User:RJFJR

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Active Wiki Fixup Projects
Leading the charge in the War on Error! Must be active, systematic, have lists, & need help.
Writing
Dead-end pages These pages are not wikified. (Updated 22 September 2006)
Neglected articles Most wanted stubs Shortpages (Updated from January 25 2006 dump, all still active as of April 2006)
Most wanted articles Articles requested for more than a year
Missing articles Wikipedia is not as complete as you might think! (ongoing)
Other
Uncategorised articles Help categorise articles.
Orphaned articles Help link to these orphaned articles.
Stubsensor Help remove stub tags from articles they don't belong on.
Articles that need to be wikified Massive backlog.
Orphaned talk pages Talk pages without corresponding articles. Administrators only.
Disambiguation pages with links (Updated November 30, 2006)
Templates with red links (Updated January 25 2006)
Linkrot Fix broken links to external websites. (Updated December 13 2005)
Transwiki log cleanup Articles that have been transwikied and need to be checked for possible merging or deletion.
Main - Inactive - Mini

I, Haza-w, hereby award this Working Man's Barnstar to RJFJR for his tireless cleanup work.

[edit] Intro

I really don't know that there is anything important enough to put here, but it's in the user space so I'll do it...but just for the following reason:

My favorite color is blue ...hmmm...doesn't sound like a reason, until you realize that creating this page changes links to my user name from red to blue.

[edit] Really, Really Important things I've learned about Wikipedia

These are my notes:

[edit] Write to the target audience

- Audience: A related question, is who should the pages be written for? Most writers are in college or past college. However, there is evidence that most readers are high-school students, or other people who are not familar with a topic. What is obvious and irrelevant to a CS student or grad, may be very unclear and important to a high-school student or someone who is thinking of returning to college. Of course, Wikipedia has yet to define its target audience very well. The lists make it accessible to a much broader audience. excerpted from a comment by an anon who signed his message: The Phantom Avenger for SE

Summary:

- K.I.S.S. - Keep It Sweet and Simple.
- Write first for the Educated Layperson (that's hard)...
- ...then try to do it better and write for the beginner (that's harder)
If an educated layperson can't figure it out by following the wikilinks, then it's too hard.
Yes, we're experts (more or less) but we're writing for a general audience. We could write a clever, concise, deep sentence to explain something...but it's useless if it isn't easy to understand.
Eschew argot, technicality and cant.

[edit] Spelling/Grammar checking

'Whenever doing anything but minor editing, copy and paste to a word-processor with real time spelling/grammar checking!

That and that I can't spell. I also can't capitalize, but that's a different matter.

[edit] Formating dates

Date formats:

# [[July 20]], [[1969]] July 20, 1969
# [[20 July]] [[1969]] 20 July 1969
# [[1969]]-[[07-20]] 1969-07-20

[edit] Formatting ISBN

ISBN 3-540-60521-5 displays as ISBN 3-540-60521-5

[edit] Very useful wiki pages that I use a lot

alphabetical index of articles This is a short cut into the alphabetical index of articles.
Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types Grutness's stub list
Wikipedia:Cleanup resources Clean up templates
{{fact}} to display citation needed
Wikipedia:Requested articles
Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of Life/taxobox usage
Wikipedia:Glossary

[edit] Tools

Category:Wikipedia requested images new
[[:Category:Articles needing images]] old

Wikipedia:Template namespace

[edit] Possible Tools

Template:Imdb title

a page on grammar errors

[edit] Categorizing

Category:Fundamental fundamental categories to start at when looking for a category.

[edit] Stub Sorting

I'm part of the stub sorting project. We're trying to sort stub articles into more focused categories so people with special interests can more easily find articles to expand.

My response to being informed (after sorting hundreds of stubs) that there were estimated to be 20,000 stub articles to sort was:

whimper...whimper...whimper...

Fortunately, we seem to have gotten a handle on the number of articles left in category:stubs to be sorted. More will gradually migrate in (as they are edited for other purposes and the category is updated) but at a more-or-less managable rate.

I hope this project proves useful.

[edit] Cleanup Projects

We seem to have briefly caught up with stub sorting so I think I'll spend some time working on:

Category:Cleanup by month

Category:Articles that need to be wikified

Wikipedia:Deadend pages (a lot of these are pretty easy since they are actually stubs that need to be wikify-ed).

category:Category needed (maybe someday, when I catch up...)

