User:MPS

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My useful links

 * Template:AfD in 3 steps


 * Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism
 * templates to warn vandals with
 * Coordinate-referenced map templates -- I assembled this instruction sheet from other random sources on Wikipedia.
 * example:


 * Speedy delete code =
 * Proposed Deletion =  REASON 
 * this should be used rarely but comes in handy if you ever HAVE to redirect a category.
 * the following code is good for locking down a picture within a table Notice the | - adds a line break
 * This is cool code for timelines

Mapframe code

 * Here are some mapframe boilerplates: See also: Template:Maplink and Extension:Kartographer on Mediawiki

Multiple symbols
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single symbol
 { "type": "Feature", "geometry": { "type": "Point", "coordinates": [-77.56935596466064, 37.5499873691089] }, "properties": { "title": "Stony Point Fashion Park (2004)", "description": "", "marker-size": "small", "marker-color": "0050d0" } }

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Richmond VA related materials
In 2024, I am interested in the links between Colonial Virginia and London in the early 1700s Late Baroque / Georgian Era. My link farm for this era is at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MPS/WilliamsburgianVirginia (name chosen because Jamestown burned in 1698 and the capital Williamsburg was named soon after.) The Georgian era technically did not begin until 1714.

Other significant editors of Richmond-region articles

 * User:Vaoverland
 * User:Va girl2468
 * User:Derek.cashman
 * User:MaxPower
 * User:Jmurden

My RVA contribs

 * Richmond Latitute|Longitude = 37.538346|-77.461507

37.53835°N, -77.46151°W
 * Weather satellite image from NASA


 * New articles I created include:


 * Richmond Public Library (United States)
 * Gallego Flour Mills
 * Memorial Foundation for Children
 * James River Park System
 * Brown's Island Dam Walk
 * Howlett Line
 * Southside Regional Medical Center
 * L’ARP
 * Jamie Skeen
 * Sandy River Reservoir
 * The Spin Crowd
 * High Bridge Trail State Park
 * Philip B. Meggs
 * Petersburg Area Transit
 * Monument Avenue 10K
 * Stony Point Fashion Park
 * St. Paul's Episcopal Church of Richmond, Virginia
 * First Baptist Church of Richmond
 * Christopher Branch
 * Richmond Theological Consortium
 * Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond
 * Valentine Richmond History Center
 * Category:Richmond National Battlefield Park
 * Port of Richmond
 * Category:James River (Virginia)
 * Category:Counties on the James River (Virginia)
 * Category:Cities on the James River
 * Category:Regional media Category:Media by United States region  Category:United States media by market Category:American media by market
 * Media in Richmond, Virginia
 * List of mayors of Richmond, Virginia
 * City of Richmond v. United States
 * Confederate History Month
 * eighth blackbird ( ensemble in residence at UR).
 * Johnny Hott
 * Sound of Music Studios
 * James River Correctional Center
 * John Tyler Community College
 * Jefferson Hotel
 * C.F. Sauer Company
 * Gustavus Woodson Smith
 * Enon, Virginia
 * Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden
 * William Byrd III
 * Template: Greater Richmond Region
 * Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
 * Hopewell Public Schools
 * Petersburg Public Schools
 * Colonial Heights Public Schools
 * Petersburg Public Schools
 * Henrico County Public Schools
 * Richmond Public Schools
 * Southside (Richmond, Virginia)
 * Transportation in Richmond, Virginia
 * Colonial Downs
 * National Folk Festival
 * 16:13, 8 Mar 2005 Mary Kay
 * 13:54, 8 Mar 2005 Northern Michigan
 * 10:47, 25 Feb 2005 Virginius Dabney
 * 09:59, 23 Feb 2005 Robert R. Merhige, Jr.
 * 18:39, 15 Jan 2005 Broad Street (Richmond, Virginia)
 * 18:35, 15 Jan 2005 Broad Street (Richmond, Virginia)
 * 15:49, 5 Jan 2005 The West End (Richmond, Virginia)
 * 17:58, 30 Dec 2004 Mercersburg Theology
 * 19:29, 28 Dec 2004 Southern Literary Messenger
 * 18:42, 28 Dec 2004 Timeline of Richmond, Virginia
 * 16:21, 18 Dec 2004 Allen and Ginter
 * 16:07, 18 Dec 2004 Lewis Ginter
 * 13:59, 17 Dec 2004 Massive resistance
 * 18:56, 16 Dec 2004 Whitmell P. Tunstall
 * 12:08, 24 Nov 2004 The Fan
 * 17:57, 29 Sep 2004 West Qurna Field
 * 20:30, 10 Sep 2004 Wachovia Securities
 * 20:18, 10 Sep 2004 The Boulevard
 * 16:17, 1 Sep 2004 Fan district
 * 12:35, 1 Sep 2004 Malik Saidullayev
 * 15:15, 26 Aug 2004 Monument Avenue
 * 14:57, 26 Aug 2004 Give me Liberty or Give me Death
 * 11:10, 26 Aug 2004 William Byrd I
 * 10:31, 26 Aug 2004 William Byrd II
 * 10:28, 26 Aug 2004 Byrd Park

