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• My biases are shown by my writings below. But I respect WP:NPOV in Wikipedia articles.

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Create more tables

Wikipedia can use more tables. See Help:Tables and Help:sorting. See also: Commons:Chart and graph resources. Note to self: Category:Healthcare by country.

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Republicans waste $$-trillions on health insurance companies, and ground wars ($5.6 trillion). USA spent $3.2 trillion on healthcare in 2016. (2.3.4.). Canada spent half as much per person, and got better outcomes. 59% of Americans support a "national Medicare-for-all plan." (2.3.4.)
Country	Life expectancy. 2015	Under-5 mortality rate per 1000 live births. 2016.	Maternal mortality rate per 100,000 live births. 2015	Healthcare cost per person. (2). US dollars PPP	Murder rate per 100,000. 2016
Canada	82.2 years. (2)	4.9	7.3	$4,753 in 2016	1.7
USA	79.3 years. (2)	6.5	26.4	$9,892 in 2016	5.3
Charts. Murder rate in Canada is lower due to far less handguns. Republican NRA morons. Why does National Public Radio, like most media, not report most of these international comparisons? Videos. Republican myths about Canadian healthcare: 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 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82. Nations with better and healthier quality of life: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11. Why are Republicans such dumbasses at math? US spent 17.9% of GDP (national economy) on healthcare in 2016.

USA spent $3.2 trillion on healthcare in 2016. (2.3.4.). Canada spent half as much per person, and got better outcomes. 59% of Americans support a "national Medicare-for-all plan." (2.3.4.)
Country	Life expectancy (years). 2015	Under-five mortality rate per 1000 live births. 2016	Maternal mortality rate per 100,000 live births. 2015	Per capita expenditure on health. Public and private costs. USD - PPP. 2016	Healthcare costs as a percent of GDP. 2016	% of health costs paid by government. 2016
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Australia	82.8	3.8	5.5	$4,708	9.6	67.8
Canada	82.2	4.9	7.3	$4,753	10.1	70.3
France	82.4	3.9	7.8	$4,600	11.0	78.8
Germany	81.0	3.8	9.0	$5,550	11.3	84.6
Japan	83.7	2.7	6.4	$4,519	10.9	84.1
Sweden	82.4	2.9	4.4	$5,488	11.0	83.9
UK	81.2	4.3	9.2	$4,193	9.7	79.2
USA	79.3	6.5	26.4	$9,892	17.2	49.1
Charts. Why does National Public Radio, like most media, not report most of these international comparisons? Videos. Republican myths about Canadian healthcare: 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 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82. Nations with better and healthier quality of life: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11.

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This user is male.

This user despises Gerrymandering.

This user believes that all procrastinators (himself included) need to unite and take over the world... tomorrow.

"White laser beam dispersed into its spectrum by a prism. Beam is visible due to the dust in the air."

Just another guy with a PC. :) What follows are some of my ramblings over the years, some of which have not been updated in a long time. Your mileage may vary. :0 - About my username: Time dilation is a proven fact. Time travel is not, and I personally don't believe it is possible. But I could be wrong. :)

See my Commons user page: commons:User:Timeshifter. See page of newsletter templates: User:Timeshifter/Newsletters.

This user is one of the 2500 most active English Wikipedians of all time.

Think big: Free knowledge for all: Wikipedia Zero, and open access. A cross-wiki watchlist for all Wikimedia wikis. A Visual Editor with fast section editing. Using the Firefox browser try opening up a section of the Barack Obama page (or other similarly long, and highly referenced article, with many templates) for editing with the Visual Editor. It takes a very long time in Firefox before editing can begin. It only takes a few seconds in the old wikitext editor to open up a section for editing (in any browser). People who see something minor that needs to be corrected or updated don't want to wait 30 seconds for the page to be ready for editing. And they may also not want to learn the arcane language of wikitext editing. See also Bugzilla 48429.

Anonymous, registered, and bot edits. English Wikipedia timeline. Note the decline in total edits when bot edits are removed.

Timeline of anonymous edits on English Wikipedia. More charts are needed in this category.

• School is a prison — and damaging our kids. From the article:

"Wherever he placed such a computer, dozens of children would gather around and, with no help from adults, figure out how to use it. Those who could not read began to do so through interacting with the computer and with other children around it. The computers gave the children access to the whole world’s knowledge."

• See also: School-to-prison pipeline.

• 30,000+ This user has made over 30,000 contributions to Wikipedia.
• 52,000+ This user has made over 52,000 contributions to Wikimedia projects.
• This user has been on Wikipedia for 12 years, 8 months and 27 days.

• This user has been a member of Wikipedia since 7 October 2005.

• This user has rollback and pending changes reviewer rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify)
• This user has a page on Wikimedia Commons.
• This user is not an administrator on the English Wikipedia. (verify)

Here is a good summary chart below. It says the maximum number of active editors (5 or more article edits in the last month) peaked at around 53,000 in March 2007.

See also: commons:Category:English Wikipedia active editor statistics for more stats and charts. I think there need to be 4 timeline graphs of the number of editors making 1, 2, 3, and 4, edits per month. Then we can do the math of the cumulative edits per month by each group. It may turn out the editors who are most important are the ones doing only a few edits per month. That is another reason that the slowness of editing with Visual Editor needs to be addressed.

