User:Cheat~enwiki

This is merely an unorthodox sub-page of User:fabartus, so I can tidy that up for visitors and still find this stuff when needed sans extra typing. Cheat 16:16, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

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Purpose
I use this Page as a easy to access 'Scratch Pad' &mdash; But visitors are always welcome.

My Other WikiLinks
My TOC: (NOT really of use TO YOU! I'm afraid.)

Useful links
Current major WikiFocus in the burgeoning 1632 series, and at the rate these works are coming out, it will likely take all summer to finish.

Current Project Articles
At the moment, this whole list is Category:Eric Flint books
 * 1) 1632 series-Talk:1632 series-
 * 2) Assiti Shards series
 * 3) The Grantville Gazettes
 * 4) User:Fabartus/1632series rework -- Utility file use to develop the following too:
 * 5) 1634: The Galileo Affair
 * 6) 1632 Research Committee
 * 7) 1632 Tech Manual forum
 * 8) 1632 Slush
 * 9) Grantville, WV — Maps and information, sourced from 1632.org collected on the fictional town with it's fictional neohistory.
 * 10) Badenburg — The fictional walled town, the second state of the USE (fiction).
 * 11) USE (fiction), etc.

Back burner ToDOs

 * 1) user:fabartus/boxes_sandbox
 * 2) Belisarius series &mdash; expand and do seperate articles; Category:David Drake books
 * 3) User:Fbartus/Scratch02 --060412--Currently use as Section edit in Arsenal of Democracy expansion.
 * 4) user:fabartus/Forward the Mage &mdash; Category:Joe's World series
 * 5) user:fabartus/The Philosophical Strangler&mdash; Category:Joe's World series
 * 6) user:fabartus/Personal Computer Industry -- stub out of eventual article focused on history of same, older information in part from Fire in the Valley and such works.

Quick Refs

 * 0. Newcomers_help_page - The link that keeps going missing! [[Image:Green check.png|12px]]


 * 1) User:Fabartus/scratchpads/Bat of PortArthur
 * 2) Welcome, newcomers
 * 3) Introduction
 * 4) Problem with HomePaging: User talk:Fabartus/Scratchpad01
 * 5) 'Altavista' Narrower than Google Garbage Searches
 * 6) WikiX Tools
 * 7) My Welcome Message -- Rev-B 060406
 * 8) Karmafist's Manifesto -- Grassroots Wikipolitics, some sensible suggestions on fixing some fundamental problems.
 * 9) User:Fabartus/graphics &mdash; Collection of Graphics tricks and techniques (esp. tables)
 * 10) Logbooks &mdash; Record keeping of Templates Applied s.a. {CLEAN, POV, EXPERT, ATTENTION, FACT, etc.} to patrol and clear periodically
 * 11) WikiContacts Index
 * 12) Logbooks &mdash; Various Quick Lookups
 * 13) Template_Log &mdash; Records of where I've applied 'Splash' templates like CLEAN, POV, UNREF, and etc.
 * 14) user:fabartus/wikiContacts_and_Friends
 * 15) user:fabartus/UploadedImages
 * 16) status page
 * 17) Logbooks
 * 18) Template_notes & tricks
 * 19) User:Fabartus/temp -- currently a redirect, reuse as needed
 * 20) Extended image syntax &mdash; About time found! Images 101
 * 21) http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/resource/065_mili.html &mdash; Library of Congress notes on US gov. 'image sources'.
 * 1) Wikisource Scriptorium Page

Off Wikipedia

 * 1) Wikipedia Main Page
 * 2) WikiBooks Main Page
 * 3) Check My Talk at WikiBooks
 * 4) Post My Talk @WikiBooks
 * 5) Wikisource Materials &mdash; Miscellaneos materials like speech texts, recipes and such.

On Wikipedia

 * 1) WP:AFD
 * 2) Deletion log
 * 3) Most_Wanted_Articles
 * 4) Requested Articles - Index
 * 5) Pages needing attention
 * 6) Peer review
 * 7) Recent_changes_patrol
 * 8) General Stubs,sectstub
 * 9) Stubs, Templates Nominated for Deletion &mdash; WP:SFD &mdash; Analog of WP:AfD for squiggly things.
 * 10) Vandalism
 * Category:Candidates for speedy deletion


 * 1) Deadend pages
 * 2) RecentChanges -- Major changes only, hide Bots, ?hideliu???

