User:Éireann/archive/users/admins/former

The following is my archive of User Pages of Former Admins on Wikipedia.

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''Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generation beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe. Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition?''     &mdash; Ralph Waldo Emerson

''Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.'' &mdash; Albert Einstein (quoted in the New York Times, March 13, 1940)

Wikipedia projects of interest

 * Marine Corps portal
 * Military History - WikiProject
 * Neglected articles
 * WikiProject Fact and Reference Check
 * Maintenance
 * RC patrol

Resources / lists

 * List of battles 1901-2000
 * Naval biographies

Selected contributions

 * articles on Commandants of the Marine Corps &mdash; create missing articles, expand existing if needed &mdash; completed
 * articles on Sergeant Majors of the Marine Corps &mdash; create missing articles, completed
 * articles on Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipients &mdash; in progress (completed WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam)
 * Marine Corps Portal &mdash; evergreen project in progress

Most recent new articles

 * LtGen William K. Jones, decorated combat veteran of three wars - Navy Cross, Silver Star, Bronze Star, Purple Heart - 11 Jan 2009
 * LtGen John R. Allen, Deputy Commander CENTOM; first Marine to be Commandant of Midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy - 4 January 2009
 * LtGen George R. Christmas, USMC (ret), Navy Cross, President/CEO Marine Corps Heritage Foundation - 4 January 2009
 * RADL Alan T. Baker, Chaplain of the Marine Corps - 30 December 2008
 * LtGen Robert B. Johnston, USMC (ret), CENTCOM Chief-of-Staff — 30 December 2008
 * Major General David M. Jones, USAF, Doolittle Raider &mdash; 2 Dec 2008
 * Robert Sherrod - 30 Nov 2008
 * John F. Kelly - 28 Nov 2008
 * John S. Brown - 22 Oct 2008
 * General William L. "Spider" Nyland, USMC, Asst CMC &mdash; 4 July 2007
 * Clarke Glacier &mdash; 24 June 2007
 * General Thomas R. Morgan, USMC, Asst CMC &mdash; 27 May 2007
 * General Kenneth McLennan, USMC, Asst CMC &mdash; 27 May 2007
 * General Samuel Jaskilka, USMC, Asst CMC &mdash; 27 May 2007
 * Major General Ross T. Dwyer, USMC &mdash; 27 May 2007
 * Rear Admiral William O. Gallery, USN &mdash; 21 May 2007
 * Major General Ray L. Smith &mdash; 19 May 2007
 * Rear Admiral Philip D. Gallery &mdash; 18 May 2007
 * Brigadier General Edwin H. Simmons &mdash; 13 May 2007
 * Major General Carl B. Jensen, USMC &mdash; 6 May 2007
 * RADM Mark W. Balmert, USN &mdash; 6 May 2007
 * LtGen Nicholas Kehoe, USAF&mdash; 17 March 2007
 * Aubrey McDade &mdash; 15 March 2007
 * Carlton W. Kent &mdash; 20 January 2007
 * Richard E. Cavazos &mdash; 17 January 2007
 * Gerald C. Thomas — 13 January 2007
 * Keith J. Stalder — 12 January 2007
 * Alan Shapley &mdash; 06 January 2007

To Do

 * Add for William K. Jones -, , , youngest USMC battalion commander, Tinian, Korean War, MCA PDf, and HTML, Boys of '67, Tawara quote, 3rd Marine Division
 * LtGen Samuel L. Howard, USMC, NC, PH - ANC, Semper Fidelis, Inspector General USMC, Gen of WWII, WWII NPS.
 * Jefferson Award for Public Service -, "Nobel Prize for Public Service", founded by Jackie Kennedy Onassis
 * Gordon L. Rottman - author of military histories
 * Matice Wright - first African American female U.S. Naval aviation officer
 * DoD Still image
 * Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps
 * Marine Corps Book of Lists, page 145
 * History Channel]
 * Col William A. Lee, USMC &mdash; Chesty Puller's Gunnery Sergeant in Nicaragua, 3 Navy Crosses prior to WWII, and was the heavyweight boxing champion of the fleet
 * Bio
 * Obit
 * House resolution
 * Douglas-Mansfield Act, Public Law 82-416
 * Marine Corps History, GlobalSecurity.org
 * Reorganizing The Fleet Marine Force: From Division-Wing Teams To Marine Expeditionary Brigades, GlobalSecurity.org
 * Once and Future Marines, pdf.
 * Marine Corps Gazette, December 2006.

