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[[Image:Sandbox edit new section.PNG|thumb|250px|A screenshot of “Http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Sandbox&action=edit&section=new”]]
:<font size=3>"It's clean-up duty, mopping up after the dishonest, incompetent, and fanatical. Can't imagine why you'd have a problem with that." </font>
“'''Http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Sandbox&action=edit&section=new'''” is a [[Web page]] on ''[[Wikipedia]]'' that allows for new sections to be posted onto the “[[Wikipedia:Sandbox]],” a page visited by at least hundreds or thousands of people a day.<ref name="EditSandboxNewSection">“Editing Wikipedia:Sandbox (comment).” ''Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia''. [[Wikimedia Foundation]], Inc. 6 Aug 2007 <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Sandbox&action=edit&section=new>.</ref>
[[Image:Sunyatsenbufano.jpg|thumb|right|300px|'''Random Image of the Day:'''<br>Statue of [[Sun Yat-sen]] by sculptor Benny Bufano in [[Chinatown, San Francisco, California|San Francisco's Chinatown]] [[St. Mary's Park]].]]
*[http://tools.wikimedia.de/~kate/cgi-bin/count_edits Edit counter]
*[[User:Calton/Watchlist]] - Sockpuppet IP list
*[[User:Calton/Pictures|Some pictures I've taken and which are used on Wikipedia.]] Ansel Adams I'm not, but I might as well be useful.


==Reference==
:Yes, I took the picture on the right. Yes, I change it (mostly) every day. Yes, they're all used on Wikipedia/Commons. Come back each day for a new, marginally-in-focus picture! Collect them all!
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==External link==
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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Sandbox&action=edit&section=new the “Http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Sandbox&action=edit&section=new” Web page]


[[Category:Editing]]
I'm a Westerner, living in [[Tokyo]], [[Japan]], where I work as a copy editor/rewriter for a large Japanese electronics company.


I first became aware of Wikipedia when I began using it to look up some technical terms, my being an English literature major screwing around with computers, not vice versa. Being of a copy editor bent, I noticed typos, misspellings, and generally screwy language occasionally, and after a while I realized that I could in fact edit them myself. So I did. Soon, I was hitting the random page button, just for my own amusement, and I got sucked in.


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[[Image:Aerogelbrick.jpg|thumbnail|right|Trying to impart common sense into the clueless is a tough job, one which you do particularly well.
[[Category:Websites which use Wikipedia]]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion&diff=prev&oldid=33062318][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion&diff=prev&oldid=33062806][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Jimbo_Wales&diff=prev&oldid=33091173]. As such, you the very first of Raul's common sense bricks. [[User:Raul654|Raul654]] 22:58, 29 December 2005 (UTC)]]
Now, this has turned into a relaxing break from my required copy editing: I get to exercise my pedantic tendencies, without the responsibility of deadlines or deliverables. I've occasionally gotten a little deeper into things, and have written a few articles from scratch.

This whole project is infectious: hitting the random page button, I encounter whole swatches of text and knowledge areas requiring work, and I suddenly feel compelled to try to do something about it, even if I didn't have any particular interest in the subject to begin with. For example, I did a massive edit (for style, organization, and a general readability) for the submarine [[USS Trout (SS-202)]]. I have no particular interest in the military, especially not the Navy, yet I found myself sucked into doing this. Same with entries on community colleges and [[Booker Prize]] winners.

It's kind of like my current project -- if you can call it that -- of eliminating spam and MySpaceLight pages disguised as user pages. This started out as a simple task which I figured to complete fairly quickly, but the more I dig the more I find. Over the last six months or so, I figure that I've tagged maybe 1,500 of so-called user pages for oblivion, of whom maybe 3 have since done any editing whatsoever. And I keep finding more, not to mention the brand-new ones cropping up daily, including obvious vanity articles that are userfied by other editors who ought to know better.

So far I have added a few articles and stubs (and yes, I plan to expand the stubs if I can), but mostly it's janitorial work. As I told one troller:
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::''It's clean-up duty, mopping up after the dishonest, incompetent, and fanatical. Can't imagine why you'd have a problem with that.''

