User:Jack Greenmaven

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This user has participated in 4 Backlog Elimination Drives with the Guild of Copy Editors.

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This user has been a Wikipedian since 5 November 2010.

This user has been on Wikipedia for 13 years, 7 months and 8 days.

7	This user has created 7 of Wikipedia's 6,834,902 articles.

2120	As of last count, this user is # 2120 of active Wikipedians.

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This user believes that anyone who thinks Wikipedia is an unreliable source should continue their quest to find a better website.

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This user's time zone is UTC+11.

It is approximately 2:52 AM where this user lives.

AUThis user speaks Australian English.

fr-1Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau élémentaire de français.

de-1Dieser Benutzer hat grundlegende Deutschkenntnisse.

This user believes that a user's edit count does not necessarily reflect on the value of their contributions to Wikipedia.

This user remembers (with nostalgia) having to use punched cards to run Fortran programs.

This user believes that you should never put milk in with the tea bag.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

Abraham Lincoln

"To the outside world, Wikipedia seems to appear through magical chaos, but we know better: it's through the efforts of thoughtful people getting organized, rolling up their sleeves, and getting something done."

Jimbo Wales

"When I am asked to look into cases of "admin abuse" and I choose to do so, I generally find myself astounded at how nice we are to complete maniacs, and for how long."

Jimbo Wales

"re WP:BLP: Seriously, anyone who puts protecting new editors and retaining terrible content above upholding ethical and legal commitments to integrity, accuracy, and protection of a person's reputation is quite simply a massive idiot"

Jimbo Wales

When I was a young man, I admired people who were clever. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel

I am only one, but still I am one; I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; I will not refuse to do the something I can do.

Helen Keller
(Deaf and blind from birth)

My work on Wikipedia

Most of my work has been to maintain or improve articles chosen randomly across the spectrum. I have done a lot of copyediting and vandal fighting. I participate in several projects and discussion forums. I occasionally create an article when I see an opportunity, or make a major contribution to an underdeveloped article. I try to provide comprehensive references to any articles where I have provided most of the content. I am fortunate to live close to an outstanding research library. These are my "Barnstars"

Try to avoid conflict

"A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger." Proverbs 15:1 King James Version

This user seeks the peaceful resolution of disputes.

Personal Details

I retired as a computer programmer in 2001, and as a personal and workplace counsellor in 2007.

After using Wikipedia for several years, I found an article which I thought I could improve, and decided to become an editor.

Natural Languages

I have some knowledge of French, and some German, . I began learning Russian in 1992, but have forgotten most of it.

Learning Latin and Classical Greek , helped me to understand etymology and the history and structure of European languages.

Studying these languages improved my understanding of English Grammar, the peculiarities of English, and the difficulty of really mastering one language, let alone several.

Programming Languages

I learned numerous computer programming languages and scripting languages, between 1968 and 2001, beginning with FortranIV and Assembler Language on a Control Data Corporation 3000 series mainframe, ending with 'Avenue' (a GIS scripting language for ArcView 3.x), Perl and HTML. I thought of myself as a technical applications programmer.

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How to insert a picture into an article

The syntax used for displaying an image is:

[[File:{name}|{type}|{location}|{size}|{alt=}|{caption}]]

Only [[File:{name}]] parameter is required.

Do not put spaces between parameters. The other parameters are optional and can be placed in any order. Some infoboxes do not require the brackets. Keep parameters in lower case. The other parameters are:

Type

'thumb' / 'thumbnail' or 'frame'. This causes image to be displayed with specific formatting. "thumb" is normally preferred.

Location

'right', 'left', 'center' or 'none'. Determines placement of the image on the page. "Left" or "right" is the norm, but large panoramas or timelines can be displayed in the center.

Size

{width}px or {width}x{height}px (e.g. 50x40px, would limit width to 50 pixels and height to 40 pixels). Normally only one variable is used. Use common sense when determining the sizes; you can use the "Show preview" button if you need to. If thumb or thumbnail is chosen, size should normally be left out, so that the size defaults to the size set in a user's preferences.

alt=

(keep it lower case). This is the "alternate image" parameter used to describe the image for screenreaders or for people with low-vision. It should be more descriptive than the caption alone. Do not use this for another copy of the caption or of the article title, as the reader will already be aware of these.

Caption

Any element which cannot be identified as one of the above is automatically treated as caption text. It is traditional to put this last. The caption should identify what the image is, and ideally be a complete sentence that adds to the article by pointing out something a casual reader would not have noticed otherwise, or add information the pertains to the image. Full sentence or multi fragment captions require full stop punctuation.

If you have created a picture that is not already in Wikipedia's image collection on the Commons that you want to include in an article, you will need to upload it first. Bonus tip: Similar formatting is used to insert basic audio or basic video clips into articles.

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