Wikipedia:Uncategorized pages

Deadends

m:Transwiki transwiki instructions

[edit] Stubs I should be able to contribute to

Category:Connecticut geography stubs

Category:Computer stubs

Category:Inorganic compound stubs

[edit] prodding, for monitoring

[edit] Cleanup Taskforce

I'm a member of the cleanup taskforce. I specialize in engineering, computers and science

my desk

Wikipedia:Cleanup Taskforce/Members/Members by interest/Active my attempt at an automated list of active CT members.

[edit] These are tools I keep needing for the taskforce

''Added to [[User:USERNAME/Desk]]'' ~~~~

{{Wikipedia:Cleanup Taskforce/ARTICLENAME}}

{{taskforce-inactive}}

[edit] To Do

User:Vyzasatya/Desk (also looks inactive)
User talk:Dcgqueen active?

[edit] I made admin

We all know admin is "no big deal" (in fact the quote is here, Jimbo Wales said it), but it's really nice to be asked.

The vote is/was at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/RJFJR. (I put this link here so I could watch while I was fretting over whether I'd get it).

here is the admin's reading list that I'm still trying to absorb and will keep handy as a refernce.

[edit] Spelling

Turns out these need to be done periodically:

resevoir -> reservoir
tendancy -> tendency
seperate -> separate
foriegn -> foreign
sportscar -> sports car
diminuitive -> diminutive

[edit] Tools

Wikipedia:List of common misspellings

[edit] Words I'm suspicious of

I am suspicious of the word whereby. It's a real word, but I want to take a look at articles that use it and make sure they are clearly worded.

[edit] Images

I've uploaded these images to commons:

To English wikipedia (can use Fair Use licensing, these are magazinecovers)

image:PowerPack1.jpg (umm, this was a bad name, I now realize, since it is distinct from an existing image only by capitalization)
image:Powerpackcol1_4.jpg

[edit] Fun things to do

Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost

Goto My Contributions and see which have been changed since I worked on them. Sometimes it looks like people are following me around and working on things I've edited (but it's usually a case of someone coming after I wikify and adding categories, so I'm not paranoid).

[edit] todo

nyquist plot - review textbook again and talk to omegatron about a plot. User:RJFJR/Sandbox
tighten and cleanup Toastmasters International
Reasoning engine
calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate
pericarp
hesperidium

Great Observatories program

Celine Dion and History of Arizona. Monicasdude

Rare earth element

[edit] Images

Request templates: {{reqphoto}}, {{reqmap}}, {{reqdiagram}}, or {{reqimageother|type of request}} on talk pages.

[edit] keep an eye on

~~Wikipedia:Cleanup Taskforce/String inverter~~ died at AFD, all that remains is the discussion.

[edit] Cute

edit count tool

User:Lupin/editcount.js

Wikipedia:List of administrators by edit count

monthly statistics

'Evolution of Heavy Metal Umlaut' video

[edit] Press Releases

This is a question I posted at Village pump (Policy) and the replies. I am placing it here so I don't forget it.

Celesio was begun with press-release. Is it correct that a press release is not copyrighted? RJFJR 15:56, Jun 26, 2005 (UTC)

In the United States, everything is copyrighted. --Carnildo 20:39, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

But if it's a press release being sent out to be published, aren't they granting rights to reproduce on it? Or does that just apply to people they directly send it to? RJFJR 20:55, Jun 26, 2005 (UTC)

That may be (or may not be). IANAL. But I assure you, that press release is not under the GFDL. --Carnildo 21:09, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Press releases are definitely copyrighted. They do not grant free rights to reproduction — they license it for reproduction to certain partners under certain conditions, in the same way that a record company licenses its music to the companies that print the CDs and gives people who buy the CDs very limited personal use rights. I am not a lawyer, however. Deco 21:01, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I'm not a lawyer, but I am a journalist. "License" at least implies more formality than exists. Maurreen 21:15, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thank you, everbody! I have chopped, added an external link to the press release, and marked corp-stub. (I will file this as a reminder. I appreciate it). RJFJR 01:35, Jun 27, 2005 (UTC)