User:Wrp103
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My name is Bill Pringle. I work for Unisys Corporation as a software engineer, and I also teach part time at Penn State Great Valley campus, where I have a web site that has sample programs that can be used by my students and others.
I also run a web site for singer/songwriter Cheryl Wheeler.
I have interests in computers, music, video games (mostly console-based RPGs), math, and religion. My PSU web site has more information about all of these areas.
I have been enjoying learning lots of stuff while working on the Wiki Syntax Project
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[edit] Major Areas of Contributions
My contributions to Wikipedia have touched on all of the above topics, including:
Music:
- Cheryl Wheeler - most of the content
- Johnny Clegg (musician) - added reasonable content
- Bruce Cockburn - various contributions
- Music of Bulgaria - section on folk dances
- Folk dancing - I created this page.
Programming:
- C programming language - Dynamic arrays and arrays of structures instead of multi-dimensional arrays
- Malloc (C Programming Language) - example of dynamic arrays in C
- Linked list - example of generic linked list & variations
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Computing/Pseudocode - added my two cents several places
- Debugging - I created the Basic Steps section
Religion:
- Edits of several pages regarding various topics about the Mormon Church
Video Games:
Misc.
I monitor changes to various topics of interest to me, including:
[edit] Vandalism
While monitoring pages on my watchlist, I keep an eye out for vandalism. I really don't understand why people would choose to spend time defacing something, but there seem to be a lot of them out there. :-(
In general, if I see somebody that vandalizes one of the pages on my watchlist, I will add a template to their talk page, and usually watch their talk page. If they vandalize too much, then I request that they be blocked. If anyone contributes to a page on my watchlist that doesn't have a talk page (yet), then I will add a welcome message to their talk page as well.
On those rare cases when I have some extra time, I will check the recent changes page.
[edit] Useful Links
Here are some useful links:
- User Warning Templates
- Page to request blocking
- Criteria for speedy delete
- How to mark a page for deletion
[edit] User Talk Page
This section and template should be added to the talk page to create a section for warnings. Warnings should be grouped by months, and the messages should be placed in a numbered list:
==Warnings==
{{subst:s/wnote}}
===April 2007===
[edit] Common Templates
Here are the more common user warning (and welcome) templates. You can copy and paste them into a page. Replace PAGE with the page name that they edited, and N (if present) with a number between 1 and 4, depending on how many times they have vandalized recently.
- {{subst:anon|PAGE}} -- ~~~~
- {{subst:welcome|PAGE}} -- ~~~~
- {{subst:welcomenpov|PAGE}} -- ~~~~
- {{subst:uw-warn|PAGE}} -- ~~~~
- {{subst:uw-testN|PAGE}} -- ~~~~
- {{subst:uw-vandalN|PAGE}} -- ~~~~
- {{subst:uw-deleteN|PAGE}} -- ~~~~
- {{subst:uw-errorN|PAGE}} -- ~~~~
- {{subst:uw-spamN|PAGE}} -- ~~~~
- {{subst:uw-unsourcedN|PAGE}} -- ~~~~
- {{subst:uw-jokeN|PAGE}} -- ~~~~
- {{subst:uw-mosN|PAGE}} -- ~~~~
- {{subst:uw-biogN|PAGE}} -- ~~~~
- {{subst:uw-defamatoryN|PAGE}} -- ~~~~
The welcome templates don't really take a first argument (|PAGE), but I normally include it so that I can tell on what page I first noticed them. (People sometimes ask what prompted my welcome message.)
