User:Miranda/Neil2

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About me:

I am human, 28, and live in Chester. I have also lived in Wales and Birmingham. I used to work for the NHS, and now work for the government (boooo). I have a master's degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Birmingham, but don't ask me about anything related to the topic, as I have now forgotten it all, not having used it since graduation.^[1] Thanks to work, I have full premium access to the Encyclopedia Britannica online - if you need any references from there, let me know and I'll try and help.

Chester, England

I used to be known as User:Proto^[2] (and still am on the rare occasions I need to use IRC^[3]). I made my first (logged in^[4]) edit on 31 March 2005^[5]. I am one of the 1556 administrators on the English Wikipedia. Feel free to ask me any questions relating to any of my admin actions - or any other actions - either via my talk page, or email me.

I am erratically active, as I have a very busy and hectic social schedule, and only really use Wikipedia when I am bored in work. I have not died in a cricket accident.^[6]^[7]

Here be userboxen:

This user is an administrator on the English Wikipedia. (verify // rfa)

This administrator is willing to consider reasonable requests for rollback permission.

This user is a Reichstag climbing patroller.

en	This user is a native speaker of English.

fr-3

Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau avancé de français.

cy-2

Fe all y defnyddiwr 'ma gyfrannu ar lefel ganolradd y Gymraeg.

es-2

Este usuario puede contribuir con un nivel intermedio de español.

pl-1

Ten użytkownik posługuje się językiem polskim na poziomie podstawowym.

Stuff I do:

This user is a rouge admin.

Making articles that have been requested for a long time.
Wikifying articles (it's very relaxing).
- (but also check if they're evil copyvios)
Fixing administrative backlog
Clearing out requests to edit protected pages
Bumble around via the awesomeness that is the random page button of wonderment
I am a member of the Association of Wikipedians Who Dislike Making Broad Judgements About the Worthiness of a General Category of Article, and Who Are In Favor of the Deletion of Some Particularly Bad Articles, but That Doesn't Mean They are Deletionist.
I also think Wikipedia has around a million articles more than it need have, therefore I am a founder member of the Association of Redirectionist Wikipedians.
Speaking of redirectionism, I have recently discovered Red Link Recovery - being someone who finds creating redirects a soothing, Zen-like exercise, this is awesome.

Edit Milestones:

The awesome tool for doing this is Tools:~tangotango/milestone.php.
My 1,000th edit^[8] was on the 24 June 2005, on Baylor University Chamber of Commerce.
My 5,000th edit^[9] was on Geni's sockpuppet's RFA, on 6 February 2006.
My 10,000th edit^[10] was made on 4 December 2006. To Dungeon Keeper, which was an awesome game.
My 15,000th edit^[11] was to Clacks, on 20 July 2007.
My 20,000th edit^[12] was fixing a typo on Template:Did you know, on 2 January 2008. How boring.

Projects:

Aarrgh...for piracy!

I'm a member of the following WikiProjects:

Wikipedia:WikiProject Piracy
Wikipedia:WikiProject Cheshire
Wikipedia:Article Rescue Squadron
There may be others I've put my name down for, but I've forgotten. Feel free to add them.

Eliza Dushku is hot.

Accounts:

I have little used accounts on:

Meta (here)

Wiktionary (here)

Wikibooks (here)

Commons (here)

The French Wikipedia (ici), which I use very rarely, but want to use more to better my French

The Dutch Wikipedia (shtop), despite not speaking Dutch. There was a good reason, I forget what it was now.

The German Wikipedia (achtung!), which I thought I may as well set up.

Any other accounts you see with the name Neil or Proto are not me (at least, not until single sign-on is implemented and I take them all^[13])

RFA Nominations:

People who I have nominated for requests for adminship:

Ben

Henrik

Hersfold

Depository of Random:

User:Neil/quack - An indepth and challenging essay on the duck test and what the latest ArbCom developments portend for Wikipedia over the next 12 to 18 months
A minor aim in life - to form a band / write a novel / create a major website or a magazine called Main Page, forcing Wikipedia to have to disambiguate its front page. Muahahaha!
My admirable and never-followed (even by me) admin standards: User:Neil/standards
650th most awesome - official^[14]
If you add up all the admin actions, I am the 105th most active admin (as of 10 January 2008). Clearly I'm not deleting and blocking enough. Must do better!^[15]

Iz srsly.

