User: Niteowlneils

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I hereby award you a long-overdue Wikipedia Barnstar for having the patience to turn B-Movie Bandit substubs into real, live articles. You really deserve a lot more of these awards. - Lucky 6.9

My home page: http://www.niteowlneils.com/
My resume: http://www.freelancesoftwaretester.com/
Some of my other (minimally developed) Websites

Music I like

I've been editing Wikipedia since 2/23/04. I have been averaging 300-700 edits per week, but that number will drop considerably 6/2/04, when I start working at a new contract job.

I regularly do Recent Changes patrol, and recently have started doing New Pages patrol. Being an introvert IRL, the pattern continues here--I rarely leave "welcome" messages--only under special circumstances, such as a personalized welcome to someone whose initial contrib I heavily edited, as I didn't want to bite a newcomer, and a few for people contributing a series of unacceptable articles, such as copyvios.

My primary contributions

My Edit summary glossary

My personal WIWO (a start)

Tips

Tips for teachers and professors considering starting a Wikipedia-related school/class project: Wikipedia:School and university projects

Pages that take forever to find and tools

Wikipedia:How to fix cut and paste moves {{Wrongtitle|title=}}

Actor/movie lists

User:Niteowlneils/IMDb movies over US$200,000 worldwide--only missing 5 articles!

Note: From http://www.starseeker.com . I've linked the names blindly (mostly search and replace), so, especially with movie and TV series names, check for alternate spellings/forms (EG +/- "A", "The", etc.). Also, please feel free to add any names that are missing.

• User:Niteowlneils/actors-a-b
• User:Niteowlneils/actors-c
• User:Niteowlneils/actors-d
• User:Niteowlneils/actors-e-f-g
• User:Niteowlneils/actors-h-i-j-k
• User:Niteowlneils/actors-l
• User:Niteowlneils/actors-m-n-o
• User:Niteowlneils/actors-p-q-r
• User:Niteowlneils/actors-s
• User:Niteowlneils/actors-t-u-v-w-x-y-z

Browser versions I test with

• Mozilla 1.4
• Opera 7.02
• IE 5.5
• Netscape 7.1
• Firefox 0.8
• (rarely) SBC/Yahoo 1.0.05.409

Tutorial

My "sandbox" copies of articles I'm thinking of suggesting adding to the tutorial:

• a shorter glossary (altho' I think an even shorter one might be better for the basic tutorial, or maybe divide it between fairly simple concepts (EG page, stub), and more complex ones (EG Infobox, Transwiki)--I'm still working on this suggestion.

I got it down to 10 entries, and added a link to it from the wrap-up page of the Tutorial on 4/29/04

• a page about registration (I think this one's pretty much done--my current inclination would be to put it before the page listing other tutorials (currently page 7)).

I added it to the flow 4/28/04 Niteowlneils 22:09, 29 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Guide

My "sandbox" copies of articles I'm thinking of adding to a new Advanced tutorial, the goal of which I see being giving people that have mastered the basics covered in the tutorial, guidance in writing good Wikipedia-style articles, some info on key backend processes/areas, any shortcuts they can use, and ideas about various ways they can contribute.

• User:Niteowlneils/Guide outline
• User:Niteowlneils/Guide outline/Content problems

New Pages study

• User:Niteowlneils/NewPagesStudy (list of 100 articles from a 4-day old "New Pages" list, with notes on their condition when I checked them) (Work in progress--less than 20% complete)

Initial stats: approx 76 by registered Wikipedians; 11 by PZFUN, 9 by Sfoskett, 9 by Darra

Alternate Admin Accountability Policy

User:Niteowlneils/Draft AAAP

CSD or Not

Just starting to collect samples--not ready for votes yet.

User:Niteowlneils/csdornot/

Sample 'schools of {state} table

Work in progress.

User:Niteowlneils/SchoolTable

User:Niteowlneils/Providence County, Rhode Island schools

Kneejerk "Keep" votes resulted in keeping self admitted prank article

article (02:01, 6 Dec 2004 . . 66.27.88.74 version):

{db|This page is a prank. I am the other one of the persons who started it. Check the IPs. Please. I am the other prankster (again, check the IPs -- they are dinamically generated, but it can be verified that they come from the same source). Another way of verifying that it really is a prank is by asking Gabriel himself (you can get his email from his website), or by noticing that Gabriel isn't actually Basque.}}

Gabriel Uzquiano is a Basque philosopher and logician and an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York, U.S.A. Uzquiano has done work in set theory and metaphysics. He will be a tenured professor at Ohio State University beginning in fall of 2005.

votes:

Delete as vanity... AtonX 23:39, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)

• Delete. NeoJustin 01:33, Nov 16, 2004 (UTC)
• Delete if not expanded to show notability by the end of voting. Geogre 01:46, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• Keep. One of only two philosophers on the List of Basques, which is not an overloaded list overall by any means. Suggests notability to his Basque home culture above that of your average philosophy professor at an American university. Don't have time to wade through the list's edit history, but the fact that the page as vfded didn't even mention he was Basque rather suggests the link from List of Basques was not link-spamming. (I've just added the Basque bit, if you're looking presently.) Samaritan 08:56, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• Keep notable. —Florescentbulb 03:34, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• Keep. I don't believe this is vanity. Also, the article should be updated to reflect his upcoming move to Ohio State, as reported in the Philosophical Gourmet blog run by Brian Leiter. Posiduck 03:36, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• Keep. I'm almost certain that it's not vanity. Notable logician. Factitious 04:30, Nov 19, 2004 (UTC)
• Keep it. RaD Man (talk) 10:21, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)