Rklawton

Robert Lawton
Conservation status
Groovy
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Binomial name
Homo sapiens Linnaeus, 1758
Subspecies
Homo sapiens idaltu (extinct) Homo sapiens sapiens

• Freelance photographer: Flickr, Twitter, Wikipedia
• Master Skydiver: FB#4000
• Editing Wikipedia sporadically since 2002

Wikis

• Commons Gallery
• Wiktionary
• Wikipedia
• Wikinews
• Wikivoyage

Stuff

• Commons Upload Wizard
• User Templates
• AfD, IfD, SD
• Tag Tracker
• WP:NORN
• WP:ANI
• WP:COIN
• WP:NAS
• WP Shortcuts
• Manual of Style
• Wikipedia Guidelines
• English usage
• User pages

• Picture requests
• New admin school
• Image Copyrights
• noticeboard/Incidents
• Sock investigations
• Classical Music
• Socks

• MidiaWiki Hacker
• Historic Places
• Mound City National Cemetery (Spring)
• Album cover review [1]
• Administrative backlog
• Watch list
• Find-A-Grave todo list
• Uncle Tupelo
• AfD Closing
• Index (when all else fails)

Cleanup on aisle...

• Orphaned fairuse images
• Speedy deletes

• Stub types
• New Pages

Articles created

• Caregiver syndrome
• Carlock Building
• Gleim Building
• Hypolimnas bolina
• Idea leuconoe
• Jack Foisie (to create)
• Limenitidinae

• Madison Theatre
• Mermaid House Hotel
• Monsanto Insectarium

• Narodni Sin
• Peoria City Hall
• Pere Marquette Hotel
• Phelps County Jail
• Spinners weasel
• Texas Tech Dairy Barn
• Warren and Myrta Bacon House

Biographical

• American citizen
• U.S. Army veteran, armor branch, airborne
• MBA quantitative marketing
• BBA information systems, quantitative business data analysis
• Limited vocabularies in:
  • Arabic
  • French
  • German
  • Russian
  • Spanish

Wiki-Thinking

Feel free to e-mail me or add comments on my talk page on these or any other topics:

Asses

Good news for all. I may consider you to be an ass and treat your accordingly, but after many years of editing here, I have come to realize that my memory is so short that with very rare exception, I simply don't remember (or care) who is who from one week to the next. Rklawton (talk) 01:57, 19 November 2011 (UTC)

Administuff

It seems to me that splitting editing and admin duties make sense. That is, don't exercise admin rights over articles one is editing, and don't make content edits to articles on which one is taking administrative action. It seems that following this simple rule would keep admins out of most sorts of trouble.

Quotes

• "Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness?" ~ Artemis Ward

• "We will return, if you please, to history, to solid, believable, verifiable fact!" ~Professor Binns, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling

• "Chicolini may look like an idiot, and act like an idiot, but don't let that fool you - he really is an idiot!" ~ Rufus T. Firefly, Duck Soup

Important Definitions

These three may be difficult to differentiate. Policy dictates we must assume good faith. Therefore, when communicating with the editor of inexplicable content, assume he or she is an idiot - and hope they do the same.

• Vandal: someone who deliberately makes a mess of an article
• Troll: someone who acts like an idiot to mess with editors
• Idiot: like a troll, but without the acting part

NPOV

Hypothesis: "Ugly is POV"
Test:

1. Truth is NPOV
2. The truth can be ugly

Conclusion: Ugly satisfies NPOV when it is true.

Vandals beware

• See Who's Editing Wikipedia - Diebold, the CIA, a Campaign
• WikiScanner Identifies Editors on Wikipedia

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