User: Wrp103

My contributions to Wikipedia have touched on all of the above topics, including:

Music:

• Cheryl Wheeler - most of the content
• Johnny Clegg (musician) - added reasonable content
• Bruce Cockburn - various contributions
• Music of Bulgaria - section on folk dances
• Folk dancing - I created this page.
• José Pereira (scholar) - I created this page about the father of a friend.

Programming:

• C programming language - Dynamic arrays and arrays of structures instead of multi-dimensional arrays
• Malloc (C Programming Language) - example of dynamic arrays in C
• Linked list - example of generic linked list & variations
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Computing/Pseudocode - added my two cents several places
• Debugging - I created the Basic Steps section

Religion:

• Edits of several pages regarding various topics about the Mormon Church

Video Games:

• Final Fantasy, Final Fantasy Magic, etc.
• Chrono Trigger, Radiata Stories ([http://strategywiki.org/wiki/Radiata_Stories including wiki])

Misc.

I monitor changes to various topics of interest to me, including:

• Underground Railroad, William Still
• Caleb Pusey
• Gorilla, Koko

Vandalism | Links | User Talk | Welcome Templates | Warning Templates | Blocking Templates

While monitoring pages on my watchlist, I keep an eye out for vandalism. I really don't understand why people would choose to spend time defacing something, but there seem to be a lot of them out there. :-(

In general, if I see somebody that vandalizes one of the pages on my watchlist, I will add a template to their talk page, and usually watch their talk page. If they vandalize too much, then I request that they be blocked. If anyone contributes to a page on my watchlist that doesn't have a talk page (yet), then I will add a welcome message to their talk page as well.

On those rare cases when I have some extra time, I will check the recent changes page.

Vandalism | Links | User Talk | Welcome Templates | Warning Templates | Blocking Templates

Here are some useful links:

• Templates for citations
• User Warning Templates
• Page to request blocking (Alerts)
• Criteria for speedy delete
• How to mark a page for deletion
• Wikipedia:Administrators' reading list

There are a number of templates that can be used when dealing with new users and/or vandals.

This "User talk page" section identifies what should be added to the talk page to create a section for warnings. Warnings should be grouped by months, and the messages should be placed in a numbered list.

The "Common templates" section contain the templates I normally use for welcoming and vandalism warnings. You can copy and paste them into a page. Replace PAGE with the page name that they edited, and N (if present) with a number between 1 and 4, depending on how many times they have vandalized recently.

In general, this is how I deal with vandalism:

• Copy the article name that was vandalized
• Click on the user contributions link to examine past history
• Click on the User Talk page and edit
• At the bottom of the User Talk page, hit ENTER a few times, and then paste the article name for later
• If the page was blank, copy and paste the "User Talk Page" section at the top
• Copy the appropriate template from "Welcome", "Warning" or "Blocking" Templates and paste it into the page
• Cut the article name at the bottom of the page, double-click on the "PAGE" part of the template and paste the page name over top
• If a number is appropriate, change "N" to the appropriate number (based on past history and/or blatant vandalism)
• If I want to add a personal note, then I click before the signature tag, hit ENTER, and then type the message.
• Copy the template line and paste it into the Edit Summary box
• Click on "Show preview" button and check it
• Click on "Save page" when done

Since the templates are stored in a table, I can copy the template by triple-clicking inside the cell.

Vandalism | Links | User Talk | Welcome Templates | Warning Templates | Blocking Templates

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