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Current wikipedia STATUS (as of Wednesday October 15, 2003): I'm back from a great 4-day geography field study of Yosemite National Park but am a bit swamped at the moment. It'll be a couple of weeks before I'll be able to upload my best digital photos and incorporate my geography/human history field notes and report on Yosemite's geology into Wikipedia.
About the handle. Well I have always been a maverick so that part seemed appropriate (and what true "maverick" would actually spell it correctly -- hey, wait a minute, I just did spell it correctly... errr). The "149" part is a reference to the movies 2001: A Space Odyssey & 2010 The Year We Make Contact, in which we find out the dimensions of the mysterious monolith[?] (1 by 4 by 9). Knowing this, it is most appropriate for me to graduate in the year 2001 with a Bachelors, and plan on graduating in 2010 with a PhD -- I know, I'm a geek. But I am damn proud of it.
I oftentimes give quick, seemingly unkind and terse comments on talk pages and especially in edit summaries. However meanness is not at all the intent, just efficiency. This is a quirk of my rare personality type: INTJ (http://keirsey.com/personality/ntij). I do try to moderate what I say and how I say it -- mainly because my terseness sometimes leads to inefficient chit chat to resolve misunderstandings on talk pages.
If for some insane reason, lack of sleep, psychosis or other dementia you want to know more about me, then visit my totally opinionated meta page; where I post my random thoughts, lecture notes, old essays and any other junk I can get my hands on and legally place under the GNU FDL.
User:Maveric149/Sandbox - User:Maveric149/Citations
Some articles that I have started (or restarted) with unique content (public domain copy/paste created articles and redirects/change of article name omitted) (partial listing -- newer entries are at the end):
Some articles that I have added a sigificant amount of unique content to (relative to the article size or quality of information presented when I found it) and/or edited significantly (adding of public domain text not counted -- although I do a lot of that too) (totally inadequate partial listing -- newer entries are at the end):
Special projects
I'm helping to do the same thing for the country / pages and I helped motivate others to do the same for the Middle-earth the The Simpsons articles.
WikiProject Tree of Life
Participant in WikiProject Tree of Life
I helped develop a table for organism articles (see: roundworm and sainfoin for some nice examples)
Taxonomy tables I have created
Plants
sainfoin -
Fabales -
Dicotyledon -
Flowering plant -
Solanaceae -
Solanum -
Spurge -
Honeysuckle family -
Honeysuckle -
Dipsacales
Animals
Hominid -
Gorilla -
Kenyanthropus -
Owl -
Typical owl -
Scarab beetle -
Rose chafer -
Dipper -
White-throated dipper -
White-capped dipper -
American dipper -
Brown dipper -
Rufous-throated dipper -
Old World thrush -
Japanese robin -
Siberian rubythroat -
Red-flanked bluetail -
East coast akelat -
Riukiu robin -
Thrush nightingale -
Nightingale -
European robin -
Bluethroat -
Dog
WikiProject Countries
Participant in WikiProject Countries. I helped develop the table and article format.
North Korea
WikiProject Elements
Lead participant in WikiProject Elements. I have completed the templates for all these elements (I have also greatly expanded most of these articles):
beryllium -
magnesium -
calcium -
barium -
strontium -
radium -
lithium -
sodium -
potassium -
rubidium -
caesium -
francium -
fluorine (with help from others) -
chlorine -
bromine -
iodine -
astatine -
boron -
silicon -
germanium -
antimony -
polonium -
bismuth -
lead -
thallium -
indium -
tin -
gallium -
aluminium -
radon -
xenon -
krypton -
argon -
neon -
helium -
phosphorus -
hafnium -
tantalum -
tungsten -
rhenium -
osmium -
iridium -
platinum -
gold -
mercury -
yttrium -
zirconium -
niobium -
technetium -
ruthenium -
palladium -
silver -
cadmium -
scandium -
titanium -
rutherfordium -
dubnium -
seaborgium -
bohrium -
hassium -
meitnerium -
darmstadtium -
unununium
Images
user:maveric149/Images
Historical anniversaries
I've been involved with expanding the events section of our Historical anniversaries day pages and then updating every year page linked from those pages along with many other articles. A handfull of the entries did not need additional events so I just updated all the linked year pages and many of the corresponding subjects.
