User:Niteowlneils

I had been an administrator since spring or summer 2004, and am always happy to help with cleaning up after cut&paste moves, and many other things that require admin abilities. However, I really try to keep totally clear of edit wars. I've only blocked a handful of users for vandalism, never for 3RR, and have never protected a page. I have also never unblocked someone blocked by someone else, and I probably never will, as it would have to be a very clear case of one-sided bad faith or bad judgement, and I believe that is highly unlikely to ever be the case. If you are seeking help with edit war issues, I'd recommend contacting another admin, or posting the issue at Administrators' noticeboard or Village pump.

Wanna see what/who I've deleted/blocked/protected/uploaded? click here

I agree to multi-license all my contributions, with the exception of my user/user talk pages and subpages, as described below: My home page: http://www.niteowlneils.com/ My resume: http://www.freelancesoftwaretester.com/

Music I like

I've been editing Wikipedia since February 23 2004. I have been averaging 300-700 edits per week, but that number will drop considerably June 2, 2004, when I start working at a new contract job. Update: As of the end of December 2004, I'm unemployed again--great for my Wikipedia editing and everything else, except my bank account. :/ I made my 15,000th edit 17:04, 7 Feb 2005. 20,000th around 17:32, 5 May 2005. (up-to-date edit count, by namespace--thanks Kate!)

I initially did Recent Changes patrol, but since then have mostly done New Pages patrol, and occasionally Random page patrol. Being an introvert IRL, the pattern continues here--I rarely leave "welcome" messages.

My primary contributions

My Edit summary glossary

My personal WIWO (a start)

Tips
Tips for teachers and professors considering starting a Wikipedia-related school/class project: School and university projects

Pages that take forever to find and tools

 * How to fix cut and paste moves
 * History of Wikipedia
 * Wikipedia's oldest articles
 * Pushing to 1.0
 * Mirrors and forks
 * Mirrors and forks/GFDL Compliance
 * Topical index
 * Special:Specialpages
 * Talk:Fort Charlotte, Shetland--example of documenting permission use of text
 * Image:PerthZooMalleefowl.jpg--example of documenting permission use of images


 * For titles incorrect because of technical limitations; eg EBay
 * Links movie to IMDb article; id=seven digit number in the IMDb URL
 * Links actor to IMDb article; id=seven digit number in the IMDb URL
 * Adds year of birth and death cats to biographies--doesn't work for people still alive
 * Adds year of birth and death cats to biographies--doesn't work for people still alive

Notability
User:Niteowlneils/2500 Augustine wheelchair ramp is factual, verifiable, and NPOV, meeting the guidelines stated by Jimmy Wales at Wikipedia_talk:Fame_and_importance. Still, should it be in the main article space? I'd say no.

See also: User:Niteowlneils/Copy of kept prank article and votes

Actor lists
Note: From http://www.starseeker.com. I've linked the names blindly (mostly search and replace), so, especially with movie and TV series names, check for alternate spellings/forms (EG +/- "A", "The", etc.). Also, please feel free to add any names that are missing.
 * User:Niteowlneils/actors-a-b
 * User:Niteowlneils/actors-c
 * User:Niteowlneils/actors-d
 * User:Niteowlneils/actors-e-f-g
 * User:Niteowlneils/actors-h-i-j-k
 * User:Niteowlneils/actors-l
 * User:Niteowlneils/actors-m-n-o
 * User:Niteowlneils/actors-p-q-r
 * User:Niteowlneils/actors-s
 * User:Niteowlneils/actors-t-u-v-w-x-y-z

Browser versions I test with

 * Mozilla 1.4
 * Opera 7.02
 * IE 5.5
 * Netscape 7.1
 * Firefox 0.8
 * (rarely) SBC/Yahoo 1.0.05.409

Tutorial
My "sandbox" copies of articles I'm thinking of suggesting adding to the tutorial:
 * a shorter glossary (altho' I think an even shorter one might be better for the basic tutorial, or maybe divide it between fairly simple concepts (EG page, stub), and more complex ones (EG Infobox, Transwiki)--I'm still working on this suggestion.
 * I got it down to 10 entries, and added a link to it from the wrap-up page of the Tutorial on 4/29/04


 * a page about registration (I think this one's pretty much done--my current inclination would be to put it before the page listing other tutorials (currently page 7)).
 * I added it to the flow 4/28/04 Niteowlneils 22:09, 29 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Guide
My "sandbox" copies of articles I'm thinking of adding to a new Advanced tutorial, the goal of which I see being giving people that have mastered the basics covered in the tutorial, guidance in writing good Wikipedia-style articles, some info on key backend processes/areas, any shortcuts they can use, and ideas about various ways they can contribute.
 * User:Niteowlneils/Guide outline
 * User:Niteowlneils/Guide outline/Content problems

New Pages study

 * User:Niteowlneils/NewPagesStudy (list of 100 articles from a 4-day old "New Pages" list, with notes on their condition when I checked them) (Work in progress--less than 20% complete)

Initial stats: approx 76 by registered Wikipedians; 11 by PZFUN, 9 by Sfoskett, 9 by Darra

Alternate Admin Accountability Policy
User:Niteowlneils/Draft AAAP

CSD or Not
Just starting to collect samples--not ready for votes yet.

User:Niteowlneils/csdornot/

Sample 'schools of {state}' table
Work in progress. Done, at least for the time being.

User:Niteowlneils/SchoolTable

User:Niteowlneils/Rhode Island schools

User:Niteowlneils/Providence County, Rhode Island schools

User:Niteowlneils/Sandbox