User:Mario Roering/contributions
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I am familiar with Wikipedia for a while now, but I have not been contributing to it for a long time yet. I am learning new things every time I am working here. My contributions are growing slowly, but are not numerous, especially not compared to some other Wikipedians! But hey, every little bit helps, doesn´t it?
I will make a logical list of my contributions here. I count in the contributions I might when I still didn´t have a user name, but worked 'anonymously' under the IP address 82.92.14.180.
I am also active on the Dutch Wikipedia. There I am using the same name Mario Roering and I also sign with MarioR.
[edit] My contributions
I am familiar with Wikipedia for quite a while now (I think since October 2004, give or take a month), but my very first contribution on the English Wikipedia was a minor edit to Hentai on 22 December 2004 (01:39). Then I didn´t do anything for a while (except reading articles) and on 31 March 2005 (16:50) I created my first new article Genseiryu. In both cases I didn´t have a user name, but used my IP address 82.92.14.180). Genseiryu is the karate style that I train at the KLM Karate Club. (I started with Shotokan and Wadoryu in 1987). Unfortunately this article became a few months later suddenly the victom of an edit war, because there is another organization that also claims to be doing Genseiryu (but are in FACT doing Genseiryu-Butokukai, which is not only historically a fact, but is also decided by a court of law!!). They still see a lot of facts differently. Although I tried my utmost to come to an understanding and to create an neutral (NPOV) article, this annoying edit war keeps coming back, simply because of one man who does not want anybody else to talk about the subject of Genseiryu besides himself. This whole situation has gone too far already and it bothers not only some administrators, but also myself...
O, by the way: my current user name, Mario Roering, I used for the first time on the 1st of April 2005 (02:02).
Apart from my knowledge about Genseiryu Karate, aviation (as a being an airline pilot myself) and physics (graduated in Industrial Engineering, main subject photonics), I have a lot of general knowledge. I am of the kind that likes to talk about almost anything. I also like to listen (and read) and I am always open for discussion. That way I always learn new things and contributing to Wikipedia is not only very useful, but also an educative activity. And in case I don´t know anything about a subject, I can still try to contribute by correcting writing errors in the text. I have worked as an editor for a periodical during my student time... Okay, it was in Dutch, but my English is not so bad, is it? Anyway, when in doubt, I always try to find out what´s right, so I can also improve my English by doing so!
For a good logical overview I will put My Contributions in different categories. Underneath the header I will put the title of the articles to which I contributed, chronologically, last one at the end of the list.
[edit] New articles (titles) that I started myself, not being a stub
Redirects are not mentioned!
- Genseiryu: About the karate style Genseiryu.
- The old (original, i.e. of 5 June 2005, 00:04) article 'Genseiryu': the article as it was before the whole edit war started with this somebody who is only out to destroy our organization.
- The NEW (NPOV) version of 'Genseiryu', date 14 July 2005, 01:19: saved, because the article keeps being changed so that the person mentioned above, guilty of the sneaky vandalism, has less reason to attack the article. Unfortunately valuable information in the article is lost by that, but kept here on my user page!
- World Genseiryu Karatedo Federation (WGKF): about the federation of which our club is also a member and our teacher (sensei Konno) is the Director-General. The article also shows their view of the history of Genseiryu (although being attacked over and over again by people with a different view)
- Saved version of 'WGKF' of 26 July 2005, 16:28: saved, because this article is also being attacked over and over again by that same person mentioned above. He does not understand that the article is telling the view of WGKF and is not supposed to contain HIS view...
- Genseiryu Karate-do International Federation: the 'other' federation, the one training Genseiryu-Butokukai, although some of them claim to be doing Genseiryu. Anyway, this article was merely a start for 'them' (or HIM) to write their (his) view of Genseiryu, according GKIF...
- Wado (disambiguation page)
- Wadokai
- Albert Plesman
- Edward Warner Award
[edit] New stubs
[edit] New words in the Wiktionary
No contributions yet
[edit] Uploaded images
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[edit] Articles to which I have done a 'reasonable' contribution
"Reasonable contribution": at least one paragraph or a relatively large amount of corrections or additionals.
[edit] Articles to which I have done a 'minor' contribution
"Minor contribution": adding one or just a few sentence(s), link(s) or just added an image or only made a few (minor) corrections to the contents.
- Hentai: my first contribution (22 Dec 2004, from ip 82.92.14.180), but very small (only removed brackets around some Japanese Kanji)
- Karate
- Taido
- Kuen-Do
- Japanese era name: Explained conversion of Japanese year to a Western year
- Alison Hargreaves
- Kanji
- Kai
- Aviator
- Genwakai
- Radical (Chinese character)
- McDojo
- Industrial engineering
- Hironori Ohtsuka
- Anko Itosu
- Edward Warner
- R-14 Usovaya
[edit] Articles which I only corrected for writing errors
[edit] Article/User Talk Pages (placing remark or starting a discussion)
Of course not every event is taken here. Only when it´s interesting. Just saying "thank you for reverting the vandalism" to somebody is not enough. It must be a substantial remark/discussion!
- User talk:Peter Lee: lot of 'talk' about Genseiryu, but in this case with somebody who is of the opinion that nobody has the right to talk about Genseiryu besides himself. Useless discussions with lots of insults. Almost a soap opera!
- Talk:Karate: about Randori, about the Federation for Genseiryu-Butokukai, about Grading/Ranking Content.
[edit] Welcome to newcomers
- Thoar Varenkamp: 6 July 2005, 21:35 (UTC)
- Bihal: 10 August 2005, 08:19 (UTC) (2nd, after Hephaestos)
- 212.10.38.223: 10 August 2005, 13:12 (UTC), not really a welcome but I used the template.
[edit] Reverting vandalism
I sometimes check anonymous edits for vandalism. Articles I reverted so far:
- Genseiryu: sneaky vandalism, sometimes just vandalism. Text altered to POV of 'vandalist'. He knows it´s wrong, but wants to spread this misinformation anyway!
- Karate: sneaky vandalism, smbdy (same person) who doesn´t like to see the truth about a link that points to a Honbu dojo (see Talk Page)
- World Genseiryu Karatedo Federation: vandalism by somebody (again same person) who doesn´t want to see the viewpoint of WGKF (what the article is about), but in stead replaces it with his own viewpoint all the time and deletes a big part of text about Genseiryu-Butokukai.
- User:Mario Roering: even my own user page got attacked several times by this person (working under the name of Peter Lee)!
- Georgia O'Keeffe: childish vandalism
- Dazzler: childish vandalism
[edit] To do list
- Airline pilot
- Hong Kong -> (check: Meest voorkomende schrijfwijze (en de juiste) is Hong Kong, niet Hongkong...)
- Wado Kokusai (see Wado)
- Learn more about Wiktionary!
