User:ONUnicorn

"A pig's snout is NOT an electrical outlet." - Taken from a fortune cookie When you have a platform, you have a responsibility. Hello, I'm ONUnicorn. I've been editing Wikipedia off and on since 2006. I became an administrator in 2017. I've been using this screen name various places on the internet since 1998. It's a combination of ONU (for Olivet Nazarene University, my alma mater) and Unicorn because unicorns have always been my favorite animal (real or mythological). Of course, this is no guarantee that someone using this screen name someplace else is me, but it probably is.

In real life, I'm an attorney, but don't hold that against me!

I'm one of those people who is interested in just about everything. I love to learn new things, and to regurgitate things that I have recently learned. As a result, I edit articles in a wide variety of topics. When I stumble across an article that I think could be better I enjoy making it better.

I studied French in school, and can stumble through some basic translation, but I'm no where near fluent. I have edited French Wikipedia a little, but not much. I also have made some contributions to the Simple English Wikipedia. It's a fun challenge to limit myself to the word-lists. I have uploaded a few pictures to Commons, but there are FAR better photographers out there.

I've got some userboxes at the bottom of this page. They are organized by wikipedia activities, educational achievements, about me, grammar, miscellaneous, and ones that are just silly or fun. If you have any questions or want to know anything else about me, feel free to ask me on my talk page.

Old editor review can be found here. RFA can be found here.



The story of life
There's a sort of proverb that's been floating around for a while. I remember a teacher passing it out on a flyer in high school, and I've seen it plastered all over the internet since. I don't know where it comes from, but it's quite applicable to what one sees on Wikipedia if one hangs around long enough. "This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody. There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it.  Somebody got angry about that, because it was Everybody’s job.  Everybody thought Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn’t do it.  It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have." The moral of the story, not only as it relates to Wikipedia, but also as it relates to school, work, politics, and home life, indeed, life in general. . . so fix it!

List

 * Children's Village (New York) - I rescued it from deletion via a total re-write. Too bad I was too late to stop the original contributor from deciding Wikipedia wasn't worth his efforts and turning to vandalism.
 * Der Ruf - Another stub I found and expanded. An interesting WWII era propaganda project which had a lasting impact on post-war Germany.  I'm still working on it, hopefully to take it to either GA or FA when I'm done.
 * Constitution of Saint Kitts and Nevis - a very encyclopedic topic which deserved more than the stub it started out as. It was featured on the main page as a DYK.
 * Holland's Magazine A redlink in Ralph Pallen Coleman, which I found on New Page Patrol made me curious. So I researched and wrote an article on this. Was featured on the main page as a DYK.
 * Souk Okaz - I found it on new pages patrol as a stub that had someone had tag-bombed. This is what it looked like when I found it. I did some research and after an hour or two this is what it looked like.
 * Hammerton Killick - Started by Coolpug05, who then posted a couple places asking for people to help with the article. Cullen328 then found some sources for him and pasted them on the talk page, and as I read the stub of an article and then started to read the sources posted by Cullen, I became absolutely fascinated with this segment in Haitian history. I proceeded to largely re-write the article, and then to write a related article on the Crête-à-Pierrot, Killick's ship. I also intend to continue research in this area and further improve both those two pages and the pages of other players in that particular drama. It was featured on the main page DYK!
 * Critical Mass (Catholic rock) - Most of the actual work on this article was done by Criticalmassjohn, but I helped and fought tooth and nail to save it from deletion.
 * Wyandotte Caves - To start with, I thought I was writing an article from scratch to replace a copyvio. Then, when I was about half done with it, I discovered Wikipedia had an existing article on the topic.  I merged the two articles and this is the result.  It was even on the main page as a DYK!!!!
 * Fork in the road - Ok, so I added an image. Ok, so it's a rather dumb little image.  But... I made it myself using paint!  It was the first image I uploaded to Wikipedia.  So what if it's a silly little paint image added to an obscure little article.  I like it.  I'm proud of it.  Someone didn't think it added value to the article.  A third opinion agreed. *sniff*
 * Apparently someone liked it, and so did someone else.

Barnstars & Awards
With aloha and gratitude for your intervention, identifying multiple-bot actions against Ancient Punaluu image and establishing order. Alawa (talk) 16:47, 19 May 2017 (UTC) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:26, 30 May 2017 (UTC)

Articles that I have started
(Newest at top)
 * Fashion History Museum (sort of)
 * Advance America
 * J.M. Villars
 * Holland's Magazine
 * Crête-à-Pierrot
 * Purse party - due to an interesting personal experience...
 * Autophobia - for my friend
 * Dove Awards of 2004 - Several of these "Dove Awards of ____" articles haven't been made yet. I decided to work on them.  I made this one.  It was boring.  Maybe someone else will make the rest.  Might be something User:Rambot could do.  Rambot's the one who made all the articles on small towns using census data.
 * Ahmed Sofa - found it on New page patrol. It consisted of nothing more then a link to an article on the Bangledesh encyclopedia.  I read the article there, then came back to find the one here speedied.  I created it with some content.
 * Boyds Bears - Someone asked for this on the Village Pump. I figured, why not?
 * Indianapolis Capitals - Defunct Professional Hockey team. Needs expansion.
 * Wyandotte Caves - I'm proud of this one. It was featured in a WP:DYK.
 * Silvadene - a stub. The red-link in the article made me curious as to what precisely this was, so I looked up some information about it, and started the stub.  It definitely needs expansion by someone with a medical background.
 * Sublease - Saw Sub-tenant on the Articles requested for more than a year page, thought it should redirect to sublease, realized there wasn't a sublease page, and made one. Little more than a dictionary definition right now.  Could use expansion.
 * Education in Brazil - Saw it on the Articles requested for more than a year page. Thought it was silly that it didn't exist.  Did what I could.  Could still use expansion.

My Images
These are all self-made. All of these are on Commons. I have also uploaded one or two images to Wikipedia under fair-use claims.

Work in progress

 * To do list
 * User:ONUnicorn/Contests

Wikipedia useful

 * 1) This page has links to categories of templates
 * 2) These are the ones to warn vandals with
 * 3) Here are the cleanup ones
 * 4) Here are the Citation templates
 * Template:Cite sign
 * Templates to put after non-English external links
 * 1) An incredibly useful thingy for converting miles to kilometers, meters to yards, etc
 * 2) Categorical index
 * 3) How to make a wikitable
 * 4) Special:PendingChanges
 * Category:Wikipedia edit requests
 * 1) WP:INDAFD
 * 2) WikiProject Film/Indian cinema task force
 * 3) Wikiblame
 * 4) WP:CATSCAN
 * 5) WP:YOUDONTSAY
 * 6) New page patrol source guide, WikiProject Video games/Sources
 * File:SpongeBob-SquarePants-characters-toys.jpg - A particularly good example of fair-use rational for toys.
 * 1) Welcoming committee/Welcome templates
 * 2) Source assess table

External useful

 * 1) Scienceresearch.com, a search engine that searches scientific journals.
 * 2) Newspaper search, a tool to search U.S. newspaper articles in select states from 1900-1910.
 * 3) Understanding What It Takes To Be Notable For Wikipedia

The Good

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 * - a pretty good summation of every political dispute, ever.
 * Hilarity ensues at ANI.

The Bad

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 * How many Wikipedians does it take to change a lightbulb?
 * NPP Bingo

The Ugly

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 * The most stressful thing on Commons

Interesting

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