User:Neil/road - the worst (best?) roadcruft article ever, preserved for posterity.
User:Neil/N - pick away at this whenever really bored or struck down with writer's block.
My first RfA - I was kindly nominated by User:Marskell.
My second, succesful RfA. The template I used for thanks is here.
My failed RfB. Boooooo.
Did you know that old name was Lithuanian for 'minds'? Me neither.^[16]
User:Neil/gc - the great big battle with gamecruft.
The best policy ever.
User:Neil/actors - must get back to sorting these out.
I haven't uploaded that many photos, and would like to do more, but the ones I have are in User:Neil/images.
The War on Drugs and the War on Terrorism pale into comparison with the War on 'had had'. All must die! (or better still, be rewritten to avoid such a technically correct but butt-ugly abuse of the English language). I identify the culprits here.
Take a look at the most popular pages on Wikipedia this month.
Some of the funniest user names can be found here
The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy - it dseno't alywas mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig, huh? Yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt.^[17]
I likes this article: The 8 Most Needlessly Detailed Wikipedia Entries
The best article ever written about Wikipedia. Essential reading for anyone wondering how this whole crazy project to create a free encyclopaedia came into being, and what it truly represents. RIP Roy Rosenzweig.
I don't collect my barnstars, as I am already awesome and don't need the reassurance. And I haven't had that many (sob). But you can spot them by wandering through my talk page archives.
My favourite piece of vandalism.
My account was created on 31 March 2005, at 10:23 and 59 seconds, UTC. It was the 224,548th account to be created.^[18]
Mattel Inc. v. MCA Records Inc.^[19]
Si hoc legerem scis nimium eruditionis habes.

A baby komodo dragon. Aaaahhhhh.

Articles created (FAs, GAs, and others): Pages I have started (or completely scrapped and rewritten). Not that I'm not proud of other pages I've started (it's over 250 now^[20]), but these are special for some reason or another. No particular order.

Shoe polish - FA
Edward Low - FA
Mr. Lady Records - was at AFD^[21] - now a good article
K-Klass - DYK
Healthcare in France - DYK
Penley - DYK
Chip pan
Buckley
Neil Ross
Timewasting
Nance O'Neil
Photo finish
Llyn Brenig
Ballot Security Task Force
Informing Healthcare
Eady levy
Two-factor authentication
Surface mining
Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors
Project Daniel
Maltesers

Alabaster brow
Handmaiden
Swartkrans
Alphabet to E-mail: How Written English Evolved and Where It's Heading
Royal & SunAlliance
Cachao Lopez
Ravan A. G. Farhâdi (and most of the Category:Ambassadors to the United Nations articles.)
John Seddon
Inigo
Llywelyn
Derrick Ashong
James Basire
Ed Lowe (mainly because of the name)
Michael G. Cornelius
El Bulli
Target hardening
Sunny Afternoon
No Place
Paradise Bay
Neko Harbour

Words to use carefully:
Troll(ing) Dick Stupid Wheel war Fair use Ignore all rules

To do:

Brass Eye - could be an FA
Wendy Moten - singer
Sir William Macpherson - q.v. Stephen Lawrence
The Bagthorpe Saga, cleanup shitty article, and articles for each of the books
The Sheep Look Up, expand
Sleb
Good News from Outer Space
Liar's Poker, expand
Ella (novel), by Uri Geller
Desolation Road
All the James Herriot books need a lot of work
The Emperor of Ocean Park
The Cuban Brothers

Key Wikipedia Guidelines:

These are good for newbies and oldies.

v • d • e Key Wikipedia policies and guidelines

Overview	Policies and guidelines (WP:POL) · List of policies (WP:LOP) · List of guidelines (WP:LGL)

