User:Ricky81682

Userboxes en This user is a native speaker of English. This user contributes using Mozilla Firefox. This user has been on Wikipedia for 4 years, and 16 days. This user has been an admin for 2 years, 10 months, and 14 days.

Welcome to my user page. I became an administrator on December 30, 2005. If you need any administrator-related assistance, feel free to leave a message on my talk page.

Personal

Personally, I like Wikipedia more as a great organizational source than really as an informational source. You can find most of this information anywhere, but there's few places where all this stuff is connected. (See Six degrees of separation, Wikipedia style).

Parody

Similar to how Nirvana felt that they had "made it" after Weird Al recorded "Smells Like Nirvana" (parodying "Smells Like Teen Spirit"), I believe the Wikipedia has made it when The Onion satirizes it. Interestingly enough, The Onion's satire involves "Weird Al" too.

Wiki work

You can see all my contributions here. Most of the contributions are minor, as it's mostly correcting links. Judging by the fact that most of the things I'm listing here are stubs really, my standards are still quite low for mention. Most of the time, I find some section of articles that need work and clean an array of articles over a period of time. As an aside, when I'm creating articles (or am basically the second person looking at an article), I like make breaks after each sentence to made it easier to review edits.

My first edit here on October 28, 2004:

I also created the same username on the Simple English Wikipedia.

Started

I've started the following pages:

Law School Admissions Council (my first true contribution), Bagdad (movie), Shock (movie), Vincenzo Viviani, the Antonio da Sangallo disambiguation page, Governors of Mississippi Winthorp Sargent and John J. Pettus, Contaminated haemophilia blood products (needs a better name!), Theophilus Thompson, William H. Reynolds, and Charles Thomas Bolton.

I've also created and populated categories for Category:Blade: The Series and characters.

Haven't really created a lot.

To do

• AFD Yetisports ?
• Check on Category:PD tag needs updating
• If Image:Somchai Wongsawat.jpg is deleted per discussion, go see User talk:Rootje and remove the rest.
• If Template:Population_of_Japan/Aichi is deleted per this discussion, go through Category:Population of Japan.
• If Image:Suchart Thadathamrongvej.jpg is deleted per this discussion, checked Template:Cabinet of Thailand.

Categories

• Split Category:Cycle manufacturers into subcats by countries.
• Clean up Category:Politics by year.

Articles

• Create The Musalman [1] [2] [3], aXXo [4] [5]
• Update and move details from Contaminated haemophilia blood products to Canada, Japan, and France articles.

• Template:Citation style.

• Category:Publicity photographs with missing fair-use rationale
• Category:Public domain unless fair use images
• Category:Non-free images lacking article backlink
• Category:Images without source

• Be careful what you wish for.

For reference

• Search for links in Wikipedia
• Special:Random/Image to get random images.
• Check Image:Example.jpg in case people accidentally insert it somewhere.
• Warning templates
• Category:Candidates for speedy deletion
• Category:Requests for unblock
• Category:Wikipedia protected edit requests
• /sandbox

Events in Wikilife

• I just wanted to mention this Orkut chaos from a while back. There's others so I'll add to this eventually.
• This summary should suffice.

Licensing