User:Éireann/archive/users/admins/former

The following is my archive of User Pages of Former Admins on Wikipedia.

ERCheck edit




Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generation beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe. Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition?     — Ralph Waldo Emerson


Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.

    — Albert Einstein (quoted in the New York Times, March 13, 1940)





Wikipedia projects of interest edit

Resources / lists edit

Templates edit

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Selected contributions edit

Most recent new articles edit

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DYKs edit

  On June 7, 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Richard K. Sorenson, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.
  On June 14, 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Jay R. Vargas, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.
  On July 8, 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article William T. Perkins, Jr., which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.
  On 18 July, 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article David B. Barkley, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.
  On 31 July, 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Ben L. Salomon, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.
  On 10 August, 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Angela Salinas, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.
  On 23 November, 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Lucian Adams, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.
  On December 23, 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Ron Powers, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.
  On 4 January, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Frederick C. Branch , which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.
  On 6 January, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Megan McClung, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.
  On January 10, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Alan Shapley, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.
  On 23 January, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Richard E. Cavazos, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.
  On 21 March, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Aubrey McDade, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.
  On 22 March, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Nicholas Kehoe, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.
  On 28 May, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article William O. Gallery, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
  On 14 June, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Kimberly Casiano, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
  On 28 November, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Charles G. Boyd, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
  On 28 November, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Paul J. Carmouche, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
  On 3 December, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article John F. Kelly, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
  On 7 December, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article David M. Jones, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
... that in World War II, David M. Jones, later a U.S. Air Force Major General, participated in events that formed the basis for two Hollywood movies: Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo and The Great Escape?
  On January 12, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article George R. Christmas, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
 
... that George R. Christmas (pictured), then known as Captain Christmas, received the Navy Cross for "extraordinary heroism" in the Vietnam War?
  On January 22, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article William K. Jones, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
... that William K. Jones, awarded the Navy Cross and the Silver Star for valor at Tarawa and Saipan, was the youngest commander of a U.S. Marine Corps battalion during World War II?
  On March 13, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Richard C. Mangrum, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
... that in October 1965, Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps LtGen Richard C. Mangrum, Navy Cross recipient at Guadalcanal, became the first Marine to be the "Gray Eagle" of Naval aviation?


Recognitions edit

 
 
This motivated Tireless Contributor Barnstar is given to ERcheck for his tireless contirbutions to all articles relating to the United States Military. Presented by Looper5920 27 July 2006
 
For your extensive contributions to Wikipedia's coverage of the United States Marine Corps, and on the recommendation of Looper5920, I hereby bestow upon you the Military history WikiProject Distinguished Service Award. Kirill Lokshin 23:08, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
 
 
This Marine Tireless Contributor Barnstar is presented to ERcheck for his continous work on USMC related articles. Presented by Tony the Marine 02:52, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
 
 
I present ERcheck with this Nuevo Mexicano Barnstar for creating the Daniel Fernandez article, as well as for his work on the Hispanic MoH article and related pages. Thank you. --Murcielago 04:54, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
 
The Scouting Barnstar
from Rlevse


 
For managing to make adminship, I, Minun award you a barnstar —Minun SpidermanReview Me 14:59, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
 
Thanks for all of the work and help on the Military Brat article. Balloonman 06:03, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
 
I present you this DYK medal for all the outstanding and interesting new articles you create.Rlevse 22:47, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
 
 
This Boricua Tireless Contributor Barnstar is presented to User: ERcheck for his continous work on Puerto Rican and Hispanic related articles. Presented by Tony the Marine 22:26, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
 
The Citation Barnstar

Jojhutton (talk) 14:53, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
 
The Military Barnstar
...for your work on both the USAF and Marine Corps portals. Ndunruh (talk) 14:43, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Adminship edit

 
I, Tony the Marine, as the nominator of ERcheck to administrator status, present you with your adminship. Pilot her well!

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Idont Havaname edit

 
Current Wikistress level

I joined Wikipedia on 12 Nov 2004 and became an administrator on 6 Jan 2006. On Wikipedia, I've edited a wide variety of articles; take a look at my contributions for what some of those are, or just scroll down for a list of articles to which I've made major contributions. I also participate in articles for deletion and requests for adminship. In addition, as an administrator I roll back vandalism (mainly in recent changes); and I carry out speedy deletions. In addition to my work here, I have user accounts at the Wikiquote, Meta, and the Baseball Wikicity.