Essays and ramblings

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Core content policies
Neutral point of view No original research Verifiability
Other content policies
Article titles Biographies of living persons Image use policy What Wikipedia is not

• My biases are shown by my writings above and below. But I respect WP:NPOV in Wikipedia articles.

Some of these essays may not have been updated in awhile, and may no longer apply. They are kept for historical purposes and perspective.

I don't actually want Wikipedia to fork. But it could be done as a last resort if Wikipedia loses its way.

Support in principle: English Wikipedia fork. If necessary, there is no technical or financial reason a fork could not be done. Other wikis outside Wikimedia can already use Commons images via InstantCommons. It is not technically necessary to use servers one owns. There are many large commercial server farms with servers spread worldwide that could handle the English Wikipedia bandwidth needs. They have dynamic load balancing and can handle any fluctuations in bandwidth needs. The English Wikipedia fork would still be nonprofit, and could raise money the same way through fundraising drives. If necessary, opt-in ads could be allowed for awhile. See: User:Timeshifter/Userboxes/Optional ads. Wikipedia would still be nonprofit. The money raised from all sources would pay for the many technical staff people necessary to maintain the MediaWiki software on the servers. English Wikipedia would decide what parts of the MediaWiki software to enable or disable.

I edit on Wikipedia, Commons, Wikia, and Shoutwiki. On none of those major wikis do I have less than twenty thousand edits. I have also edited on Meta, Strategy, MediaWiki, Bugzilla, Wikibooks, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikiquote, etc... I am a bureaucrat at Wikia, and a steward on Shoutwiki. We can do better on Wikipedia. There is too much nationalism, religious zealotry, and close-mindedness.

We should not let an admin, leader, or any "authority" anywhere forget that they are empowered by us. We can tell the emperor that he is wearing no clothes as concerns their skills. Because some or many of them can be incompetent according to the Peter Principle. Especially some of the leaders at the level of the Wikimedia Foundation board and staff at times. Some of them get promoted beyond their level of current competence (per the Peter Principle), since some of them are fairly inexperienced at editing Wikipedia, or dealing with the intricacies of Wikipedia. Some of them hang out at Meta-Wiki, where ideas go to die. Or they create other small wikis such as the Strategy wiki, Usability wiki, Outreach wiki, etc.. To get more in-depth participation in projects, move projects to the Wikimedia Commons, or better yet, back to English Wikipedia. English Wikipedia has far less systemic bias than in the past. The Commons gets a lot of participation from editors worldwide. For more info see: Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2013-01-07/Op-ed, "Op-ed. Meta, where innovative ideas die", especially the comments. See also this article and comments: Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2013-05-27/Foundation elections. "Meta: 'a specific kind of mess'?" See also: meta:User talk:Timeshifter#Meta-Wiki.

Commons has a huge number of active editors (registered users who have performed an action in the last 30 days). Compare the number to English Wikipedia. See:

• commons:Special:Statistics
• en:Special:Statistics

Meta, Strategy, Outreach, Usability, etc., and all their projects, would still exist if they were moved to the Commons. They would be independent projects on the Commons. All the documents would still exist. They would be on the Commons watchlist. Far more people would get involved. For Meta, everything would continue on: board elections, steward elections, chapter documentation, translations, Wikimania bidding, policy drafting, committee work, GAC/FDC, etc.. The only difference would be that they occur on the Commons where there are far more active editors from around the world. Until there is an Integrated watchlist that people like, and can easily enable, this is the best way for such projects to get broad participation.

One way is to do it with folders. As on Mediawiki.org at mw:Technical communications/Mobile documentation consolidation where there is a folder for Technical communications subdivided by sub-project. There are many such folders for various projects on MediaWiki.org. It would be easy to do this via meta:Special:Export on Meta, and commons:Special:Import on the Commons. One uses "Destination root page" in the Special:Import form on the Commons, and enters "Meta". So all pages moved from Meta to the Commons would start with commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta - I have tested this on another wiki when importing stuff between wikis. It works. If small wikis were moved to the Commons, then templates would no longer have to be duplicated on all those wikis.

There is a lack of quality group collaboration and discussion due to poor problem solving methods, and inadequate discussion software in the Village Pumps and elsewhere. LiquidThreads, used at MediaWiki.org, is an abomination, developed without broad feedback from regular editors. See article by someone else: Why I hate LiquidThreads. It mainly got feedback from regular editors at the currently near-useless Meta-Wiki. See this site search of Meta. What is needed is more group problem solving, section watchlisting, and less reliance on support and oppose votes. There is some collaborative effort in Bugzilla threads, but the format is only partially compatible with MediaWiki formatting. All in all, Wikipedia could learn a lot from Khan Academy and its as-needed group problem-solving methodology. Some subpage-based forums would be very helpful too. See: Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 93#Convert Village Pump to Wikia Community Forum software and its subsections. See one of the new Wikia Community Central forums, for example; the General Discussion one. The forum threads can be watchlisted individually, and can be sorted by most recent reply, most active in 7 days, oldest threads, and newest threads. See also the old Wikia Founder & Admin Forums. Individual threads can be watchlisted, and it uses standard wiki discussion page editing which some prefer to the new forums. It also has the better, more complete, editing toolbar.

The best way to edit Wikipedia lately is to post and run, since there is no efficient content dispute resolution. For that see User:Timeshifter/More articles and less editors. Another good thing to do is post suggestions on article talk pages. Wikipedia survives, for now, only because there are more good editors posting and running. They outnumber the legions of moron tagteams and fanboys (there are few women who edit) that drive away innumerable good editors who stand, fight, and then get blocked by clueless admins wielding WP:Edit warring in totally arbitrary ways. See User:Timeshifter/Unchecked admin misconduct.

