User:Paulmcdonald

My Favorite Portals: College football  • Food  • Kansas  • National Register of Historic Places  • Scouting  • World War I  • World War II Paul McDonald's User Page This editor is a Senior Editor III and is entitled to display this Rhodium Editor Star. This editor is a Yeoman Administrator and is entitled to display this Bronze Service Badge. Paul D. McDonald, MBA, DTM, and Labutnum of the Encyclopedia, (born July 19, 1968)*, is a speaker, writer, and consultant. Paul earned a Master of Business Administration from Keller Graduate School of Management in Chicago, Illinois and a Bachelor of Arts in Physics from Southwestern College. He also earned an Associate of Arts from Cloud County Community College as well as completed additonal coursework at Kansas State University, Missouri Western State University, and Harper College. I became a Wikipedia:Administrator on May 6, 2013. You can read the escapades here. You are invited to: Browse this page and learn more about some of my favorite Wikipedia pages and articles I am involved in Collaborate on articles in progress in my userspace Leave me a message I promise to read it! View or award me a Barnstar I like barnstars... Review my userboxes They are fun, but also take up a lot of space... Count my edits it's a fun page but doesn't mean as much as some think it does. *When I'm dead, I wonder who is going to change this? If you need administrative help, plesae feel free to leave a message on my talk page. The bulk of my administrative actions include non-controversial cleanup--what we affectionately call the "mop and bucket" actions. When I have time, I participate in administrative-related discussions. I don't always get things right, but I'm confident with our team of administrators we will get to what is right through discussions and listening. VEPaulmcdonald does not support VisualEditor's WYSIWYG appearance. Featured articles Front Page Feature Wikipedia main page screenshot, evening of December 23, 2015, Central time zone (US). Note featured article of William Wurtenburg in top left hand column. The Wikipedia main page featured William Wurtenburg on December 24, 2015. This was an article I originally created on June 16, 2008. Thanks to all Wikipedia editors including @A Texas Historian:, @Jweiss11:, and others who also helped improve it. The article as it exists now looks so much better than what I made. I created the original article on June 16, 2008 as a part of a campaign to complete articles for every head football coach for United States Naval Academy. Coach Wurtenburg was head coach for the 1894 season and led the team to a record of 4 wins, 1 loss, and 2 ties. Their only loss that year was to Pennsylvania who ended the season as undefeated national champions. As you can tell by visiting the article page now, it has been greatly enhanced to include his coaching at Dartmouth and his time as a player at Yale where he was a part of the 1887 National Championship team, finishing with a record of 9 wins and 0 losses. After coaching, he became an official for college football. Around 1904, Wurtenburg began pursuing a career as a physician. He set up a medical office near his house in New Haven, Connecticut, and became an ear, nose and throat specialist where he lived until his death in 1957. It's truly rewarding to see an article that I started end up on the Wikipedia main page! Woo-hoo!!! Media of the Day Wikimedia MOTD September 17, 2015 A video I posted was declared Wikimedia's "Media of the Day" on September 17, 2015. Watch closely as the cheese monger at Whole Foods Market in Overland Park, Kansas cracks open a wheel of Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese on March 9, 2013 (part of a 2013 world record attempt by Whole Foods Market). I recorded this video on March 9, 2013 and posted it the next day. It was a recording of one location where Whole Foods Market was attempting (and I believe succeeded) in setting a world record for the most number of Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese at the same time. They were attempting this feat by using multiple stores and locations across their service footprint. The best part was that we all got to sample! Current projects Here's a list of my current active projects. Feel free to pitch in! Football coaches 2022 Kansas State Wildcats football team List of Tabor Bluejays head football coaches List of Friends Falcons head football coaches List of College of Emporia Fighting Presbies head football coaches (check for correct name) source Previous project proposal Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Wikipedia editor business card project not created College Football Michael Norman Gardner (born March 9, 1967, in Roeland Park, Kansas) is currently the coach at Tabor College in Hillsboro, Kansas. Having