User:Camaron

Hello, I am Camaron (Christopher) who happens to be a user of Wikipedia. My user name is a set of letters put together in my mind to form a word; as a result it has no direct connection to articles using the word Camaron, or any person living or dead. However, I have discovered that Camarón means shrimp in Spanish, with the word shrimp often been used to refer to a "small or insignificant person" in slang.

I created this user account on 16 March 2007 and have been seen editing Wikipedia with it since then. I became a administrator on 3 January 2008 after a successful request for adminship, which was the second one to pass in 2008.

My main interests are in architecture, environment, geography, aviation, computers, video games, photography, and travelling the world; this can often reflected in the edits I make to Wikipedia. In general life I completed my GCSEs at secondary school in June 2007, and I am now at sixth form college to study geography, environmental science, biology, and history at A Level.

Sunset as viewed from a beach in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

[edit] My to do list

Below is a list of general tasks I need to do on Wikipedia in order of priority, with each having a status of progress. I periodically remove old items from this list.

1. Resolve backlog at Wikipedia:WikiProject Schools/Assessment#Assessment requests. N Not done
2. Expand the SimCity 4 article and improve its status to GA class.    Doing...  
3. Clean-up and expand the SimCity Societies article.    Doing...  
4. Attempt to resolve issues with the SimCity (series) article to re-gain its status at GA class.    Doing...  
5. Do general cleanup for articles in Category:Schools in Hampshire. N Not done
6. Expand The Petersfield School article.    Doing...  
7. Help make SimCity Societies: Destinations meet notability guidelines, expand it, and add some pictures.    Doing...  
8. Expand the Alton College article. N Not done
9. Clean-up the General Certificate of Secondary Education article, and re-write the 'Criticism' section.    Doing...  
10. Improve and expand the Cities XL article. N Not done
11. Improve The Lion King article to get it to FA class.    Doing...  
12. Improve The Lion King II: Simba's Pride article to get it to GA class.    Doing...  
13. Expand The Lion King song articles.    Doing...  
14. Clean-up, improve references, and fact check the Punta Cana International Airport article.    Doing...  
15. Give attention to Airport Tycoon, Airport Tycoon 2, and Airport Tycoon 3. N Not done

[edit] My contributions

As a member of various WikiProjects, I have contributed to the following articles and pages in the main space (excluding re-directs):

• Alton College - Stub-class, I am aiming to get to B-class.
• American Pacific International School - Start-class, saved from Articles for deletion.
• Be Prepared (The Lion King song) - Start-class
• Can You Feel the Love Tonight - Start-class
• Circle of Life - Start-class
• Cities XL - Start-class, I am aiming to get to B-class.
• Eurovision Song Contest 2008 - B-class, I am aiming to get this to GA status.
• Eurovision Song Contest 2009 - Start-class
• He Lives in You - Start-class
• Hakuna Matata (song) - Start-class
• Hospital Tycoon - Start-class
• I Just Can't Wait to Be King - Stub-class
• Medbury School - Start-class, saved from Articles for deletion.
• O. B. Montessori Center - Start-class, saved from Articles for deletion.
• Punta Cana International Airport - Start-class
• SimCity (series) - B-class , I am aiming to get this to GA status.
• SimCity 4 - B-class, I am aiming to get this to GA status.
• SimCity 4: Rush Hour - Start-class
• SimCity Creator - Start-class
• SimCity Societies - Start-class
• SimCity Societies: Destinations - Start-class
• Tabakhmela - Stub-class, created on behalf of an unregistered user.
• The Lion King - GA/A-class , I am aiming to get this to FA status.
• The Lion King II: Simba's Pride - Start-class, I am aiming to get this to GA status.
• The Petersfield School - Stub-class, I am aiming to get to B-class.
• The SimCity Box - B-class
• Virginia Lake - Disambiguation page, created.
• We are One (Simba's Pride) - Stub-class

I help assess articles for WikiProject Schools and help with quick maintenance and vandalism cleanup for a variety of articles I come across. I am often working on projects and ideas in my sandbox. I have created a essay, Wikipedia:Potential, not just current state, and I have contributed to policy creation work at Wikipedia:Naming conventions (schools), Wikipedia:Naming conventions (U.S. schools), and Wikipedia:Notability (schools) - though the former two did not reach consensus for adoption. I do administrator work at Category:Candidates for speedy deletion, Category:Proposed deletion, Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion, and Wikipedia:Requests for page protection. I also now give rollback access to trusted users who request it by approaching me or I offer it too.

See also:

• My edit count record with Wannabe Kate.
• My edit count record with WikiMedia User Edit Counter.
• My edit summary usage record.
• Images I have uploaded to Wikimedia Commons; these can be used in Wikipedia articles.
• Images I have uploaded to Wikipedia; these are used in Wikipedia articles.

[edit] My thoughts

I think...

