Difference between revisions of "User:Iduan"

Latest revision as of 14:41, February 22, 2014

SEMI-RETIRED, BUT NOT DEAD

This user is no longer active at Conservapedia. God Bless.

"There's only one rule that I know of, babies ... you've got to be kind." -Kurt Vonnegut

As a user with blocking privileges, I'm willing to listen to users who think they've been unfairly blocked.

I can be reached at ian.t.duan@gmail.com

I am IDuan of Arlington, Virginia - a suburb right next to the District of Columbia.

Conservapedia

I joined Conservapedia in late April 2007 and started seriously editing in August.

What I'm Currently Working on

I recently finished my project to create a page on every Supreme Court justice in American history (that we did not have a page on, as well as placing my officeholder template on all those that we did).

Full list of works

User:Iduan/Works

Highlights of work

Pages

A few of the many articles I've really worked on (see all of them at User:Iduan/Works) are Frank Murphy, Nelson Mandela, Barack Hussein Obama, Marquis de Lafayette, Majoritarianism, Waves, Eddystone Lighthouse, XYZ Affair, Congressional Page, Stephen Johnson Field and HTML table formatting. I've also done many universities, including UMD, Boston, Arizona, UNC, UConn, Penn St., Johns Hopkins, Howard and NIU. Beyond that I like to spread my edits around and vary them.

I put a lot of work into Nigeria#Structure - where I described the structure of the executive, judiciary and legislature. The judiciary is probably the most detailed part I have, simply because I'm most interested in judicial aspects. Ditto with John Jay#The Jay Court.

Templates

I have created a few templates, the ones I'm most proud of are: Template:Template, Baseball, Template:USState, Template:NBA, Template:NFLDraft, Template:Officeholder (and a bunch of sub-pages for that), Template:Supreme Court (and every subpage from the Jay to Roberts Courts), Template:MLBTeam (which I've added to every MLB team) and Template:University (which I have put on about 131 articles so far). Some templates that I did not create but I did do a lot of work on are Template:Country and Template:Taxonomy.

My editing style/preferences

Basic page format:

Body
==Notes== (if there are references not used with <ref> tags
==References==
==See also==
==External links==

The above is the same as the format in the Conservapedia:Manual of Style, and it makes the most sense. References are most pertinent to the article text itself, so they go first; see also links are internal, so they go second, and external links go last.

As far as minor edits go: I do not use French spacing, and I usually remove it where I see it (the wiki software renders it as one space anyway, so it's just an extra character); I also remove serial commas.

References always go outside grammar marks (punctuation).

Punctuation does not always go inside quotation marks. For example, periods. If the text enclosed within the quotation marks is a full sentence - the period goes inside the quotation marks. "John said, 'My name is John.'" If not, then the period goes outside: "John said that he was '17 going on 18'."

Images, unless they are within templates/tables, should always go in thumbs - they should not stand alone.

Large blocks of text should usually be split up by sections - no one wants to read what looks like 2 paragraphs with 50 sentences. Wiki sections allow emphasis to be added and they allow clear organization.

My Computing World

I'm a pretty big fan of Mac OSX Leopard, but before it came out I was definitely an XP guy. I think that Spotlight just puts Macs miles ahead of PCs. I use Safari, XCode (for python) and Smultron (for html).

