- The current date and time in sunny California is Friday 15 April, 12:07.[1] PTZ
- Wikipedia time is: 19:07 (UTC)
Checkingfax (block log • active blocks • global blocks • autoblocks • contribs • deleted contribs • abuse filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock)
|
This user has been on Wikipedia for 6 years and 22 days. |
|
This user has made over
21,717 edits on Wikipedia.
|
|
This user has made over 1,960 edits on Wikidata
|
|
This user wants to see uniform userbox sizes and shapes. |
Biography v1.0.0.1
The mission of this user is to improve the encyclopedia and have fun doing it. On-wiki and off-Wiki, this user is a self-taught jack of all trades, master of none. He is a self-described bone-white male. He has been diagnosed by his doctor as being "fat and fit". His doctor wants him to intake more salt to keep his blood pressure up. His friends are jealous of this, but frankly this user does not like salty food (except for chips and pickles). His cholesterol is the lowest ever recorded at his hospital, without the patient being dead or born prematurely, and the hospital was founded in 1941. His earliest childhood memory is at age 2-1/2 when he saw his baby brother through the maternity window on Main Street at the same hospital where this user was born. This user clearly remembers his parents parking on Main Street and everybody walking up to the window while the nurses showed off baby bro. He has attended school but lacks degrees or diplomas. He has many inactive or expired memberships, trainings, professional certifications, and professional licenses. School was a place to spark individual learning at his own pace and he thrived under those ground rules. His parents also gave him complete freedom in his actions and lifestyle although he did get scolded once and was shell shocked when his mother said "I am going to tell your mother". He has never been spanked or grounded nor has he ever spanked or grounded his children. They have both gone on to become hyper-educated diploma waving skilled professionals with advanced degrees, training, and residencies. He has no focus on Wikipedia and shies away from no topic or article, although with 5,127,122 (purge page to refresh numbers) articles on the English Wikipedia he has not even scratched the surface of the topics out there. His favorite Wikitask is helping others, for helping is the fastest way to learning. He has a thirst for knowledge and soaks things up like a sponge when immersed in them. He learns by doing, not by talking about it. If you need help, ping him and he will put his shoulder to the wheel with you. On-wiki he is currently active in many projects with the highlights being Tip of the day, The Wikipedia Library, and Today's articles for improvement (TAFI)—which comes out weekly and is only one article. LOL. He was a double alpha tester for The Wikipedia Adventure, an early adopter of Visual Editor, and uses Flow on his talk page on meta. He was one of the first question-answerers at The Teahouse but never got invited to be or signed up as an official Teahouse host. However, the rest of the answerers pretty well have it covered and no Teahouse question goes unanswered. He has never read any documentation end-to-end on Wikipedia as it is too much to internalize. He reads snippets on a need-to-know basis. He abhors Wikilawyering. If he sees abuse on Wikipedia he will deal with it. He spends almost most no time on Wikipedia noticeboards, preferring to deal with things personally. He avoids conflict, but can take the heat. He has learned the most by helping and listening to female editors (or self-described females). Only a small handful have been prickly to engage with. He has also benefited from engagements with editors with disabilities, LGBTQA editors, and COI editors. Scroll up and down this page for more of the fine points on this users' other on-Wiki involvements; you can stitch together facts displayed in the plethora of userboxes this user has posted.
