User:Kralizec!
About
My first Wikipedia edit as a registered user was on
Ancient history
Born in rural
One of the best parts of my childhood was my family's love of travel. Of the 17 years I lived with my parents, we took multi-day, out-of-state
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Recent history
In 1998 I married my college sweetheart. Our son was born in 2003; he is named after his great great great great great grandfather who emigrated from County Down, Ireland to the Colony of Pennsylvania in the mid-1700's. Our (fraternal) twin daughters were born in 2005; they are named after their various grand and great grandmothers. Our family also includes a dog, cat, and three tanks of tropical fish. The username 'Kralizec!' has been my handle (or .nic as we used to call it back in ye olde unix days) since 1993.
My employer from 1998 to 2008 was a
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Beliefs
Personally, I self-identify as being an
Interests
My interests and hobbies include spending
In my free time I
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Here are the places I have been to. Concept and general layout stolen from
By nation
The countries I have been to:
Spent years: United States
Months to weeks: Australia Canada
Weeks to days: Austria People's Republic of China Germany Switzerland
Less than a day: France Japan Liechtenstein
Detailed by region
The provinces, states, and territories I have been to:
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Less than a day (including airports and train stations):
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Wikipedia
Philosophy
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Initially an adherent of
Edit history
My first (anonymous) Wikipedia edits were in 2003. It was not until early 2005 that I finally broke down and became a registered user.
Pet peeve: Articles that link to disambiguation pages instead of the correct article are the bane of my existence. My personal nightmare must be the Oil disambiguation page with its 1000+ links. Arg!
- 1st edit [1] - RPGnet - 1 March 2005
- 5th edit [2] - Lorne, Victoria - 22 March 2005
- 10th edit [3] - Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario - 23 March 2005
- 50th edit [4] - David M. Walker (astronaut) - 10 April 2005
- 100th edit [5] - USS Canberra (CA-70) - 17 April 2005
- 500th edit [6] - File:USS Prince William (CVE-19).jpg - 5 September 2005
- 1000th edit [7] - Saparmurat Niyazov - 29 November 2005
- 2500th edit [8] - Category:Oslo class frigates - 2 June 2006
- 5,000th edit [9] - USS Chicago (SSN-721) - 14 March 2007
- 10,000th edit [10] - Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents - 17 October 2007
- 15,000th edit [11] - blocked 195.110.149.57 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) - 15 May 2008
- 25,000th edit [12] - pinged ClueBot Commons (talk · contribs) - 26 February 2009
Administrivia
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As a Wikipedia administrator, I am involved in several "back office" areas of the project. On a daily basis I process requests at
When it comes to blocking editors, I take the official
Regarding other administrators, I feel that
Community recognition
On occasion my efforts have been recognized by members of the Wikipedia community.
Projects
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Current
To date, I have had varying degrees of involvement with the following projects:
- Australia- concentrating on the nation's maritime and military history
- Maritime warfare task force- emphasis on world navies and naval battles
- Oklahoma- mainly related to tourism areas in the state
- Photography- amateur photography with a focus on architecture, landmarks, landscapes, and nature
- Ships- primarily ships from the pre-Dreadnought era through the Cold War, with emphasis on WWI, WWII, and Cold War ship classes
- Templates- focus on navigational templates
- User warnings- keeping up with the latest discussions and developments, especially relating to new vandal warnings
Former
Projects from which I have retired:
- History of Poland- mostly World War II-era naval ships of Poland and the historic Polish states
- Ohio State Highways- mostly photography of various state routes
Recent changes patrol
While not a member of the
- Arab World
- New Seven Wonders of the World
- North American currency union
- North American Union
- Oklahoma City bombing
- Pensacola Christian College
- Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
- Shia Islam
- Twin
- Wonders of the World
Contributions
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This section is pretty long and boring ... but a lot shorter since I
Articles
Listed below are the articles I created, de-stubbed, heavily contributed to, or are just generally proud of my contributions to:
- 5-inch/54-caliber Mark 16 gun, a World War II-era naval artillery gun
- Agawa Canyon in Ontario
