This is merely an unorthodox sub-page of User:fabartus, so I can tidy that up for visitors and still find this stuff when needed sans extra typing. Cheat 16:16, 7 July 2006 (UTC)


Purpose

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I use this Page as a easy to access 'Scratch Pad' — But visitors are always welcome.

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WikiBooks Talk
WikiCommons Talk
WikiMeta Talk
WikiMedia Talkrequest account
en.Wikisource Talk
WikiSource International


My TOC: (NOT really of use TO YOU! I'm afraid.)
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Current major WikiFocus in the burgeoning 1632 series, and at the rate these works are coming out, it will likely take all summer to finish.

Current Project Articles

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At the moment, this whole list is Category:Eric Flint books

  1. 1632 series-Talk:1632 series-
  2. Assiti Shards series
  3. The Grantville Gazettes
  4. User:Fabartus/1632series rework -- Utility file use to develop the following too:
  5. 1634: The Galileo Affair
  6. 1632 Research Committee
  7. 1632 Tech Manual forum
  8. 1632 Slush
  9. Grantville, WV — Maps and information, sourced from 1632.org collected on the fictional town with it's fictional neohistory.
  10. Badenburg — The fictional walled town, the second state of the USE (fiction).
  11. USE (fiction), etc.

Back burner ToDOs

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  1. user:fabartus/boxes_sandbox
  2. Belisarius series — expand and do seperate articles; Category:David Drake books
  3. User:Fbartus/Scratch02 --060412--Currently use as Section edit in Arsenal of Democracy expansion.
  4. user:fabartus/Forward the MageCategory:Joe's World series
  5. user:fabartus/The Philosophical StranglerCategory:Joe's World series
  6. user:fabartus/Personal Computer Industry -- stub out of eventual article focused on history of same, older information in part from Fire in the Valley and such works.

Quick Refs

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0. Wikipedia:Newcomers_help_page - The link that keeps going missing!
  1. User:Fabartus/scratchpads/Bat of PortArthur
  2. Wikipedia:Welcome, newcomers
  3. Wikipedia:Introduction
  4. Problem with HomePaging: User talk:Fabartus/Scratchpad01
  5. 'Altavista' Narrower than Google Garbage Searches
  6. WikiX Tools
  7. My Welcome Message -- Rev-B 060406
  8. Karmafist's Manifesto -- Grassroots Wikipolitics, some sensible suggestions on fixing some fundamental problems.
  9. User:Fabartus/graphics — Collection of Graphics tricks and techniques (esp. tables)
  10. Logbooks — Record keeping of Templates Applied s.a. {CLEAN, POV, EXPERT, ATTENTION, FACT, etc.} to patrol and clear periodically
  11. WikiContacts Index
  12. Logbooks — Various Quick Lookups
  13. Template_Log — Records of where I've applied 'Splash' templates like CLEAN, POV, UNREF, and etc.
  14. user:fabartus/wikiContacts_and_Friends
  15. user:fabartus/UploadedImages
  16. status page
  17. Logbooks
  18. Template_notes & tricks
  19. User:Fabartus/temp -- currently a redirect, reuse as needed
  20. Wikipedia:Extended image syntax — About time found! Images 101
  21. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/resource/065_mili.htmlLibrary of Congress notes on US gov. 'image sources'.

[[Category: 1632 series]]

  1. Wikisource Scriptorium Page

Pages to Patrol Occasionally

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Off Wikipedia

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  1. Wikipedia Main Page
  2. WikiBooks Main Page
  3. Check My Talk at WikiBooks
  4. Post My Talk @WikiBooks
  5. Wikisource Materials — Miscellaneos materials like speech texts, recipes and such.

On Wikipedia

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  1. WP:AFD
  2. Deletion log
  3. Wikipedia:Most_Wanted_Articles
  4. Requested Articles - Index
  5. Wikipedia:Pages needing attention
  6. Wikipedia:Peer review
  7. Wikipedia:Recent_changes_patrol
  8. General Stubs,sectstub
  9. Stubs, Templates Nominated for DeletionWP:SFD — Analog of WP:AfD for squiggly things.
  10. Vandalism
  11. Category:Candidates for speedy deletion
  1. Wikipedia:Deadend pages
  2. RecentChanges -- Major changes only, hide Bots, ?hideliu???

