User:Wrp103

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Extended Wiki-Holiday

I was sick for over a week, and then got a new second job that is demanding more time that I originally thought it would. The amount of time I have available for Wikipedia will be extremely limited for a while.

My name is Bill Pringle. I work for Unisys as a software engineer, and I also teach part time at Penn State Great Valley, and I have a web site that has sample programs that can be used by my students and others.

I also run a web site for singer/songwriter Cheryl Wheeler.

I have interests in computers, music, video games (mostly console-based RPGs), math, and religion (I started Catholic, went to agnostic, and then Mormon). My web site has more information about all of these areas.

I enjoyed learning lots of stuff while working on the Wiki Syntax Project. You can also learn new stuff by clicking on the Random article link or the Recent changes link on the left.


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[edit] Major Areas of Contributions

My contributions to Wikipedia have touched on all of the above topics, including:

Music:


Programming:


Religion:


Video Games:


Misc.
I monitor changes to various topics of interest to me, including:

[edit] Vandalism

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While monitoring pages on my watchlist, I keep an eye out for vandalism. I really don't understand why people would choose to spend time defacing something, but there seem to be a lot of them out there. :-(

In general, if I see somebody that vandalizes one of the pages on my watchlist, I will add a template to their talk page, and usually watch their talk page. If they vandalize too much, then I request that they be blocked. If anyone contributes to a page on my watchlist that doesn't have a talk page (yet), then I will add a welcome message to their talk page as well.

On those rare cases when I have some extra time, I will check the recent changes page.

[edit] Useful links

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Here are some useful links:

[edit] User warning templates

There are a number of templates that can be used when dealing with new users and/or vandals.

This "User talk page" section identifies what should be added to the talk page to create a section for warnings. Warnings should be grouped by months, and the messages should be placed in a numbered list.

The "Common templates" section contain the templates I normally use for welcoming and vandalism warnings. You can copy and paste them into a page. Replace PAGE with the page name that they edited, and N (if present) with a number between 1 and 4, depending on how many times they have vandalized recently.

In general, this is how I deal with vandalism:

  • Copy the article name that was vandalized
  • Click on the user contributions link to examine past history
  • Click on the User Talk page and edit
  • At the bottom of the User Talk page, hit ENTER a few times, and then paste the article name for later
  • If the page was blank, copy and paste the "User Talk Page" section at the top
  • Copy the appropriate template from "Welcome", "Warning" or "Blocking" Templates and paste it into the page
  • Cut the article name at the bottom of the page, double-click on the "PAGE" part of the template and paste the page name over top
  • If a number is appropriate, change "N" to the appropriate number (based on past history and/or blatant vandalism)
  • If I want to add a personal note, then I click before the signature tag, hit ENTER, and then type the message.
  • Copy the template line and paste it into the Edit Summary box
  • Click on "Show preview" button and check it
  • Click on "Save page" when done

Since the templates are stored in a table, I can copy the template by triple-clicking inside the cell.

[edit] User talk page

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==Warnings==

{{subst:s/wnote}}

===May 2008===

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WP:WARN

{{subst:welcome|art=PAGE}} -- ~~~~ {{subst:anon|art=PAGE}} -- ~~~~ {{subst:welcomenpov|PAGE}} -- ~~~~
{{subst:uw-editsummary|PAGE}} -- ~~~~  

[edit] Warnings templates

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{{subst:uw-testN|PAGE}} -- ~~~~ {{subst:uw-vandalN|PAGE}} -- ~~~~ {{subst:uw-deleteN|PAGE}} -- ~~~~
{{subst:uw-errorN|PAGE}} -- ~~~~ {{subst:uw-unsourcedN|PAGE}} -- ~~~~ {{subst:uw-spamN|PAGE}} -- ~~~~
{{subst:uw-jokeN|PAGE}} -- ~~~~ {{subst:uw-biogN|PAGE}} -- ~~~~ {{subst:uw-mosN|PAGE}} -- ~~~~
{{subst:uw-npovN|PAGE}} -- ~~~~ {{subst:uw-defamatoryN|PAGE}} -- ~~~~ {{subst:uw-chatN|PAGE}} -- ~~~~

[edit] Blocking templates

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Generic Anonymous Spam
{{subst:uw-block1|time=TIME}} -- ~~~~ {{subst:uw-ablock|time=TIME}} -- ~~~~ {{subst:uw-sblock}} -- ~~~~
Vandal Delete 3RR
{{subst:uw-vblock|time=TIME}} -- ~~~~ {{subst:uw-dblock|time=TIME}} -- ~~~~ {{subst:uw-3block|time=TIME}} -- ~~~~
31 hours 48 hours 1 week
indefinite 1 month 6 months
:* Researching complaint against [[User:USER]] -- ~~~~
{{subst:uw-aiv|USER|MESSAGE}} -- ~~~~
:* No vandalism by [[User:USER]] after final warning -- ~~~~