User:Loadmaster

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→ My current edit count
→ 13,000th edit (2018年08月10日): The Few
→ 12,000th edit (2015年12月30日): System time
→ 11,501st edit (2014年07月22日): American Dream
→ 11,000th edit (2013年12月18日): Binary-coded decimal
→ 10,500th edit (2013年06月06日): Intel 4040
→ 10,000th edit (2013年01月15日): USS Wyandot (AKA-92)
→ 9,500th edit (2012年06月04日): S. E. Cupp
→ 9,000th edit (2011年08月29日): Brian Clark (September 11 attacks survivor)
→ 8,500th edit (2011年01月12日): COT
→ 8,000th edit (2010年05月24日): Talk:COBOL
→ 7,500th edit (2009年08月28日): User:Loadmaster
→ 7,000th edit (2009年08月28日): Eiffel (programming language)
→ 6,000th edit (2009年05月12日): Mystery Science Theater 3000
→ 5,000th edit (2008年10月25日): Pink noise
→ 4,000th edit (2008年01月17日): Template:Chset-tableformat
→ First edit (as user Loadmaster): Controversy over Cantor's theory (2006年04月11日)

If you wish to use any of the photographs or images created or uploaded by me, see the "Licensing" section for each image. Also refer to Commons:User:Loadmaster/permissions for more details.

See also the images I uploaded to Wikicommons

See also my Google Picasa portfolios    

See also Requesting copyright permission

See also Wikipedia:Moving images to the Commons

• 5 October 2017
  5 October 2017

See: User:Loadmaster/Proposed articles

• Canonical LR parser — Practical LR(k) Parser Construction (Dec 2004)
• Compatibility of C and C++ — Incompatibilities Between ISO C and ISO C++ (Aug 2001)
• Considered harmful — Go To Statement Considered Harmful: A Retrospective (Feb 2005)
• Infinite monkey theorem — Chance and Probability (Jan 1998)
• LR Parser — The Honalee LR(k) Algorithm (Apr 2006)
• LR Parser — Practical LR(k) Parser Construction (Dec 2004)

• Secure Wikipedia — HTTPS (SSL) connection to Wikipedia
• Wikipedia:Sandbox — Wikipedia sandbox for test edits
• Special:Newpages — List of Wikipedia's newest articles
• Special:RecentChanges — List of Wikipedia's most recent change edits
• Special:PendingChanges — List of edits pending review
• Help:Archiving a talk page — How to archive a talk page
• Wikipedia:Requested moves — How to request a page to be moved
• Wikipedia:Verifiability, not truth — Wikipedia operates on verifiable facts, not truth
• Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission
• Wikipedia:Moving images to the Commons
• Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion (WP:CSD)
• Wikipedia:Requests for page protection
• Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism
• Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents — Bringing the attention of admins to to sensitive issues
• Wikipedia:Reference desk — User questions answered
• Wikipedia:Village pump — Discuss the technical issues, policies, and operations of Wikipedia
• Help:ParserFunctions – Includes expressions, if-tests, formatting, etc.
• Wikipedia:Graphic Lab — Image editing requests and tools
• Table of mathematical symbols — Symbols for cut-and-paste editing

To get the best screenshot images from DVDs, I use a technique of sampling two or more consecutive frames from the source film and then combining them together into a single image. Most graphics editing programs (I use Paintshop Pro) allow two (or sometimes more) images to be averaged together into a single image. The averaging smooths out the pixel noise of each individual image, making the result much cleaner than any of the source frames. The only trick to using this technique is getting two or more consecutive images that are alike enough so that the resulting combined image does not appear blurred. Non-moving subjects are usually the best to work from.

Example images created using this technique:

• File:DeathSeventhSeal.png

The approach I take to fighting vandalism on Wikipedia is pretty simple. I check "my watchlist" page periodically, looking for edits made by unregistered users (i.e., users with IP addresses instead of user names). For each one of those edits, I click on the "diff" link for it. This displays the changes made by that user. If it's obviously vandalism, I then click on the user's name or the "contribs" link on the "diff" page, which shows a page listing all the contributions made by that user.

I can then check many edits made from the same IP address. Typically, several edits are made by the same vandal within the span of an hour or so. Reverting the edits is then a straightforward thing to do.

If a user looks like he is vandalizing pages, add a {{test1}} tag to his Talk page. If the vandalism continues, add {{test2}}, {{test3}}, and finally {{test4}} tags. As a last resort, ask for administrator intervention against vandalism.

Another item to check is the inclusion of image Example.jpg within articles, which is a favorite target of vandals.

As an example of vandalism idiocy, see that 98 edits were made to the article on Pythagoras, none of which contributed anything of value.

Example of a blocked abusive vandal: User:Lookaroundyou (Oct 2007).

I am of the opinion that vandalism could be greatly reduced by simply limiting editing access to Wikipedia articles to only registered users, but apparently this goes against the current policy.

Marking bad new articles for deletion

A small percentage of new articles are simply nonsense or vandalism. These articles should be tagged with {{db}} tags so that they can be deleted:

• {{db}} — Generic deletion tag
• {{db-bio}} — Person or organization of questionable importance
• {{db-spam}} — Advertising for an organization or website
• {{db-nocontent}} — Little or no content
• {{db-nonsense}} — Patent nonsense

See also

• Wikipedia:Requests for page protection
• Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism
• Wikipedia:Counter-Vandalism Unit
• Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion (WP:CSD)
• Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not for things made up one day (WP:NFT)

Interesting, but typically HTML-intensive, signature graphics by some Wikipedia users that I've collected:

Possible signatures that I could use:

Articles

Categories

(Who have articles on Wikipedia)

• The Bicholim conflict article, a well-done hoax. Probably perpetrated by user A-b-a-a-a-a-a-a-b-a.

• Steven Colbert's infamous Wiki edit of the George Washington article: diff.

• User:AndrewDavis and User:24.107.41.241, who is (was) Bill Amend.

• My attempt to solve the infinite monkey theorem at this web page, but which was removed from the article (Mar 2007) with no explanation.

• The defacing of the Scooter Libby wiki article as reported by Wonkette (wonkette.com article and image) is a fake. No such revision exists between 2007年02月21日T03:42:49 (when the caption on his picture was changed) and 2007年03月06日 23:57:56 (past the date of the defacing "discovery" on 2007年03月06日), purportedly done by articles on 2011年09月14日 at Wikipedia:Five-million pool (Image); it reached 5m around Aug 2015. Selected historical article counts are here.

→ Current number of articles: 7,090,545 (stats ) (old stats )

• The Seigenthaler controversy [2], which details the problems of editable biographical information on Wikipedia.

• I proposed the possible inclusion of a new "certificate (serial) number" field to Template:Infobox Film. For example, the film Lost Horizon (1937) has MPAA certificate no. 2006, and 300 (2007) has certificate no. 42864.

• Archimedes Plutonium resorted to legal threats after a long series of incendiary posts against WP editors over his displeasure at being categorized in List of Usenet personalities as an "eccentric" newsgroup poster, and after being blocked for a vandalizing edit. (May 2009)

• Embedded wiki tags:

{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} → November

{{CURRENTDAY}} → 15

{{CURRENTYEAR}} → 2025

• Buglarian football player Vasil Panayotov, and Portuguese player José Fonte, in case anyone thinks that Wikipedia contains too much useless information.

• John Derbyshire's own edits of his bio page → here (2009年07月08日).

• Kevin D. Williamson appears to approve of his WP bio page → here.