User:Casey Abell

From the archives of the RfA talk page,
for anybody bored enough to wonder why I'm not an administrator...

[edit] My imaginary RfA self-nom

The following is officially semi-humorous material under the little-used but critical standard WP:Not Really Very Funny. I’m way too exo to even vote on an RfA, much less submit myself to the torture process.

Uh, hi. You probably don’t know me because I stay out of trouble and edit articles like Escrow payment that nobody with a life would ever read. My big claim to “fame” (ha-ha) was getting Henry James (the article, not the guy’s ashes) up to FA status. FAC was almost as much fun, frivolity, and fabulousness as RfA. But then some admin said I couldn’t call James’ autobiography “charming” because that was POV. Really p.o.ed me. But hey, who am I to argue with an admin?

Anyway, I’ve got about five or six thousand edits now, though a couple thousand or so were anonymous when I was trying to dodge admins like the anti-charming lady. Now I don’t care because, gee, I’m going to be an admin myself (I hope)! I’d like to give you a breakdown of my edits but Essjay’s edit counter is busted or he took it down and I can’t get that damn Java doohickey to work.

If promoted to admin I’m not going to do a lousy thing except what I’m doing now. That’s right, I ain’t gonna promise to AfD and RC and PDQ and Zowie and all that other junk admins promise to do but then they never do it, anyway. (That’s what SlimVirgin says and I don’t argue with virgins of any weight class.) If somebody vandalizes an article on my watchlist I’ll fix it and forget it. Otherwise, I’m just gonna write articles. This is an encyclopedia. You don’t like it, vote me down!

I will promise to be brave, trustworthy and clean. I will take four showers a week, help little old ladies across the street into the crack house, and not eat what I find when I pick my nose. I also won’t post on Wikipedia Review (oops, I'm not supposed to link to that) and I think Kelly Martin and Tony Sidaway are just swell as long as they don’t bother me. Plus, I’ll read all the TROLL stuff in the Signpost and made stupid remarks about it on my user page.

Thank you for your consideration. If I don’t get 80% support, I won’t kill myself. This is no big deal, right? Casey Abell 13:46, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Well, you'd have my vote! --W.marsh 13:52, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Luckily, there are backup counters available:

Edit count for User:Casey_Abell
Counted at 15:48, Thursday August 3, 2006 (UTC)
(main)         2706
Talk           238
User           363
User talk      36
Wikipedia      132
Wikipedia talk 56
Image          248
Template       53
Template talk  1

There's probably some spurious information in the above, as my edit counter is new and tries to figure it out from the summaries with a bot-like intelligence level... anyway, reasonable, but probably too exo for you to be voted in, as you say. (You'll get people complaining about the low Wikipedia: edit count.) See, just posting on RfA's talk page will get your edit count dissected and insulted. (Revenge attempts to count my edits are welcome, so long as there is some comment about why the User: space count is skewed). --ais523 15:57, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

I figure I'm a shoo-in. I got "non-deletion voting-related edit summaries" for crying out loud. If that ain't admin material, what is? Casey Abell 17:23, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Honestly, I'd be tempted to vote for you. I would probably just ask that you participate in a little more process first. (And yes, that means getting the WP count up.) Themindset 22:29, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

I'd vote for you in a heartbeat, which probably tells me you wouldn't pass at the moment. I'm somewhat of an iconoclast on RFA now. Honestly, during my RFA, I was angry at the reasons people opposed me, but I held my tongue. Now that I'm an admin, though, I guess I could launch on an emotional tirade now, and just block people who complained about me :) . My advice is to read RFAs which are failing, and make sure you could dodge having the same criticisms leveled at yourself. RyanGerbil10(The people rejoice!) 01:03, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Halfway seriously, I don't know how anybody can go though RfA without spouting off. I know you're expected to just take the less-than-flattering comments, but sometimes the talk gets pretty trying. Funny thing, the admin who got her knickers in a twist over my use of the dread word "charming" was sysoped way back in February, 2003. Back then they did it on the wikien-l mailing list, and it was maybe a half-dozen people deciding. Getting adminship really was no big deal. Now it's become godawful torture a lot tougher. Casey Abell 04:09, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

You're not an admin already? alphaChimp ^laudare 01:09, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Jeesh, I'm hardly even a respectable editor. Though the more I post here, the less exo I get. Casey Abell 04:09, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Heh. More edits in Wikipedia space would be good, but you seem to have a good attitude.--Firsfron of Ronchester 01:13, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Increase your shower count and we're in business. Yanksox 01:15, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

