User:KDS4444

Although this user (pictured, 2011) is not a hat collector, he does like wearing hats.

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This user has created 134 articles on Wikipedia.

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Significant article creations (unpiped) and date of creation

• Mire - as in a peatland or bog; created from what had been a disambiguation page on 15 January 2013 (as of 28 October 2015 there were 88 pages on Wikipedia which linked to this article; 100-180 views per day)
• Cirrus (biology) - a long, thin structure on an animal's body, 31 July 2013 (as of 23 July 2017 there were 104 articles containing links to this page; 10-30 views per day)
• Ofrenda - the mostly-Mexican "Day-of-the-Dead" ritual altar, 24 October 2013 (usually viewed 20-60 times daily but around Halloween gets close to 2,500 views per day; in October of 2016 it received 13,499 views)
• Peter J. Pitchess Detention Center - the oldest Los Angeles County jail, 21 January 2013 (which was viewed 592 times on 11 August 2015 and 445 times on 28 September 2015, no good idea why)
• Barak (given name) - 21 November 2012
• Conn (nautical) - having command of a ship at sea, 9 November 2012
• Pop-up exhibition - as in Bansky, 27 August 2015
• Curtain tie-back - as in the soft furnishing, 29 March 2015
• Fife rail - as in the structure on the deck of a tall ship, 1 December 2010
• Ugly Animal Preservation Society - 25 September 2015
• Boeotian shield - as in the Ancient Greek protective device, 20 December 2014
• Queen Elizabeth II Quay - as in the deep water port of Sierra Leone's Freetown, 4 April 2009
• Hip pain - a summary article on the different types, January 26, 2016
• Cecil Kelley criticality accident - as in the 1958 Los Alamos, New Mexico nuclear excursion, 14 January 2011. On February 7th of 2017 it was viewed over 20,000 times. Super important.

Volunteer work

I am an OTRS volunteer, and I assist people with general questions about Wikipedia as well as process verification of the identity of people wishing to release the copyrights to their work on Commons under a free license. When I can, I also try to assist with the WP:Dispute resolution noticeboard where editors can seek assistance with impartial resolution of their disputes with other editors. Which is surprisingly difficult.

Paid work

I have sometimes been paid to create Wikipedia articles for individuals or organizations. However, as Wikipedia does not allow its editors to market, advertise, or discuss the details of their paid service on its site, if you are considering hiring me to create a Wikipedia article on your behalf, you will need to contact me directly for more information.

Illustrations

Below is a gallery of images I created and uploaded through Wikimedia Commons using this login or my previous Commons login (KDS444), in no particular order. Some have been considered good enough to become Featured Pictures and a few of those have been Picture of the Day for all of the English Wikipedia. I have only modest formal training as a graphic artist, but I enjoy the creative process immensely. In April of 2013 I began creating vector-based images using Adobe Illustrator instead of my usual Photoshop JPGs, and have never looked back (the gif images, though, those are all still Photoshop creations until Commons can accept and effectively use animated SVG files, and I am sure it's just a matter of time). Want to use one?? See my "Illustrations notice" at the bottom of this page— thanks!

I've also put together a help file on Commons to assist would-be graphic artists create .svg files for use on Commons and the various Wikipedias. It can be found under this link.

Oh, and I like writing articles, too! So many dimensions, so little time... A list of those I have at least started (if not necessarily finished) appears under the image gallery in my "article nursery," in their raw pre-article status (mostly for my own reference— if you want to see the actual current article, don't look here). Below that are some handy reminders for me and some tools I like to use (the Google Books citation creator app, for example, is a Godsend, and now no one has any excuse for creating another unreferenced article on the English Wikipedia, ever).

