User:Joshua Scott
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About me
“ | On two occasions I have been asked, – "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" ... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
—Charles Babbage[1] |
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My username was formerly LiberalFascist.
Please feel free to contact me on my talk page, or by email. Note that I prefer to keep conversations public (i.e. on the talk page) when possible.
I live in the Dallas, Texas area. I'm a computer programmer, server technician and general internet junkie (been online since the early 1990s).
I've used Wikipedia extensively over the years, and now I'm trying to give back to the community and improve the resource I've enjoyed so much.
Scripts
- PendingChanges Script - puts dynamically updating list of pending changes in the sidebar.
Places to help
- Recent IP Edits
- Biographies that don't specify if the subject is living or not
- Oldest unpatrolled new pages
- Possibly mistagged unreferenced BLPs
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons
- Living persons marked as dead on other wikis
- Unreferenced BLP stubs
- /BLP/stubs
Citation templates
This is a quick copy/paste reference for the 4 citation templates I use most often.
For a quick guide to using inline citations see /citations and Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners.
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{{cite book |last1= |first1= |authorlink1= |last2= |first2= |editor1-first= |editor1-last= |editor1-link= |others= |title= |trans-title= |url= |format= |accessdate= |type= |edition= |series= |volume= |date= |year= |month= |origyear= |publisher= |location= |language= |isbn= |oclc= |doi= |id= |page= |pages= |trans-chapter= |chapter= |chapterurl= |quote= |ref= |bibcode= |laysummary= |laydate= |separator= |postscript= |lastauthoramp=}}
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{{cite book |title= |last= |first= |authorlink= |year= |publisher= |location= |isbn= |page= |pages= |url= |accessdate=2024-12-14}}
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{{cite journal |last= |first= |author= |authorlink= |editor1-first= |editor1-last= |editor1-link= |date= |year= |month= |title= |trans-title= |journal= |volume= |series= |issue= |page= |pages= |at= |publisher= |location= |issn= |pmid= |pmc= |doi= |bibcode= |oclc= |id= |url= |language= |format= |accessdate=2024-12-14 |laysummary= |laysource= |laydate= |quote= |ref= |postscript= }}
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{{cite journal |last1= |first1= |last2= |first2= |year= |title= |journal= |volume= |issue= |pages= |url= |doi= |accessdate=2024-12-14}}
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{{cite news |title= |author= |first= |last= |authorlink= |author2= |author3= |author4= |author5= |author6= |author7= |url= |format= |agency= |newspaper= |publisher= |location= |isbn= |issn= |oclc= |pmid= |pmd= |bibcode= |doi= |id= |date= |page= |pages= |at= |accessdate= |language= |trans-title= |quote= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |ref= }}
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{{cite news |title= |first= |last= |newspaper= |date= |url= |accessdate=2024-12-14}}
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{{cite web |url= |title= |first= |last= |author= |authorlink= |date= |work= |publisher= |location= |page= |pages= |at= |language= |trans-title= |format= |doi= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |accessdate= |quote= |ref= |separator= |postscript= }}
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{{cite web |url= |title= |author= |date= |work= |publisher= |accessdate=2024-12-14}}
Some Links
- Automated edits
- Edit count
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types (for tagging stubs when needed)
- Wikipedia API
In this userspace:
Joshua Scott |
- Joshua Scott/AfD
- Joshua Scott/AfDentry
- Joshua Scott/BLP
- Joshua Scott/BLP/stubs
- Joshua Scott/IMDb
- Joshua Scott/Reliable Sources
- Joshua Scott/Sandbox
- Joshua Scott/Scripts/pageage.js
- Joshua Scott/Scripts/pendingchanges
- Joshua Scott/Scripts/pendingchanges.js
- Joshua Scott/Scripts/pendingchangesbeta.js
- Joshua Scott/chick.js
- Joshua Scott/citations
- Joshua Scott/cologneblue.js
- Joshua Scott/fs
- Joshua Scott/huggle.css
- Joshua Scott/huggle3.css
- Joshua Scott/modern.js
- Joshua Scott/monobook.css
- Joshua Scott/monobook.js
- Joshua Scott/myskin.js
- Joshua Scott/nostalgia.js
- Joshua Scott/sandbox
- Joshua Scott/simple.js
- Joshua Scott/standard.js
- Joshua Scott/twinkleoptions.js
- Joshua Scott/vector.css
- Joshua Scott/vector.js
Todo
- These are bios that have no sources, and I think I could find them
- Tracy Rowlett - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
- Gerald Laing - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
- Eugene Lang - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
- Ed Werder - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
- These had sources when I checked, but need more
- Charles Mudede - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
- Richard Supa - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
- Jesse L. Martin - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
- Bill Laimbeer - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
- C.W. Jick Myers - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
- Paul Weldon - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
- Waiting on a ruling at WP:RS/N
- User:Joshua Scott/fs|Crispian Hollis}}
Other todo:
- Contract (animated short film) - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL (failed AfD nom)
WikiProject Deletion Sorting categories:
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Bible
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Christianity
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Computing
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Games
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Internet
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Living people
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/People
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Software
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Technology
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Texas
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Websites
Barnstars
The Cleanup Barnstar | ||
For your ongoing efforts in reducing the unsourced BLP backlog, thanks! Gigs (talk) 12:41, 20 April 2010 (UTC)[2] |
What a Brilliant Idea Barnstar | ||
For writing a script to add a pending changes link to the taskbar. Thanks danno 18:51, 14 July 2010 (UTC)[3] |
The Original Barnstar | ||
For all of your efforts in getting WP:NSPORT to the level of guideline. You remained level-headed throughout the RfC and were responsive to the concerns voiced. Keep up the good work. J04n(talk page) 18:21, 21 July 2010 (UTC)[4] |
References
Because I'm a strong believer in them