User:Kingturtle


 *  Treasure each day you're alive.
 *  If we disagree, it is never personal.
 *  No matter what our differences, I'm glad you're here& that you care as much as I do.
 *  The best way to stop a troll is to not take the bait.

Kingturtle's Awards - '''Kingturtle's RfA !votes  I am Kingturtle on MetaWiki - I am Kingturtle on Uncyclopedia - my screenname is 亀王/kame Ō in Japanese.

Origin story
I discovered Wikipedia the evening of February 27, 2003 while searching for information on the internet to fatten a lecture I was writing on prohibition for my U.S. History class. By discovery I mean, I had come across Wikipedia a few times while doing Google searches, but it was that night that I took a closer look and realized what it really was. The discovery of Wikipedia matched love-at-first-sight. For years, I've been collecting old almanacs and encyclopedia. I bandied about different ideas regarding sharing and documenting the information revealed in these discarded sources, but Wikipedia was by far the best idea out there. I had also been working on a system within Word Docs to compile Afghan history. That system was cumbersome, and clunky. To stumble on a thriving community devoted to sharing information gave me a tremendous thrill and a curious sense of relief. Thank heavens you're all out there!

Quotes

 * "A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way." Mark Twain
 * "Develop your legitimate strangeness." - Rene Char
 * "People think it's a cluster of junk. I see it as a cluster of possibilities. Each object gives a direction; each is a line picked up here and there - indeed, gleaned - and which become my paintings. The aim of art is to tidy up one's inner and exterior worlds." - Louis Pons discussing his paintings, but I think it applies to our work here at Wikipedia.
 * "There is such a thing as a free lunch. You just have to offer it." - Kingturtle
 * "I long to accomplish some great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble." - Helen Keller
 * "Foreigners, because they never have enough words to express their ideas, often invent remarkable new modes of expression. Poets are all foreigners." - Denis Diderot
 * "Me fail English? That's unpossible." - Ralph Wiggum
 * "I'm not here for rage; I'm here for revenge!" - George Costanza
 * "Maintaining one's own dignity hangs on maintaining the dignity of others." Kingturtle
 * "Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing" - Theodore Roosevelt

Through 21 April 2009 I have created 725+ articles and 1070+ redirects.

Articles I've contributed to substantially

 * John William Yettaw

Regarding Afghanistan
Timeline of Afghan history (and all the sub-links) - International Security Assistance Force - North Zone of Afghanistan - Taliban members - Afghan National Army - Badar - Orfeo Bartolini - Haji Bashar - BearingPoint - Benazir Bhutto - Dasht-i-Leili massacre - International Resources Group - Jaghalkani-i-Takhta Pul massacres - Displaced person - Abdullah Gan - Haji Gilani - Durand line - Viktor Karpukhin - Zalmay Khalilzad - Juma Khan - List of Afghan Transitional Administration personnel - Juma Mohammad Mohammadi - Zacarias Moussaoui - Ricardo Munguia - Operation Blessing International - Mohammed Qalamuddin - Mohammad Rabbani - Ahmed Ressam - Mullah Salam - Vice and Virtue Ministry - Albert Wohlstetter - Haji Mohammed Zaher - Ishaq Shahryar - Ali Ahmad Jalali - Yusuf Nooristani - Anwar ul-Haq Ahadi - Telephone Systems International - Afghan Wireless Communication Company - Heather Mercer - Sediq Afghan - Richard Green (soldier) - John Vines - Bacha Khan Zadran - Women's Edge - Afghan Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration Program - Hedayat Arsala - Syed Ishay Ghalani - Operation Haven Denial - Faryadi Sarwar Zardad - Operation Warrior Sweep - AINA (organization) - OMAR Mine Museum - Zabul Province - Gul Agha Sherzai - Operation Mountain Viper - Provincial reconstruction team - Camp Julien - Civil-Military Co-operation - Operation Avalanche (Afghanistan) - 2003 Loya jirga - Hezb-e Jomhorikhahan - Comprehensive Disabled Afghans Program - Operation Headstrong - 100 Classrooms program - Operation Mountain Resolve - Kuchis - Kabul Soccer Club - Kabul University - The Afghan Women - Abdul Ahad Mohmand - Muhammad Ismail Agha - Asadullah Abdul Rahman - Afghanistan Meteorological Authority - Kabul-Kandahar highway - Daikondi Province - Panjshir Province - Economic Cooperation Organization - Abdullah Shah - Sayed Nabi Siddiqui - William Umbach - Reza Khan (Taliban) - Afghan New Beginnings Programme - Brent Bennett - Jamal Naseer - Afghan Special Narcotics Force - Counter Narcotics Police of Afghanistan - Six-plus-two nations - Alfredo Witschi-Cestari - Mohammad Saleheen - Radio Shariat - Istalif - Norbert Holl - Growler (vehicle)

