User:Kralizec!
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[edit] About
If you are reading about me, you must be either lost or bored. Either way, this page is me in a nutshell. --Kralizec! (talk) 20:33, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Ancient history
Born in rural Ohio in 1973, I am of Scotch-Irish descent and am the only child of a working-class father and white-collar mother. I was raised on a steady diet of PBS and attended the same public school district all 13 years. During my teen years I was a very active hospital volunteer, and I attended weekly Presbyterian church services with my grandparents from the time I was in seventh grade until I graduated from high school and moved away to college.
One of the best parts of my childhood was my family's love of travel. Of the 17 years I lived with my parents, we took multi-day, out-of-state vacations during fifteen of these years. Virtually every summer we would pack up the camper and enjoy a 5 - 15 day, 1500+ km long road-trip to somewhere interesting (four of our vacations were over 3000 km long!). (see Travel below)
My Bachelor of Science degree was earned from Bowling Green State University where I initially majored in Health Care Administration, but eventually changed to Management information systems. Along the way, I also picked up a minor in Interpersonal communications. In college I was involved in student government and the Honors Student Association (despite not being an honors student). During four of my college years, I worked in the university's network services department. I also did a three month internship with a software developer in New England .
[edit] Recent history
In 1998 I married my college sweetheart. Our son was born in 2003; he is named after his great great great great great grandfather who emigrated from County Down, Ireland to the Colony of Pennsylvania in the mid-1700's. Our (fraternal) twin daughters were born in 2005; they are named after their various grand and great grandmothers. Our family also includes a dog, cat, and three tanks of tropical fish. The username 'Kralizec!' has been my handle (or .nic as we used to call it back in ye olde unix days) since 1993.
My employer since 1998 has been a Midwestern bank, where I have held a variety of information technology jobs. Starting in 2003, I have served as a team leader in the company's Network monitoring department. Because I work four ten-hour days each week, I am able to keep our kids home with me three days every week, so I am able to enjoy being a semi-stay-at-home dad.
[edit] Beliefs
Personally, I self-identify as being an agnostic secular humanist. On the American political spectrum I am a Moderate Republican with mostly conservative fiscal views (including being an advocate for fiscal responsibility) and moderate social views (including strong support for same-sex marriage and the environment) ... however some of my more conservative friends accuse me of being a Republican In Name Only. Despite being agnostic and a devout believer in Evolutionism, I semi-regularly attend services at our local Presbyterian Church (USA).
[edit] Interests
My interests and hobbies include playing with my three rambunctious kids; travel (see below; by age 29, I had already been to 30 U.S. states and territories, 2 Canadian provinces, and 6 Australian states and territories); reading books (science and science fiction) and magazines (The Economist, National Geographic, Newsweek); amateur photography (primarily digital these days, via my Canon PowerShot S80); tropical fish (Mickey Mouse Platys); both computer games (RTS and especially both the turn-based strategy and historic city building genres) and board games (strategy games like Axis and Allies, Shogun, Ticket to Ride, A Game of Thrones, etc.); as well as sushi and Japanese cuisine.
In my free time I moderate an email list on Palladium RPG's and often frequent the RPG.NET message boards.
[edit] Travel
Here are the places I have been to. Concept and general layout stolen from User:Calton who got it from User:Guettarda who borrowed it from User:Coolcat.
[edit] By nation
Spent years: 
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[edit] Detailed by state, province, and territory
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[edit] History on Wikipedia
My first (anonymous) Wikipedia edits were in 2003. It was not until early 2005 that I finally broke down and became a registered user.
Pet peeve: Articles that link to disambiguation pages instead of the correct article are the bane of my existence. My personal nightmare must be the Oil disambiguation page with its 1000+ links. Arg!