Some userboxes

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For more ideas see User:Timeshifter/Userboxes. The ability to have some en:WP:consolidated watchlists, and be able to choose what is and isn't on it, would be nice.

• My Commons user page: commons:User:Timeshifter

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Unresolved content disputes combined with abusive admins and policies drive away editors and donations. See also.

The lack of enough moderators and arbitrators drives away editors and donations. More info.

I support on/off buttons for opt-in ads on a nonprofit Wikipedia for all readers (via cookies).

This user supports global, cross-wiki, integrated watchlists.

This user supports opt-in ads on Wikipedia (via user preferences).

I support on/off buttons for opt-in ads on a nonprofit Wikipedia for all readers (via cookies).

Wikipedia and the Commons need more charts and graphs

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It is now possible to copy and paste tables from web pages directly into the WP:Visual Editor. Use a sandbox and edit the table further in both wikitext source mode and in the Visual Editor. One of the most useful features is the ability to add and delete columns and rows. Click on the left of a row, or the top of a column to see the options.

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  Source: Correctional Populations in the United States, 2013 (NCJ 248479). It is appendix table 5 on page 13 of the PDF. From U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics.
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  The United States is the world's leading jailer. Inmates per 100,000 population. See: Incarceration in the United States and List of countries by incarceration rate.
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  Incarceration rates for adult males in U.S. jails and prisons by race and ethnicity. At midyear 2009, an estimated 4.7% of black non-Hispanic men were in prison or jail, compared to 1.8% of Hispanic men of any race, and 0.7% of white non-Hispanic men.
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Note the flag. :) Even Americans have to cite their sources.

References: Lie After Lie: What Colin Powell Knew About Iraq 15 Years Ago and What He Told the U.N. By Jon Schwarz. February 6 2018. The Intercept. And: Lie After Lie After Lie: What Colin Powell Knew Ten Years Ago Today and What He Said. By Jonathan Schwarz. Feb 5, 2013. Updated Apr 7, 2013. HuffPost.

Western systemic bias. See WikiProject Countering systemic bias. This user supports the Iranian people. Where is my vote? The motto used by Iranian demonstrators in June 2009. Huge crowds gathered in Tehran on 18 June 2009, protesting against the election results. Neda Agha-Soltan. Jan 23, 1983 to June 20, 2009. Her grave site immediately following burial. Project Censored number 1 story for 2009: Over One Million Iraqi Deaths Caused by US Occupation السلام-שלום This user participates in WikiProject Israel Palestine Collaboration. This user is a supporter of the heroic Bosnian army who defended Bosnia (with minimal weapon capacity) for three years against the well armed aggressors of Serbia and Croats in Bosnia. This user condemns and opposes Bosnian Genocide denial. Palestine Peace Not Apartheid by Jimmy Carter. American Jim Crow apartheid in 1938.

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Thoughts are free - Song lyrics liked by the White Rose resistance.

This user supports open-mindedness.

This user believes that articles are useless without images.

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DGAF

This user does not give a fuck, mmmkay?

This user strives to maintain a policy of neutrality on controversial issues.

This user is a member of WikiProject Images and Media

This user spends WAY too much time on Wikipedia and really needs to get off the computer... after one more edit.

See also the userboxes section below.

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War (Bob Marley song). Live version: [1].

Part of Haile Selassie’s 1963 United Nations speech that appears in "War:"

That until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned; That until there are no longer first-class and second class citizens of any nation; That until the color of a man's skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes; That until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race; That until that day, the dream of lasting peace and world citizenship and the rule of international morality will remain but a fleeting illusion, to be pursued but never attained;

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WikiProject Palestine Open Tasks

Wikipedia:WikiProject Palestine/to do. Copy and paste this code below into user and talk pages:

{{todo|target=Wikipedia:WikiProject Palestine}}

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A woman weeps during the deportation of the Jews of Ioannina, Greece on March 25, 1944. Almost all of the people deported were murdered on or shortly after April 11, 1944, when the train carrying them reached Auschwitz-Birkenau. Kehila Kedosha Janina Synagogue and Museum, The Holocaust in Ioannina. Raptis, Alekos and Tzallas, Thumios, Deportation of Jews of Ioannina, Kehila Kedosha Janina Synagogue and Museum, July 28, 2005.

Palestinian girl killed during the Gaza War (2008–09). "War On Gaza Day 14" (in Arabic). Al-Jazeera. January 9, 2009.

Palestinian woman wounded in Gaza during the Gaza War (2008–09). "War On Gaza Day 17" (in Arabic). Al-Jazeera. January 12, 2009.

Israeli woman injured during the Gaza War (2008–09).

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Palestinian refugees in 1948: 100-Year-Old General: We Razed Arab Villages, So What?. By Gil Ronen, June 13, 2013. Israel National News. From the article: "Brig. Gen. (res.) Yitzhak Pundak: If we hadn't done it, there would be a million more Arabs and there would be no Israel."

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Wikipedia and the Commons need more charts and graphs. See: commons:Commons:Chart and graph resources.

