User:Rmhermen

I am a Wikipedia:administrator since July 5, 2004. I first contributed to Wikipedia in April of 2001 (i think, oldest edits lost in early software upgrades). I have been active on a number of online projects - active and passive (SETI@Home, Distributed Proofreaders, Mars crater labeling, Stardust@Home, etc.) Currently my computer is running Folding@Home on the Wikipedia team: Team page

I once wondered if we already had enough sysops, then I noticed that on Dec. 17, 2004 - 1034 new articles were created but 696 items were deleted. That rate would require almost 2 deletions per admin every day. By January 2006, the rate of almost 4,000 deletions a day by just over a thousand admins requires 3 - 4 deletions per day per admin - the situation is getting worse.

I, Solipsist, hereby award you this Barnstar of Diligence for you extraordinary patience, over many years, in handling perennial Corn vs. Maize debates.

		The Minor Barnstar
		Minor edits make a major difference. —Gaff ^ταλκ 04:03, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

		The Minor Barnstar
		Ahh, a sigh of relief from IvoShandor to Rmhermen, thanks for your work on articles related to the Black Hawk War. IvoShandor 05:31, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Templates I use often but never remember

{{NorthAmNative}} {{WikiProject Michigan}} {{Messagebox protected areas}} {{river}}

(Wikipedia:Template_messages/Image_namespace)

{{fact}}{{no license}} {{no source}} {{or-fu-re|Image:replacementimage}} {{Orphaned fairuse not replaced or {{or-fu-nr}} {{PD-USGov-Interior-NPS}} {{subst:deletedpage}} {{globalize/USA}}

[edit] "Do you want to take a survey?"

On Feb. 12, 2005, I did a random pages survey. Out of 100 random pages, only 1 was a U.S. town. That's progress. Three towns in the UK, 1 in Spain and 1 in Portugal also turned up. Overall biographies were the largest category at 22%, followed by geography with 15% total. Then Lists at 7%, Disambiguation pages at 6%.

On Feb. 24, 2006, I repeated the 100 random page survey, this time getting 5 U.S. towns. Overall, geography had 26%, biography 21%, fiction 9%, music 4%, colleges 4%, lists 3% and disambigs 4%. Clearly geography and biography are our largest areas. Music, science and business scored less than I expected. Non-individual History was hardly discernable.

Even by Feb. 2005, 100 out of almost 500,000 was not statistically significant but was as much as I had patience for.

This editor is a Complete and Perfect Tutnum of the Encyclopedia, and is entitled to display this Book of All Knowledge.

Such a silly name I had to add it.

[edit] Wikiprojects I am a member of:

Wikipedia:WikiProject Protected areas

Wikipedia:WikiProject Rivers

Wikipedia:WikiProject Space missions

Wikipedia:WikiProject Michigan

[edit] Short To Do list

finish adding ICTY indictees' nationalities, alleged crimes to List of ICTY indictees (source=[1])
- Names and dispositions finished as of 18:20, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
- through J, adding ethnicity, rank, indictment
replace agriculture production boxes with template
add maps to cities in Chad
- have done ten largest plus A-Biltine (plus Doba, Faya-Largeau, Goz Beïda, Guéréda, Mao, Ouara) from List of cities in Chad
  - left to do: Moussoro, Massaguet, Massakory, Massenya, Linia, Laï, Gaoui, Fada, Bousso, Bol, Bokoro
    - on list but no article yet: Bébidjia, Beinamar, Bénoy, Béré, Bitkine, Dourbali, Fianga, Goundi, Gounou Gaya, Guélengdeng , Kyabé, Léré, Moïssala, Ngama, Oum Hadjer
add sound files to Noord-Brabant municipalities
- done, except file for Boxtel is missing
sort out the chemical weapons tonnage discrepancy between the Deseret and Tooele articles
World War II casualties to featured list
User:Rmhermen/sandbox

Licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License, and nothing else
I am content with licensing my contributions only under the GFDL. I believe that introducing other incompatible licenses complicates the legal situation of Wikipedia, so I choose not to do it.

[edit] Early Anon work, no need to bug the developers

Up to Dec 16, 2003, all the edits at these anonymous id's were mine:

User:64.152.154.140
User:64.152.153.104
User:166.90.233.102
User:65.25.234.xxx
User:64.7.163.180
User:64.152.153.139
User:63.212.148.98
User:64.152.159.57
User:64.152.154.147

There are undoubtedly many others.

As of September 27, 2007, my total edits to the English Wikipedia were at 37,411 total, not counting deletions, deleted edits (over 1,800 there), lost edit histories etc.) Another 59 edits on identified IP's as mine.