:User:Cumbrowski

;Personal

• Hi, my name is Carsten Cumbrowski aka Roy/SAC.
• I was born on April 14, 1974 in East Berlin/Germany, the ex-communist part of Germany called East Germany or GDR (German Democratic Republic).
• I was 15 years old and in the 9th grade when the "Berlin Wall fell" on November 9, 1989.
• I moved to the United States on May 15, 2000 and was living in Fresno/California until october 2015.
• I completed my Green Card process and became permanent resident of the United States in September 2007, over 5 years after I started it (see [http://www.cumbrowski.de/CarstenC/Immigration-Resources.asp details])
• I moved back to Berlin/Germany in 2015

;Wikipedia

• I am an active "Wikipedian" since December 31, 2005. See my detailed blog post titled "[http://www.roysac.com/blog/2007/04/how-did-i-become-a-wikipedian/ How Did I Become a Wikipedian?]" at my personal blog [http://www.roysac.com/blog/]
  

:and also [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username=Cumbrowski&site=en.wikipedia.org my Wikipedia edit counts] via the "Wannabe Kate" edit counter tool.

: I am now "retired" and do only occasional edits today

;Hobby

• I am an ASCII and ANSI text artist and co-founder of the "scene" art group Superior Art Creations (SAC).
• I was active in the computer art scene, demoscene and the warez scene between 1992 and 1998.
  

:Roy was my "handle", but I am better known in "the scene" as Roy/SAC, because of my ASCII and ANSI text art work.

• I was between 1995 and 1997 the sysop of my own bulletin board system called "Closed Society".
  

:The BBS had at the end 5 nodes (4x ISDN + 1x 28.8kbit modem) and was running on OS/2 and PCBoard.

• I have a site dedicated to ANSI and ASCII art at RoySAC.com [http://www.roysac.com], which also double-functions as SAC homepage since 2007.

;Professional

• I used to be a SAP consultant while I was in Germany and Switzerland
• I started web development and SQL Server database development in 1999. I learned my first programming language with the age of 13 though. The language was Commodore 128D BASIC.
  

:I also learned Turbo Pascal, COBOL, Foxpro, Visual Basic, T-SQL, HTML, JavaScript, ASP, PPL and ABAP/4.

• I got involved in affiliate marketing at the end of 2000/beginning 2001. I was an affiliate for over 10 years and also an affiliate manager for over 4 years.
• Since 2016 I am a business consultant for large companies in Germany.

;Other

• "Who am I?", expressed in user templates (or userboxes)

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;Additional user pages of mine, which you might find useful or interesting

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• About me - More details about me and what I do plus some personal resources.
• My Wikipedia Resources - Wikipedia resources just for me. My sandbox so to speak.

{{cquote|... the three key policies, which warrant that articles and information be verifiable, avoid being original research, and be written from a neutral point of view are held to be non-negotiable and cannot be superseded by any other guidelines or by editors' consensus.}}

Quote from WP:DGFA.

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I have my editor account at Wikipedia since 12/31/2005. See [http://www.roysac.com/blog/2007/04/how-did-i-become-wikipedian.html "How Did I Become a Wikipedian"].

:For my contributions to Wikipedia from 12/31/2005 to today, see [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username=Cumbrowski&site=en.wikipedia.org my edit counts] via Kate's Wanna-Be Edit Counter.

:Other Edit Count Tools

:You can also use Lupin's Edit Counter (JS), but also the still available User Contibutions Page gives you some ideas about my activities here at Wikipedia.

:I opt-in to User:Interiot's EditCounter. You should be able to get my counts [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/count_edits?user=Cumbrowski&dbname=enwiki_p here] now. [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/count_edits?user=Cumbrowski&dbname=enwiki_p My Edit Counts]!

