User:Herostratus

I'm Herostratus, I'm a Wikipedia editor and have been since 2005.

My user name was taken in ironic memorialization of the original Herostratus, the greatest vandal of all time, who destroyed the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. I created the Wikipedia Service Awards, which I conceived, wrote, made the images for, published, and shepherded thru deletion attempts. (Other talented editors and better artists have since expanded and improved the awards, of course.)

If I should ever abruptly stop editing, the explanation is probably related to this.

Areas of activity
I have no particular focus and perform a number of random tasks depending on fancy: translating articles from the Russian Wikipedia, writing articles, article cleanup, watching pages, participating in discussions, closing an occasional RfC, and other stuff. I have no areas of content expertise, and write, translate, and edit articles on a wide variety of subjects.

Articles
I've written or started about 330 articles. 320, 340, something like that.

People

 * Scholars
 * Kathy Cramer (academic)
 * Todd Decker (musicologist)
 * Eloise Hubbard Linscott (folklorist)
 * Mary Winslow Smyth (folklorist)
 * Hilary Wilson (Egyptologist)
 * Peter Del Tredici (botanist)
 * Christian Jost (geographer)
 * Richard Hyland (law professor)


 * Musicians
 * Salim Rashid Suri (musician)
 * Antoine (musician)
 * King Biscuit Boy (musician)
 * Brie Howard (musician)
 * Bob Kuban (musician)
 * Peggy Jones (musician)
 * Boston Blackie (guitarist)
 * Lisa Kindred (singer)
 * Snooky Lanson (singer)
 * Vicki Spencer (singer)
 * Marlene VerPlanck (singer)
 * Helen Stuart (singer)
 * January Jones (singer)
 * Gilda Maiken (singer)
 * Imogene Lynn (singer)
 * Janette Davis (singer)
 * Patti Clayton (singer)
 * Haleloke Kahauolopua (singer)
 * Georgia Mae Harp (singer/guitarist)


 * Artists, Illustrators
 * Auguste Migette (French artist)
 * Charles-Raphaël Maréchal (French artist)
 * Fred McCarthy (cartoonist)
 * F. M. Howarth (cartoonist)
 * A. E. Hayward (cartoonist)
 * Dink Shannon (cartoonist)
 * Amadee Wohlschlaeger (cartoonist)
 * S. Carlisle Martin (cartoonist)
 * Dan Martin (cartoonist)
 * Gabriele von Lutzau (German heroine/sculptor)
 * Hermann Ruissel (medieval jeweler)
 * Edward Everett (artist)
 * Jocelyn Ajami (artist)
 * Randall Enos (artist)


 * Theater & Film People
 * William Roerick (actor)
 * Dick Kallman (actor)
 * Gerry Skilton (actor)
 * Vera Michurina-Samoilova (actress)
 * Peter Beauvais (director)


 * Writers
 * Barbara Follett (novelist)
 * Elaine Viets (writer)
 * Alice Feeney (novelist)
 * Patrick Kearney (playwright)
 * Ruth Brooks Flippen (screenwriter)
 * Michael Dyne (screenwriter)
 * Harry B. Martin (golf writer)


 * (Stuff about Thomas Wolfe in particular)
 * Category:Thomas Wolfe and in it:
 * The Web and the Rock (novel)
 * The Good Child's River (novel)
 * The Hills Beyond (novel)
 * Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe
 * List of books about Thomas Wolfe


 * TV & Radio People
 * Durward Kirby (TV personality)
 * David Susskind (TV personality)
 * Gadabout Gaddis (TV personality)
 * Bob Burns (comedian)
 * H. R. Baukhage (newsman)
 * Paul Benzaquin (radio host)
 * Arch MacDonald (broadcaster)
 * Bruce Bradley (radio personality)
 * Willie Whistle (clown)


 * Soldiers
 * Michael von Kienmayer (Austrian general)
 * Johann von Hiller (Austrian general)
 * Bernhard Waber (German general)
 * Metin Ataç (Turkish admiral)
 * Eşref Uğur Yiğit (Turkish admiral)
 * Robert Bevier (Confederate colonel)
 * James McCown (Confederate colonel)


 * Business People
 * Vic Tanny (entrepreneur)
 * Jacob Vollrath (industrialist)
 * Steve Mizerany (businessman)
 * Alvan Kallman (hotelier)
 * Patrick Byrne Magrane (businessman)


 * Mind Gamers
 * Juan Corzo (chess master)
 * Phillip Stamma (chess master)
 * Sidney Lenz (bridge player)
 * Wilbur Whitehead (bridge writer)
 * Edward V. Shepard (bridge writer)