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Second Intifada:

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2008-2009 Israel-Gaza War:

• Category:War casualties
• commons:Category:War casualties
• commons:Category:2008-2009 Israel-Gaza conflict casualties
• commons:Category:Palestinian casualties of the 2008-2009 Israel-Gaza conflict
• commons:Category:Israeli casualties of the 2008-2009 Israel-Gaza conflict

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JS and CSS customization

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Overall customization of this wiki:

• MediaWiki:Common.css
• MediaWiki:Common.js
• MediaWiki:Vector.css
• MediaWiki:Vector.js

User customization:

• Special:MyPage/common.css which for me is User:Timeshifter/common.css
• Special:MyPage/common.js which for me is User:Timeshifter/common.js
• Special:MyPage/skin.css is for your personal skin. For me that is User:Timeshifter/vector.css
• Special:MyPage/skin.js is for your personal skin. For me that is User:Timeshifter/vector.js

WikiProjects and more

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Policies and guidelines (list)
Principles
Five pillars Ignore all rules Core content policies
Content policies
Article titles Biographies of living persons Image use Neutral point of view No original research Verifiability What Wikipedia is not (Not a dictionary)
Conduct policies
Civility Clean start Consensus Dispute resolution Edit warring Editing policy Harassment No legal threats No personal attacks Ownership of content Username policy Vandalism
Other policy categories
Deletion Enforcement Friendly space policy Legal Procedural
Directories
List of policies List of guidelines Manual of Style contents

I am a member of these WikiProjects:

• Cannabis
• Copyright Cleanup
• Correction and Detention Facilities
• Countering systemic bias/Global perspective
• Discrimination
• Drug Policy
• Free Software
• Human rights
• Illustration
• Images and Media
• Israel Palestine Collaboration
• Maps
• Middle Eastern military history
• Organized Labour
• Palestine
• United States Public Policy
• Vietnam

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• Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines
• Category:Wikipedia policies and guidelines
• Template:Wikipedia policies and guidelines
• Wikipedia userboxes

Userboxes and subpages

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User:Timeshifter/Userboxes

{{User USPP}} This user is a member of WikiProject United States Public Policy.

Wikimedia Needs More Women!

{{Wiki}} This user is a professional writer in the MediaWiki language.

This user is a member of the Kindness Campaign.

This user is a member of
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Countering systemic bias.

1RR This user prefers discussing changes on the talk page rather than engaging in an edit war.

السلام-שלום This user participates in WikiProject Israel Palestine Collaboration.

This user participates in WikiProject Palestine.^‡

This user rescues articles for the Article Rescue Squadron.

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WikiProject Userboxes.

This user proudly participates in WikiProject Lists.

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WikiProject Maps
Map Workshop (watch)

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WikiProject Drug Policy.

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WikiProject Correction
and Detention Facilities.

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WikiProject Human rights

This user is an ally of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans community.

This user knows that replacing one bias with another is not cleanup.

This user is straight but not narrow.

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♫ This user likes the song Hotel Wikipedia.

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WikiProject Discrimination.

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bold, revert, discuss cycle.

This user agrees that nationalism is Wikipedia's plague.

This user is a member of WikiProject Computing.

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WikiProject Cannabis.

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This user likes firing all phasers and a full spread of photon torpedoes.

This user is a member of WikiProject Vietnam.

I support on/off buttons for opt-in ads on a nonprofit Wikipedia for all readers (via cookies).

This user supports global, cross-wiki, integrated watchlists.

This user is a member of the Association of Eventualist Wikipedians.

This user wastes far too much time editing Wikipedia.

Graphics tools, methods, links

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• Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/Image workshop
• commons:Commons:Chart and graph resources
• commons:Commons:Map resources
• commons:Category:Commons resources
• Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/Resources
• meta:Philip Greenspun illustration project.
• meta:Philip Greenspun illustration project/Requests - request creation/improvement of illustrations.

Related categories for diagrams, charts, graphs, maps:

Category:Maps Category:Statistical charts and diagrams Category:Diagrams commons:Category:Diagrams Category:Charts Category:Graphs Category:Graphs (images) Category:Infographics commons:Category:Information graphics Category:Scientific modeling commons:Category:Scientific modeling

There are additional resources below that are not directly listed in the above links.

• Wikibooks:wikibooks:Computer software bookshelf#Graphics and video software
• http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/Gimp/WebHome
• http://en.flossmanuals.net/write

IrfanView is a great, highly-rated freeware image editor.

KompoZer is a good, free, web page editor.

GIF images are fine for graphics on wikipedia. See this discussion, and this one.

Transparency works in GIF images. I am not familiar with all the intricacies though. Many graphics do not need transparency. Especially when used on wikipedia pages. I noticed that GIF images using transparency have to be done correctly if the images are to be scaled. Otherwise one gets the jaggy, laddered edges. There are ways to make the transparency work correctly with GIF images according to this:

• http://www.handson.nu/HTML/transparency.shtml

Charts are needed

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Wikipedia and the Commons need more charts and graphs. See: commons:Commons:Chart and graph resources.

For example; a country chart listing the percent of households with handguns in every nation.

Even better, a country or region chart with one column listing the murder rate, another column listing the percent of households owning handguns, and another column listing the percent of murders committed using handguns.

Data on chart below is out of date.

Copying maps and charts from PDF files

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Ask for map help of any kind on the Wikipedia:WikiProject Maps talk page, or ask the project participants directly on their talk pages.

Another very active place to seek map help is at:

• Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/Image workshop - Creates and/or improves maps.