I like seeing citations. They make me happy. That and, well, apparently the inner parts of worms and molluscs. They make me happy too, though I also draw radiation capsules and sintering kilns and bathymetric maps of the floors of large bodies of water. And dormer windows and fingernails. And Australian spiders. It's a lot of non-sequitors, really. Anyhow, here's the gallery:

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  Diagram of a 9-day old chicken egg, recently made a Featured Picture
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  The "Basket of Flowers" egg originally created by Fabergé and depicted here by me
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  A Quality Image on Commons, derived from another file
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  Technically, Gray gets the credit for this— I just added color and made it an .svg file
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  Anatomy of a true limpet, a Featured Picture on Wikipedia and on Wikimedia Commons, as well as a finalist for Picture of the year 2016 on Commons, and Wikipedia Picture of the Day for July 31, 2017.
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  The geologic process of subduction (not considered good enough for the German Wikipedia)
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  Diagram of the head region of a typical earthworm, Picture of the Day, March 29, 2016
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  A teletherapy capsule
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  A segment of an annelid, Picture of the Day, July 12, 2014
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  Proposed for feature picture; declined because another image of the same spider had recently been freely licensed (thanks to me) on Commons
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  The nerves of a scallop, Picture of the Day, August 31, 2014
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  A male C. elegans nematode, Picture of the Day, October 13, 2013
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  Another nematode Picture of the Day, August 13, 2015
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  A brief anatomy of a nautilus pompilius, Picture of the Day, April 11, 2015
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  A human testicle
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  An anatomical diagram of a scallop, Picture of the Day, November 13, 2014
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  A whipstaff
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  A hypothetical diagram of a nyasasaurus which has been picked up for use on 11 Wikipedias beyond the English one so far (Africaans, Czech, Spanish, Farsi, French, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Ukranian, and Chinese) (not considered good enough for the German Wikipedia.
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  The mouth of the Columbia River
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  A ship's wheel diagram
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  An obscure deep sea limpet, Picture of the Day, January 27, 2014
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  A physical vapor transport crucible
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  A hypothetical ancestral mollusc, Picture of the Day, October 14, 2014
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  Cannon diagram, Featured Picture, Wikimedia Commons
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  A hip roof dormer
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  Diagram of the inner workings of a laser printer
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  The ridges in the Superior Shoal
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  Diagram of a boom
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  An animation of an Austrian drape

