User:Kelly Martin

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Greetings and good morning.

I'm a self-professed grammar nazi and a life member of the Society for the Protection of the Apostrophe, so Wikipedia offers a great treasure trove of things to fix for this former copy editor. I'm also a former open source software developer (I worked for a couple of years on The GIMP) and a former law student. I hold two general studies degrees from Indiana University, and am currently employed as a network administrator in suburban Chicagoland, Illinois, USA.

I've been an editor here since December 27, 2004 although I edited anonymously for a short time before that as well. I have been an administrator since June 15, 2005. Most of my early contributions to Wikipedia so far are of the nature of cleanup, either style or spelling. I also do dead end patrol. More recently I have been doing vandalism watch, cleanup, and RC patrol. I occasionally attempt to assist consensus-building on controversial articles, with less success than I would like (see, e.g. Ward Churchill). I try to avoid editing articles that I have a personal stance in, as it is hard to keep my feelings out of the discussion on such cases.

I do have a wide range of knowledge on a remarkable number of topics and will bring that to bear to any article I should stumble across that needs the help. It is my fervent hope that Wikipedia will continue to grow and be a valuable tool for my daughter's education (born in 2003).

If you need a picture for an article of anything that might be found in the Chicagoland area, let me know and I'll make an effort to get a picture for you.

To do list

1. Add a section to Wendy's mentioning controversy surrounding Dave Thomas' participation in pro-adoption/anti-abortion groups.
2. Do something about Israeli-American.
3. Clean up Page (U.S. Capitol).
4. Decide whether Why_Gender/Gender_Construction should be recommended for deletion as VfD, or else try to find the encyclopedia article that is hiding within. List Why Gender/Gender Construction on WP:RFD.
5. Do something about Kernel Virtual Address Space.

Image watchlist

The following images were found not to be linked to by anything. If they are not linked to anything in a reasonable time, I will likely list them on WP:IFD.

• Image:MelC-NothernStar.jpg 23:15, Jun 6, 2005 (UTC)
• Image:3amigos.jpg 23:15, Jun 6, 2005 (UTC)
• Image:Plp9697.jpg 23:15, Jun 6, 2005 (UTC)
• Image:Atltechsquare2.jpg 00:35, Jun 7, 2005 (UTC)
• Image:Atltechsquare1.jpg 00:37, Jun 7, 2005 (UTC)

1968 Encyclopedia Project

I have a new project, of sorts: I am going through a 1968 encyclopedia I have and adding new articles on any topic that this encyclopedia has that aren't already represented in Wikipedia. My goal is to do one page a day (I am obviously behind, mainly caused by the death of my laptop). I've arbitrarily started on the P volume. And, no, I'm not just copying the articles; that would be copyright infringement. Rather, I am synthesizing the article in the print encyclopedia with what I can find from Google (or other appropriate sources) to create an original article (or at least article stub) on topics that Wikipedia isn't already covering. So far, I've added:

• P.E.O. Sisterhood
• Pierre van Paassen
• Frank Pace
• Pacoima Dam
• Juan de Padilla
• Curtis Hidden Page

Other things I've done

• Fore-edge painting -- a fascinating topic I briefly researched because it showed up on the requests list on Recent Changes.
• Monroe County Community School Corporation -- a school district page created to help spur the creation of other school district pages in the hopes of making some headway on a school article compromise.

Personal policies

Besides WP:TRI, I have a few personal Wikipedia policies I follow. These are my own and I don't expect anyone else to use them, although it would be nice as I think they're a good idea.

Primary & secondary school articles

Primary and secondary schools which have achieved national or regional fame for any significant reason (e.g. former school of famous individual, site of newsworthy event, etc.) deserve their own articles. School articles which, on their face, fail to reach this bar should be merged (with retained redirect) into community articles (e.g. village, town, city, school district, township, county, etc.). (A subarticle may be used if the community article would be made too large otherwise, titled, e.g. "Schools of Broward County, Florida" or "High schools of Louisville, Kentucky"). Those articles which are so deficient that they not only do not meet the above criterion, but for which it is impossible to determine a community to merge them with, may be deleted.

Bands

I hereby define a "notable musical group" as any group of performing musicians who (a) has published music reaching a significant audience (regional or larger), (b) has made a public performance before an noncaptive audience of at least 1,000 (school assembly performances do not count; neither do performances at athletic events unless televised outside the local viewing area of the performance), (c) has appeared on television (other than public access cable), (d) has won a contest or other award of a nontrivial nature, (e) is generally regarded as having pioneered or otherwise advanced a major genre of music, or (f) includes performers (or, in rare cases, composers) who are or were members of a different group meeting one or more of the foregoing criteria or who are otherwise famous (e.g. Keanu Reeves' band Dogstar). I will support deleting any article about a musical performing group where the article does not set forth how the group is notable by the above criteria.

Section blanking

I am likely to interpret any edit (especially from an IP) that does not have an edit summary which removes an entire section (or more) of an article as revertible. My good faith doesn't go that far, I'm afraid. If you really intend to remove an entire section of an article, include an edit summary. You should be including edit summaries anyway, so this isn't really that onerous. I don't know if people do this by mistake or on purpose, but I think that large tracts of text should not be removed from Wikipedia without some sort of an explanation. Even "See talk page" is good enough for me.

Use of admin powers

Use talk pages. Block sparingly. Don't block without warning unless the situation really requires it. Use rollback for true vandalism only (e.g. blanking, spam, and nonsense). Don't use admin rights on articles you edit for content. Don't use admin rights against people you disagree with. Don't use admin rights in disputes that you are mediating, either.

Awards

I award you the Exceptional Newcomer Award for being a promising newcomer. - utcursch 06:35, Dec 30, 2004 (UTC)

I, Dbraceyrules hereby give you this WikiMedal for Janitorial Services for your rapid deletion of vandalism. Dbraceyrules 04:39, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I hereby award you this Barnstar of Diligence for your incredible speed at responding to user's needs. -- Essjay · Talk 06:56, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)