User:Muhandes

Due to deteriorating health I can no longer regularly contribute to Wikipedia. If my involvement is required, try to ping me or post on my talk page.

History
The beginning, 2008–2012: My first edit was in 2008. I think I never edited as an IP, and I don't believe in anonymous editing. From day one I thought that everyone should have an identity, so they are open to communication and take responsibility for their edits. I became very active in June 2010 and remained so until June 2012, when I got disillusioned with Wikipedia. As far as I recall this was after working two months on a list, trying to make it into a WP:FL, and being denied because of a WP:COI editor who kept reverting a single revision I made. I'm sure there were other factors, such as getting attached to some of my work which got vandalized, but for sure, I was suffering from a severe case of Wikistress, and lucky for me, I understood that I need a long Wikibreak.

June 2017 Comeback: In June 2017 I returned, trying this time to care less. The collapsed page below is my five years old (as of 2017) user page. Much of it is irrelevant, but I'm keeping it because... well, I don't care. You can treat it as a page in history or ignore it altogether. Did I say already how much I care?

April 2018 Update, to the not-interested and otherwise: in April 2018 I realized that again, I have drifted into subjects that are hopeless, mostly Education in India. I do not enjoy spending most of my time reverting boosterism and promotional edits, not to speak of bored students' vandalism. The system is NOT WORKING. There are not enough caring editors to keep filthy hands out of education institute articles, and those articles are gradually degrading into a pile of excrement. Since the system of allowing any anonymous IP to do anything to any page is not going to change, I have decided to withdraw my involvement with Education in India and try to contribute in fields where my contribution may be appreciated and may have some lasting effect on the quality of Wikipedia.

PS: Reading the paragraph above some years later, I realize how angry I was at the time. I don't feel that strongly about it anymore, but I keep it to remind myself.

March 2020 Update: And again, I found that I lost interest in what I do. A sure sign is that even though I am semi-isolated at home due to COVID-19, I still don't seriously consider editing as an option. I think it's time for another WikiBreak. I will try to be available from time to time, especially for template edits, but please ping me to get my attention.

November 2020 Update: It seems like this level of involvement is working well for me. I help when I'm asked to help and I watch some maintenance categories that need watching, especially related to album and single certification. I do much work around Certification Table Entry, where people are reasonable and appreciative. Happy editing!

June 2023 Update: I don't have time to edit Wikipedia as I used to, so I decided to take an extreme approach and clean my watchlist. I will add the things I do care about and try to keep it to the minimum. Hopefully this will work.

March 2024 Update: Due to deteriorating health I no longer actively contribute to Wikipedia in a regular manner.

Old User Page
Muhandes is a WikiGnome, mostly involved with gnomish activities. Muhandes delved into some subjects in the past, e.g. lighthouses, higher education in India and certifications of music recordings. Still, most of his contributions were made since some other activity prompted it.

This is mainly a huge To-Do list, reminding Muhandes of what he wants to do, and what he already did. Please don't treat it harshly, it's just a big pile of links and wikilinks.

Possible next?

 * Recheck all France SNEP archives, some seem to work if pointed to http://www.snepmusique.com/fr/page-259165.xml:
 * 2005 Album Silver https://web.archive.org/web/20120913020712/http://www.snepmusique.com/fr/page-259165.xml?year=2005&type=28
 * 2007 Album Silver https://web.archive.org/web/20121012094746/http://www.snepmusique.com/fr/page-259165.xml?year=2007&type=28
 * 1998 Single Gold https://web.archive.org/web/20131013113235/http://www.snepmusique.com/fr/page-259165.xml?year=1998&type=7
 * French certification must use artist of title
 * fanofmusic
 * "Latin" should only apply where it should
 * RIAJ cert without certyear/certmonth
 * Certification
 * icbse
 * Verify type on Cite certification
 * Check all BPI from 2013 and change to July if needed.
 * pag-259165-CERTIFICATIONS cleanup
 * pag-259165-DISQUES-D-OR cleanup
 * Radioscope?
 * insource:/www.billboard.com\/bbcom\/search\/google\/article_display.jsp/
 * http://www.australian-charts.com/forum.asp?todo=viewthread&id=40595
 * http://www.top-france.fr/ add author
 * ukmix.org/forums/viewtopic.php ?
 * All usage of BillboardURLbyName
 * Correct articles that need EP for US certifications
 * Add id for all Italy certifications
 * Check for errors like this?
 * Tables with no caption?
 * Hrvatska diskografska udruga (https://hdu.hr/)
 * Check making id mandatory for Denmark in cite certification
 * Check making id mandatory for UK in cite certification
 * Parameter checking for Japan cite certification
 * Add archiveurl to cite certification
 * Review Link rot/URL change requests/Archives/2019/October
 * Draft:Gandhi Memorial stone (Varanasi)?
 * Albino Rock Lighthouse?
 * User:Muhandes/Itay Lukach?
 * User:Muhandes/Os Barões da Pisadinha?
 * Lenny Tavárez?
 * es:Almighty