- Associated Banc-Corp, a bank holding company headquartered in Green Bay, Wisconsin
- BancorpSouth, a bank holding company headquartered in Tupelo, Mississippi
- HMAS Benalla (A 04), a Paluma class survey motor launch of the Royal Australian Navy
- Blue Rock State Park in south-eastern Ohio
- Boston-class cruiser in the United States Navy
- HMAS Canberra (D33), a County class heavy cruiser of the Royal Australian Navy
- Charles Moss Duke, Jr., an astronaut from the Apollo space program
- Culture Shock (TV series) on the Travel Channel
- David M. Walker, an astronaut from the Space Shuttle program
- Ed Galloway's Totem Pole Park in Foyil, Oklahoma
- First Citizens BancShares, a bank holding company headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina
- Galveston-class cruiser in the United States Navy
- Gul Agha Sherzai of Afghanistan
- Hwanggang Dam in North Korea
- Krupp armour, a type of naval armour
- List of Canadian islands by area, including population
- List of islands of the United States by area, including population
- List of Italian destroyers, primarily ships since World War I
- List of ships of the Royal Moroccan Navyfor the Kingdom of Morocco
- List of ships of the United Arab Emirates, in reference to the UAE navy
- List of United States Naval reactors, including builder, generation, and ship type
- Lorne, Victoria in Australia
- Major non-NATO ally of the United States
- Mark VI monorail was the pre-1989 core of the Walt Disney World Monorail System
- HMAS Mermaid (A 02), a Paluma class survey motor launch of the Royal Australian Navy
- USS New Haven (1776), a ship of the Continental Navy that operated on on Lake Champlain during the Revolutionary War
- New York Private Bank & Trust, a bank holding company headquartered in New York City
- NGC 1600, an elliptical galaxy with an unusually large supermassive black hole
- North American currency union, a theorized economic and monetary union of Canada, Mexico, and United States that is a popular conspiracy theory target
- North American Union, the theoretical union of Canada, Mexico, and United States that is a popular target for conspiracy theories
- Ohio History Connection in Columbus, Ohio
- Good Articlestatus
- OLG Casino Sault Ste. Mariein Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
- Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma
- SMS Novara (1913), a Rapidkreuzer-class light cruiser in the Austro-Hungarian Navy
- HMAS Paluma (A 01), lead ship of her class of survey motor launches in the Royal Australian Navy
- Pensacola Christian College in Pensacola, Florida
- Portage River in northwest Ohio
- Prayer Tower on the campus of ORU
- PSR J0523−7125 an unusually bright pulsar in the Large Magellanic Cloud
- Providence-class cruiser in the United States Navy
- Ramona Valley AVA a wine region in Southern California
- Raspberry Island in Alaska, the 64th largest island in the country
- Rollersville, Ohio, an unincorporated community in Sandusky County, Ohio
- Royal Moroccan Navy, the naval branch of the military of Morocco
- S6W reactor, used by the United States Navy
- Shenaz Treasurywalathe Bollywood actress and model
- South Financial Group, a bank holding company headquartered in Greenville, South Carolina
- Southern Beekeeper's Nature Reserve a nature reserve in Western Australia
- SPACEWAY-1, the DirecTV satellite
- Super Tuesday, 2008, the date of the first multi-state primary elections held during the U.S. presidential election cycle
- Super Tuesday II, 2008, the date of the second largest simultaneous number of state presidential primary elections
- Vermilion Lighthousein Vermilion, Ohio
- The Web Planet, a 1965 episode from Doctor Who
- Western Alliance Bancorporation, a bank holding company headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona
- Wicher-class destroyer in the Polish navy
Photographs and images
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To date, I have uploaded more than sixty of my own images to Wikipedia. They include photos taken in Australia (Northern Territory, Victoria), Canada (Ontario), the United States (primarily Ohio and Oklahoma, but also including Illinois, Michigan, and West Virginia), and a couple of map illustrations.
Disambiguation pages
Despite my disdain for them, disambiguation pages do serve a purpose. I have even created a few.
Categories
So far I have created over fifty categories. A large number of them have a naval theme and stem from my participation in
Redirects
For ease of navigation, I have created heaps of redirects during my time here at Wikipedia. However, when I create a redirect, I am always sure to use one of the tags specified in Wikipedia:Redirect.
Templates
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Templates can be a powerful navigational tool for browsing closely related topics. Currently I have started or heavily edited around twenty-five templates, many of them in conjunction with my participation in the