User:PaleoNeonate
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Etymology
[edit]- Paleo (old, ancient)
- Neonate (baby, weeks old)
I have chosen this nickname because I have been around Wikipedia a long time, then suddenly decided to create an account, and a number of general WP procedures were still very new to me at account creation time. I only use this name on the WMF projects.
Background
[edit]I am a male born in the seventies in Canada. I am notnotable.Although I long resisted creating an account, I have made edits to Wikipedia on and off since January 2005. This account was finally created on February 2017.
My specialty is computer science but I rarely edit in the area. Favorite sports are swimming, soccer and taekwondo. Amateur-level interests include: music, biology (and evolution), medicine, geology, paleontology, archaeology, anthropology, cosmology, physics, climatology, environmentalism and religion (from the perspectives of anthropology, sociology, neurology and literature).
I was raised as a fundamentalist creationist but have grown out of it over time through education, research, critical thinking and knowledge; I am now an agnostic who has ceased to believe in the supernatural. I'm also a regular reader of thescience reference desk.
I compose and produce recordings. I like fusion jazz, smooth jazz, flamenco, Indian, Turkish, world music, various forms of electronic music and religious music, mostly instrumental. I have some interest in the history and fabrication of instruments. Music is the art through which I can feel and express my "spirituality" today.
Venues
[edit]Note: parts of this section may be outdated and likely to be rewritten.
As I find that most articles I could think of already exist, I have decided to create an account, and to as time permits use the following categories to find articles to improve (provided for myself and others who may find them useful):
Also see
[edit]- Category:Articles_to_be_merged_after_an_Articles_for_deletion_discussion
- Category:All_articles_to_be_merged
- Category:Articles_to_be_merged
- Category:All_stub_articles
- Category:All_articles_to_be_expanded
- Category:Stale_userspace_drafts
- Category:G13_eligible_AfC_submissions
- Category:Copy_to_Wikimedia_Commons
- User:MusikBot/StaleDrafts/Report
- Wikipedia:Articles_for_creation
- Wikipedia:Requested_articles
- Wikipedia:Today's_articles_for_improvement
- Wikipedia:Community_portal
- Wikipedia:Backlog
- Wikipedia:Cleanup_resources
- Wikipedia:DraftsandWikipedia:WikiProject_Abandoned_Drafts
- Category:Pages_where_post-expand_include_size_is_exceeded
- Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject_Mammals/Missing_mammal_species
- User:PaleoNeonate/Procedures- An attempt to logically and shortly condense dispute resolution procedures
- User:PaleoNeonate/common.css- Custom CSS, less contrast for normal use, more contrast for diffs
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Jehovah's Witnesses/FAQ- A work-in-progress FAQ draft for JW-related talk pages
- User:PaleoNeonate/sandbox_permlinks- Possibly useful permanent links to sandbox revisions
{{Useraward}}
- A custom award utility template I wrote
- User:PaleoNeonate/Userboxes/NBox- Custom user box, humor or statement
- User:PaleoNeonate/Userboxes/Science- Custom user box, science related
- User:PaleoNeonate/Userboxes/WikiProphet- Custom user box, humor
- User:PaleoNeonate/Userboxes/ManInBlack- Custom user box, humor
- User:PaleoNeonate/Userboxes/SPIKitz- Custom user box, humor
- User:PaleoNeonate/Userboxes/Einstein- Custom user box, humor, based on editor quote
- User:PaleoNeonate/Userboxes/Brainwashing- Custom user box, based on editor quote
- User:PaleoNeonate/Userboxes/CigaretteSmokingMan- Custom user box, humor
- User:PaleoNeonate/Userboxes/InterracialRelationship- Custom user box, sexuality
- User:PaleoNeonate/Userboxes/CounterPropagandaUnit- Humor, adapted from box atUser:Morton devonshire/Head
- User:PaleoNeonate/Userboxes/DevonshireSchoolOfPropaganda- Humor, inspired from text atUser:Morton devonshire/Alex doesn't live here anymore
- User:PaleoNeonate/Userboxes/MomsAgainstMomsAgainstScience
- User:PaleoNeonate/Userboxes/WikiSatan
- User:PaleoNeonate/OfPaidEditingAndCOI- Opinion essay on paid editing and conflict of interest
- User:PaleoNeonate/Pitfalls- An essay on pseudoscience
- Wikipedia:Teahouse- can also be useful to bring attention to draft articles and assist.
