User:IanManka
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Ian Manka (talk • contribs • blocks • protects • deletions • moves) lives in Los Angeles, California. He graduated cum laude from the USC Marshall School of Business, majoring in Business Administration, with a minor in Cinematic Arts at the School of Cinematic Arts. He spent the summer of 2010 in Johannesburg, South Africa as a volunteer for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. He appeared on the nationally-televised quiz show Jeopardy! when he was twelve years old.
Ian joined Wikipedia on 7 June 2005, and is a Veteran Editor II. He became an administrator on 16 June 2006 by a count of 54 support, 6 oppose, and 1 neutral "votes." Ian is one of the 854 users (0.002% of users of the English Wikipedia) that are administrators. His editor review can be found here. He was featured in the Akron, Ohio Akron Beacon Journal on 27 July 2006 in an article about Wikipedia. Ian has accounts on Wikipedia Commons, MediaWiki, Meta-Wiki, Simple English Wikikpedia, all with the user name IanManka.
Ian is (as of 15 December 2017) ranked 6137th in the list of Wikipedians by edit count (excluding bots and scripts).
He also contributed to the basketball blog Paints in the Point until it shut down in 2011 and maintains a personal blog as well.
Contributions to Wikipedia
[edit]Awards
[edit]Accomplishments
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The Original Barnstar
I award this Barnstar to Ian Manka for your outstanding work in all areas related to Football. Thanks! — Sebastiankessel |
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The Working Man's Barnstar
I, Sergeant Snopake, hereby award you this barnstar for your contributions to Wikipedia, especially your link-related work. Sergeant Snopake 19:27, 21 July 2006 (UTC) |
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Cupcake
to IanManka to make sure you're not mad at me for my arguments for not deleting in the AfD discussion of the 2022 FIFA World Cup page. Also for the nice discussion as a whole. --Pelotastalk 16:13, 22 July 2006 (UTC) |
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Football (soccer) barnstar
Mainly awarded (belatedly) for your work on the 2006 World Cup. Keep up the good work on football articles. Guinnog 10:19, 8 August 2006 (UTC) |
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The College football Barnstar
I, User:BigDT, present you with the new College football Barnstar for your work with college football articles this season, most notably, the Template:Collegebowl template. BigDT 23:44, 3 January 2007 (UTC) |
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The Barnstar of Good Humor
Excellent work diffusing the situation between TPIRFanSteve and Hdayejr! You also win a prize for being the only other person on Wikipedia I've run into who knows what Tallmadge is :) Shell babelfish 16:44, 8 August 2007 (UTC) |
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The Running Man Barnstar
Holy Toledo! What a way to keep the 2009 NFL Draft article updated! -Dabackgammonator (talk) 03:52, 26 April 2009 (UTC) |
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The Original Barnstar | |
I give you this Barnstar for all the work that you contributed to that is releated to American Football and Association Football. Mr. Unknown (talk) 02:16, 30 August 2009 (UTC) |
Accomplishments
[edit]This section is out of date.
- John Eisemann
- 1996 NHL Entry Draft
- FIFA World Cup awards (split)
- FIFA World Cup hosts (split + expand)
- National team appearances in the FIFA World Cup (split)
- List of 2006 FIFA World Cup officials (split)
- List of 2006 FIFA World Cup broadcasting rights (split)
- 2003 Fiesta Bowl
- Big Game (disambiguation)
- Boomer
- Mega Millions (cleanup)
- Death Star (disambiguation)
- Miranda
- Goodyear Airdock (expand)
- Calabash (disambiguation)
- Yamato
- Tallmadge, Ohio (rewrite)
- Funk (disambiguation)
- Aahz
- FIPS 10-4 (rewrite)
- ...And Justice for All
- Grade
- 1 vs. 100 (fix table)
- Ground zero (disambiguation)
- Benchmark
- The Amazing Race 10 (fix table)
- Classy
- Slot
- Clive
- Suburban
- The Amazing Race 8 (fix table)
- 50 Greatest Game Shows of All Time
- David Smith
- Dave Smith
- BR
- DM
I'm proud of...
