User:Lou Sander
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.
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 reading, especially in encyclopedias. I've been Eleventh Edition, and spent many hours perusing it. IMHO, the guys who wrote it really knew how to write an encyclopedia. Very little of what they wrote was later shown to be wrong.
- I've learned at the feet of high masters. I got straight A's in high school (back when that was harder to do), and I earned degrees in rigorous subjects from Duke University (electrical engineering, with advanced placement in freshman English) and the University of Chicago (MBA in marketing and economics). I was far from earning straight A's at either place, but I got my share of them, plus a few D's, in a time when A's were much harder to get, and D's much easier. More recently, I've spent quality learning time at the feet of Tony Robbins, Robert Kiyosaki, and Thomas L. Saaty.
- Many have seen fit to publish my writings. That includes about 500 magazines with worldwide circulation. During my "computer period" in the 1980's, I was a prolific and well-known writer on Commodore subjects. I wrote dozens of articles, two books (one of them translated into Italian) and several very popular columns, most notably the Magic column in RUN magazine. (You can see the names and full text of some of the computer articles HERE). My work was reprinted in six other booksthat I know of. Though my computer writing spanned all the computers of the day, it stopped when Commodore faded from the scene. Since then, most of my writing has been for newsletters, web sites, corporate research reports, etc., though I occasionally do an article for a magazine. When writing for publication, I'm usually known as Louis F. Sander.
- And I've published many of my own. In the not-formally-published-by-others category, I've written or compiled almost 300 online obituaries, about a hundred poems, and over 400 new articles in Wikipedia. I'm the creator and proprietor of four large web sites, for The USS Rankin Association HERE, a pre-Facebook personal site HERE, for The Alliance of Military Reunions HERE, and a comprehensive exposition of the 100 Top Western Songs of all time HERE. I also publish an eight-page, 1,300-copy quarterly newsletter for my Navy ship reunion group. We think it's one of the very best newsletters of its type. You can see it, including back issues, HERE. Nice, huh?
- 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.
- Et cetera. I spent twelve years as chairman of the board of a regionally important public library. In connection with that work, I spent hundreds of hours in dozens of different libraries, where I learned a lot about information and how it's created, processed, and disseminated. Also, as stated up above, I have taught logic and critical thinking.
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..
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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.
- My father was a Webelos, and the other was a member, with me, of YMCA Indian Guides. All of us, to some extent, incorporated the values taught by those organizations. A Scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent. Us, too.
Media
- I was heard on local radio before I was in high school. For several years I was a featured personality on AOL's predecessor Quantum Link. (I was online there on its first day of operation.) I've twice had 15 minutes of fame on local TV. The first was coverage of my Computer Kindergarten classes in the early 1980s. The second was in my role as an expert on pornography in public libraries (I'm against it). A major TV station sent a crew to my home to interview me as I called up naughty bits on my laptop. Fun, that.
- 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.
- I deeply distrust the Dan. Now NBC is in the same boat, thanks to the "misremembering" of Brian Williams. Is there no end to these people? I greatly admire Fred on Everything, for both his thinking and his writing.
- I had an .
- Later I served in a then-Navy Special Forces unit, where I learned to kill and went through the then-current version of survival school. I never came close to needing or using those skills, but I suppose they're still in there somewhere. Wherever they are, they should stay there—don't (expletive deleted)with me.
- In my brief Navy career, I 8"/55 caliber guns; it's something I will never forget. (The Navy also taught me to swear like a sailor, and from time to time I exercise that skill.) I conned several ships, made fixes by celestial navigation, and landed on beaches in ramped boats and an LVT. In addition to the LVT, I boarded and departed ships by brow, accommodation ladder, cargo net, davit, Jacob's ladder, cargo boom, highline, and helicopter. I encrypted and decrypted classified messages, ate on mess decks and in wardrooms, and did most of the things that seafaring people do. I saw and handled chaff and reported more than one mail buoy. I also had a Final Top Secret security clearance. At one time I considered myself pretty salty for a fellow my age, and I think I really was. Forty years later, I assembled a pretty good glossary of Naval Terminology. You can see it and download it HERE.