Maybe patrol

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  1. WikiProjects --
  2. Special:Unusedtemplates --

References

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  1. Special:Ancientpages
  2. [[A new special page, Special:Randomredirect, allows a user to visit a random redirect page. Added by Rob Church on 25 April, the page works in a similar fashion as Special:Random
  3. Special:Templates
  4. Wikipedia:List_of_Wikipedians_by_number_of_edits -- Tally March 2006
  5. Commons_Images
  6. Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types

Tools

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Disputed
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  • {{Template:Disputed}}Page
  • {{Disputed-section}}Section
  • {{DisputedAssertion}} — dispute one line's FACT.
  • {{DisputedAssertion}}Line
Disputed POV
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Both Disputed and POV
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Here at WikiP

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  1. Wikipedia:Administrators' reading list
  2. Wikipedia:Boilerplate text (disambig: Very useful collection of links)
  3. WP:CSD ==CSD Project Page
  4. HELP by Department
  5. WikiP Policy Library --
  6. WP:VP -- The Village Pump
  7. Wikipedia:Tools/Editing tools#Spell Checkers
  8. User Scripts -- really need to take time to browse this soon, there are some good tools and variations here!
  9. WP:Btw
  10. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:User_categorisation

Categories, Templates Arcana

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  1. Wikipedia:Category -- WP:CAT—The Main Guideline governing Categories
  2. Fundamental categories —This is daughter (subcategory) of CAT:CAT by natural topics
  3. CAT:CAT — Head end list of all categories, so can browse the whole heirarchial tree
  4. Category:Articles to be MergedWP:MM, put together for merging and moving.
  5. Wikipedia:How to archive a talk page

Guidelines, How to

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*WXYZ indicates have hard copy on paper, quick filed index 'WXYZ'

  1. Wikipedia:Administrators' how-to guide,
  2. Wikipedia:Conflict resolution,
  3. Wikipedia:How to archive a talk page,
  4. Wikipedia:How to edit a page,
  5. Renaming/Moving a Page,
  6. M:Foundation issues,
  7. WP:PIC — Guide to Picture Layout, and options, part of MOS (long-See hardcopy) too)
  8. Wikipedia:Images — Guide to Images Layout in general, and options (see hardcopy too)
  9. WP:FUWP GUIDELINE What Is/IS not Fair USe Images
  10. WP:GTL — Guide to Layout, part of MOS
  11. WP:R == WP:RDR == WP:REDIR — Guide to Redirects, part of MOS (hardcopy)
  12. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Footnotes
  13. Wikipedia:Wikiquette#How_to_avoid_abuse_of_Talk_pages
  14. MediaWiki User's Guide: Editing mathematical formulae
  15. Wikipedia:Merging and moving pagesWP:MM
  16. Wikipedia:Template messages --
  17. Wikipedia:Utilities --
  18. WP:WSWikipedia:WikiProject Wiki Syntax — wikiproject list of syntax problem IDed by bots.

Special Link, Lookups, and References

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  1. Polytonic orthography
  2. User:RoyBoy/The 800 Club --
  3. Wikipedia:Welcoming committee
  4. Stub Sorting Subproject
  5. Precis on Special Pages
  6. Article VfD instructions --
  7. Category:Candidates for speedy deletion
  8. Special:Newpages
  9. Cities Projects
  10. Encyl Artys Needed
  11. Wikiprojects
  12. 1911EBArtys Needed --
  13. AdminList Categorized by Recent Activity
  14. Complete by uncategorized list of Administrators
  15. Lamest Edit Wars
  16. Clueless

Things Check out/Examine

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  1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_English_Dictionary - Forget it. Ridiculously high user fees Use free Dictionary.com!
  2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikisource = Destination of source materials, some of which may be good starts for wikiBooks
  3. http://en.wikiBooks.org/wiki = WikiBooks references and text project. Some don't like wikiPedian culture

user:fabartus/graphics

Useful Techniques/Tools

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Reminders and ToDo Lists

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baby boom--baby Boom--Baby Boom (film)--baby boom's all snarled up, redirect is to film in health articles, etc. Needs someone to check what directs here, and fix links, or move article back, or somesuch. (I'me mad ea big dent)

  1. Metrology — cleanup requests a thourogh dumbing down to lay reader
  2. 060422--Customary_measurement_systems and This] — no one has run with this ball in a month, so get back and expand.
  3. Polio — dumbify intro and mention FDR in introbody. Does not even begin to give the horror of the disease and fear. too clinical.
  4. Need an Article 'Recreational boating'
  5. Dredge article with much information badly in need of rewrite
  6. Update Alternate history (fiction) - w/1632 series
  1. Scratchpad01-DOC Problem Bring to the attention of Interiot
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User/fabartus/scratchpads/Bat_of_PortArthur
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User/fabartus/scratchpads/Glacial_Vs_Interglacial_Epocs - Wikified: User:Fabartus/scratchpads/Glacial Vs Interglacial Epocs
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User/fabartus/battles/Naval_Forces_of_The_Russo-Japanese_War
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User/fabartus/scratchpads/Table_of_US_Weights_and_Measures
Mountains- meter to feet conversion additions

Maybe Someday:

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This category contains Wikipedians who participate in the Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting. If you want to add yourself, put [[Category:WikiProject Stub sorting participants|your username here]] on your user page or, if you don't have a user page, on your user talk page. (fab-050701)


Completed To-Do Items

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Nagasaki, Nagasaki - 10 August 2005

Community Contributions

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  1. Weighing In on VfD Policy 050603
  2. My Input at Para. 9
  3. Above Wikified to page top
  4. Some POV edit-war fix suggestions Posted inviting some to read
  5. POV Naming Wars —not to mention most Tsushima Island articles.
  6. Mediations in M vs M
  7. Weighing in on Junk Templates Also see Talk Post Template Talk: unreferenced - 060412, Spam notify to five Sr. Eds.
  8. Wikipedia:Archives_as_sources -- School driven RFC+this on nice article citing archival sources.

