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[edit] Notable contributions
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This user lives in or hails from the city of Heidelberg. |
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This user lives in or hails from the state of California. |
Political Beliefs
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This user supports immigration and the right to travel freely upon the planet we share. |
User:Joestella/Userboxes/ProGlobal
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This user agrees with most economists that income inequality in the U.S. has grown excessive and must be addressed through increased redistribution efforts. |
Trivia
ACADEMIC JOURNAL |
This user has had his/her work published in an academic journal. |
INTJ |
This user has an INTJ personality
per the Myers-Briggs typing system. |
Fun
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[edit] Interests
Subjects pertaining to the social sciences, especially those with particular relations to the fields of economics, sociology, and political science. As a multi-national person I also take an especially great intrest in world affairs. A perhaps less scholarly pursuit of mine are luxury automobiles.
While I do my best to stay objective and neutral, I like all other human beings am prone to exhibiting my personal bias at one point or another. My personal viewpoint tends to be that of a Globalist, European-American, Secular, Upper middle class, Liberal, Pluralist. I do, however, accomodate all facets of the subject matter I discuss in my articles and provide Wikipedia's readers with the factually most correct and up-to-date information. Thus, I sincerely believe that I am helping to provide the world with what is, now more than ever before, the world's most precious commodity: knowledge.
My personal opinion in the form of web-entries is largely limited to my political blog and perhaps a newspaper op-ed. Original research is best left to academic papers. I suggest that editors who desire to use the internet as an outlet for their creative energy in expressing their personal viewpoints use a blog or local newspaper instead of Wikipedia.
[edit] Political Ideology
As I have hinted above, I am a cosmopolitan social liberal and progressive with my beliefs being based on rational thought and analysis. I am centrist/center-left (Third Way one might say) on economic issues and a staunch progressive on social issues.
[edit] Favorite Quotes
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Some of my favorites:
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[The state's repsonsiblities are]... that of protecting the society from the violence and invasion of other independent socities... that of protecting, as far as possible, every member of the society from the injustice or oppression from every other member of it... that of erecting and maintaining those publick institutions which, though they may be in the highest degree advantageous to a great society, are of such a nature, that the profit could never repay the expence to any individual or small number of individuals.
-Adam Smith, 1776
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Necessitous men are not free men.’ Liberty requires opportunity to make a living – a living decent according to the standard of the time, a living which gives a man not only enough to live by, but something to live for."
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1937
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[edit] Mission statement
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I joined Wikipedia for a simple reason. I believe in spreading free knowledge. Ignorance and misunderstanding are, in my humble opinion, the greatest sources for the difficulties and struggles mankind faces in this day and age. I strongly believe in the idea of people sharing their knowledge in an easily accessible, neutral, fact-based medium such as Wikipedia. The internet has presented us with a new tool to make this world a better place. Wikipedia presents an essential step in using this great global resource to improve the human condition. I, like many people, not only have a craving for knowledge but also a perhaps equally strong desire to share at least part of the knowledge which I have acquired. I strive to add useful and wholesome information to Wikipedia. For me, Wikipedia is a place where the internet has full-filled a part of its promise, to provide a place where people can come together and share their expertise. |
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That said my favorite Wikipedia rule is BE BOLD!.
[edit] User Statistics
These statistics are available from SJ's tool for any user here: [2] All of the statistics below pertain to my account on the English-language Wikipedia and do not include contributions from my German Wikipedia account. Also see my gallery on the commons: [3]
[edit] Complete Statistics
Edit count by nature of contribution as of 2007-10-21 |
Nature of edits |
Number |
Percentage |
Total edits |
17,829 |
100.00% |
Unique articles |
2,650 |
(X) |
Mainspace |
9,456 |
53.04% |
Talk |
3,486 |
19.55% |
User |
925 |
5.19% |
User talk |
1,805 |
10.12% |
Wikipedia |
691 |
3.87% |
Images |
320 |
1.79% |
Image talk |
67 |
0.38% |
Template |
319 |
1.79% |
Tamplate talk |
87 |
0.49% |
Category |
65 |
0.36% |
Category talk |
4 |
0.02% |
Portal |
6 |
0.03% |
Portal talk |
2 |
0.01% |
Percentage of edit summaries given[4] |
Major edits |
100% |
Minor edits |
100% |
Monthly averages |
Average edits per month |
775 |
Edits last month |
272 |
Highest number of edits/month |
June, 2007 |
1,278
(1,266 was the prvious record in June 2006) |
Lowest number of edits/month |
September, 2007 |
272 |
[edit] Summary
Summary of main contribution as of 2007-03-28 |
Articles written |
27 |
GAs written |
7 |
Stubs written |
28 |
Images uploaded |
317 |
Templates created |
11 |
Categories created |
6 |
Wikiprojects founded |
1 |
[edit] Edits over the past year
Distribution of my edits with yellow dots marking the creation of significant texts.
Distribution of my edits with yellow dots marking the creation of significant texts. As of Feburary I had the 848
th highet number of edits on Wikipedia; 845
th as of May 2007.
