User:Dbiel

Unified login: Dbiel is the unique login of this user for all public Wikimedia projects.

I have found Wikipedia to be a very useful tool and as a result was lead to help make it even better. I had been actively involved with SpamCop serving as one of the two admins of the SpamCop Wiki and also as one of the five moderators of the SpamCop Fourms

My current schedule no longer permits be to be active in Wikipedia, but I still believe in the value of Wikipedia and make use of it as a initial reference source.

Picture of the day

Bluespotted ribbontail ray

Photograph credit: Diego Delso

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Links to my other accounts

• Meta - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Dbiel
• Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Dbiel

Barnstars

		The Schools Barnstar
		For long-term contributions to school-related articles on Wikipedia, I award Dbiel the Schools Barnstar! --Jh12 (talk) 13:19, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

To Do List

• Category:Wikipedians looking for help
• remove InterWiki links - User:Addbot/log/wikidata ------ http://www.wikidata.org/
  • removing interwiki links (per Wikidata)
  • removing the two remaining interwiki links (per Wikidata) after adding them to Wikidata
  • removing the one remaining interwiki link (per Wikidata) after adding it to Wikidata
  • removing the one remaining interwiki link (per Wikidata) as it is already in Wikidata
• currently working on:
  • http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8799101 Property rights (economics)
  • http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2578557 Equity (law)

• to purge any page add the following to the end of the address entry - ?action=purge

Wikipedia-specific Google searchbox

Note: the following does not seem to work at this time:

The default Wikipedia search engine can be slow and unreliable. Luckily, alternatives are available, such as a customized Google searchbox, already preset to search Wikipedia: http://www.google.com/custom?sa=Google+Search&domains=wikipedia.org&sitesearch=wikipedia.org

http://www.google.com/custom?sa=Google+Search&domains=wikidata.org&sitesearch=wikidata.org

Cut and paste it to your Userpage, or click on it, and save it as a button on your browser's toolbar.

Pages to watch

Pages to study

• Help:Section
• User:DGG/LG

Links to users pages of interest

• User:Wikidudeman
• User:Rich Farmbrough
• User:WJBscribe
• User:Jreferee
• User:Pigman - admin
• User talk:Cuyler91093 - has been changed to User:The Obento Musubi
• User:Kevin interesting admin page layout

Users who have assisted me in the past

• User:J Milburn - admin
• User:Soumyasch - admin - currently a bit burned out on Wikipedia - specialty computer science and programming
• User:Eagle 101 - admin + meta admin
• User:PaladinWhite
• User:CheNuevara - New name User:Revolving Bugbear

Worked with him in Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal on article National Civilian Community Corps see Case page

• User:Philippe - admin - Assisted in the NCCC issues
• User:Carcharoth - admin - doing categorization work
• User:TexasAndroid - admin - doing categorization work
• User:Alanbly - active in Wikipedia:WikiProject Schools
• User:Xenocidic - admin - Assisted in reverting talk page move used to create archive.
• User:Anomie - using monobook.css - green save button
• User:Ameliorate! - responded to helpme tag regarding rollback usage
• User:Jh12 - very active in Wikipedia:WikiProject Schools and especially helpful.
• User:SriMesh - active in Wikipedia:WikiProject Education in Canada and Wikipedia:WikiProject Saskatchewan
• User:Xeno - admin with common sense and willing to answer questions
• User:Closedmouth - a very active and helpful editor

Admins who have been difficult to work with

• User:J.delanoy

Important Links

• Wikipedia:Manual of Style (layout)
• Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism
• Wikipedia:Requests for page protection
• Wikipedia:Wikiquette alerts
• Wikipedia:Avoid peacock terms [[WP:PEA]]
• Wikipedia:Avoid weasel words [[WP:WEASEL]]
• User:Uncle G/Wikipedia triage
• Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Betacommand
• Template:Ambox - template notice standardization
• Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits
• Special:Statistics

Links to pages in my NameSpace

• Uncategorized- Backlog Status History
• Category Education status page
• My Cheatsheet
• Scratch Pad (my sandbox)
• Table Linking (Work to create a new guideline)
• Image Maintenance / Problem Images

• Images tagged that should not have been tagged
• User:Dbiel/Problem Images/FURs reverted by Betacommand
• Deleted Images that could have been saved

• Deletion Requests
• Copyright vio notices
• Vandalism Worksheet
• Routing Assets Database (Page under construction)

• Routing Assets Database - Notes

• Routing Arbiter (Page under construction)

• Routing Arbiter - Source
• Routing Arbiter - Notes

• RADB (Page under construction)
• Rice Allelopathy Data Base (Page under construction)

• Rice Allelopathy Data Base (shorter stub version)

• Elroy Leon Rice (Page under construction)
• User:Dbiel/Signpost
• Historic Links not to loose track off
• User:Dbiel/monobook.js
• User:Dbiel/monobook.css
• WPSchools projects
  • User:Dbiel/Category:Schools in the United States by state - current project
    • User:Dbiel/Category:Schools in the United States by state/work page - working sub page
  • User:Dbiel/Alumni notability
• User:Dbiel/Edit Count

Pages I have started

• Merrill College (disambiguation)
• Browning (partial cooking)
• RADb a redirect page - RADb - link to the page being redirected to
• Routing Arbiter - in my namespace only at this time
• Routing Arbiter Database a redirect page - Routing Arbiter Database - link to the page being redirected to

Pages I have edited

• Cork Senior Hurling Championship
• List of acronyms and initialisms
• RADB a redirect page - RADB - link to the page being redirected to
• Ram
• Routing Assets Database
• Southern California
• Talk:SpamCop -- totally reorganized and cleaned up this talk page
• Temple City, California‎

Templates I have edited

• Template:Prophets of the Tanakh

To allow for catagories=no

• Template:Roman Polanski
• Template:Parent category

Cabal Mediation Cases I have worked on

• Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/National Civilian Community Corps

Handy Tools

• Reference Link maker

User Boxes

This user is a Christian. This user is interested in Lutheranism.

7,000+This user has made more than 7,000 contributions to Wikipedia. This user thinks that registration should be required to edit articles. This user has created a global account. Dbiel's main account is on Wikipedia (in English).

This user encourages the peaceful correction of vandals. This user has a zero tolerance policy on vandalism. This user maintains a strict policy advising against all personal attacks.

<sum>:1This user believes that every edit should have a summary. 1RRThis user prefers discussing changes on the talk page rather than engaging in an edit war. This user has rollback rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify)

Unified login: Dbiel is the unique unified login of this user for all public Wikimedia projects. UTC-8This user's time zone is UTC-8. This user observes Daylight Saving Time.

This user is proud to be a United States citizen. This user lives in or hails from the U.S. State of California. SoCalThis user lives in, hails from or is associated with Southern California.

enThis user is a native speaker of the English language. en-USThis user is a native speaker of American English.

SpamCopThis user knows how to report spam to blocklisters.