User:Trevor MacInnis

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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)

[edit] User Awards

Editing - Just doin' my part to help.

E-mail · Contribs · Avi Portal · Aviation Project · Sub's · Edit# · Sanbox

[edit] Article Creation and Improvement Drive

My little project to help with Wikipedia:100,000 feature-quality articles.

The path to a Featured Article

Current Focus

P-38 Lightning



  1. #Start a new article
  2. #Research and write a great article
  3. #Check against the featured article criteria
  4. #Get creative feedback (Peer review)
  5. #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:

  1. 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.
  2. 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).
  3. It has images where appropriate, with succinct captions and acceptable copyright status; however, including images is not a prerequisite for a featured article.
  4. 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.

[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

  1. B-52 Stratofortress
  2. Halifax Explosion
  3. International Space Station
  4. George Back Canadian arctic explorer
  5. John Franklin Arctic explorer
  6. William Edward Parry Arctic explorer
  7. map see talk page (add history, stuff from temp page etc)
  8. National Gallery of Canada
  9. Archaeoastronomy
  10. items in Category:Ancient Britain,Category:Ancient Rome
  11. Boeing
  12. Hudson's Bay Company
  13. Halifax, Nova Scotia, must put up for colab or imp drive (esp history section)
  14. Citizen Kane
  15. Wayne Gretzky
  16. Lance Armstrong
  17. Nicolaus Copernicus
  18. Big Dig
  19. History of Canada
  20. Meteorology, put up for colab or imp drive
  21. Texas hold 'em put up for imp drive, colab? or is it ready for peer review?
  22. SETI
  23. RAF
  24. Victoria Cross
  25. Orson Welles
  26. Supersonic and merge in related pages
  27. Max Ward (bush pilot)

[edit] Post Peer Review

  1. CBC (Review)
  2. RCMP (Review)
  3. Swissair Flight 111 (Review)

[edit] Worklist

To-do list for User:Trevor MacInnis:
  1. make a pic background (maybe Image:Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird.jpg a la User:Ed g2s
  2. reply to your goddamn mail!!!!
  3. 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
  4. update WP:Air to Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history stuff
  5. create
    1. articles from ICAO airline designator
    2. movie pages from the redlinks on actor/esses pages
    3. articles from Category:Canada-related lists, List of Canadian provincial parks
    4. pages/category for Nobel prizes by year, then remove all nobel sections from year pages
  6. add comments to Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Aircraft articles by quality/1, etc
  7. fix, unwikilink basic terms such as one, two, and Category:Disambiguation
  8. add Template:Infobox Skyscraper to all articles in Category:Skyscrapers and fix links to Template:Skyscraper
  9. AWB avoid redirects of Template:Crash infobox, User:Trevor macinnis,
  10. add Template:YearCategoryHeader to every category.Fix for 100s
  11. make a map of Wikipedia:Reference pages
  12. Add to List of aviation, aerospace and aeronautical terms from AIP
  13. 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.
  14. check http://www.boeing.com/commercial/airports/plan_manuals.html for usable pic/info
  15. translate [2]
  16. update portal to one of these: [3][4] [5][6] [7][8][9]
  17. add reference templates to Wikipedia:WikiProject Aircraft/page content, may need to create some for my encyclopedias
  18. create logo for aviation portal from
  19. work in Category:Aircraft without proper specifications
  20. add to Portal:Aviation/Aviation Topics with Category:Aviation lists
  21. add to List of aviation, aerospace and aeronautical terms from AIM
  22. Wikipedia:People by year/Reports/Stats add births/deaths to long ago year articles
  23. Update List of NGC objects from Wikipedia:WikiProject Astronomical objects and http://www.seds.org/messier/xtra/ngc/ngc.html
  24. W:AWB - Category:Lists that should be categories//Wikipedia:Template substitution
  25. update browse tab proposal with icons used already by Goforit's updates to browse, glossaries, etc. perhaps get him involved.
  26. Wikipedia:Computer help desk/Category graph study
  27. divide up/clean up year cats
  28. Wikipedia:Categorization projects (current)
  29. Make some kind of Directed acyclic graph for Wikipedia:Categorization
  30. and User:Stephen Gilbert/Documentation survey
  31. add National Gallery stuff
  32. expand History of Canada from Timeline of Canadian history esp pre-confederation
  33. Meteorology - in topics and phenomenon add everything.. and reorder
  34. Chapman as a last name (history, origin)
  35. Autopilot cleanup
  36. Flying ace add canadians

[edit] Add pic

  1. fuselage add pic
  2. Jerrycan pic
  3. Bristol Freighter pic

[edit] Vandalism / spam

User:Henna/VF#Downloads_and_release_notes

[edit] Article cleanup

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

[edit] Other Article creation and improvement projects

Wikipedia:Article Creation and Improvement Drive
Active fixup projects
Categorization projects
Encyclopedic Standards
Countering systemic bias
Version 1.0 Editorial Team
Editing for hire
Task trading

[edit] WikiProjects

Collaborations I am a member/supporter of.