- 500th edit: USS Prince William (CVE-19)
- 1000th edit: Quamzin Kravshera
- 2000th edit: Category:Crown Colony class cruisers
[edit] Projects
To date, I have had varying degrees of involvement with the following projects:
- History of Poland - mostly World War II-era naval ships of Poland and the historic Polish states
- Maritime warfare task force - emphasis on world navies and naval battles
- Ohio State Highways - mostly photography of various state routes
- Ships - primarily ships from the pre-Dreadnought era through the Cold War, with emphasis on WWI, WWII, and Cold War ship classes
- Oklahoma - mainly related to tourism areas in the state
[edit] Recent changes patrol
While not a member of the recent changes patrol, there are several articles I watch closely in order to prevent vandalism. They include the following:
- Oklahoma City bombing
- Oral Roberts University
- Pensacola Christian College
- Seven Wonders of the World
- Shia Islam
[edit] Contributions
This section is pretty long and boring. It primarily servers as my own reference, especially when I need a template for starting a new article, category, or template.
[edit] Articles
Articles created, de-stubbed, or heavily contributed to by Kralizec!:
- S6W reactor, used by the United States Navy
- Agawa Canyon in Ontario
- Blue Rock State Park in south-eastern Ohio
- Boston class cruiser in the United States Navy
- HMAS Canberra, of the Royal Australian Navy
- Casino Sault Ste. Marie in Ontario
- Charles Moss Duke, Jr., an astronaut from the Apollo space program
- David M. Walker, an astronaut from the Space Shuttle program
- Dolza, a character in the fictional Robotech universe
- Ed Galloway's Totem Pole Park in Foyil, Oklahoma
- Galveston class cruiser in the United States Navy
- Gul Agha Sherzai of Afghanistan
- Krupp armour, a type of naval armour
- List of Canadian islands by area, including population
- List of Italian destroyers, primarily ships since World War I
- List of United States Naval reactors, including builder, generation, and ship type
- Lorne, Victoria in Australia
- Major non-NATO ally of the United States
- Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma
- Pensacola Christian College in Pensacola, Florida
- Portage River in northwest Ohio
- Prayer Tower on the campus of ORU
- Providence class cruiser in the United States Navy
- Ramona Valley a wine region in Southern California
- SPACEWAY-1, the DirecTV satellite
- Terileptil, an alien species in the British science fiction series Doctor Who
- Truxtun class cruiser in the United States Navy
- Vermilion Lighthouse in Vermilion, Ohio
- The Web Planet, a 1965 episode from Doctor Who
- Wicher class destroyer in the Polish navy
[edit] Photographs and images
According to the logs, I have uploaded 74 pictures. Quite a few of those are my own photographic work. Here are the photographs taken by Kralizec! and used in Wikipedia articles:
[edit] Ohio
 The Ash Cave complex in Ohio's Hocking Hills State Park. |
 The Hocking River near Logan, Ohio. |
 The Maumee River at Mary Jane Thurston State Park in Grand Rapids, Ohio. |
 The Ohio Historical Society's marker at the Colonel Crawford Burn Site Monument in Wyandot County, Ohio. |
 The northern terminus of Ohio State Route 60 at Vermilion, Ohio. |
 The north-east picnic area at Van Buren State Park. |
 Signs in Marietta, Ohio indicating that the road is simultaneously State Route 7 North and State Route 60 South. |
 A Teppanyaki chef cooking at a hibachi in a Japanese Steakhouse. |
 The Monroe Street entrance of the Toledo Museum of Art. |
 Van Buren Lake at Van Buren State Park. |
 The Vermilion Lighthouse on the grounds of the Inland Seas Maritime Museum in Vermilion, Ohio. |
[edit] Oklahoma
 The CityPlex Towers, formerly the City of Faith Medical and Research Center, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. |
 The King Solomon's Temple-style Learning Resource Center / Graduate Center on the campus of Oral Roberts University. |
 The Mabee Center on the campus of Oral Roberts University. |
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 Night view of the Oklahoma Aquarium's main entrance. |
 The Mangrove environment at the Touch Tank display of the Oklahoma Aquarium. |
 The Memorial Fence and East Gate of Time at the Oklahoma City National Memorial. |