:[http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spamda Spamda] Approval Request 4/28/2007

=Ideas and Plans= ;Ideas How to eliminate Link Spam?! - External Links without purpose other than SEO Ideas for Improvement of Content - Category: Internet Marketing Conflict of interest aka WP:COI argumentation. WP:COI can be a helpful thing that should be leveraged but controlled at the same time. WP:COI can be offset if being worked in teams and perfectly WP:NPOV conform. ;General Plans Extend Internet Marketing Content Merge Online marketing and E-marketing into Internet marketing and then start cleanup Add and Extend Affiliate marketing, SEO and SEM Articles Learn and Find out more about detection and handling of Link Spam at Wikipedias. Try to help. Find, get Wikipedia SPAM related statistical data Compensation methods/Business and Pricing models consolidation and clean up

=To-Do= Planned New Articles and Article Rewrites Affiliate Tip - affiliate marketing news source (also Google News source) CPA network general information that describe what CPA networks are defacto2.net - warez scene archive (no article at Wikipedia yet) DEViANCE - warez group e-Consultancy - Benchmarking, case studies and research in internet marketing (UK) eTail - e-Retailing industry tradeshow Internet Retailer - print publication of the internet marketing/e-Retailing industry. Organizer of the Internet Retailer trade show and publisher of the top 500 guide, which includes the top 500 US e-Tailers and some information about each company. Marketing Sherpa - Benchmarking, case studies and research in internet marketing (US) Opt-in email list info what that is Registration path dto. Revenue Magazine - print publication of the affiliate marketing industry Reve News - affiliate marketing news source (Me just creating an article for RN would qualify as WP:COI on my part. I need to seek help from other editors or assist anybody who decides to create an article for this.) Tradedoubler Affiliate Network (UK, one of the/or the biggest in Europe) Zanox Affiliate Network (German), one of the biggest in Europe, since 2006 also in the US) Product Data Feed for affiliates Web Services API in Affiliate Marketing Planned Article Updates nofollow article - add use of nofollow for control of PR flow within your own website ;User Templates ASCII artist, ANSI artist BBS sysop Demoscener IBM OS/2 and OS/2 Warp Internet marketer Pixel artist Windows 2003 users (server)

=Done= ;Ideas and Plans [http://www.searchenginejournal.com/?p=4288 Wikipedia Links NOFOLLOW] ;Articles Ad:tech - internet marketing tradeshow was created by somebody else already Affiliate Summit Pinnacle Awards - affiliate marketing awards within AS article Chemical Reaction / cRo CJU and CJ Horizon Awards] - affiliate marketing tradeshow and awards within CJ article eComXpo - virtual tradeshow for the affiliate marketing industry at eComXpo.com Linkshare Summit & Golden Link Awards - affiliate marketing tradeshow and awards within LS article PCBoard Extend/Rewrite Article Move Clark Development back to own article (with content) Shareasale Affiliate Network (last of the big ones in the US) ;Templates Google's Picasa

:The list is not a complete list of articles, which I edited. I edited a lot more, but those articles have more or less my attention.

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:The articles I am very strongly focused on are in bold font

:The articles I edited and WP:COI applies are in itallic font

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=Special Contributions= ;Featured Articles Search Engine Optimization :My Contributions: I provided some minor content, helped with cleaning up the article and contributed to the discussion about the content of the article. I was researching resources and helped the main contributing editor User:Jehochman to get the article finalized for the "featured article" nomination. I also contributed to the discussion for the nomination. The article was promoted to featured on June 1, 2007. ;Good Articles nofollow :My Contributions: I provided a considerable amount of content to the article between May 30, 2007 and December 17, 2007, when the article earned the status (about 30%, based on Wiki Dashboard as of 12-2007). I also nominated the article for the status of Good Article and supported the reviewing editor by implementing recommended changes to the article to improve it. I also have to thank User:BozMo for his substantial contribution to the article. ;Others Affiliate marketing ASCII art PCBoard

=Non-Marketing Related Articles= Amiexpress ANSI art Bulletin board system Cirque du Soleil Computer art scene deviantART East German mark GMPG Global Multimedia Protocols Group Le Rêve (show) List of text editors Lucky Luke Superior Art Creations United States Permanent Resident Card XING

=Marketing Related Articles= Ad:tech Advaliant Affiliate Affiliate Manager Affiliate programs directories Affiliate Summit Commission Junction Google Affiliate Network Internet marketing Jeremy Zawodny Landing page MediaTrust Meta element Online advertising Online marketing (merged -> Internet marketing) PrimeQ (speedy deleted on March 1, 2008) Search Engine Marketing Shareasale : see :Category:Internet advertising and promotion

=Other Articles= Chemical Reaction (artscene group) Computer Geeks List of notable BBSes SyncTERM (merged -> Synchronet) Tetradraw TheDraw TundraDraw VT500

=Articles about marketing= Affiliate Networks Bruce Clay Code of Conduct (affiliate marketing) Compensation methods eComXpo Frank Fiore Geo targeting Linkshare Performics PubCon Search engine strategies Shopping directory

