Editing since 2003, Administrator since dec 2004.

1. No esoteric vernacular. Use words that laypersons understand.
2. Convey the article's topic in broad concepts that are easy to understand. KISS.
3. After reading the intro, it should be obvious why the topic is important and what its real world value is.
4. The intro must not choke the reader with excessive links, lingo, language, sentence length or unit conversions. Intros that trip the reader fail.
5. Write the intro for someone who doesn't know anything about the topic. Intros written for experts are useless, since they are only understood by those who don't need them.

See Also - MOS: Wikipedia:Make_technical_articles_accessible

• Involute of Circle
• Three Leaved Rose
• Four Leaved Rose
• Hypocycloid of Four Cusps
• Evolute of Ellipse (redirect?)
• Parabolic Spiral

User:Duk/NextLaunch

• Portal:Spaceflight/Next launch
• Portal:Spaceflight
• SpaceflightNow log

List of editors who I've bumped into and, at first glance, I think should be admins. If you see your name here, I hope this encourages you to think about running. Just adding these as I go along, I'm bad with remembering names, don't feel bad if I didn't remember you ...

Wikipedia:WikiProject_edit_counters#MediaWiki_features_and_extensions

• (example) Failure to engage in relevant debate and reply to these question: [1], [2], [3], Full section.
• Six weeks later blocked editor on a similar dispute. No note on talk page, no offer to unblock if editor offers to modify behavior. Smacks of punitive nature in light of blocking admin's previous snub. [4]
• Troubling symptom - in some cases the admins failed to engage editor in discussion about the content dispute, choosing to ignore his good faith efforts to discuss the issues and focusing on his (marginally) uncivil behavior instead. Some of these admins seem to be on the opposite side of the content debate from the editor, thereby giving the appearance that they fell back on punitive admin actions after failing to successfully defend their position on the content dispute, all the while making the editor more outraged.
• Sequence of escalating disputes lately. The same packs of admins ganging up on user, further fueling the conflict and resulting in more outbursts by user. Self-feeding cycle. Shift from content dispute to editor behavior dispute to admin conduct dispute. Admins should have the good sense to defuse these situations, not exacerbate them.
• Reference
• Latest round - [5], [6]

Wikipedia:Template_messages/Sources_of_articles sourcing articles

((cite AV media)): Empty citation (help)

Example: ((Cite video | People=Al-Issawi, Omar (Director) | ReleaseYear=2001 | Title=[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0386207 Harab libnan] | Medium=TV-Series | DistributorsLocation=Lebanon | DistributorsName=Al-Issawi, Omar.))

Works here

But not here works now!

• Q. What drives a troll blind with rage?

A. Ignore him.

• Q. What's worse than blindly following policy or process?

A. Blatently ignoring it with no good rationale.

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• [7]
• [8]
• [9]
• Wikipedia:Don't be a duck
• [10]
• Working productively with people you think are idiots is probably *the* most important skill you can have on Wikipedia. David Gerard

• [11]

• How much duck could a woodchuck fuck if a woodchuck could fuck ducks? User:Analogdemon

• Why can't you figure out my needs and evolve? my wife ☺

http://fromoldbooks.org/

Wikipedia:Confirmation of permission Once you have received a confirmation that permission has been given, you should forward it to the Wikimedia PR department at "permissions at wikimedia dot org", where it will be securely archived.

copyvio/samples(contiguous)

• 7/53 = 13.21% --Duk 06:03, 16 May 2005 (UTC)
• 4/28 = 14.29% --Duk 02:27, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
• 2/29 = 6.90% --Duk 05:32, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
• 3/40 = 7.50% --Duk 16:43, 22 May 2005 (UTC)
• 2/40 = 5.00% --Duk 17:00, 22 May 2005 (UTC)
• 3/43 = 6.80% --Duk 17:23, 22 May 2005 (UTC)
• 1/20 = 5.00% --Duk 17:52, 23 May 2005 (UTC)
• 4/20 = 20.00% --Duk 23:25, 5 February 2006 (UTC) (includes one image)

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