See many map sources, help, work, and template links here:

• Category:Wikipedia maps
• commons:Category:Commons maps
• commons:Commons:Chart and graph resources

It is usually better if uploaders make and upload PNG or GIF copies of maps and charts found in PDF documents. PNG and GIF are free, lossless, uncompressed, sharper formats. Please do not use the JPG image format for map and chart graphics. JPG images, and subsets cropped from them, get progressively more and more blurry since JPG is always compressed. Even at the highest quality levels.

I use the freeware IrfanView. It is great for pasting in full or cropped sections of PDF maps, and then converting to GIF or PNG. One can continue to crop further subsets without loss of clarity.

Image formats such as JPEG (JPG) that use lossy data compression, are generally not as good for images that have sharp lines and text in them. When scaled the compression process used for these formats can make lines and text appear "fuzzy" (especially at higher compression levels), even if they were sharp when originally created.

This is not usually a problem with thumbnail JPG images in Wikipedia articles. People can click the image to enlarge it and see a sharper version of the image. But with scaled, intermediate-sized JPG images in a Wikipedia article it can be a problem. That is because the MediaWiki software compresses the image somewhat while scaling it, and the image may look "fuzzy", and have compression artifacts. MediaWiki does not scale JPG images using the highest quality settings.

Even at the highest quality settings there is no JPG setting for saving an image that will not compress the image a little. It is always a lossy compression. See: [2]

WikiProject Countering Systemic Bias open tasks

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Systemic bias.

The right sidebar is from this: {{Censorship}}

The box below is from this: {{WikiProjectCSBTasks}}

My bias

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North American slave revolts
Toussaint Louverture
1526 San Miguel de Guadalupe (Spanish Florida, Victorious) c. 1570 Gaspar Yanga's Revolt (Veracruz, New Spain, Victorious) 1712 New York Slave Revolt (British Province of New York, Suppressed) 1730 First Maroon War (British Jamaica, Victorious) 1733 St. John Slave Revolt (Danish Saint John, Suppressed) 1739 Stono Rebellion (British Province of South Carolina, Suppressed) 1741 New York Conspiracy (Province of New York, Suppressed) 1760 Tacky's War (British Jamaica, Suppressed) 1787 Abaco Slave Revolt (British Bahamas, Suppressed) 1791 Mina Conspiracy (Louisiana (New Spain), Suppressed) 1795 Pointe Coupée Conspiracy (Louisiana (New Spain), Suppressed) 1791–1804 Haitian Revolution (French Saint-Domingue, Victorious) 1800 Gabriel's Rebellion (Virginia, Suppressed) 1803 Igbo Landing (St. Simons Island, Georgia, Suppressed) 1805 Chatham Manor (Virginia, Suppressed) 1811 German Coast Uprising (Territory of Orleans, Suppressed) 1815 George Boxley (Virginia, Suppressed) 1816 Bussa's Rebellion (British Barbados, Suppressed) 1822 Denmark Vesey (South Carolina, Suppressed) 1831 Nat Turner's rebellion (Virginia, Suppressed) 1831–1832 Baptist War (British Jamaica, Suppressed) 1839 Amistad, ship rebellion (Off the Cuban coast, Victorious) 1841 Creole case, ship rebellion (Off the Southern U.S. coast, Victorious) 1842 Slave Revolt in the Cherokee Nation (Indian Territory, Suppressed) 1859 John Brown's Raid (Virginia, Suppressed)

Operation Condor
Background histories
Argentina Bolivia Brazil (1960s) Chile (1973 coup d'état) Paraguay Peru Uruguay
Events
Dirty War National Reorganization Process Operation Colombo Operation Charly Operation Gladio Night of the Pencils Operation Independence Ezeiza massacre Margarita Belén massacre Death flights Desaparecidos (the "disappeared") 1973 Chilean coup d'état
Government leaders
Jorge Anaya Hugo Banzer Basilio Lami Dozo João Figueiredo Leopoldo Galtieri Augusto Pinochet Alfredo Stroessner Jorge Rafael Videla
Targets
civilian political oponents to neoliberal policies, including activists, journalists, students, union representatives, artists. Montoneros Tupamaros People's Revolutionary Army (ERP) Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR)
Principal operatives
Alfredo Astiz Orlando Bosch Hugo Campos Hermida Manuel Contreras Stefano Delle Chiaie José López Rega Virgilio Paz Romero Luis Posada Carriles Paul Schäfer Michael Townley
Organizations responsible
Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (DINA) Caravan of Death Batallón de Inteligencia 601 Coordination of United Revolutionary Organizations (CORU) National Intelligence Service of Brazil (SNI) School of the Americas (SOA) Servizio per le Informazioni e la Sicurezza Militare (SISMI) Argentine Anticommunist Alliance ("Triple A") Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Places
Esmeralda Estadio Nacional de Chile Villa Grimaldi Colonia Dignidad Navy Petty-Officers School of Mechanics (ESMA)
Laws
Full stop Due Obedience
Archives and reports
Archives of Terror Rettig Report Valech Report National Security Archive
Reactions
National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons (CONADEP) Trial of the Juntas Augusto Pinochet's arrest and trial Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo

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I support WP:NPOV (Wikipedia:Neutral point of view). In case you were wondering, I am American, and I do not have any particular religious beliefs. My spiritual beliefs range widely, and they change. For a little more about me see the #Userboxes section on this talk page. My Wikimedia commons user page is at commons:User:Timeshifter. My Meta user page is at meta:User:Timeshifter.