=Categories= :Category:Internet advertising services and affiliate networks* :Category:Affiliate marketing :Category:Compensation :Category:Internet marketing trade shows :Category:Pay per click search engines :Category:Wikipedians who use Picasa * renamed in March, 2008, originally: "Category:Advertising and Affiliate Networks"

=Templates= ;Wikipedia Templates Template:Internet Marketing Template:UserTalkArchive ;User Templates User:Cumbrowski/Usertemplate/blogger User:Cumbrowski/Usertemplates/Deleted Template User:Cumbrowski/Usertemplates/Facebook User:Cumbrowski/Usertemplates/libertarian anarchist User:UBX/Picasa User:Cumbrowski/usertalkarchivenav User:Cumbrowski/Usertemplates/website

=For articles - Fair Use= :Image:Advaliant.jpg :Image:affiliatesummitlogo212x110.jpg :Image:Affmktwikipedia.jpg (repl w diff img) for Affiliate marketing :Image:Clickbooth.png (repl w diff img) for Clickbooth :Image:Commissionjunction.png :Image:CRO-logo-by-fli7e.jpg :Image:CRO-logo-by-msx.jpg :Image:CRo_Logo_WWW.jpg :Image:Ecomexpo sem floor full.jpg :Image:ecomm_logo_450x164.jpg :Image:Geekslogo.png :Image:Htmlkitlogo.gif (repl w diff img) for HTML-Kit :Image:Lereve-logo..jpg :Image:Linkshare.png :Image:Paidonresultsgradient.jpg (del article) :Image:MediatrustLogo.jpg (repl w diff img) for MediaTrust :Image:pcboard300xXXX.jpg :Image:Performics.png (upd in 01/2009) for Performics :Image:Searchenginestrategies.png :Image:Shareasale.png :Image:Tetradrawlogo.png :Image:Thedrawlogo.jpg :Image:Tundradrawlogo.png :Image:Webmasterworld.png :Image:Xing_openbc_logo.png

=For articles - Public Domain= :Image:Affmktillus.jpg :Image:ASCII_notepad_acidview_compare.png :Image:Ccu_wiki_heatmap.jpg :Image:DDR_Mark_Rueckseite_1Mark.jpg :Image:DDR_Mark_Rueckseite_1Pfennig_kl.jpg :Image:DDR_Mark_Rueckseite_2Mark.jpg :Image:DDR_Mark_Rueckseite_5Pfennig_kl.jpg :Image:DDR_Mark_Rueckseite_10Pfennig_kl.jpg :Image:DDR_Mark_Rueckseite_20Pfennig_kl.jpg :Image:DDR_Mark_Rueckseite_50Pfennig_kl.jpg :Image:DDR_Mark_Vorderseite_1Mark_kl.jpg :Image:DDR_Mark_Vorderseite_1Pfennig_kl.jpg :Image:DDR_Mark_Vorderseite_5Pfennig_kl.jpg :Image:DDR_Mark_Vorderseite_10Pfennig_kl.jpg :Image:DDR_Mark_Vorderseite_20Pfennig_kl.jpg :Image:DDR_Mark_Vorderseite_50Pfennig_kl.jpg :Image:Paso-IceCream-AmigaVsPC.png :Image:Roy-csnewskool.png :Image:Roy_dtc_ascii.png :Image:Roy_nrg_vga.png :Image:Roy_sky_ansi.png

=For user space - Public Domain= :Image:2005_Carsten_Collage.gif :Image:Gpfake45x45.png :Image:LibertarianAnarchism43x43.png :image:p45x45.jpg :Image:Roy SAC banner.png :Image:Stop45x45.gif :image:Wiki-talkarchivescrshot.jpg :Image:WikiTemplateBg.gif :image:WResBlk.png

=Wiki Conflicts= eComXpo Article Incident and conflict with User Cerejota Admin MONGO and Wikitruth.info delinking in my Wiki Resources page COI Report at the COI Noticeboard regarding links to sites I control, which resulted in my request for review at the Reliable Sources Noticeboard.

=Wikipedia Votes= Here is a deletion frenzy going on and I can not keep my list updated. I also don't want to, because I don't want my userpage turn into a "link farm" plastered with links to valuable articles that are being threatened to be deleted into oblivion.