 * Other
 * Vladimir Pavlecka (aircraft designer)
 * Norman Byrnes (lawyer)
 * Rebecca Ann King (Miss America winner)
 * Suzette Charles (Miss America winner)
 * Perle Mesta (socialite)
 * Tommy Manville (socialite)
 * John "Dropkick" Murphy, for whom the band Dropkick Murphys was named
 * Linda Lawrence (muse)
 * Happy Hogan (ballplayer)
 * Chuck Waseleski (sabermetrician)
 * Gail Dines (activist)
 * Richard Milton Bloch (programmer)
 * Mel Lyman (cult leader)
 * George Feigley (cult leader)
 * Cornelius Vanderbilt Wood (amusement park designer)
 * A.J. Weberman (minor character in the Bob Dylan Universe)
 * Echo Helstrom (minor character in the Bob Dylan Universe)
 * Gunnbjörn Ulfsson (Medieval explorer)
 * Thomas Boylston Adams (1910–1997) (Adams Family member)
 * John David Long (politician)
 * Stella Tremblay (politician)
 * James Tracy (communication scholar)
 * Barbara Jane Mackle (crime victim)
 * South County car bomber (lunatic)

Places

 * Things in Tolyatti specifically
 * List of Monuments of Tolyatti
 * Victory Park (Tolyatti)
 * Liberty Square (Tolyatti)
 * Central Park (Tolyatti)
 * Funland Park in Tolyatti
 * Tolyatti Pine Forest
 * Repin House in Tolyatti
 * AvtoVAZ Technical Museum
 * (N.B. These are not translations,
 * the Russians don't have these.)


 * Buildings
 * Ricardo Montalbán Theatre
 * Phoenix Theatre (New York)
 * Village East Cinema
 * Flour and Grain Exchange Building (Boston)
 * Long'ao Building
 * Welsh Presbyterian Church (Liverpool)
 * Victoria Monument (Liverpool)
 * Bjørnfjell Station (Norwegian rail station)
 * Palladium (St. Louis)
 * Rex Center (arena)
 * Cross Point Lowell (Lowell office tower)
 * Hitchcock Estate


 * Geographic Features
 * Slate Island
 * Slate Islands (Alaska)
 * Sheep Island (Massachusetts)
 * Turnip Rock (sea stack)
 * Chongar Strait
 * Tarvas River
 * Jäneda River
 * Sky Pilot Mountain
 * Assekrem (plateau)
 * Bogomerom Archipelago
 * Clement Oak
 * John D. Long Lake
 * Neptune Lake
 * Venus Lake
 * Mars Lake
 * Siskiwit Lake and its subpages


 * Businesses
 * Raymond's (department store)
 * The Bon Marché (Lowell) (department store)
 * Steiger's (department store)
 * R. H. White (department store)
 * C. Crawford Hollidge (store)
 * E. T. Slattery (store)
 * Hi-Fi Fo-Fum (store)
 * Neir's Tavern in NYC


 * Museums & Memorials
 * İnciralti Sea Museum (Turkish museum)
 * Svalbard Museum (Norwegian museum)
 * Slave History Museum (Nigerian museum)
 * Liberty Monument (Nicosia)
 * Italian War Memorial at El Alamein
 * Loyal slaves monument
 * The Good Darky (statue)
 * ICAR Canned Beef Monument (in Bosnia)
 * Kindred Spirits (sculpture) (in Eire)


 * Assorted Other Places
 * Willow Creek, Indiana
 * Schooner Gulch, California
 * Princes Road (Liverpool street)
 * Grand Boulevard (St. Louis)
 * Westwood Country Club
 * White City (Worcester amusement park)
 * Pleasure Island (Massachusetts amusement park)
 * Magazine Beach
 * Peanut Hole
 * Boston Stone
 * Ninestane Rig (neolithic stone circle)
 * Sisters Olive Trees of Noah (olive grove)
 * Oak Room and some of its subpages

Things

 * Books
 * The Web and the Rock (novel)
 * Eco-Song (album)
 * The Hills Beyond (novel)
 * The Good Child's River (novel)
 * Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe (book)
 * Le Dernier Homme (novel)
 * The Life of a Useless Man (novel)
 * Five Smooth Stones (novel)
 * Merton of the Movies (novel)
 * The Hell Bent Kid (novel)
 * Ivan Vejeeghen (novel)
 * Tree in the Trail (book)
 * The Important Book
 * Life Begins at Forty (book)
 * The Second Forty Years (book)
 * The Death of Expertise (book)
 * The Crack in the Picture Window (book)
 * How to Avoid Huge Ships (book)
 * Who’s Bigger: Where Historical Figures Really Rank (book)
 * Hitler's Thirty Days to Power (book)
 * Coffeeland (book)
 * ''Blue on Blue: An Insider's Story of Good Cops Catching Bad Cops (book)
 * A Curious Hieroglyphic Bible (book)
 * The Man from the Train (book)
 * The Kid Who Batted 1.000 (book)
 * The Amboy Dukes (novel)