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
 __NOEDITSECTION__
+<br>
+<center><b align="center" style="width: 70%; background:#000;color:#eee;border: 4px gold solid; font-size: 40px;">SEMI-RETIRED, BUT NOT DEAD</b><br><br><br>'''This user is no longer active at Conservapedia. God Bless.'''</center>
+<br>
+{|style="border:2px solid #000033; text-align:center" cellpadding="5" align="center"
+|style="background:#D7D9FF;" |"[[CP:Guidelines#Civility|There's only one rule that I know of, babies ... you've got to be kind]]." -Kurt Vonnegut
+|-
+|style="background:#FFCCFF"|As a user with blocking privileges, I'm willing to listen to users who think they've been unfairly blocked.
+I can be reached at '''ian.t.duan@gmail.com'''
+|}
+<div style="float:right">
+'''I''' am IDuan of [[Arlington, Virginia]] - a [[suburb]] right next to the [[District of Columbia]].<br/>
-{| width="100%" style="background:transparent;"
-|-
-|width="100%" valign="top" style="border-right: 1px solid gray"|'''I''' am Issac Duan of Arlington, [[Virginia]] - a [[suburb]] right next to the [[District of Columbia]].<br/>
-<div class="horizontal">
 __TOC__
-</div>
 ==Conservapedia==
 I joined Conservapedia in late April 2007 and started seriously editing in August.
-===Edits===
-I have 959 mainspace edits, 207 template edits, 137 Conservapedia edits and a combined 593 talk edits (106 of which went towards template:standardization), plus a few other things (like images, Categories, etc.) and in total I have made 2321 edits.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://faleg.org/cgi-bin/conservapedia/editcounter_Tool1?username=Iduan|title=User:Iduan|date=2007-08-21|accessdate=2007-08-21|format=HTML|language=English|author=Interiot|work=Interiot's edit counter}}</ref> I have also blocked about 50 users.<ref>http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Special:Log&user=Iduan</ref>
+===What I'm Currently Working on===
+I recently finished my project to create a page on every Supreme Court justice in American history (that we did not have a page on, as well as placing my [[Template:officeholder|officeholder template]] on all those that we did).
+===Full list of works===
+[[User:Iduan/Works]]
+===Highlights of work===
 ====Pages====
-I'm really trying to push the mainspace number up now. I hope to be in the 1000 range in a couple months. A few of the many articles I've really worked on are [[Cuba]], [[Marquis de Lafayette]], [[Waves]], [[Eddystone Lighthouse]], [[O.J. Simpson]] and [[HTML table formatting]]. Beyond that I like to spread my edits around - and I also vary it. Sometimes I'll be watching the recent changes and I'll do drastic clean up to a low quality article I see, a lot of other times I'll be clicking "Random page" - and fixing up simple aspects like spelling or wikilinks.
+A few of the many articles I've really worked on (see all of them at [[User:Iduan/Works]]) are [[Frank Murphy]], [[Nelson Mandela]], [[Barack Hussein Obama]], [[Marquis de Lafayette]], [[Majoritarianism]], [[Waves]], [[Eddystone Lighthouse]], [[XYZ Affair]], [[Congressional Page]], [[Stephen Johnson Field]] and [[HTML table formatting]]. I've also done many universities, including [[University of Maryland|UMD]], [[Boston University|Boston]], [[University of Arizona|Arizona]], [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill|UNC]], [[University of Connecticut|UConn]], [[Pennsylvania State University|Penn St.]], [[Johns Hopkins University|Johns Hopkins]], [[Howard University|Howard]] and [[Northern Illinois University|NIU]]. Beyond that I like to spread my edits around and vary them.
-While I have created or radically changed a few pages - as you can see on the right, most of my page edits are minor. I go through each random page and make small changes to encourage consistency - but primarily because if we just create a bunch of articles and then have a lot of crappy ones that are completely out of wack - then we'll turn into Wikipedia. To some extent, this is also why I work in the template space.
+I put a lot of work into [[Nigeria#Structure]] - where I described the structure of the executive, judiciary and legislature. The judiciary is probably the most detailed part I have, simply because I'm most interested in judicial aspects. Ditto with [[John Jay#The Jay Court]].
 ====Templates====
-I have created a few templates, [[Template:citations missing|Citations missing]], [[Template:Template doc inline|Template doc inline]], [[Template:Template doc|Template doc]], [[Template:Plainlink|Plainlink]], [[Template:cite web|Cite web]], [[Template:Template]], [[Template:Baseball|Baseball]] and [[Template:Cite news|Cite news]]. I also reworded the long, much-hated [[Template:Stub]] and then created with TK a larger redesign towards the goal of standardization. Most of those templates were relatively minor, but the one I'd like to talk about is Citations missing. The goal of that template was to provide a more clean/elegant version of the uncited templates, which in my opinion were over the top. Key differences are viewable through the color scheme - as citations missing keeps the background color of articles, and is separated merely by a border. Also, as far as technical aspects go, Citations missing has a few more links, some of which depend on what page it's put on.