I am pro-Palestinian. I also support progressives from any wing of Israeli politics. I support a two-state solution concerning Israel and a future state of Palestine. It would be even better if a rough consensus would emerge among all people there for a non-theocratic, one-state solution with genuine religious toleration and freedom for all.

For the right sidebar see: {{North American slave revolts}} and {{Operation Condor}}

Media bias

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Wikipedia is so popular that it could be considered part of the mass media. The Alexa traffic rank of Wikipedia is in the top ten worldwide. See:

• http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wikipedia.org

That means only a few web sites get more daily page views than Wikipedia. Here are some relevant wikipedia pages concerning media bias, religious influence, lobbying, etc..

• - Media bias#Vis-a-vis religious issues
• - Pat Robertson, 700 Club, Category:Left Behind series, Christian Zionism.
• - Israel lobby in the United States, Arab lobby in the United States, Pallywood.
• - Clear Channel, Air America Media, Right-wing radio (redirects to Conservatism#Radio).
• - Echo chamber (media), Vast right-wing conspiracy, Liberal media (redirects to Media bias).
• - Christian right, Christian left, Jewish lobby, Ethnic interest group.
• - Spin (public relations), Interest group, Campus Watch, CAMERA Israeli lobby campaign in Wikipedia
• - Media manipulation, Framing (social sciences), Fear mongering, Code word racism.
• - Smear campaign, Foreign policy interest group, Attack ad.
• - The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, Managing the news, Gatekeeping (communication),
• - Propaganda, Bandwagon effect, Disinformation, Flag-waving, Scapegoating.

Practicing WP:NPOV

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WP:NPOV (Wikipedia:Neutral point of view). Implementing NPOV in articles is dependent on civil discussion of disagreements. See Wikipedia:Civility. It is also dependent on understanding the difference between guidelines and policies.

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
http://www.bartleby.com/100/420.47.html
http://www.bartleby.com/59/3/foolishconsi.html

Guidelines versus policies. Quote of interest above (emphasis added).

Systemic bias in English Wikipedia and English media.

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See:

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias/Global perspective

Ultra-nationalist editors and tag teams are bad enough. Systemic bias is even more difficult for wikipedia and WP:NPOV neutrality. Wikipedia is about neutrality (WP:NPOV). If more editors fully understood it, there would be less problems. If more people allowed all significant viewpoints to be shown (from reliable sources), then there would be less complaints, because people could not say that their POVs were not being expressed.

People who insist that ONLY their particular POV be expressed on a wikipedia page will not be happy, and should leave, or be banned (at least temporarily), from wikipedia. It is against a core wikipedia policy (WP:NPOV). WikiProject "Countering systemic bias" is about expanding wikipedia's expression of all significant viewpoints. Especially, those viewpoints suppressed by institutionalized bias, racism, bigotry, ignorance, culture, etc..

I usually say something concerning unbalanced POVs (even ones I agree with) when it is brought up concerning parts of articles I have worked on. I try to be intellectually honest and fair. I don't just do this out of charity. I want my edits to be treated the same way by others.

When I point out some unbalanced POV that an editor has inserted, I want them to be intellectually honest too. Fair is fair. It is common-sense fair play. When I say "Unbalanced POV" I am referring to a POV being expressed in an article without the balance of other POVs. Wikipedia maintains a neutral point of view in the narrative voice of the article by expressing the various POVs in the form of X says Y.

Israeli human rights violations in the Palestinian territories

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Note: See: {{Banner WPIPC}}. It seems things have been improving since the creation of Wikipedia:WikiProject Israel Palestine Collaboration after this section was first written, but in some areas things are still moving along glacially when one compares the subcategories in these two "human-rights-by-country" categories:

• Category:Human rights in the United States
• Category:Human rights in the Palestinian territories - (In my mind the West Bank and the Gaza Strip are already countries).

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The following discussion between the lines was copied from

• Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Palestine#Occupation

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There doesn't seem to be a good article on the Israeli occupation of the territories, including such things as security arrangements, the barrier, checkpoints, travel restrictions, settlements, citizenship, roads, water rights and so on. There is some information in Allegations of Israeli apartheid, but that's focussed on the word "apartheid" rather than more general. —Ashley Y 09:09, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

Please see

Wikipedia:WikiProject Arab-Israeli conflict#April 2007

I copied this from that section:

• Occupation of Palestine has been reduced to a (very problematic) disambiguation page. As far as I can tell, anyone looking for this quite important topic under its obvious name will be sent down a maze of twisty little passages. Further comments at Talk:Occupation of Palestine#A nonsense and/or an evasion, which is probably where this should be discussed. - Jmabel | Talk 07:06, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

As for human rights abuses under occupation please see

Wikipedia:WikiProject Arab-Israeli conflict#February 2007

Here is the relevant info copied from there:

• Alleged human rights violations by Israel during Al-Aqsa Intifada (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Accusations against Israel of war crimes during the Al-Aqsa Intifada (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Allegations against Israel of war crimes during the Al-Aqsa Intifada (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Some editors and admins improperly deleted this page, and blocked all attempts to restore the page, and to rename the page. See Talk:Allegations against Israel of war crimes during the Al-Aqsa Intifada. It has been suggested that the info in the article that this talk page refers to could be merged with Al-Aqsa Intifada. See this AFD: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Accusations against Israel of war crimes during the Al-Aqsa Intifada. The closing admin for that AFD said the material should be kept. Currently the article redirects to Al-Aqsa Intifada. The article can no longer be found at its original location except in some of the page revisions such as this one. The original page is also found here: User:Timeshifter/Al-Aqsa Intifada Archive. Old page?. In that location the embedded links have been converted to footnote links. That way the relevant material can be more easily moved to other wikipedia pages. There is probably too much material to move all of it to existing pages, because no page focuses only on the topic of human rights under Israeli occupation. One suggestion has been to put the info in a completely new article with a new title. This title could not be used: "Human rights in the Palestinian territories". It currently redirects to Human rights in the Palestinian National Authority. That page does not cover human rights violations by Israeli occupation. There are other possibilities for titles: "Human rights under Israeli occupation," or "Human rights in Israeli-controlled territories" or "Alleged human rights violations in Israeli-controlled territories" or something else. There are parallels in article names such as Human rights in pre-Saddam Iraq and Human rights in Saddam's Iraq. This may help: Wikipedia:Naming conflict. See also: Portal:Human rights and Category:Human rights for ideas. Over time WP:NPOV help is needed to move the lengthy info. You can help. It may be possible to move some of the info to here: Human rights in Israel#Human rights record in Occupied territories. Maybe a "further information" link from it could link to a spinout article titled "Israel's human rights record in the occupied territories." --Timeshifter 03:39, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

So, it seems that it will take some dedication and WikiProject teamwork to get WP:NPOV info into wikipedia in articles focused specifically on those topics. --Timeshifter 10:49, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

There is the article Israeli-occupied territories. Its scope includes the Golan Heights as well as the Palestinian Territories. Sanguinalis 13:17, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the link to that article. I think that article needs to be vastly expanded, and/or WP:SPINOUT articles created, to include more info on the things mentioned by Ashley Y (especially the hardships experienced by Palestinians): "such things as security arrangements, the barrier, checkpoints, travel restrictions, settlements, citizenship, roads, water rights and so on." Also, the human rights abuses that are alleged in the info I linked to higher up.

Occupation of the Palestinian territories redirects to Palestinian territories. I can find no wikipedia page focussed on the Israeli-imposed hardships, or on the alleged Israeli human rights abuses, in the Palestinian territories. Looking at the edit history of Israeli-occupied territories is enlightening.

The main little bit of focussed info on the topic is at

Human rights in Israel#Israel's record: human rights in the occupied territories.

I think it is an obvious systemic bias to put that info there. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias. The Palestinian territories are NOT in Israel. Read the article Palestinian territories. Israel occupies the Palestinian territories, at least according to the UN and most of the world. So why does wikipedia treat it differently at times? Why is the main discussion of alleged Israeli human rights abuses buried in a non-obvious location? It would take a determined reader to find it. The average wikipedia reader may not find it.

Please see also:

Wikipedia:Notice board for Palestine-related topics#October 2007 --Timeshifter 14:28, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

I agree with all of the above. Sanguinalis 02:18, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

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• Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Palestine/Archive 4#Occupation

Israeli Foreign Ministry's organized campaign on Wikipedia

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Related info and discussion:

• Template:Arab-Israeli Arbitration Enforcement.
• Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Israel Palestine Collaboration/Current Article Issues/Archive. Outside organizing of editing.

Please see:

• Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive278#Organised POV-pushing campaign on the way?
• WikiEN-l. Conflict of Interest and lobbyists for foreign governments.
• Hasbara Fellowships Newsletter for May 31, 2007. Section titled "Wikipedia.org"
• About Hasbara Fellowships - IsraelActivism.com

Related administrator arbitration, actions, incidents, etc.:

• Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Palestine-Israel articles
• Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents/Statement re Wikilobby campaign

More recent actions by the Israeli government

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• Students offered grants if they tweet pro-Israeli propaganda. By Ben Lynfield, The Independent, 13 August 2013. "In a campaign to improve its image abroad, the Israeli government plans to provide scholarships to hundreds of students at its seven universities in exchange for their making pro-Israel Facebook posts and tweets to foreign audiences. The students making the posts will not reveal online that they are funded by the Israeli government."

DMI Comparison between Anonymous Palestinian and Israeli Wikipedia Edits

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Using WikiScanner the Digital Methods Initiative (DMI) site has an analysis called:

• Comparison between Anonymous Palestinian and Israeli Wikipedia Edits.

Israeli anonymous edits outnumbered Palestinian anonymous edits several times over.

Isarig and his sockpuppets banned from editing anything relating to Arabs and Israel.

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Note: It looks like Isarig has exercised his right-to-vanish since this section was first written. See this deletion log and Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Palestine-Israel articles#User:Isarig is no longer with us. See also the "right-to-vanish" reason mentioned here. He came back later as the banned user User:NoCal100. See Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/NoCal100/Archive. Isarig's past contributions can now be found here:

• Former user 2 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • nuke contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log)

Isarig was almost permanently banned from wikipedia because of his use of sockpuppets in order to favor the ultranationalist Israeli POV in many articles. I call this the "Israel can do no wrong" POV.

December 20, 2007 diff. Avi wrote (emphasis added): "Just for reference, I talk with Fayssal before he performed the block, and I agree with his action. Isarig, you have to demonstrate the ability to consistently edit articles completely separate from anything relating to Arabs and Israel, in a neutral, sock-free fashion, for a significant length of time, before the ban is lifted. Continued violation of the terms of your probation may result in ban extension or permanence."

