User:Davidwr/Davidwr-old-2016-04-30

A photo I took in 2015

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Useful information[edit]

How to edit a first section[edit]

*See Editing before the first section on MetaWiki for a how-to.

If you edit a lot of top-sections or edit top sections of long articles, see the two javascript workarounds in Wikipedia:Article size#If you have problems editing a long article. See also: Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-08-13/Bug review and scroll down to Section edit link for section 0.
Logged-in users can enable this in "my preferences." JavaScript must be enabled for this to work.

How often an article is read[edit]

Wikipedia article traffic statistics has traffic statistics. Current as of 3/23/2008. See the announcement.

Cleaning up "bare links"[edit]

You can clean up "bare links" using Pywikipedia.

Deletion log tab[edit]

You can add a tab that shows the deletion log, see User:Mr.Z-man/delLog for details.

Previewing expanded templates[edit]

Special:ExpandTemplates

What I like to edit[edit]

Random Articles, current events, Recent Change Patrol, other wiki-maintenance tasks, articles relating to governments, politics, and human behavior, articles relating to science and technology, and more.

my contributions
Wikipedia:WikiProject edit counters
wannabe kate edit counting tool
edit counter at gtools - grand total very fast

Todo[edit]

Check sound clips used in Velvet Acid Christ and remove those that don't qualify for fair use.

More cleanup of List of Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients and remove references to medaloffreedom.com wiki-wide. Archive.org link is acceptable in some places.

Look at WWEYANKS52 (talk · contribs) for possible RFA nom. Highly focused in one area, has 1 yr, 5000+ edits, low on discussion space, talk w/ him first. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 21:25, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Look at 2/14-15 edits by First Of All (talk · contribs)/blocked Nimbley6 sock, 92.4.71.142 (talk · contribs), 86.3.234.246 (talk · contribs), 81.104.128.143 (talk · contribs) on Scottish-related articles.

Create and populate redlinks in the template at the bottom of List of school districts in the United States, esp. List of school districts in Montana.

Get Category:Zoos and aquariums in Dallas, Texas deleted, pending input from creator.

Roll in GA review comments to Carroll Pickett, been meaning to do that for some time now.

Read Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Arbitration enforcement at least once a week through closure on 21 Feb. 2009.

~~No sooner than Jan 23 mark Wikipedia talk:Notability (buildings, structures, and landmarks) as closed, but only if there's no significant discussion.~~ On 26 Jan check this to make sure nothing important links to failed proposal.

Monitor Perri Reavis for possible AFD, target no sooner than 1/26. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 02:47, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Watch and close Wikipedia talk:Criteria for speedy deletion#Proposed change to intro, G8 and to Redirect: Spell out that reverting is good, redux.

~~Fixup Template:Handbook of Texas links - use this template where it's not used. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 18:56, 19 December 2008 (UTC)~~ task slated for a future bot.

Evaluate International Association of Mechanical Music Preservationists and its player-piano-roll archive for notability and create content. [1]

Monitor Carmen L. Robinson and User:Grundle2600/Carmen L. Robinson. Make sure person is notable when or if it moves to the main encyclopedia.

Improve User:Davidwr/Wikisearchbox so it searches by specific namespaces. Make an article-space only shortcut and add a reference to it in the documentation for disambiguation pages. DAB docs should demonstrate how to have multiple items in the list to cover alternative spellings.

Some of my recent projects[edit]

