User:DDerby

Adminship

I hope to be nominated or nominate myself for adminship in about a month, when I will have been active on Wikipedia for 6 months. I believe I am fair in disputes and acheive NPOV, and that my record shows that I can be trusted with the additional powers and responsibilities that accompany the position. I revert vandalism and spam frequently and would like the use of both rollback and banning features. DDerby | Talk 18:07, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

Articles I participate in maintaining:

Detroit Pistons - Patrick Henry College - Michael P. Farris - Purcellville, Virginia - Home School Legal Defense Association - Flint, Michigan - Flushing, Michigan - Swartz Creek, Michigan - Lennon, Michigan - Venice Township, Michigan - Clayton Township, Genesee County, Michigan

see Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. counties, Wikipedia:WikiProject Cities, and Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. special districts to help you edit geographical articles. DDerby 00:25, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Articles that receive a lot of vandalism

• (from wp:vand) A 2002 study by IBM found that most Wikipedia vandalism is reverted within five minutes. (See official results.)

2005 (and various day of the year entries) - this article is vandalized regularly, in addition to attracting some not-quite-relevant entries like breakups of somewhat notable bands.

Good Charlotte

Napoleon Dynamite

External link spam

External spam links are a growing problem on Wikipedia. Some of my criteria for spam removal are:

1. If anyone posts similar links to more than two articles, it is spam and can be removed. See edits by Special:Contributions/Danjwp. Such a person can be called a "linkspammer."
2. If a link goes to a subpage of a generic site, the link may be removed as spam if the subpage is not extremely useful and original. For example, links to drumscore.com such as The Killers Drum Kit Scores (note that I removed these because of criteria #1, not #2). To comment on this, see Wikipedia talk:Spam#External links criteria.

Marketing in particular receives lots of spam links.

• See Wikipedia:Spam#External_link_spamming for more on this growing problem, and what kinds of links you can help search and destroy.

Created articles

• Go Kart Records

• Institute in Basic Life Principles

• Antonio McDyess

• Flint River (Michigan); worked on it at User:DDerby/Flint River (Michigan).

To create or do:

Mott Community College, the main community college in Flint.

Ethiopian canon; working on it at User:DDerby/Ethiopian canon

Flint Beecher Tornado - one of the most significant events in the history of Flint. One of two major natural disasters, the first being a flood in the 1940s.

Saginaw River - for information, see Flint River (Michigan)

Shiawassee River, Tittabawassee River, Cass River - may be a long time before these are created; informal request to create once Saginaw River is done.

Crim Festival of Races, annual 10 mile and other races in Flint.

change links from King James Bible (redirect page), KJV (redirect page) to King James Version of the Bible.

Also

My alter ego, Usor:quaerenssapientiam, has created Latin translation stubs of Patrick Henry College and Purcellville, Virginia.

I am a member of the WikiProject National Basketball Association

List of films that provide accurate and revealing looks at world affairs

Americans should watch these films because they are often too. And because they're all good.

• Brokedown Palace - read the real-life story of Schapelle Corby first. For deep thinkers, it's also a postmodern take on Christ's words "greater love has no man than this, that one lay down his life for his friend."
• Hotel Rwanda. The story of a man in the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
• Maria Full of Grace. A Columbian woman becomes a drug mule, visits America.
• Lord of War - release date September 16, 2005. A look at the international illegal arms trade. See its Rotten Tomatoes page.

Major props

RickK was an awesome editor, a voice of reason and a dam standing firm against the crap that finds itself into Wikipedia every day. I miss him. DDerby 06:08, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Licensing

Minor edits multi-licensed into the public domain

I agree to multi-license my eligible text contributions marked as minor edits, 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 minor edit contributions in the public domain, please check the multi-licensing guide.