- AfD Log (today)- I sometimes lurk here to vote or comment on debates, but also discover work-in-progress articles of new editors needing assistance.
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Backlog elimination drives
Wikiproject Skepticism tasks
[edit]- Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Skepticism/Skeptic_watchlists
- Special:RecentChangesLinked/User:Hob_Gadling/List_of_pseudoscience_pages
- Category:WikiProject Skepticism
- Category:WikiProject Skepticism articles
- Wikipedia:WikiProject_Skepticism/Article_alerts
- User:InceptionBot/NewPageSearch/Skepticism/log
- User:AlexNewArtBot/SkepticismSearchResult
- Fringe theories noticeboard
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Wikiproject:Skepticism |
- Open tasks:
Remove pseudoscience from thearticles needing immediate attention.
Turn ourGood Articles into Feature Articles.
- Monitor theFringe theories noticeboard.
- Improve ourtop-importance articlesandhigh-importance articles.
- Improve:
- Subliminal stimuli- Includes some pseudoscience but no mention of such forWP:PSCI
- Illusion- Currentlylistedat article for improvement (WP:TAFI)
- Objections to evolution- From Good Article to Feature Article
- Correlation does not imply causation- Improve
- Allopathic medicine- Improve or merge (has been considered POV fork)
- Second sight- Has been proposed as mostly Celtic/Gaelic context ofextrasensory perceptionbut suggestions to merge in it have also been made. Recently called to attention viaWP:FTN.
- Chris Kilham- BLP: Promotional tone and unbalanced pseudomedical claims
- Dosha- Needs mostly rewriting
- Maharishi Vedic Approach to Health-WP:PSCI
- Items inactive for too long can be removed
Wikiproject Citation Cleanup TODO list
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[edit]- Special:NewPages— New pages
- WP:IW— Inter-Wiki linking
- {{Lat}}— Page/Portal/etc link
- {{sl}}— Search link
- {{ph}}— History link
- {{diff}}/ Special:Diff/id — Diff link
- {{oldid}}/ Special:Permalink/id — Permanent link
- {{fullurl}}|{{urlencode}}— Utilities
- {{tl}}etc — Template link
- {{para}}— Template parameter
- {{button}}— Button
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- {{la}}— Article links
- {{ld}}— Draft links
- {{clc}}/ [[:Category:...]] — Category link
- {{LinkSummary}}— Link links
- {{UserSummary}}— User links
- {{IPSummary}}— Address links
- {{re}}— Reply
- {{u}}— Name/ping
- {{noping}}— Name/noping
- {{edit tag}}— Edit tag link
- {{edit filter}}— Edit filter link
- {{edit}}— Edit link
- H:WIKICODE— Wikimarkup reference
- WP:WARN— Standard warning templates
- WP:WARN2— Multi-level warning templates
- {{Ds/alert}}— Dicretionary sanctions alert
- {{OW}}— Deleted previous warnings in the history
- {{Userpage blanked}}— Fake article, stale draft, etc.
- {{Shared IP}}— Tag IP address as shared
- {{Shared IP edu}}— Tag IP address talk page as school
- {{SharedIPcolocation}}— Tag IP address as webhost
- {{Static IP}}— Tag IP address as static
- {{COI editnotice}}— Tag relevant article talk pages
- WP:MYBIO— Help for autobio editors
- WP:STUBS— Stub sorting types
- Category:Cleanup_templates— Cleanup tags
- Category:Introduction_cleanup_maintenance_templates— Lead cleanup tags
- WP:DST— Deletion sorting lists
- {{DNAU}}— Do Not Archive Until
- WP:TRANS— All about transclusion
- WP:CTTandWP:TMV— Citation cleanup tags
- WP:PROJSCOPE— Tagging for WikiProjects
- Template:Resolved/See_also— Sign templates
- Template:Done/See_also— More sign templates
- WP:RSN— Reliable Sources Noticeboard{{Unreliable sources}}{{Unreliable source}}{{RSN-notice}}
- WP:FTN— Fringe Theories Noticeboard{{Fringe theories}}{{FTN Article}}{{Ftn-notice}}
- WP:NPOVN— Neutral Point of View Noticeboard{{POV}}{{NPOVN-notice}}
- WP:ELN— External Links Noticeboard
- WP:BLPN— Biographies of Living Persons Noticeboard{{BLP}}{{BLP noticeboard}}watchlist
- WP:COIN— Conflict Of Interest Noticeboard
- WT:NPR— New Pages Reviewer noticeboard
- WP:CEN— Current Events Noticeboard