Some of my recent projects

Newest to oldest

Created Windham School District (New Hampshire) and cleaned up some Windham-related disambiguation pages.
Template:The Multiple Barnstar, up to 6 barnstars in a gallery. 03:41, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
Template:Newpagesbox has direct access to Special:NewPages at several times in the middle, to reduce load on front and back end. 02:38, 8 December 2009 (UTC)
Turned Haden from a redirect to a proper dab page. 13:42, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
Created template {{Institutionip-n}} as a clone of {{schoolip-n}}. Use it for non-school institutions with multiple anonymous IP addresses or for institutional IP addresses engaging in WP:COI edits.
Kicked off first draft of User:Davidwr/Deleting GA+ articles. Community input welcome. 15:51, 23 September 2009 (UTC) On 01:46, 14 October 2009 (UTC) created companion template User:Davidwr/XfDFeatured and its documentation page User:Davidwr/XfDFeatured/doc.
Created stub The Torment of Saint Anthony, commons:File:The Torment of Saint Anthony (Michelangelo).jpg. DYN Nomination, appeared for about 6 hours starting at 18:56, 21 May 2009 (UTC). Also created commons:File:The Torment of Saint Anthony (Michelangelo) detail.jpg
Re-wrote Did You Know hook for Nighthawks. Candlewicke (talk · contribs)'s nom, DYN 21:24, 11 February 2009.
Created stub Jeremy Lusk from news report of recent death.
Created Isaiah Jones, Jr., a musician. DYN Nomination, appeared February 17, 2009.
Split off Winnebago High School from Winnebago, Illinois, reduce to a stub, and create stub Winnebago Community Unit School District 323
Got consensus to reword Wikipedia:A7 speedy-deletion criteria, see Wikipedia talk:Criteria for speedy deletion or its archives dated 12/21-23/2008 section Proposed clarification for A7, and this edit.
Rewrote Nana Upstairs & Nana Downstairs, convinced AFD nominator to withdraw AFD
Created stub Cedar Creek, Texas due to notable resident
Shepherd Talk:Michelle_McManus#Major_cleanup_project
Created Chatham School District, an Alaska school district.
Created Yupiit School District, an Alaska school district. DYN nomination, appeared December 7, 2008.
Created Serenity High School, a Texas public high school for recovering addicts. DYN nomination, appeared December 4, 2008. These changes were made while it was on DYN. Related: Major surgery on Neil Sperry.
Stub/create from 2008 Atlantic hurricane season: Tropical Depression Seventeen (2008), also update Template:2008 Atlantic hurricane season buttons
Todo: Johnny Romano (skater) - child cancer victim and minor celebrity in skating circles, died Sept. 22 2008 at age 10.
Look at Category:Conventions in Texas and Category:Conventions in Minnesota for possible reorg with similar lists and categories.
Template:Current change in status and Template:Current change in status/doc, for use in WZNZ and elsewhere. Template was removed 11/14 through deletion discussion.
Added 1/200/500/1000/4000 edit counts to Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits#Past versions. September 2008.
Cocodrie, Louisiana - stub, near landfall of Hurricane Gustav on 9/1/2008. Others have expanded it to a suitable size for the subject.
Our America (television) - stub of award-winning documentary
Propose merger of some HTTP status codes into List of HTTP status codes. Closed with 1 objection and no support.
Andrew E. Johnson - Florida politician stub, related to WZNZ
{{Law enforcement agencies in Canada}} - redirect and delete a few articles; reorg the template; 6/27 or later, abandoned after discussion.
{{Infobox One-of-a-kind computers}}, done but need to attach to articles
Evaluate contributions by User:Spearhead - it looks like he is doing mostly non-notable bands and related music. See /SpearheadContribs. Abandoned.
Hole in the Wall Camps, split off Hole in the Wall Gang Camp
Wikipedia:WikiProject Ohio/HS Athletic Conferences project participant for a time.
User:Davidwr/quicktable, see also Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion#Useful template for multi-article AfDs and for suspected sockpuppets, abandoned, redundant to {{hidden}}
deletion of Culture (U.S. band)-related material, abandoned
~~propose encouraging non-admins to close expired failed AfDs~~ - guideline exists
split Wendland into name and place pages. Abandoned.
kick-started Lloyd John Ogilvie - created as a pre-stub, needs rewriting
created Bath Community Schools as a very stubby stub
rewrote WZNZ to remove spam and focus on history
proposed changes to criteria for speedy deletion to encourage deleting admins to think about what they are doing. Withdrawn as redundant.
rewrite and provide references for List of school districts in Maine
add two new articles for William Keane redirect-turned-dab, abandoned after some work
rewrote unsourced Crossroads Bible College as a stub
wrote Carroll Pickett, author and former minister to death row inmates in Texas, now against capital punishment.
add root, links, and nobr parameters to {{archive box}}, update documentation.
request bot to update some asteroid pages including 6227 Alanrubin
created List of school districts in Wyoming
created List of school districts in South Dakota
created Category:School districts in South Dakota
created List of school districts in Nevada
created Jordan Francis, with help from other editors. It got prodded away on August 30, 2008. The current article was created independently.
created Category:International Baccalaureate schools in the United States and Category:International Baccalaureate schools in Australia and spearheaded the split from parent category Category:International Baccalaureate schools
reference tag cleanup User:Davidwr/RefImprove template, abandoned
created Masonic Home Independent School District as a glorified stub
expanded Coretta Scott King Award to include illustrators and honor books, abandoned before finishing
created Kraken botnet
created Congressional Pictorial Directory
created Semaphore Flag Signaling System and updated SFSS
recreated Stereotypes of ethnic groups from the white race. It was recently deleted and had a lot of inbound links. Note: It has since been deleted and is now a redirect.
split Wikipedia:List_of_missing_journals due to being over 400KB and breaking some browsers
Articles for Creation efforts in 2007, AFC Drive Barnstar and Golden Wiki award
Tom Vandergriff rewrite
Category:U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame Inductees, since moved to Category:United_States_Astronaut_Hall_of_Fame_inductees
Image:Distance From Earth to Moon In Light Seconds.gif based on Image:Speed_of_light_from_Earth_to_Moon.gif, April 2007.

