User:Lou Sander

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This editor is a
Veteran Editor II
and is entitled to display this
Bronze Editor Star.
Post-secondary level. I have also created and taught Wikipedia 101, a short course for beginners in using and editing Wikipedia. My major activities these days include editing Wikipedia and serving as the driving force in The USS Rankin Association and The Alliance of Military Reunions
. Other than that, I do pretty much as I please, subject to financial limitations.

My first Wikipedia edit was on July 7, 2003, and I began editing in earnest in April, 2006. I reached my 10,000th edit in February, 2014, and my 15,000th in April, 2017. One of my biggest Wikipedia activities is posting new articles, on subjects I either know about or am interested in; I've posted over 400 of them. Another is reworking weak articles that I happen to encounter and take an interest in. I also add information where it's needed and where I can help, and I fix errors wherever I encounter them. I used to watch a handful of controversial articles, mostly to help make them better, but also to see how well/poorly the editors deal with them. It wasn't pretty, so I stopped.

I've started many new articles about U.S. Navy ships and aircraft squadrons. I've also started a significant number on the Navy, ships and shipbuilding, the works of C. G. Jung, and cowboy songs, as well as other topics that happened to interest me. One of the rewards of starting articles is seeing how other editors expand and improve on them. A prime example of this is National Sleep Foundation.

My LinkedIn profile is HERE, and my personal web site is HERE. I also have a website about the Top 100 American cowboy and western songs, HERE. I tweet at USSRankin and AllMilReunions.

This user has been on Wikipedia for 20 years, 8 months and 21 days.





WARNING: The paragraphs below plainly state the qualifications and accomplishments of an experienced person with many interests. If you consider such material immodest, you shouldn't read further. In any event, remember: If it's true, it isn't bragging.



I think I'm a pretty good editor because...

  • I've done a lot of editing in Wikipedia. My first edit was in July, 2003. As of early 2017, I've made over 15,000 edits in all and started more than 400 articles. Time flies.

The bottom line is that I've spent over 70 years absorbing and disseminating knowledge, and cultivating the art of being right. The most important part of that art is that when you aren't right, you admit it and learn from your mistake. Whatever my abilities in the less important areas of the art, I claim absolute mastery of that one.

I think I'm a pretty good editor, Q.E.D..

You might also like to know (but probably not)...

NOTE: I've been reorganizing this section to group like material together, hopefully under meaningful headings. The non-reorganized stuff is down at the end. Lou Sander (talk) 17:42, 19 March 2017 (UTC)