- Nobody I know died in Desert Storm. I've drunk pisco with Jorge's father, a Bolivian geologist. Like Richard Nixon, I have also drunk Maotai, which IMHO tastes like a combination of motor oil and Drano (but others think much more highly of it). I am an expert rifle and pistol shot, and I carry. As a naval officer, I owned and wore a sword. (The only thing I ever cut with it was a wedding cake).
- I've participated in about 300 businesses, an important suburban public library, and three nonprofit membership organizations. (See HERE, HERE, and HERE).
- I fly the 24/7/365, and illuminated at night, but I'm not some kind of a nut about it.
Sports
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- 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 volleyballplayer.
- I am of the Steeler nation, and I'm totally capable of using a Terrible Towel to snap a welt on your Cleveland-, Cincinnati- or Baltimore-loving ass. Paraphrasing The Most Interesting Man in the World, "I don't always hate, but when I do, I hate the Baltimore Ravens."
- I've seen sporting events at Louisiana Superdome when no events were taking place, and I've seen the famous blue artificial turf at Boise Stateduring band practice.
- I've seen Grapefruit League game, but I don't remember the teams. In 2010, I attended a PRCA rodeo; in 2012, I spent a day at Cheyenne Frontier Days. I've attended a number of professional wrestling matches, and I live fairly close to Bruno Sammartino (if you like having an unswollen face, don't try telling him his sport is a fake). Once I was so close to Renée Richards, I could have touched her on the Adam's apple. But none of the above was as exciting as seeing Danny Seemiller and his brother Ricky demonstrate world-class table tennis skills at Monroeville Mall.
- I was in a Charlotte airport; they didn't recognize me. As a Duke freshman on January 27, 1958, I saw the unranked Duke Blue Devils basketball team beat the #1-ranked West Virginia Mountaineers with Jerry West and Mary Lou Retton's future father Ronnie, 72-68. Wow! The next Thanksgiving, on national TV, I saw the nationally-ranked Duke football team get crushed 50-0 by their pathetically weak arch-rival, the North Carolina Tar Heels. Win some, lose some, I guess. Also at Duke I briefly met Dave Sime, who at that time was the "world's fastest man."
- There are rumors that I am a well-known rodeo cowboy, specializing in a somewhat unusual event. I have no comment.
Games
- When I was younger, I played spider solitaire, though (my best run is 40 wins out of 50 games, or 80%). I also play the lottery, especially when the prizes are large. Some might see me as a high roller, since I've often bought $3,000 worth of Powerball and Mega Millions tickets at one fell swoop. (Actually, it's for a 100+ player lottery poolthat I operate. We win money at every drawing, but we haven't won the big one yet.)
- Since 2012 or so, a close friend and I have been working many of The New York Times crossword puzzles. We collaborate via video Skype, and as a team we are pretty good. It is not unusual for us to finish the Sunday puzzle without any mistakes and without looking up any answers. We almost always finish the Wednesday through Saturday puzzles without mistakes, about half the time with the aid of a small number of Wikipedia or Google look-ups. Mondays and Tuesdays are pieces of cake. My history with crossword puzzles began when I was a kid and watched my maternal grandmother doing them. I remember them being so hard that I had to do the "skeleton puzzles," where the words are given and must be fit into a framework. I remember doing crosswords at Duke. Also, during periods of boredom in the shore-duty Navy, three to six other officers and I would gather around a table and jointly work the crossword in the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot. One of us would read the clues aloud, the group would agree on an answer and shout it out, and another of us would print it into the grid. As I recall, we'd usually finish a puzzle as fast as the designated scribe could print.