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My edits from November 2005 to July 2007.
My Wikiholic score is 1,951 which puts me in the "optimal and most productive range" - who would have thought!
Landmarks Edit No 12,000. Edit No 13,000.
[edit] Time Zone
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[edit] Created
Please note that some of the listings below are not complete and may unintentioanly omit some of my contributions.
[edit] Graphics
The following is a roughly 70%-80% complete list of the graphs currently in use on various Wikipedia article, many are used in my "Flagship" articles. The images to the right serve as examples of my graphis' apperance.
- Image:Class US.png
- Image:American Income.png
- Image:Households vs Individuals Income.png
- Image:2 more income earners.jpg
- Image:Occupation Educational attainment.jpg
- Image:America Class.jpg
- Image:Income-curve-$10k.jpg
- Image:Class Thompson Hickey copy.jpg
- Image:American Society.jpg
- Image:Income groups.jpg
- Image:Income quintiles.jpg
- Image:Personal Household Income U.png
- Image:Income Strata 2005.jpg
- Image:Income Race.jpg
- Image:Education Income.jpg
- Image:Income Education 91 to 03.jpg
- Image:Income 1967.jpg
- Image:Median Household Income International.png
- Image:Personal income.png
- Image:Personal Income Age25.png
- Image:Personal Income high rise copy.png
- Image:Age personal income.png
- Image:Personal income race.png
- Image:Income profession.png
- Image:Education median income.png
- Image:Race 6 figure household and.png
- Image:Race Six Figure Household Income.png
- Image:Top-1%.png
- Image:Homweownership by race.jpg
- Image:Homeownership race 1994 to 2005.jpg
- Image:Homeownership by household type.jpg
- Image:Educational attainment copy.jpg
- Image:Education gender.jpg
- Image:Education race.jpg
- Image:Education Income Sex.jpg
- Image:Education Income Race.jpg
- Image:Prof-Mang White Blue collar.jpg
- Image:Occupation Educational attainment.jpg
- Image:US Violent Crime Rate.jpg
- Image:US Property Crime Rate.jpg
- Image:Homicide Rate 04.jpg
- Image:Six figure income.png
- Image:Families US.png
- Image:Race Income.png
- Image:Families US Historical.png
- Image:US Occupations.png
- Image:Income quintiles.jpg
- Image:Income inequity US.png
- Image:Class distribution US.png
- Image:Class USA.png
- Image:Gilbert model.png
- Image:Income America.png
[edit] Categories
- Created Flagship vehicles category
- Created Wealth in the United States category
- Created Income in the United States category
- Created Full-size vehicle category
- Created Mercedes-Benz W180 stub
- Created Lincoln 1970 template
- Created Auto Project template
- Created Lincoln K-series stub
- Created Lincoln Lido stub
- Created Lincoln Sport stub
- Created Jerry Flint stub
- Created Association of the German Automotive Industry stub
- Created Gas guzzler stub
- Created US Bureau of Transit Statistics stub
- Created Lincoln Cosmopolitan stub
- Created Lincoln Premiere stub
- Created Lincoln Custom stub
- Created Lincoln Capri stub
- Created Lincoln Navicross stub
- Created El Paseo stub
- Created El Paseo Gradens stub
- Created Bentley Brooklands stub
- Created Wixom Assembly Plant stub
- Created Flagship vehicles article
- Created Del Monte Center stub
- Created Valley Fair Valley Fair stub
- Created Northridge Mall stub
[edit] Articles
- Created Monterey Peninsula article
- Created Lincoln Mark article
- Created Luxury Car article
- Created Lower middle class article
- Created Landyacht short article
- Created List of largest passenger vehicles in the United States article
- Created Professional class short article
- Created Managerial Class short article
- Created Census family short article
- Created Real estate pricing article
- Created Six figure income short article
- Created Median income per household member short article
- Created Income quintiles short article
- Created Wealth in the United States short article
- Created Bachelor's degree or higher short article
- Created Foreign born Americans short article
- Created Native born Americans short article
- Created Class in America template
- Created WikiProject United States
- Created Professional and working class conflict in the United States article
- Created American middle class article
- Created Household income in the United States article
- Created Educational attainment in the United States article
- Created Template:Demographics of the United States
- Created Designer label short article
- Created Passenger vehicles in the United States article
- Created Crime in the United States article
- Re-wrote completely Social structure of the United States article
- Created Affluence in the United States article
- Created Personal income in the United States article
- Created Reference group short article
- Created White Christian male short article
- Created Average Joe article
- Created GMC Denali article
- Created Lincoln MK9/Mark X joint article
- Created Coastal California article
- Created Volvo model line-up template Added template into each article of the vehicles originally mentioned in the template
- Created several userboxes
- Created the Lincoln template table and posted it at the bottom of every Lincoln article. User Sfoskett then helped by making my makeshift template into a real template so I don't have to post the entire table every time.
