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I am a community Contributor. I just want to help contribute to good Wikipedia.

I have recently stepped up my efforts to helping Wikipedia rid itself of random vandalism to articles. I cannot understand why people want to harm other peoples work, yet, they do it all the time and it sure keeps those of us who revert these actions busy. But I have no tolerance for this and will do whatever I can to help control it!

I am an entertainment historian who works in the field of movies, television and music of all genres. I am an adviser and historian of record for the Smithsonian Institution in Washington,DC. I recently retired from serving on several review panels for Ivy League schools such as Cambridge and the Juilliard. If you have an entertainment question, drop me a line.


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Articles I have created/edit or monitor on a daily basis

Christian country music

David L. Cook "Article went to WP:GA status on 11 February 2008"

Danny Funderburk & Mercy's Way

Dove Awards of 1999

Ed Bruce

Ft. Lauderdale "Article went to WP:GA status on 27 September 2007"

Lucille Ball "Article went to WP:GA status on 15 April 2008"

Things I Find Myself Involved In

I am a user of WP:Rollback and use it on a regular basis.
I do like to create articles and you will find me somewhere usually in the Christian Music Project
I do chime in on RfA's and AfD's. You might find me over in the RfB as well. That's a tough crowd over there!
I get a lot of editors who contact me wanting information on entertainment history. So I try my best to help out in those areas.
I patrol a lot of the "Old Hollywood" legends and try to polish up on their biographies. I am a stickler for creating sub pages for articles that are just way to long and have no flow to them.
I just finished WP:Administrator coaching with a great teacher, Bibliomaniac15. He is a busy one and is very selective about who he takes on as a student, but I highly believe in what he has to offer! I feel very fortunate that he took me on.
I will chime in on edit disputes as a third party, but I simply refuse to get into an edit war. They are just not productive and people get hurt.
Recently I have found myself over in the pornography section trying to clean some of that stuff up. No, I am not a pervert, I was asked by an admin if I would help to clean some of the problem articles up. I didn't know it would involve every article over there! You would not even believe what some of those people have on their websites and the things they offer for sale! They should be ashamed. I don't think their mamas know what they are doing!
I recently went through a peer review and here is what they had to say about little ole me.[1]
Here are my contribution numbers! [2]

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Canyouhearmenow

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 [[Marijohn Wilkin]]

Active Wiki Fixup Projects
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Articles that need to be wikified Massive backlog. Ongoing (category) Dead-end pages These pages are not wikified. Ongoing (category) Missing articles Wikipedia is not as complete as you might think. Ongoing Most wanted articles Updated February 2015 Oldest requested articles Updated November 2012
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Articles needing geo-coordinates Help locate places. See WP:GEO. Ongoing (category) Articles written by a single editor Reviewing articles written by a newer editor. Updated February 2013 Bluelink patrol Directing wayward links to the intended articles. Ongoing Check Wikipedia Fix the syntax of Wikipedia. Updated every 15 minutes Disambiguation pages with links Directing ambiguous links to the intended articles. Ongoing Fix Common Mistakes Fix common mistakes in English grammar (e.g. "the the", "and and"). Ongoing moss Currently doing a collaborative spell-check of the entire encyclopedia. Moving free images to Wikimedia Commons Moving free images to the Commons so they are easier to find. Ongoing (categories) Orphaned articles Help link to these orphaned articles. Ongoing (category) Red Link Recovery Turn red links blue. Ongoing Stubsensor Help remove stub tags from articles they don't belong on. Updated August 2011 Uncategorised articles Help categorise articles. Ongoing (category) Unreferenced articles Ensuring articles include at least one reference or source. Ongoing (category) Main Inactive Mini
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