 * Plays, Poems, Stories
 * We Bombed in New Haven (play)
 * Clevinger's Trial (play)
 * Janus (play)
 * The Flowers of Virtue (play)
 * The Land Is Bright (play)
 * ''The Great Campaign (play)
 * ''The Right Honourable Gentleman (play)
 * The Burning Glass (play)
 * Merton of the Movies (play)
 * Glad To See You (musical
 * The Wonderful World of Chemistry (musical)
 * Marjorie Daw (short story)
 * The Smith and the Devil (fairy tale)
 * Demon (Lermontov poem)
 * Valerik (Lermontov poem)


 * Films & TV Productions
 * Jet Set (film)
 * L'affaire est dans le sac (film)
 * Song of Idaho (film)
 * Now, Forager (film)
 * The Great War of Archimedes (film)
 * Let George Do It (film series)
 * The Tammy Grimes Show
 * After The Deadlines (news show)
 * News and Views (news show)
 * Of Black America (documentary series)
 * Commissioner Roman (fictional Romanian detective)


 * Songs
 * Mister Gallagher and Mister Shean (song)
 * Ubangi Stomp (song)
 * Stranger in Town (Del Shannon song)
 * Wreck on the Highway (1938 song)
 * The Campbells Are Coming (song)
 * In the Gloaming (song)
 * You've Got Possibilities (song)
 * Pride of Man (song)
 * Riding In My Car (song)
 * Nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah (tune)
 * Morgan the Pirate (song)


 * Bands & Groups
 * Swallow (American band)
 * The Dexateens (band)
 * Boxing Gandhis (band)
 * Hunger (band)
 * Echo Helstrom (band)
 * The Buggs (band)
 * Horse Lords (band)
 * The Last Gang (band)
 * Project Z (band)
 * The Blue Caps
 * Six Hits and a Miss (singing group)
 * The Starlighters (singing group)
 * The Skylarks (vocal group)
 * The Mariners (vocal group)
 * The Four Vagabonds (vocal group)
 * The Mel-Tones (vocal group)
 * Helen Carroll and the Satisfiers (vocal group)
 * The Dellwoods (vocal group)
 * Dunhill Trio (dance team)
 * The Jivin' Jacks and Jills (dance team)


 * Breath Mints Etc.
 * Certs (candy mint... er, breath mint)
 * Dentyne Mints
 * Eclipse (mints)
 * Momints (mint)
 * Breathsavers (mints)
 * Halls (cough drop)
 * Walnettos (candy)


 * Idioms
 * My two cents (idiom)
 * You kids get off my lawn! (idiom)
 * Loose lips sink ships (idiom)
 * The dog ate my homework (idiom)
 * I say it's spinach (idiom)
 * Boy howdy (idiom)
 * Throw to the wolves (idiom)
 * Birds of a feather flock together (idiom)
 * Salting a bird's tail (superstition)
 * Odds bodkins (minced oath)


 * Organizations & Businesses
 * Bridge Headquarters (organization)
 * Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology (Massachusetts General Hospital)
 * National Society of Professional Engineers
 * Kardex (storage company)
 * Anderson-Little (clothing company)
 * MAI Basic Four (computer company)
 * Melissa & Doug (toy company)
 * Superior Rug Cleaning
 * Italian Swiss Colony (wine)
 * Chicken Delight (fast food chain)
 * Upper Crust (pizzeria chain)
 * Iowa Select Farms
 * Vitae Foundation


 * Military Events, Units, & Equipment
 * Battle of Lexington, Tennessee
 * Battle of Menotomy
 * Revolt of the Whip (Brazilian mutiny)
 * Hårsfjärden disaster
 * 324th Infantry Regiment (United States)
 * 3rd Tank Regiment (Japan)
 * 4th Tank Regiment (Japan)
 * Czechoslovakian naval forces
 * President Masaryk (monitor)
 * Convair Submersible Seaplane
 * Disston Tractor Tank
 * Cobra King (tank)
 * Howie machine gun carrier
 * Z flag


 * Memes
 * Bankruptcy barrel (visual idiom)
 * Horse head mask (meme)
 * Trump orb (meme)
 * Lying down game (don't ask)
 * Vodka eyeballing (please don't zask)
 * Beezin' (more stupidity)
 * Rinehart (student meme)
 * Rally Squirrel (squirrel)


 * Magazines
 * Red Raven Comics
 * International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology
 * UNIX Review (magazine)
 * Judy (magazine) and its subpages