=Wikipedia Discussions= New User Log: Introduction Censorship: Academic study on media and sex [http://private.cumbrowski.com/ CumbrowskiWikiTest] - Impact of NOFOLLOW check

=Posts 2006= April 9, 2006, [http://www.roysac.com/blog/2006/04/wikipedia-down/ Wikipedia down?!], RoySAC.com April 9, 2006, [http://www.roysac.com/blog/2006/04/wikipedia-back-up-recovery-from-power-outage/ Wikipedia back up - recovery from power outage], RoySAC.com April 30, 2006, [http://www.roysac.com/blog/2006/04/wikitruth-a-hoax-banned-and-deleted-from-wikipedia/ WikiTruth a Hoax, Banned and Deleted from Wikipedia!], RoySAC.com September 17, 2006, [http://www.revenews.com/carstencumbrowski/2006/09/wikipedia_triple_play.html Wikipedia Triple Play], ReveNews.com October 23, 2006, [http://www.searchenginejournal.com/who-invented-the-term-search-engine-optimization-part-deux/3925/ Who Invented the Term "Search Engine Optimization”? Part Deux], SearchEngineJournal.com November 23, 2006, [http://www.revenews.com/carstencumbrowski/2006/11/stop_complaining_and_do_someth.html Stop Complaining and Do Something], ReveNews.com November 25, 2006, [http://www.roysac.com/blog/2006/11/chemical-reaction-cro/ Chemical Reaction (cRO)], RoySAC.com December 22, 2006, [http://www.revenews.com/carstencumbrowski/2006/12/semiprotected_affiliate_market.html Semi-Protected Affiliate Marketing Article], ReveNews.com

=Posts 2007= January 21, 2007, [http://www.searchenginejournal.com/all-wikipedia-links-are-now-nofollow/4288/ All Wikipedia Links Are Now NOFOLLOW], SearchEngineJournal.com January 21, 2007, [http://www.revenews.com/carstencumbrowski/2007/01/wikipedia_sends_a_message_to_s.html Wikipedia Sends A Message To Spammers and Search Engines], ReveNews.com February 20, 2007, [http://www.revenews.com/carstencumbrowski/2007/02/why_does_affiliate_marketing_h.html Why Affiliate Marketing Has A Bad Name], ReveNews.com April 27, 2007, [http://www.roysac.com/blog/2007/04/how-did-i-become-a-wikipedian/ How Did I Become a Wikipedian?], RoySAC.com May 11, 2007, [http://www.searchenginejournal.com/title-capitalization-in-the-english-language/4882/ Title Capitalization in the English Language], SearchEngineJournal.com May 20, 2007, [http://www.revenews.com/carstencumbrowski/2007/05/click_here_to_learn_about_affi.html Click Here to Learn about Affiliate Marketing], ReveNews.com June 3, 2007, [http://www.roysac.com/blog/2007/06/at-last-some-success-at-wikipedia/ At Last - Some Success at Wikipedia], RoySAC.com June 8, 2007, [http://www.roysac.com/blog/2007/06/pcboard-bbs-software/ PCBoard BBS Software], RoySAC.com June 23, 2007, [http://www.searchenginejournal.com/how-to-find-wikipedia-links/5169/ How To Find Wikipedia Links], SearchEngineJournal.com July 4, 2007, [http://www.roysac.com/blog/2007/07/good-article-nomination-and-the-day-of-independence/ Good Article Nomination and the Day of Independence], RoySAC.com September 20, 2007, [http://www.searchenginejournal.com/the-seo-reputation-problem/5671/ The SEO Reputation Problem], SearchEngineJournal.com September 24, 2007, [http://www.roysac.com/blog/2007/09/wikipedia-nofollow-argumentation-a-view-back/ Wikipedia NOFOLLOW Argumentation - A View Back], RoySAC.com November 22, 2007, [http://www.searchenginejournal.com/wikipedia-article-quality-assessment-and-ranking-tips-for-users-and-search-engine-engineers/6002/ Wikipedia Article Quality Assessment ...], SearchEngineJournal.com December 6, 2007, [http://www.searchenginejournal.com/how-to-add-content-to-wikipedia-the-white-hat-way/6067/ How to Add Content to Wikipedia the "White Hat" Way], SearchEngineJournal.com