Off-wiki he enjoys spending time with his small remaining family, his slowly dwindling pool of best friends (they are dying off for sudden and unexpected reasons). Due to his progressing physical and mental disabilities he has scaled back on activities and lives a vicarious lifestyle. He enjoys the concept of going out to the movies but his butt hurts at the two hour mark, and the movie must be very engaging to distract him from the butthurt. He prefers dramas, well written action films, romantic comedies, chick flicks, and documentaries. He enjoyed a porn film with a plot once but he found out later that no other porn film since then includes a plot so he retreated from that genre. He has since decided that porn is a bad thing. He used to get free entrance to a movie house that showed three different art films every night. He also got free admission to a regular movie house in town. His father wore many hats and for several years was a top level administrator at the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley and a filmmaker. 16mm films were frequently rolling in this users household (such as Bullitt or even Gone with the Wind—illegal to possess at that time). He enjoys almost any kind of music and is enamored by live music and is in awe of musicians. He has been to Pageant of the Masters three times (back then owned and narrated by Thurl Ravenscroft—the voice of Tony the Tiger). He followed Ravenscroft backstage once and Ravenscroft gave him and a group a nice brisk tour. He has been to The Glory of Christmas and The Glory of Easter multiple times at the Crystal Cathedral and was awestruck by the set, the live animals, the performers, and the performance. He witnessed and got gassed in the People's Park riots (in multiple years). He clandestinely slid down the now demolished spiral fire escape slides at the Claremont Hotel & Spa with friends and they were all chased by security but not caught. He dropped into the BART tunnels at the urging of friends while the tunnels were under construction, broke into toolboxes by picking the locks (one friend was an expert lock picker), set off fireworks, bottle rockets, and Roman candles, looked at the huge computers shrink wrapped in plastic, crawled through little tunnels up to grates in the street and peeked up at cars and pedestrians, walked halfway to San Francisco, and then back toward Richmond trying to find a way out, finally getting all the way to El Cerrito where the system daylighted, picking another lock and getting out (the drop in point was too high to get out from). The tunnels had a locked gate about every couple of hundred yards which our lock picker easily breached. There was no track and no live third rail. No damage was done. The next week the tunnels were fully staffed at night with Dobermans. This user has carried a passengers' luggage into the cargo hold of a 727 when the gate crew mistook him for an airline employee and waved him on. He was just trying to help a lady out who was in peril of missing her flight. He raced in a motorcycle enduro race once and got 2nd place even though his rear tire was flat for the entire race. He gets invited out to eat now and then but then has to pay. When he invites people out to eat he always pays for all invitees. He dislikes being the subject of charity or being the subject of a spotlight. He has had stage fright since the age of five when he did his first school stage play, but he sucks it up and has moderated groups of up to 30 people, managed the efforts of up to 300 volunteers, made short presentations to audiences of up to 600, and been interviewed for TV segments a few times.
Prior to his disabilities getting the better of him he enjoyed gardening, creating textiles, pottery, glass blowing, yard work, archery, sailing, power boating, snowmobiling, rock climbing, swimming, hiking, flag football, handball, bowling, photography, film making, home improvement, shopping, traveling, four wheeling, motorcycling, playing in the mud, wrestling (doing it, not watching it), cooking, volunteering, and so on. He used to read long novels like Clavell's Shōgun, Tai-Pan, Gai-Jin, King Rat, Noble House, and finally Whirlwind, plus the whole Hemingway series. As a child he read a detective or mystery novel daily like Perry Mason, The Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, or anything by Edgar Allan Poe, and at the library he liked to read magazines like Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Psychology Today, Consumer Reports, and National Geographic. At the grocery store he occasionally sneaked a peak at Playboy and Penthouse but he only read the articles. He loved Mad magazine especially the "Spy -vs- Spy" page. He also enjoyed the entire Pippi Longstocking series and now lives very near the actress who played her in the movies. He got a kick out of it when IRL she allegedly assaulted her boyfriend in an argument over pizza toppings and was arrested, but charges were never prosecuted, and later this user was bemused when she released a homemade porn video that she initially said was shot against her knowledge. As a whippersnapper this user enjoyed thumbing through the World Book Encyclopedia reading every article he landed on. He also liked to thumb through the dictionary looking for new words. He tried to learn a new word every week for a while but he gave up. He has been active in the Internets since 1996. He is a web host for 30 Internet domains. He misses his mom, dad, pets, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and all his close friends that have passed on. He misses his estranged second wife and his estranged second child very much, and he loves them very much. He is truly saddened that his first wife has recently lost her second husband.
Gizmos
Statistics
- Purge server cache to refresh numbers
- Total pages on the English Wikipedia: 5,127,122
- Backwards count from articles 5,000,000 on the English Wikipedia: -127122
- Total Wikipedia edit count: 824,347,791
- Total active editors on the English Wikipedia: 131,217
Tip-of-the-day
Tip-of-the-day for tomorrow
Please proofread the daily tip...
It's displayed below one day early.