Article nursery

/Samsung SCH-u410
/Brillouin's theorem
/Queen Elizabeth II Quay
/Signature
/White chestnut
/Mystery meat navigation
/Hydraulic brakes (redone)
/Vita company
/Ultra-pure water
/Water Polishing
/peacock fern (two diff. families) /Diplazium (incl peacock ferns...? Dryopteridaceae is the family) /HS1 bulb
/World Bank Port Reform Toolkit
/Blue pearl shrimp
/Carl Adolph Cornelius
/Regency Plaza Suites
/Confessional art
/Cleveland open cup method
/Flying sail
/Thread size
/Fife rail
/Read Mental Health Institute
/Cecil Kelley criticality accident
/Haymarket Center (also to include redirects from Haymarket detoxification center and McDermott Center)
/SS Silesia
/My revision of Stern
/Channel Islands Harbor
/M. luxaeterna
/tall ship
/Moretti glass
/Devardi glass
/dorade
/revision of Stagmomantis californica
/Superior Shoal
/SS Bannockburn
/French grey
/Boomkin
/Le Brilliant (ship)
/Reef points
/types of chain
/febantel--FYI, article mixes info on febantel and Praziquantel
/Cliff Parker disambig
/Epididimytis
/Paver base
/Oleo drop
/Expansion of article on cannon
/Time for a new article on the word "Breech"
/Petersham ribbon
/San Felipe (ship)
/Narrow pennant
/Battle Island Light
/Sodium polysulfide
/Sodium sulfane
/Rake (architecture)
/OOAK
/Whipstaff
/Conn (sailing)
/Conn (nautical)
/Conn
/Cornice return
/Barak (name)
/Matlaline
/Knockdown resistance
/Insult (medical)
/NWS Abbreviations /Lamina
/List of parasites (feline)
/Mire
/Feline tapeworms (disambiguation)
/Cat tapeworms (disambiguation)
/Peter J. Pitchess Detention Center
/Nccf
/StageQ
/Jabot (window)
/Silk machine twist
/Streptoneury
/Euthyneury
/Lely method
/Sizing (gilding)
/Medico della peste
/Creating SVG files using Adobe Illustrator CS6 (and Inkscape 0.48)
/Bathyacmaea secunda
/Epiathroid
/Hypoathroid
/PharMed
/AfD:TTTech
/Sprit topmast
/Notes on Older
/Tritech Research
/Sublimation sandwich method
/Physical vapor transport
/micromanipulation
/Cirrus
/Media dispenser
/testss
/Coelomocyte
/MOMS
/Leonard Neff
/PTSD - Early history
/Spotting (filmography)
/Ugly Animal Preservation Society
/Ofrenda
/Daer Water
/GDC for Rachel
/Phoenix Mountain
/QFET
/Polymacon
/revision of shock absorber
/Buckstitching
/List of shore durometers
/Crypton (fabric)
/Maratus speciosus
/James Walker Tufts
/Skiving
/Indentation force-deflection
My revision of /Latrodectus
/Channel Islands Tall Ships Festival
/GeoResonance
/Seilbomb
/Graystone ballroom
/Sewing needles revision
/18650 battery
/Cyclomethicone
/Archimollusc
/Pecten excavatus
/Hollywood fault
/Holly Manufacturing Company
/Pom-pon
/Perle
/Spadix
/Gembira Loka
/Curtain tie-back
/Featured picture criteria for diagrams
/Green-sticking
/Notability cannot be purchased
/Silchester eagle
/bugs
/Hollywood regency
/R.S.
Macrostomum hystrix
/Ron Bodoh
/Pop-up exhibition
/Hubsan X4
/Elena Levon
/OTRS comments
/Ryan Skyy draft
/Overlinked userbox
/radio buttons
/Realignment initiative
/Ross Lewis
/Low-alloy special purpose steel
/Tony Seton
/SS Columbia (disambig)
/SS Columbia (1913)
/Hip pain (disambig)
/Acetate (fiber)
/tennessee clean water network
/San Felipe (15**)
/San Bernabé (15**
/San Cristóbal (15**
/CC license comparer
/Joe's Violin
/Human-centric template
/Essay on "clearly"
/SAE 904L stainless steel
/Circumesophageal nerve ring
/Travis McHenry
/COI
/Evidence collection
/Pseudomembrane
/Spring Flowers egg
/Target One
/Urinary bladder revision
/Chlorophane
/Jerry-built
/Burt Prelutsky
/Tom Paradise
/Stewart Levenson

Useful Links that I Sometimes Like to Refer To:

Useful link: Wikipedia cite book, cite newspaper, etc. -style citations: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_templates
For broader citation-based formats: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Citation

New pages feed: here

Handy stuff

• https://reftag.appspot.com/ – Google books cite generator

How to format a second reference to the same source in an inline citation: /Second Ref

To add a footnote rather than a citation— /Footnote

Useful link for uploading images: Wikipedia:Upload
Useful link for requesting reference materials: Wikipedia:WikiProject Resource Exchange/Resource Request

Wikipedia:Manual of Style (pronunciation)

Citing a map: Template:Cite_map
Link for speedy deletion criteria codes: Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion
Regular deletion requests: [[1]] Deletion debate policies: to reference in a discussion: WP:PGL. And then, steps: WP:AFDHOWTO.

• A nice quote box:
  

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Illustrations notice

(Which now exists as a template on Commons as {{Not public domain}})

Anyone wishing to use one of my images on a different web site or in a publication is obliged to provide following details along with the image: - Author: K.D. Schroeder - graphic name.svg from Wikimedia Commons - License: CC-BY-SA 4.0 It would be sweet if you could tell me about it, too! Thanks!!