User:Mindmatrix/Participation

I've been involved in a number of ways within Wikipedia:


 * creating articles, stubs, redirects, disambiguation pages, categories and templates;
 * expanding stubs and smaller articles;
 * participating in general Canada-related issues, including:
 * participating in the Canadian Collaboration of the Week;
 * category standardization, and article categorization
 * participating in the Wiki Syntax project;
 * filing RfCs as needed:
 * Myocardial infarction
 * reverting and reporting vandalism;
 * minor edits, such as correcting spelling and grammatical errors;
 * minor functional changes, such as categorizing articles, or adding templates to them;

The Wiki Syntax project is somewhat boring, but does fix annoying problems in articles, especially articles with few maintainers. It artificially increases edit counts, so such edits should be partially discounted when considering edit counts (then again, it provides a positive contribution to Wikipedia, and does require some time commitments by the user). Many of these changes could be made by bots, especially for double and triple redirects.

I have stubbed or re-stubbed nearly 10,000 geographical articles, mostly Canadian, Japanese, Australian and UK locations, and also some related to the United States and Africa. This is the primary reason why I am rapidly approaching 20,000 edits.

Translations
I've translated a few non-english articles. among them:
 * Palestinian Child Arts Center

Copyrights
I've salvaged some articles which were originally copyright violations. I'd have to go through my contributions to find out which ones, though. I've also nominated articles for deletion based on copyvio criteria:


 * Copyright problems/2005 November 8
 * Johnsview Village Public School
 * Copyright problems/2005 November 26
 * Image:Gta key area 400.jpg
 * [[Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2006 June 2/Articles
 * Big Lakes, Alberta

Articles nominated for deletion
I participate in Votes/Articles for deletion; I've nominated the following:


 * Votes for deletion/Price and functionality of accounting software
 * Votes for deletion/2X
 * Votes for deletion/Productivity of Wikipedia Authors
 * Articles for deletion/Warden Avenue
 * Articles for deletion/South Pointe, Innisfil, Ontario
 * Articles for deletion/Sunflowers, Barrie, Ontario
 * Articles for deletion/The Willows at Chillico Woods, Guelph, Ontario
 * Articles for deletion/Creditvalley, Mississauga, Ontario
 * Articles for deletion/The Chateaus in the Highland of Castlemore, Brampton, Ontario
 * Articles for deletion/Lakelands Village, Brampton, Ontario
 * Articles for deletion/Four Corners, Georgetown, Ontario
 * Articles for deletion/The Manors of Wellington Crown, Brampton, Ontario
 * Articles for deletion/The Estates of Valleycreek, Brampton, Ontario (2nd nomination)
 * Articles for deletion/O'Connor Drive
 * Articles for deletion/Toronto-area roads (6 articles in nomination)
 * Articles for deletion/Toronto-area roads (group 2) (5 articles in nomination)
 * Articles for deletion/Date and walnut loaf
 * Articles for deletion/List of websites using Ajax
 * Articles for deletion/Merchandise Building
 * Articles for deletion/Jorgenson Hall
 * Articles for deletion/Ryerson Library Building
 * Articles for deletion/List of international travel guides and web sites
 * Articles for deletion/Members of Night Stalker (5 articles in nomination)
 * Articles for deletion/Kevin Johnston
 * Articles for deletion/Philip Schonewille
 * Articles for deletion/The Belmont Conspiracy Project
 * Articles for deletion/Spiritual Patterns
 * Articles for deletion/Block dude
 * Articles for deletion/Blog Networks
 * Articles for deletion/Black Bayou
 * Articles for deletion/Greet Grottendieck
 * Articles for deletion/Ibat

Articles nominated for speedy deletion
I've nominated the following articles for speedy deletion:
 * Mordon Microsystems
 * Twonk - a new (and different) article has replaced the one that was deleted.
 * Dmitri krupnov
 * Rersources
 * Megatech - a new (and different) article has replaced the one that was deleted.
 * Archisman
 * Pro Teenman
 * Wank test
 * Chanz
 * Sheila Diane Scaiff
 * Kettlebrook
 * Corner shop
 * Mr. Gruffles
 * List pharoahs
 * True frogs
 * Xenoestrogens - I made a mistake on this one.
 * Thomas Ahearn - a new (and different) article has replaced the one that was deleted.
 * Cardiopulmonary bypass - contained nonsense
 * Tiffany chestnut - contained nonsense
 * Atom (Prolog) - contained nonsense
 * Playing hide the bologna pony - contained nonsense
 * Flower Of British Columbia - contained nonsense

Images and media for deletion
I infrequently contribute to Images and media for deletion. Some of my nominations can be found here:


 * Images and media for deletion/2005 September 13
 * Image:Sunderhq.jpg
 * Image:Sundergld20.jpg
 * Image:Sunderemp.jpg
 * Image:Naglipic1.png
 * Images and media for deletion/2005 September 23
 * Image:Mirandapicture.gif
 * Image:Mirandapic.jpg
 * Copyright problems/2005 November 3
 * Image:Gtamap.gif
 * Images and media for deletion/2005 December 14
 * Image:Jtkt1.jpg
 * Images and media for deletion/2005 December 16
 * Image:Ryan E. 2004.jpg
 * Images and media for deletion/2005 December 18
 * Image:AdamsMotoko.jpg
 * Image:Likos-150.png
 * Images and media for deletion/2005 December 19
 * Image:Ser1.jpg
 * Image:Stevebradbury.jpg
 * Image:Jonobacon.jpg
 * Image:Stevehadley.jpg
 * Image:Jonwesley.jpg
 * Images and media for deletion/2005 December 22
 * Image:De Entre Los Zapatos.jpg
 * Image:Fe 1.jpg
 * Image:Fe 2.jpg
 * Image:Historia de una madre.jpg
 * Image:Emh.jpg
 * Images and media for deletion/2006 January 1
 * Image:Stephen R. Gyurke.jpg
 * Image:Ultsac5.jpg
 * Image:Brutality- screamsofanguish.jpg
 * Image:Brutality - whentheskyturnsblack .jpg
 * Image:Dewson.jpg
 * Image:Clesson robert jeffrey wik.jpg
 * Image:Corporate Seal.jpg
 * Images and media for deletion/2006 January 5
 * Image:Logo fayerwayer.gif
 * Image:Schmoove.jpg
 * Images and media for deletion/2006 January 7
 * Image:Polnotebani3.gif
 * Image:Once Moore album cover.jpg
 * Images and media for deletion/2006 January 11
 * Image:Saint Mere Eglise.jpg
 * Image:Load out.jpg
 * Image:RnL Causeway.jpg
 * Image:Saint Marie Dumont.jpg
 * Image:M1A1 Carbine.jpg
 * Image:MG42.jpg
 * Image:Desperados 02.jpg
 * Image:Sglassey.jpg
 * Images and media for deletion/2006 January 27
 * Image:Cd front.jpg
 * Images and media for deletion/2006 May 17
 * Image:Liverpool FC logo.jpg
 * Images and media for deletion/2006 June 9
 * Image:Abercorn.jpg

Silent participation
I tend not to promote my activities, and frequently participate in projects without listing myself as a contributor or notifying the group (unless there is a need to do so, such as explaining a certain action). Here's a list of projects to which I have contributed without mention:


 * Stub sorting (specifically, sorting geographical stubs)
 * Wiki Syntax
 * Untagged images