User:MrDolomite

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This user is a citizen of the United States of America.

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en	This user is a native speaker of English.

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Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau élémentaire de français.

X	This user is a member of Generation X.

This user remembers how to use a typewriter, and that's all you need to know.

This user is from the State of Michigan.

This user is interested in his or her family history.

This user is of Polish ancestry.

This user is of Ukrainian ancestry.

This user is of Czech ancestry.

This user is of Slovak ancestry.

This user is a Leo.

鼠

This user was born in the year of the Rat.

This user is a Roman Catholic.

BCS

This user has a Bachelor of Computer Science degree.

ISTJ

This user's MBTI type is ISTJ.

This user wears corrective eyeglasses or contact lenses, without which they'd be blind as a bat!

This user is nearsighted.

This user grew up in the suburbs.

This user has visited 22 of the 50 States and the District of Columbia.

Car Stuff

SRT-6

This user drives a Chrysler Crossfire SRT-6.

Interests

This user loves Australian Shepherds.

FS	This user is a fan of Frank Sinatra.

HIS

This user's favourite subject is History.

Computer Stuff

CL	This user can program in AS/400 Control Language.

RPG

This user can program in AS/400 Report Program Generator.

OS/400

This user uses the OS/400 operating system.

This user still uses
a Commodore 64.

This user is a computer system administrator.

This user has a dual monitor configuration.

TPAD

This user contributes using Textpad.

Games

This user plays 8-ball.

This user plays with a full deck.

This user is a BoardGameGeek.

CoH

This user protects Paragon City, the City of Heroes.

Entertainment

Who

This user knows Who's on First.

HNIC

This user believes that Saturday night is supposed to be "Hockey Night"

H	This user knows It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies.

NCIS

This user deserves a smack upside the head.

DJ	This user wishes they had a Dirty Job.

This user rejects your reality and substitutes his or her own!

fan
trekkie
trekker

This user is a Star Trek fan, but refuses to be labeled as a Trekkie/Trekker.

TDS

This user watches the most trusted name in fake news.

TCR

This user wants you to know that you're on notice.

fan-2

This user is a big fan of the comedian Dennis Leary.

fan-2

This user is a big fan of the comedian Lewis Black.

DIP

This user did not want to be Drunk In PUB-LIC.

Clue

This user killed Yvette. This user hated her... so... much... It- It... the f-- It... Flame... Flames. Flames... On the side of my face... Breathing... Breathle-- Heaving breaths... Heaving...

This user would shoot Greedo first.

IMF

This user is gonna need some anti-freeze.

Online Stuff

This user contributes using Mozilla Firefox.

G	This user uses Google as a primary search engine.

This user loves using Google Earth.

Y!	This user uses Yahoo! Mail as a primary email service.

This user uses Pidgin to chat on AIM, IRC, and other networks.

WikiProjects

This user is a member of the Military history WikiProject.

This user is a member of the Michigan WikiProject.

This user is a member of WikiProject Ice Hockey.

This user is a member of
WikiProject Orders, Decorations, and Medals

This user is a member of WikiProject Automobiles.

Wikistuff

This user thinks that registration should be required to edit articles.

. T

This user puts two spaces after a full stop.

~~... in.~~

Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which this user will not put.

"…"

This user favours typewriter style quotation marks over typographic ones.

snuk

This user says snuck.

SI-0

This user thinks the metric system is bureaucratic and inhuman and will think in Fahrenheit until he/she dies.

~~del~~

This user is a Wikipedia deletionist.

This user is a WP:SCHOOL deletionist.

merge

This user is a Wikipedia mergist.

This user finds copyright paranoia disruptive.

This user believes that articles are useless without images.

This user believes that process is important on Wikipedia and is opposed to its circumvention.

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ads

This user is against advertisements on Wikipedia.

~~vanity~~

This user supports the removal of Vanity pages with extreme prejudice.

Info
Box

This user believes that all articles should have an infobox.

aBc

This user prefers that all categories and stubs be placed in alphabetical order.

This user is a WikiGnome.

This user repairs links to disambiguation pages - you can help!

This user scored 520.325 on the Are You a Wikipediholic Test.

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This userpage has been vandalized 1 time.

It's a user page. w00t.

[edit] Current stuff on my radar

[edit] Stuff on the radar but fading

[edit] Things I Can't Seem To Remember

Bullets Interpunct#Similar_symbols
WP:CUTS, WP:SHORT and WP:KB and WP:FOOT
WP:AIV for vandals, not WP:ANI
CAT:SDT
Wikipedia:Template messages
{{Otheruses templates}}
{{intro length}} and [[Category:Wikipedia introduction cleanup]]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Meta:Sandbox&action=edit&section=new
Wikipedia:Interwikimedia link
[[Category:Law citation templates]]
{{User reply}}
Meta:Help:Category#Sort order
WP:VSCA
User:Dragons flight/AFD summary
all about WP:foo
Wikipedia:Template messages - the grid list
Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace - has the vandal warnings
Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup - has advert, music-importance, cleanup-school
Wikipedia:Welcome_template_table
Wikipedia:Assume good faith - ok, I know what good faith is, I just can't remember where we keep it :-)
Wikipedia:Guide to layout - various wikisyntax, markup and templates
Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style - no it's not the Cindy Crawford House of Style, you goof
Wikipedia:Categorization#Other_requirements
[[Category:Internal_link_templates]]
List of stubs
Wikipedia:Category deletion policy
meta:Interwiki map and meta:Help:Interwiki linking
Wikipedia:WikiProject_Computer_and_video_games#Scope_of_information
Wikipedia:Schools/Arguments and User:Idont_havaname/Wikiphilosophies#Schools and Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Precedents and User:Idont Havaname/Wikiphilosophies
Wikipedia:Fancruft
User:Cyde/Ref converter and WP:FOOT
Meta:Help:Magic_words
Meta:Help:Table and Table (HTML) and Meta:MediaWiki flexer
End of Rant and another End of Rant
dots
HTML reference
meta:Interwiki

[edit] Things I put here to work on later

[edit] Stuff on the top of the pile

Add this to Public Health Service Commissioned Corps
Oldest NHL players
Comerica bank timeline
Oh, is Wikipedia:WikiProject Countries/Footers in need of heavy gnoming

[edit] WP:CARS

Mitsubishi Starion fix the Chrysler / Dodge / Plymouth templates to be the same
Template:GM platforms make a navbox, not a list

[edit] Things I Have Learned About

Can you tell I just learned about Wikipedia:Userboxes? -- 00:40, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
Ooh, today I learned about {{Userboxtop}} -- 15:31, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
Table of Contents, including forcing of -- 01:44, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
Signatures and how to customize them and colors and hex color codes. -- 22:08, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
run off voting
{{Mediterranean}} with hide and v.d.e buttons.

[edit] Things I found on wikipedia that I didn't know had articles

Brion of Gwynedd and [[Category:Deryni series]]
Atomic chess
Ivan Turgenev and The Last Ship
ICD, this would have saved me lots of head scratching ;)
Phèdre nó Delaunay and [[Category:Kushiel's Legacy]]
Wikipedia:Facebook
[[Category:Sports uniforms]]

[edit] Things which have articles on wikipedia that probably shouldn't

Not intended to be an exhaustive list, just random ones I have stumbled across

Harry Potter fandom - seems WP is not a blog, but I'm not going to stick my muggle nose in there.
Smosh, see also Talk:Smosh, AfD Smosh, [5], [6]

[edit] Things that rock for a thousand, Alex

What is a way to perform Wikipedia searches from the Firefox toolbar?
What is a script to edit an article intro, before the TOC? - Kudos to Pile0nades
What is a script to view wikisource so one does not make an accidental edit? - Kudos to Misza13
What is a script to overcome my time math deficiency? - Kudos to Where

[edit] Things to send in the gnomes

CPU power dissipation to wikitable all sections
[[Category:Korean rulers]] to have birth and death years
List of pre-statehood governors of California - from Andrés Pico backwards
Illinois State Senators to add {{Illinois-politician-stub}} if needed
{{PRResidentComm}} - ~~modified template, verified Resident Commissioners of Puerto Rico~~, check all for succession boxes
~~[[Category:2000s in sports]]~~ and [[Category:1990s in sports]] to check for alpha cat sorts
Heavy Gnoming required for [[Category:United_States_Governors_navigational_boxes]]

Completed up to {{CAGovernors}}

[[Category:1920s]], ~~[[Category:1920]]~~ thru ~~[[Category:1924]]~~
Academy_Awards#Academy_Award_statistics
~~Wikipedia:Disambiguation_pages_with_links~~ screwed until the extract is updated [7]
{{Sequence}} migrate to {{start box}} {{succession}} {{end box}}

[edit] Stuff the gnomes have finished

Slackers!

[edit] Stuff I Need to Learn More About

[edit] Did you know ...

... that it is possible for non-sysop to semi-protect a page? [8]

This method is based on last week's "did you know" about protecting unborn articles (see link below). If you "transclude" pages you would like to protect (including them as templates) on a page that is semi-protected with the 'cascading protection' option enabled, they will be automatically protected from edits by non-sysops.

Because the semi-protected page can be edited by almost all users, most editors can protected pages.

For example, make a page like Wikipedia:Non-sysop protected pages, with semi-protection and cascading protection. An editor adds the "Foobar" article with {{:Foobar}}. The article Foobar is now fully protected (not only semi-protected, as would be expected).

When this system is used, the semi-protected page (in the example, Wikipedia:Non-sysop protected pages) will become very large if many pages are included in it.

This type of protection is not listed in the block logs, and this behaviour may change in the future. Although it is probably not a good idea to use this system, at least now you know that it is possible.

[edit] Stop

WP:UTM
~~Wikipedia:Template doc page pattern~~
Wikipedia:Image copyright tags/Displayed and ranked
{{UserTools}}
Wikipedia:Template namespace
Wikipedia:User page and subpages
The Werdnabot talk page archiver and how it works, like on Kimchi.sg's page.
Timeline boxes like on Wikipedia:Esperanza#Leadership and [[Category:Graphical timelines]] and even cooler ones at http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/ and http://simile.mit.edu/wiki2/Timeline
Calendar table boxes like on Wikipedia:Esperanza/Calendar
newest edit counter
~~An old edit counter~~ & another edit counter & another one & edit summary counter
http://tools.wikimedia.de/%7Emathbot/wp/rfa/edit_summary.html
Copyright templates for military images like {{PD-USGov-Military-Marines}} vs {{PD-USGov-Military-Navy}} on [[Category:Image copyright tags]].
Succession boxes look [[Category:Succession_templates]] and WP:WkProj Succ Box Std
{{Fooian_fooers}} and how it works with WP:Cats and subcats and WP:How to subcat
Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts and the Tutorial and the AutoAFD one
Meta:Help:User style
User:Essjay/Skins
Some of the discussions on User_talk:The_Epopt and [9]
History timelines like here and here
Read more in the link tree from User:Kelly_Martin#On_leaving
{{familytree}} like on The family of Humfrey of Xanth and User:Nephron/Notes and Template_talk:Blackfamilytree#Dimensions and List of Dragonlance deities
Wikipedia:Deletion_policy
Wikipedia:Process_is_important
Wikipedia:WikiProject Turnkey Project
{{Tnavbar}} with the show/hide and v-d-e buttons.
Wikipedia:Welcoming committee
wikiqueries
Wikipedia:Transclusion_costs_and_benefits
WP:IF
Wikipedia_talk:Template_namespace#transcluding_prose
{{Infobox_Conditionals}}
Wikimedia:Help:Table
Wikimedia:Help:Namespace
Wikimedia:Help:Interwiki linking
Wikimedia:Template:Wikivar
Wikipedia:WikiProject_Laundromat
Scratchpad Wiki Labs
sigs and here too here and here
WB-l:Removal of CVG walkthrus and WB:Talk:CVG content
{{NavigationBox}} {{Tnavbar}}
hide/show like on this card
regex and its use with WP:AWB
User:Eagle_101/WikiDiscussion_Manager
Help:External editors and Meta:Help:External editors
The navbar box buttons on Wikipedia:Good articles
<noinclude> tagging like [10]
Scroll boxes like this
Categorization trees [11]
[12]
User:Dragons flight/Category tracker
[13]
User:Adam1213/warnv for cool input boxes
WP:ILIKEIT
[[14]] and special pages there too

[edit] Running your own wiki

[edit] Things I Admire about fellow Wikipedians

BEEFSTEW notability criteria for schools by Dpbsmith
Why cruft is bad for wikipedia by Friday
Things I noticed as a n00b wikipedian that were already listed by BD2412 as Wiki-Hell
How to Triage new articles by Uncle G
User:Redvers/Your band & User:Redvers/Your article
Wikipedia:Spam_Event_Horizon
User:Deathphoenix#When a vote is not a vote aka "!vote"
User name policy at MuppetWiki and at wikia

[edit] Quotes

[edit] Wikirelated

We are a massively powerful text generation engine. People have to drop the idea that every little tidbit is precious. Crap is crap. Yank it.

~ Jimbo Wales on the wikien-l mailing list on May 19, 2006

At some point it becomes foolish for the WP community to continue assuming good faith...

~ Doc Tropics during an RfC on July 22, 2006

Figure out the best way to include/reference Cyde's comments

[edit] Classic

In war, there is no substitute for victory.

~ General of the Army Douglas MacArthur in his farewell address to a Joint Session of Congress on April 19, 1951

[edit] Fictional

I love it when a plan comes together.

~ George Peppard as Col. John "Hannibal" Smith of The A Team

No matter where you go, there you are.

~ Peter Weller as Buckaroo Banzai of The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension

~ Dedication plaques of USS Excelsior, USS Hathaway and USS Phoenix of Star Trek

The point is, there is one bullet left in this gun and guess who's gonna get it?

~ Lesley Ann Warren as Miss Scarlet in Clue

Happens, shit does.

~ Yoda on himself from Unquotable

[edit] Wisdom from

As long as you learn something every day, you can go home...

The trick is to learn something early.

~ MrDolomite, c. 1994

Great minds think alike...

And fools seldom differ

~ ACO Pat, c. 1993

99% of all Trivial Pursuit questions can be answered with either...

...Yes, Green, John F. Kennedy or Chicago

~ Mr. Dolomite, c. 1980s

[edit] Fictional places I'd like to visit

Suburban Mongolia, which is, ironically, a suburb between Inner Mongolia and Outer Mongolia
Border of Absurd, a place where many XfD discussions seem to head towards

[edit] See also

[edit] Categories

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