Expand
 * Vice Adm. Samuel L. Gravely, Jr., USN, Chief of Naval Personnel.

DYKs

 * ... that in World War II, David M. Jones, later a U.S. Air Force Major General, participated in events that formed the basis for two Hollywood movies: Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo and The Great Escape?


 * ... that George R. Christmas (pictured), then known as Captain Christmas, received the Navy Cross for "extraordinary heroism" in the Vietnam War?


 * ... that William K. Jones, awarded the Navy Cross and the Silver Star for valor at Tarawa and Saipan, was the youngest commander of a U.S. Marine Corps battalion during World War II?


 * ... that in October 1965, Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps LtGen Richard C. Mangrum, Navy Cross recipient at Guadalcanal, became the first Marine to be the "Gray Eagle" of Naval aviation?

Adminship
Useful Admin reading:
 * Administrators' reading list
 * Administrators' how-to guide
 * Administrator's Noticeboard
 * Administrator's Noticeboard for Incidents
 * Administrator's Noticeboard for Three-revert-rule violations

Idont Havaname
I joined Wikipedia on 12 Nov 2004 and became an administrator on 6 Jan 2006. On Wikipedia, I've edited a wide variety of articles; take a look at my contributions for what some of those are, or just scroll down for a list of articles to which I've made major contributions. I also participate in articles for deletion and requests for adminship. In addition, as an administrator I roll back vandalism (mainly in recent changes); and I carry out speedy deletions. In addition to my work here, I have user accounts at the  Wikiquote, Meta, and the Baseball Wikicity.

For those who are curious about my editing stats, you can see my edit count by entering my user name into Interiot's Tool or Interiot's "Wannabe Kate" tool, and you can also check how I compare to other editors by looking at the list of most active Wikipedians and the list of Wikipedians by number of recent edits. (Though, as some people here have said, "editcountitis can be fatal".)

As of right now, this user page has been vandalized 15 times. Thank you to all who revert vandalism to my user page. :-)

I have been impersonated by Ido Havaname.

Significant contributions
I've tried to list these in reverse chronological order (i.e., the newest ones are first).

Original articles
Blue Fire | Siam Park (Tenerife) | ProSlide | Mary Fahl | Monte Makaya | The Deadlines | ThouShaltNot | Alexander Semin | Nariman Farvardin | Dan Wilson (baseball player) | Jeff Halpern | Lenny Harris | Chris Aguila | Jason Vargas | Mark Teixeira | Rusty Greer | Roadside Monument | Crashdog | Spitfire (US band) | Todd Jones (baseball player) | Scott Kazmir | Kevin Pittsnogle | Scott Boras | Eva O | Jody Davis | Carl Barger | Nightingale Island | Kannapolis Intimidators | Mark Mulder | Bison Dele | Bryant Reeves | Armando Benitez | Juan Pierre

Articles on the Main Page as part of Did you know?:
 * Mary Fahl - December 19, 2006
 * ProSlide - February 24, 2007
 * Siam Park - January 9, 2008

Stub/substub expansions
Radhames Liz | Carlos Martínez | Pat Peake | Klank | Criss Angel | Colby Nolan | The Last Dance | Kurt Ainsworth | Walter Young | Antestor | Al Denson | Matt Riley | A.J. Burnett | Day of Fire | Louis Washkansky | Stretch Arm Strong | Showbread | Inaccessible Island | Heather and Heidi Burge | Trans-Siberian Orchestra

I also expanded a substub article for the band Vomitorial Corpulence, but that article was deleted in an AfD that only got two votes. I had heard of the band, seen that another editor had created a stub about them, and decided to expand the article. (This was on March 22, 2005, so I've had many more edits since that one.)

