User:Loadmaster

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David R. Tribble

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My Conservapedia account → Loadmaster
My Wikimedia Bugzilla account → david©tribble.com
My Google Picasa → portfolios
My web page → david.tribble.com

→ Current date and time: 21:19, Tuesday June 10, 2008 (UTC)
→ Leave me a message at my user talk page
→ Yes, I am a fan of the original Star Trek TV series.

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[edit] Contributions

This user is one of an infinite number of monkeys editing Wikipedia right now.
4,600+ This user has made over 4,600 contributions to Wikipedia.

→ My current edit count.
→ First edit (as user Loadmaster): Controversy over Cantor's theory (2006-04-11).
→ 4,000th edit: Template:Chset-tableformat (2008-01-17)

[edit] Articles Started by Me

[edit] Other Pages Added by me

[edit] Images Uploaded

See also my account on Wikicommons: User:Loadmaster
See also my Google Picasa portfolios
See also Requesting copyright permission
See also Wikipedia:Moving images to the Commons

[edit] Categories added by me

[edit] Templates added by me

[edit] Contributions to Existing Articles

[edit] Character codes and code set articles

[edit] Articles Needing Improvement

[edit] Other Sections

[edit] Articles in progress

See: User:Loadmaster/Proposed articles

[edit] Articles of interest

See: User:Loadmaster/Articles of interest

[edit] Better screenshot images

To get the best screenshot images from DVDs, I use a technique of sampling two or more consecutive frames from the source film and then combining them together into a single image. Most graphics editing programs (I use Paintshop Pro) allow two (or sometimes more) images to be averaged together into a single image. The averaging smooths out the pixel noise of each individual image, making the result much cleaner than any of the source frames. The only trick to using this technique is getting two or more consecutive images that are alike enough so that the resulting combined image does not appear blurred. Non-moving subjects are usually the best to work from.

Example images created using this technique:

[edit] Fighting Wikipedia Vandalism

The approach I take to fighting vandalism on Wikipedia is pretty simple. I check "my watchlist" page periodically, looking for edits made by unregistered users (i.e., users with IP addresses instead of user names). For each one of those edits, I click on the "diff" link for it. This displays the changes made by that user. If it's obviously vandalism, I then click on the user's name or the "contribs" link on the "diff" page, which shows a page listing all the contributions made by that user.

I can then check many edits made from the same IP address. Typically, several edits are made by the same vandal within the span of an hour or so. Reverting the edits is then a straightforward thing to do.

If a user looks like he is vandalizing pages, add a {{test1}} tag to his Talk page. If the vandalism continues, add {{test2}}, {{test3}}, and finally {{test4}} tags. As a last resort, ask for administrator intervention against vandalism.

Another item to check is the inclusion of image Example.jpg within articles, which is a favorite target of vandals.

As an example of vandalism idiocy, see that 98 edits were made to the article on Pythagoras, none of which contributed anything of value.

Example of a blocked abusive vandal: User:Lookaroundyou (Oct 2007).

I am of the opinion that vandalism could be greatly reduced by simply limiting editing access to Wikipedia articles to only registered users, but apparently this goes against the current policy.

Marking bad new articles for deletion

A small percentage of new articles are simply nonsense or vandalism. These articles should be tagged with {{db}} tags so that they can be deleted:

See also

[edit] Cool signatures

Interesting, but typically HTML-intensive, signature graphics by some Wikipedia users that I've collected:

  • Meteroid  Meteoroid »  (Mar 2007)


Possible signatures that I could use:

Loadmaster
Loadmaster talk
Loadmaster

[edit] Selected articles nominated for deletion (AfD)

[edit] Helpful links

[edit] Other Stuff

1.72 million as of 2007-04-02
1.73 million as of 2007-04-12
1.74 million as of 2007-04-16
1.75 million as of 2007-04-23
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2.00 million as of 2007-09-10
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2.24 million as of 2008-02-20
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2.30 million as of 2008-03-24
2.35 million as of 2008-04-27
  • Embedded wiki tags:
{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} → June
{{CURRENTDAY}} → 10
{{CURRENTYEAR}} → 2008

[edit] Tags, etc.

SYN This user is a synaesthete.
This user contributes images to Wikimedia Commons