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Hello. You've reached the user page of another of the 7,274,207 registered contributors to Wikipedia (that may be a high number, but trust me: every good contribution I made is just as valuable as anyone else's). The reason of this page is to tell you a little about my editing habits, and show you some interesting things relating to what appears to be the world's most popular wiki.

I hope you like what you see! Oh, and by the way, I will NOT welcome vandalism. If I find out about it, it will be removed! (Assuming it had not been reverted anyway.)

If you need to inform me of something, just drop me a line. (I recommend starting a new section to keep new discussions separate from older, unrelated discussions.)

And remember:

“ Keep Moving Forward. ”

—June 9's Motto of the Day


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[edit] My history here

I've been editing Wikipedia for roughly 2.5 years now, though I had been reading it for a few months beforehand. I first started editing as an anon in September 2005, with my first two edits being the additions of {{Infobox broadcast}} to the WBPX and WUNI-TV articles. This was on September 6, 2005. After that, I returned on about the 23rd or so and started creating (yes, creating. This was, after all, before the John Seigenthaler Sr. Wikipedia biography controversy that resulted with the end of anons creating articles.) and editing articles on broadcast stations, especially TV stations (the first article I created was WWDP) -- as well as a number of other things. Not too long later (on September 25, 2005) I registered my account (the first edits simply picked up where my anon edits let off), and since then I have done many more edits to articles related to broadcasting, as well as the occasional other thing (such as roads). (How many more? Well, over my 2.5 years here, I've racked up nearly 8,700 edits (as of May 17, 2008), most of them on my account. Additionally, I've revamped several template series' into more uniform styles (for their series — this was back in the days before {{ambox}}, {{imbox}}, and {{cmbox}}), and I make the occasional comment at XfD discussions.

Of course, when I'm aware of vandalism that hasn't been reverted, that's exactly what I do — I revert it. I have been also known to discover when an article is about something that isn't really true. In fact, debunking a K07RE that was affiliated with five networks at once (and predated LPTV, the type of station it was purported to be, by some 20-25 years) as a hoax led to the first barnstar I received, which was a Barnstar of Diligence that was given to me by Firsfron (talk · contribs) on August 22, 2006.

I'm not really as active nowadays than I was when I registered, but I have not actually left the site, and do not intend to at this time. (Indeed, I do have the occasional spark of becoming more active at times.)

(And yes, even my userpage has seen vandalism, even though I'm not one of the more high-profile editors. It's only happened twice, however, and it hasn't happened for some time.)

If you want to know about my interests (even off-wiki), take a peek at my userboxes.

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Victoria Crater

This true-color image, taken by the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, shows the Victoria Crater from Cape Verde, Mars. Cape St. Vincent is the promontory visible on the left of the photo. On the right is Duck Bay, and beyond that, on the inner crater wall, is the north face of the 15 meter (50 foot)-tall stack of layered rocks called Cabo Frio.

Photo credit: Opportunity rover
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[edit] Contributions licensing

Licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License, and nothing else
I license my contributions only under the GFDL. The reason for this is that in many cases, it's can be hard to tell if a specific contribution to an article is also under a Creative Commons License, the GNU General Public License, the public domain, or something else, while it's easy to tell if a contribution is licensed under the GFDL (namely, it has to). In other words, I don't multi-license because it's just too difficult to be used at its full potential. (Besides, people very rarely would want to copy a multi-licensed component, preferring to use longer sections for which only the GFDL can truly apply.) (Nothing in this box applies to any media I create and upload (which is a rare event), which does not suffer from these issues, and in these cases multi-licensing can be a positive thing. This box simply applies to my contributions to any of the 2,405,987 articles in mainspace.)

Having said that, I do grant the following exception to the above:

Licensing rights granted to Wikimedia Foundation
I grant non-exclusive permission for the Wikimedia Foundation Inc. to relicense my text and media contributions, including any images, audio clips, or video clips, under any copyleft license that it chooses, provided it maintains the free and open spirit of the GFDL. This permission acknowledges that future licensing needs of the Wikimedia projects may need adapting in unforeseen fashions to facilitate other uses, formats, and locations. It is given for as long as this banner remains.

[edit] Fine print

I am not responsible for lost, stolen, or deleted articles, images, categories, templates, redirects, stub types, pages of other types, prodded pages, or even speedied pages, though all of that is because I have no powers to delete under the deletion system. (I also take no responsibility for any deletion debate result questioning unless I otherwise feel differently. Also, deletion debates that I start or pages that I place either {{subst:prod}} or one of the speedy deletion tags do not count in above. In short, I just make it clear if an page should go.) If for some reason I decide to leave Wikipedia, anything that appears above this fine print is effectively null and void, and likely will be removed anyway. Any comments regarding anything I do on Wikipedia should not be left on this page, it should instead be directed to my talk page through that link. Features are generated either by dates or by any editing of the templates, either anyone or admins (but, barring some exceptions, not by any bot). If you are not visiting this page from Wikipedia, then you are at a Wikipedia mirror, and you should be aware that you are not viewing an encyclopedia article, that the page may be outdated, and that the user to whom this page belongs may have no personal affiliation with any site other than Wikipedia itself. Please direct yourself to the real thing at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Wcquidditch. This fine print will exist on this page until I decide to remove it, which could be if I depart or if I don't like it anymore. This concludes my user page. Thank you.