User:Proto

This account is Neil's gnome account. He uses it on occasions when he doesn't want to be bothered (not very often). Please contact him via User talk:Neil if you see this account doing anything wrong.

Stuff I do:

This user is a rouge admin.

• Making articles that have been requested for a long time.
• Wikifying articles (it's very relaxing).
  • (but also check if they're evil copyvios)
• Fixing administrative backlog
• Clearing out requests to edit protected pages
• Bumble around via the awesomeness that is the random page button of wonderment
• I am a member of the Association of Wikipedians Who Dislike Making Broad Judgements About the Worthiness of a General Category of Article, and Who Are In Favor of the Deletion of Some Particularly Bad Articles, but That Doesn't Mean They are Deletionist.
• I also think Wikipedia has around a million articles more than it need have, therefore I am a founder member of the Association of Redirectionist Wikipedians.
• Speaking of redirectionism, I have recently discovered Red Link Recovery - being someone who finds creating redirects a soothing, Zen-like exercise, this is awesome.

Edit Milestones:

• The awesome tool for doing this is Tools:~tangotango/milestone.php.
• My 1,000th edit^[9] was on the 24 June 2005, on Baylor University Chamber of Commerce.
• My 5,000th edit^[10] was on Geni's sockpuppet's RFA, on 6 February 2006.
• My 10,000th edit^[11] was made on 4 December 2006. To Dungeon Keeper, which was an awesome game.
• My 15,000th edit^[12] was to Clacks, on 20 July 2007.
• My 20,000th edit^[13] was fixing a typo on Template:Did you know, on 2 January 2008. How boring.

RFA Nominations:

People who I have nominated for requests for adminship:

N Ben

Y Henrik

Y Hersfold

Projects:

Yarrgh, ye scurvy dogs! Join the Piracy WikiProject!

I'm a member of the following WikiProjects:

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Piracy
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Cheshire
• Wikipedia:Article Rescue Squadron
• There may be others I've put my name down for, but I've forgotten. Feel free to add them.

Eliza Dushku is hot.

Accounts:

• I have little used accounts on:

Meta (here)

Wiktionary (here)

Wikibooks (here)

Commons (here)

The French Wikipedia (ici), which I use very rarely, but want to use more to better my French

The Dutch Wikipedia (shtop), despite not speaking Dutch. There was a good reason, I forget what it was now.

The German Wikipedia (achtung!), which I thought I may as well set up.

The Simple Wikipedia (here)

• Note I occasionally still use Proto (talk · contribs) as a seperate account for wikignoming when I don't want to be bothered.
• Any other accounts you see with the name Neil or Proto or En.Proto may not be me (at least, not until single sign-on is implemented and I take them all^[14]).

Depository of Random:

• User:Neil/quack - An indepth and challenging essay on the duck test and what the latest ArbCom developments portend for Wikipedia over the next 12 to 18 months
• A minor aim in life - to form a band / write a novel / create a major website or a magazine called Main Page, forcing Wikipedia to have to disambiguate its front page. Muahahaha!
• My admirable and never-followed (even by me) admin standards: User:Neil/standards
• 650th most awesome - official^[15]
• If you add up all the admin actions, I am the 105th most active admin (as of 10 January 2008). Clearly I'm not deleting and blocking enough. Must do better!^[16]

Iz srsly.

• User:Neil/road - the worst (best?) roadcruft article ever, preserved for posterity.
• User:Neil/N - pick away at this whenever really bored or struck down with writer's block.
• My first RfA - I was kindly nominated by User:Marskell.
• My second, succesful RfA. The template I used for thanks is here.
• My no-consensus RfB. Boooooo.
• Did you know that my old username was Lithuanian for 'minds'? Me neither.^[17]
• User:Neil/gc - the great big battle with gamecruft.
• The best policy ever.
• User:Neil/actors - must get back to sorting these out.
• I haven't uploaded that many photos, and would like to do more, but the ones I have are in User:Neil/images.
• The War on Drugs and the War on Terrorism pale into comparison with the War on 'had had'. All must die! (or better still, be rewritten to avoid such a technically correct but butt-ugly abuse of the English language). I identify the culprits here.
• Take a look at the most popular pages on Wikipedia this month.
• Some of the funniest user names can be found here
• The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy - it dseno't alywas mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig, huh? Yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt.^[18]
• I likes this article: The 8 Most Needlessly Detailed Wikipedia Entries
• The best article ever written about Wikipedia. Essential reading for anyone wondering how this whole crazy project to create a free encyclopaedia came into being, and what it truly represents. RIP Roy Rosenzweig.
• I don't collect my barnstars, as I am already awesome and don't need the reassurance. And I haven't had that many (sob). But you can spot them by wandering through my talk page archives.
• My favourite piece of vandalism.
• My second favourite piece - see the image caption.
• My account was created on 31 March 2005, at 10:23 and 59 seconds, UTC. It was the 224,548th account to be created.^[19]
• Mattel Inc. v. MCA Records Inc.^[20]
• Si hoc legerem scis nimium eruditionis habes.
• Wikipedia: The world's largest forum for anonymous arguments. Argue with everyone in the world on any topic imaginable. You may be Stephen Hawking, a so-called "expert", but you need to reconcile your views on black holes with Bob from Idaho who thinks they are portals to Narnia and find some neutral point of view that you can both agree on.^[21]

Articles created (FAs, GAs, and others): Pages I have started (or completely scrapped and rewritten). Not that I'm not proud of other pages I've started (it's over 250 now^[22]), but these are special for some reason or another. No particular order.

Shoe polish - FA Edward Low - FA Mr. Lady Records - was at AFD[23] - now a good article K-Klass - DYK Healthcare in France - DYK Penley - DYK The Metros - DYK Chip pan Buckley Neil Ross Timewasting Nance O'Neil Photo finish Llyn Brenig Ballot Security Task Force Informing Healthcare Eady levy Two-factor authentication Surface mining Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors Project Daniel Maltesers

Alabaster brow Handmaiden Swartkrans Alphabet to E-mail: How Written English Evolved and Where It's Heading Royal & SunAlliance Cachao Lopez Ravan A. G. Farhâdi (and most of the Category:Ambassadors to the United Nations articles.) John Seddon Inigo Llywelyn Derrick Ashong James Basire Ed Lowe (mainly because of the name) Michael G. Cornelius El Bulli Target hardening Sunny Afternoon No Place Paradise Bay Neko Harbour Y1 (tobacco)

A baby komodo dragon. Aaaahhhhh.

To do:

These are good for newbies and oldies.

Other helpful links: