“ | We have built no temple but the Capitol. We consult no common oracle but the Constitution. |
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— Rufus Choate |
Hello. I'm a guy. I'm an American. I'm an administrator. That's all you really need to know. I like helping out with categorizing the uncategorized pages (which is what I do 90% of the time). I'm a huge fan of categorization. I do have an alternate username, The Doctor, for the purpose of editing on public computers. That account is not admin-flagged.
Contents
Current projects
Miscellany
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In Progress/Ongoing
Short-term:
- Patrick Fitzgerald. Get America's Harvey Dent up to FA status.
- Diffuse Category:Ambassadors of the United States.
- Diffuse Category:United States Attorneys.
- Clean-up Joachim von Ribbentrop
- Other categories to diffuse: Category:Companies of India, Category:Diseases and disorders, Category:Education, Category:Government, Category:History of Turkey (using Category:History of the United States as the prototype), Category:Indian law, Category:Law, Category:Order of the British Empire, Category:Organizations based in the United States, Category:Political philosophy, Category:Politics, Category:Politics of the United States, Category:Space, Category:Statutory law, Category:Stone Age, Category:Taxation, Category:Technology, Category:Theology, Category:Theories, Category:Titles, Category:United States law
Long-term:
- Green Lantern: Rebirth. Someday I'd like this article to follow in SCW's footsteps.
- Green Lantern: The Blackest Night. Same deal as Rebirth, except I've got a whole year to wait before I can even start.
- 2008 Nevada budget crisis. Exactly as cheery as it sounds.
Very long-term:
- There are a ton of events on the near-horizon for which Wikipedia as a whole needs to prepare:
Barack Obama's inauguration as president and the swearing-in of his cabinet and administration should be addressed.The Cabinet officers themselves will need to be updated and infoboxed.- Obama's appointment of almost 200 new Ambassadors will require writing dozens of new articles, as well as the updating of our existing lists and succession boxes.
The 111th United States Congress will soon be in session. Updating the lists of Senators and Representatives by state, updating succession boxes and if need be writing new articles for new members is a priority.- The 2010 United States Census will change the basic demographic information of almost 30,000 incorporated and unincorporated communities. A bot should be created to update our thousands of U.S. city and town articles when the census data becomes available in 2010.
Constant:
- Category:Uncategorized pages et al. Continually monitoring this and categorizing the articles in it consists of the bulk of my contributions.
- Wikipedia:Vital articles. I like to keep this up to date.
When I feel like it:
Completed:
- Sinestro Corps War. My first FA and GA!
Articles I wish were FAs:
- Library of Congress, Library of Constantinople, Library of Alexandria and British Library.
- President of the United States, Leader of the Free World.
- Zhou Enlai, British Empire.
- Saladin, Umayyad Caliphate, Abbasid Caliphate, Fatimid Caliphate, Ottoman Empire.
- Patrick Fitzgerald
- Library, Museum, Archive
- Architect of the Capitol, Librarian of Congress, Archivist of the United States, Treasurer of the United States, Comptroller General of the United States, Postmaster General of the United States, Public Printer of the United States, Surgeon General of the United States, Attorney General of the United States.
- Diplomacy, History
To create
- Sixteen Principles of Urbanism, Machine Aesthetic, Marxist art theory, Totalitarian art, Totalitarian architecture, Industrial meteorology, etc.
- Decolonization of Asia, United States in World War I et al.
Handy categorization toolbox
My personal tools for categorization.
Categories to monitor
Official policies
Valuable essays
- Precedent-setting debates
- Categories versus lists
- Paris is in France and The Pope is Catholic, about global perspective.
Other things
Articles created
People
Henry Richard Abadie, Saunders Alexius Abbott, George Robert Aberigh-Mackey, John Worthington Adams, John Cartier (DYK).
Other
Czarevich (Fabergé egg) (DYK), Karelian Birch (Fabergé egg) (DYK), International reaction to the 2008 Kosovo declaration of independence, Napoleonic (Fabergé egg), North American Union, Sinestro Corps War, Street money (DYK).
DYK
--Zzyzx11 (Talk) 22:14, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
- Mailer Diablo 19:08, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
--Daniel Case (talk) 15:49, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
Congrats, but please learn to Archive. Pretty please? --Bedford 05:19, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
Fascinating articles
15th Arizona Territorial Legislature, Animal rights in Nazi Germany, Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, Battle of Adwa, Beijing Weather Modification Office, Burj Dubai, Celebratory gunfire, Chris Levesque, Cod War, Drake's Drum, Edisonade, Franz Stephani, Great Hall of the People, Hamilton Disston, Iron harvest, John Lerew, Lincoln's Lost Speech, Operation Downfall, Operation Wrath of God, Joshua A. Norton, Mehran Karimi Nasseri, Mike the Headless Chicken, Multi-Touch Collaboration Wall, Roy Bean, Socialist realism in Poland, Jan Smuts, User:PericlesofAthens' entire Song Dynasty series, Stalag fiction, Tibet during the Ming Dynasty, Tsutomu Yamaguchi, Viking funeral.
- Alan Clark, Just watch me, Shawinigan Handshake.
- Invictus, Pioneers! O Pioneers!.
- Prime Minister of the United States, Leader of the Free World.
- Outline of the Post-War New World Map, UK Space Agency.
Battles named after countries
This is for my own curiosity: Battle for Australia, Battle of Belgium, Battle of Britain, Battle of France, Battle of Gabon, Battle of Greece, Battle of Madagascar, Battle of the Netherlands, Battle of Singapore.
Battles of macro-historical importance
Battle of Talas (Eastern advance of the Islamic caliphate halted by Tang Dynasty, Chinese paper technology spread to Middle East and West), Battle of Ain Jalut (Furthest advance of Mongols in the Middle East), Battle of Adwa (Ethiopia's victory over Italy make it only African country to not be colonized), Battle of Tsushima (Japan defeats Russia and becomes a great power).
Recognition
The Working Man's Barnstar | ||
I, Slash, hereby grant you this shiny picture for your work in Category:Uncategorized. {Slash-|-Talk} 06:50, 7 March 2007 (UTC) |
The Working Man's Barnstar | ||
I, Arknascar44 do so humbly grant you this Working Man's Barnstar for your contributions in Categorization. In my mind, that's hard labor that needs to be recognized more often. 19:08, May 28, 2007 (UTC) |
The Surreal Barnstar | ||
I hereby award you the The Surreal Barnstar for your tireless improvements on Accession of Turkey to the European Union. -- Cat chi? 07:00, 4 July 2007 (UTC) |
The Original Barnstar | ||
You get to Bill Day for Delegate - Virginia 31st House of Delegates all 5 seconds before I finish saving by own {{db}} diatribe against it! 68.39.174.238 18:25, 17 July 2007 (UTC) |
The Special Barnstar | ||
The Sinestro Corps War article earned GA status, for which you clearly deserve recognition. For creating it, writing content, editing meticulously, and essentially nursing it into a good article, I would like to present you this Special Barnstar. Well done! Doczilla (talk) 03:51, 12 February 2008 (UTC) |
The Working Man's Barnstar | ||
For all your work in paring down Vital articles to 1000 entries. Postmodern Beatnik (talk) 21:20, 15 March 2008 (UTC) |
The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar | ||
I, PericlesofAthens, award you, Hemlock Martinis, with this barnstar in a gesture of thanks for your thoughtful award message left on my talk page.Pericles of AthensTalk 20:57, 17 March 2008 (UTC) |