[edit]- ...FIFA World Cup, an article I helped reorganize and split off articles from. It later earned me a Barnstar (see above)! FIFA World Cup also is a featured article, and was featured on the main page on June 8, 2006!
- ...FIFA World Cup hosts. I built this article from the ground up.
- ...2007 NFL Draft, an article I helped improve to featured list status!
- ...my writing for the Wikipedia Signpost.
- I entirely wrote the 1000 Administrators article (September 5 2006), with the assistance of the uncredited NoSeptember.
- I contribute to the "Features and admins" section. I solely wrote the September 5, 2006, September 11, 2006, September 25, 2006, October 2, 2006 and October 9, 2006 editions. The editions I mostly wrote were the August 28, 2006 and September 18, 2006. I was part of a collaobration for the August 14, 2006 and August 21, 2006 editions. I added just a minor fix to the August 7, 2006 edition.
- I also contributed a bit of news for the February 5, 2007 "In the news" section.
- ...my efforts in getting the 2005 New York City transit strike on the Main Page.
- ...editing the "In the news" section on the Main Page (as an administrator) to include:
- The Ugandan-Lord's Resistance Army truce (26 August 2006)
- The result of Super Bowl XLII (3 February 2008)
- The death of Osama bin Laden (2 May 2011)
Miscellaneous
[edit]I am in the following associations/groups:
Links for my use
[edit]- Browser-based IRC client Useful for asking quick questions
- /Mike O'Malley
- /David Bacon
- Wikipedia:Template messages
- Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace
- Category:Wikipedia tools
- Tools
Quote describing Tallmadge, Ohio:
- Six miles east of Akron, the thriving official center of its county, in almost its pristine solitude, pioneer simplicity and primitive picturesqueness, lies the quiet little village of Tallmadge. Its two or three hundred contented inhabitants go their way today, as undisturbed by the social follies or the commercial whirl, distant but one hour's travel, as though they were lodged in some vast wilderness, inaccessible to the inroads of society's corruptions. To walk the broad, tree-canopied streets and talk with the genuine, generous, cultured and unpretentious people of this "loveliest village of the plain," even for a day, is to receive rest for the mind and peace for the soul. In Tallmadge as no where else in this commonwealth still lingers the influence of its New England ancestry. The form may be much dwarfed and the spirit be weak, but the latter is still potent enough to be felt. To enter Tallmadge is to breathe the atmosphere of the simple life. The vanity and vexation of the twentieth century are strangers to Tallmadge; they would not stay long if they came, they would feel so out of place. This is why we tell about Tallmadge for we have been there and know whereof we speak.
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Edits | 12678 |
Edits+Deleted | 14549 |
Pages deleted | 1223 |
Pages restored | 236 |
Pages protected | 74 |
Pages unprotected | 11 |
Protections modified | 9 |
Users blocked | 225 |
Users reblocked | 2 |
Users unblocked | 26 |
User rights modified | 1 |
Users created | 16 |
Pages merged | 2 |
About me
[edit]Travel
[edit]I'm an avid traveler, and love to fly. I've visited all 50 U.S. states, as well as the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.
Notable people
[edit]Attending USC and living in Los Angeles has its perks, one of which is having the opportunity to meet notable people. I have met and/or seen in person the following individuals who have Wikipedia articles:
References
[edit]- ^ "Chicago Bears acquire Jay Cutler from Denver Broncos for Kyle Orton, picks". Sports.espn.go.com. April 3, 2009. Retrieved April 9, 2009.
- ^ Chicago traded its first- and third-round selections (No. 18 and 84) in 2009, its first-round selection in 2010, and quarterback Kyle Orton to Denver for quarterback Jay Cutler and one of Denver's fifth-round selections in 2009 (No. 140).[1]
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