User:Albany NY

Welcome to Albany NY ' s user page. I have been editing Wikipedia since 2006. Although my original focus was on improving articles relating to New York's Capital District, I often edit articles in numerous areas. Common tasks of mine include adding infoboxes, geolinks, and references to articles, wikifying dead-end pages, creating redirects, uploading photographs, editing section headings, and formatting bold text, italics, and capitalization. I'm a fairly passionate inclusionist in regard to Wikipedia philosophy (see ).


 * List of contributions to Wikipedia
 * Edit count and statistics

Significant contributions
I have made significant contributions to the following pages. Articles that I created are in bold.
 * The Alan Colmes Show
 * Albany City Hall
 * Albany City School District
 * Albany High School
 * Albany Institute of History & Art
 * Alfred E. Smith Building
 * Aquarium of Niagara
 * "The Carnival"
 * Dunn Memorial Bridge
 * Empire State Aerosciences Museum
 * Encyclopedia Brunoniana
 * Erastus Corning Tower
 * Gerald Jennings
 * Legislative Gazette
 * Menands Bridge
 * The Media Project
 * New York State Department of Education Building
 * New York State Executive Mansion
 * New York State Capitol
 * Palace Theatre
 * Quarterback
 * Schenectady City Hall
 * Schenectady Museum
 * Seeing Voices
 * Times Union

Photography
I have taken the following images. Most were shot with a Canon PowerShot S50 digital camera, and some were edited with Adobe Photoshop. I have released them under free licenses.

Edit count milestones
Edit counts in the main namespace:


 * 500 – May 2007
 * 1000 – July 2009
 * 1500 – December 2012
 * 2000 – May 2013
 * 3000 – November 2013
 * 4000 – March 2014
 * 5000 – July 2014
 * 6000 – December 2014
 * 7000 – April 2015
 * 8000 – November 2015
 * 9000 – December 2016
 * 10,000 – March 2019
 * 11,000 – April 2021
 * 12,000 – November 2022

Approximately 95 percent of my edits are to articles, and I have edited more than 10,000 unique pages. I appear on the list of Wikipedians by number of edits, ranked in the 7000s as of February 2016. In September 2013, I was ranked at 2879 on the list of Wikipedians by number of recent edits. I was granted rollback and reviewer rights in February 2015.

You can help!
To contribute to articles related to the Albany area, see:


 * WikiProject Capital District
 * Category:Capital District (New York)
 * Category:Albany County, New York
 * Category:Albany, New York

Wikipedia resources
These documents and tools are useful for contributors to Wikipedia:

Wikipedia

 * Manual of Style: Every contributor should read and be familiar with this document. Unfortunately, many articles do not comply with its guidelines, especially those dealing with section headings, bold text, and italics.
 * Picture Tutorial: A useful reference for dealing with images in articles.
 * Glossary: A directory of common terms used in Wikipedia.
 * Infobox templates: Infoboxes make articles appear much more professional and visually appealing. They should be added to any page where they are applicable.
 * Graphics Lab: A place where Wikipedians work to improve images in the encyclopedia.
 * Featured Picture Candidates: These are some of Wikipedia's best photographs.
 * Article Rescue Squadron: Saving the encyclopedia from itself, one article at a time.
 * Department of Fun: Lots of entertainment and time-wasters.

Tools

 * Edit Counter: Use this tool to find the edit count and statistics of a Wikipedia editor.
 * Wikipedia Article Traffic Statistics: Gives page views for any article and lists Wikipedia's most viewed pages.
 * Deletionpedia: A repository of deleted articles.
 * Firefox: The latest version of the Mozilla Firefox web browser, which includes a spell checking feature for online forms. This allows Wikipedians to easily find spelling errors while editing.

Articles

 * "The Charms of Wikipedia" (Nicholson Baker, The New York Review of Books)
 * "Wikipedia Is the Last Best Place on the Internet" (Richard Cooke, Wired)

The Wikipedia Graveyard
This list memorializes deleted articles and removed features.

Articles

 * Jeopardy! set evolution (now a redirect) (version at U.S. Game Shows Wiki)

Features

 * Date autoformatting
 * "In popular culture" sections (some still exist, but they are banned on other pages)
 * Spoiler alerts

Awards
  requesting comments

Thank you, "fairly passionate inclusionist", for quality articles such as Albany Institute of History & Art and Schenectady Museum, for adding substantially such as to the, for gnomish work from adding infoboxes to capitalization, for restoring referenced content and boldly requesting comments, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:12, 8 June 2015 (UTC)