Wikchard

About me

I created this user page as a 26 year old male from Canada. I currently live in Manitoba.

I have been active on this Wikipedia account since 6 September 2013.

I am not User:Richard.

How to contact me

My talk page
Email

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About my username

Wikchard was inspired by Wiki technology, and the name Richard, which was chosen pseudo-randomly (based on the similarity between the sounds wik and rick - it is not in any way based on my real name.

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       Reinstating an admin action that has already been reversed (sometimes known as "wheel warring") – Responses have included Arbitration and desysopping even the first time.

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Typos & Spelling errors

I used Firefox, and therefore make spelling errors at an average rate, but correct them before saving the page in which I made the error. Please feel free to correct any other mistakes that you spot, including on my user page and in any comments I post. However, please note that I write in Canadian English, which is based on British English, normally using Canadian spellings - colour and realise are not spelling errors, although Firefox claims that they are. See American and British English differences.

Occasionally I might spell something intentionally wrong to make a point, but this should be obvious from the context.

Dual Licensing

Multi-licensed into the public domain
I agree to multi-license my eligible text contributions, unless otherwise stated, under Wikipedia's copyright terms and into the public domain. Please be aware that other contributors might not do the same, so if you want to use my contributions in the public domain, please check the multi-licensing guide.

Notes: This applies to my text contributions to all wikipedias, except as noted below. Any work in progress sub-pages in my userspace (e.g. /geonamesongs) are dual licenced in to the public domain as above unless it is detailed differently below.

Exceptions:

This page is not public domain.
My talk page is not public domain.
User:Wikchard's page and associated talk page are not public domain.
My /Contact page is not public domain.

Images: All videos that I upload will be individually licensed: check the image description page for details. I have a few videos on my YouTube account. If you want to use one of these videos here or elsewhere, please contact me first. By default I retain copyright on all my photos or videos on that site, but in most cases I will dual license (usually to a Creative Commons license) if they can be of use here or elsewhere.

Wikchard: Everything above applies to User:Wikchard with no exceptions. -Wikchard

last updated: 18:01, 06 Sep 2013 (UTC)

Wikchard

I do not have a secondary, work-safe user account yet I will not likely do much editing with that user, and so I don't foresee myself logging in much with that user. Consequently non-urgent messages are better left on User_talk:Wikchard rather than User_talk:a nonexistent user. Urgent messages should be directed to whichever I'm using at the time. I may move any potentially non-work-safe messages from that talk page to this, adding appropriate context on both pages. My dual licensing statement above applies equally to both users. I will endeavor to vote only once in all polls, surveys, etc. I am human though, so if I slip up I apologize in advance.

I was never asked what I mean by a "work-safe" account, but I'll tell you anyway. At some workplaces there are regulations regarding accessing "inappropriate" content on the internet as part of the fair use policy that allows employees to use the internet for non-work activities. Although Wikipedia in itself is not inappropriate by any means, some articles may not be. It is possible that my using work's network to access or contribute to such articles may contravene these regulations. I do not have the same restrictions on my personal internet connection at home, and do not wish to be subject to them outside of work. For this reason I have not yet created a nonexistent user as a secondary user, from which I will not access or contribute to possibly inappropriate articles, leaving me free to use Wikchard to edit without restriction. As of 06 September 2013 there has been no problem, and I am not prepared for an eventuality where it becomes one. Wikchard (talk) 05:56, 6 September 2013 (UTC)

Recommended places

These are a few highlights of Wikipedia that I recommend you pay a visit to

Assiniboine Valley Railway

Shortcuts

Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types
Special:Allpages/user:Wikchard - all the subpages of my userspace (otherwise I'll never remember them all)
Special:Allpages/user talk:Wikchard - ditto for talk pages.

Work in progress

These are articles that I'm working outside of the main article space (e.g. trial versions of proposed changes).

Assiniboine Valley Railway

Trail Life USA

Photo galleries

These are galleries of photographs that I have uploaded to Wikipedia or Wikimedia Commons.

Gallery of my photographs I've contributed to the commons.

Wikimedia Foundation Wikis

All the Wikimedia Foundation Wikis (copied from Commons:User:Bdk/Stuff)

Sister projects
The XYZ is run by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, which operates several other coordination multilingual and free-content projects:

	Meta-Wiki Project coordination		Wikipedia The free encyclopedia		Wikibooks Textbooks and manuals		Wiktionary Dictionary and thesaurus		Wikiquote Collection of quotations
	Wikisource Free source documents		Commons Shared media repository		Wikispecies Directory of species		Wikinews Free content news source		Testwiki Test edition