Other significant expansions
(Probably not complete)
 * Zao (US band) - reworked/expanded History section (about 8 paragraphs)
 * Aníbal Sánchez - not quite done there yet, but I added more about his no-hitter against Arizona and plan to add more sources from prospect reports
 * Flight of Fear (Paramount's Kings Dominion) - Layout, statistics and awards, and theming sections
 * Kings Dominion - 12 paragraphs to the History section; history sections for themed areas and attractions

Extensive cleanups
Matt Darey | Saviour Machine | Jeremy Bonderman | Knockout Kings | Subwoofer | Double Teamed | Ron Mercer

Caught copyvios
Due to the nature of copyright violations on Wikipedia, these articles might be deleted and then reappear at some later date. By viewing the deleted edits of an article, you can tell that there was once copyvio on the page. Note that this list was compiled while the template was used on all copyvio edits, rather than just pages whose whole history had contained copyright violations. (The new instructions for dealing with copyright violations are located at Copyright violations.)

Carol Banawa | William Burnet Tuthill | Christiano Ronaldo (Cristiano Ronaldo) | Motion City Soundtrack | Slowreader | Hannah the usul | Hannah and the Pirate Caves | Sri Cempaka | Alove for enemies | Nodes of Ranvier (band) | A Life Once Lost | Halifax (band) | Emo, Ontario | Real McKenzies | Golden Baseball League | Raul Roco | Louis Washkansky | Denise Darvall | Zao

Edit milestones
Note: Some of my edits have been deleted since I made them, such as when I listed articles for speedy deletion. These are where the milestones are as of July 28, 2006.
 * My first edit was voting Keep in Votes for deletion/List of "You have two cows" jokes on 17:33, 12 November 2004.
 * My 1000th edit was fixing a line break in George Lambert (VC) on 04:03, 17 February 2005.
 * My 2000th edit was a vote to Speedy delete at Articles for deletion/Phatbarrin on 23:26, 28 June 2005.
 * My 3000th edit was part of a process to convert Paul Wilson into a disambiguation page on 20:11, 1 September 2005.
 * My 4000th edit was adding myself to the list of members of the Forum for Encyclopedic Standards on 21:34, 22 November 2005.
 * I had 4146 edits when Jaranda nominated me for my request for adminship on 30 December 2005.
 * My 5000th edit was fixing a double redirect to feel-good story on 00:10, 28 February 2006. (Writing this reminded me to delete the two redirects I had placed to that now-deleted page!)
 * Writing this list on 19:50, 28 July 2006 (UTC) was my 6000th edit.
 * My 7000th edit was fixing my signature in this AfD on 22:56, 16 January 2007.
 * My 8000th edit was changing "EPA" to "Environmental Protection Agency" in Springfield (The Simpsons) on 21:11, 8 June 2008.

Wikiphilosophies
This section contained a bunch of my thoughts on different issues regarding Wikipedia, both as a whole and in its specific parts. In case you've followed an older link to this section of my user page, I've moved this to User:Idont Havaname/Wikiphilosophies, since it was starting to get long.

My standards for admin candidates and a list of administrators whose candidacies I supported are available here. Additionally, here are my voting standards for the Arbitration Committee elections in December 2006 and December 2007.

Wikimemberships
Here are a few associations and WikiProjects in which I am involved.
 * Association of Deletionist Wikipedians, but with caveats
 * Association of Mergist Wikipedians
 * Association of Copyright Violation Hunting Wikipedians
 * Confessed Wikipediholics
 * Forum for Encyclopedic Standards
 * Linkspam Fighting Brigade
 * Welcoming Committee
 * WikiProject Countering Systemic Bias
 * WikiProject Ice Hockey
 * WikiProject Roller Coasters
 * I was also a semi-active member of Esperanza before that project was decentralized.

To-do list
Very few of these ever get done.
 * Expand Josh Hamilton (baseball player) to include more details about his baseball career
 * Keep working on Aníbal Sánchez
 * Stub expansions for Florida Marlins and Washington Capitals players
 * Add some more sources to the history of Zao (US band)
 * Perpetual to-do: Requested articles/sports, mainly the baseball section.