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:Treasure each day you're alive.
:If we disagree, it is never personal.
:No matter what our differences, I'm glad you're here
& that you care as much as I do.
:The best way to stop a troll is to not take the bait.
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Kingturtle's Awards - '''Kingturtle's [http://toolserver.org/~sql/rfap.php?user=Kingturtle RfA !votes]
I was en.wiki's 9th Bureaucrat, a status I held from 28 Feb 2004 to 1 March 2019. Busy family life took time away from Bureaucrat activities, so I was phased out because of lack of activity.
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=Origin story=
I discovered Wikipedia the evening of February 27, 2003 while searching for information on the internet to fatten a lecture I was writing on prohibition for my U.S. History class. By discovery I mean, I had come across Wikipedia a few times while doing Google searches, but it was that night that I took a closer look and realized what it really was. The discovery of Wikipedia matched love-at-first-sight. For years, I've been collecting old almanacs and encyclopedia. I bandied about different ideas regarding sharing and documenting the information revealed in these discarded sources, but Wikipedia was by far the best idea out there. I had also been working on a system within Word Docs to compile Afghan history. That system was cumbersome, and clunky. To stumble on a thriving community devoted to sharing information gave me a tremendous thrill and a curious sense of relief. Thank heavens you're all out there!
=Quotes=
- "A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way." Mark Twain
- "Develop your legitimate strangeness." - Rene Char
- "People think it's a cluster of junk. I see it as a cluster of possibilities. Each object gives a direction; each is a line picked up here and there - indeed, gleaned - and which become my paintings. The aim of art is to tidy up one's inner and exterior worlds." - Louis Pons discussing his paintings, but I think it applies to our work here at Wikipedia.
- "There is such a thing as a free lunch. You just have to offer it." - Kingturtle
- "I long to accomplish some great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble." - Helen Keller
- "Foreigners, because they never have enough words to express their ideas, often invent remarkable new modes of expression. Poets are all foreigners." - Denis Diderot
- "Me fail English? That's unpossible." - Ralph Wiggum
- "I'm not here for rage; I'm here for revenge!" - George Costanza
- "Maintaining one's own dignity hangs on maintaining the dignity of others." Kingturtle
- "Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing" - Theodore Roosevelt
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Through 21 April 2009 I have [http://toolserver.org/~escaladix/larticles/larticles.php?user=Kingturtle&lang=en created 725+ articles and 1070+ redirects].
Articles I've contributed to substantially
Articles I've started
=Regarding Afghanistan=
Timeline of Afghan history (and all the sub-links)
- International Security Assistance Force
- Badar
- International Resources Group
- Jaghalkani-i-Takhta Pul massacres
- List of Afghan Transitional Administration personnel
- Operation Blessing International
- Telephone Systems International
- Afghan Wireless Communication Company
- Richard Green (soldier)
- Afghan Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration Program
- Provincial reconstruction team
- Operation Avalanche (Afghanistan)
- Comprehensive Disabled Afghans Program
- Kuchis
- Afghanistan Meteorological Authority
- Economic Cooperation Organization
- Afghan New Beginnings Programme
- Afghan Special Narcotics Force
- Counter Narcotics Police of Afghanistan
- Istalif
=Regarding baseball, board games, and sports=
- List of lifetime home run leaders through history
- List of Major League Baseball players
- List of highest paid baseball players
- List of Major League Baseball franchise post-season droughts
- Major League Baseball titles streaks
- Major League Baseball titles leaders
- Major League Baseball attendance records
- Major League Baseball home run milestones
- List of Major League Baseball principal owners
- List of Major League Baseball stadiums
- List of Major League Baseball retired numbers
- List of most experienced baseball players never to play in a World Series
- U.S. cities with teams from four major sports
- List of National Football League franchise post-season droughts
- List of NBA franchise post-season droughts
- List of Major League Baseball players suspended for performance-enhancing drugs
- 1890 Rochester Broncos season
- Bob Miller (19th-century pitcher)
- Major League Baseball All-Star Game venues
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball/Team abbreviations
- List of World Series starting pitchers
- Pittsfield Electrics (Canadian-American League)
- Multiple major sports championship seasons
- List of most experienced baseball managers never to manage in a World Series
=Regarding health, psychology, math and science=
=Regarding history, government, business, geography, religion, scholarship and current events=
- United States casualties of war
- Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf
- Securities and Exchange Commission appointees
- Aspasia
- List of United States Presidents by military rank
- Operation Enduring Freedom - Philippines
- Nicaraguan Institute of Natural Resources and the Environment
- List of United States Presidential assassination attempts
- List of people granted honorary French citizenship during the French Revolution
- United States Office of Economic Opportunity
- Harold Brown (Secretary of Defense)
- Presidential Emergency Operations Center
- Nuclear Risk Reduction Center
- Andrew Marshall (foreign policy strategist)
- Diplomats and Military Commanders for Change
- Jobs created during U.S. presidential terms
- List of United States presidential vetoes
- Central Asian Cooperation Organization
- Children's Environmental Exposure Research Study
- United States general elections, 2005
- UN Security Council Resolution 688
- List of UN Security Council Resolutions 1 to 100 (and the associated subpages with the assistance of User:IceKarma)
- 1856 Republican National Convention
- Wisconsin Policy Research Institute
- 139th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment
- Center for Cultural Studies at UC Santa Cruz
- Américo Paredes Center for Cultural Studies
- List of places named for their units of production
- I didn't start John William Yettaw, but I did a great deal of work on it
=Regarding Wikispace=
=Regarding entertainment=
=Regarding literature & books & art & architecture=
=Regarding the trivial=
=Regarding WikiBooks=
=Image I've scanned or clipped that are in use=
File:Hernando de Soto 1881.jpg|DeSoto
Image:Defoe-daniel.jpg|Defoe
File:Pierre Corneille 3.jpg|Corneille
Image:Alcott-L.jpg|L Alcott
Image:Alcibiades.jpg|Alcibiades
Image:Henryknox.jpg|H Knox
Image:Macaulay.jpg|Macaulay
Image:Miltiades.jpg|Miltiades
Image:Murillo.jpg|Murillo
Image:Portrait of Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld.jpg|Nordenskjold
Image:AlexanderPope.jpg|A Pope
Image:Barbarossa01.jpg|Barbarossa
Image:HoratioGates.jpg|H Gates
Image:GoldsmithOliver.jpg|O Goldsmith
Image:Hippocrates.jpg|Hippocrates
Image:Addison-j.jpg|Addison
Image:Bodootto.png|Bodo Otto
=Photos I have taken that are in use=
Image:Oliver-bin 261.jpg
Image:Strasenburghplanetarium2.jpg
Image:Milkweedseeds.jpg
Image:Beetlcat.jpg
Image:Lakebuel.jpg
File:VarietyBuilding.jpg
File:BosatsuLACMA.jpg
File:Censer-japan.jpg
File:AizenMyo-o.jpg
File:Fujiwara-Kamatari-LACMA.jpg
File:Avalokiteshvara-statue.png
File:SonamLhundrup.jpg
File:Cambodia-buddha-11thcentury.jpg
File:Vishnu-khmer.jpg
File:MaryAnnHeideNorris.jpg
File:RachelWeeping.jpg
File:LakeBuelMorning.jpg
=Images I've scanned that are not in use=
Image:Cooper-JF.jpg|Cooper
Image:Bryant-wc.jpg|Bryant
Image:NathanaelGreene.jpg|N Green
Image:Portrait of Giacomo Meyerbeer.jpg|Meyerbeer
Image:RacineJ.jpg|Racine
Image:Brutus.jpg|Brutus
Image:Aspasia.jpg|Aspasia
Image:WilliamHogarth.jpg|W Hogarth
Image:ElishaKentKane.jpg|EK Kane
=Images I've uploaded from other sources that are in use=
Image:Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lyndon B. Johnson & James Allred, May 1937.png|FDR & LBJ
Image:Sachsenhausen2.jpg|Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp
File:RMS Queen Mary in New York Harbor during World War II.jpg|Queen Mary ship
Image:Marine-raiders.jpg|Marine Raiders
Image:Chiefbender.jpg|Chief Bender
Image:BasicCombatTraining.jpg|Recruit training
Image:SS-Savannah.jpg|SS Savannah
Image:Daniel-burnham.jpg|Daniel Burnham
Image:JHLambert.jpg|Johann Heinrich Lambert
Image:Innoko-refuge.jpg|Innoko National Wildlife Refuge
Image:Black Bear in Russian River.jpg|Russian River (Alaska)
Image:AmericanAvocet24.jpg|American Avocet
Image:Lucretiamott2.jpg|Lucretia Mott
Image:WilliamAllen-congressman.jpg|William Allen (Congressman)
Image:HazelCarter.jpg|Hazel Carter
File:Albert Gutterson.jpg|Platt Adams
File:USSWyoming2.jpg|USS Wyoming
File:VoisinBrothers2.jpg|Voisin brothers
File:USSutah2.jpg|USS Utah
File:Louis Rosenberg and Harry Horowitz at their capture 1912.jpg|Left Louie & Gyp the Blood
File:JamesOGorman.jpg|James Aloysius O'Gorman
File:JohnSchrank2.jpg|John Schrank
File:TR-Xray.jpg|X-ray of TR
File:Rochester Centennial - Miss Rochester.jpg|Rochester parade
File:Rochester Centennial - First Log Cabin.jpg|Rochester parade
File:Wilson-inaug.jpg|Wilson inauguration preparations
File:US-center-pop.jpg|The center of the U.S. population
File:DeWolf Hopper.jpg|De Wolfe Hopper
File:Mikegibbons.jpg|Mike Gibbons
File:ErnestineRose.jpg|Ernestine Rose
File:Marion Mann promotional headshot, 1941.png|Marion Mann (singer)
File:TurnersLanding.png|Turner's Landing
File:EltajSarfarli-August2013.jpg|Eltac Səfərli
File:Michael Adams at 2013 Chess World Cup.png|Michael Adams
File:Adhiban at 2013 World Chess Cup.png|Adibans Bāškarans
File:Evgeny Alekseev at 2013 Chess World Cup.png|Evgeny Alekseev
File:Bassem Amin at the 2013 Chess World Cup.png|Bassem Amin
File:Alexander Areshchenko at the 2013 Chess World Cup.png|Alexander Areshchenko
File:Max Judd 1889.png|Max Judd
File:FindTwoHiddenBirds.png|Hidden pictures
=Images I've uploaded from other sources that are not in use=
Image:Greyplover24.jpg|Grey Plover
=Photos I've taken that are not in use=
File:Todai-restaurant.jpg
File:Todai-greeting.jpg
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