 * Other
 * First name
 * Status offense (legal term)
 * Interim (concept)
 * Dorcas (given name)
 * Judy (given name)
 * Last Words (phenomenon)
 * Firefighting in Antarctica
 * 1 September 1939 Reichstag speech
 * 6 October 1939 Reichstag speech
 * Laws of Wisbuy
 * Imprisonment of Roger Shuler
 * Gut (coastal geography)
 * Bridge Battle of the Century
 * Funny Face (drink mix)
 * Salvo (detergent)
 * copper gluconate (chemical)
 * Picket boat
 * The Thames (steamship)
 * Yiddish Art Theatre
 * Weatherbird (cartoon)
 * Fix This Now (editorial)
 * Wall Street Lays An Egg (headline)
 * The boy standing by the crematory (photo)
 * Dazzle Draw (paint program)
 * Atacama humanoid
 * List of statues of Elvis Presley
 * Red Raven (manga)
 * Human Top (superhero)
 * Warehouse Coöperative School
 * Texaco Doodlebug (truck)
 * Super Trouper (spotlight)
 * X-Ray Specs (novelty)
 * Laramie (cigarette)
 * Police lock
 * Hobson's joint
 * Paper Hanger (profession)
 * Boning (baseball)
 * Motorcycle chariot racing
 * Bluing and some of its subpages
 * Wig wag and some of its subpages
 * Cape Codder and some of its subpages
 * Lloyd George Knew My Father and some of its subpages
 * 1939 United States elections
 * Montreux Declaration

Almost all of these are pretty short, but on the other hand I greatly expanded or effectively rewrote a few articles, too (Baby Huey (singer), Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe, SpinnWebe, Battle of annihilation, Child sexuality, Ansel Franklin Hall, George Frazier, William Turnbull (artist), Kostroma River, Julia Pirie, 2 Rossi Street, List of Katy Perry songs, Bergen Davis, Gırgır, Trud (newspaper), Curtis Gans, Press-Telegram, Forest Tennant, American Pie Council, James Cox (labourer), Bob Emery (broadcaster), Bishops and archbishops of Bolnisi, Edward Aswell, Kennedy Report on the Reserve Army, Neo-American Church, Lafayette Place Mall, Karin Hübner, Charles Feltman, Battle of Volochayevka, Bouncy ball, Judy Valentine, Kekionga Ball Grounds, Ox Eckhardt, Sailor Song, Castlewood State Park, Loudest band, Steve Sesnick, Edward Whitehead, Alphabetical order (article names), Aloe Plaza, Hugh James (RAF officer), Turkish coup d'état, others).

Two articles I started did become Good Articles (Revolt of the Lash and Village East by Angelika) but obviously all I did on those was get the ball rolling. (I think the GA/FA program is a fine thing, it just don't seem to grab my interest; I guess starting articles or improving articles from "not really all that good" to "not so bad", and working on my own, suits me better.) I have 12 DYKs:. Most of my stuff is serious, but I do have at least two articles at Unusual articles.

Translations
I've translated 120 articles from the Russian Wikipedia.


 * People


 * Engelhardt (Russian noble family)
 * Vasily Engelhardt (Russian astronomer)
 * Fyodor Engelhardt (Russian general)
 * Alexander Nikolayevich Engelhardt (Russian general)
 * Valerian Engelhardt (Russian general)
 * Grigori Engelhardt (Russian general)
 * Alexei Avtonomov (Russian general)
 * Eugene Nikonov (Russian war hero)
 * Victor Nosov (Russian war hero)
 * Vasily Zhilin (Russian war hero)
 * Vladimir Kudashov (Russian war hero)
 * Juliana Gromova (Russian war hero)
 * Georgi Benkunsky (Russian war hero)
 * Yakov Taubin (Russian weapon designer)
 * Mikhail Nikolayevich Ostrovsky (Russian statesman)
 * Peter Obolensky (Muscovite boyar)
 * Fyodor Alexandrovich Golovin (Russian politician)


 * Dmitriy Abramenkov (Russian politician)
 * Yuri Bogdanovich (Russian revolutionary)
 * Vasily Banykin (Russian revolutionary)
 * Konstantin Mikhailovsky (Russian engineer)
 * Yevdokim Zyablovskiy (Russian geographer/statistician)
 * August Davidov (Russian mathematician)
 * Alexei Davidov (Russian musician/businessman)
 * Julius Iversen (Russian phalerist)
 * Stepan Glotov (Russian explorer)
 * Victor Schröter (Russian architect)
 * Fyodor Lidval (Russian architect)
 * Savva Chevakinsky (Russian architect)
 * Valery Androsov (Russian architect/artist)
 * Sandor Ziherman (Russian/Hungarian artist)
 * Matthew Chizhov (Russian sculptor)
 * Yuri Bosco (Russian artist)
 * Alexander Ivanovich Galich (Russian philosopher)
 * Irina Kolpakova (Russian ballerina)


 * Irina Apeksimova (Russian actress)
 * Vladimir Khatuntsev (Russian journalist)
 * Ivan Born (Russian writer)
 * Vasili Popugaev (Russian writer)
 * Vasili Krasovsky (Russian writer)
 * Gavril Kamenev (Russian writer)
 * Domna Anisimova (Russian poet)
 * Barbara Bakhmetev (Lermontov's muse)
 * Marcin Kaspshak (Polish revolutionary)
 * Stanisław Kunicki (Polish revolutionary)
 * Tadeusz Rechniewski (Polish revolutionary)
 * Maria Bohuszewiczówna (Polish revolutionary)
 * Yumiko Kurahashi (Japanese writer)
 * Jorge Lavelli (French theatre director)
 * Garlieb Merkel (German-Latvian writer)
 * Vatslav Kosmak (Czech writer)
 * Max Rychner (Swiss writer)
 * César Graña (American sociologist)