Regarding baseball, board games, and sports
Bill Buckner - List of lifetime home run leaders through history - Triple crown (baseball) - List of Major League Baseball players - List of highest paid baseball players - Rafael Palmeiro - Bobby Bonds - 30-30 club - List of Major League Baseball franchise post-season droughts - Major League Baseball titles streaks - Major League Baseball titles leaders - Hitting streak - Wahconah Park - Major League Baseball attendance records - Ray Chapman - Major League Baseball home run milestones - List of Major League Baseball principal owners - List of Major League Baseball stadiums - List of Major League Baseball retired numbers - Jack Beckley - List of most experienced baseball players never to play in a World Series - U.S. cities with teams from four major sports - Pete Franklin - List of National Football League franchise post-season droughts - List of NBA franchise post-season droughts - Jon Rauch - Yankee Clipper - Nelson Doubleday Jr. - List of Major League Baseball players suspended for performance-enhancing drugs - Beetle Cat - Rosie Bonds - George Sisler, Jr. - Johnny Berger - Doug Clarey - Astyanax Douglass - Valmy Thomas - Carl Spongberg - Bob Harris (baseball) - Armando Marsans - Rafael Almeida - Jake Gettman - Jeff Bronkey - Tillie Shafer - 1890 Rochester Broncos season - Big Jeff Pfeffer - John Fitzgerald (baseball) - Bob Miller (19th-century pitcher) - Leo Smith (baseball) - Dan Burke - Jim Field - Dave McKeough - Ted Scheffler - Marr Phillips - Major League Baseball All-Star Game venues - Runs produced - WikiProject Baseball/Team abbreviations - List of World Series starting pitchers - London Cabbie - Gnip Gnop - Template:Monthsbaseball - Pittsfield Electrics (Canadian-American League) - Multiple major sports championship seasons - List of most experienced baseball managers never to manage in a World Series

Regarding birds and nature (and toxonomy-related topics)
List of birds of Santa Cruz County, California - Pied-billed Grebe - Clark's Grebe - American White Pelican - Brown Pelican - Brandt's Cormorant - Double-crested Cormorant - Pelagic Cormorant - American Bittern - Mei (dinosaur) - GoldenPalace.com Monkey - Neltje Blanchan - Avian Brain Nomenclature Consortium - Huayna Picchu - Temple of the Moon - Lake Buel - Great pond - Common Shiner - Scirpus fluviatilis - Pontederia cordata - Carex stricta - Sparganium eurycarpum - Cirsium discolor - Spiraea latifolia - Geum laciniatum - Ranunculus longirostris - Macrophyte - Bosmina - Potamogeton amplifolius - Potamogeton illinoesis - Potamogeton robbinsii - Potamogeton praelongus - Abortive flower - John Noble Wilford - Harriet Hemenway

Regarding health, psychology, math and science
Spina bifida - Arnold-Chiari malformation - Hydrocephalus - Neural tube - Shunt (medical) - Paul Petard (botanist) - Comprehensive health insurance (Maine) - Temik - Rychard Bouwens - Isosorbide dinitrate/hydralazine - Aggregate data - Chained dollars - Decathexis - Chickenpox party - Flux transfer event - LEBU