Early life
  • Born
    ENTP
    .
  • When I was seven years old, I was shot at by a group of nonwhites who didn't like the names my friend Henry told me to call them. The (
    teenagers with machine guns
    .
  • I can pin down some other influences in my early life. As a schoolboy I remember being taken to a handful of
    Rotary Club
    . I attended my father's Masonic funeral; it was the first one I had ever seen.
Media
  • My published writing has been read in dozens of countries large and small (e.g., Australia and Papua New Guinea), and one of my books was translated into Italian. In the early days of personal computers, The Chicago Manual of Style was doing a poor job of dealing with the new range of computer-related material. I made some suggestions to the editors, and they incorporated them into their next edition. I've alerted the Oxford English Dictionary to a missed meaning of pigstick, but I don't know if they've accepted it.
  • In 2011 I went to my first-ever gathering of Wikipedia contributors, a Wiknic. It was the first time I had ever met any other editors (except for a few that I have taught how to edit). They were interesting people, and not nearly as strange as I had expected. (Being a bit strange myself, I KNOW about strange.) I went to another Wiknic in 2013; same place, most of the same attendees. All who had been there two years ago remembered one another.
Navy, military, leadership, and patriotism
  • I fly the
    24/7/365
    , and illuminated at night, but I'm not some kind of a nut about it.
Sports
Heinz Field, Pittsburgh
  • SSN
    .)
  • I've only been on one organized athletic team, a short-lived
    track team, but I've been involved in athletics as a participant and spectator. I was a decent club-level tennis player (3.0-3.5) into my 50s, and I was once a fairly good recreational volleyball
    player.
Games
Music / Arts / Entertainment
  • I like stage plays, but I don't get to see them very often. My biggest on-stage experience was playing
    Pirates of Penzance
    . It was pretty good stuff for a very young man. Over 40 years later, we saw a touring show of Fiorello!. It seemed like we had first seen it only last year.
  • My favorite movies include
    CSI
    , for example, and we probably never will.)
  • I've been to the
    St. Peter's baldachin
    . Great art does that to you.
Rides
  • The first car I remember riding in was my father's 1941
    Mazda Protegé 5 Zoom-Zoom succumbed to extensive rust, and I traded it in on a new 2012 Mazda3
    .
  • I've ridden in or on more than my share of cars, trucks, ships, boats, airplanes, etc., including some slightly unusual ones:
    burro
    * (an asterisk means I drove it).
Tools
  • As a teenager involved in amateur radio, I owned a lot of
    grid dip meters
    and probably some more that I forget.
  • Like many men who love tools, I have a number of tools that belonged to my father and my grandfather. The latter include a
    Stillson wrenches
    .
Computers and electronics
  • I bought my first computer, a
    Kindle Fire HD. It, too, is a miracle of technology, but, to me, it is an even bigger miracle of economics. It cost $99.99, the same as my first four-function handheld calculator
    in 1974. We live in wondrous times.
  • I've designed many
    copy machine
    . I've owned personal computers continuously since 1979.
Travels & geography
  • I know a lot of
    USS Franklin D. Roosevelt
    .)
  • I have sailed and/or swum in the
    hurricane once blew over two big trees in my yard. I haven't yet been to India, but I'm fond of all things Indian
    .
  • My travels have allowed me to see some pretty large manufactured objects, too—notably the
    Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array
    , used for exploring deep space.
Law & politics
Notable people
  • I've had passing encounters, but no conversation, with
    World Almanac
    .
  • In first through third grade, one of my classmates was future model and
    Playmate of the Year
    in 1961.
Reunions
Career
  • I spent the summer after high school as a meter reader for
    punched cards
    it it. The number varied greatly, and depended on the number of meters to be read on that particular route. I was also given enough money to for bus or streetcar fare back home from the end of the route. Then several of us would pile into a company car and be driven to the start of our routes. I'd read the meters and pencil in the reading on each card. When I finished all the cards in the deck, I could go home. Dogs were a real hazard–a dog can sense a meter reader from several blocks away, and one of us would be bitten every week or so. I was paid $1.00 or $1.50 per hour, and I felt very well-off.
  • Summers in college were taken up by Navy midshipman cruises, but one summer I had six weeks off. I worked at a local Western Electric facility, disassembling telephone handsets so their component pieces could be refurbished. I took apart something like 600 handsets a day, and it was the most boring thing I had ever done. It remains so today. After college I spent four years as a Naval officer.
  • My first full-time job in industry (1965) was with
    cell phone. I was a minor person in the marketing department, but I carried a pager and used a Xerox 914
    copy machine. Motorola was a pretty progressive company.
  • After Motorola I worked in management at a
    gift wrap
    . After two years there, I began a long career selling high-tech products to hospitals.
  • I worked in the marketing and product management end of some reasonably exciting areas of medicine, most of them in their early days of commercialization:
    FDA
    .
  • My personal medical experiences include being probed diagnostically by
    gallbladder attack
    woke me up in the middle of the night with extreme uncontrollable pain. I was admitted to a local hospital through the ER the next morning, and operated on later that day. The surgery was painless and the recovery was brief and uneventful. Medical science really knows how to deal with gallbladders. Hernias, too.
I'm also subject to seasonal affective disorder. It hit me pretty hard in the mid-1990s, but these days it's mostly a nuisance that makes life less satisfying in the winter. In the winter of 2013-2014, I regularly used this light for an hour a day, about a foot from my face, and it completely banished my symptoms. It has performed similar service since then.
  • My career in the medical world allowed me to attend the annual meetings of many medically-related professional societies. Among them were the
    Society of Nuclear Medicine
    .
  • I had other interesting experiences, too. One time I was working on a large sale to a hospital in Ohio. They had committed to buy my product, so I took my sales manager with me for the final contract signing for the biggest sale in my life. When we got there, the customer told us he had changed his mind and was going with a competitor. Heartbreak hotel, and what an embarrassment! One week later,
    their town was leveled by a tornado. Once again, don't (expletive deleted)
    with me. ;-)
  • I was at Digital when I sold the previously mentioned
    laboratory information systems
    . Today, such things are in just about every lab in the industrialized world, but back then, they were new and mysterious articles. At one time, I had sold more of them than any other person in the world: two.

