User:Riva2008

Riva2008
Nationality	American

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Interests

• History

• Genealogy

Favorite Quotes

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction."

— Ronald Wilson Reagan

"Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born."

— Ronald Wilson Reagan

"Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy."

— Sir Winston Churchill

Personal Heroes

• Presidents of the United States
• 
  George Washington, 1st President of the United States
• 
  Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States
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  Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States
• 
  Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States

My Contributions

My main contributions will be on Wikipedia pages concerning the Washington County, Ohio area. I will also make some minor edits on other pages as well.

• My 1st edit (March 18, 2008)

Other Projects

• Wikibooks
• Wikiquote
• Wikitonary
• Wikinews
• Wikispecies
• Simple Englsh Wikipedia
• Wikimedia Commons

Wikipedia Stuff

My current Wikistress level.

Tip of the day...

Redirects

A redirect is a page that has the sole purpose to automatically redirect readers to a differently named page; to take the reader where they really wanted to go. Redirects allow a topic to have more than one title. Redirects are used for synonyms, abbreviations (initialisms), acronyms, accented terms (diacritics), misspellings, typos, nicknames (pseudonyms), scientific names, etc.

To create a redirect for the term "Oof":

1. Type Oof in the search box, press ↵ Enter
2. Click on the redlink for Oof that it presents
3. In the edit window that appears, type #REDIRECT [[Foo]] on the first line to make it lead to the article Foo
4. Redirects should be organized in to categories too. Each redirect can have up to seven redirect categories. Categories go on the third line of the redirect. (Note: Plant has a subcategory within the category of scientific name; enter plant after a pipe).

Here are two examples of a redirect category using a category template:

• {{R from birth name}}
• {{R from scientific name|plant}}

Preview your new redirect before saving it. Make sure:

1. There is a big right-facing arrow to the left of the bolded name of your target page name.
2. That your target page is bolded in blue (if it is red, go back and double check your target name in the edit window).
3. That your redirect category has rendered properly and that the boilerplate it presents makes sense.

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Read more at:

Wikipedia:Redirect  

Wikipedia:Categorizing redirects  

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Picture of the day

The sword-billed hummingbird (Ensifera ensifera) is a neotropical species of hummingbird from the Andean regions of South America. Among the largest species of hummingbird, it is characterized by its unusually long beak, being the only bird to have a beak longer than the rest of its body, excluding the tail. It uses this to drink nectar from flowers with long corollas and has coevolved with the plant Passiflora mixta. While most hummingbirds preen using their beaks, the sword-billed hummingbird uses its feet to scratch and preen due to its beak being so long.Photograph credit: Andy Morffew

Wikipedia vandalism information
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Level 4

Low to moderate level of vandalism

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“ → Fail to prepare, prepare to fail ”

— Today's Motto of the Day

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