For those who are curious about my editing stats, you can see my edit count by entering my user name into Interiot's Tool or Interiot's "Wannabe Kate" tool, and you can also check how I compare to other editors by looking at the list of most active Wikipedians and the list of Wikipedians by number of recent edits. (Though, as some people here have said, "editcountitis can be fatal".)

As of right now, this user page has been vandalized 15 times. Thank you to all who revert vandalism to my user page. :-)

I have been impersonated by Ido Havaname.

Significant contributions edit

 This user is an administrator on the English Wikipedia. (verify)
 This editor is a Veteran Editor and is entitled
to display this Iron Editor Star.
 This user is male.
 
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I've tried to list these in reverse chronological order (i.e., the newest ones are first).

Original articles edit

Blue Fire | Siam Park (Tenerife) | ProSlide | Mary Fahl | Monte Makaya | The Deadlines | ThouShaltNot | Alexander Semin | Nariman Farvardin | Dan Wilson (baseball player) | Jeff Halpern | Lenny Harris | Chris Aguila | Jason Vargas | Mark Teixeira | Rusty Greer | Roadside Monument | Crashdog | Spitfire (US band) | Todd Jones (baseball player) | Scott Kazmir | Kevin Pittsnogle | Scott Boras | Eva O | Jody Davis | Carl Barger | Nightingale Island | Kannapolis Intimidators | Mark Mulder | Bison Dele | Bryant Reeves | Armando Benitez | Juan Pierre

Articles on the Main Page as part of Did you know?:

Stub/substub expansions edit

Radhames Liz | Carlos Martínez | Pat Peake | Klank | Criss Angel | Colby Nolan | The Last Dance | Kurt Ainsworth | Walter Young | Antestor | Al Denson | Matt Riley | A.J. Burnett | Day of Fire | Louis Washkansky | Stretch Arm Strong | Showbread | Inaccessible Island | Heather and Heidi Burge | Trans-Siberian Orchestra

I also expanded a substub article for the band Vomitorial Corpulence, but that article was deleted in an AfD that only got two votes. I had heard of the band, seen that another editor had created a stub about them, and decided to expand the article. (This was on March 22, 2005, so I've had many more edits since that one.)

Other significant expansions edit

(Probably not complete)

Extensive cleanups edit

Matt Darey | Saviour Machine | Jeremy Bonderman | Knockout Kings | Subwoofer | Double Teamed | Ron Mercer

Caught copyvios edit

Due to the nature of copyright violations on Wikipedia, these articles might be deleted and then reappear at some later date. By viewing the deleted edits of an article, you can tell that there was once copyvio on the page. Note that this list was compiled while the {{copyvio}} template was used on all copyvio edits, rather than just pages whose whole history had contained copyright violations. (The new instructions for dealing with copyright violations are located at Wikipedia:Copyright violations#Instructions.)

Carol Banawa | William Burnet Tuthill | Christiano Ronaldo (Cristiano Ronaldo) | Motion City Soundtrack | Slowreader | Hannah the usul | Hannah and the Pirate Caves | Sri Cempaka | Alove for enemies | Nodes of Ranvier (band) | A Life Once Lost | Halifax (band) | Emo, Ontario | Real McKenzies | Golden Baseball League | Raul Roco | Louis Washkansky | Denise Darvall | Zao

Edit milestones edit

Note: Some of my edits have been deleted since I made them, such as when I listed articles for speedy deletion. These are where the milestones are as of July 28, 2006.

Wikiphilosophies edit

This section contained a bunch of my thoughts on different issues regarding Wikipedia, both as a whole and in its specific parts. In case you've followed an older link to this section of my user page, I've moved this to User:Idont Havaname/Wikiphilosophies, since it was starting to get long.

My standards for admin candidates and a list of administrators whose candidacies I supported are available here. Additionally, here are my voting standards for the Arbitration Committee elections in December 2006 and December 2007.

Wikimemberships edit

Here are a few associations and WikiProjects in which I am involved.

To-do list edit

Very few of these ever get done.

Awards edit

  Thanks again, εγκυκλοπαίδεια* 20:53, 5 January 2006 (UTC) (I got this Barnstar of Diligence during my request for adminship.)