Some tips are obsolete. So we need new tips too. Please share your best tips and tip ideas at the Tip of the day department.
Tomorrow's tip of the day...
Uploading free images
If you are uploading a file under a free license (not fair use!), please upload it to the Wikimedia Commons, a shared repository of content that can be used on all Wikimedia projects. Files can be uploaded to the Wikimedia Commons at the Wikimedia Commons upload page (you must be logged in to Wikimedia Commons to upload files). Wikimedia Commons allows freely licensed photographs, diagrams, animations, music, spoken text, video clips, and media of all sorts so feel free to contribute any media that you have created!
To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd-tomorrow}}
|
Tip-of-the-day for today
Tip of the day...
Copyrights? Copyleft!
Everything is copyrighted by default, even if it does not have a notice to that effect.
But most of Wikipedia's text and many of its images are co-licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA) and the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL).
That makes Wikipedia copyleft!
Wikipedia articles can be copied and modified by anyone, but there is a catch: All modifications have to be made available under the same conditions, and credit has to be given to the original authors.
There are various mirrors and forks which use our content, and you can download the entire Wikipedia database to use, experiment with, or develop offline.
However, when editing Wikipedia, please only add content which you have created, or which you have been permitted to use under the terms of the licenses mentioned above. Otherwise, it will be removed.
To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd}}
|
Tip-of-the-day random
Fetch another random tip | Tip of the moment...
The lead section
The lead section is the part of an article just before the first heading.
In the source text (the text in the edit window), a heading looks like this:
== This is a heading ==
The lead section is a very important part of every article. The length should correspond to the overall length of the article: an article of 50,000 characters might well have a three paragraph lead, while one of 15,000 or less should limit itself to one or two paragraphs. The text itself should give a good overview of the article, but it should also get the reader hooked and interested in learning more. Take a look at some featured articles for inspiration.
It is often a good idea to align a representative image with the lead by placing [[Image:Filename.jpg|thumb|caption]] just before the first heading. (Filename is the name of the desired file and caption is a description of the image).
To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd-random}}
|
Tip-of-the-day static
Visit the Tips department
How to bypass scrolling and clicking
When you are done editing, you do not have to scroll or click to summarize your edits, nor to Preview or Save the article.
You can jump to the Edit summary box by pressing the Tab ↹ key.
To preview the article, press Alt+⇧ Shift+p.
To save the article, press Alt+⇧ Shift+s or press ↵ Enter when the cursor is in the Edit summary box.
To see the changes you have made so far, press Alt+⇧ Shift+v.
To add this static template to your user page, use {{totd-static}}
To change the static tip date, click on the template link above, edit the template, and add a new date in Month Day format (yearless, no comma, no leading zero, like: February 2).
|
Searches
Userboxes
|
In an emergency, this user may be slapped with a trout. |
|
This user trusts Wikipedia as a reliable source. |
|
This user simplifies Wikipedia referencing with ProveIt.
|
|
This user learned to type on an Underwood typewriter. |
FurMe |
This user adds fair use rationale to images using FurMe |
|
This user edits with the gadget wikEd |
|
This user fights vandalism using the STiki anti-vandalism tool. |
|
This user edits with the gadget wikEd |
|
This user welcomes new users with Twinkle!
|
{Here} are my contributions to Wikipedia.
Did you know
These DYKs were featured in the primo spot on the main page along with an image:
→
link
|
A fact from the article Hors d'oeuvre, which this user created or significantly contributed to, has been featured in the Did you know... section on the Main Page. |
→
link
|
A fact from the article Clara Henry, which this user created or significantly contributed to, has been featured in the Did you know... section on the Main Page. |
→
link
These DYKs were featured on the main page but without an image:
|
A fact from the article Jonas Åkerlund, which this user created or significantly contributed to, has been featured in the Did you know... section on the Main Page. |
→
link (pull[ed] Jonas Åkerlund (politician) per "Articles and hooks that focus unduly on negative aspects of living individuals should be avoided.")
|
A fact from the article Carina Jaarnek, which this user created or significantly contributed to, has been featured in the Did you know... section on the Main Page. |
→
link
|
A fact from the article Margareta Hallin, which this user created or significantly contributed to, has been featured in the Did you know... section on the Main Page. |
→
Badges and awards
Checkingfax was a double alpha-tester for the Wikipedia Adventure.