Music / Arts / Entertainment
- Though my father, mother, two aunts, father-in-law, and son-in-law are or spent some time as professional trumpeter and drummer, respectively), I don't make any music myself. (When the other kids in the neighborhood were taking swimming lessons, my parents signed me up for piano lessons. It pissed me off, and I rebelled; due to that break in my education, I never learned to swim until I needed it for the Navy.) My greatest musical accomplishment is creation of a pretty good web site about The 100 Top Western Songs of All Time. If I had ever learned to make music, I think I could have been a good songwriter or lyricist. Download this 205KB PDF file and see if you agree. Two of my granddaughters have continued the family musical tradition: one, age seventeen, has sung for money at an under-21 club and drew a decent-sized crowd. (I guess that makes her a professional musician, or at least a pre-professional.) Her sister, age fourteen, has played Ti Moune, the lead character in an amateur production of the musical Once on This Island. Both of them have appeared on stage with their musician father at professional venues, and were background singers on his 2015 indie CD. Their brother, age twelve, appeared on drums there.
- When I was a little kid in the early 1940s, I owned a Schubert's Marche Militaire; I recall the melody even today. The other, or maybe the other side, I remember as being called Marche Lorraine, though the music doesn't sound familiar when I listen to it today. Later on, I owned Peter Lind Hayes's Genie the Magic Record; it was released in 1946, so I must have had it in first or second grade. When I heard the record again in 2010, I remembered most of the words from the singing introduction. When I listen to the scratchy version in the link above, I recall every single thing that's on that side of the record.
- As a kid during the 1940s and 1950s, my favorite radio programs included, in no particular order, The Adventures of Superman, Lone Ranger, Tom Mix, Lum and Abner, One Man's Family, Inner Sanctum, Nick Carter, Master Detective, Lux Radio Theatre, Gunsmokeand many more.
- When television became available in the early 1950s, my favorite programs included Rocky King, Inside Detective, Boston Blackie, The United States Steel Hour, Texaco Star Theater, Your Show of Shows, and many more.
- In high school (class of 1957), I was an early and enthusiastic fan of the music now called Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, The Platters, and Bo Diddley. Most of these shows were at the Syria Mosque.
- My grad school years in Chicago were the golden years of the Playboy Club, at which I saw entertainers Hines, Hines, and Dad, Gloria Loring, and Flip Wilson. I also saw Dave Brubeck, I believe at another venue. Somewhere in that part of my life I also saw Victor Borge in concert, and I vaguely recall seeing George Shearing.
- In later years I lost my enthusiasm for live music, but I've attended concerts by H.O.R.D.E tour. I've seen one opera, a Pittsburgh Opera production of Madama Butterfly, where I learned that I don't appreciate opera very much. Today, I like classical music for its beauty and relaxing qualities, oldies because I heard them when they were new, and country music for its artistry and its honesty in depicting real life. I can easily get goose bumps over Lorrie Morgan's Something in Red, which isn't just about shopping. (If you follow the link, scroll down to read the lyrics. Be sure to allow the popup so you can hear the music, too.)
- 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.
- In 2016, I was cast as a paid background actor in the Netflix television series Mindhunter. My character appeared briefly in the car crash scene in Season 1, Episode 4.
- 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.
- Not counting myself, my favorite Archilochus of Paros, Rumi, Robert Herrick, William Blake, Edgar Allan Poe, Rudyard Kipling, and Countee Cullen. If it doesn't rhyme, I probably don't like it very much.
- Like humor with truth, and I can pack lots of both into one paragraph. All facts but one in this and the prior paragraphs are absolutely, and usually verifiably, true. (The humor's in there, too, but it's also in the eye of the beholder. Some of it is also in the links.)
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
- I've always owned and loved a lot of nail sets and a combination square(not all the tools were suitable for a seven-year-old, but I wasn't complaining). I still have the toolbox, one or two of the wood chisels, the square, and maybe the saw.
- As a teenager involved in amateur radio, I owned a lot of grid dip metersand probably some more that I forget.
