User:Schmiteye

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Schmiteye is a name I was given when I was in the Navy. Having a name like "Smith" usually means that everyone calls you "Smitty." The name Schmiteye is the best thing I ever got from being in the Navy. Take a look at the disambiguation related to Wolfman Jack. He and I share a page -- Robert Smith.

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This user recently discovered how to use userboxes.

This user is a member of the
Biography Wikiproject.

This user is a member of WikiProject Films.

This user lives in California.

This user is a WikiGnome.

This user wastes far too much time editing Wikipedia.

!?	This user is a punctuation stickler.

its

This user understands the difference between its ("of it") and it's ("it is").

’s	Thi's user know's that not every word that end's with s need's an apostrophe and will remove misused apostrophe's from Wikipedia with extreme prejudice. [sic]

;	This user is able to use a semicolon correctly.

~~they~~

This user considers singular they substandard English usage, even as he styles himself as a descriptivist, noting that, in truth, there is none but soft prescriptivism, but noting that he may also forbear himself in a fashion the satisfaction of which he would not seek to compel or encourage in others.

This user prefers to be referred to by whatever gender pronoun makes you feel comfortable.

This user comes from the United States of America.

This user is from California.

This user opposes George W. Bush, but equally opposes vandalism of his Wikipedia biography, even as he is sometimes amused by such untoward biographical amendment.

This user contributes using Internet Explorer.

winXP

This user contributes using Microsoft Windows XP.

This user enjoys playing Trivial Pursuit and Go.

CSI

This user is obsessed with:
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,
CSI: Miami, and CSI: New York.

d'oh

This user is a fan of The Simpsons.

This user loves The Beatles.

SF	This user is a San Francisco Giants fan.

This user is a mediocre chess player.

Wikipedia is not censored for the protection of minors.

POV

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This user supports Wikipedians against censorship.

vn0

This user page has been vandalized zero times, making this user wonder why he has been unable to engender more rage.

dar

This user is a Wikipedia darwikinist in his understanding of the internal workings and construction of the encyclopedia.

incl

This user is a Wikipedia inclusionist in his forming views relative to the creation of pages and the insertion of information, although he is more likely to support the retention of potentially unnecessary information in an article than the creation or retention of an article of a topic of apochrypal or dubious notoriety. Nevertheless, he thinks presumptions should be always be made in favor of keeping, rather than removing, information.

This user supports the legalization of same sex marriage, or, more appropriately, the cessation of the government sanctioning/licensing of any marriage.

agn

This user is an agnostic who in no way practices religion or holds religious beliefs but is nevertheless convinced of the impropriety of demonstrating conclusively the absence of a supreme deity, despite his general disbelief in such existence.

This user is a Mosaic.

This user is drug-free.

This user imagines
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too.

BLUE

This user's favorite color is blue.

This user understands biological evolution.

This user is male.

ENTJ

This user's MBTI type is ENTJ, although it is only the intuitive and thinking personalities that are very prominently or strongly expressed.

This user likes to use redundant userboxes.

This user loves userboxes.

This user prefers using userboxes to fill up their user page instead of actually writing something useful.

?met?

This user prefers metric units, and cannot figure out why other Americans have such a hard time with them.

:-p

This user is a jokester or comedian.

UTC-8

This user's time zone is UTC-8, i.e., Pacific Standard Time.

This user eats apples.

C₂H₆O-0

This user is an alcoholic beverage drinker.

This user does not regularly exercise, and drinks beer and coffee to keep hydrated.

This user prefers that the death penalty never be used.

This user is a bibliophile.

Google

This user uses Google as a primary search engine.

This user's deviation is standard

This user never sings, even in the shower.

...

This user is addicted to ellipses and has been known to use them indiscriminately...

AS	This user suffers from Asperger syndrome.

xxx.

This user does not smoke.

This user believes that George W. Bush's circumvention of the Constitution needs to be reverted and believes Bush to be the least freedom-minded and most heavy-handed American leader since FDR.

This user is a member of the
California Wikiproject

ubx-5

This user uses entirely too many userboxes.

This user supports voluntary recycling.

Hi! I am a userbox with a POV. I won't hurt you, I promise! Pretty please don't delete me.

UBX

Ceci n'est pas une boîte utilisateur.

This user is a member of the Wikipedia Department of Fun.

