User:WereSpielChequers

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Gentle reader, WereSpielChequers is as you may have guessed a nom de plume. I have long wanted to have my own chequers tree, but they are not normally known for their communication skills, hence the lycanthropy. There are other potential interpretations of the name, some of which may from time to time be spotted on this page. Of course another name for the Chequers tree is the Wild Service Tree, apart from the obvious I have yet to work out the implications of this, but as an admin I am indeed here to serve the community. ϢereSpielChequers, the Lycanthropic loquacious fruit tree

Contents 1 Communication 2 rfa 3 Tools 4 Things I've got involved in 4.1 We're Spell Checkers 4.2 Ware Spell Checkers 4.3 We're Spiel Checkers - thoughts on deletion 4.4 My editing philosophy. 5 Articles I Started 5.1 Related to Rapa Nui (Easter Island) 5.2 Miscellaneous 6 Some Articles I've contributed to 7 Reviewing candidates for Featured Article status 8 Disambiguation projects 9 My travels 10 My Library

[edit] Communication

If you're here to leave me a message then please sign my guestbook or put a note on my talk page. If you're here to vandalise this page feel free to increment the vandalised counter by one (other vandalism is liable to be reverted).

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[edit] rfa

I sometimes vote at wp:rfa and usually assess candidates who have between 45% and 85% support; and have even tried to code up my User:WereSpielChequers/RFA criteria so that I can focus my thoughts on how to evaluate candidates and be fair and consistent in my voting.

RfA candidate S O N S% Ending (UTC) Time left Dups? Report Taymaishu 0 5 1 0 04:13, 1 September 2009 6 days, 19 hours no report Beeblebrox 2 42 4 5 91 18:45, 30 August 2009 5 days, 10 hours no report Maedin 70 0 0 100 10:49, 28 August 2009 3 days, 2 hours no report Sky Harbor 76 0 1 100 04:44, 28 August 2009 2 days, 20 hours no report Until It Sleeps 3 53 46 9 54 19:51, 27 August 2009 2 days, 11 hours no report NuclearWarfare 2 132 4 1 97 17:00, 26 August 2009 1 days, 8 hours no report Chamal_N 88 5 9 95 11:31, 25 August 2009 0 days, 3 hours no report RfB candidate S O N S% Ending (UTC) Time left Dups? Report Last updated by SoxBot (talk) at 08:31, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

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[edit] Tools

My native tongue is English, and I have a fair understanding of American English. My home PC uses Linux with an English Wordprocessor - so American English spellings tend to get highlighted along with typos, (though sometimes it's the English variant that the spellchecker doesn't like) so if you are here because I've changed the spelling of something that's correct in American English, and its not in an article that you'd expect to be in English then please say so.

This is my main account, its a unified account occasionally used on commons and elsewhere. I'm also WereSpellCheckers when I'm travelling or using other insecure PCs.

[edit] Things I've got involved in

Initially I came here because of my hobby of archaeology, (I've been a volunteer on a couple of digs and I have a small library about Easter Island). I enjoy wandering round the Wiki following links and occasionally fixing things and making connections.

Nowadays I do a variety of things from patrolling new pages & changes and either reverting vandalism, tidying up other people's edits or welcoming newbies (often two or three of these in combination). Reviewing articles at WP:FAC, and fixing redlinks. I also have a very diverse watchlist that includes a number of frequently vandalised articles - if it gets past the hugglers I may still pick it up!

[edit] We're Spell Checkers

Then I moved on to fixing typos, (ablum, ablity, avalaible, bieng, becuase, sucess, thrity and webiste have been particular hunting grounds of mine) and fixing links to chance articles as I come across them. However most of these have now been botted.

[edit] Ware Spell Checkers

I also look at easily confused words like Doe snot/Does not that cause errors that spellcheckers cannot pick up. Cavalry/Calvary was a good hunting ground, as was Thier/Their, Crowed/(Crowded, Crowned, Crowd), Mowed/Moved Planed/Planned, Posses/Possess/Poses, Panter/Panther/Painter and Formally/Formerly. In moving Wikipedia to a solider base I can claim personal responsibility for eradicating the Olympic sport of synchronised ventriloquism from Wikipedia, and for radically reducing the amount of preforming and staring in the entertainment industry.

[edit] We're Spiel Checkers - thoughts on deletion

Though I've deleted over a thousand articles I'm beginning to realise that I'm a rabid mt:Inclusionist as I decline many speedy deletion tags.

Speedy deletion is for the truly uncontentious deletions, sometimes I decline a deletion whilst believing that it almost certainly should be deleted. If I've declined your suggestion that I delete something, and my edit summary was "decline deletion notability is asserted" then I think the article probably wouldn't survive wp:AFD. If it was "decline deletion notability is established" then I think it probably would survive wp:AFD. But if the article was about sport, music, MilHist or Manga then I'm unlikely to participate in the AFD discussion as I know less about the subject than most chequers trees.