August 30, 2007 topic ban placed on User:Isarig for at least 6 months, with possible extensions. See:

• Wikipedia:Community_sanction_noticeboard/Archive12#Isarig
• Wikipedia:Community_sanction_noticeboard/Archive12#Consensus.3F
• Wikipedia:Community_sanction_noticeboard/Archive12#Resolution
• Wikipedia:Community_sanction_noticeboard/Archive13#User:Isarig
• Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive309#Isarig violating terms of mentorship.

Sockpuppets confirmed August 24, 2007. See:

• Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Isarig

 Confirmed. The following users are the same:

• Isarig (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • nuke contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log)
• Clintonesque (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • nuke contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log)
• Teens! (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • nuke contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log)

These may not be all the Isarig sockpuppets. I don't believe Isarig should be allowed to edit any part of wikipedia until he reveals all his sockpuppets. Some "Truth and reconciliation commissions" require public confession of all crimes before any leniency is allowed.

I believe the topic ban should be extended to at least a year. Other people have gotten a complete ban from editing all topics for a year for smaller infractions of the rules.

Related Portals, WikiProjects, Notice boards

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• Category:WikiProject Middle East
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Israel Palestine Collaboration
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Middle Eastern military history task force
• Portal:Middle East
• Portal:Israel
• Portal:Palestine
• Portal:Palestine/Opentask
• Category:WikiProject Israel
• Category:WikiProject Palestine
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Israel
• Wikipedia:Notice board for Israel-related topics
• Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Israel
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Palestine
• Wikipedia:Notice board for Palestine-related topics
• Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Palestine
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Israel
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Palestine
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Middle East
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Arab world

Barnstars, funny comments, and other things of note

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The following comments and barnstars were copied from User talk:Timeshifter.

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You have GOT to be the coolest Wikisloth with super-powers that I ever met!! For a Sloth, you sure move at a quick pace!! :) Do you wear a "super cape", I wonder? That would really complete the whole outfit and mystique.. I keep trying to think of things I could maybe do for you since you are such a blessing and a help... Hmmm. Did you ever contact Roger Ebert before his untimely demise? Is there perhaps a photo of someone that I can search for on your behalf? Just say the words. I feel a great debt to you for your help over these years. --Leahtwosaints (talk) 12:00, 17 August 2013 (UTC)

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WikiProject Ireland Collaboration

Thank you for initiating this project. There may be a great opportunity for it - please check out talk:Ireland#Ireland article names: Request for Remedy 2 and Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ireland Collaboration. — Sebastian 06:31, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

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The barnstars below were copied from my user talk page, and its archives. The latest one is on top.

		What a Brilliant Idea Barnstar
		For the concept of a noticeboard that would have allowed editors to air out complaints against abusive admins. Pity WP is not truly about improvement. —Djathinkimacowboy 01:18, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

		The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
		You know, aside from wanting you to know I strongly supported your idea for an admin complaint board, I strongly support your whole philosophy. A huge problem here is the ignoring of content dispute plus admins who will not get involved in anything. Much of the opposition to your board proposition are childish whiners, I noticed. They claim a new notice board will decrease editing time. Don't let them get you down with such fallacious 'reasoning'. Keep at it! Godspeed, and drop me a line anytime.--Djathinkimacowboy 14:43, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

		Bookbound barnstar
		To Timeshifter, for contributing to the Internet "meme" (as reported in the The Washington Post) of "Neda," the slain Iranian protester.  — Justmeherenow 07:31, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

		The Article Rescue Barnstar
		Thanks for saving File:Day 18 of War on Gaza.PNG from deletion by doing a little legwork and using your extensive knowledge of copyright and image description procedures. Its much appreciated. Tiamuttalk 15:11, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

		The Working Man's Barnstar
		For your work on compiling detailed maps, free images, and in your efforts in categorization. Tiamut 20:24, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		For your efforts at organizing regional maps in the commons and your patience in explaining those efforts Tiamut 22:32, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

		The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
		For remaining cool and encouraging others to do so, while retaining editorial integrity and passionately advocating for the truth (all POVs) to be presented :) Tiamut 10:51, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		For diligence on the Iraq War subtitle debate and for helping solve a very tough issue. Also, nice work on keeping everyone (myself included) honest on the various casualties sections. Nicely done. Publicus 21:10, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

More policies and guidelines

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Some help, dispute resolution, and noticeboards

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Your comments

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Please do not comment here. All comments found here from other users are moved to Timeshifter's talk page.

Please comment there.

Final note, and public domain notice

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Any of my own writing (not copied from Wikipedia articles) on my user pages is in the public domain. You are free to use and edit any of it elsewhere. This public domain notice supersedes the general CC BY-SA notice at the bottom of all Wikipedia pages.

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This user is a member of the Association of Wikipedians Who Dislike Making Broad Judgments About the Worthiness of a General Category of Article, and Who Are in Favor of the Deletion of Some Particularly Bad Articles, but That Doesn't Mean They Are Deletionists Est omnino difficile iudicare inclusionis meritum cuiusdam rei in encyclopædia cum ratio sciendi quid populi referat incerta sit, sed nihilominus aliquid encyclopædiam dedecet It is generally difficult to judge the worthiness of a particular topic for inclusion in an encyclopedia considering that there is no certain way to know what interests people, but some topics nevertheless are not fit for an encyclopedia. This motto reflects the desire of these Wikipedians to be reluctant, but not entirely unwilling, to remove articles from Wikipedia.