This alleged user can be said to maintain a policy or other custom of neutrality or other ambiguity-related quality on some or all issues that may be potentially controversial to some alleged people...maybe.

This user is bold, but not reckless, in updating pages.

$\varnothing$

This user believes that a user's edit count does not necessarily reflect on the value of his/her contributions to Wikipedia.

This user is of Norwegian extraction.

—	This space for rent.

—	This space for rent.

@	This user can be reached by email.

This user believes that "all the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players".

Y!	This user uses Yahoo! Mail as a primary email service

This user contributes using either of two PCs.

This user sometimes contributes using an in-house wireless connection.

This user enjoys playing Sudoku.

Image:Pancake.jpeg

Occasionally this user makes pancakes.

This user drinks Margaritas, when available.

This user watches Baseball.

This user recognizes that people who are proud of their ancestry tend to have little more of which to be proud, even as he notes his ancestry in other userboxes here; such noting is primarily to provide biographical context.

IQ	This user's IQ is at least marginally higher than room temperature.

This user feels that only articles need a NPOV, and that displaying political, religious or other beliefs using userboxes and user categories should not be banned.

This user believes in the separation of church and state.

POV

This user supports userboxes that display a point of view.

Hi! I am a userbox with a POV. I won't hurt you, I promise! Pretty please don't delete me.

This user is interested in coin collecting.

This user is interested in numismatics.

~~!@$#~~

This user tolerates profanity.

[edit] Current behavior

A lot of my editing occurs when I find a particularly annoying problem. My latest quest was to rid articles of a common error. Almost always, when someone writes "the 1960's" for example, they mean "the decade 1960–1969" and not the possessive. We properly redirect these to 1960s, but leaving it intact encourages others to follow suit. I eliminated a bunch that fit this scenario but it is a common error so it will be back. More work for me I guess.

An interesting twist on this problem is when people refer to "the 30's" the redirection is to the 1st century and not the 1930s as one would hope. My concern is that in about 50 years, say 2053, "the fifties" will take on a whole new meaning. So don't use 50's even though the redirection "works" for you now. As one of the people involved in helping to fix the Y2K problem, I want to do what I can to avoid similar issues. See WP:MOSDATE.

I also try to make sure that standard headings are used (WP:MOSHEAD) with proper capitalization. The opening paragraphs of articles tend to be way too long. If the first thing you see is a TOC, then you know right away that something is wrong.

External links are a favorite of mine. I did a lot of work with {imdb} and {memoryalpha} templates. Usually the links are not formatted properly.

And finaly speling. I cn easly fnd enuf mispelngs two keeep mi buzy. I trie too spel chk evry artcle eye edditt.

[edit] Background

Frankly I don't remember my first encounter with Wikipedia. I am sure I stumbled across it doing a Google search. Of course I fell in love right away.

[edit] My first car

My first car was a '67 Cougar.

[edit] Homes

San Francisco Bay Area is home for me. When I was in the Navy I lived in Waikiki and Aiea, Hawaii. I also lived in Idaho Falls, Idaho one cold winter.

[edit] US Navy

I was a First Class Machinist Mate (my patch had a propeller) when I was honorably discharged:

I was awarded this pin:

D'oh!

"Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you any stinking badges." Gold Hat, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

[edit] Fun stuff

Oh yeah, my favorite site for data is the Internet Movie Database (AKA IMDb).

"Ward, I want you to speak to the Beaver." June Cleaver (Leave it to Beaver).

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to:

Herb Caen

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to:

Woody Allen

Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense

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Special collections

[edit] Cities

[edit] 100-plus movie favorites

[edit] Favorite movie opening credits

Forrest Gump - the feather
A Shot in the Dark

[edit] Favorite movie closing credits

Toy Story - "outakes"

[edit] Other junk

P.S. Just for the record, User:Viriditas was the first to "Welcome me aboard".

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[edit] References

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Aunt Patty

Central Park, San Mateo

Laffing Sal in San Francisco

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en	This user is a native speaker of English.

BS	This user can speak Bullshit.

ang-0

This person does not understand Englisc (or understands it with considerable difficulties).

simple
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This user can help out at an advanced level of Simple English.

pig

Isthay useryay ancay eakspay Igpay Atinlay.

sql-2

This user is an intermediate SQL programmer.

This user contributes using Microsoft Windows.

1337-0

This user has no idea what the hell 1337 is and/or prefers to contribute using proper words.

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