left Tabor for Malone in 2006, Gardner was chosen to replace Mike Gottsch after Tabor's winless 2009 season. Mike played college football for NAIA school Baker University in Baldwin City, Kansas from 1986 to 1990, where he held a school record 53 yard field goal that was broken in 2007. He was an All-American each of his last three years at Baker Gardner served as the Defensive Coordinator at Tabor from 2001 to 2003 and helped guide the Bluejays to their first-ever NAIA national playoff appearance in 2003 and a #15 NAIA national ranking. He was named the AFCA NAIA Assistant Coach of the Year and the AFLAC Assistant Coach of the Year for the 2003 season. His 2003 defense ranked 11th in the final NAIA statistics while his 2002 team ranked an impressive second overall. In 2005, Gardner was named Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference "Co-Coach" of the year along with Saint Mary coach Lance Hinson. As a player, Gardner was a three-time NAIA All-American and a four-time All-Conference selection while at Baker University (KS) and he played for a national championship in 1986. He has been involved in 10 national playoff games as a player and eight as a coach and his 2005 Tabor squad won its first-round playoff contest. Read more... Kansas Mark R. Treaster is a Democratic former member of the Kansas House of Representatives and businessman. He served the Kansas 104th district from 2004-2008. In 2012, he ran for a seat in the Kansas Senate. While in the state house, he served on the House Transportation Committee. Read more... Other fun stuff A football team in a huddle The football team at Oregon Agricultural College was one of the very first schools nationally to use the huddle formation in a game. It happened against the University of Washington in Seattle during the 1918 season. Head coach Bill Hargiss instructed the starters that once they returned to the field, they were to stand 10 yards behind the ball before the beginning of each play and whisper to one another what they were going to do next. An eyewitness to the game was veteran Seattle sports columnist Royal Brougham, whose stories of the contest give testimony today to the program's early use of this pioneering new formation. Others trace the huddle to the 1890s in Gallaudet College. Learn more... Collaborate... Ward A. Wescott was an American football player and coach. Wescott played for the Oconto, Wisconsin town team in 1895 and played a game against the team that would become the Green Bay Packers. Wescott was both a player and trainer, receiving accolades for his abilities to teach the game as well as to play. Wescott was the second head college football coach for the Carroll College (Wisconsin) Pioneers located in Waukesha, Wisconsin and he held that position for the 1896 season. Preliminary reports predicted a "lively" season. Wescott's career coaching record at Carroll College was 5 wins, 3 losses, and 2 ties. This ranks him 17th at Carroll College in total wins and 12th at Carroll College in winning percentage. Wescott's players were predicted as promising before the season began. Controversy was stirred up after a game against Milwaukee East High School on October 17, 1896. Carroll won the game 4-0, but the oppossing team disputed the result. The next season's game was cancelled because Carroll was regularly using "ringers" or players that were brought in to the team from outside the school specifically to win games. Collaborate on full article... Selected picture Cravath Hall at Fisk University Did You Know? A fact from Jake High appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on June 20, 2010. Wikibooks Football coaches of the past A collection of college football coaches and the unique information about them Fighting Presbies Football The Rich History of the College of Emporia Football Team KCAC Football the past and hard-hitting present WikiConCordia A collection of articles on Wikipedia that involve Concordia, Kansas Essays Essays in Mainspace General essays Wikipedia:Quote your own essay Editors should feel free to quote their own essay in AFD discussions. Wikipedia:Confusing arguments mean nothing Be clear and state your point. Wikipedia:WP Athlete is not exclusionary Abraham Lincoln doesn't meet WP:ATHLETE, but that's no reason to delete the article! Wikipedia:Avoid repeated arguments During AfD discussions, don't be Bugs and Daffy Wikipedia:Counting and sorting are not original research Wikipedia:Discriminate vs indiscriminate information discusses the difference between "indiscriminate" and "discriminate" collections of information as it applies to the policy at WP:IINFO. Wikipedia:Encourage full discussions If someone makes an argument in an AfD, it's okay if someone else responds to it. WP:KOOLAID Don't drink the consensus Kool-Aid