User:RJFJR

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Active Wiki Fixup Projects
Leading the charge in the War on Error!
Must be active, systematic, have lists, & need help.
Writing
Articles that need to be wikified

Massive backlog.
(Category, live update)
Dead-end pages

These pages are not wikified.
(Updated 2007 Nov 3)
Most wanted stubs

(Updated from 2006 Jan 25 dump, still active as of 2007 May 4)
Most wanted articles

(Updated 2007 Sep 8)
Missing articles

Wikipedia is not as complete as you might think!
(ongoing)
Other
Disambiguation pages with links

Directing ambiguous links to the intended articles.
(Updated 2008 March 12)
Templates with red links

Help solve red links in templates through writing or repair.
(Updated 2007 December 5)
Interlanguage links

Add and improve interlanguage links in articles.
(Updated 2007 August 25)
Red Link Recovery

Repair red links in articles.
(Updated 2007 July 2)
Unreferenced articles

Ensuring articles include at least one reference or source.
(Category, live update)
Articles needing geo-coordinates

Help locate places. See WP:GEO
(Category, live update)
Uncategorised articles

Help categorise articles.
(Category, live update)
Orphaned articles

Help link to these orphaned articles.
(Category, live update)
Linkrot

Fix broken links to external websites.
(Updated 2007 Jan 13)
Transwiki log cleanup

Articles that have been transwikied and need to be checked for possible merging or deletion.
Main - Inactive - Mini
I, Haza-w, hereby award this Working Man's Barnstar to RJFJR for his tireless cleanup work.
I, Haza-w, hereby award this Working Man's Barnstar to RJFJR for his tireless cleanup work.


Contents

[edit] Intro

I really don't know that there is anything important enough to put here, but it's in the user space so I'll do it...but just for the following reason:


My favorite color is blue ...hmmm...doesn't sound like a reason, until you realize that creating this page changes links to my user name from red to blue.


[edit] Really, Really Important things I've learned about Wikipedia

These are my notes:

[edit] Write to the target audience

    • Audience: A related question, is who should the pages be written for? Most writers are in college or past college. However, there is evidence that most readers are high-school students, or other people who are not familar with a topic. What is obvious and irrelevant to a CS student or grad, may be very unclear and important to a high-school student or someone who is thinking of returning to college. Of course, Wikipedia has yet to define its target audience very well. The lists make it accessible to a much broader audience. excerpted from a comment by an anon who signed his message: The Phantom Avenger for SE


Summary:

    • K.I.S.S. - Keep It Sweet and Simple.
    • Write first for the Educated Layperson (that's hard)...
    • ...then try to do it better and write for the beginner (that's harder)
  • If an educated layperson can't figure it out by following the wikilinks, then it's too hard.
  • Yes, we're experts (more or less) but we're writing for a general audience. We could write a clever, concise, deep sentence to explain something...but it's useless if it isn't easy to understand.
  • Eschew argot, technicality and cant.

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[edit] Spelling/Grammar checking

'Whenever doing anything but minor editing, copy and paste to a word-processor with real time spelling/grammar checking!

That and that I can't spell. I also can't capitalize, but that's a different matter.


[edit] Formating dates

Date formats:

[edit] Formatting ISBN

[edit] Very useful wiki pages that I use a lot

[edit] Tools

{{ToLCleanup}}

[edit] Possible Tools

[edit] Categorizing


[edit] Stub Sorting

I'm part of the stub sorting project. We're trying to sort stub articles into more focused categories so people with special interests can more easily find articles to expand.

My response to being informed (after sorting hundreds of stubs) that there were estimated to be 20,000 stub articles to sort was:

whimper...whimper...whimper...

Fortunately, we seem to have gotten a handle on the number of articles left in category:stubs to be sorted. More will gradually migrate in (as they are edited for other purposes and the category is updated) but at a more-or-less managable rate.

I hope this project proves useful.


[edit] Cleanup Projects

We seem to have briefly caught up with stub sorting so I think I'll spend some time working on:

Category:Cleanup by month
Category:All articles needing copy edit --> Wikipedia:WikiProject_League_of_Copyeditors/proofreading#Ready_for_final_proofread
Category:Articles that need to be wikified
Wikipedia:Deadend pages (a lot of these are pretty easy since they are actually stubs that need to be wikify-ed).
category:Category needed (maybe someday, when I catch up...)
Wikipedia:Uncategorized pages
Deadends
m:Transwiki transwiki instructions
Wikipedia:Peer review

[edit] Stubs I should be able to contribute to

Category:Connecticut geography stubs
Category:Computer stubs
Category:Inorganic compound stubs


[edit] Cleanup Taskforce

I'm a member of the cleanup taskforce. I specialize in engineering, computers and science

my desk

[edit] These are tools I keep needing for the taskforce

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[edit] To Do

[edit] I made admin

We all know admin is "no big deal" (in fact the quote is here, Jimbo Wales said it), but it's really nice to be asked.