- WP:MCQ— Media Copyright Questions
- WP:PR— Peer Review
- WP:DBOARD— Discussions and requests list
- WP:RSN— Reliable Sources Noticeboard
- WP:RX— Sources Exchange
- WP:LIB— Library
- WP:IRS— Identifying Reliable Sources
- WP:PUS— Potentially Unreliable Sources
- WP:MEDRS— Medical Reliable Sources
- WP:FRIND— Sources IRT fringe
- WP:PARITY— Parity of sources
{{find sources|article}}
- {{Reliable sources for medical articles}}
- WP:ACDS— Discretionary Sanctions
- WP:AIV— Administrator Intervention against Vandalism
- WP:UAA— User name for Administrator Attention
- WP:POVUSERNAME— Essay
- WP:RPP— Request for Page Protection (increase)
- WP:AN— Administrator Noticeboard (to discuss with/about admins or general uncategorized)
- WP:AN3— Administrator Noticeboard to report edit warring (3RR, etc)
- WP:ANI— Administrator Noticeboard to report incidents
- WP:AE— Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement (report violations of discretionary sanctions, violated 0RR/1RR decisions, request closure of discussions/deletions, etc)
- WP:SPI— Sock Puppet Investigations (to report multiple undisclosed account usage)
- WP:911— Emergency, self-harm, threats
- WP:REFUND— Request for undeletion or userfication of deleted articles
- WP:DELREV— Deletion Review
- WP:AfD— Articles for Deletion (closing will determine if admin must delete)
- WP:CSD— Criteria for Speedy Deletion nomination (use AfD or MfD if unsuccessful)
- WP:PROD— Proposed Deletion (uncontroversial, technical; use CSD, AfD or MfD if unsuccessful)
- WP:SUPPRESS— Oversight (request deletion of outing/info/inadvertent-IP, etc)
- WP:TfD— Templates for Deletion
- WP:MFD— Miscellany for Deletion (user boxes, project/Wikipedia space, drafts, or other not covered by AfD/TfD/CfD/RfD) (category)
- WP:CfD— Categories for Deletion
- WP:FfD— Files for Deletion (images, other media)
- WP:RfD— Redirect for Deletion
- WP:RM— Requested Moves
- {{Deletion tools}}— Deletion tools
- {{Copyvio-revdel}}—WP:REVDELrequest
- CopyPatrol tool
- WP:3O— request Third Opinion
- WP:RfC— Request for Comment
- WP:DR— Dispute Resolution
- WP:M— Mediation (all parties must agree to open)
- WP:ARB— Arbitration Committee
- WP:ACC— request Account Creation
- WP:UTRS— Unblock Ticket Request System
- WP:ARCA— Arbitration Requests Clarification and Amendment (i.e. article protection change when original administrator not available, clarification to sanctions)
- WP:RESTRICT— Editing restrictions
- WP:EAR— Editor Assistance Requests
- WP:RS/AC— Consensus
- WP:PSCI— Pseudoscience
- WP:GEVAL— False balance
- WP:YESPOV— Facts vs opinions
- WP:FRINGE— Fringe theories
- MOS:ISMCAPS– He for God
- WP:SAWW— Peace be upon him
- MOS:CREDENTIAL— Doctor
- MOS:HONORIFIC— Honourable
- MOS:MED— Other animals
- MOS:QUOTEMARKS— Straight punctuation
- MOS:INOROUT— Punctuation in/out
- MOS:ERA— BC/AD vs BCE/CE
- WP:WTAF— Write the Article First
- WP:ELNO— On permitted external links
- MOS:HEADCAPS— Headers case
- WP:NCPDAB— Article name disambiguation (people)
- {{italic title}}— Useful for book articles
- WP:USERTALKBLOG— Inappropriate content on user pages
- WP:BON— Bots noticeboard
- WP:BOTREQ— Bot task requests
- WP:RAQ— SQL query requests
- WP:EFR— Edit Filter Requests
- Special:Tags— Edit tags
- Special:AbuseLog— Abuse log
- Special:AbuseFilter— Abuse filter
- WP:EF— Edit filter
- MediaWiki:Titleblacklist— Titles blacklist
- WT:WPSPAM— Linkspam reporting
- User:COIBot/Poke— COIBot report
- WP:BLACKLIST,WP:Spam-blacklist,M:Spam blacklist,WP:WhiteList,M:Spam-whitelist,WP:SPAM,M:WM:SPAM
- Local blacklist(talk·archives·logs)
- Local whitelist(talk·archives·logs)
- Global blacklist(talk·archives·logs)
- XLinkBot Revertlist(talk·archives·logs)
- WP:OP— Open proxy report
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Awards
[edit]These are friendly ways to express appreciation and to encourage civility and efforts. For more information, please seeWikipedia:Awards,Wikipedia:WikiLoveandWikipedia:Kindness_Campaign.