Tools and tricks
|
|
|
|
Main articles |
{{main|ARTICLE1|ARTICLE2|ARTICLE3}}
{{main|Article#Section|l1=Custom section label}}
{{cat main|ARTICLE1|ARTICLE2|ARTICLE3}}
{{cat main|PAGE1|PAGE2|PAGE3|article=no}}
|
|
Generic |
|
|
Other uses |
|
|
For (other topic) |
{{for|OTHER TOPIC}}
{{for2|OTHER TOPIC|CUSTOM TEXT}}
{{about||USE}}
|
|
Further information |
|
|
See also |
|
|
Other people |
|
|
Other places |
|
|
Other topics |
|
|
Other uses of (topic) |
|
|
Redirect |
|
|
"Not to be confused with..." |
|
|
Hatnote categories |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lists |
|
|
Article content type |
|
|
Editing restrictions |
|
|
Article style |
|
|
Article style (variety of English) |
|
|
Page type |
|
|
Other |
|
|
|
|
Inline cleanup tags
|
|
Attribution |
|
|
Clarity |
|
|
Miscellaneous |
|
|
Neutrality |
|
|
Precision |
|
|
Time-sensitivity |
|
|
Verifiability |
Dubious
|
|
|
Missing or problematic
reference
|
|
|
Incomplete or broken
citation
|
|
|
|
Wording |
|
|
|
|
Quick Templates |
Image |
[[File: | thumb | 250px | upright | right | alt= | caption ]]
|
Cite Web |
<ref>{{cite web
|url=
|title=
|author=
|date=
|work=
|publisher=
|accessdate=
}}</ref>
|
Cite Journal |
<ref>{{cite journal
|last1=
|first1=
|last2=
|first2=
|year=
|title=
|journal=
|volume=
|issue=
|pages=
|publisher=
|doi=
|url=
|accessdate= }}</ref>
|
Cite Book (Short) |
<ref>{{cite book
|last =
|first =
|authorlink =
|title =
|publisher =
|series =
|year =
|doi =
|isbn =
}}</ref>
|
Cite Book (Extended) |
<ref>{{cite book
| last =
| first =
| authorlink =
| coauthors =
| editor =
| title =
| trans_title =
| url =
| accessdate =
| edition =
| series =
| volume =
| date =
| year =
| publisher =
| location =
| isbn =
| doi =
| page =
| pages =
| chapter =
}}</ref>
|
Metric Conversions |
Single Input:
{{convert|original_value|original_unit|conversion_unit|abbr=on}}
Range of Values:
{{convert|orig_val1|range|orig_val2|original_unit|conversion_unit|abbr=on}}
EXAMPLES:
{{convert|60|and|170|kg|lb|abbr=on}}
{{convert|18|°C|°F}}
{{convert|3.21|kg|lb}}
|
Variables |
Code |
Effect |
{{CURRENTWEEK}} |
15 |
{{CURRENTDOW}} |
5 |
{{CURRENTMONTH}} |
04 |
{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} |
April |
{{CURRENTMONTHNAMEGEN}} |
April |
{{CURRENTDAY}} |
15 |
{{CURRENTDAYNAME}} |
Friday |
{{CURRENTYEAR}} |
2016 |
{{CURRENTTIME}} |
19:07 |
{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} |
5,127,122 |
{{NUMBEROFPAGES}} |
39,130,298 |
{{NUMBEROFUSERS}} |
28,008,557 |
{{PAGENAME}} |
Checkingfax |
{{NAMESPACE}} |
User |
{{REVISIONID}} |
715026583 |
{{REVISIONUSER}} |
Checkingfax |
{{localurl:pagename}} |
/wiki/Pagename |
{{localurl:Wikipedia:Sandbox|action=edit}} |
/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Sandbox&action=edit |
{{fullurl:pagename}} |
//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagename |
{{fullurl:pagename|query_string}} |
//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pagename&query_string |
{{SERVER}} |
//en.wikipedia.org |
{{ns:index}} e.g. '{{ns:1}}' |
fullname of namespace e.g 'Talk' |
{{SITENAME}} |
Wikipedia |
|
Quote |
{{quote| text =| sign =}}
|
Blockquote |
<blockquote>
<p>QUOTED PARAGRAPH</p>
<p>NAME, SOURCE, REFERENCE</p>
</blockquote>
|
About |
(This page is about USE1. For other uses, see About (disambiguation).)