According to the edit counter from ais523 I have 47 edits in Showers Talk. Is that enough? Casey Abell 04:09, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Articles I've written or contributed to—often anonymously (see here and here, for instance)
but I'm trying to always edit under my real name now:

TV, movies and theater

The History Channel · Newton Minow · A&E Network · List of programs broadcast by A&E Network · Rollergirls · Garry Moore · The Garry Moore Show · The Gallant Men · William Reynolds (actor) · Robert McQueeney · Robert Ridgely · Eddie Fontaine · Roland La Starza · Robert Gothie · Remington Steele · Lisa Langlois · The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour · Alan Lund · Good Times (film) · Match Game · Playmania · Lingo (game show) · Game Show Network · 50 Greatest Game Shows of All Time (GSN) · Matt Ottinger · Deal or No Deal (US game show) · 1 vs. 100 (US game show) · Bill Cullen · Bil Dwyer · Diane Gutterud · Debbie Gates · Phantom of the Megaplex · Chuck Woolery · Shipwrecked (1990) · Jack Lemmon · Reginald Rose · Jessica Savitch · The FBI Files · Don Giovanni (1979 film) · Harry Reasoner · Shandi Finnessey · Joker's Wild (TV series) · Barry & Enright Productions · Mark Goodson

Science, mathematics and technology

@RISK · Fast probability integration · Notification system · Mario Livio · Numerical Recipes · Guard byte · Underwood Dudley · Cosmic View · Millimeter cloud radar · Erwin Schrödinger · What is Life? (Schrödinger) · E. T. Bell · Men of Mathematics · Apollonius of Perga · IBM token ring · Richard S. Westfall · Maximum throughput scheduling · Explanatory style · Daniel Elliott Loeb · Check Point Integrity · Histogram equalization · Post-Turing machine · Rick Maybury · Prime Obsession · Errorlevel · Wayne Ratliff · Johann Bessler · Sylvia Nasar · A Beautiful Mind (book)

Business and economics

Continuing education unit · Fiscal incidence · Real estate investor · External audit staff · Insurance Services Office · Economic credentialing · National Council on Compensation Insurance · Hadley Brewery · Loan to value · Business development · Guaranteed asset protection insurance · Jarrow Brewing Company· Self-Directed IRA· List of US States by GDP (nominal) · List of US States by GDP per capita (nominal) · Paul DiMaggio · Demographic gift · Kenneth W. Dam · Meetings, Incentives, Conferencing, Exhibitions · Illinois Farm Bureau · Deborah Wright · PNC Financial Services · Professional Oversight Board · Eliot Janeway · Pre-determined overhead rate · Cross-collateralization · Casualty Actuarial Society · Flat organization · Escrow payment · Chargeback insurance · NORPAC Controls

History and geography

Flower Mound, Texas · Lewisville, Texas · Highland Village, Texas · Grapevine, Texas · Argyle, Texas · Arlington, Texas · Irving, Texas · Copper Canyon, Texas · Dudleytown, Connecticut · Palmerston Island · Georgia State Route 66 · Georgia State Route 339 · Choctawhatchee Mid-Bay Bridge · Alabama State Route 21 · Alabama State Route 22 · Alabama State Route 59 · South Carolina Highway 6 · South Carolina Highway 34 · Palmer Park, Chicago · Kingswood, Dublin · State Highway 163 (Texas) · State Highway 349 (Texas) · Gold Spoon Oration · Ohio 2nd congressional district election, 2006 · Goulash Communism · St. Louis Ballpark Village · Arizona State Route 188

Henry James

Henry James (selected as a featured article) · Watch and Ward · Roderick Hudson · The American · The Europeans · Confidence · Washington Square · The Portrait of a Lady · The Bostonians · The Princess Casamassima · The Reverberator · The Tragic Muse · The Other House · The Spoils of Poynton · What Maisie Knew · The Awkward Age · The Sacred Fount · The Wings of the Dove · The Ambassadors · The Golden Bowl · The Outcry · The Ivory Tower · The Sense of the Past · A Passionate Pilgrim · Madame de Mauves · Daisy Miller · A Bundle of Letters · The Author of Beltraffio · The Aspern Papers · A London Life · The Pupil · The Real Thing · The Middle Years (story) · The Altar of the Dead · The Turn of the Screw · In the Cage · Paste · Europe · The Great Good Place · Mrs. Medwin · The Birthplace · The Beast in the Jungle · The Jolly Corner · A Little Tour in France · English Hours · The American Scene · Italian Hours · French Poets and Novelists · Hawthorne · Partial Portraits · Essays in London and Elsewhere · Notes on Novelists · Notebooks of Henry James · A Small Boy and Others · Notes of a Son and Brother · The Middle Years (book) · Theatricals · Theatricals: Second Series · Guy Domville · William Wetmore Story and His Friends · Picture and Text · New York Edition