 * Places


 * Annunciation Monastery (Tolyatti)
 * Transfiguration Cathedral (Tolyatti)
 * Central Square (Tolyatti)
 * Obelisk of Glory (Tolyatti)
 * Victory monument (Tolyatti)
 * Mourning Angel (sculpture)
 * Tatishchev Monument (Tolyatti)
 * History of Transport (sculptures)
 * Loyalty (monument)
 * Lesnoe Sanatorium (Tolyatti health facility)
 * Verman River near Murmansk


 * Five Corners, Murmansk
 * Hotel Arctic (Murmansk)
 * Defenders of the Soviet Arctic during the Great Patriotic War (Murmansk monument)
 * Malaya Sadovaya Street in Petersburg
 * Millionnaya Street in Petersburg
 * Tolstoy House (Petersburg building)
 * Saint Peter's School in Petersburg
 * Monument to the Liberator Soldier (Kharkiv)
 * Henichesk Strait


 * Znamensky District, Oryol Oblast
 * Krasninsky District, Smolensk Oblast
 * Bolshekolpanskoe Rural Settlement
 * Stari Poltavka (Russian village)
 * Senteg (Russian village)
 * Krasatinka (Russian village)
 * Verhnie Ozerki (Russian village)
 * Gusino (Russian village)
 * Pasichne (Ukrainian village)
 * Mikhaylovka (Ukrainian village)
 * The Ark (fortress) (Bukhara compound)(greatly expanded existing article with translation)


 * Things


 * Unified Deep Water System of European Russia
 * My Beloved Arctic (Russian song)
 * Alyosha (song)
 * Bureau of Censorship (Russian Empire)
 * Ministry of Transport (Russia)
 * Nikolai M. Knipovich Polar Research Institute of Marine Fisheries and Oceanography
 * Free Society of Lovers of Literature, Science, and the Arts (Russian literary society)
 * Society of Devotees of Natural Science, Anthropology, and Ethnography (Russian scientific society)


 * Rural settlement (Russia)
 * Perseus (Soviet ship)
 * Saint Andrew (ship)
 * Northern Bee (Russian newspaper)
 * The Children's Friend (Soviet magazine)
 * Political Red Cross (Russian relief organization)
 * Dnieper Flotilla
 * Danube Flotilla (Soviet Union)
 * Russian Caucasus Forces (before 1865)
 * Red Banner Caucasus Army
 * Caucasus Military District
 * Battle of the Valerik River (1840 Chechnya battle)
 * Tumen (Soviet patrol boat)


 * Atlas (appliance company)
 * SU-155 (Russian company)
 * Velomotors (Russian company)
 * Revo (drink)
 * Still Waters (Russian film)
 * The Trypillia Tragedy (Soviet film)
 * Ushakov's Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Language
 * ''Enemies (Gorky play)
 * Masquerade (Lermontov play)
 * Death of the Poet (Lermontov poem)
 * The Young Guard (novel)
 * Polish Socialist Party in Prussia
 * Orthodoxy in Spain
 * Kipelov (Russian heavy metal band)
 * Muse (source of inspiration)

Graphics
I've drawn or patched together a few article graphics, and graphics for internal use such as vandal-warning templates. I mean I'm no artist (I have been informed) and some of them were made in PC-Paint, but still, I made them and I might as well own up to them I guess.



(In the last one, I only added the dollar bill and the "no" circle-slash to an existing graphic of a handshake.)

Former administrator
I'm a former administrator on the English Wikipedia. I was made an admin in 2006 but I was recalled for cause in 2010, which is how it's supposed to work. My admin logs: block, deletion, protection. When I stopped keeping count, I had the following AfD contribution stats: of 607 AFD comments, 32% were "Keep" and 68% were "Delete"; but 25% of the articles on which I voted "Keep" were deleted, while only 16% of the articles on which I voted "Delete" were kept. These stats indicate that I'm slightly more inclusionist than the general population. UPDATE: found this cool tool which seems to show that I'm just about at the center of the deletionist–inclusionist bell curve.

I guess was an OK admin... I don't believe I got any complaints for any of my blocks, discussion closes, page protections, or any other admin actions, or for being uncivil. If I am recalling correctly, which possibly not. I did close one requested move wrongly, when this was pointed out I undid it. I was never taken to deletion review or (if I recall correctly) WP:ANI for any admin actions I don't think. (After I was kicked out of the admin corps I figure I don't have to be be so agreeable so I've been in various arguments and hassles for various things, and been hauled to ANI more than once, and sometimes yelled at altho never sanctioned.)

Modo aliquid addere debebam ut insigne not tatam paginae format, sic hic accedit.