If your boss or client wants to know why I deleted your article, please read Wikipedia:NOTADVERTISING and wp:COI.

If I deleted your article about your ex, the school geek or your political or romantic rival, and you want to know why Wikipedia won't help you get even; Feel free to add your User name here.

If I deleted your article and you want a copy of it; Email me and as long as it wasn't attacking someone or a copyright violation I should be able to Email it to you.

Further reading for new page patrollers:

• wp:Criteria for speedy deletion
• WP:Field guide to proper speedy deletion
• User:I'm Spartacus!/Why I hate Speedy Deleters
• User:SoWhy/Ten Commandments for Speedy Deletion
• User:SoWhy/Common A7 mistakes
• User:I'm Spartacus!/CSD Survey

Further reading re deletion:

• User:Dlohcierekim/deletion - A useful guide for authors whose article is in the deletion process
• Wikipedia:Deletion policy

Some deletions I've declined: a drummer, More are archived here.

[edit] My editing philosophy.

When I've finished my changes to an article I try to make myself unwatch it, otherwise I'm continually looking at other people's changes and having to stop myself from breaching wp:own. So if you are here because you've proposed a change to an article where I have been a major contributor in the past and you think I'm now ignoring the article talk page, yes I've probably unwatched it, so feel free to improve anything I've done. If however you want my opinion, would like me to provide a citation for information that I've added or would like to point out one of my mistakes, then please leave a note on my talk page. But you don't need to point out my big error in defaulting to minor edits and even making entire articles out of a series of them, as that emerged in September 2008 during my first RFA.

[edit] Articles I Started

[edit] Related to Rapa Nui (Easter Island)

Ahu Akivi, Anakena, Puna Pau, Rano Kau, Ahu Tongariki, Easter hotspot, Moai (seamount), Pukao (seamount), Terevaka

[edit] Miscellaneous

Eunomia (goddess), List of fictional demons (current work in progress - very incomplete), Mountain Pass, California, Muirhead (disambiguation), Pritchardia pacifica, Mammillaria spinosissima, Full list

[edit] Some Articles I've contributed to

Pukao, Rano Raraku, Dearth, Marilyn Manson, Payroll giving, LHC, List of theological demons, Hopping

[edit] Reviewing candidates for Featured Article status

FACs needing feedback edit
Meerkat Manor: The Story Begins	Review it now
Tawfiq Canaan	Review it now

Urgent FAR/FARCs edit
Whitstable	Review it now
City of Man. Stadium	Review it now
Sheffield	Review it now
Diamond	Review it now

I really enjoy reading FA candidate articles, often make minor tweaks and where I don't understand something query things. Whether they pass FA or not, to me these discussions are usually the most pleasurable and civilised place on Wikipedia. This is a good guide to FAC, to the right are some that need attention and below are a few that I've reviewed:

• Kaiser class battleship
• George Koval - the one they didn't catch
• Maiden Castle
• Brazilian battleship Minas Geraes 1 & 2
• Nico Ditch
• Pallid Sturgeon
• Byron Brown
• Murray Maxwell
• Heinrich Bär (the guy who cheeked Goering)
• Malawi
• Economy of Ohio
• Nevado del Ruiz a mountain prone to going bang
• Joking Apart my favourite story from Oz
• James Russell Lowell (one of my very first FAC reviews)

[edit] Disambiguation projects

Atlas (disambiguation) Queen (dozens of [[Queen]]s replaced by [[Queen (band|Queen]]), Water Buffalo, Ajax, Prince (mainly to Prince (musician)) TNT (most of these were explosive, but there seems to be a rapper who needs an article about him/her) Heer, & Yuan

[edit] My travels

Where I'm from:
Where I've dug:
I've spent a week or more in:
Just a few days:
Less than a day:
Never escaped from the airport:
Flew over:
Some sunny day/In my dreams:	and many more...
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	Idea and layout filched from StuffOfInterest, who lifted it fromHarro5, who took it from Salsb, who stole it from Guettarda who borrowed it from White Cat, as seen on Calton's page.

	Ticking them off
This user has been to 2 of the 4 Oceans. 2	32 This user has set foot in 32 countries of the world.	This user has visited 18 of the 27 States. 18
This user has visited 0 of the 8 states and territories of Australia. 0	This user has visited 0 of the 35 States and Territories of India. 0	This user has visited 13 of the 50 States and the District of Columbia. 13
This user has visited 0 of the 13 provinces and territories. 0	This user is a Citizen of the World (Terra, ⊕).

[edit] My Library

This editor is a Burba, and is entitled to display this First Book of Wikipedia.	This editor is a Novato, and is entitled to display this Wikipedia Picture Story Book.	This editor is a Grognard, and is entitled to display this Wikipedia Little Red Book.
This editor is a Most Excellent Grognard, and is entitled to display this Wikipedia Vest Pocket Edition.	This editor is a Grognard Extraordinary, and is entitled to display this 1937 Wikipedia First Edition.	This editor is a Tutnum, and is entitled to display this Book of Knowledge.

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