W elcome to the User page about me, Trevor MacInnis. I am a Beechcraft King Air MEDEVAC pilot in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada. Born the year the Tim Horton's Timbit was introduced, I grew up in Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia. After a brief stint at Saint Mary's University I attended flight school in Moncton, New Brunswick where I learned to fly. I have been on Wikipedia since Norway banned smoking in bars and restaurants and became the 450th (approx) of 1,161 administrators on the Bicentennial of the Battle of Trafalgar.
I created my first article, Descent (aircraft) [1], the same day the Riemann hypothesis was proven.
You could call me an Eventualist, I am definitely a Wikipediholic and I am happy to help Wikipedia someday reach usefulness. I believe the single greatest problem with Wikipedia (excluding vandalism) is its lack of Featured Article quality articles.
I'm an RC Patroler, the maintainer of the Aviation Portal, active in the following projects: Aircraft, Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team
I've now re-dedicated myself to improving articles, with the aim of making FA-quality articles across a spectrum of topics. A few ares I will be focusing my attention: add references to unreferenced articles, Category:Wikipedia articles needing copy edit, Category:Aviation stubs, my own ACID project, etc.
Keep in mind:
- "Qui tacet consentit" (silence implies consent)
- "Quod scripsi, scripsi." (What I have written, I have written--Pilate
- "Aequam memento rebus in arduis servare mentem" (remember to keep a calm mind in difficulties)
- Malum consilium quod mutari non potest. It's a bad plan that can't be changed.(Publilius Syrus 403)
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Editing - Just doin' my part to help.
E-mail · Contribs · Avi Portal · Aviation Project · Sub's · Edit# · Sanbox
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[edit] Article Creation and Improvement Drive
My little project to help with Wikipedia:100,000 feature-quality articles.
The path to a Featured Article
- #Start a new article
- #Research and write a great article
- #Check against the featured article criteria
- #Get creative feedback (Peer review)
- #Apply for featured article status
[edit] Start a new article
- Articles for creation
- Wikipedia:Vital articles
- Article requests (Backlog)
- Most wanted articles
- Most wanted stubs
- Wikipedia:Former featured articles
- m:List of articles all languages should have
- Wikipedia:Topics where Wikipedia is weak
- Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Core topics
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Core biographies
- Wikipedia:Featured articles in other languages
- Expansion requests
- Wikipedia:List of 2007 Macropedia articles
- National Aviation Hall of Fame
[edit] Research and write a great article
[edit] Check against the featured article criteria
A featured article exemplifies our very best work and features professional standards of writing and presentation. In addition to meeting the requirements for all Wikipedia articles, it has the following attributes:
- It is well written, comprehensive, factually accurate, neutral, and stable. Read Article development and The perfect article to see how high the standards are set. In this respect:
- (a) "well written" means that the prose is compelling, even brilliant; See How to satisfy Criterion 1a
- (b) "Comprehensive" means that the article does not neglect major facts and details.
- (c) "Factually accurate" means that claims are verifiable against reliable sources and accurately present the related body of published knowledge. Claims are supported with specific evidence and external citations (see attribution and reliable sources); this involves the provision of a "References" section in which sources are set out and, where appropriate, complemented by inline citations. See citing sources for information on when and how extensively references are provided and for suggestions on formatting references; for articles with footnotes or endnotes, the meta:cite format is recommended.
- (d) "Neutral" means that the article presents views fairly and without bias (see neutral point of view); however, articles need not give minority views equal coverage (see undue weight).
- (e) "stable" means that an article does not change significantly from day to day and is not the subject of ongoing edit wars.
- It complies with the standards set out in the style manual and relevant WikiProjects. These include having:
- (a) a concise lead section that summarizes the entire topic and prepares the reader for the higher level of detail in the subsequent sections;
- (b) a proper system of hierarchical headings; and
- (c) a substantial but not overwhelming table of contents (see section help).
- It has images where appropriate, with succinct captions and acceptable copyright status; however, including images is not a prerequisite for a featured article.
- It is of appropriate length, staying tightly focused on the main topic without going into unnecessary detail; it should use summary style to cover sub-topics that are treated in greater detail in any "daughter" articles.
- The following guides focus on the most common problems in nominated articles:
[edit] Get creative feedback (Peer review)
[edit] Re-work article with feedback
- Review new overhauls
- Verification needed
- See also: Featured
[edit] Apply for featured article status
[edit] Articles to be ACID-burned
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[edit] Worklist
To-do list for User:Trevor MacInnis: |
- make a pic background (maybe Image:Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird.jpg a la User:Ed g2s
- reply to your goddamn mail!!!!
