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Last updated 04:00, 14 June 2008 (UTC) by Tangobot
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- Article Patrol For Editor Mistakes To Provide Assistance (Image placement, policy violations that are generally unknown by some "experienced" editors).
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The Status Bot has been blocked.
See my last edit here.
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Frank is busy in real life and may not respond swiftly to queries. |
About
Currently, my main interest on Wikipedia, is to make a difference in; vandalism, authenticity, quality, NPOV, and researched articles.
I find most disputes about articles time consuming and unpalatable mentally. The main reason is most of the time it is a long, tedious, dispute about a small detail with user #1 arguing it is factual, user #2 saying it's not relevant to the article. I do love debate, and especially the minor, soap opera style ones, but not on Wikipedia.
However, dispute over authenticity, the neutrality of an article, and other policies relation to an article, is usually constructive. In short, I would suffice to say, I dislike minor arguments that slow the progression of an article down for the sake of an almost meaningless detail. Especially when more pressing issues with an article could be ironed out.
I was asked not too long ago by a friend if I wished to be an administrator on Wikipedia, or any other of the Wikimedia Foundations projects. And my response was: "not any time soon". I would find the only thing I could do would be work on the WP:AIV page, and I would probably be too harsh on vandals to be honest. I work on my own server with two mediawiki's, I usually infinite block vandals, and although the vandals are usually page spam blankers (I 99% suspect bots) and not the same as Wikipedia vandalism, I fear I might carry that attitude over to the users of Wikipedia. However, I fully support Administrators and the general administration team, they do a hell of a job in my opinion.
I have noticed, in most RFA's, the level of requirement from the community is, in my opinion, over the top. I see opposes for tiny concerns, in what I would say should be neutrality, as concern for possible action is not the same as the user having done such action. No user is perfect, and as Jimbo has stated, sysopship is: "no big deal". If it came to it, the user can be easily removed from sysop for abuse of his or her power(s). Either way, at least we have some people willing to hand the mop to users without too much hassle. Remember WP:AGF...
Operation Enduring Encyclopedia under attack by vandals. The good thing is they're attacking articles for speedy deletion in this picture...
Email
I'm usually on the #wikipedia-en IRC channel, but if not, just send me an email: wikipediatexaspatriot@yahoo.com
Wikipedia useful portals
Here are some tasks you can do:
- Wikify: Don Angell, Sergio Berlioz, Gene Clark, Maravilla, Alhamiri, Backlog...
- Cleanup: Tourism in the United States, List of music prodigies, Harry T. Burn, 1990 in association football, Software quality, Purwokerto, Backlog...
- Stubs: 1928 in radio, Capitalist Roader, Cable box (outside), CEVNI, Ajeeb, Academic institution, 112, More...
- Verify: Language demographics of Quebec, Pirates in popular culture, Angel, Backlog...
- Update: British Columbia Highway 99A, Australian Senate, Ansari X Prize, BBC One, Bright House Networks, More...
- Neutrality: E. Lee Spence, History of Latinos and Hispanics in the United States, Cod, Jack Dann, Liang-Jie Zhang, Backlog...
- Copyedit: Oru Vadakkan Veeragatha, OC Transpo Route 95, Naidu, Sorcerer Hunters, Gienger, More...
- Merge: Mendez Middle School, Elgin tablets, Institute of Scientific Instrumentation, Backlog...
- Style: Evolution of belief, CD-R, Gladiators (British TV show), Mercer County Park, Henry V (play), More...
- Expand: Bone Against Steel, Jed Buchwald, 1593 in music, Dan Balz, 1962 NFL Draft, The Artist at Work, 1975 Minnesota Twins season, 4G, Michael Curry, More...
- Requests: Interim efficient, Internal knowledge spillover, Linear pricing schedule, Market power theory of advertising, Metaproduction function, More...
- Articles to be split: A Separate Peace, AMV (TV station), Abu Suhail an-Nafi, Adam's Bridge, Afro-Mexican, More...
- Mediation Cabal: help mediate an open case!
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Cleanup backlogs - Review recent overhauls - Active fixup projects - Maintenance projects - Maintenance COTW: be merged
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This user's name is Frank. |
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This user employs a more formal style of writing in articles than in talk pages. |
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This user insists upon using whom wherever it is called for, and fixes the errors of whomever he sees. |
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This user is addicted to semicolons; he or she uses them frequently. |
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This user advocates good grammar usage. |
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This user understands AIM talk perfectly well, but does not use it. Ever. Well, sarcastically sometimes. But that's it. Really. |
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This user contributes with a computer based on the Intel Core 2 Quad microprocessor. |
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This user uses an nVidia graphics card in their PC. |
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