- Created Engine Specification Listing Box, "Blue box." lightblue box for U.S., lightgreen box for Europe, orange box for Asia, and lightgrey box for Autralia
- Created Techninical Specification Lisitng table, replacing the Blue Box
- Created Lincoln Model timeline (1970 - present)
[edit] Revisions
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This editor is a
Veteran Editor II, and is entitled to display this
Bronze Editor Star
Articles I substantially revised:
- Germany; US German relations
- Full-Size Car article; Added "Decline and Renaissance" section, revised list of full-size vehicles.
- Lincoln Town Car; Added sections (History, Trim Levels, Lincoln template, 1995, Timeline, tables) & photographs (all 1998 through 2002 model photographs) and extensively revised existing article.
- Lincoln LS Added sections, and categories as well as expanded content significantly.
- Lincoln Added model timeline, and Lincoln model table. Revised list of Lincoln vehicles by dividing it into three sections: Current vehicles, Recent vehicles, and Historical vehicles.
- Mercury Grand Marquis Divided article into sections and added descriptions of redesignes.
- Ford Crown Victoria Expanded and revised article.
- Nissan Sentra Added sections, and rewrote almost completely.
- Cadillac DeVille Expanded article.
- Cadillac SeVille Added blue boxes, and categorizations. Expanded article.
- Cadillac Eldorado Added Sections and expanded the article
- GMC Yukon Added Denali Section
- Limousine Created Gallery
- Flagship Added Automotive section
- Lincoln MKS Added Gallery and all pictures, revised template
- Salinas, CA Added Housing Section and all photographs
- Lincoln Versailles Reorganized entire article, moved paragraphs, added sections and infobox, removed POV
- German Lincoln article Significantly added to the text, added model sections and tables.
- German Lincoln Town Car article Significantly added to the article
- Lexus LS Added generation infoboxes, revised sections, added content
- Personal luxury car Added Europeans and Japanese vehicles
- Fiat Panda Merged Old and New Fiat Panda articles, removed HTML table, added infobox, and corrected text
- Monterey County Added home prices section
- Cadillac timeline revised descriptions
- Upper middle class Rewrote article, added "American upper-middle class section with link to the corresponding article, and added all images
- Middle class Added "Subdividing of the middle class" section, American middle class section w/ link to corresponding article, and all images
- Upper class Rewrote many sections and reogranized entire article and added all images
- Millionaire Rewrote and reorganized the entire article and added all images
- Poverty in the United States reporganized entrie article, rewrote many sections, added "Poverty overstated" section and image
- Mass affluent in the United States added mention of class, templates, see also section, references, and categories
- Social Structure of the United States rewrote the vast majority of article (except last three section w/o refs)
- Added median household income and rank to the infoboxes of all 50 US states
[edit] Other edits
- Added New Infobox to all Full-size car, Lincoln, Cadillac, BMW, Mercedes as well as many other articles
- Added Lincoln Template to all Lincoln articles
- Added Blue Boxes to all Lincoln and Cadillac as well as other articles
- Added parent companies to several car manufacturer's articles
- Categorized several articles as Prestige car and articles
- Categorized Full-size vehicles as Full-size
- Replaced Blue Boxes on appropriate articles
- Added Metric to Lincoln articles where apropriate
- Added US topics template on all articles on the Life in the US template
[edit] Peer recognition
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The Society Barnstar |
I, zzuuzz, award you this barnstar for your considerable efforts on improving articles related to socio-economics with particular reference to the United States. -- zzuuzz (talk) 03:20, 6 January 2007 (UTC) |
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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar |
For your tireless contributions to social science articles, such as Income inequality in the United States and many others, I award you with the Tireless Contributor Barnstar. · jersyko talk 20:06, 12 July 2007 (UTC) |
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The Barnstar of National Merit |
Thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia, especially American related subjects. Shahram9 15:21, 14 June 2007 (UTC) |
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The Original Barnstar |
For your work on making and maintaining the Lincoln Town Car article at A class! Karrmann 23:30, 6 February 2007 (UTC) |
I,
OMEN, hereby award you this barnstar for you attempts to clean out POV at
United States article. Keep up the good work.
I hearby award Gerdbrendel the
The Technology Barnstar for his hard work and dedication to car transport articles (especially luxury and prestige cars) and the Automobiles Wikiproject! Thank you for your awesome work! -
Bobo is soft 00:10, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
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Apple Pie Award |
Brendel, I would like to award you this Apple Pie for your tireless creating, expanding, enhancing, illustrating and digging out references for an massive number of important articles pertaining to the United States of America.
Bravada 12:32, 9 August 2006 (UTC) |
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The Barnstar of Diligence |
For your efforts on improving the quality of the Superpower article and ressolving issues in a professional and non-biased way User:Daniel Chiswick 4 June, 2007. |
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What a Brilliant Idea Barnstar |
Brendel, for your great addition of the colourful flags for the article First World, I award you this, the Brilliant Idea Barnstar! --Seong0980 03:51, 8 July 2007 (UTC) |