General

 * I check My Watchlist quite often. It includes every page I ever edited, so I catch some vandalism on less patrolled pages. I remove pages from the watchlist when I see other people are patrolling them.


 * My adopted typos

Correct Disambiguation pages with links
I mostly just choose random acronyms and correct them. Whenever I do, I adopt. Thanks Wiki Cleaner for making this so easy:


 * Pages from WP:DPL I adopted
 * per se, well, speaker, IDE, Italic, matrix, SAP


 * Random pages I adopted:
 * ADP, Amp, AMPS, ATP, EGSM, NMT, TDMA, HRM, BNC, EAW, TCP, UDP, ICMP, LTE, Spyder, Cabinet, Grandes Éxitos, Krokus

Other things I do / TODO

 * Template talk:Infobox India university ranking
 * cleanup Template:University of Calcutta
 * Fix these if editor does not
 * Correct style on these
 * NDTV Indian of the Year
 * Clean up Dalida articles
 * Talk:Exponential smoothing
 * create National Federation of Phonogram Producers
 * List of countries by number of mobile phones in use
 * German certified singles
 * Category:Pages using Certification Table Entry-Sales with missing information, Category:Cite certification used with missing parameters
 * When I have nothing else to do: Category:Album infoboxes lacking a cover
 * Correct broken refs and missing reflists
 * Clean up disambiguation pages. useful templates.
 * Wyandanch, New York, Rangpur, Punjab, Sadulpur, Rajampet
 * Sambhaji vandalism
 * Foreign relations of Israel still misses some
 * Check WikiProject Check Wikipedia
 * Rabari
 * infoboxen for Category:Lighthouses in Rhode Island (User:BoxCrawler ?)
 * Mark everything in Category:Lighthouses
 * Doomsday List mark
 * Clean spam: lpdiscography, kissfaq
 * watch List of information technology acronyms
 * source alumni for OCAD University
 * Stephen M. Schwebel
 * Apply CIA World Factbook link
 * c/e Sanjay Ghose, Għaxaq
 * http://www.cbs.gov.il/population/new_2010/table3.pdf
 * tag in
 * Check Special:Contributions/79.97.1.191
 * Write Common Entrance Examination for Design
 * Padal petra stalam
 * Bellevue Homestead
 * Integrate http://bundaberg.qld.gov.au/library/Historic_Burnett_Heads_Lighthouse.pdf to Old Burnett Heads Light
 * Have a look at
 * Add data from http://home.brisnet.org.au/~dunn/raaf/26radar.htm to Cape Cleveland Light

AUS sources

 * Add AHPI ,AHD information to lighthouses
 * Nobbys Head
 * Barranjoey • Macquarie • Cape Bailey
 * Grotto Point • Bradleys Head • Fort Denison • Robertson Point • Parriwi Head
 * Wollongong Head • Wollongong Breakwater • Kiama • Crookhaven Heads • Point Perpendicular • Cape St George • Burrewarra Point • Montague Island • Green Cape
 * Search NAA for
 * Robertson Point • Parriwi Head • Eastern Channel • Western Channel
 * Search Picture Australia
 * Queensland Heritage Register
 * The AMSA AN list, actual files
 * ABC Shine a Light]

Education in India

 * Template:Infobox India university ranking
 * List of universities in India
 * List of central universities in India
 * List of state universities in India
 * List of deemed universities in India
 * List of private universities in India
 * List of autonomous higher education institutes in India
 * List of Institutes of National Importance

Useful? discussions

 * Fallingrain.com
 * List of residents