==International Travels==
{| style="border:1px; border: thin solid grey; background-color:#f7f8ff"
|align="right"|Spent years:
|align="left"|[[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|42px]] [[Image:Flag of Japan.svg|44px]]
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|align="right"|Months to Days:
|align="left"|[[Image:Flag of Bolivia.svg|40px]] [[Image:Flag of Canada.svg|40px]] [[Image:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg|40px]] [[Image:Flag of France.svg|40px]] [[Image:Flag of Peru.svg|40px]] [[Image:Flag of South Korea.svg|40px]] [[Image:Flag of the Republic of China.svg|40px]] [[Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg|40px]]
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|align="right"|Hours:
|align="left"|[[Image:Flag of Chile.svg|40px]] [[Image:Flag of Mexico.svg|40px]] [[Image:Flag of Hong Kong.svg|40px]]
|-|
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|align="right"|To go some day:
|align="left"|[[Image:Flag of Italy.svg|40px]] [[Image:Flag of Greece.svg|40px]] [[Image:Flag of Vietnam.svg|40px]]
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|align="left"|<small>''Idea and layout stolen from ''[[User:Guettarda]] ''who borrowed it from ''[[User:Coolcat]] (who calls himself [[User:White Cat]] these days)</small>
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==User sub-pages==
Various subpages I have, listed in one place until I get around to doing something about them:

*[[User:Calton/Pictures]]
*[[User:Calton/Sandbox]]
:*[[User:Calton/Sandbox#Testing| Testing]]
:*[[User:Calton/Sandbox#West Marin| West Marin]]
:*[[User:Calton/Sandbox#Self-promotion watch| Self-promotion watch]]
::*[[User:Calton/Sandbox#Articles| Articles]]
::*[[User:Calton/Sandbox#Editors| Editors]]
:*[[User:Calton/Sandbox#Wikipedia is not paper| Wikipedia is not paper]]
:*[[User:Calton/Sandbox#Of Exactitude in Science| Of Exactitude in Science]]
:*[[User:Calton/Sandbox#International Travels| International Travels]]
:*[[User:Calton/Sandbox#American States| American States]]
:*[[User:Calton/Sandbox#Test table|Test table]]
:*[[User:Calton/Sandbox#Diners| Diners]]
:*[[User:Calton/Sandbox#Sam Spade (temp)| Sam Spade (temp)]]
:*[[User:Calton/Sandbox#Impact| Impact]]
:*[[User:Calton/Sandbox#Table test| Table test]]
:*[[User:Calton/Sandbox#ISBN Test|ISBN Test]]
*[[User:Calton/Testbed]]
*[[User:Calton/Userfied pages]]
*[[User:Calton/Userfied pages to watch]]
*[[User:Calton/Watchlist]]
:*[[User:Calton/Watchlist#Articles_that_should_probably_be_AFD.27ed|Articles that should probably be AFD'ed]]
:*[[User:Calton/Watchlist#Walled garden alert|Walled garden alert]]
:*[[User:Calton/Watchlist#Them_what_bear_watching|Them what bear watching]]
::*[[User:Calton/Watchlist#Jack_Sarfatti|Jack Sarfatti]]
::*[[User:Calton/Watchlist#Cisco.27s_Own_Hindu_Nationalist:|Cisco's Own Hindu Nationalist]]


[[Category:Wikipedians in Japan]]
[[Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: University of California, Berkeley]]

Revision as of 01:35, 11 August 2007

A screenshot of “Http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Sandbox&action=edit&section=new”

“Http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Sandbox&action=edit&section=new” is a Web page on Wikipedia that allows for new sections to be posted onto the “Wikipedia:Sandbox,” a page visited by at least hundreds or thousands of people a day.[1]

Reference

  1. ^ “Editing Wikipedia:Sandbox (comment).” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 6 Aug 2007 <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Sandbox&action=edit&section=new>.


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