User:Loadmaster
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David R. Tribble My Wikibooks account → User:Loadmaster Yes, I am a fan of the original Star Trek TV series. |
→ Current date and time: 17:15, Sunday April 8, 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] Articles in progress
[edit] Contributions
[edit] Articles Started by Me
[edit] Other Pages Added by me
[edit] Images Uploaded
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See also: Requesting copyright permission.
[edit] Contributions to Existing Articles
First edit (made as user Loadmaster): Controversy over Cantor's theory (2006-04-11).
[edit] Articles Needing Improvement
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[edit] Better screenshot images
To get the best screenshot images from DVDs, I use a technique of sampling two or more consecutive frames from the source film and then combining them together into a single image. Most graphics editing programs (I use Paintshop Pro) allow two (or sometimes more) images to be averaged together into a single image. The averaging smooths out the pixel noise of each individual image, making the result much cleaner than any of the source frames. The only trick to using this technique is getting two or more consecutive images that are alike enough so that the resulting combined image does not appear blurred. Non-moving subjects are usually the best to work from.
Example images created using this technique:
[edit] Fighting Wikipedia Vandalism
The approach I take to fighting vandalism on Wikipedia is pretty simple. I check "my watchlist" page periodically, looking for edits made by unregistered users (i.e., users with IP addresses instead of user names). For each one of those edits, I click on the "diff" link for it. This displays the changes made by that user. If it's obviously vandalism, I then click on the user's name or the "contribs" link on the "diff" page, which shows a page listing all the contributions made by that user.
I can then check many edits made from the same IP address. Typically, several edits are made by the same vandal within the span of an hour or so. Reverting the edits is then a straightforward thing to do.
If a user looks like he is vandalizing pages, add a {{test1}} tag to his Talk page. If the vandalism continues, add {{test2}}, {{test3}}, and finally {{test4}} tags. As a last resort, ask for administrator intervention against vandalism.
I am of the opinion that vandalism could be greatly reduced by simply limiting editing access to Wikipedia articles to only registered users, but apparently this goes against the current policy.
See also: Wikipedia:Requests for page protection.
[edit] Cool sig blocks
Interesting, but typically HTML-intensive, signature graphics by some Wikipedia users:
- Meteroid Meteoroid » . — 18:05, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
- >Radiant< — March 2007
A possible signature I could use:
- Loadmaster
[edit] Other Stuff
- Steven Colbert's infamous Wiki edit of the George Washington article: diff.
- User:AndrewDavis and User:24.107.41.241, who is (was) Bill Amend.
- My attempt to solve the infinite monkey theorem at this web page, but which was removed from the article (Mar 2007) with no explanation.
- The defacing of the Scooter Libby wiki article as reported by Wonkette (wonkette.com article and image) is a fake. No such revision exists between 2007-02-21T03:42:49 (when the caption on his picture was changed) and 2007-03-06 23:57:56 (past the date of the defacing "discovery" on 2007-03-06), purportedly done by User:12.182.129.106. — 18:43, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
- Predictions about when Wikipedia will exceed 5,000,000 articles at: Wikipedia:Five-million pool. It's 1.72 million as of 2007-04-02.
- The Seigenthaler controversy, which details the problems of editable biographical information on Wikipedia.
