User:GabeIglesia


 * Not to be confused with Gabriel Iglesias.

My interests on Wikipedia include anything from international relations to astronomy to video games. As a detail-oriented editor, I identify as a WikiGnome. As such, most of my edits are typo fixes, grammatical improvements, bolding main subjects and abbreviations, citations, Wikilinks, disambiguation pages, redirects, and category pages. In my view, improving the little details helps improve the bigger picture overall. On occasion, I do create articles of my own and make effort to substantially improve stubs (see projects below).

Templates

 * Template:United States Assistant Secretaries of State
 * Template:Antioch College

My current Wikipedia to-do list

 * Expand U.S. Bilateral Relations Fact Sheets and Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
 * Update Ambassadors of the United States, list of ambassadors to the United States, and list of current Permanent Representatives to the United Nations
 * Add succession boxes for various U.S. ambassadors and officials
 * Update and expand infoboxes for various U.S. ambassadors and officials
 * Clean and update references for various U.S. ambassadors, officials, and government agencies
 * Find OIG reports for expanding government agency infoboxes
 * Fix bolding in lead paragraphs, per MOS:BOLDTITLE and MOS:BOLDSYN
 * De-capitalize section headings, per MOS:SECTIONCAPS
 * Tag article talk pages with the appropriate English variant, per MOS:TIES
 * Tag article talk pages for WP:USGOV
 * Invite editors to WikiProject United States Government
 * Search for information from the State Department's Office of the Inspector General and Office of the Historian to expand State Department-related articles
 * Starting January 20, 2017, update government officials to reflect end of terms (i.e. any politically-appointed Assistant Secretaries of State, Under Secretaries of State, Ambassadors, etc. who are stepping down)
 * Edit Assistant Secretary and Ambassador articles to update the appointer in the infobox (Many say Barack Obama or John Kerry, but should be changed to the general post)
 * Clean up the mess that is the Model United Nations article
 * Update Foreign Affairs Policy Board
 * Expand State Department bureau articles with information from the Congressional Budget Justification
 * Add Peace Corps alumni to Peace Corps volunteer category (and alumni of other programs)

Scripts, gadgets, and other shortcuts I use

 * HotCat
 * Twinkle
 * delsort.js
 * AutoWikiBrowser

COI declarations
In accordance with Wikipedia's conflict of interest policies, I declare my connection with the subjects of the following articles.
 * United States Diplomacy Center - Former intern at the State Department
 * Antioch College - Alumnus
 * Olive Kettering Library - Alumnus of Antioch College
 * Bureau of Public Affairs - Former intern at the State Department
 * Bureau of International Organization Affairs - Former intern at the State Department
 * Tom Manley (college president) - Alumnus of Antioch College
 * Foreign Service Institute - Staff

Contributions to State Department articles
Per 5 FAM 777 in the Foreign Affairs Manual:

"Employees, acting in their private capacity, may establish personal blogs, wikis, or any other collaborative forum; however, the provisions of 3 FAM 4172.1-3 must be followed. Any posting to a wiki or blog that contains information "of official concern" to the Department must be cleared through PA (for domestic employees) or Chief of Mission (for employees serving abroad), unless being referenced from existing publicly available information. No employee shall accept compensation from any source other than the United States Government for writing that relates to the employee's official duties."

Edit conflicts and discussions I have been involved in

 * Visa policy of the United States
 * Governor-General of the Union of South Africa
 * Rex Tillerson picked as Secretary of State
 * Russian interference in the 2016 United States election
 * 2016 election of Donald Trump
 * Rex Tillerson's Wikipedia picture

Wikipedia presence elsewhere

 * User page on Wikimedia Commons
 * User page on the Japanese Wikipedia

Some useful editing guidelines, tools, and pages

 * Notability guidelines
 * List of policies and guidelines
 * Wikipedia's deletion policy
 * Proposing a deletion
 * Criteria for an immediate deletion
 * How to add an image to an article
 * Wikipedia's policy on non-free content
 * Copyright tags for files
 * Copyright tags for non-free content
 * Userboxes for user pages
 * How to make a redirect page
 * Stub categories
 * Vandalism warnings
 * Template messages
 * Welcome messages
 * Service awards for registered Wikipedia editors
 * Guidelines for students and teachers
 * reFill
 * Quality scale for assessing Wikipedia articles
 * Succession box guidelines
 * Video game article guidelines
 * Requests for comment
 * Currently pending changes
 * Requested articles
 * List of infoboxes
 * The Wikipedia Library
 * Dashboard
 * Task Center
 * Perennial websites as external links
 * External links normally to be avoided