User:Golbez

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I have requested usurpation of the user it:User:Golbez on it.wp. --Golbez (talk) 21:46, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Current Wikistress. This is the baseline level. If it drops to 1, I'm probably on a break.

Anyway, my name is Andrew, and thus far, I've made nearly 40,000 edits. My editing focus has changed over time, though many of my edits have been relevant to the two places I've spent most of my life - Washington, DC, and the Charlotte area of North Carolina. Specifically, I've done 95% of the work on the Washington Metro and its stations. I've also done much work on the hurricane articles, establishing (mainly with Cyrius) the standards and practices for the articles of all tropical cyclones and their seasons. At present, my focus is getting all of our lists of American governors up to featured status; at present, there are 8 done (not including Delaware).

I have also, curiously, become involved in Caucasian issues, namely the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh. I've generally been accepted as a neutral administrator, though folks from each side occasionally accuse me of being Armenian or Azeri. (Neither is true) Amusing.

They made me an Administrator on September 29, 2004.

The key is to remain calm and unpolitical... I am here, at the moment, to add information, not to engage in fights. Anything can be cleaned up by others. I find it easier to walk away from pages rather than get personally involved; the way of Wikipedia is that all issues will be resolved in time. There are always other articles I can work on.

TIP: If you find your wikistress is reaching high levels, or if you're hitting your watchlist every 20 seconds, here's a tip: Hit alt-x instead. I've found that browsing random pages and making edits on them is not only a great way to gain knowledge, but it's a nice way to contribute and not be too emotionally involved at the moment. But, only if you have a lot of time to spare. If you're using alt-L to procrastinate, stop immediately.

Somewhere along the line, I decided to make maps of the provinces/departments/first level divisions of the world. A whole suite is available at commons:User:Golbez/maps. I've also created the notion of historic timeline maps on Wikipedia, creating the articles on the territorial evolutions of USA, Canada (featured), and Mexico (featured).

1 About my name
2 Local articles to do, take photos for, and expand
3 Notable Achievements
4 Barnstars
5 Admin policies

About my name

Yes, it's from a video game. But I'm not one of those people who just runs around with a video game name thinking he's cool. I'm not cool at all. ...

Anyway, way back in 1991/1992, when I first joined Prodigy, I hooked up with the "Final Fantasy fan clubs" (what do you expect, I was 11) and, needing a name, and always being horrible (still to this day!) at making up my own name, I took the first name from Final Fantasy 2 that I saw wasn't used - Golbez.

It's grown to just be the nickname I use. That happens after using the same name for nearly 20 years. *shrug*

Local articles to do, take photos for, and expand

Notable Achievements

Added Ongoing Trials to Current Events.
Created articles for nearly all fifty U.S. state congressional delegations.
Was a major part of working on the 2004 Atlantic hurricane season articles.
Fixed the horrible tripling of Pope Benedict XVI when he was revealed :)
Three featured images (animated timelines of Canada, Mexico, and the CSA), and ten featured lists. (eight governor lists and two territorial evolution lists).

Barnstars

I, Redwolf24 hereby award you this barnstar for several reasons: You have over 8000 edits, you're funny, any wikipedian who's been around for more than a week should recognize you, I haven't seen you being uncivil, and you are all around a great user.

I hereby award you the RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar for your heroic efforts in repairing and repelling the Willy on Wheels vandal — Bratsche^{talk 5 pillars} (KC)

"I am not 100% sure. I think that that map is the first one in whole Internet to be written in Haitian. Not in English, nor in French. That is amazing!"

		The Editor's Barnstar
		For noticing that a new comprehensive lead at Mario (that lived for only 8 minutes before it was dubbed vandalism by another Wikipedian, and reverted) was not actually vandalism, and subsequently reverting the reversion. Bugmuncher 03:51, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

		An Award
		Thank you for helping me write my Wikinews article on Eon8! —THIS IS MESSED OCKER (TALK) 05:15, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

		An Award
		I would like to thank you and present you with this barnstar for your great job on the Nagorno-Karabakh article as a thorough, patient, and fair moderator and contributor. Please continue your good work.--TigranTheGreat 08:30, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

On 2 August 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Territorial evolution of the United States, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

I, EWS23, hereby award Golbez the Epic Barnstar for his exceptional work in researching, writing, and illustrating the Territorial evolution of the United States. Keep up the good work! 02:33, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

On 6 August 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Territorial evolution of Canada, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

		Barnstar
		Nice job on Territorial evolution of Canada. This is for putting Canada on the map, so to speak! Outriggr 00:53, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

		The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
		For your service and dedication to helping Wikipedia, mainly with the Hitler article. Keep up the good work! Sharkface217 01:50, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:Canada provinces evolution.gif is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on July 1, 2007. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2007-07-01. howcheng {chat} 23:06, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

On 22 March 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Territorial evolution of Mexico, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:Mexico states evolution.gif is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on August 1, 2007. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2007-08-01. howcheng {chat} 23:42, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

Admin policies

Let me put these right out here:

No mercy for vandals. If you vandalize a page, you will probably be warned. If you vandalize again with fluffy stuff, you will be warned again. On the other hand, if you vandalize maliciously, you will be blocked, often on first offense. I will consider a clean slate after a month, removing old warnings from anyone, in case the IP has changed hands.
You can always contest any action with me. Please do.

I have other ideas that I need to formulate and present to the population at large, in particular the second version of my Semantic Wikipedia propsal.

State congressional table status.

Country status.

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