User:Rick Block

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Lately I've mostly been working on the Japanese prefectures, towns and villages articles (see Wikipedia:WikiProject Japan/Gappei) and various geographical infoboxes (see Wikipedia:Geographical infoboxes), although I'm also a regular responder at the Help desk and Wikipedia:Village pump (technical). I shepherded Monty Hall problem through the Wikipedia:Featured articles process and still try to help folks understand it, and was instrumental in the adoption of Wikipedia:Naming conventions (categories) as policy.

• First edit: February 20, 2004.
• My contributions.
• Current count: >9999 (10,000th edit on March 21, 2005). [1]
• Admin since August 21, 2005

[edit] What I think

• Wikipedia's newcomers are undoubtedly ignorant of many local rules and conventions, but some of them are experts and we desperately need them. Don't piss them off. Most of them mean well.
• Wikipedia's most active editors generally aren't suffering from terminal editcountitis. They just like editing and spend far too much time at it. They should take a break before carpal tunnel syndrome sets in.
• Wikipedia's administrators deal with obnoxious vandals and do whatever it takes to keep the place running. They deserve our utmost sympathy. Sometimes, some of them might be a little cranky. You try dealing with assholes for a few hours and see what kind of mood you're in.
• The MediaWiki software developers are lazy bums probably out drinking while the rest of us try to work around bugs in their lousy software. OK. So, I don't really think this. But I think some people do. The main thing to realize is ...

... everyone here, newcomer to developer, is a volunteer. Let's all try to get along.

[edit] Favorite quotes

• I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out. (attributed to Bill Hicks).
• All extremists should be shot (don't know the original source of this one).

[edit] Articles I've started

I created and maintain Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by featured article nominations and the by-month CFD indices.

[edit] jazz related

Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame - James Booker

[edit] Denver, Colorado related

Colorado State Capitol - Denver Art Museum - KUVO - Lakeside Amusement Park - Six Flags Elitch Gardens - Tattered Cover - Union Station (Denver) - Water World - Elitch Gardens

[edit] category:email related

GB18030 - ISO 2022 - Mark Crispin

[edit] miscellaneous

American Booksellers Association (including adding BookSense to Special:Booksources) - Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award - Late harvest wine - Michael Connelly - Napoleonic medal - Spenser (fictional detective) - Yasumasa Fukushima

[edit] Articles I've significantly contributed to

Down Beat - IMAP4 - MIME - POP3 - SMTP-AUTH

[edit] Templates I've written

• Template:BirthsInCentury, used in nth century birth categories (e.g. category:20th century births)
• Template:DeathsInCentury, used in nth century deaths categories (e.g. category:20th century deaths)
• Template:DecadesAndYears, used in nth century articles (e.g. 20th Century)
• Template:Japanese prefecture, used in main article for each of the Prefectures of Japan
• Navoboxes for Japanese prefectures (all using Template:Prefecture navobox): Aichi, Chiba, Fukuoka, Gifu, Hyogo, Ibaraki, Ishikawa, Kagoshima, Kanagawa, Kumamoto, Kyoto, Mie, Miyazaki, Nagano, Nagasaki, Niigata, Oita, Okayama, Okinawa, Osaka, Saga Prefecture, Saitama, Shiga, Shimane, Shizuoka, Tochigi, Tokyo, Toyama, Wakayama, Yamaguchi, Yamanashi
• Template:Radio stations by state, used in Radio stations in <state> categories (e.g. category:radio stations in Colorado)
• Template:YearsInCentury, used in nth century categories (e.g. category:20th century)

[edit] To do list

• Update Japanese town/village articles due to gappei, see Wikipedia:WikiProject_Japan/Gappei
• MIME - finish rewriting
• IMAP4 extension - write
• Internet mail standard - complete
• email format - write
• ISO 2022 - write the JIS X * pages
• add articles and category for jazz clubs
• revisit category:districts

[edit] Awards

I present this Barnstar to you for organizing content on Wikipedia, esp. for your Categorization work. utcursch 07:11, Dec 21, 2004 (UTC)

A barnstar for your voice - the encouraging and supportive one that keeps pullin' me along -Hydnjo 03:24, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

For your excellent work with the infobox city template, I hereby award Rick Block with The Template Barnstar. youngamerican (ahoy hoy) 03:11, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

The Technology Barnstar Is hereby awarded to Rick Block For customizing a footer using a specialized CSS trick I wouldn't have dreamed of in a 1000 years. It's like magic! Thank you!   The Transhumanist   14:35, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

I, Persian Poet Gal, hereby award you The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar for all the kind and considerate help you have often offered to new users at the Help Desk :). ¤~Persian Poet Gal (talk) 04:18, 30 November 2006 (UTC)