User:johndburger

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[edit] Some of my philosophy, Horatio

• I'm pretty much just here to work on an encyclopedia.
• I believe edit summaries are an oft-missed opportunity for communication, and I use them pretty religiously. In fact, I rarely use my rollback privilege, because it leaves uninformative summaries.
• I try to observe a one revert rule, except in obvious cases of repeated vandalism.
• I think references are very important—otherwise, this isn't much of an encyclopedia. I like inline citations.

[edit] Articles I've put a lot of work into

Rosie the Riveter • Boston Latin School • Netflix Prize • Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo

See my other edit stats.

[edit] Other things I work on

• Developing Navibot. It finds missing disambiguation entries and adds them to the appropriate page—see below
• Developing enwikipedia, a bot that announces featured Wikipedia content on Twitter
• Cleaning up references and citations
• Adding Persondata
• Applying MOSDAB
• Spam
  • unit-converter.org • mycomponents.co.uk • convertunits.com • onlineconversion.com

[edit] Tools I use

Citation templates • Last 500 anon. edits • {{subst:unsigned2}}

[edit] Bots etc.

I'm working on Navibot. It will find disambiguation entries, e.g.:

• Pages of the form foo (bar) that are missing from a foo (disambiguation) page (or a foo page that's in Category:Disambiguation)
• Pages of the form foo (disambiguation) that do not have a disamb link from foo.
• Missing disambiguation pages—that is, there are three or more real articles named foo, foo (bar), etc., but no foo (disambiguation)

I'm also thinking of writing a formatting bot that would do stuff like this:

• Correctly italicize titles in obvious cases, e.g., this Primeval (film) can be corrected to this Primeval (film).
• Clean up non-standard -th, etc., dates, like in Nicolaus von Amsdorf:

He died at Eisenach on May 14th 1565

But see discussion with idiosyncratic editor: User_talk:Johndburger#What_about_the_dates.3F

A "descriptor" bot (terrible name).

• Find bare mentions of people in lists like "Notable graduates" or "Notable residents"
• Formulate short descriptions from the corresponding article, using WP:Persondata and other heuristics
• Add these descriptions to the bare mentions in the list

This approach could also be used when adding entries to disambiguation pages.

[edit] To do list

• Add main pages to categories where appropriate.
• Putting Boston_Latin_School#Notable_alumni in Category:Boston Latin School alumni
• Expand Human language technology

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Centralized discussion
Proposals	Discussions	Recurring proposals
Review: Provisional draft #2 of the new arbitration policy. Proposal: Proposal to create user-space redirects. Poll: Should WP:NOT#PLOT be reworded, moved, removed, or kept the same? RFC: Is there community support to change the constitutional relationship between ArbCom and Jimmy Wales? Poll: How does the community feel regarding how the civility policy is applied and enforced on Wikipedia? Discussion: Should notability criteria for pornographic actors be rolled back? RFC: Naming guidelines for Macedonia Preliminary (userspace) discussion on Wikipedia governance issues. RFC: Should Wikipedia prevent Google and other search engines from searching User pages? RFC: Should a bot unlink dates? RFC. Outside opinions are solicited on self electing groups. RFC: What is the community's opinion on using {{Italictitle}} to italicise certain articles' titles? RFC: What is the community's view of paid editing? Poll: About the preferred usage names as a result of WP:RFAR/West Bank - Judea and Samaria Discussion: Ordering and general presentation of talk page templates. RFC: Simplifying speedy deletion policy A new page to keep track of discussions throughout Wikipedia has been created: Wikipedia:Coordination A new noticeboard has been created: Wikipedia:Content noticeboard Note: inactive discussions, closed or not, should be archived.
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