Other literature

The Lifted Veil · Andre Jardin · The Whole Family · Anthony Trollope · Philip Horne · Diane Middlebrook · Plautus · Aulularia · Captivi · Aucassin et Nicolette · Henrik Ibsen · Michael Anesko · Oeconomicus (Xenophon) · Anabasis (Xenophon) · Constance Fenimore Woolson · Emma Tennant · John Bayley · Jean Strouse · E. M. Forster · Mansfield Park (novel) · Heather Sharfeddin · Rebecca Goldstein · Miles Harvey · The Sunshine Boys · John Derbyshire · A. Scott Berg · Leon Edel · Edmund Wilson · The Cold War and the Income Tax: A Protest · David Tristram · John Dickson Carr · Alice James · Leaves of Grass · Gateway to the Great Books · Great Books of the Western World · Library of America · Hanna Rosin · The Sundial · Edward Wagenknecht · Terry Teachout · John Podhoretz · John Addington Symonds · David Crystal · Siege of Jerusalem (Middle English poem)

Sports

1992 NLCS · David Pinto · Punt returner · Eric Hansen · 1982 ALCS · Chariot racing · Curt Smith (author) · 1972 NLCS · Jim Simpson (sportscaster) · Ron Luciano · Grand Haven Golf Club · Delay of game (ice hockey) · Oakville Aquatic Club · 1989 NLCS · Dave Shula · 1980 NLCS · Matt Vasgersian · Curse of the Bambino · Home Plate Farm · Rescue swimming · Texas Rangers (baseball) · Forres golf course · 1973 NLCS · Ian Stewart (baseball) · 1984 NLCS · Ameriquest Field in Arlington · Golf etiquette · Victor Rojas · WhatIfSports.com · Gordon H. Fleming · 1981 NLCS · Template:ALCS · Template:NLCS

Pop culture

Cincinnati chili · List of BMG Music Club's top selling albums in the United States · Blog · Parasite Eve · Chaos and Creation in the Backyard · Paul Weir · Paper Wars · Latin Grammy Awards of 2004 · American Breed · Forbidden (novel) · Margaret Healy · East African urban music · Joy Williams (album) · KZPS-FM · KDBN-FM · Major League Online · Riley Breckenridge · Found Desert Island · Student.com · Martin Higgins · Jump rope · Recreation · Garth (comic strip)

Miscellaneous

Charles E. Freeman · James Baker Institute · Jennifer Stumm · Marshland High School · Judith Coplon · Meta-discussion · Judith Jacobs · Joseph Leslie Broadbent · Valwood School · Florence Siebert · Harry Gordon · Edward White Benson · Holland Patent High School · Laura Kriho · Graham Houghton · Rachel Weil · Market Estate · Grace Bumbry · Olentangy High School · National Women's Hall of Fame · Hendrik Christian Andersen · Greenville Zoo · Ian Shapiro · Mobility scooter · Wikinfo · James McLoughlin · Eliot Fisk · Hugs and Hope Foundation for Sick Children · Criticism of Wikipedia · Melinda Loveless · Citizendium · Missionaries of La Salette · Mary Baker Eddy · Jazz (Henri Matisse) · List of people from Rhode Island

The welcome message that started this user page. Actually, I got an earlier welcome message (on my talk page) when I first started editing Wikipedia, mostly anonymously, in March, 2005. But both messages are worth saving:

Welcome!

Hello, Casey Abell, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

• The five pillars of Wikipedia
• How to edit a page
• Help pages
• Tutorial
• How to write a great article
• Manual of Style

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! 
– Hydriotaphia 09:21, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

I promised you an edit count, so courtesy of Interiot as of 14:00, 12 December 2006 (UTC):

Total edits: 6644  Main: 4869  Talk: 419  User: 585  User talk: 120
Wikipedia: 229  Wikipedia talk: 72  Image: 299  Image talk: 0
Template: 50  Template talk: 1

Hm, maybe I'm not completely exopedian, though over 83%
of my last thousand edits are in the main article space.