Maybe patrol

 * WikiProjects --
 * 1) Special:Unusedtemplates --

Tools

 * |24.61.229.179
 * |132.205.45.148

Disputed

 *   &mdash;  Page
 *   &mdash;  Section
 *   &mdash; dispute one line's FACT.
 *   &mdash;  Line

Disputed POV

 * Template:POV Page
 * Template:POV-check Page
 * Template:POV-section Section
 * Template:POV-statement Line

Both Disputed and POV

 * Template:Controversial Page
 * Template:TotallyDisputed Page
 * Template:TotallyDisputed-section Section

Here at WikiP

 * 1) Administrators' reading list
 * 2) Boilerplate text (disambig: Very useful collection of links)
 * 3) WP:CSD == CSD Project Page
 * 4) HELP by Department
 * 5) WikiP Policy Library --
 * 6) WP:VP -- The Village Pump
 * 7) Tools/Editing tools
 * 8) User Scripts -- really need to take time to browse this soon, there are some good tools and variations here!
 * 9) WP:Btw
 * 10) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:User_categorisation

Categories, Templates Arcana

 * 1) Category -- WP:CAT&mdash;The Main Guideline governing Categories
 * Fundamental categories &mdash;This is daughter (subcategory) of CAT:CAT by natural topics
 * 1) CAT:CAT &mdash; Head end list of all categories, so can browse the whole heirarchial tree
 * 2) Category:Articles to be Merged&mdash;WP:MM, put together for merging and moving.
 * 3) How to archive a talk page

Guidelines, How to
*WXYZ indicates have hard copy on paper, quick filed index 'WXYZ'
 * 1) Administrators' how-to guide,
 * 2) Conflict resolution,
 * 3) How to archive a talk page,
 * 4) How to edit a page,
 * 5) Renaming/Moving a Page,
 * Foundation issues,
 * 1) WP:PIC &mdash; Guide to Picture Layout, and options, part of MOS (long-See hardcopy) too)
 * 2) Images &mdash; Guide to Images Layout in general, and options (see hardcopy too)
 * 3) WP:FU&mdash;WP GUIDELINE What Is/IS not Fair USe Images
 * 4) WP:GTL &mdash; Guide to Layout, part of MOS
 * 5) WP:R == WP:RDR == WP:REDIR &mdash; Guide to Redirects, part of MOS (hardcopy)
 * 6) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Footnotes
 * 7) Wikiquette
 * 8) MediaWiki User's Guide: Editing mathematical formulae
 * 9) Merging and moving pages&mdash;WP:MM
 * 10) Template messages --
 * 11) Utilities --
 * 12) WP:WS &mdash; WikiProject Wiki Syntax &mdash; wikiproject list of syntax problem IDed by bots.

Special Link, Lookups, and References

 * 1) Polytonic orthography
 * 2) User:RoyBoy/The 800 Club --
 * 3) Welcoming committee
 * 4) Stub Sorting Subproject
 * 5) Precis on Special Pages
 * 6) Article VfD instructions --
 * Category:Candidates for speedy deletion
 * 1) Special:Newpages
 * 2) Cities Projects
 * 3) Encyl Artys Needed
 * 4) Wikiprojects
 * 5) 1911EBArtys Needed --
 * 6) AdminList Categorized by Recent Activity
 * 7) Complete by uncategorized list of Administrators
 * 8) Lamest Edit Wars
 * 9) Clueless

Things Check out/Examine

 * 1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_English_Dictionary - Forget it. Ridiculously high user fees Use free Dictionary.com!
 * 2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikisource = Destination of source materials, some of which may be good starts for wikiBooks
 * 3) http://en.wikiBooks.org/wiki = WikiBooks references and text project. Some don't like wikiPedian culture

user:fabartus/graphics

Useful Techniques/Tools

 * Embedding GeoCo-Ordinates Template: Geographical location 32.73333°N, 129.86667°W (Nagasaki) (Link indication is beta-test to mapping software.)
 * Edit Counter
 * Counter Summary section only
 * Arbcom Vote Tally (members)

Reminders and ToDo Lists
baby boom--baby Boom--Baby Boom (film)--baby boom's all snarled up, redirect is to film in health articles, etc. Needs someone to check what directs here, and fix links, or move article back, or somesuch. (I'me mad ea big dent)


 * 1) Metrology &mdash; cleanup requests a thourogh dumbing down to lay reader
 * 2) 060422--Customary_measurement_systems and This] &mdash; no one has run with this ball in a month, so get back and expand.
 * 3) Polio &mdash; dumbify intro and mention FDR in introbody. Does not even begin to give the horror of the disease and fear. too clinical.
 * 4) Need an Article 'Recreational boating'
 * 5) Dredge article with much information badly in need of rewrite
 * 6) Update Alternate history (fiction) - w/1632 series


 * 1) Scratchpad01-DOC Problem Bring to the attention of Interiot
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User/fabartus/scratchpads/Bat_of_PortArthur
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User/fabartus/scratchpads/Glacial_Vs_Interglacial_Epocs - Wikified: User:Fabartus/scratchpads/Glacial Vs Interglacial Epocs