Wikipedia:Liar Liar Pants on Fire During AfD discussions, please provide information instead of calling editors a liar or mis-informed: bring the truth, not the accusation. Wikipedia:Nothing A response to the WP:EVERYTHING argument Wikipedia:Pocket Consensus An essay about specialist topic consensus Wikipedia:Read the Source Be sure to read the source first before discussing it. Wikipedia:Try another wiki An essay about finding an appropriate home for articles that may not be right for Wikipedia. Wikipedia:User pages make great bookmarks An essay to help teachers and presenters use Wikipedia for live lesson plan and presentation navigation. Wikipedia:Relisting can be abusive Re-listing is not a method of crying "sour grapes" Wikipedia:Oh, Well Sometimes you should just shrug and move on. Wikipedia:What is and is not routine coverage Make sure you understand the meaning of WP:ROUTINE before applying it to everything. Wikipedia:Unopposed AFD discussion An unopposed AFD discussion should never be closed as "keep" Wikipedia:Wikipedia does or does not need that article Wikipedia doesn't "need" any article... Wikipedia:Do not confuse stub status with non-notability Stub articles are okay. Wikipedia:But I'm an Administrator! being a Wikipedia administrator doesn't make them right. Wikipedia:A weak personal attack is still wrong any personal attack--no matter how light or severe--is wrong. Wikipedia:Profanity, civility, and discussions Don't cuss on talk pages. Please. Wikipedia:Let's try to avoid using too many acronyms, okay? or as I like to say, WP:LTTAUTMAOK Wikipedia:Inconsistent enforcement just because there is inconsistent enforcement of a rule doesn't make the rule wrong. Wikipedia:All Five Pillars are the same height Wikipedia has its fundamental principles, called the Wikipedia:Five pillars. No one pillar is more important than another. Wikipedia:Keep discussions focused Discussion topics (AFD, talk pages, etc.) should focus on the question at hand and not become a forum for a larger topic. College football project essays Wikipedia:WikiProject College football/Write a football game summary Basic guidelines for creating game summaries in college football related articles Wikipedia:WikiProject College football/Images Comprehensive guidelines for images in the college football project Wikipedia:WikiProject College football/Notability Comprehensive notability guidelines for the college football project Wikipedia:WikiProject College football/Please Refrain from Spamming History AfDs during the season An essay resulting from a large amount of historical deletion nominations during the season. Hey, we're busy here! Wikipedia:WikiProject College football/Reliable Sources Comprehensive guidelines for reliable sources in the college football project Wikipedia:WikiProject College football/West precedent A discussion about a specific series of articles deleted en masse -- I believe inappropriately. Essays in Userspace Mc-Mac Opposition Essay Lists List of defunct colleges and universities in Kansas List of college football coaches with 200 career wins List of college football coaches with 100 career losses List of college football coaches with 20 career ties List of college football coaches with 0 career wins List of college football coaches with 30 seasons List of college football coaches with a .750 winning percentage List of college football head coaches with non-consecutive tenure List of historically significant college football games List of Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference people Wikiprojects Wikipedia:WikiProject College football Wikipedia:WikiProject Big 12 Conference Wikipedia:WikiProject National Register of Historic Places Wikipedia:WikiProject Kansas Wikipedia:WikiProject Parliamentary Procedure Wikipedia:WikiProject PipeOrgan Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals Wanna help? Wanna help source some college football BLP's? Wanna help resurrect some deleted articles? Wanna catch up on football-related deletion reviews or Kansas deletion reviews? Wanna review my pages edited? Wanna collaborate on the User:Paulmcdonald/Mc-Mac Opposition Essay? Wanna see what's in my sandbox? Wanna see a full list of my user pages (plus some others that sneak through on the search)? Wanna discuss semi-pro football notability? Wanna write a football game summary? Personal facts Resident of Kansas Former resident of Illinois Traveled to Mexico,Canada, Australia, and Fiji Active in Toastmasters International and National Association of Parliamentarians Played Tuba in the Kansas State University Marching Band Earned Eagle Scout in Boy Scouts of America and currently a Sea Scout Skipper Enjoy Barbecue and cooking References Unlike traditional portals, I feel compelled to list references for the stories displayed, if any exist.