User:SilverStar

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[edit] This user in a nutshell: SilverStar (talk • contribs • count • logs • page moves • block log • email)

[edit] My Focus

Usually I'll edit pages that I was reading for my information anyway, and decided it needed some cleanup.

Topical focus: Main areas of focus are Mathematics, Science (Computer science and physics usually), Education, Current events, Business, Government, Pop culture, Economics, and Politics.
Cleanup: I generally try to improve an article's prose and correct spelling, grammar, etc.
Citation: I'll add ^{{{citation needed}}} to anything that seems contentious and doesn't have a citation.

[edit] What I'm working on

Drafts for main articles.
Gallery of my images.
Live spellcheck - if you see the edit summary Pseudo automatic live spellcheck: Correct spelling... it means I corrected the listed spelling. This is not a bot, and I do check each correction manually (per policy). The articles I correct are chosen by the script, and not me.
Source patrol - I've added ^{[citation needed]} to these articles recently, and if the statements aren't sourced soon, I'll remove the statements in accordance with WP:V.
Topic: Politics
- Constitutional Court of Spain - there is very little about the Spanish judiciary on Wikipedia in general. I'll start with this article, and try to get it up to DYK status, and then move on to other related articles.
- Right to petition - started article, mostly about US application (since that's what I'm familiar with), and, incidentally, UK historic application (only because I'm tracing the roots of the American application in the US Bill of Rights)

[edit] What I've finished

All images and diagrams at Gallery
Topic: Politics
- Right to petition - started article, brought to DYK
- Bush v. Gore - for such a controversial issue, this is well-balanced article, I think it can reach FA status. I've done a bunch of improvements, but the major thing left to reach comprehensiveness is fleshing out the details of the individual justice's opinions.
- Congressional Gold Medal of Honor and articles on people who received it
Topic: Economics
- Making diagrams to illustrate various microeconomic concepts. See my economics diagram gallery.
  - Replacing old PNGs or JPEGs with standardized SVGs.
  - Ex. Deadweight loss, consumer surplus, producer surplus, supply and demand, Edgeworth box, contract curve, monopsony, price ceiling, monopoly, indifference curve
Did you know?:

On 9 December 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Constitutional Court of Spain, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

On December 7, 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Right to petition in the United States, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

[edit] Things about Wikipedia that bother me

These are specific examples of general trends in Wikipedia that bother me. Only one trend for now! That's good!

Fringe opinions (and controversies about those fringe opinions, and discussions about controversies about..., etc. etc.) get more coverage and editor time than the topic itself

Ex. Apollo Moon Landing hoax accusations is much longer (about 3x) than Apollo 11 as of 21:18, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

Snapshot

This user is a citizen of the United States of America.

"This flag dips to no earthly king."

en	This user is a native speaker of English.

US	This user uses American English.

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This user is an expert programmer.

Wikipedia

This user maintains a strict policy advising against all personal attacks.

This user respects copyright and other intellectual property rights.

This user has authored 2 DYK articles on Wikipedia.

Signatures

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Projects

This user is a member of the Business and Economics WikiProject.

This user is a member of the WikiProject U.S. Supreme Court cases

CS	This user is a member of WikiProject Computer science.

This user is a newpage patroller.

This user is a recent changes patroller.

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Volume 3, Issue 14 — 2 April 2007

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From Wikipedia's newest articles:

...that, 23 years after explorer Charles Sturt found and named the Murray River, his brother Evelyn Sturt (pictured), a Police Magistrate and notable grazier, declared it absurd that the area would ever become agricultural?
...that the Australian cricket team's world record of 16 consecutive wins ended during its 2002 India tour, when India recorded only the third win in Test cricket history by a side forced to follow-on?
...that Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church, the oldest church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, was originally built by a Universalist Society but soon acquired by a Catholic French Canadian congregation?
...that Adolfo Holley was the first Minister of War and Navy of the victorious revolutionary congressional junta in the Chilean Civil War?
...that Assaji, the last of the first five bhikkhus of Gautama Buddha to become an arahant, converted Sariputta and Mahamoggallana, the Buddha's two chief disciples?
...that the Woodward & Lothrop Service Warehouse in Washington, D.C. still features a large pink neon sign identifying it as a Woodward & Lothrop property, even though the company is defunct?

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[edit] In the news

Following the announcement by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (pictured), the Royal Navy personnel accused of trespassing into Iranian waters return to the UK after a two-week detention.
TGV POS trainset number 4402 sets a new world speed record for railed vehicles at 574.8 km/h (357 mph) during test runs conducted in Champagne, France.
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko dissolves the parliament and calls for an early parliamentary election, a move denounced by the parliament as unconstitutional.
A tsunami triggered by an earthquake strikes the Solomon Islands, killing at least 20, destroying around 900 homes and leaving thousands homeless.
Michael Phelps breaks five world records in swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships in Melbourne, Australia and becomes the first person to win seven golds at a World Championships; seven other world records are also broken.

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