 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User/fabartus/battles/Naval_Forces_of_The_Russo-Japanese_War
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User/fabartus/scratchpads/Table_of_US_Weights_and_Measures
 * Mountains- meter to feet conversion additions


 * Promise to Generate new Map for Tsushima Strait Article showing Iki and Mainland Japan plus sliver of Korea

Maybe Someday:
This category contains Wikipedians who participate in the Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting. If you want to add yourself, put on your user page or, if you don't have a user page, on your user talk page. (fab-050701)

Completed To-Do Items
Nagasaki, Nagasaki - 10 August 2005

Community Contributions

 * 1) Weighing In on VfD Policy 050603
 * 2) My Input at Para. 9
 * 3) Above Wikified to page top
 * 4) Some POV edit-war fix suggestions Posted inviting some to read
 * 5) POV Naming Wars &mdash;not to mention most Tsushima Island articles.
 * 6) Mediations in M vs M
 * 7) Weighing in on Junk Templates Also see Talk Post Template Talk: unreferenced - 060412, Spam notify to five Sr. Eds.
 * 8) Archives_as_sources -- School driven RFC+this on nice article citing archival sources.

Articles
I do a lot of technical editing, mainly in history (lifelong avocation) or in science & engineering related topics. Most often, I'll end up doing a whole string of related edits from within a preview window while testing links of whatever edit I started with.

Articles I'm Researching

 * 1) much neglected 1632 series related articles (10ish)
 * 2) User:Fabartus/1632series_rework Project:1632series_rework
 * 3) Battle of Breitenfeld (1631) -- this looks to have some problems. Dig into some books, it cites three.

Temp Files

 * 1) User:Fabartus/scratchpads/VG1_060325%28test%29 DataXferTest063025
 * 2) User:Fabartus/temp-A2cuts -- backup: just in case. Inadvertant Dups of talk when initially archiving. Posted to A-2 when had browser problem editting in IE6. Fra nkB  16:26, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
 * 3) User:Fabartus/temp
 * 4) User:Fabartus/temp1
 * 5) User:Fabartus/temp2
 * 6) User:Fabartus/temp3
 * 7) User:Fabartus/temp4
 * 8) User:Fabartus/temp5 -- permanently allocate: Template debug and experment
 * 9) User:Fabartus/Scratchpad01
 * 10) User:Fabartus/Scratchpad02

Articles I'm Working On (large edits)

 * 1632 (novel) -- 1632 series -- 1632 series characters
 * 1633 (novel) -- Grantville Gazettes -- Ring of Fire -- 1634: The Galileo Affair
 * 1634 The Ram Rebellion -- others listed here first: talk:1632 series

Articles I've suspended Working On (large edits)

 * 1632_series/1632_series_historical_background -- 24.61.229.179
 * Battle of Port Arthur -- Battle of Tsushima -- Russo-Japanese War and related articles

Articles I've suspended Researching
(Casualties of Katrina!)
 * Other battles of Russo-Japanese war (a lot)
 * Timeline of the Russo-Japanese War -- Battle of Chemalpo -- Naval Skirmishes of the Russo-Japanese War
 * Battle of Shantung -- Dalian -- Lushun -- Fleets of the Russo-Japanese War

Dont forget: web reference for additional research: http://www.russojapanesewar.com/tsushima.html
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Boxer_Rebellion&action=edit&section=1 - This has error "had begun to demand" - build a list of known concessions 1894-1897, including extra-terratorality, naval bases and 'Regions' (ala WeiWei, Liaodong, CER, etc.), then incorporate into this causes section. Fabartus 04:58, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Battle of Trafalgar (Aide to author)... on Peer ReviewFabartus 04:12, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Wiki Articles I Started
''Excludes the trivial redirects, Natch!'


 * Manchurian Railway


 * Organosulfur compounds


 * Table of US Weights and Measures : stub Fabartus 04:12, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Wiki Article Contributions
This will never be up to date, I fear!!!

Minor Contributions
Korea Strait -- Tsushima Islands -- Tsushima Strait -- Dalian -- Lushun

Article Significant edits

 * Natural Gas &mdash; Treaty of Shimonoseki &mdash; Siege of Port Arthur
 * Drum (container) &mdash; Battle of Port Arthur &mdash; Russo-Japanese War

Older Work (as Anom)

 * One Computer - User:24.61.229.179 (Office Desk)
 * Fathometer -- Natural Gas

Pending Large Edit Articles

 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User/fabartus/battles/Battle_of_the_Nile
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User/fabartus/battles/Naval_Forces_of_The_Russo-Japanese_War
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User/fabartus/scratchpads/Table_of_US_Weights_and_Measures

Particularly useful Templates
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User Templates, Education
These are sourced in:

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