User:Davidwr

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If you want to know more about me, look at my Wiki contribution history.

On the Wikipedia commons, I was Commons:user:davidwr2 until June 1, 2008. Davidwr was unavailable. I am now Commons:user:davidwr there as well.

1 Did you know
2 What I like to edit
3 Some of my recent projects
4 Previous signatures
5 Subpages
6 Reviews
7 Interwiki
8 Templates

[edit] Did you know

[edit] How to edit a first section

*See Editing before the first section on MetaWiki for a how-to.

If you edit a lot of top-sections or edit top sections of long articles, see the two javascript workarounds in Wikipedia:Article size#If you have problems editing a long article. See also: Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-08-13/Bug review and scroll down to Section edit link for section 0.
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[edit] How often an article is read

Wikipedia article traffic statistics has traffic statistics. Current as of 3/23/2008. See the announcement.

[edit] Cleaning up "bare links"

You can clean up "bare links" using Pywikipedia.

[edit] What I like to edit

Random Articles, current events, Recent Change Patrol, other wiki-maintenance tasks, articles relating to governments, politics, and human behavior, articles relating to science and technology, and more.

my contributions
Wikipedia:WikiProject edit counters
wannabe kate edit counting tool
edit counter at gtools - grand total very fast

[edit] Some of my recent projects

Newest to oldest

Wikipedia:WikiProject Ohio/HS Athletic Conferences project participant
User:Davidwr/quicktable, see also Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion#Useful template for multi-article AfDs and for suspected sockpuppets, abandoned, redundant to {{hidden}}
deletion of Culture (U.S. band)-related material, todo
~~propose encouraging non-admins to close expired failed AfDs~~ - guideline exists
split Wendland into name and place pages. todo.
kick-started Lloyd John Ogilvie - created as a pre-stub
created Bath Community Schools as a very stubby stub
rewrote WZNZ to remove spam and focus on history
proposed changes to criteria for speedy deletion to encourage deleting admins to think about what they are doing. Withdrawn as redundant.
rewrite and provide references for List of school districts in Maine
add two new articles for William Keane redirect-turned-dab, in progress
rewrote unsourced Crossroads Bible College as a stub
in progress: Carroll Pickett/draft, author and former minister to death row inmates in Texas, now against capital punishment.
add root, links, and nobr parameters to {{archive box}}, update documentation.
request bot to update some asteroid pages including 6227 Alanrubin
created List of school districts in Wyoming
created List of school districts in South Dakota
created Category:School districts in South Dakota
created List of school districts in Nevada
created Jordan Francis, with help from other editors
created Category:International Baccalaureate schools in the United States and Category:International Baccalaureate schools in Australia and spearheaded the split from parent category Category:International Baccalaureate schools
~~reference tag cleanup User:Davidwr/RefImprove template~~, abandoned
created Masonic Home Independent School District, in progress
expanded Coretta Scott King Award to include illustrators and honor books, in progress
created Kraken botnet
created Congressional Pictorial Directory
created Semaphore Flag Signaling System and updated SFSS
recreated Stereotypes of ethnic groups from the white race. It was recently deleted and had a lot of inbound links. Note: It has since been deleted and is now a redirect.
split Wikipedia:List_of_missing_journals
Articles for Creation efforts
Tom Vandergriff rewrite
Category:U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame Inductees
Image:Distance From Earth to Moon In Light Seconds.gif

Plus several stubs and redirects

[edit] Previous signatures

From time to time I use special signatures. I keep this here for recognition purposes.

talk/contribs/e-mail signature davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 02:14, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
Talk/Track signature: davidwr ^(talk)/_(track) 13:15, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
Standard signature: davidwr (talk) 21:18, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
09f9 controversy signature, part of May 2007: davidwr ^09f9(talk)

Note: I've since been informed that "advocacy" and "protest" signatures are discouraged. This signature is permanently retired.

[edit] Subpages

Active:

/Sandbox - working notes
/Awards - awards given, received, and designed
/Articles for Creation - AFC efforts, mostly backlog work
/Talk Most ancient common ancestor - formerly Talk:Most ancient common ancestor, leftover from AfD action.

Historical: