User:Danielfolsom/Happyness

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[edit] Pages I'm Proud Of

These are pages I significantly contributed.

• 2004 NBA Finals - holy crap I worked hard on this one :-D. I found this article when looking through some of the backlogs, it was listed under Category:Articles with unsourced statements. After examining the article, while it had only been cited for one unsourced statement, it turned out that (in my opinion) near the entire thing violated WP:NPOV. I went through it all and found sources (most official sources offered by nba.com - the official site of the NBA) and rephrased POV statements (like incredible). While there may still be work to be done, in my opinion, it was a start.

• • What I Did

• (Wikipedia:Requested_templates - holy crap, this one took twice as long as the above. For this I completely reworked the archival system. I was somewhat afraid of the current system - which had the lifespan simmilar to that of a goldfish (they were three categories - templates created or updated, rejected due to prior existance or not updated, and other - and eventually these categories would become huge and unorganizable (due to time - which I sadly found out was pretty much already the case). First I created a new page called unclassified. In order to keep the main page clear, Werdna bot would move all request to that page if they were not touched for 30 days. This is a more efficient system than the prior, because before the page would rely on users to clean the userpage - which was not done amazingly often given the frequency of request, and thus the page became cluttered. Now an unclassified page will become cluttered instead. The next thing I did was set up a time system for each of the three aforementioned pages. I did it by year - and then, as I sorted through the overcrowded aforementioned pages, I would add months accordingly by the first date given (in hindsight it may have been better to create all the months, and then just selectively copy and paste). Then, even if there was nothing to go in the current month, I would add the current month (February) - just in case.