December
24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31 -
January
1 - 2 - 3 - 4- 5- 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 - 11 - 12 - 13 - 14 - 15 - 16 - 17 - 18 - 19 - 20 - 21 - 22 - 23 - 24 - 25 - 26 - 27 - 28 - 29 - 30 - 31
February
1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 - 11 - 12 - 13 - 14 - 15 - 16 - 17 - 18 - 19 - 20 - 21 - 22 - 23 - 24 - 25 - 26 - 27 - 28 - 29
March
1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 - 11 - 12 - 13 - 14 - 15 - 16 - 17 - 18 - 19 - 20 - 21 - 22 - 23 - 24 - 25 - 26 - 2 - 27 - 28 - 29 - 30 - 31
April
1 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 22 - 25 - 26 - 27 -
May
6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 - 11 - 12 - 13 - 14 - 15 - 16 - 17 - 18 - 19 - 20 - 21 - 22 - 23 - 24 - 25 - 26 - 27 - 28 - 29 - 30 -
June
July
4 - 5 - 6 -
Killing / pages
I moved all the / pages for each and every Star Wars and Star Trek articles to non-/ed titles, fixed hundreds of active and edits links within these, reformatted and wikified many of these articles. All this work seems to have paid off -- contributions to these entries have noticably improved now that linking is far easier for these articles.
Queue
Talk pages where I have placed raw content that needs additional work before being placed into an article
Talk:Test, Talk:2010 Odyssey Two, Talk:Escherichia coli, Talk:Acetic acid bacteria, Talk:Bacillus cereus, Talk:License, Talk:Glycolysis
Waiting for responses User talk:Elliot, Talk:Alphonso I of Spain, Talk:Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications de Bretagne, Talk:Radiological weapon, Talk:Alphonso, Talk:Homo sapiens, Talk:Arab anti-semitism, Talk:Cream, Talk:Visual arts and design, Talk:Lola Graham
Special Cheat Characters Wikipedia:Special characters µ ° 1 2 3 åÅ µ õØ çÇ <eth><ETH> ® © ß - ¯ <thorn> <THORN> ¶ ? æ Æ § * ´ ± ÷ ¬ ¥ ¡ 1 ¢ ¾ ™ 2 ° £ ª ¼ · º ñ ç ‰ ½ ‡ ± «› » ¿ € (also: €)
Useful Resources
- Wikipedia:Boilerplate text
- Wikipedia:Database queries
- English HTML speller (http://ee.www.ee/filosoft/html_speller_en/)
- Specialist Calculators (http://www.ex.ac.uk/cimt/res2/calcs/calaindx.htm)
- Online Conversion (http://www.onlineconversion.com/) (error prone for very large and very small numbers
- Babelfish translator (http://babelfish.altavista.com/)
- http://www.ucc.ie/cgi-bin/uncgi/acronym
- Public Domain Resources
- IUPAC (http://www.iupac.org/dhtml_home)
- HTML Color Codes (http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/reference/color_codes/)
- Web Reference Database for the Sciences (http://www.iversonsoftware.com/business/webreference)
- Public Domain Resources:
- http://1911encyclopedia.org/
- Uncopyrightable factual information (http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~rs2/glossind) Department of Religious Studies - University of Pennsylvania.
- Iraq (http://www.cal.org/rsc/iraqi/iraqitxt)
- Islamic Calligraphy and Clip Art (http://khat.hypermart.net/)
- Public Web Reference Databases in the Sciences (http://chemistry.csudh.edu/oliver/pubdomdb.htm)
- Savetz's Unofficial Internet Public Domain Index (http://www.savetz.com/pd/)
- USGS: The Periodic Table Page (http://wwwrcamnl.wr.usgs.gov/isoig/period/)
- NASA Glossary (http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov:81/Library/glossary.php3?mode=all) up to hydrochlorofluorocarbon
- Summary Demographic Data from the US Census Bureau (http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbsum)
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