Original material, not reorganized

  • I have visited the main campuses of these colleges and universities:
  • As a teacher, I practice the soft bigotry of low expectations. My students definitely appreciate it.
A view of the garden
Looking out from the forest
  • Except for the identity-theft jokes, this stuff is also true: My ancestors were
    mental hospitals
    . We blame it all on alcohol, but are open to thinking about other factors, including heredity.)

If you care to know more, just Google Louis Sander and you'll find it. I'm not the famous baby doctor, and I'm definitely not the orchid or the tragically murdered cop.

What I ignore


NOTE TO READERS: Please don't take this material personally or in a negative way—it is intended to be helpful.


Life has taught me to suffer fools, but not to suffer them gladly or for a protracted period of time. It has also taught me about their relatives the

trolls
.

I take note when Wikipedia material strikes me as similar to what one of the five might produce, even if it comes from skilled and intelligent editors who don't fit any of those categories. First, I give it the benefit of the doubt. Then I give it a second chance, and usually a third. After that, I just ignore it. And in spite of constant temptations, I try hard not to give voice lessons. (They just grunt and snout their keyboards.)

Wiki-life has taught me that editors whose words I end up ignoring have one or a number of characteristic behaviors:

  1. They have the attitude that because THEY think it, or believe it, or feel strongly about it, it must be right, regardless of the absence of any justification, and frequently in the presence of contrary evidence.
  2. They ignore or dismiss what YOU think or say, but frequently want to engage you in discussions about what THEY think or say.
  3. They arrogate to themselves the thoughts and behaviors of the larger community of editors, e.g., "This is how WE do things."
  4. They direct you to (often unspecified, e.g., "above") past eye-glazing discussions on talk pages, which discussions often feature their own comments, arguments, personal views, etc.
  5. They use the words "clearly" and "obviously" a lot, especially about things that aren't clear or obvious.
  6. They repeat their arguments, often with an indication that another editor doesn't understand them. "You obviously miss the point of what I said. Here, I will say it again for you." And again, and again, and again.
  7. They suggest that other editors review some sort of Wikipedia policy or guideline. "I suggest you read
    WP:RS
    ," for example.
  8. When they assert "
    Fringe!
    ".
  9. They conjure up reasons why
    reliable sources
    that they disagree with are really not reliable.
  10. Their User Pages are empty, sketchy, or hard to believe, or they sometimes claim academic credentials that their edits don't reflect—they write and think at the level of much less-educated people, and they aren't as smooth as Essjay.


"The way of a fool is right in his own eyes."Proverbs 12:15



Article counts, page counts, edit counts, etc.

This user has been on Wikipedia for 20 years, 8 months and 21 days.




I made my first edit on July 7, 2003, and my 10,000th on February 4, 2014, which was ten years, six months, and 28 days later. I got to 12,000 on March 18, 2014, after six weeks of frenetic article creation, and to 15,000 in April, 2017. Here are my contributions through early April, 2017:

  • By my own count, I've created 404 new articles, almost all of them reasonably significant in the overall scheme of things (no unknown garage bands, self-published books, etc.—you can see the list in the next section). That article count,does not include
    redirect pages
    , since they don't represent new content. It does include articles that replace redirect pages with substantive new material, since they are additions to the information in the encyclopedia. You can see a list of these articles in the section below. I might have missed one here or there, but I try pretty hard to get them all.
  • According to a Wikipedia tool, I've created 615 of the 6,803,975 pages currently in the English Wikipedia, ranking 2,533rd of all editors.[1] That figure includes 395 non-redirect pages (or "articles") and 220 redirect pages. To see the current numbers for the top 5,000 editors, go HERE. To find mine, do a text search for Lou Sander. I am proud of my contributions, but next to the top-ranked editors I'm nothing but a pissant.[2]
  • According to two other Wikipedia tools, I've made 14,517 edits, ranking 5,392nd of the 125,076 active Wikipedia editors.[1] To see the numbers for editors #5,001-10,000, go HERE. To find me on the list, do a text search for Lou Sander. To see the numbers for editors #1-5,000, go HERE. Next to these people, I am a miserable little nothing.
  • You can click HERE to see a totally up-to-date count of my edits, with graphics showing details about when and where they occurred. (N.B.: The counter is continually under construction, so you can't always access it. You can always try later.)