- update WP:Air with Wikipedia:Featured content/Portals, Portal:Science/Featured article/Layout/Portal:Science/Featured article/Portal:Science, Portal:Psychology/Selected picture/Layout/Portal:Psychology/Selected picture
- update WP:Air to Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history stuff
- create
- articles from ICAO airline designator
- movie pages from the redlinks on actor/esses pages
- articles from Category:Canada-related lists, List of Canadian provincial parks
- pages/category for Nobel prizes by year, then remove all nobel sections from year pages
- add comments to Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Aircraft articles by quality/1, etc
- fix, unwikilink basic terms such as one, two, and Category:Disambiguation
- add Template:Infobox Skyscraper to all articles in Category:Skyscrapers and fix links to Template:Skyscraper
- AWB avoid redirects of Template:Crash infobox, User:Trevor macinnis,
- add Template:YearCategoryHeader to every category.Fix for 100s
- make a map of Wikipedia:Reference pages
- Add to List of aviation, aerospace and aeronautical terms from AIP
- Wikipedia needs a rewrite and re-propotion to FA. Go through history to find a good version to use, start with the one that was initially promoted.
- check http://www.boeing.com/commercial/airports/plan_manuals.html for usable pic/info
- translate [2]
- update portal to one of these: [3][4] [5][6] [7][8][9]
- add reference templates to Wikipedia:WikiProject Aircraft/page content, may need to create some for my encyclopedias
- create logo for aviation portal from
- work in Category:Aircraft without proper specifications
- add to Portal:Aviation/Aviation Topics with Category:Aviation lists
- add to List of aviation, aerospace and aeronautical terms from AIM
- Wikipedia:People by year/Reports/Stats add births/deaths to long ago year articles
- Update List of NGC objects from Wikipedia:WikiProject Astronomical objects and http://www.seds.org/messier/xtra/ngc/ngc.html
- W:AWB - Category:Lists that should be categories//Wikipedia:Template substitution
- update browse tab proposal with icons used already by Goforit's updates to browse, glossaries, etc. perhaps get him involved.
- Wikipedia:Computer help desk/Category graph study
- divide up/clean up year cats
- Wikipedia:Categorization projects (current)
- Make some kind of Directed acyclic graph for Wikipedia:Categorization
- and User:Stephen Gilbert/Documentation survey
- add National Gallery stuff
- expand History of Canada from Timeline of Canadian history esp pre-confederation
- Meteorology - in topics and phenomenon add everything.. and reorder
- Chapman as a last name (history, origin)
- Autopilot cleanup
- Flying ace add canadians
[edit] Add pic
- fuselage add pic
- Jerrycan pic
- Bristol Freighter pic
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- User:Henna/VF#Downloads_and_release_notes
- Cleanup Taskforce
- Cleanup backlogs
- Backlogs by month
- Copy edit (need)
- Elements of Style (more)
- Neglected articles
- Category:NPOV disputes
- Punctuation
- Syntax Project
- Typos
- Updating needed
- WikiProject Wikify
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[edit] Opinions
[edit] And I quote...
"Far too often we have endless a priori debates about certain things, debates which lead nowhere because we have no evidence. A better approach is to be flexible and try things and see what happens, and proceed thoughtfully based on lessons learned. --Jimbo"
I totally agree with the above quote.
There are a few problems with Wikipedia I think need to be addressed: Stay tuned.
- AfD - the more I see of this the less I like. I believe the whole thing needs to be scrapped in favor of something else, what that is I don't yet know , but I have some ideas...
- Ignore AFD - focus on article creation/improvement. Too many people are spending their time deleting articles instead of contributing. Lets stop deleting altogether, with the exception of articles that have offensive/abusive/etc titles or have offensive/abusive content that needs removal quickly, or articles linked to. I don't see a problem with leaving an article with a good title but no good content up. If nothing links to it then nobody will see it. Someday someone may want to create a valid article there and find one already created, but needing to be changed to good content.
- Maybe don't delete that page but blank it, put up a do not create notice, and protect the page. A large part of the deletion work is re-deleting pages that constantly get re-created.
- The See also section - I don't like it. Except for a few cases (antonyms, synonyms, "List of" links) this section is just a cop out for not including the links in the article body or placing the article in a category. If the link has to do with the topic it should be explained why in the text, or evident in the categories the page is placed in. This will add to article, giving it a better context, and reducing the number of nonsence listings in see also sections (See:Flight)(and then you won't need the see also link)...
- This ones a bit of a rant. Sometimes protected pages are treated with too much reverence. Just because it is protected does not make it perfect. And just because a non-admin suggests a change does not mean you have to agree with it. Some editors superiority complexes lead them to believe that since they've been around long enough, they know what should and should not be done in every situation. Newbies are not being taken seriously in their suggestions and edits and a lot of good edits are being ignored/reverted. I say - if a non-admin asked for an edit to be done on a protected page, as long as it is not vandalism then it should be done. If it doesn't work then someone will revert it, but give it a chance first.
[edit] Essays
- Wikipedia:Process is important
- User:DavidLevinson/Future
- Wikipedia:Image copyright issues for dummies
[edit] Edits of note
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