User:Beland
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About me
I am putting myself on a wikidiet, to make more time for important things like finding a new job, moving cross-country, and Pride month. So, I won't be able to get around to feeding my various wiki projects in a timely fashion until sometime in September. But do feel free to leave a note on my user talk page if you'd like to draw my attention to something in particular.
I am expecting to move from San Francisco to Boston in August or September. I am taking digital pictures of San Francisco before I leave. If you have any special requests, no guarantees, but you should probably speak up sooner rather than later. -- Beland 08:24, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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Pearle
I am the owner of Pearle Wisebot. Feel free to leave messages about the behavior of Pearle on my personal talk page.
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Tools
- /workspace
- Dumps (http://download.wikipedia.org)
- Wikipedia:Cleanup_resources
- Wikipedia:Template_messages/Stubs
- Wikipedia:Auto-categorization
- WP:CFD
- Requested maps
- Category:Pearle edits needing manual cleanup
- Wikipedia:LGBT notice board, Wikipedia:WikiProject Sexology and sexuality
Watchlist checked through: end of 31 Jan 2005
- News: Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost
- IRC: irc://us.freenode.org/wikipedia|#wikipedia
- IRC: irc://us.freenode.org/wikipedia|#servmon.wikimedia
- IRC: irc://us.freenode.org/wikipedia|#wikimedia-tech
- WikiWax (http://wikiwax.com/)
| Active Wiki Fixup Projects edit (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Template:Active_Wiki_Fixup_Projects&action=edit) Must be active, systematic, have lists, & need help. |
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| Double redirects - Over 1,100 double redirects have been identified. |
| Transwiki log cleanup - Help resolve the list of articles that have been transwikied to Wikipedia's sister projects. Dictionary definitions, recipes, how-tos, etc. need to be checked for possible merging or deletion. |
| Project Punctuation - Fix missing punctuation at the end of paragraphs. (June 18: 30% complete) |
| Stub sorting - Sort stubs into topical categories so editors can locate and expand stubs on subjects they are interested in. Remove stub notices attached to non-stub articles. |
| Disambiguation pages with links - A fresh project with thousands of high-profile disambiguations to make. |
| Untagged images - Put copyright tags on all images lacking them; second run. 1,937 to go. |
| Image sleuthing - A convivial club investigating the origin and copyright and licence terms for unverified images. |
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Sites
- Wikitravel (http://www.wikitravel.org/)
- b:Wikiversity
- Wikinews:Wikinews:Broadcast
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Todo
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Active collaborations
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CFD Cleanup
Finish implementing this decision (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion/Log/2005_May_16#Category:Wikipedia_style_and_how-to):
- Merge Wikipedia:Substub into Wikipedia:Stub.
- Pull everything appropriate from Category:Wikipedia style and how-to, Category:Wikipedia guidelines (completed S-Z so far), and Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines for a new category, "Category:Wikipedia style guidelines". Make it a subcategory of Category:Wikipedia guidelines.
- Pull everything appropriate from Wikipedia:Style and How-to Directory and Category:Wikipedia help into a new "Category:Wikipedia how-to", with subcategories.
- Delete Category:Wikipedia style and how-to
- Clean up Wikipedia:Style and How-to Directory.
- Wikipedia talk:What is a troll (renaming)
- Implement Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion#Template:Page_fixing_tools as redirect, if approved by Jun 5, UTC.
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More meta
- Wikipedia:Auto-categorization/Wikipedia_namespace
- Needs publicity. Add to current categorization projects, maybe make an announcement. See what currently links to the parent page. Update. Re-add to Template:Active Wiki Fixup Projects.
- User:Sietse_Snel/Fix_common_mistakes
- Internal mergers on Wikipedia:Offline reports; eliminate this page?
- Wikipedia_talk:Bots (Pearle cleanup tagging. Then see Wikipedia:Cleanup to removed already-fixed and move comments to talk pages.)
- WP:B
- Speed limit discussion
- Wikipedia:Cleanup
- Purge Wikipedia:Cleanup/September
- Move to Template:cleanupDate using Pearle
- Constructing new intro text
- See Template_talk:Stub
- Wikipedia:Cleanup_process
- Wikipedia:Cleaning_department
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- Needs publicity or attention from Beland
- WP:CFD
- Periodic cleanup, especially requests for automated moves
- Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/likely is in cold storage.