+I have created a few templates, the ones I'm most proud of are: [[Template:Template]], [[Template:Baseball|Baseball]], [[Template:USState]], [[Template:NBA]], [[Template:NFLDraft]], [[Template:Officeholder]] (and a bunch of sub-pages for that), [[Template:Supreme Court]] (and every subpage from the Jay to Roberts Courts), [[Template:MLBTeam]] (which I've added to every MLB team) and [[Template:University]] (which I have put on about 131 articles so far).  Some templates that I did not create but I did do a lot of work on are [[Template:Country]] and [[Template:Taxonomy]].
-I'm currently working on Roster templates for the [[National Football League]] - there were about 6 of them that I thought would be really easy - since people already had a foundation on the pages - but then I realized that I had to drastically change the style and re-work the rosters - so they actually proved to be more work.
+===Categories===
+I don't work much in this area, but I did help [[User:TK]] clean out [[:Category:Navigation box]] (which was full because of missing <nowiki><noinclude></nowiki> tags on templates - this took a while to find everything, and I also worked a lot on cleaning up [[:Category:Information technology]] - it's now much cleaner because there are specific categories and pages are better organized.
-===Goals===
+===My editing style/preferences===
-My current goal is to garner enough edits to become an admin at conservapedia. I'm one of those few people that enjoy going through categories, and the ability to delete is practically crucial for some of them. One of my activities used to be to go through the deletion category and try and clean up the pages as much as possible (depending on the page - if the page was of low quality I would try to clean it up, if it was of no quality then I wouldn't bother), and it just seemed like a waste to go through all of those and just ignore the ones I knew should be deleted. I'll probably restart that activity soon though, but currently everything is very hectic in my life, so likely not in the immediate future.
+Basic page format:
+<blockquote><pre><nowiki>Body
+==Notes== (if there are references not used with <ref> tags
 ==References==
-{{reflist}}
+==See also==
-|valign="top"|
+==External links==</nowiki></pre></blockquote>
-==Created/Vastly Reworked Pages==
+The above is the same as the format in the [[Conservapedia:Manual of Style]], and it makes the most sense. References are most pertinent to the article text itself, so they go first; see also links are internal, so they go second, and external links go last.
-<small>
-Keep in mind these are only the pages that I've really worked on
+As far as minor edits go: I do not use [[French spacing]], and I usually remove it where I see it (the wiki software renders it as one space anyway, so it's just an extra character); I also remove [[serial comma]]s.
-*[[Cuba]]
-*[[Marquis de Lafayette]]
+References always go outside grammar marks ([[punctuation]]).
-*[[Waves]]
-*[[O.J. Simpson]]
+Punctuation does not always go inside quotation marks. For example, periods. If the text enclosed within the quotation marks is a full sentence - the period goes inside the quotation marks. "John said, 'My name is John.'" If not, then the period goes outside: "John said that he was '17 going on 18'."
-*[[HTML table formatting]]
-*[[1993 NFL Draft]]
+Images, unless they are within templates/tables, should always go in thumbs - they should not stand alone.
-*[[2003 NFL Draft]]
-*[[High School]]
+Large blocks of text should usually be split up by sections - no one wants to read what looks like 2 paragraphs with 50 sentences. Wiki sections allow emphasis to be added ''and'' they allow clear organization.
-*[[A Model of Christian Charity]]
-*[[Discrimination]]
+==My Computing World==
-*[[Eddystone Lighthouse]]
+I'm a pretty big fan of [[Mac OSX]] Leopard, but before it came out I was definitely an [[Windows XP|XP]] guy. I think that Spotlight just puts Macs miles ahead of PCs. I use [[Safari (web browser)|Safari]], [[XCode]] (for python) and Smultron (for [[html]]).
-*[[Fiction]]
-*[[Gang]]
-*[[Gregorian Calendar]]
-*[[January 1]]
-*[[Literacy]]
-*[[Middle School]]
-*[[XYZ Affair‎]]
-*[[Template:/doc]]
-*[[Template:AstroObjects]]
-*[[‎Template:Baseball]]
-*[[Template:BuffaloBills]]
-*[[Template:ClevelandBrowns]]
-*[[‎Template:CPCN]]
-*[[Template:CPGram]]
-*[[‎Template:CPLock]]
-*[[‎Template:CPPOV]]
-*[[Template:CPTemp]]
-*[[‎Template:Citations missing]]
-*[[‎Template:Cite news]]
-*[[Template:Cite web]]
-*[[‎Template:Expand]]
-*[[Indianapolis Colts/Roster]]
-*[[Miami Dolphins/Roster]]
-*[[‎Template:Music]]
-*[[Philadelphia Eagles/Roster]]
-*[[‎Template:Plainlink]]
-*[[Template:SeattleSeahawks]]
-*[[‎Template:SolarSystem]]
-*[[‎Template:Template]]
-*[[Template:Renaissance Terms]]
-*[[Template:History Terms]]
-*[[Template:Combo]]
-</small>
-|}