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 The International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum in the Omniplex Science Museum complex. |
 The Kirkpatrick Air and Space Museum in the Omniplex Science Museum complex in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. |
 The Red Earth Museum in the Omniplex Science Museumcomplex. |
 The Philbrook Museum of Art and formal gardens seen from the steps of the tempietto at the east end of the gardens. |
 The Prayer Tower on the campus of Oral Roberts University. |
 The Avenue of Flags at the main entrance to Oral Roberts University. |
 The American Elm Survivor Tree at the Oklahoma City National Memorial. |
[edit] Ontario, Canada
 The Agawa Canyon Wilderness Park viewed from the Lookout Trail observation platform. |
 The Agawa River at the Agawa Canyon Wilderness Park. |
 Algoma Central Railway's popular Agawa Canyon Tour Train. |
 Casino Sault Ste. Marie's main entrance sign. |
 A warning sign located in the parking lot of Casino Sault Ste. Marie. |
 On the St. Marys River looking upstream into the open lock of the Sault Ste. Marie Canal. |
 The Administration Building at the Sault Ste. Marie Canal National Historic Site in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. |
[edit] Victoria, Australia
 Apollo Bay, Victoria viewed from the pier. |
 The Cumberland Lorne Resort along Mountjoy Parade in Lorne, Victoria. |
 Lorne, Victoria viewed from the west beach of Louttit Bay. |
[edit] Other illustrations
 Map of the world showing countries designated by the United States as having Major non-NATO ally status as of late 2004. |
[edit] Disambiguation pages
Despite my disdane for them, disambiguation pages do serve a purpose. I even created one:
- Carl Jenkins
- Michael Reynolds
- Royal Navy (disambiguation)
- S1W
- S3W
- SDF-1
- Wonders of the World (disambiguation)
[edit] Categories
Primarily used for my own reference (often as templates when creating new categories), here are the categories started by Kralizec!:
[edit] Naval ship classes
- Category:Anshan class destroyers
- Category:Bainbridge class cruisers
- Category:Battlecruiser classes
- Category:Boston class cruisers
- Category:Fuji class battleships
- Category:Galveston class cruisers
- Category:Godavari class frigates
- Category:Grom class destroyers
- Category:Guangzhou class destroyers
- Category:Krivak class frigates
- Category:Lanzhou class destroyers
- Category:Luda class destroyers
- Category:Luhai class destroyers
- Category:Luhu class destroyers
- Category:Long Beach class cruisers
- Category:Ma'anshan class frigates, later renamed to Category:Jiangkai class frigates
- Category:Maestrale class frigates
- Category:Mansfield class destroyers, later merged into Category:M class destroyers (1913)
- Category:Neustrashimy class frigates
- Category:Niki class destroyers
- Category:Nilgiri class frigates
- Category:Niteroi class frigates
- Category:Orzel class submarines
- Category:Oslo class frigates
- Category:Phutthayotfa Chulaok class frigates, later renamed to Category:Phutthayotfa Chulalok class frigates
- Category:Providence class cruisers
- Category:Sovremenny class destroyers
- Category:Talwar class frigates
- Category:Tartarstan/Gepard class frigates
- Category:Truxtun class cruisers
- Category:Wicher class destroyers
[edit] All others
- Category:Destroyers of Greece
- Category:Failed Nominees to the U.S. Supreme Court, later renamed to Category:Unsuccessful nominees to the United States Supreme Court
- Category:Foreign relations of Bahrain
- Category:Foreign relations of Kuwait
- Category:Frigates of India
- Category:Lighthouses in Ohio
- Category:Lists of ships of Italy
- Category:Miss Puerto Rico Universe
- Category:Missiles of Pakistan
- Category:Modern Pakistani weapons
- Category:Naval armour
- Category:People's Liberation Army Navy destroyers
- Category:People's Liberation Army Navy frigates
- Category:Peter Paul Rubens images
- Category:United States Navy nuclear ships
- Category:World War I cruisers of the United States
- Category:World War II minelayers of Poland
- Category:World War II submarines of Poland
[edit] Redirects
For ease of navigation, I have created heaps of redirects during my time here at Wikipedia. However, when I create a redirect, I am always sure to use one of the tags specified in WP:R.