Regarding history, government, business, geography, religion, scholarship and current events
Albert Wohlstetter - United States casualties of war - Wilfred Burchett - List of civil wars - Iraqi no-fly zones - Bernard Dowiyogo - Rick Santorum - Declaration of Windhoek - World Press Freedom Day - Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf - Securities and Exchange Commission appointees - James M. Landis - Charles Thomson - Transylvania (colony) - James Stockdale - UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador - Kim Phuc Phan Thi - Nathanael Greene - Aspasia - Servilius Casca - John Carver - Harriet Acland - Paul O'Neill - Gong Shengliang - Rafael E. Martinez - David Ahenakew - Billboard (advertising) - War Crimes Law (Belgium) - Iraqi dinar - Casey Jones - CARE (relief) - 10-in-1 food parcel - Irvin McDowell - Alain-René Lesage - Baghdad zoo - SAGEM Sperwer - Miantonomoh - List of United States Presidents by military rank - Operation Enduring Freedom - Philippines - Eurocorps - Hazel Carter - Anton Dostler - List of current monarchs - Nicaraguan Institute of Natural Resources and the Environment - List of United States Presidential assassination attempts - List of people granted honorary French citizenship during the French Revolution - United States Office of Economic Opportunity - Robert A. Lovett - Neil H. McElroy - Thomas S. Gates Jr. - James R. Schlesinger - Harold Brown (Secretary of Defense) - War Cabinet - Presidential Emergency Operations Center - Larry Thompson - Nuclear Risk Reduction Center - Office of Net Assessment - Andrew Marshall (foreign policy strategist) - Operation Orient Express - Diplomats and Military Commanders for Change - Emmet John Hughes - Harvey Matusow - Owen Lattimore - Deterrence theory - Panic of 1907 - Narodnaya Volya - Narodnaja Volya (newspaper) - Harry Fischel - George Opdyke - Abraham Cahan - Abraham Jacobi - Night letter - Salah Khalaf - Operation Red Dog - Beate Sturm - Dalal Mughrabi - Callixte Mbarushimana - Jobs created during U.S. presidential terms - Philadelphia Liberty Medal - List of United States presidential vetoes - Arab Islamic Republic - Herbert Porter - Central Asian Cooperation Organization - Robert Preston (private) - Victor Samuelson - Watergate Seven - Talon News - Curveball (informant) - Children's Environmental Exposure Research Study - Hippolyte Havel - Jennifer Wilbanks - Jerrie Mock - NICE Systems - WorldTeach - United States general elections, 2005 - UN Security Council Resolution 688 - List of UN Security Council Resolutions 1 to 100 (and the associated subpages with the assistance of User:IceKarma) - 1856 Republican National Convention - Michael Taylor - Denny Altes - Mark Rosenker - Clement Eaton - World Assembly of Youth - Michael Froman - Julius Genachowski - Donald Gips - Sonal Shah - Mark Gitenstein - Michael Strautmanis - Cassandra Butts - Melody Barnes - Dan Pfeiffer - Patrick Gaspard - Phil Schiliro - Thomas C. Reeves - Wisconsin Policy Research Institute - Hilary Michael Milko - George C. Mathews - 139th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment - Diablo Management Group - Center for Cultural Studies at UC Santa Cruz - Américo Paredes Center for Cultural Studies - List of places named for their units of production - I didn't start John William Yettaw, but I did a great deal of work on it - Sonam Lhundrup - WikiProject Nonviolence - Tyler Clementi

Regarding Wikispace
Template:Merge - Template:WorldCoin - Template:News - Template:UNSCR - Template:Welcomebb - Template:Warningkt - Template:2008Demprimaries - Template:2008Repprimaries - Template:Geek-stub - Template:Monthsbaseball

Regarding entertainment
Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz (song) - Eightball (comic book) - List of historical novels - Cocksucker Blues - Ed Wynn - Jim Backus - Theda Bara - The Bugaloos - Bwana Devil - Jenny Lind - List of songs containing overt references to real musicians - List of band theme songs - List of songs about fictitious bands or musicians - Dirty Mac - The Hit Factory - Fania Marinoff - The Rebels (band) - Flower (band) - Maryline Blackburn - Esoteric Agenda - Marion Mann (singer)

Regarding literature & books & art & architecture
John Louis DiGaetani - Oswald Achenbach - Washington Allston - Wilfrid Mellers - Jerome Ch'en - Thomas Bailey Aldrich - Pitts Sanborn - Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession - Louis Pons - Agegnehu Engida - Abecedarian hymn - Church of the Heavenly Rest - Orus Apollo - Traité des fardemens - Letter to King Henri II - Elizabeth Bauer Mock

Regarding the trivial
Three-letter vowel-less English word - Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx - Mutt and Jeff - Grant Wood - Eddie Arcaro - BVD - Baker Street Irregulars - Believe It Or Not - Jay Berwanger - Bizarro - Burma-Shave - List of people known as father or mother of something - Bob cut - Charles Atlas - Chattanooga Choo Choo - Colo (gorilla) - Countdown - List of notable occupants of the Watergate Hotel - List of fictional humanoid species - J. Reginald Murphy - George Willig - Darrell Winfield - Wingfoot Express - Van Nuys High School - Tinkerbelle - Skycycle X-2 - List of halls and walks of fame - Camp Half Moon - Elba (person)

Regarding WikiBooks
The World Series

Photos I've taken that are not in use
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