User: Ta bu shi da yu

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Hello.

First of all, a message from God to all Americans in Florida.

Second, my username is unusual (I know). If you want to know more, have a dig around Kuro5hin. You may also want to know me as TBSDY as it's easier to type...

I have a focus article that I'm working on at the moment. Please feel free to assist me!

I've so far fixed up the Holly Valance and Pnau stories. I fixed up the Pnau story mainly because I went to school with the members so I figured I might as well do it. I fixed up the Holly Valance story because it didn't show the bit where she got sued by her manager because she sacked him by fax 15 months before his contract was due to expire. Heck, for that last one I actually contacted Universal's media relations people to get images I could put on Wikipedia that wouldn't break copyright. I created the Nick Littlemore, Star of the Sea College, William Jefferson Blythe III, Leon Ritzenthaler and (my favourite) exploding whale stories. The exploding whale story has now become a featured article! woohoo!

I'm also mentioned in the AdTI article for my article I submitted to Kuro5hin, Critique of Ken Brown's Response.

Possibly the coolest pages on here (IMHO) is Wikipedia:Australian wikipedians' notice board and Wikipedia:WikiProject Sydney.

Contents

1 Admin links 2 Useful links 3 Subpages 4 Things for me 5 Articles I created 5.1 People 5.2 Events 5.3 Organisations/Businesses 5.4 Other 6 Articles I got from the public domain 7 Articles I'm attempting to cleanup 8 Articles I've cleaned up successfully 9 Articles I've made more complete 10 Articles I think are bad 11 Wilhelm Imaging Research

Admin links

• Wikipedia:Requests for sysop attention
• Wikipedia:Administrators' reading list
• Wikipedia:How to fix cut and paste moves
• Wikipedia:Requested moves
• HTML to Wiki table markup
• Category:Candidates for speedy deletion
• Special:Blockip

Useful links

Here are some Open Tasks : Copyedit: To Live and Shave in L. A., Politics of Palau, Substantial equivalence, Kisii, Minjung Wikify: Peter Koelewijn, Pakistan's Satellite Launch Vehicle, Northern Somali sultanates, P.A. Biefeld, More... Update: Mohammed Omar, Darfur conflict, Paralympic Games, Economy of Iraq, Toronto Raptors, More... Merge: Southhold, NY, Rave party, Recessive gene, Taboo Tuesday, More... Requests: Operation Pierce Arrow, Halfway to Sanity, Armstrong award, Côte-Nord, Hartmut Jürgens, More... Stubs: Nanyang, Belize River, Python, Banu Qasi, Regional American English, Point of Entry, DMV, More... More tasks can be found on pages needing cleanup, attention, expansion, categorization, and peer review.</div>

• Wikipedia:Policy Library
• Wikipedia:Cite your sources
• Wikipedia:Verifiability
• Wikipedia:Wikiquette
• Wikipedia:Civility
• Wikipedia:Conflict resolution
• Wikipedia:Brilliant prose
• Wikipedia:Neutral point of view
• Wikipedia:Pages needing attention
• Wikipedia:Peer review
• Wikipedia:Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense
• Wikipedia:Village pump
• Wikipedia:Boilerplate text
• Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits
• Wikipedia:Wikipedia in the media

Subpages

• /cool pages
• /odds and ends

Here are some of the Countering Systemic Bias project open tasks. CSB is currently being simplified and fixed - see the Talk page. This template may soon be redundant. CSB collaboration of the fortnight: Second Sudanese Civil War Country carousel: A country is selected from a list every fortnight. Burkina Faso, Category, Politics, History, Blaise Compaoré, Music of Burkina Faso Voted items: Every fortnight, 5 articles are chosen in the voting section. Nigeria Labour Congress, Culture of Turkmenistan, Nadine Gordimer, List of African writers (by country), Roy Wilkins. (* Any starred articles have a limited geographic scope.)

Things for me

• User:Ta bu shi da yu/norants
• User:Ta bu shi da yu/Latham articles

Articles I created

People

• Nick Littlemore - currently a stub, founding member for Pnau
• William Jefferson Blythe III - father of Bill Clinton
• Leon Ritzenthaler - brother of Bill Clinton
• William Roscoe Estep - Baptist historian and professor, one of the foremost experts on the Anabaptist movement of the 16th century
• Roger Donaldson - New Zealand film director, producer and writer
• Richard Blumenthal - Connecticut Attourney General

Events

• Exploding whale - this is now a featured article!

Organisations/Businesses

• Star of the Sea College
• L.J. Hooker
• New Zealand Film Commission
• Times Square Church

Other

• Organisationally Unique Identifier
• Burned-in address

Articles I got from the public domain

• Ocean Turbidity
• Sea Surface Temperature
• Hurricane Bob
• Gamma ray spectrometer
• Mars Radiation Environment Experiment
• Thermal Emission Imaging System
• Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer
• National Geophysical Data Center
• National Oceanographic Data Center
• Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System
• Global Temperature-Salinity Profile Program
• Global Oceanographic Data Archaeology and Rescue Project
• World Ocean Database Project
• National Snow and Ice Data Center

Articles I'm attempting to cleanup

• Epson - I used to work for this company, so I welcome people who find my POV sticking through. I'll try to write in an unbiased fashion!
• Christian views of women - I marked this to VfD because I don't believe this piece will ever become a good piece displaying a NPOV, though User:Andrewa might have proved me wrong (see his rewritten introduction). The vote was to keep, so if you can't beat 'em, join 'em. I'm attempting to clean this up, and bloody hell if it's not hard! It started life as a crap article, and I suspect it's going to be a crap article for quite some time. In the meantime I'm saying why I'm taking out verses in the talk section.

Articles I've cleaned up successfully

• Windows XP - this has had many criticisms, and I'm no fan of Microsoft, however there were plenty of assertions not backed up (like the words "many critics" and "some people"). I've removed all them and cited actual critics. As an opposing viewpoint I've included Microsoft's viewpoint (a link to their Freedom to Innovate newsletter) and would have included a link to an opposing whitepaper by ACT and CompTIA, however this has been withdrawn. I took it to WP:FAC, but too many lists. Can't be bothered battling it out to get this into prose form!
• Line - disambiguated.

Articles I've made more complete

• Pnau
• Holly Valance - I added images of her covers, and also added information about the fact she was sued and had to pay money to her old manager. Hopefully should be NPOV.
• March 1 - I've added heaps! Check out comparison of page before and after my edits
• MAC address - added the stuff on LAA, UAA, BIA, unicast, multicast, broadcast & functional addresses... also noted that MAC addresses are very important to Cisco's HSRP (hopefully someone will write up about this one day).
• Book of Judges
• 2001 Mars Odyssey
• NOAA
• Mr. Potato Head
• File Transfer Protocol - added how active mode works

Articles I think are bad

• Abington School District v. Schempp - this is an infidels.org essay. Probably one of the biased article I've seen so far and not a good example of a NPOV
• Christian views of women - I marked this to VfD because I don't believe this piece will ever become a good piece displaying a NPOV, though User:Andrewa might have proved me wrong (see his rewritten introduction). VfD status: vote to keep, mores the pity. I'll do my best to clean it up then.

Wilhelm Imaging Research

• See Talk:Wilhelm_Imaging_Research for the relevant discussion. Oneliner 16:11, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)