WikiProject directory(Guide) WikiProject Council
Wikipedia:WikiProject Aircraft(assessment) Portal:Aviation
Wikipedia:WikiProject Airports(assessment)  
Wikipedia:WikiProject Airlines(assessment)  
Wikipedia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check  
Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias  
Wikipedia:WikiProject Usability  
Wikipedia:WikiProject Years  
Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles List
Wikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation  
Wikipedia:WikiProject User Page Help  
Wikipedia:Canadian wikipedians' notice board/Dictionary of Canadian Biography  


[edit] Help departments

Help Desk WP:HD
Requests for administrator attention WP:RAA
Village pump (technical) WP:VPT
Table of Contents WP:CONTENTWP:TOC
Help menu WP:HELP
Frequently asked questions WP:FAQ
Shortcuts WP:
User page design WP:UPD
User page help desk WP:UPH/HD
Reference desk WP:RD
    Humanities WP:RD/H
    Science WP:RD/S
    Mathematics                    WP:RD/Math
    Computing                    WP:RD/C
    Language WP:RD/L
    Miscellaneous WP:RD/M
    Archives  

[edit] Administration departments and duties

Warning templates
Administraton index CAT:WPCAT:WIKI
Resolving disputes WP:DR
Requests for administrator attention WP:RAA
Directory of administrators WP:DOAWP:LOA
Administrators' noticeboard WP:ANB
Administrator preparation(Del. guidelines for admins) WP:ARLWP:PREP
Requests for adminship RfA
Requested page moves WP:RMWP:RPMWP:RFPM
Wikiquette alerts WP:WQA

[edit] Policy creation and revision

Village pump policy and proposal forum WP:VPP
Policies and guidelines, an overview WP:RULES
Policies(Deletion, Image use, ) WP:LOP
Guidelines(External links) WP:GUIDELINES

[edit] News departments

Community bulletin board WP:CBB
The Signpost WP:POST
Wikipedia in the media WP:MEDIA
Village pump news (for news or issues that need discussion) WP:VPN
Announcements WP:A
Stats WP:S
Milestones

[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.

  1. 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...
    1. 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.
    2. 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.
  2. 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)...
  3. 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

: Featured on Did you know// : Featured content : Good article

[edit] I've created

For a full list see:[10]

[edit] Science

[edit] Film

[edit] British Isles

Ardgour// Clan MacInnes// Kinlochaline Castle

[edit] Family history

[edit] Aircraft

Twin Otter// King Air// DHC-3// De Havilland Gipsy Moth// De Havilland Hornet Moth// Altocumulus Castellanus// British Air Line Pilots Association// Pilatus Aircraft// Air Tindi// Noorduyn// Air Tractor// Aichi D1A// Aircraft marshalling// Aviat A1 Husky// Cessna 550 Citation II// Beriev Be-30// Aérospatiale Epsilon// Airco DH.5

[edit] Aviation

List of airports in Canada (A-C)(Originally "List of airports in Canada")// Hold (aviation)// Aircraft marshalling// Small Aircraft Transportation System// DUATS// North-Wright Airways// Lynden Air Cargo// [[

[edit] War

List of World War II aces by country subpages// James Francis Edwards// Irving Farmer Kennedy// Battle of Campaldino// Battle of Ilipa// Battle of Soissons (1918)// Battle of Soissons (923)// 381st Bomb Group//


[edit] Templates

Template:YearsProject// Template:AirlineProject/Template:AircraftProject (now Template:WPAVIATION)// Template:Box portal skeleton// Template:Main portals// Template:Centurybox// Template:Decadebox// Template:Yearbox// Template:Millenniabox//

[edit] People

Liza Frulla// Michael Francklin// André-Jacques Garnerin// Peter Cope// Mark Charles Honeywell// Dominique Maltais// John Livingston// Walter Henry Zinn// Demore Barnes // Georges Nomarski // Hans Ritter von Adam // Albert Achard// Joe E. Tata// Sydney S. Shulemson

[edit] The North

Gjoa Haven, Nunavut//

[edit] Lists

List of references to Citizen Kane in other work// List of '2007 in' articles

[edit] Various

Neuromarketing// Cook Group// Metonic calendar

[edit] I've worked on/expanded

[edit] I've added references to

  • lots of minor edits, more to come

[edit] My DYK's

  • Neuromarketing

[edit] My FA's

B-17 Flying Fortress (nom) (ver) (improvement

[edit] My GA's

[edit] My Featured Pic's

[edit] Featured status departments

Featured Article Help Desk WP:FADWP:FAHD
The first step: peer review WP:PR
Featured article candidates WP:FAC
Featured list candidates WP:FLC
Featured picture candidates WP:FPC
Featured portal candidates WP:FPCAN
Featured articles WP:FA
Featured lists WP:FL
Featured pictures WP:FP
Featured portals WP:FPORT
Featured article removal candidates WP:FARC
Picture of the day department WP:POTD