Solus editor sum, qui se sponte obtulit ad revocandum et processum usque ad finem secutus. Unicus. Sperabam fore ut haec praxis interdum regularus fieret et auxilium impediret vel saltem tardaret, ah processu cui omnes humanae consociationes subiciuntur.

Certe nigrum novum non fiebat, quod dissapointum sed non miror, et non est futurum etiam si vellemus. Vides ergo ubi sumus, aut fortasse non. Alioqui homines, et de eo nimium solliciti esse non potes.

Iuppiter, imple vacuum. Recte igitur hoc: "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua... tristique senectus. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames. Et malesuada fames ac turpis... Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet... memento mori." -- Ethan Shredlew {{clear}}

Barnstars
I've had the good fortune to have been awarded 45 barnstars.

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And this was nice: "Herostratus: you are doing great work here." -- Jimbo Wales, Nov 24 2010

Not Barnstars

 * This userpage or its subpages have been Visigothed by more than a dozen different mefandissimi Langobardi. Why should the Vandals get all the bad press? How would you like it?
 * I've been ripped to shreds on Something Awful. For background on this, see It's A Wonderful World.
 * I've been ripped to shreds on Wikipedia Review. For background on this, see Holy Jumping Catfish!.
 * I've been ripped to shreds on Encyclopaedia Dramatica. For backgr... never mind. But the link is https://encyclopediadramatica.rs/Herostratus (you have to copy and paste it, as spambot doesn't allow an active link).
 * I haven't been ripped to shreds on Wikipediocracy, but I've been insulted in a kind of offhand and desultory way ("idiot" and so forth) a couple times, more just a function of their autonomic nervous system firing than over any particular matter I guess. I don't have the links because tedious. Ooh, "bloviator" 3/26/16... heh, somebody got a grownup to help with words!
 * I've been blocked twice.
 * I've been strongly admonished by the ArbCom.
 * I've had my administrator rights revoked by the Wikipedia community.

Useful Links
To clarify, this is stuff I find useful in my work. I'm not saying that these are necessarily useful to anyone else.
 * List of policies and guidelines
 * Backlog | Contribution Team/Backlogs | Page Curation

or pp=3,7-13 additional names after Smith for lots of citations to 1 book

url-access=subscription

text give green text


 * reference generatator | article link checker | webcite (request that a URL be archived)
 * Category Tracker |  Dashboard | Feedback requests | Open RfC's


 * OR


 * Template:Sfn (for multiple page refs) | notelist and efn for notes




 * [days] [days]


 * Round robin page move

 gives "Hooglede town hall [nl]" which points to the Dutch Wikipedia article "Gemeentehuis van Hooglede"

Google Trends shows google searches for a term Google Ngram scrapes a plethora of books for a term

for new articles

Do not move to Commons, used when the file would violate Commons policy Keep local, used when the file is probably eligible for Commons but you prefer that a local copy be kept too

editor interaction analyzer

Etc.
 * Citing sources
 * ProveIt GT (Highly recommended!)
 * Enable ProveIt at your preferences under 'Gadgets'; it will then appear in in the edit box. Create references by filling in fields such as URL, page title, etc.
 * Citation Tool for Google Books (Highly recommended!)
 * Search database at https://books.google.com with desired keyword(s). Once you find a page containing what you need, copy and paste page URL into the Citation Tool, and it will instantly generate a ref you can add directly to Wikipedia
 * HathiTrust Digital Library similar to Google Books
 * Project Gutenberg
 * Google Newspaper Archive
 * The free Google Newspaper Archive is a searchable database of old newspapers. Once you find the article you need, copy/paste URL, date, author, etc. into ProveIt.
 * Editor Interact Analyser
 * wmflabs toools
 * dispenser
 * Wikiscan
 * X!'s tools
 * Global user contributions
 * Reverse Image Search
 * google scholar
 * Range tool 1, Range tool 2
 * [User:Primefac/AFCStats AFC Stats]
 * |Backlog]
 * NPP flowchart
 * File:Flow chart for AFC
 * wikimedia stats
 * Youtube screenshot
 * Reverse Image Search

Patrol

 * Backlog
 * New Pages
 * New Pages Feed (Curation) NEW!
 * Duplication Detector
 * New User Contribs
 * Cleanup Templates


 * Warning Templates
 * CSD's by Age
 * CSD's by Size
 * Category:AfD debates relisted 3 or more times


 * Current PRODs
 * Speedy Templates
 * Article Rescue Squadron

Съ нами Богъ!

 * Russian Wikipedia
 * жжжжж
 * жжжжж
 * жжжжж


 * Yandex
 * Rustran.com
 * WP:RUS (transliteration rules)
 * WP:RUS (transliteration rules)


 * cyrillic keyboard
 * other cyrillic keyboard

editing, formatting, etc.