The vote is/was at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/RJFJR. (I put this link here so I could watch while I was fretting over whether I'd get it).

here is the admin's reading list that I'm still trying to absorb and will keep handy as a reference.

[edit] Spelling

Turns out these need to be done periodically:

  • resevoir -> reservoir
  • tendancy -> tendency
  • seperate -> separate
  • foriegn -> foreign
  • sportscar -> sports car
  • diminuitive -> diminutive

[edit] Tools

[edit] Words I'm suspicious of

I am suspicious of the word whereby. It's a real word, but I want to take a look at articles that use it and make sure they are clearly worded.


[edit] Images

I've uploaded these images to commons:


To English wikipedia (can use Fair Use licensing, these are magazinecovers)

  • image:PowerPack1.jpg (umm, this was a bad name, I now realize, since it is distinct from an existing image only by capitalization)


[edit] todo

  • calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate


[edit] Images

Request templates: {{reqphoto}}, {{reqmap}}, {{reqdiagram}}, or {{reqimageother|type of request}} on talk pages.


[edit] Cute

edit count tool
interiot's edit count tool
monthly statistics
'Evolution of Heavy Metal Umlaut' video

[edit] Press Releases

This is a question I posted at Village pump (Policy) and the replies. I am placing it here so I don't forget it.

Celesio was begun with press-release. Is it correct that a press release is not copyrighted? RJFJR 15:56, Jun 26, 2005 (UTC)

In the United States, everything is copyrighted. --Carnildo 20:39, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)
But if it's a press release being sent out to be published, aren't they granting rights to reproduce on it? Or does that just apply to people they directly send it to? RJFJR 20:55, Jun 26, 2005 (UTC)
That may be (or may not be). IANAL. But I assure you, that press release is not under the GFDL. --Carnildo 21:09, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Press releases are definitely copyrighted. They do not grant free rights to reproduction — they license it for reproduction to certain partners under certain conditions, in the same way that a record company licenses its music to the companies that print the CDs and gives people who buy the CDs very limited personal use rights. I am not a lawyer, however. Deco 21:01, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I'm not a lawyer, but I am a journalist. "License" at least implies more formality than exists. Maurreen 21:15, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Thank you, everbody! I have chopped, added an external link to the press release, and marked corp-stub. (I will file this as a reminder. I appreciate it). RJFJR 01:35, Jun 27, 2005 (UTC)



[edit] Move later

Tool: Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser?

Philippine-American War

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[edit] Footnotes

For more details on this topic, see Wikipedia:Footnotes.

A footnote is a note placed at the bottom of a page of a document to comment on a part of the main text, or to provide a reference for it, or both. The connection between the relevant text and its footnote is indicated by a number or symbol which appears both after the relevant text and before the footnote.

  1. Place a <ref> ... </ref> where you want a footnote reference number to appear in an article—type the text of the note between the ref tags.
  2. Place the <references/> tag in a "Notes" or "References" section near the end of the article—the list of notes will be generated here.

Example:

According to scientists, the Sun is pretty big,<ref>Miller, E: "The Sun.", page 23. Academic Press, 2005</ref>
however the moon is not so big.<ref>Smith, R: "Size of the Moon", ''Scientific American'', 46(78):46</ref>

== Notes ==
<references/>

Result:

According to scientists, the Sun is pretty big,[1] however the moon is not so big.[2]

[edit] Footnotes come after punctuation

Footnotes at the end of a sentence or phrase are placed immediately after the punctuation. For example: President Bush called for a halt to the violence,[3] and opposed a timetable for withdrawal.[4]

[edit] What footnotes are normally used for

  • Some publications use footnotes for both the full citation of a source, and for additional comments or information of interest to the reader.
  • Some publications use Harvard style notation for sources, and use footnotes exclusively for tangential comments or more detailed information. In this case, in other words, footnotes are notes with relevant text that would distract from the main point if embedded in the main text, yet are helpful in explaining a point in greater detail. Such footnotes can be especially helpful for later fact-checkers, to ensure that the article text is well-supported. Thus, using footnotes to provide useful clarifying information outside the main point is fine where this is needed.

[edit] Notes

footnote examples
  1. ^ Miller, E: "The Sun.", page 23. Academic Press, 2005
  2. ^ Smith, R: "Size of the Moon", Scientific American, 46(78):46
  3. ^ example footnote abc
  4. ^ example footnote xyz

[edit] note to self on other things


The Original Barnstar
In gratitude for your work on the Park Golf page, I, in my minimal authority here on Wikipedia, would like to present you with this Barnstar. Thank you for aiding in fixing the page and making it so that reading it doesn't make my eyes bleed anymore. Banpei 08:38, 14 March 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Notes

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  • Girna river



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