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WikiDefcon 4: Low to normal levels of vandalism from shared IPs and experimenting users.
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Vandalism levels by new users & IPs is normal. CAT:CSD still has a heavy backlog. -- Hdt83 Chat 05:20, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
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This is a Wikipedia user page.
This is not an encyclopedia article. If you find this page on any site other than Wikipedia, you are viewing a mirror site. Be aware that the page may be outdated and that the user this page belongs to may have no personal affiliation with any site other than Wikipedia itself. The original page is located at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Schmiteye.
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Schmiteye is a name I was given when I was in the Navy. Having a name like "Smith" usually means that everyone calls you "Smitty." The name Schmiteye is the best thing I ever got from being in the Navy. Take a look at the disambiguation related to Wolfman Jack. He and I share a page -- Robert Smith.
- See also: Buffalo Bob Smith
I joined the Wikipedia Typo Department on 20 November 2005. See my page HERE for a list of my favorite misspellings with some Google frequency statistics.
Unusual Borders Monobook
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Schmiteye's boxes
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This user recently discovered how to use userboxes. |
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This user lives in or hails from the state of California. |
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This user understands the difference between its ("of it") and it's ("it is"). |
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Thi's user know's that not every word that end's with s need's an apostrophe and will remove misused apostrophe's from Wikipedia with extreme prejudice. [sic] |
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This user is able to use a semicolon correctly. |
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This user considers singular they substandard English usage, even as he styles himself as a descriptivist, noting that, in truth, there is none but soft prescriptivism, but noting that he may also forbear himself in a fashion the satisfaction of which he would not seek to compel or encourage in others. |
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This user prefers to be referred to by whatever gender pronoun makes you feel comfortable. |
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This user opposes George W. Bush, but equally opposes vandalism of his Wikipedia biography, even as he is sometimes amused by such untoward biographical amendment. |
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This user contributes using Microsoft Windows XP. |
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This user is a mediocre chess player. |
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Wikipedia is not censored for the protection of minors. |
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This user supports userboxes that display a point of view. |
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This user page has been vandalized zero times, making this user wonder why he has been unable to engender more rage. |
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This user is a Wikipedia darwikinist in his understanding of the internal workings and construction of the encyclopedia. |
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This user is a Wikipedia inclusionist in his forming views relative to the creation of pages and the insertion of information, although he is more likely to support the retention of potentially unnecessary information in an article than the creation or retention of an article of a topic of apochrypal or dubious notoriety. Nevertheless, he thinks presumptions should be always be made in favor of keeping, rather than removing, information. |
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This user supports the legalization of same sex marriage, or, more appropriately, the cessation of the government sanctioning/licensing of any marriage. |
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This user is an agnostic who in no way practices religion or holds religious beliefs but is nevertheless convinced of the impropriety of demonstrating conclusively the absence of a supreme deity, despite his general disbelief in such existence. |
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This user is drug-free. |
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This user's favorite color is blue. |
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This user's MBTI type is ENTJ, although it is only the intuitive and thinking personalities that are very prominently or strongly expressed. |
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This user likes to use redundant userboxes. |
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This user likes to use redundant userboxes. |
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This user prefers using userboxes to fill up their user page instead of actually writing something useful. |
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This user prefers metric units, and cannot figure out why other Americans have such a hard time with them. |
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This user is a jokester or comedian.
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This user does not regularly exercise, and drinks beer and coffee to keep hydrated.
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This user uses Google as a primary search engine. |
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This user is addicted to ellipses and has been known to use them indiscriminately... |
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This user uses entirely too many userboxes. |
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Hi! I am a userbox with a POV. I won't hurt you, I promise! Pretty please don't delete me. |
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This alleged user can be said to maintain a policy or other custom of neutrality or other ambiguity-related quality on some or all issues that may be potentially controversial to some alleged people...maybe. |
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This user is bold, but not reckless, in updating pages. |
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This user believes that a user's edit count does not necessarily reflect on the value of his/her contributions to Wikipedia. |
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This user uses Yahoo! Mail as a primary email service
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This user contributes using either of two PCs. |
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This user sometimes contributes using an in-house wireless connection. |
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This user enjoys playing Sudoku. |
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This user recognizes that people who are proud of their ancestry tend to have little more of which to be proud, even as he notes his ancestry in other userboxes here; such noting is primarily to provide biographical context. |
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Hi! I am a userbox with a POV. I won't hurt you, I promise! Pretty please don't delete me. |
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[edit] Current behavior
A lot of my editing occurs when I find a particularly annoying problem. My latest quest was to rid articles of a common error. Almost always, when someone writes "the 1960's" for example, they mean "the decade 1960–1969" and not the possessive. We properly redirect these to 1960s, but leaving it intact encourages others to follow suit. I eliminated a bunch that fit this scenario but it is a common error so it will be back. More work for me I guess.