Miscellaneous interests
I had a brief obsession with the US gov't reaction to the 2008 financial crisis... During the Fall of 2011, after an editorial hiatus, I participated in discussions over how to keep the Occupy Wall Street article within the WP:NPOV guideline.
 * Oversight of the Troubled Asset Relief Program
 * Federal Reserve 800 billion dollar Consumer Loan and bond plan
 * Neil Barofsky
 * Temporary Liquidity Guarantee Program
 * Occupy Wall Street
 * Timeline of Occupy Wall Street
 * Talk:Occupy Wall Street
 * We are the 99%
 * "Occupy" protests
 * 15 October 2011 global protests
 * List of "Occupy" protest locations

Orphaned Content
I am really sad that editors feel the need to delete content such as this. We need to figure out where to put rapidly emerging WP:RECENT information on the zeitgeist.

wiki-Policy
I have been around wikipedia for a while and like to share knowledge about policies and guidelines. I am a believer in using WP:TLA and I have mixed feelings about WP:WTF. I think asking questions at the Village pump... for policy is a good way to air your grievances and quandries, and I think WP:ESSAYs are a useful way to reach consensus on editing dilemmas of wikipedia where there is a systematic problem with no apparent solution. Some essays I have contributed to are:
 * WP:BRAIN
 * WP:NOTLEX
 * WP:RECENT

Iraq stuff
Regardless of your feelings on the Iraq war, Iraq is an important country to understand and wikipedia has a lot of good stuff on the country of Iraq. I pay attention to and edit the following articles:
 * Category:Geography of Iraq
 * List of places in Iraq
 * List of cities and towns on the Euphrates River
 * Administrative districts in Baghdad
 * List of neighborhoods and districts in Baghdad
 * Iraq War troop surge of 2007, Operation Law and Order, and Iraq War need to be cleaned up and made more NPOV.
 * 2007 in Iraq

Same sex marriage related materials
Ever since the United Church of Christ passed their controversial "Equal marriage rights" resolution, I have found myself sucked into editing articles related to the same sex marriage debate. Wikipedia's same sex marriage article seems to be pretty NPOV and I think other articles on this subject should live up to that standard. A lot of NPOV debates on wikipedia hinge on people not being able to acknowledge that, right or wrong, there is at least one alternate understanding of the world besides your own. I have heard people say that wikipedia doesn't allow POVs. My stance is always that of course wikipedia includes POVs as long as they are attributed to the people that hold them. I have friends on both sides of this particular issue. I lament the fact that the US culture is so divided that we can't respectfully disagree during conversations. l

Click Here for a list of articles I tend to edit.
 * ''C'mon people now, smile on your brother
 * ''ev'ry-body get together,
 * ''try to love one another right now.
 * ''try to love one another right now.

notification
For your information, see [] Feddhicks 19:12, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

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