User:Idont Havaname

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I joined Wikipedia on 12 Nov 2004 and became an administrator on 6 Jan 2006. On Wikipedia, I've edited a wide variety of articles; take a look at my contributions for what some of those are, or just scroll down for a list of articles to which I've made major contributions. I also participate in articles for deletion and requests for adminship. In addition, as an administrator I roll back vandalism (mainly in recent changes); and I carry out speedy deletions. In addition to my work here, I have user accounts at the Wikiquote, Meta, and the Baseball Wikicity.

For those who are curious about my editing stats, you can see my edit count by entering my user name into Interiot's Tool or Interiot's "Wannabe Kate" tool, and you can also check how I compare to other editors by looking at the list of most active Wikipedians and the list of Wikipedians by number of recent edits. (Though, as some people here have said, "editcountitis can be fatal".)

As of right now, this user page has been vandalized 15 times. Thank you to all who revert vandalism to my user page. :-)

I have been impersonated by Ido Havaname.

Significant contributions[edit]

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I've tried to list these in reverse chronological order (i.e., the newest ones are first).

Original articles[edit]

Articles on the Main Page as part of Did you know?:

Mary Fahl - December 19, 2006
ProSlide - February 24, 2007
Siam Park - January 9, 2008

Stub/substub expansions[edit]

I also expanded a substub article for the band Vomitorial Corpulence, but that article was deleted in an AfD that only got two votes. I had heard of the band, seen that another editor had created a stub about them, and decided to expand the article. (This was on March 22, 2005, so I've had many more edits since that one.)

Other significant expansions[edit]

(Probably not complete)

Zao (US band) - reworked/expanded History section (about 8 paragraphs)
Aníbal Sánchez - not quite done there yet, but I added more about his no-hitter against Arizona and plan to add more sources from prospect reports
Flight of Fear (Paramount's Kings Dominion) - Layout, statistics and awards, and theming sections
Kings Dominion - 12 paragraphs to the History section; history sections for themed areas and attractions

Extensive cleanups[edit]

Caught copyvios[edit]

Due to the nature of copyright violations on Wikipedia, these articles might be deleted and then reappear at some later date. By viewing the deleted edits of an article, you can tell that there was once copyvio on the page. Note that this list was compiled while the {{copyvio}} template was used on all copyvio edits, rather than just pages whose whole history had contained copyright violations. (The new instructions for dealing with copyright violations are located at Wikipedia:Copyright violations#Instructions.)

Edit milestones[edit]

Note: Some of my edits have been deleted since I made them, such as when I listed articles for speedy deletion. These are where the milestones are as of July 28, 2006.

My first edit was voting Keep in Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/List of "You have two cows" jokes on 17:33, 12 November 2004.
My 1000th edit was fixing a line break in George Lambert (VC) on 04:03, 17 February 2005.
My 2000th edit was a vote to Speedy delete at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Phatbarrin on 23:26, 28 June 2005.
My 3000th edit was part of a process to convert Paul Wilson into a disambiguation page on 20:11, 1 September 2005.
My 4000th edit was adding myself to the list of members of the Wikipedia:Forum for Encyclopedic Standards on 21:34, 22 November 2005.
I had 4146 edits when Jaranda nominated me for my request for adminship on 30 December 2005.
My 5000th edit was fixing a double redirect to feel-good story on 00:10, 28 February 2006. (Writing this reminded me to delete the two redirects I had placed to that now-deleted page!)
Writing this list on 19:50, 28 July 2006 (UTC) was my 6000th edit.
My 7000th edit was fixing my signature in this AfD on 22:56, 16 January 2007.
My 8000th edit was changing "EPA" to "Environmental Protection Agency" in Springfield (The Simpsons) on 21:11, 8 June 2008.

Wikiphilosophies[edit]

This section contained a bunch of my thoughts on different issues regarding Wikipedia, both as a whole and in its specific parts. In case you've followed an older link to this section of my user page, I've moved this to User:Idont Havaname/Wikiphilosophies, since it was starting to get long.

My standards for admin candidates and a list of administrators whose candidacies I supported are available here. Additionally, here are my voting standards for the Arbitration Committee elections in December 2006 and December 2007.

Wikimemberships[edit]

Here are a few associations and WikiProjects in which I am involved.

Association of Deletionist Wikipedians, but with caveats
Association of Mergist Wikipedians
Association of Copyright Violation Hunting Wikipedians
Confessed Wikipediholics
Wikipedia:Forum for Encyclopedic Standards
Linkspam Fighting Brigade
Welcoming Committee
WikiProject Countering Systemic Bias
WikiProject Ice Hockey
WikiProject Roller Coasters
I was also a semi-active member of Esperanza before that project was decentralized.

To-do list[edit]

Very few of these ever get done.

Expand Josh Hamilton (baseball player) to include more details about his baseball career
Keep working on Aníbal Sánchez
Stub expansions for Florida Marlins and Washington Capitals players
Add some more sources to the history of Zao (US band)
Perpetual to-do: Wikipedia:Requested articles/sports, mainly the baseball section.

Awards[edit]

Thanks again, ε γκυκλοπαίδεια* 20:53, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

(I got this Barnstar of Diligence during my request for adminship.)