=Comments= ;Posts where I commented on Rand Fishkin (May 29, 2007), [http://www.seomoz.org/blog/search-engine-optimization-article-at-wikipedia-doesnt-deserve-attention Search Engine Optimization Article at Wikipedia Doesn't Deserve Attention], SEOMoz.org Barry Schwartz (May 20, 2007), [http://searchengineland.com/070530-091033.php Wikipedia Asks For Help Editing The SEO Article], SearchEngineLand.com Durova (August 7,2007), [http://searchengineland.com/070807-085103.php The Right Way To Fix Inaccurate Wikipedia Articles], SearchEngineLand.com Rand Fishkin (November 20, 2007), [http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-dark-side-of-wikipedia The Dark Side of Wikipedia], SEOMoz.org

All my Text Art Images which I already uploaded to Wikipedia are flagged as PD, but I went beyond that and released my complete work as Text Artist and my few Scene Art Pixel Graphics into the Public Domain. [http://www.roysac.com/blog/2006/07/important-decision-made-regarding-my-text-art/ See Details here].

You can release your images into public domain as well. Simply add the {{PD-self|date=December 2005}} Template to your image that you uploaded to Wikipedia or grab the HTML Code generated by the Template below and add it to the Page with your Image on your Website.

{{PD-self|date=May 2000}}

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I moved this section of my userpage to its own page for easier reference. You can find the resources at its new location at User:Cumbrowski/WikiResources.

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Content Moved. Please See User:Cumbrowski/Userboxes

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There exist a bunch of solutions for archiving talk pages. You can find the official Wikipedia guide to this subject here.

The solution based on the templates {{archive box}} and {{atnhead}} or {{talkarchivenav}} are nice, but generic to fit all types of talk pages. As a compromise were some good features and options excluded. For that reason did I create a custom version of the {{atnhead}} and {{talkarchivenav}} templates at my user space, which you can find at

Template:UserTalkArchive. To see the template in action see User_talk:Cumbrowski/Archive 5. It has a documentation how to install the template properly. If you have any comments or suggestions to improve it, let me know.

;Main features and improvements

• Setup guide provided, which is easy to understand and simple to follow
• Automatic check. Shows link to next archive page only, if it exists (supports 41 100 archive pages)
• Improved layout and images added to better highlight the important things and improve look and feel
• Adds at the end of each archive page automatically the Wikipedia user page template
• Links to user page and current user talk page added
• "Do not edit this page" statement highlighted (bold and red)
• Shows additional list with all existing archive pages and links to them (also max. 100 pages)

1. Create a new User Talk Page with the suffix "/Archive 1". A link to the archive page would look like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Username/Archive 1
2. It will say that the page does not exist yet. Go and press edit.
3. Add at the top the following code. {{Template:UserTalkArchive}}
4. Open your default talk page at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Username and press edit.
5. Select everything you want to archive and cut it out of the page ("Ctrl-X")
6. Paste the content into the new talk page after the {{Template:UserTalkArchive}} template
7. Add a link on your standard talk page to the Archive page {{UserTalkArchiveBox|auto=long}} *
   * You can also use {{UserTalkArchiveBox|auto=yes}} instead to make the linke to the archive pages on your main talk page exclude the word "Archive" within "Archive X" in the anchor text to only show "X" instead.
8. Save the standard talk page and you are done

;Notes

• The next archive pages would work the same, just call them .../Archive 2 ..../Archive 3 etc.
• The {{Template:UserTalkArchive}} template is a modified version of the {{atnhead}} template and adds the little box to the archive which you can see here User_talk:Cumbrowski/Archive 1. It creates a link to your current talk page automatically (that's why the specific name .../Archive X). It also adds a little navigation to the previous and next archive page. In addition to that (my custom part) does it add a reference to your user page and shows your name (that it is your user talk archive) and the {{userpage}} at the bottom. I also changed the font sizes and colors to emphasis the important parts.
• The {{UserTalkArchiveBox|auto=long}} on your main user talk page creates a little "Archive" box with links to all your archive pages automatically. You don't have to change that one anymore. It automatically detects, if new archive pages were created.

;Note for myself

:Development version of template moved from User:Cumbrowski/usertalkarchivenav to Wikipedia main template space at Template:UserTalkArchive on December 23, 2007.

:Template:UserTalkArchiveBox created, based on template:archive box collapsible on January 20, 2008 for layout reasons

:Template:UserTalkArchiveListLong created, based on template:archive list long on January 20, 2008 for layout reasons and to support 100 archive pages (instead of 32)

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Just so that you know who you are dealing with ;)

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signing off ... Roy/SAC

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