Barnstars
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The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar |
Thanks very much for your help on my A.M. Pattison piece. I greatly appreciate it.Ian.fraser1(talk) 21:02, 21 March 2017 (UTC) |
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The Teamwork Barnstar | |
Thanks for your help on the aura article, and thank you for helping revive the wp:skeptic project!KarlPoppery(talk) 04:07, 22 May 2017 (UTC) |
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The Special Barnstar | |
For excellent communication and artistic skills.Noah Kastin(talk) (🖋) 23:47, 17 July 2017 (UTC) |
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The Barnstar of Recovery | |
While not quite an AFD rescue, I figured you earned this for efforts to kickstart the WikiProject Skepticism talk pageDkriegls(talk to me!)05:21, 7 August 2017 (UTC) |
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The Guidance Barnstar | |
You helped me a number of times. You are really helpful. I am lucky that I met with you by chance.P.Shiladitya✍talk08:47, 23 February 2018 (UTC) |
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The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar |
Thank you for being so kind and helpful. You helped edit a draft that I thought no one would even look at, you gave me good advice in a talk section, and you welcomed me on my talk page. You have been the nicest person on this site that I have met so far. Thank you.Wyrm127(talk) 01:44, 26 June 2018 (UTC) |
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The Special Barnstar | |
A special barnstar for a special person. Thank you.Jenhawk777(talk) 17:30, 12 September 2020 (UTC) |
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COVID-19 Barnstar | |
Awarded for your ongoing efforts protecting articles on the pseudoscience related to COVID-19. Awarded byCdjp1(talk)16:02, 8 February 2022 (UTC) |
Miscellaneous
[edit]Dear@PaleoNeonate:Sir,--P.Shiladitya(talk) 15:32, 23 May 2017 (UTC)
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TheWikiJaguarAward for Excellence | |
For your recent assistance responding to the request I left on someone else's talk page, I award you theWikiJaguar Award for Excellenceintalk page stalkingefforts. (Specifically, for your suggestion on using{{ow}}for notifying community editors of other editor's previously made concerns which have been deleted from a user's talk page, madein this discussionon user Bbb23's talk page. I appreciate your help!)SpintendoTalk10:39, 25 June 2017 (UTC) |
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Thanks for supporting my run for administrator. I am honored and grateful.)Cullen328Let's discuss it20:42, 23 July 2017 (UTC) |
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The Good Friend Award | |
Thank you for your valuable help in MfD of my userpage's subpage. You gave advices to me about deletion of userpages. This is for you. Thank you.PATH SLOPU(Talk)09:53, 17 August 2018 (UTC) |
gnomish guidance
Thank you for service from 2005, for welcoming users and improving references, for evaluating drafts, for a list of useful links on your personal page, forguidingand missing, - gnomish user expressing spirituality in music, you are anawesome Wikipedian!
--Gerda Arendt(talk) 18:27, 6 September 2018 (UTC)
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The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar |
I noticed that too! Ha ha! Thanks for the welcoming and your kindness!PaleoNeolitic(talk) 17:32, 2 July 2019 (UTC) |
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A puppy for you! |
For all you've done over the years, I am giving you this puppy. Your contributions are appreciated.Sro23(talk) 06:06, 20 August 2020 (UTC) |
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Christmas_Crochet_sleigh_ride%2C_Wemyss_Bay_pillarbox_6.jpg/220px-Christmas_Crochet_sleigh_ride%2C_Wemyss_Bay_pillarbox_6.jpg)
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An outbreak of crocheted creations locally has brought light relief and cheer in dark times. Here's a couple of them.
Thanks for all your work pushing against the de-enlightenment of creationism,
Wishing you and yours merry festivities, and a happy and healthy New Year!
dave souza,talk21:25, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
EOP
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