[edit] Templates
Primarily used for my own reference (often as a template when creating new templates), here are the templates started by or heavily edited by Kralizec!:
| Aoba-class cruiser |
| List of ships of the Japanese Navy |
| Bainbridge-class cruiser |
| Bainbridge (CGN-25) |
List of cruisers of the United States Navy |
| Boston-class cruiser |
| Boston (CAG-1) | Canberra (CAG-2) |
List of cruisers of the United States Navy |
| County-class cruiser |
| Royal Navy |
| Kent class - Berwick | Cumberland | Cornwall | Kent | Suffolk |
| London class - Devonshire | London | Shropshire | Sussex |
| Dorsetshire class - Dorsetshire | Norfolk |
| Royal Australian Navy |
| Kent class - Australia | Canberra |
| London class - Shropshire (transferred) |
List of cruiser classes of the Royal Navy List of major warship classes of the Royal Australian Navy |
| Freccia-class destroyer |
| Regia Marina |
| Freccia | Dardo | Strale | Saetta |
| Royal Hellenic Navy |
| Hydra | Spetsai | Psara | Kountouriotis |
List of Italian destroyers List of naval ships of Greece |
| Fuji-class battleship |
| List of ships of the Japanese Navy |
| Galveston-class cruiser |
| Galveston (CLG-3) | Little Rock (CLG-4) | Oklahoma City (CLG-5) |
List of cruisers of the United States Navy |
| Grom-class destroyer |
| ORP Grom | ORP Błyskawica |
List of ships of the Polish Navy |
| Helgoland-class battleship |
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Helgoland | Oldenburg | Ostfriesland | Thüringen |
| List of German Imperial Navy ships |
| Hydra-class battleship |
| Hydra | Spetsai | Psara |
List of naval ships of Greece |
| Long Beach-class cruiser |
| Long Beach (CGN-9) |
List of cruisers of the United States Navy |
| Nassau-class battleship |
| List of German Imperial Navy ships |
| Succession of naval armour technologies: |
| Iron armour | Steel armour | Compound armour | Harvey armor | Krupp armour | Krupp cemented armour |
| Orzeł-class submarine |
| ORP Orzeł | ORP Sęp |
List of ships of the Polish Navy |
| Palladium Books | |
| Current role-playing games | |
| Fantasy | Palladium Fantasy |
| Horror | Beyond the Supernatural • Nightbane |
| Martial arts/war | Ninjas and Superspies • Recon |
| Post-apocalyptic | After The Bomb • Chaos Earth • Rifts • Splicers • Systems Failure |
| Superhero | Heroes Unlimited |
| Out of print role-playing games | |
| Anime/comics | Macross II • Robotech • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness |
| Science fiction | The Mechanoid Invasion |
| See also | List of role-playing games by genre |
| Providence-class cruiser |
| Providence (CLG-6) | Springfield (CLG-7) | Topeka (CLG-8) |
List of cruisers of the United States Navy |
| Thyella-class destroyer |
| Lonchi | Nafkratousa | Sfendoni I | Thyella |
List of naval ships of Greece |
| Truxtun-class cruiser |
| Truxtun (CGN-35) |
List of cruisers of the United States Navy |
| United States Naval reactors |
| Aircraft carrier reactors: |
| A1W | A2W | A3W | A4W| A1B |
| Cruiser reactors: |
| C1W |
| Destroyer reactors: |
| D1G | D2G |
| Submarine reactors: |
| S1C | S1G | S1W | S2C | S2G | S2W |S2Wa | S3G | S3W S4G | S4W | S5G | S5W | S6G | S6W | S7G | S8G | S9G |
| List of United States Naval reactors |
| Wicher-class destroyer |
| ORP Wicher | ORP Burza |
List of ships of the Polish Navy |
