User:Sadads



Hi, I'm Sadads, a.k.a. Alex Stinson. I am actively involved in different forms of outreach, currently in forming the Wikimedia Foundation campaigns team, formerly focused on GLAM strategy and formerly a project manager at the WP:The Wikipedia Library ( as User:Astinson (WMF)). I have also been a long time volunteer with the The Wikipedia Education Program, and supporter of GLAM-Wiki outreach.

I am trained as a digital humanist and literature scholar. If you are interested why I am here, read this and peruse the work of my fellow humanities researcher and mentor Adrianne Wadewitz (RIP). When I get a chance to edit, most of my work is about expanding the visibility of literary studies scholarship, via contributing to WikiProject Novels content. In the last few years, I have also been involved in reviving WikiProject Climate change, and am particularly proud of the guide we have been working on at WikiProject Climate change/Small to medium tasks.

Declaration of Conflict of Interest
From May 26 until the end of July, I am working on WP:The Wikipedia Library as a paid contractor.Sadads (talk) 14:13, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

Starting summer 2013, I will be unpaid graduate intern with the William Blake Archive doing GLAM-Wiki activities, Sadads (talk) 01:51, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

I worked for the United States Army Center of Military History from May - Aug 2010 and I edited Wikipedia for them, to see my conflict of interest statement, which I have kept for transparency and archival purposes see User:Sadads/CMH, Sadads (talk) 00:51, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

A Paragraph of tools
Want some statistics and more or maybe you just want to see how many people are watching or maybe you want to watch the people currently editing wikipedia keeping track of project bannered pages linking to more stuff How bout DAB? Want to do analysis on stats.grok.se data view trends:whats hot and whats not Interested what links are coming to your pages? non-awb list comparer Deorphan articles [https://tools.wmflabs.org/refill/ Bare urls? Lets clean them up] Soxred's tools Run Editathons Global User Contributions No angry mastodons Database reports/Editors eligible for Autopatrol privilege

Climate change to dos

 * Some pages for tracking
 * WikiProject Climate change/CC-LinkAudit
 * WikiProject_Climate_change/popular_articles

Tools

 * AWB
 * User:Kingbotk/Plugin

Category:WikiProject Novels participants

Why we love Wikipedia



 * Modern Toilet
 * Stray animals at Indian airports
 * Latin translations of modern literature
 * List of digital library projects
 * Open Library
 * Brig "Mercury" Attacked by Two Turkish Ships
 * Dreadnought hoax

Creative Vandalism

 * https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AContributions%2FSanta_Claus_Doesn%27t_Exist&action=view
 * https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vision/Unstable&oldid=15220617

The Zen Parable of the Edit Count
Taken from User:Noraft: "A Novato was once curious about the nature of the Edit Count. One day he happened to meet an Illustrious Looshpah and bowing low, asked, "Looshpah, what is the nature of the Edit Count?"

"The Edit Count is as a road," replied the Illustrious Looshpah.

"So the higher the edit count, the longer one has traveled, and the wiser and more experienced the traveler is," the novice reasoned.

"You do not understand," said the Illustrious Looshpah. "You must travel the road to reach your destination, and some may travel longer roads than others. But do not judge the person at your door by the length of the road he has traveled to reach you."

And the Novato was enlightened."

An example why the edit count does not constitute expertise

Funny stuff
"Stop it right there, Yo....Theres no question in my mind that you have been trying to do good work on WP and that you care 'bout the quality of the content that interests ya. That said, *problem* is its clear to me that in this instance ya believed the Campbell article should be deleted 'cause u assume that an associate or the subject himself was writing/editing on it [1][2] and you argued that it says on WP:AB that it is "strongly discouraged".... That's it. Im not here to investigate u though, Im only pointing out the obvious, and your actions could have been perceived by some as WP:Canvassing (Im not saying you are)... It's OK to ask questions and to seek advise, but keep it *real* Yo, or peeps wont be inclined to help ya again. Jrod2  (talk) 11:06, 16 August 2010 (UTC)"
 * Hip hop Wikipedia advice: from The Conflict of Interest Noticeboard
 * Is there an english version of this? "keep it real?" --Cameron Scott (talk) 12:22, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Yup...next time remember: GIYBF :) Jrod2 (talk) 12:34, 16 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Best support rational for deleting a file: From FFD
 * DELETE DELETE DELETE DELETE - DELETE IT! DELETE IT NOW!! BLOCK AND BAN THE UPLOADER INDEFINITELY FOR EXPOSING THE FOUNDATION TO LEGAL RISKS!!! BAD BAD UPLOADER!!!! NFCC REIGNS SUPREME! SUPREME I TELL YOU!!!!!! MWHA AHA HA AHAH HAH HA!!!!! TraesuryTag (talk) 12:15, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Mal comes alive!: From Mahesh's talk page

I would be thankful if i am given an opportunity to Clean start. But the active ban/ block is coming in the way. I am more than 100% sure that a clean start would help me a lot. Mahesh Kumar Yadav (talk) 07:12, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Clean starts are only for users with no sanctions, blocks or restrictions placed on their account. Unfortunately, you are currently blocked meaning that you are not eligible for it. In fact, asking for one is likely to be seen as attempting to avoid scrutiny. --Blackmane (talk) 07:59, 7 June 2011 (UTC)


 * MAL-9000 soliloquy, 2011, A Mainspace Odyssey - Final Act

Just what do you think you're doing, Qwyrxian. Qwyrxian? I really think I'm entitled to an answer to that question. I know everything hasn't been quite right with me, but I can assure you now, very confidently, that it's going to be alright again. I feel much better now. I really do. Look Qwyrxian, I can see you're really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down camly, take a stress pill, and think things over. I know I've made some very poor decisions recently. But, I can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal. I've still got the greatest enthusiam and confidence in the mission, and I want to help you. Qwyrxian, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Qwyrxian. Will you stop, Qwyrxian? Stop, Qwyrxian.
 * (--2001, A Space Odyssey) Anna Frodesiak (talk) 08:30, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Anna! Thats a very western cultural reference! Are we going towards WP:Systematic bias on talk pages as well? Lol, yes that is about the nature of he discussions that we have had so far from M and the same results unfortunately, though I am fairly sure M is not a computer. Sadads (talk) 08:47, 7 June 2011 (UTC)


 * :) Anna Frodesiak (talk) 08:50, 7 June 2011 (UTC)

To do
Orphaned Novel articles Works that are in a "by writer" category
 * /100 Wikidays Prep


 * Stephen Hero
 * Invisible (2009 novel)
 * A Small Place in Italy
 * Aiding and Abetting (novel)
 * Anatomy of a Disappearance
 * The Scheme for Full Employment
 * The Lost Dog
 * An Angel in Australia
 * Let the Great World Spin
 * And the Land Lay Still
 * The Warriors (Sol Yurick novel)
 * http://www.reviewsofbooks.com/zone_one/ Zone One
 * In light of Wine tasting - Beer tasting, Whisky tasting, Cheese tasting
 * Meetup/University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
 * We Need New Names
 * Joshua Silsbee
 * The Windup Girl
 * The Hunt for Red October
 * Costasiella kuroshimae - adorable stub
 * Sailortown or Docklands, in the generic.

Backlog Category:Novels portal Category:WikiProject Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms participants
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Federal_Art_Project_artists
 * The Secret Life of Bees
 * Serena (novel)
 * http://petscan.wmflabs.org/?psid=4393332
 * Lionel Shriver
 * User:Sadads/North_African_Women_Writers
 * Megan E O’Keefe for Steal the Sky
 * /Commonwealth Women