- AMERICA
- Summarize decisions on Category talk:Ireland and see also Wikipedia:Irish wikipedian's notice board
- Clean up policy on WP:CFD and Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion_phrases and their talk pages.
- Post gender-neutral nominations from Wikipedia talk:Categorization of people.
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Active content collaborations
- [1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Gay%2C_lesbian_or_bisexual_people&from=U)
- Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion#Template:lgbt
- Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Homosexuality_and_morality
- Wikipedia_talk:LGBT_notice_board#Mergers_and_renames
- Talk:Court-packing Bill (Fix effects section)
- Wikipedia_talk:Merge_some_redundant_lists_to_categories
- Separation of church and state (external links, Article Improvement Drive)
- History of science
- Talk:History of sex
- Journalistic ethics and standards, Category:Regional wikipedian notice boards
- Objectivity (journalism) (needs help)
- Category:Orphaned categories
- Homophobia cleanup
- Demographics of sexual orientation and Kinsey Reports cleanup and fact-check.
- Corporate farming (fix NPOV)
- Rural sociology, Demographic history of the United States (fix NPOV)
- Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Grammar - merge templates, change to category listings only?
- Talk:Hard news, soft news, and infotainment
- Talk:Sex_in_advertising#Budweiser_ad
- Talk:Pederasty
- Talk:Journalistic standards and ethics
- Talk:Separation_of_powers#Unsourced_statements
- Wikipedia:WikiProject_Cities
- Need to start implementing proposal
- Need to check if recommended categorization scheme has been implemented.
- Intro texts do not conform to the recommendation. A bot should check all articles in a given category to see if the right phrase and/or links are present.
- Wisconsin towns (townships) are confusing (e.g. Springfield, Wisconsin).
- See Category_talk:Towns_in_Maryland?
- Intro texts do not conform to the recommendation. A bot should check all articles in a given category to see if the right phrase and/or links are present.
- Need to clean up talk page, esp "weird cases" or later
- Need to update status section on main page.
- Need to update status of mapping project
- Template:CDPpreface, Template:UnincorpNotCDP
- city-data.com
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Update once per DB dump
- Wikipedia:Category cleanup
- new-funny-categories.txt
- Category:Orphaned categories
- new-orphaned-categories.txt
- Wikipedia:Auto-categorization (USA state placenames)
- Add suppression feature before uploading next dump
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Science
- Time could use a rewrite to make it flow better
- History of science has growing pains
- Timeline of scientific discoveries and Category:Science timelines
- Science_studies needs a lot of help. It may need a Wikibook project.
- Sociology of scientific knowledge
- Scientific enterprise
- Sociology_of_knowledge
- History_of_science_and_technology - may need inbound links fixed
- Peer-review Scientific_method and read Talk:Scientific_method. Possible merge with Scientific enterprise.
- Scientific_skepticism: Categorize, check for accuracy, NPOV. Add to official list of Controversial topics?
- Check Science
- Basic_theories_of_science
- History of parapsychology - needs NPOV, cleanup
- Talk:Obsolete_scientific_theory#Request_for_obsolete_theories_of_electricity
- Elminate "fluid" metaphor from Electromagnetic field
- E, B -> EMF -> EW -> QED -> Standard Model
- Electromagnetic field should say it's part of electroweak theory and is special relativity-compliant.
- Electric_field should say that it's part of EM/electroweak theory/standard
- Global System for Mobile Communications, GSM core network, and related
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Supreme Court History project
- Reading book on history of the Supreme Court
- May also need to check out the Supreme Court "encyclopedia" book
- Related articles to fix:
- Corporate personhood
- List_of_Justices_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States
- Reconstruction
- Dred_Scott_v._Sandford
- List_of_United_States_Supreme_Court_cases
- Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States
- United States Constitution
- Dormant_Commerce_Clause
- Sixteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution, etc.
- See Lawrence_v._Texas
- Write an article on the Charles River Bridge case, find out more about the history of Charles River crossings.
