, Kobe Bryant, Tiger Woods, LeBron James, five-tool player
[edit] Selected Photo Contributions
For a more complete gallery of My Photo Contributions
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Argo Tea Brewing Room at State & Randolph July 2, 2006
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view of 108 North State St. June 8, 2006
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Trump International Hotel & Tower, Chicago May 22, 2006
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Pirated code from Ceyockey who burgled idea from Grutness who lifted
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