Global principles	What Wikipedia is not (WP:NOT) · Ignore all rules (WP:IAR, WP:IGNORE)

Article standards policies	Neutral point of view (WP:NPOV) · Verifiability (WP:V) · No original research (WP:NOR) · Living persons' biographies (WP:BLP) · Deletion policy (WP:DEL)

Behavioral policies	Assume good faith (WP:AGF) · Civility (WP:CIV, WP:CIVIL) · No personal attacks (WP:NPA) · No legal threats (WP:NLT · WP:LEGAL) · Ownership of articles (WP:OWN) · Three-revert rule (WP:3RR) · Sock-puppetry (WP:SOCK)

Behavioral guidelines	Etiquette (WP:EQ) · Don't disrupt Wikipedia to make a point (WP:POINT) · Don't bite the newcomers (WP:BITE) · Don't game the system (WP:GAME)

Resolution policies	Consensus (WP:CON) · Resolving disputes (WP:DR)

Classification guidelines	Subpages (WP:SP) · Cats, lists, navboxes (WP:CLN) · Lists (WP:L) · Categories (WP:CAT) · Templates (WP:TMP)

Content guidelines	Conflict of interest (WP:COI) · Don't copy sources (WP:NPS) · Disambiguation (WP:D) · Don't create hoaxes (WP:HOAX) · Notability (WP:N) · Wikipedia:Patent nonsense (WP:PN)

Editing guidelines	Be bold (WP:BOLD) · Edit summary (WP:ES) · Sign on talk pages (WP:SIG) · Talk page guidelines (WP:TALK) · User page guidelines (WP:USER)

Style conventions	Article size (WP:SIZE) · Build the web (WP:BTW) · Manual of Style (WP:MOS · WP:STYLE) · Naming conventions (WP:NC)

Other helpful links:

Footnotes:

XKCD: When Wikipedia and the real world collide. (not a pretty sight :-( )

^ And I don't feel guilty at all. HAH!
^ Usurpation request
^ Because, of course, I'm too lazy to change it
^ Let's pretend this never happened. What's more, forget that I also got it wrong.
^ My First Edit
^ "Died in a cricket accident" had no hits on Google ([1]), and I wanted to see if this meant my user page became the only hit. This was inspired by xkcd. And as of February 2008, my page is the only hit for "died in a cricket accident" on Google! Woopah.
^ More - "Died in a kerplunk accident", "Died in a bandage accident", "Died in a snooker accident", "Died in a banana accident", "Died in a puppy accident", "Died in a parcheesi accident", "Died in a facebook accident", "Died in a moonwalking accident", "Died in a pooping accident", "Died in a boomerang accident", "died in a wikipedia accident". Muauahahaha!
^ 1,000th edit
^ 5,000th edit
^ 10,000th edit
^ 15,000th edit
^ 20,000th edit
^ Muahahaha!
^ Not official. My highest ever ranking! I am winning!!!
^ Admin stats
^ Like, whoaaah
^ Relaly fkreay
^ User creation date and ID tool
^ "The parties are advised to chill."
^ User:Bryan/List of users by pages created
^ Who says AFD is not cleanup?

Multi-licensed with Creative Communism:

I agree to multi-license my text contributions, unless otherwise stated, under the GFDL and the terms of creative communism. Use it as you seem fit. Spread it. Take what you want, add, remove, change and improve. Why not sign with your own name and claim authorship? One rule, however: Don't you ever try subjecting this material under the terms of copyright, intellectual property, or similar licenses of evil. Please be aware that other contributors might not do the same, so if you want to use my contributions under the terms of communism, please check the multi-licensing guide, or use a peer-to-peer network to override such restrictions of free use.

Committed identity: 853e166dcaf3fc2957a623d8f01cdef5f81b29eb003d22cd159d69efd19dddb298b666479937cab11d98b70b68538c34f7a39c01e020d453e85c13d88b0d573f is an SHA-512 commitment to my real-life identity. So there.

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