- Nullum crimen, nulla poena sine praevia lege poenali
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Meta
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Mergers
- Wikipedia_talk:Welcoming_committee - Some pages in Category:Wikipedia basic information could use merging.
- Category:Wikipedia needs cleaning again. Combine things about protected pages.
- Wikipedia:Topical index needs to be converted into category listings.
- Wikipedia:Utilities needs to be reconciled with categories, templates (on User:Beland) and Wikipedia:Community portal.
- Wikipedia:Maintenance could probably use an update. Is it in the most easily maintainable form? Is it redundant with or any other pages? Wikipedia:Nooks and corners of Wikipedia that should be frequented? Templates? What maintenance pages should Wikipedia:Community Portal and Template:Opentask point to?
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Avoidance mergers
- Upgrade Wikipedia:Be cautious with compliments and mass attribution and form consensus
- Wikipedia:Avoid weasel terms -> Wikipedia:Be cautious with compliments and mass attribution
- Wikipedia:Avoid peacock terms -> Wikipedia:Be cautious with compliments and mass attribution
- Wikipedia:Be cautious with compliments and mass attribution -> Wikipedia:Guide to writing better articles (or at least summarize it there)
- Update Wikipedia:Words to avoid
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Talk mergers
- Wikipedia talk:Writers' rules of engagement -> Wikipedia:Wikiquette
- Wikipedia talk:Talk page guidelines -> Wikipedia:Wikiquette, Wikipedia:Talk page
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More
- Coordinate bugs on Wikipedia:Categorization with Wikipedia:Merge some redundant lists to categories.
- Clean Wikipedia:Category_schemes
- Clean Category:Wikipedia proposals
- Post to Wikipedia:WikiProject Categories
- Tidy Wikipedia talk:Categorization and Wikipedia:Categorization
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Religion
- Atheism needs rounding out after it is un-protected.
- Arguments_against_the_existence_of_God and Arguments for the existence of God might be fun to edit.
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Politics
- Peer review UN Reform and later sections of United Nations, possibly organize its talk page
- Check up on Capitalism
- Should the following be merged? United States territorial acquisitions History of United States imperialism Historic regions of the United States
- Colossus: The Price of America's Empire by Niall Ferguson (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1594200130/qid=1088752646/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/104-1665331-9527126)
- Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power by Niall Ferguson (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0465023290/qid=1088752646/sr=2-2/ref=sr_2_2/104-1665331-9527126)
- Note that many modern Americans reject the label "empire/imperialism".
- De-Americanize Separation_of_powers, incorporate comments on the UK. (See section "Other countries").
- Abbreviations and Acronyms of the U.S. Government (http://www.ulib.iupui.edu/subjectareas/gov/docs_abbrev.html)
- Address todo list on Progressivism
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Sexuality
Here are some open WikiProject Sexology and Sexuality tasks:
- Major work needed:
- Articles to write:
- Wikipedia:LGBT_notice_board#Missing_articles
- "Red links" from List of sexology topics.
Feel free to edit this list (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:SexologyTasks&action=edit) or discuss these tasks.
- http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/The_Swiss_vote_yes_to_same-sex_relationships_and_%22Schengen/Dublin%22
- Gender role needs POV check.
- History of sexuality and Demographics of sexual orientation need attention. May need to merge from Anthropological classification of homosexuality.
- Improve homosexuality, heterosexuality, bisexuality, Homosexuality and transgender and sexual orientation with regard to terminology and orientation/behavior/identity considerations.
- Improve Genetics and sexual orientation, esp. terminology in twin studies
- Refactor Causes_of_sexual_orientation in Sexual orientation w.r.t. genetic and environmental/choice subarticles. Talk:Causes_of_sexual_orientation suggests science/society not gene/environment split.
- Also sync homosexuality and morality
- Add something like the following to Nature_versus_nurture_debate and/or Causes_of_sexual_orientation. Or maybe make a "multi-determined" article.
- Multi-determination: A car owner notices the check engine light on their dashboard is on, but continues driving for 3 days. On the highway, the engine suddenly fails. A second car that has been tailgating crashes into the first one. A nearby philosopher asks whether the cause of the accident was the way the car was built, or the way it was operated by the owner. In fact, if the car had been built differently, operated differently, or followed differently, the accident would not have happened. The accident is "multi-determined". Cite that STS book.