Articles

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I do a lot of technical editing, mainly in history (lifelong avocation) or in science & engineering related topics. Most often, I'll end up doing a whole string of related edits from within a preview window while testing links of whatever edit I started with.

Articles I'm Researching

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  1. much neglected 1632 series related articles (10ish)
  2. User:Fabartus/1632series_rework Project:1632series_rework
  3. Battle of Breitenfeld (1631) -- this looks to have some problems. Dig into some books, it cites three.

Temp Files

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  1. User:Fabartus/scratchpads/VG1_060325(test) DataXferTest063025
  2. User:Fabartus/temp-A2cuts -- backup: just in case. Inadvertant Dups of talk when initially archiving. Posted to A-2 when had browser problem editting in IE6. FrankB 16:26, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
  3. User:Fabartus/temp
  4. User:Fabartus/temp1
  5. User:Fabartus/temp2
  6. User:Fabartus/temp3
  7. User:Fabartus/temp4
  8. User:Fabartus/temp5 -- permanently allocate: Template debug and experment
  9. User:Fabartus/Scratchpad01
  10. User:Fabartus/Scratchpad02

Articles I'm Working On (large edits)

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1632 (novel) -- 1632 series -- 1632 series characters
1633 (novel) -- Grantville Gazettes -- Ring of Fire -- 1634: The Galileo Affair
1634 The Ram Rebellion -- others listed here first: talk:1632 series

Articles I've suspended Working On (large edits)

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1632_series/1632_series_historical_background -- 24.61.229.179
Battle of Port Arthur -- Battle of Tsushima -- Russo-Japanese War and related articles


===Articles I've suspended Researching=== (Casualties of Katrina!)

Other battles of Russo-Japanese war (a lot)
Timeline of the Russo-Japanese War -- Battle of Chemalpo -- Naval Skirmishes of the Russo-Japanese War
Battle of Shantung -- Dalian -- Lushun -- Fleets of the Russo-Japanese War

Dont forget: web reference for additional research: http://www.russojapanesewar.com/tsushima.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Boxer_Rebellion&action=edit&section=1 - This has error "had begun to demand" - build a list of known concessions 1894-1897, including extra-terratorality, naval bases and 'Regions' (ala WeiWei, Liaodong, CER, etc.), then incorporate into this causes section. Fabartus 04:58, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Battle of Trafalgar (Aide to author)... on Peer ReviewFabartus 04:12, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

===Wiki Articles I Started=== Excludes the trivial redirects, Natch!'

Manchurian Railway
Organosulfur compounds
Table of US Weights and Measures : stub Fabartus 04:12, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Wiki Article Contributions

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This will never be up to date, I fear!!!

Minor Contributions

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Korea Strait -- Tsushima Islands -- Tsushima Strait -- Dalian -- Lushun

Article Significant edits

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Natural GasTreaty of ShimonosekiSiege of Port Arthur
Drum (container)Battle of Port ArthurRusso-Japanese War

Older Work (as Anom)

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One Computer - User:24.61.229.179 (Office Desk)
Fathometer -- Natural Gas

Pending Large Edit Articles

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http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User/fabartus/battles/Battle_of_the_Nile
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User/fabartus/battles/Naval_Forces_of_The_Russo-Japanese_War
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User/fabartus/scratchpads/Table_of_US_Weights_and_Measures

Template Menu

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Particularly useful Templates

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{{TOCright}}
{{Underconstruction}}





{{Inuse}} -- {{Inuseuntil | }} (form is 'for...' minutes, not until ... time)

User Templates, Education

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These are sourced in: {{user degree/AS}}
{{user degree}} This user has an academic degree.
{{user degree/BE}}
{{user degree/multiple univ degrees}}
{{user degree/MEng}} MEng This user has a Master of Engineering degree.
{{user degree/MS}}, {{user degree/MSc}} MS This user has a Master of Science degree.
{{user degree/BS}} BS This user has a Bachelor of Science degree.
{{user degree/BSc}} BSc This user has a Bachelor of Science degree.
{{user degree/BSBS}} BSBS This user has two Bachelor of Science degrees.
{{user degree/BE}} BE This user has a Bachelor of Engineering degree.
{{User History Subject}} HIS This user's favorite subject is History.
{{user 1|black|white|[[Image:Mortarboard.jpg|40px]]| This user graduated from the '''[[University of Something]]'''.}} This user graduated from the University of Something.