User:CRKingston
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I've become a frequent editor here, mostly adding details to cities and schools from my home town area, the greater Miami Valley of Ohio, and my adopted home town, Phoenix, Arizona.
A technical writer by trade, and just a bit on the compulsive side, I can't help myself when I see pages that need editing. Mostly, I'm adding missing links and making sure that cross references link both directions around facts. I'm learning the guidelines as I go.
I love local history, and really enjoy finding out who did what where.
[edit] My current projects
- I've recently worked on adding college alumni categories for many universities, especially those in Ohio. Master alumni category Currently: University of Dayton Completed:
AFITAntioch CollegeBaylorBowling GreenDenisonHamilton CollegeHarvardIndianaKent StateKenyon CollegeMiami University of OhioMichigan StateOberlinOhio UniversityOhio WesleyanOtterbein
Pomona College Wooster Wright State
- I'm also working through the villages of Ohio, adding details to them that I can reference in Wikipedia itself. Villages in Ohio
- In my spare time, I'm working on the project "Libraries in Ohio" and I've added about 20 so far. Libraries in Ohio
- I've been working on the uncategorized articles backlog. Uncategories articles
- I'm working on the backlog of underpopulated categories. Underpopulated Categories
- I created a category for George Polk Award recipients and I'm slowly working through the list of award winners, updating their articles and populating the category. George Polk Award recipients
- Currently populating the following categories:
University townsMagazine by publication frequencyMayors by City - Completed major revisions to the following articles: Ohio Northern University, Wilberforce University, Daniel J. Myers, Great Dayton Flood
[edit] Default sort magic word
Way cool way to make sure that categories get sorted right, and easier than typing the sort characteristics after each category.
The default sort key of a page for categories can be changed using the new {{DEFAULTSORT}}
magic word. For instance, on George Washington, {{DEFAULTSORT:Washington, George}}
would cause a subsequent [[Category:United States presidents]]
to be equivalent to [[Category:United States presidents|Washington, George]]
, not [[Category:United States presidents|George Washington]]
. This is especially useful when the article belongs in many categories.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Washington, George}}
<!--- Use the DEFAULTSORT magic word to sort this article in all categories --->
From Signpost:Technology Report thru Jeandre