{{About|USE1}}
|
(This page is about USE1. For other uses, see PAGE2.)
{{About|USE1||PAGE2}}
|
(This page is about USE1. For USE2, see PAGE2.)
{{About|USE1|USE2|PAGE2}}
|
(This page is about USE1. For USE2, see PAGE2. For USE3, see PAGE3. For USE4, see PAGE4. For USE5, see PAGE5.)
{{About|USE1|USE2|PAGE2|USE3|PAGE3|USE4|PAGE4|USE5}}
|
Table (Borderless) |
{|
|-
! scope="col" width="width:20em;" |COLUMN1
! scope="col" width="width:20em;" |COLUMN2
|-
|ROW1
|ROW1/COL2
|-
|ROW2
|ROW2/COL2
|-
|}
|
Table Style 1 |
{| border="1" cellpadding="2"
|----
! scope="col" width="width:20em;" |COLUMN1
! scope="col" width="width:20em;" |COLUMN2
|-
|ROW1
|ROW1/COL2
|-
|ROW2
|ROW2/COL2
|----
|}
|
Table Style 2 (Wikitable) |
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: left;"
|-
! style="width:20em;" |COLUMN1
! style="width:20em;" |COLUMN2
|-
|ROW1
|ROW1/COL2
|-
|ROW2
|ROW2/COL2
|-
|}
|
Collapsible Table, Default: Collapsed |
{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed" style="text-align: left;margin:0px;"
|-
! style="width:20em;" |COLUMN1
! style="width:20em;" |COLUMN2
|-
|ROW1
|ROW1/COL2
|-
|ROW2
|ROW2/COL2
|-
|}
|
Columns |
{{col-begin|width=100%}}
{{col-break|width=}}
{{col-end}}
|
Interwiki |
Wiki |
Shortcut |
Wikicommons |
[[commons:]] |
Wikipedia |
[[w:]] |
Wiktionary |
[[wikt:]] |
Wikibooks |
[[b:]] |
Wikisource |
[[s:]] |
Wikispecies |
[[species:]] |
Metawiki |
[[m:]] |
Mediawiki |
[[mw:]] |
|
Vandalism Response Templates |
* {{subst:uw-vandalism1|PageName}} ~~~~ (unintentional vandalism/test) * {{subst:uw-delete1|PageName}} ~~~~ (unintentional removal of content) * {{subst:uw-vandalism2|PageName}} ~~~~ (suitable for intentional nonsense or disruption) * {{subst:uw-delete2|PageName}} ~~~~ (variant for removal of content) * {{subst:uw-vandalism3|PageName}} ~~~~ ("please stop" for use after level 2 warning) * {{subst:uw-delete3|PageName}} ~~~~ (please stop removing content) * {{subst:uw-vandalism4|PageName}} ~~~~ (last warning for vandalism) * {{subst:uw-delete4|PageName}} ~~~~ (last warning for removing content) * {{subst:uw-vandalism4im|PageName}} ~~~~ (only warning; for severe or grotesque vandalism only) * {{subst:uw-delete4im|PageName}} ~~~~ (only warning; for many blankings in a short period of time)
|
|
|
Bookmarks
Shortcuts
60 links |
Getting Started
|
|
Getting Help
|
|
Policies and Guidelines
|
|
|
The Community
|
|
Things to do
|
|
Miscellaneous
|
|
|
|
Ultraexactzz's template
|
Last Updated 19:07, 15 April 2016 (UTC).
|
|
Paste this (with the curly braces) to your User page:
{{Wikipedia:Teahouse/Host navigation}}
Vandalism information (DefconWiki)
Paste this (with the four curly braces) to your User page:
{{vandalism information}}
Wikipedia vandalism information
High level of vandalism.
[view • purge • ]
6.8CVS / 10.4RPM according to DefconBot 19:00, 15 April 2016 (UTC)