Articles started

I like to work on articles that relate to my short career as a Naval officer, which was spent aboard

DANFS. But there was a lot of copy editing, heavy-duty Wikification, fact checking and research. Beginning in late 2013, I started a lot of articles on U.S. Navy aircraft squadrons, even though I've not had much involvement in Naval Aviation. DANAS
, the Naval aviation version of DANFS, was extremely helpful. I've also started or modified other articles that interest me, or were red links somewhere, etc., and of course I expand, fix errors, etc. in articles that I encounter that need it.

  • I've also started 121 articles on U.S. Navy aircraft squadrons. Click HERE to see them.
  • I've started these additional articles relating to the Navy, ships, and shipbuilding:
  1. 5"/38 caliber gun
  2. Ammunition ship
  3. Andromeda class attack cargo ship
  4. Arcturus class attack cargo ship
  5. Artemis class attack cargo ship
  6. Battle Efficiency Award
  7. Beach Jumpers
  8. Combat loading
  9. Cruise book
  10. Davisville, Rhode Island
  11. Keel laying
  12. List of squadrons in the Dictionary of American Naval Aviation Squadrons
  13. Marjorie Sterrett Battleship Fund Award
  14. Moore Dry Dock Company
  15. NAAS Chincoteague
  16. Naval Air Station Midway
  17. Naval Supply Depot, Oakland
  18. Navy Department Library
  19. North Carolina Shipbuilding Company
  20. Onslow Beach
  21. Quarterdeck
  22. Tampa Shipbuilding Company
  23. Tolland class amphibious cargo ship
  24. Type C2 ship
  25. Type C3 ship
  26. United Engineering Co.
  27. United States Federal Maritime Board
  28. United States Navy Regulations
  29. Walsh-Kaiser Co., Inc.
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  1. Psychiatric Studies
  2. Experimental Researches
  3. Psychogenesis of Mental Disease
  4. Freud & Psychoanalysis
  5. Symbols of Transformation
  6. Psychological Types (NOTE 1)
  7. Two Essays on Analytical Psychology
  8. Structure & Dynamics of the Psyche
  9. Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
  10. Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self
  11. Civilization in Transition
  12. Psychology and Religion: West and East
  13. Psychology and Alchemy
  14. Alchemical Studies (NOTE 1)
  15. Mysterium Coniunctionis
  16. Spirit in Man, Art, and Literature
  17. Practice of Psychotherapy
  18. Development of Personality
  19. The Symbolic Life
  20. Synchronicity (book) (NOTE 2)
NOTE 1 – I significantly upgraded this article, but did not start it.
NOTE 2 – This book is not from The Collected Works, but is extracted from one that is.

I've also done a lot of work on other Jung-related articles. Somebody thought it was pretty good:

The Psychology Barnstar
For your impressively comprehensive work on The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, its 20+ volumes, its editor Gerhard Adler, and its hardworking translator R. F. C. Hull, groupuscule hereby awards you this symbolic (Gestaltist-inspired, perhaps archetypally ambiguous) token of appreciation. Thank you for your efforts and your contributions to world knowledge. groupuscule (talk) 19:42, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
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  1. Bar D Wranglers (Western singers)
  2. Bill Barwick (singer/songwriter)
  3. Buck Ramsey (singer/songwriter)
  4. Buddy Pepper (composer)
  5. Call You Cowboy (song and album)
  6. Carl Stutz (composer)
  7. Coyotes (song)
  8. Curley Fletcher (cowboy poet)
  9. D. J. O'Malley (cowboy poet)
  10. Edith Lindeman (lyricist)
  11. Eliot Daniel (songwriter/lyricist)
  12. Empty Saddles (song)
  13. Everett Marshall (singer)
  14. Gary McMahan (singer/songwriter)
  15. Goodbye Old Paint (song)
  16. Herb Metoyer (singer/songwriter)
  17. I Ride an Old Paint (song)
  18. I'd Like to be in Texas for the Roundup in the Spring
    (song)
  19. Inez James (composer)
  20. Jeff Hanna (singer/songwriter/performer)
  21. John A. Stone (singer/songwriter)
  22. Ken Carson (cowboy singer)
  23. Larry Russell (composer)
  24. Lee Pockriss (songwriter)
  25. Little Joe the Wrangler (song)
  26. Mary Hadler (songwriter)
  27. Mike Blakely (singer/songwriter)
  28. Mike Taylor (guitarist)
  29. N. Howard Thorp (cowboy poet)
  30. Shifting Whispering Sands (song/poem)
  31. Tex Owens (singer/songwriter)
  32. The Colorado Trail (song)
  33. The Hotmud Family
    (band)
  34. The Old Double Diamond (song)
  35. The Ramblin' Riversiders (band)
  36. The Strawberry Roan (song)
  37. V. C. Gilbert (songwriter)
  38. W. C. Jameson (singer/songwriter)
  39. Wagon Wheels (song)
  40. When the Work's All Done This Fall (song)
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  • I've started these additional articles. Some were created from
    redirect pages
    :
  1. Abigail Thernstrom (political scientist and writer)
  2. Albert C. Sutphin (sports impresario)
  3. Allegheny Regional Asset District
  4. American Association for Thoracic Surgery
  5. American Bus Association
  6. American Roentgen Ray Society
  7. Andres Institute of Art
  8. Anthony Hamlet
  9. Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry
  10. Atoy Wilson (figure skater)
  11. Average and over (baseball statistic)
  12. Bakewell Cream (baking powder popular in Maine)
  13. Bere (grain)
  14. Born a Crime (Trevor Noah autobiography)
  15. Catherine E. Lhamon (U.S. Commission on Civil Rights member)
  16. Center for Individual Rights
  17. Crown Publishing Group
  18. Dagny Hultgreen (TV personality)
  19. David Kladney (U.S. Commission on Civil Rights member)
  20. Donald Burke (distinguished professor)
  21. Easter Parade
    (cultural event)
  22. Electronics for Medicine
  23. Federal Prison Camp, Florence
  24. Gail Heriot (U.S. Commission on Civil Rights member)
  25. Gerhard Adler (Jungian psychologist)
  26. Giant Raccoon's Flatulence theory (deleted, alas)
  27. Goldfish Club
  28. Gwendolyn Oxenham
  29. Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania
  30. Infinity walk
  31. International Society for Horticultural Science
  32. International Symposium on the Analytic Hierarchy Process
  33. Jaime Peraire (MIT professor)
  34. James E. Schrager (Chicago Booth professor)
  35. Jane Kirby (figure skater)
  36. Jean-François Richard (distinguished professor)
  37. Jeremy A. Rabkin (law professor)
  38. John B. Sollenberger (sports executive)
  39. John H. Harris (entertainment)
  40. Kenneth F. Schaffner (distinguished professor)
  41. Libertarian Party of Connecticut
  42. Maffin Bay (a bay in New Guinea)
  43. Municipal Authority
    (Pennsylvania government)
  44. National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives
  45. National Sheriffs' Association
  46. National Sleep Foundation
  47. Navajo Nation Museum
  48. Orkney College
  49. Oro Bay (another bay in New Guinea)
  50. Pasco Bowman II (U.S. Federal Judge)
  51. Pennsylvania Library Association
  52. Perrysville, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
  53. Peter A. Tyrrell (entertainment entrepreneur)
  54. Peter N. Kirsanow
    (U.S. Commission on Civil Rights member)
  55. Peter Wipf (distinguished professor)
  56. Pissant
  57. Pitkeathly Wells
  58. Police Executive Research Forum
  59. Posit Science Corporation
  60. Protected group
  61. Quarter Century Wireless Association
  62. R.F.C. Hull
    (Jung's translator)
  63. Seasonal Pattern Assessment Questionnaire
  64. Simpleton (stock character)
  65. Sini (Turkish dining)
  66. Sodium aluminum phosphate
  67. Sparrows Point
    (location in Maryland)
  68. Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art
  69. Sun King Warriors (band)
  70. Teluk Yos Sudarso
    (yet another bay in New Guinea)
  71. The Colorado Trail Foundation
  72. The International College of Surgeons
  73. U.S. Soccer Foundation
  74. User:Lou Sander
  75. Viewtron (early Internet service)
  76. Water Tupelo
    (tree)
  77. Wilse B. Webb (psychology professor)
  78. WQED Multimedia
  79. Yerba Mate Association of the Americas
  80. Yos Sudarso (Indonesian naval hero)
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Other Articles of Interest

I've made extensive and/or important contributions to:

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References

  1. ^ a b As of 3/14/17
  2. ^ I created the "P-word" article on December 6, 2006. "It takes one to know one."