• Stubs should be kept if they have potential for a good article to be written on their subject. Deletion should be avoided unless an article has no potential or all its content is completely against Wikipedia policy.
• School articles on secondary schools and colleges are generally notable enough for their own article.
• Primary schools need to establish notability through awards, alumni, news coverage, and similar to be notable enough for their own article.
• Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions is a good essay, but so is Wikipedia:Don't overuse shortcuts to policy and guidelines to win your argument.
• Articles maintaining a neutral point of view is difficult but a must in the success of Wikipedia.
• Images help brighten up Wikipedia and their inclusion in articles should be encouraged.
• Templates should generally be put at the top of articles so everyone can see them easily; unless a template refers to a specific article section, in this case it should be placed at the top of that section.
• Adding templates to articles is no big deal, there is nothing wrong with allowing readers to know there are/could be problems with it or similar.
• Dates on Wikipedia should generally always be written in a 1 January 2000 format to allow them to variate with user preferences.
• Consensus is a key part of Wikipedia.
• Policies are very important but every issue should be dealt with on a case by case bases.
• Assuming good faith and civility help keep Wikipedia in one piece and should always be remembered.
• Discussion should always be put before edit wars.
• Requests for adminship is not broken but could be improved.
• Adminship is no big deal.
• Being an administrator does not make you a good editor, but you can be a good editor while being an administrator.
• Use of {{BASEPAGENAME}} and similar in user talk page messages is no more impersonal in practice than copying and pasting user names, which is usually what happens if magic words are not used in mass talk page messaging! It is reasonable to use the template for appropriate mass talk page messaging if you wish to spend time instead on writing additional comments aimed at a user individually.
• It is should be up to individual users on if they want to receive requests for adminship or requests for bureaucratship thanks messages and cards.

[edit] My messages of thanks

I would like to thank the following users for the help they have given me while editing Wikipedia...

• Pan Dan (talk · contribs) - For helping me put an article through the deletion process and giving me a warm welcome to Wikipedia.
• Alanbly (talk · contribs) - For helping me access articles for the WikiProject Schools.
• Victuallers (talk · contribs) - For being helpful and welcoming me to the WikiProject Schools.
• ZS (talk · contribs) - For helping me in my attempts to reorganise the articles SimCity 4 and SimCity 4: Rush Hour.
• JuWiki2 (talk · contribs) - For being kind and friendly.
• Burdfield (talk · contribs) - For helping me edit school articles for the Hampshire area.
• Miss Mondegreen (talk · contribs) - For being helpful to me and others in the creation of Naming conventions (schools).
• Visviva (talk · contribs) - For being an excellent administrator and helping me fix the article name madness with Sheet Primary School and The Petersfield School.
• Jort227 (talk · contribs) - For helping me and others rapidly put together a SimCity Societies article.
• Mankind 2k (talk · contribs) - For helping me fix the problems with the Hospital Tycoon article.
• Dahliarose (talk · contribs) - For her helpful comments at the WikiProject Schools.
• UnaLaguna (talk · contribs) and Nifboy (talk · contribs) - For reviewing the article SimCity 4 when I requested it.
• The Rambling Man (talk · contribs) - For kindly giving me admin coaching after a request.
• TerriersFan (talk · contribs) and DS1953 (talk · contribs) - For being helpful when responding to Proposed Deletion tags I add to school articles.
• Pedro (talk · contribs) - For his kind hearted comments and co-operation, and offering to nominate me for adminship.
• Moonriddengirl (talk · contribs) - For kindly reviewing my edits in my first editor review.
• Dihydrogen Monoxide (talk · contribs) - For been willing to nominate me for adminship, and even including a good joke.
• AxG (talk · contribs), Celticfan383 (talk · contribs), Chwech (talk · contribs), Greekboy (talk · contribs), Grk1011 (talk · contribs), Ijanderson977 (talk · contribs), and Robotico2 (talk · contribs) - For help with Eurovision Song Contest articles.
• Dustihowe (talk · contribs) - For always being warm and friendly since we first ran into each other.

[edit] My accounts

When I first started editing Wikipedia I used a variety of IP addresses; I then for a short-time used the account Compromise (talk · contribs) to occasionally participate in building Wikipedia, however I never considered myself to have "joined" Wikipedia until I started using this account, orginally called Camaron1. I changed my username on 11 January 2008 to Camaron.

All edits I now make to Wikipedia are on the account Camaron, with the exception of when I use a set-up alternate account called Camaron2 (talk · contribs), which I use for security reasons when editing from internet connections that appear to be insecure. I also have several doppelganger accounts which are not in use and are to avoid impersonation by vandals. I have an account under the name of Camaron at:

• Commons
• Meta
• Wikipedia - Simple English
• Wikisource - English

Camaron is not to be confused with Cameron, who is another contributor.

[edit] My licences

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