 * xt example text
 * tq talk quote


 * Pronunciation respelling key


 * reflinks

tools

 * Tools
 * link checker


 * bare link titler
 * wikiblame


 * edit counter

pix

 * Information icon.svg Information icon.svg
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Red information icon with gradient background.svg
 * Nuvola apps important.svg Nuvola apps important.svg
 * Stop hand nuvola.svg Stop hand nuvola.svg
 * Stop x nuvola.svg File:Stop x nuvola.svg
 * Death's head icon.jpg Death's head icon.jpg
 * [[Image:Rainbow_trout.png|25px]] [[Image:Rainbow_trout.png|25px]]
 * Red flag II.svg Red flag II.svg
 * AnimatedStop.gif AnimatedStop.gif


 * [[Image:WikiThanks.png]] [[Image:WikiThanks.png]]
 * Pictogram voting question-blue.svg [[File:Pictogram voting question-blue.svg|15px]
 * Symbol keep vote.svg Symbol keep vote.svg
 * Symbol delete vote.svg Symbol delete vote.svg
 * Symbol comment 2.png Symbol comment 2.png
 * Yes_check.svg Yes_check.svg
 * X mark.svg X mark.svg
 * Emblem-important.svg Emblem-important.svg
 * like  dislike
 * Category:Image with comment templates


 * Wikipe-tan head.png Wikipe-tan head.png
 * Wikipe-tan do not.png Wikipe-tan do not.png
 * fish

More Patrol

 * Magnus's ToDo Generator
 * Recent Changes Patrol page
 * Citation Templates
 * uncategorized pages


 * cleanup backlog list
 * list of all maintenance tasks
 * CheckWiki
 * AfD summary
 * AfD full list
 * RfA's


 * WP:PROD
 * cleanup backlog list
 * list of all maintenance tasks
 * Short Pages
 * Database reports
 * blamer

Categories

 * all categories


 * people categories


 * stubs

BLP

 * WP:BLP


 * BLP Noticeboard


 * WP:BBIO
 * WP:HARM

Discussions

 * AfD
 * CfD
 * deletion review


 * arguments to avoid in afd
 * how to close afd's
 * RfC (requests for comment)


 * current proposals
 * requests for adminship
 * village pump
 * Dispute resolution noticeboard

Editing tips

 * Help index
 * Starter toolset
 * Category:Wikipedia_how-to
 * Help:Table
 * Scripts


 * Footnotes
 * IPA Chart
 * IPA Pronunciation
 * intitle:


 * IPA Conversion Chart
 * Pretty Quotes
 * Tools
 * Searching
 * As of

Rules

 * WP:FIVE
 * WP:RULES
 * WP:N


 * WP:V
 * WP:GNG
 * WP:BLP
 * WP:CIVIL


 * all shortcuts
 * the NOT page

Wikipedia

 * Wikipedia Culture
 * Statistics
 * Mail List Archives
 * Page View Stats
 * Statistics


 * IRC channels
 * IRC
 * English IRC
 * WP:BIAS


 * Kindness Campaign
 * Editors by Category
 * RfA Vote Counter
 * Is X an Admin?
 * Wikipedia abbreviations
 * Merchandise giveaways/Nominations

Dispute resolution

 * Dispute Resolution
 * WP:Negotiation
 * Third Opinion


 * User Conduct RfC
 * Mediation Cabal
 * Mediation


 * Mediation Committee
 * Requests for Mediation
 * ArbCom
 * Request for Arbitration

Admin stuff

 * WP:USERS (tells if they're an admin etc.)
 * admin reading list
 * How To Do Admin Actions
 * WP:AN
 * WP:AN/I


 * Requested Moves
 * Category:Administrative backlog
 * History Merge
 * Admin Logs

Arbitration Enforcement Requests for Immediate Vandalism Intervention Requests for Page Protection

Miscellaneous Essays Etc.

 * User:Xeno/misc
 * Google results numbers have no significance
 * User:Jimbo Wales/Statement of principles
 * WP:SANDWICH


 * Antandrus:Observations
 * User:SoWhy/Ten Commandments for Speedy Deletion
 * User:Uncle G/Wikipedia triage
 * Five pillars
 * Controversial articles

Essays
Herostratus writes essays.

Mainspace essays

 * WP:HARDCORE
 * WP:HURTS
 * Ref vetting checklist
 * User:Herostratus/Deep vetting
 * WP:FAILSAFE

Userspace essays

 * User:Herostratus/Understanding SCHOOLOUTCOMES
 * WP:NOT EVIL. I wrote this quite a long time ago, as a kind of attempt to deal with some of the issues that were eventually addressed by WP:BLP (which was being created around the same time). I actually proposed it as a policy (rejected), which is why it is bound about with weasely exceptions, in an attempt to be adopted. I wouldn't write it that way now.
 * WP:AEO
 * User:Herostratus/"Notable people" sections
 * User:Herostratus/7 Virtues
 * User:Herostratus/Wikipedian's Meditation

Allegedly "humorous" essays

 * WP:GUYINBAR
 * Primogeniture
 * Biographies of dead persons,
 * Guidelines for uploading photographs
 * Lobster
 * Content Disclaimer Parody (I wouldn't have written this on Meta, which IMO is for Serious Business, but this page already existed there, and it wasn't funny, and they wouldn't delete it, so I had to do something.)