- Reconcile Wikipedia:WikiProject_Sexology_and_Sexuality/Terminology with Avoiding Heterosexual Bias in Language (http://www.apastyle.org/sexuality.html).
- Homosexuality, Heterosexuality, and Sexual_orientation, and Anthropological classification of homosexuality need to be re-synchronized.
- All sexology articles need their See Also sections cleaned, especially converion to categories where needed.
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West Springfield/Pioneer Valley History
- Obtained source materials
- Extract and summarize
- Post full text of non-copyrighted content?
- Massachusetts
- Pioneer Valley
- West Springfield, Massachusetts
- Springfield, Massachusetts
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Random Topics
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Boston transport
- MBTA history (http://www.mbta.com/insidethet/taag_history.asp)
- Boston transportation
- Turnpike should talk about the old English gate, not just be a redirect to toll road
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EM Categorization
- Electromagnetic field, Electroweak force, Fundamental force, SU(3)XSU(2)XU(1), Standard_Model
- E, B -> EMF -> EW -> QED -> Standard Model
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United States Categorization
- Clean up Category:United_States_history. Most articles belong in a subcategory; some new subcategories need to be created, including Category:US history by year. Many articles need to be assigned to multiple categories. Cross-referencing by year would be useful.
- Category:Companies_of_the_United_States (top level needs sorting out)
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Random peer review
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Science
- Three-phase electric power (hard to understand)
- Civilization
- Temperature (intro is not public-friendly)
- Decimal_time
- National_Oceanic_and_Atmospheric_Administration
- Gravitational_radiation
- Thermopower
- Peltier-Seebeck_effect
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Religion
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Politics
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Postmodernity
Some of the antecedents of postmodernism are missing from modernism.
The postmodern articles are too long and very hard to read.
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Readme
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World legal systems
- Goal: Write an article on Legal systems of the world
- Historical derivation of current systems
- Main ideas of each historical/ideological system
- Add to Category:Legal_history, Category:Law
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Problems
- Legal_system is probably missing a number of fundamental references, including many kinds of law listed in religious law. It should either reference or summarize or be Legal systems of the world
- Legal_history is also somewhat fluffy, and might actually be the best place to put Legal systems of the world.
- Legal_code is very fluffy and could probably use a merge or a re-write. It also has broken links and grammatical issues.
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Readme
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Pages to remember
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Intellectual
- List_of_discredited_substances
- List of alternative, speculative and disputed theories
- List_of_unsolved_problems
- Slippery slope
- Project_Censored
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Nifty
- American and British English differences
- Enclave
- Country
- Nation
- Maps of San Francisco, California
- Image:Irish1346.gif
- User:Stevey7788/Maps
- WikiNews (http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Main_Page)
- Multilevel_streets_in_Chicago
- Conch Republic
- Google X
- Theban_alphabet
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Educational
- Regional_language
- California Central Valley
- Miracle Mile, Los Angeles, California
- Gibraltar
- Reconciliation (Senate)
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Serious history
- Air France Flight 8969
- Republic of Indian Stream
- U.S. Capitol shooting incident (1954)
- Wall Street bombing
- Vermont Republic
- Indian Removal
- American Indian Movement
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Not serious, best of
- Extreme ironing
- Japanese toilet
- User:Bishonen/European_toilet_paper_holder
- Spotted dick
- Riot Act (contains exact instructions for reading it aloud)
- List of fictional curse words
- Self-reference (note indirect self-reference)
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More not serious
- Crêpe Day is February 2nd.
- Profanity
- Minced oath
- Todos (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Todo&oldid=10183889)
- Uhura (isn't she fabulous?)
- RuPaul (also incredibly fabulous)
- Ravi_Shankar
- [2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bad_jokes_and_other_deleted_nonsense/April_Fools%27_Day_2005)
- Dord
- Crazy Frog
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Of indeterminate seriousness
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Offspring
- Advocacy journalism
- Snickerdoodle
- Bi-curious
- Straight acting
- How Democratic Is the American Constitution?
- City College of San Francisco
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