Plus several stubs and redirects

Previous signatures[edit]

From time to time I use special signatures. I keep this here for recognition purposes.

talk/contribs/e-mail signature davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 02:14, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
Talk/Track signature: davidwr ^(talk)/_(track) 13:15, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
Standard signature: davidwr (talk) 21:18, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
09f9 controversy signature, part of May 2007: davidwr ^09f9(talk)

Note: I've since been informed that "advocacy" and "protest" signatures are discouraged. This signature is permanently retired.

Subpages[edit]

Active:

/Administrator neutrality - user essay
Apology for past behavior
/Awards - awards given, received, and designed
/Choosing SPEEDY, PROD, or AFD deletion - essay on when to use speedy, when to use prod, and when to use AFD, and when to do none of the above
/Four eyes are better than two - user essay on decision-making
/Inherent Notability as a slang term
/No illegal threats - humorous take-off on WP:THREAT
/RFAs - anything related to RFA issues, including RFA philosophy.
/AdminiBot - proposed way of using a bot to, in effect, commission trusted non-admins to carry out specific, "charter-specified" administrative tasks for a specific, charter-specified time period. It will also allow non-admins in good standing to do things like delete to pages that only they have edited, subject to certain restrictions such as the age of the page.

Historical and archives:

/Tool-assisted edit runs - tool-assisted edit runs
/Unbundling admin tools
/Sandbox - working notes
/Articles for Creation - AFC efforts, mostly backlog work
/sandbox SupremeCourt
/SpearheadContribs - filter for non-notable music

Complete list:

Reviews[edit]

Wikipedia:Editor review/davidwr - 5/17/08 limited-purpose review due to ongoing editing dispute: I want to make sure I'm being civil.

Interwiki[edit]

Automatically updated list: Special:CentralAuth/Davidwr

w:user:Davidwr The English Wikipedia, my home base
commons:user:Davidwr, formerly commons:user:Davidwr2 Commons
~~en labs:Davidwr English Labs~~
wikitech:user:Davidwr WikiTech, replaces labs. NOT part of the unified account setup.
meta:user:Davidwr Meta
wiktionary:user:Davidwr English Wiktionary. Also: Portuguese Wiktionary.
simple:User:Davidwr Simple English
mw:User:Davidwr MediaWiki Note: Global login frequently fails to log into this wiki.
d:User:Davidwr WikiData.
wikiversity:User:Davidwr English WikiVersity
s:User:Davidwr English WikiSource
species:User:Davidwr WikiSpecies
testwiki:User:Davidwr Test Wikipedia
~~strategy:User:Davidwr Strategy wikimedia site~~ closed

Languages I've edited in. Not to say that I know these languages:

Templates[edit]

User:Davidwr/Templates/collapsed top and User:Davidwr/Templates/collapsed bottom - collapsible tables:

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{{afc inuse}} - WP:AFC edit in progress.

User:Davidwr/Templates/How to create an article on Wikipedia - used to welcome new editors who are finding their articles falling to deletion. Subst: and sign please. It includes a section header. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 22:59, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

User:Davidwr/Templates/userinfo - misc. info about a user

User:Davidwr/Templates/Editor for deletion - Based on {{Editor review}}, for use by editors under editors for deletion.

User:Davidwr/db-2 - experimental copy of {{prod-2}} for use on CSDs. Same except for visuals and categorization.

Committed identity: b9aff890ed99c8ba000d13fc7f96c260c260fdae is a SHA-1 commitment to this user's real-life identity.