User:Rlevse

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I used to contribute as User:140.32.75.116 and User:70.160.188.138 before I chose the handle "Rlevse". Sometimes I still do that when I forget to log in-;).

I started out on Wikipedia mainly doing copyedit, cleanup, and wikifying articles--which I did dozens of times. Sometimes I write them from scratch (see articles below). My main interests are history, Scouting, Boy Scouts of America, the military, and movies. My wife is from Thailand, so I have worked on many articles regarding that country and culture. I am retired from the U.S. Navy and now work as a computer systems engineer.

Now that I am the coordinator of the {{ScoutingWikiProject}} and Portal, I spend most of my time on that.

I think there are way too many articles on video games, game characters, etc on Wikipedia. I think Wiki is a great research tool, as long as the authors know what they're talking about.

Contributions

Featured Article status Date Notes
History of merit badges (Boy Scouts of America) 19 Jan 2006 history of types or generations of merit badge
manufacturing in the BSA (see 'Articles created')
DYK listing Date Notes
George Thomas Coker 10 Jan 2006 1 of 2 POWs who escaped from the "Hanoi Hilton",
famous Eagle Scout (see 'Articles created')
Arthur Rose Eldred 19 Jan 2006 First Eagle Scout in BSA (see 'Articles created')
Projects Collaborations Collaborations
Wikipedia:WikiProject Scouting User_talk:Gadget850/BSA_article_improvements User:Gadget850/Sandbox


Significantly contributed to... Notes
The National Scout Organization of Thailand I wrote over 95% of this
Prostitution in Thailand
White elephant gift exchange holiday tradition
Scouting memorabilia collecting
Merit badge (Boy Scouts of America) generic merit badge info
List of Eagle Scouts noted Eagle Scouts
Eagle Palms are earned by Eagle Scouts
Wallace Stegner Pulitzer Prize-winning author
Silver Buffalo Award BSA's highest award
Eagle scout rank (Boy Scouts of America)
Board of Review (Boy Scouts of America) advancement review


Articles Created Date Notes
Lee Mirecki 3 Nov 2005 A US Navy recruit killed during training
Rodney Pocceschi 25 Nov 2005 A Virginia Beach, VA police officer killed in the line of duty
Internet Access and Training Program 29 Nov 2005 A US Department of State program
History of merit badges (Boy Scouts of America) 3 Dec 2005 about MB history in the BSA, FA status on 19 Jan 2006
Island in the Sky (film) 5 Jan 2006 An atypical John Wayne movie from 1953 about a plane crash
List of Distinguished Eagle Scouts 7 Jan 2006 self-explanatory
Robert Edward Femoyer 7 Jan 2006 Medal of Honor and Eagle Scout
James D. Rogers 8 Jan 2006 famous Eagle Scout
T. Gary Rogers 8 Jan 2006 famous Eagle Scout
James Sanderson 8 Jan 2006 famous Eagle Scout
George Thomas Coker 8 Jan 2006 famous Eagle Scout, DYK listing 10 Jan 2006
Tidewater Council 11 Jan 2006 BSA, SE Virginia/NE North Carolina
Undisputed (film) 12 Jan 2006 An action, prison, & boxing movie
Follow Me, Boys! 13 Jan 2006 good Disney film about Scouting
Arthur Rose Eldred 16 Jan 2006 first Eagle Scout
Misc. Items Created Date Notes
*various redirects various
Category:Distinguished Eagle Scouts 07 Jan 2006 BSA award for adults who are Eagle Scouts
Category:Scouting memorabilia collectors 07 Jan 2006
Category:Wood Badger Wikipedians 15 Jan 2006 Scouitng recognition for adults completing the Wood Badge course
Template:User Wood Badger 15 Jan 2006 userbox for Wood Badgers
Template:User ScoutGuide 15 Jan 2006 userbox for Scouts, Scouters, and Guides
Template:User ScoutTrade 15 Jan 2006 userbox for Scouting memorabilia collectors
Template:ScoutingWikiProject 19 Jan 2006 Scouting project notice template
Template:Todo, Scouting 19 Jan 2006 Scouting project Todo template
Wikipedia:WikiProject Scouting 19 Jan 2006 Scouting project
Category:To do, Scouting 19 Jan 2006 category for articles to work on
Wikipedia:WikiProject Scouting/Todo 19 Jan 2006 todo page for Scouting project
Wikipedia:WikiProject Scouting/RulesStandards 19 Jan 2006 Rules and Standards page for Scouting project
Category:Scouting Wikipedians 22 Jan 2006 category for Scouting, Guiding, etc Wikipedians
Category:Cub Scouts (Boy Scouts of America) 22 Jan 2006 category for BSA Cubbing articles


Extensively copyedited

  • too many to list

Kudos I received

Wiki MB Barnstar
File:Wiki merit badge.png
for History of merit badges (Boy Scouts of America) FA artilce
In recognition of your contributions to numerous Scouting-related articles, particularly by bringing History of merit badges (Boy Scouts of America) to Featured Article status, I, Rebelguys2, present you this Barnstar!

Miscellaneous

To do list:

Wikipedia featured content

Articles | Lists | Pictures | Topics

Featured Articles:

Featured article
Featured article candidates
To find what appeared or will appear on a certain day as the Main Page Featured Article...
Wikipedia:Today's featured article/December 2005
Wikipedia:Today's featured article/January 2006
etc

To make a DYK submission...Template_talk:Did_you_know

What links to this page? Use this pattern:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Whatlinkshere/George_Thomas_Coker

Example of how to use references more than once: Cheers, List of Eagle Scouts (see award1/award2 note)

View a user's contributions:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/USERNAME

Address for good images of movie posters that don't distort in Wiki (thanks to: Naha)

http://www.impawards.com/

I click here, to check my edit count and stats. My stats since I created my account:

  • 03 Nov 2005 - first edits, but did not have account, so these early ones do not show in the stats
  • 15 Nov 2005 - created account, first credited edits
  • 28 Dec 2005 - 1000th edit
  • 12 Jan 2006 - 2000th edit