User:Austex

Skyline of Austin Texas. Scroll right or left.


 * As of July 11, 2010 my signature changed to:  Austex  •  Talk


 * For my own editorial remarks I now use "North Texas Green" color #059033
 * Which apparently originated HERE



Pages that I have created

 * User:Austex
 * Texas Chainsaw House
 * Antlers Hotel (Kingsland, Texas)
 * La Frontera (Round Rock, Texas)
 * Texas Government Newsletter
 * La Frontera (Round Rock, Texas)
 * Texas Government Newsletter
 * Texas Government Newsletter
 * Texas Government Newsletter

Pages that I have very substantially edited

 * Round Rock, Texas
 * Dell Diamond
 * Georgetown, Texas
 * Williamson County, Texas
 * Kingsland, Texas
 * Community Impact Newspaper
 * Williamson County, Texas
 * Kingsland, Texas
 * Community Impact Newspaper
 * Community Impact Newspaper
 * Community Impact Newspaper

My subpages

 * User:Austex/Sig
 * User:Austex/Sandbox
 * User:Austex/Archive
 * User:Austex/Archive2
 * User:Austex/Archive3
 * User:Austex/Text of Articles
 * User:Austex/Special Page/Article Texts
 * User:Austex/Donald G. Martin
 * User:Austex/Donald G. Martin (Austin Texas)
 * User:Austex/Userboxes
 * User:Austex/Antlers Hotel (Kingsland Texas)
 * User Talk:Austex/Paulajakobs
 * User Talk:Austex/Archive
 * User Talk:Austex/Archive1
 * User Talk:Austex/Archive2
 * User Talk:Austex/Archive3
 * User Talk:Austex/Citations

Current Projects

 * 1) I am currently making regular edits to these and other Central Texas articles:


 * Austin, Texas


 * Greater Austin


 * Round Rock, Texas


 * Antlers Hotel


 * Georgetown,Texas


 * Travis County, Texas


 * Williamson County, Texas


 * Community Impact Newspaper


 * 2) Developing and maintaining several articles on  "alternative Wiki" sites
 * because they were otherwise deemed not notable enough for Wikipedia.


 * Just ask if you'd like to see them and I will give you the url
 * At least one is being extensively re-edited from scratch, with a neutral point of view,
 * for possible re-submittal to Wikipedia.


 * 3) Experimenting with creating new userboxes and other items on Wikipedia in the sandbox


 * 4) Experimenting with text boxes with varying background colors

Edit history

 * Here is my most recent personal edit history


 * Here are my Total edits and pie chart of edits.

Active peer reviews

 * Peer review/Williamson County, Texas/archive1


 * Peer review/Community Impact Newspaper/archive1

Personal interests
My kids and family, Writing (I am a published author), Austin media relations, reading, my Kindle, my new iPad, Lake Travis, sailing, collecting Texas pre-state Texas memorabilia,  collecting fossils, collecting postcards, travel (especially Cozumel, Mexico), my work, and ocassionally editing on Wikipedia on a very part time basis here and there as time permits.

Business interests
Writing, public affairs, communications, public relations, crisis management, crisis communications, reputation management, issues management and reputton managment, and Internet reputation management. My new Internet reputation management site is []

Citation Formats for Copying

 * How to create a Talkback  -- or --  on the respondents talk page.


 * (Note: Pre-prepared citations from local books and resources re Round Rock, Georgetown and Williamson County are are available at: [User:Austex/Sandbox]


 * Wikipedia has an automatic "citation generator" located HERE
 * You just fill in the blanks and it generates a relatively decent fully formatted citation.


 * Or feel free to copy and paste the following citation formats into your article and then fill in the blanks:


 * WEB CITATION: . ..
 * NEWS CITATION: . ..
 * BOOK CITATION: . ..
 * (Note: On books the ISBN number is important but can use either the 10 or 13 digit ISBN number)


 * CITE JOURNAL: . ..
 * FREEFORM CITATION . ..


 * For more examples of citation templates from Wikipedia go HERE

Article texts site

 * User:Austex/Special Page/Article_Texts is used to place full articles or portions of articles that are only available through paid archive subscriptions.  In such cases the actual text is transposed to this page.

Use of COLOR

 * To simplify, hit edit and then copy the code below and insert your color # (don't forget to use the # sign before the actual color number):


 * Bold colored text #800080 goes here


 * Here is how the code actually looks in edit format:
 *  Bold colored text #800080 goes here
 * Translates as: Bold colored text #800080 goes here  for new line; or   where the number is an amount of length in px.


 * Code for creating a box (change color code #FFAD2 for a different background color):


 * Translates as:


 * For conflicts of interest edits use template:


 * For leaving a talkback note use:

Userboxes Created
See Sandbox for a list an variety of backgrounds.

Cool Tools

 * GeoCoder for finding coordinates


 * ISBN Cross Checker


 * Edit Counter


 * Is X an Admin?


 * Pages created by X


 * Userbox Maker


 * Citation Generator


 * Davtra's Cheatsheet of Codes and Templates


 * Gizmos


 * Common Sense Tool for creating categories for articles or photos


 * What Links Here?

Special fun images

 * For something fun, this
 * animated image is created
 * with this file:


 * Image:Bouncywikilogo.gif '''




 * Also for your enjoyment:
 * File:Newtons_cradle_animation_book_2.gif



License corrections

 * File:Packsaddle.jpg . . .no license Deleted  Relicensed.
 * File:Antlers caboosses.jpg . . . Lic by Dennis Thomas 2/10/11 by mail No action by OTRS
 * File:Dell Diamond DM.jpg . . .    License provided but missing
 * Note: Garfield McConico image: File:McConico.jpg has been deleted by OTRS July 28, 2010.
 * New Replacement Image instead: Ticket File:McConico2.jpg
 * Note: Austin book cover scan.jpg has been cleared by OTRS
 * File:Dell Diamond DM.jpg . . .    License provided but missing
 * Note: Garfield McConico image: File:McConico.jpg has been deleted by OTRS July 28, 2010.
 * New Replacement Image instead: Ticket File:McConico2.jpg
 * Note: Austin book cover scan.jpg has been cleared by OTRS
 * Note: Garfield McConico image: File:McConico.jpg has been deleted by OTRS July 28, 2010.
 * New Replacement Image instead: Ticket File:McConico2.jpg
 * Note: Austin book cover scan.jpg has been cleared by OTRS
 * Note: Austin book cover scan.jpg has been cleared by OTRS

Images I have uploaded
Below is list of all images I have personally up-loaded in order to keep track of the filenames. Some of these are filed in Wikimedia Commons and are used on other Wiki-related sites that connect to Mikimedia Commons (even through not used in a Wikipedia article). Where additonal licensing was neeeded it is shown below.

Simply click on any photo to obtain the File:name for use in articles and all additional data and licenses.

So, in no particular order:

Images used in articles but not Uploaded by Me

 * These are images used by me in editing various articles (but were uploaded by others to Wikipedia or Commons images)

Links re Don Martin
See also from Don Martin:
 * Reputation-Fix.com
 * Don Martin Public Affairs
 * "Austin" book by Don Martin
 * Texas Government Newsletter]


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