User:Rmhermen

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[edit] Admin

As of July 5, 2004, I am a Wikipedia:administrator. I first contributed to Wikipedia in April of 2001 (i think).

I once wondered if we already had enough sysops, then I noticed that on Dec. 17, 2004 - 1034 new articles were created but 696 items were deleted. That rate would require almost 2 deletions per admin every day. By January 2006, the rate of almost 4,000 deletions a day by just over a thousand admins requires 3 - 4 deletions per day per admin - the situation is getting worse.

I, Solipsist, hereby award you this Barnstar of Diligence for you extraordinary patience, over many years, in handling perennial Corn vs. Maize debates.

[edit] Templates I use often but never remember

{{NorthAmNative}} {{WikiProject Michigan}} {{Messagebox protected areas}} {{river}} (Wikipedia:Template_messages/Image_namespace) {{no license}} {{no source}} {{or-fu-re|Image:replacementimage}} {{Orphaned fairuse not replaced or {{or-fu-nr}} {{PD-USGov-Interior-NPS}} {{subst:deletedpage}} {{globalize/USA}} {{fact}}

[edit] "Do you want to take a survey?"

On Feb. 12, 2005, I did a random pages survey. Out of 100 random pages, only 1 was a U.S. town. That's progress. Three towns in the UK, 1 in Spain and 1 in Portugal also turned up. Overall biographies were the largest category at 22%, followed by geography with 15% total. Then Lists at 7%, Disambiguation pages at 6%.

On Feb. 24, 2006, I repeated the 100 random page survey, this time getting 5 U.S. towns. Overall, geography had 26%, biography 21%, fiction 9%, music 4%, colleges 4%, lists 3% and disambigs 4%. Clearly geography and biography are our largest areas. Music, science and business scored less than I expected. Non-individual History was hardly discernable.

Even by Feb. 2005, 100 out of almost 500,000 was not statistically significant but was as much as I had patience for.

[edit] Wikiprojects I am a member of:

Wikipedia:WikiProject Protected areas

Wikipedia:WikiProject Rivers

Wikipedia:WikiProject Space missions

Wikipedia:WikiProject Michigan

[edit] Short To Do list

• finish adding ICTY indictees' nationalities, alleged crimes to List of ICTY indictees (source=[1])
  • Names and dispositions finished as of 18:20, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
  • through J, adding ethnicity, rank, indictment
• replace agriculture production boxes with template
• add maps to cities in Chad
  • have done ten largest plus A-Biltine (plus Doba, Faya-Largeau, Goz Beïda, Guéréda, Mao, Ouara) from List of cities in Chad
    • left to do: Moussoro, Massaguet, Massakory, Massenya, Linia, Laï, Gaoui, Fada, Bousso, Bol, Bokoro
      • on list but no article yet: Bébidjia, Beinamar, Bénoy, Béré, Bitkine, Dourbali, Fianga, Goundi, Gounou Gaya, Guélengdeng , Kyabé, Léré, Moïssala, Ngama, Oum Hadjer
• add sound files to Noord-Brabant municipalities
  • done, except file for Boxtel is missing
• sort out the chemical weapons tonnage discrepancy between the Deseret and Tooele articles
• List of cetaceans
• User:Rmhermen/sandbox

Licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License, and nothing else
I am content with licensing my contributions only under the GFDL. I believe that introducing other incompatible licenses complicates the legal situation of Wikipedia, so I choose not to do it.

[edit] Early Anon work, no need to bug the developers

Up to Dec 16, 2003, all the edits at these anonymous id's were mine:

• User:64.152.154.140
• User:64.152.153.104
• User:166.90.233.102
• User:65.25.234.xxx
• User:64.7.163.180
• User:64.152.153.139
• User:63.212.148.98
• User:64.152.159.57
• User:64.152.154.147

There are undoubtedly many others.

As of July 31, 2006, my total edits to the English Wikipedia were at 29,199 total, and to the article namespace, 22,112 (not counting deletions, deleted edits, etc.) Another 59 edits on identified IP's as mine.

[edit] List of most of my original pictures and some maps

For copyright declaration purposes The following photographs and diagrams on Wikipedia were taken by and uploaded by me and released under GNU-FDL:

• Update March 21, 2006 by searching with Interiot's Tool (no longer updated - [2] does edit counts though)

[edit] Pictures

[edit] Maps

• Image:Michigan map.png
• Image:Toledo Strip.png
• Image:Les Cheneaux Islands.PNG
• Image:Blackfeet Indian Reservation map.PNG
• Image:1999_west_nile_map.png, and the others in article
• Image:US execution methods.png
• Image:Lake of Egypt.PNG - an unimproved map
• Image:Upper Peninsula of Michigan.png

Numerous locator maps for U.S. national parks like Image:LocMap Big Bend National Park.png and Image:LocMap Tongariro National Park.png - most now replaced by dynamic map system

User:Rmhermen/sandbox