Holding pen

 * User:Herostratus/The Hundred
 * User:Herostratus/Understanding SCHOOLOUTCOMES
 * User:Herostratus/Email chain

Quotes
Some quotes (by other people, not by me) that I find interesting or instructive.


 * This list is incomplete. That is its nature.


 * From the crooked timber of mankind, no straight thing was ever made. Immanuel Kant. The Wikipedia is populated by human beings. If you were expecting to find a place that did not sometimes have politics, unfairness, nice guys and bastards, stars and outcasts, leaders and toadies, cliques and backbiting and all the rest, Nirvana is down the hall to the left. Look: talking monkeys is your basic bad idea. They should have started straight off with the robots. But we have to deal with what we have.
 * I am a man. Nothing human is alien to me. Terence. If I object to your editing, that does not mean that I belittle your circumstance. (Applies particularly to certain editors, you know who you are.)
 * To denounce moralizing out of hand is to pronounce a moral judgment. H. L. Mencken said that. You never cease being a moral player on this planet. Never, not for one instant. I said that. Sitting down at a keyboard does not remove you from the moral universe, and "I was only following orders" was ripped to shreds at Nuremburg. Remember that Great Darwin, who lives in the sky, will presently call you to account before His mighty seat of judgment.
 * It is incumbent on all ACM members to contribute to society and human well-being, and avoid harm to others. Association for Computing Machinery Code of Ethics.
 * Hold paramount the safety, health, and welfare of the public. National Society for Professional Engineers Code of Ethics, First Fundamental Canon.
 * Pornographer: Noun. One who is involved in the creation or dissemination of pornography. Definition from Wiktionary, the free dictionary. If this term applies to you, don't blame the dictionary or the person citing it.
 * No man can serve two masters [...] You cannot serve God and mammon. Matthew 6:24. If you're editing the Wikipedia for pay, then either you are subverting the Wikipedia to your client's interest or you are not. If it's the former, you should not be here. If it's the latter, your client should fire you. There is no third path.
 * The graveyards are full of indispensable people. Charles de Gaulle. If you have 87 featured articles or whatever but are not willing to abide by the rules, we'll manage without you.
 * To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous. Voltaire.
 * I will fight it out on this line if it takes all summer. Ulysses S. Grant.
 * I don't know. Bob Dylan, on being asked by an interviewer "Are you being deliberately rude, or are you just bored?"
 * No. Elvis Presley, on being asked by an interviewer, "Elvis, have you learned anything from all this criticism of you?"
 * Don't tell me what you believe, show me what you do and I will tell you what you believe. Ha, great quote to sum up values clarification in one sentence. The only attribution I can find right off is to Alex Trebek and maybe that's right. What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say. (Emerson) is a similar thought.

The Landfill
Old archives, garbage, &c. solely of interest to Herostratus and kept for his personal use.


 * Template:Editnotices/Page/Wikipedia:Service awards
 * WP:ENLIGHTENED (to be written someday)
 * WP:UNC (to be written someday)
 * User:Herostratus/He started it! (under construction)
 * User:Herostratus/Understanding WP:NOTCENSORED (under construction)
 * User:Herostratus/Wikipedia is enlightened (under construction)
 * User:Herostratus/External Barnstars. I actually think this would be a good idea.
 * User:Herostratus/Space Lady Sorry, Space Lady, you're probably not notable.
 * User:Herostratus/List of non-notable spouses Old rather pointless mini-project, long abandoned.
 * User:Herostratus/Gokkun incident Jan 2011 Oy.
 * User:Herostratus/Cumfart incident Oy gevalt.
 * User:Herostratus/wp child I have no idea what this is about.
 * User:Herostratus/mints Right, the Periodic Table of the Breath Mints. Never got off the ground.
 * User:Herostratus/Interview 3 Don't suppose I'll ever be nominated for admin (ya think?), but I have the interview ready anyway.
 * User:Herostratus/List of The Angry Video Game Nerd episodes OMFG. For this I spent three months in college?
 * Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (geographic names)/Archives/2014/February Another epic close.
 * User:Herostratus/ED page I'm famous, or at least infamous, I guess.
 * User:Herostratus/Home My old user page.
 * User:Herostratus/Closing censorship-split RfC This is actually a method for using a "jury" to make a difficult close. Not necessarily a bad idea.
 * User:Herostratus/Administrator reconfirmation How to do it.
 * User:Herostratus/My Back Pages My raw AFD vote data. Worthless.
 * User:Herostratus/Ref vetting checklist (essay, now in Wikipedia space; have to keep this redirect for the edit history)
 * User:Herostratus/sandbox