An interesting twist on this problem is when people refer to "the 30's" the redirection is to the 1st century and not the 1930s as one would hope. My concern is that in about 50 years, say 2053, "the fifties" will take on a whole new meaning. So don't use 50's even though the redirection "works" for you now. As one of the people involved in helping to fix the Y2K problem, I want to do what I can to avoid similar issues. See WP:MOSDATE.
I also try to make sure that standard headings are used (WP:MOSHEAD) with proper capitalization. The opening paragraphs of articles tend to be way too long. If the first thing you see is a TOC, then you know right away that something is wrong.
External links are a favorite of mine. I did a lot of work with {imdb} and {memoryalpha} templates. Usually the links are not formatted properly.
And finaly speling. I cn easly fnd enuf mispelngs two keeep mi buzy. I trie too spel chk evry artcle eye edditt.
[edit] Background
Frankly I don't remember my first encounter with Wikipedia. I am sure I stumbled across it doing a Google search. Of course I fell in love right away.
[edit] My first car
My first car was a '67 Cougar.
San Francisco Bay Area is home for me. When I was in the Navy I lived in Waikiki and Aiea, Hawaii. I also lived in Idaho Falls, Idaho one cold winter.
[edit] US Navy
I was a First Class Machinist Mate (my patch had a propeller) when I was honorably discharged:
I was awarded this pin:
I was awarded this pin:
D'oh!
[edit] Fun stuff
Oh yeah, my favorite site for data is the Internet Movie Database (AKA IMDb).
Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to:
Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to:
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[edit] 100-plus movie favorites
- After the Fox
- Airplane!
- Alfie
- Alvin Purple
- American Graffiti
- The Apartment
- The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
- Back to the Future
- Barbarella
- Beetlejuice
- Being There
- Beverly Hills Cop
- Big
- The Birdcage
- Blazing Saddles
- The Bobo
- Bonnie and Clyde (film)
- A Boy and His Dog
- Breakfast at Tiffany's
- Breakfast Club
- Bull Durham
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
- Caddyshack
- Car Wash
- Carnal Knowledge (film)
- Catch-22 (film)
- Chan Is Missing
- Chicken Run
- Cinderella Liberty
- City Slickers
- A Clockwork Orange (film)
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- Cool Hand Luke
- The Crimson Pirate
- Dances with Wolves
- Dark Star (film)
- The Day the Earth Stood Still
- The Dirty Dozen
- Edward Scissorhands
- Elmer Gantry
- Escape from New York
- Fahrenheit 451
- Fast Times at Ridgemont High
- Fifth Element
- Flesh Gordon
- Forrest Gump
- The Fortune Cookie
- Ghostbusters
- The Great Escape
- Gregory's Girl
- Gypsy
- Hardware Wars
- Harold and Maude
- High Fidelity
- Holiday Inn
- Home Alone
- Jurassic Park
- King of Hearts (1966 film)
- Like Water for Chocolate
- The Manchurian Candidate (1962 film)
- Marjorie Morningstar
- MASH (film)
- Mask (film)
- Men in Black (film)
- Miracle on 34th Street
- Mon Oncle
- National Lampoon's Animal House
- National Lampoon's Vacation
- Night Shift (film)
- Nightmare Before Christmas
- The Odd Couple - film
- The Owl and the Pussycat - movie
- On Golden Pond
- Phantom of the Paradise
- The Pink Panther (1963 film)
- The Poseidon Adventure (1972 film)
- Pretty in Pink
- The Producers (1968 film)
- The Professionals (film)
- Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Rain Man
- Riding in Cars with Boys
- Risky Business
- Road Warrior
- Rocky
- Rocky Horror Picture Show
- The Rose (film)
- The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming
- Ruthless People
- Sabrina (1954 film)
- A Shot in the Dark
- Singin' in the Rain
- Sixteen Candles
- Sleeper (film)
- Sleuth (film)
- Some Like it Hot
- The Sound of Music
- Spider-Man 2
- Star Wars: A New Hope
- Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
- The Sting
- Stripes (film)
- Superman: The Movie
- This Is Spinal Tap
- This Property is Condemned
- Total Recall (film)
- Toy Story
- Two for the Road
- What About Bob?
- Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
- The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)
- The Wrong Box
- Young Frankenstein
- Zardoz
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[edit] Favorite movie closing credits
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P.S. Just for the record, User:Viriditas was the first to "Welcome me aboard".
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Laffing Sal in San Francisco
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