- As a homeowner, I've always had lots of garden tools, plus the hand tools and small power tools that are found in many American homes. For many years one of my proudest possessions was a Shopsmith 10er. I had a ton of accessories for it, including a speed changer, a scroll saw and a set of lathe chisels. I sold it, regrettably, after a long period of disuse. Today my only large power tool is a mid-range Ryobi table saw, but I look longingly at others every time I visit Harbor Freight Tools. So many goodies, such incredible prices!
- 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
- For a guy who's never been employed as an timesharing applications running on mainframes. I always liked what these systems did, but as a sales rep, I never really got into programming them.
- 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 calculatorin 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.
- I've seen five . It takes your breath away.
- 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.
- When I was in college, some friends and I were doing. The rally never materialized, but we did see a car full of people wearing white hoods, all ducked down and hiding. Otherwise, the place was crawling with cops. All in all, it was an excellent adventure for a college kid.
Law & politics
- I've been both voter fraud. (Republicans are newcomers, and amateurs; the other guys are, or at least they were in their heyday, highly trained professionals.) I have collected money on a real estate title insurance policy, and there's land I can acquire by adverse possession(but the legal fees would be more than the land is worth).
- Some of my criminals or victims of crime: my friend and coauthor Joseph R. Charnetski spent ten years in prison for killing his wife with a hammer; my student Angelique Enty was shot dead by a no-good boyfriend, who then committed suicide; another student's son was shot to death by one of his gangsta associates. Others of my friends and former students work in law enforcement, some of them in sophisticated cybercrimeunits. They can and do find people who vandalize pages on the Internet. Be careful.
Notable people
- I've met and talked with some notable people, including Nobel laureates Herbert A. Simon and Godfrey Hounsfield. (Of all those big-time guys, only Steve Case might remember me.) I never met Timothy McVeigh, but I edited his writing and got it published for him. It was his very first national exposure. I hope I wasn't responsible for lighting his passion for fame, but if I was, so be it. (I'm pretty sure he had big-time help with the bombing, and I'm absolutely sure he'd remember me, if he were still among the living.)
- 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 Yearin 1961.
Reunions
- I went to my twenty-fifth high school funny, especially the latter. I told 'em if they wanted to know what I'd done since high school, they could see a lot of it right here. You should go to your own reunions—you'll find treasures there that you don't even know you have. You can even fall in lovethere. Believe it.
- In 2011 I went to my fiftieth college reunion at Duke University. The place has changed a LOT. I saw one of my freshman roommates and probably my best friend at Duke. I hadn't seen them for fifty and twenty-five years, respectively; all of us remembered each other fondly. The highlight of the event was lunch on Saturday, where Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski, addressed the class. During his remarks, this extremely successful man gave us advice on how we could duplicate his success in life. The best of it, repeated four or five times during his presentation, was "Don't talk while the guest speaker is speaking."
- Since 2004, I have sponsored and been in charge of fifteen Navy ship reunions, all of them planned and managed by professional planning companies. I am also the Executive Director of The Alliance of Military Reunions, a membership organization for the military reunion community.
Career
- I spent the summer after high school as a meter reader for punched cardsit 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 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 attackwoke 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. ;-)
- When I worked for Digital Equipment Corporation in the early 1970s, I sold 8KB of 8-bit computer memory for $10,000. At those prices today, a 4GB flash drive would cost $5.2 billion. Do the math.
- 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.
- When my time in the medical world was done, I spent a few years with an industrial conveyor belts in mining, done for the Electric Power Research Institute. I learned a lot of interesting stuff from it.
Original material, not reorganized
- I have visited the main campuses of these colleges and universities:
- Air Force
- Bethany
- Boise State
- Bucknell
- Carlow
- Carnegie Mellon
- Chatham
- Chicago
- Clarion
- Coast Guard
- Colorado
- Cornell
- Duke
- Duquesne
- Emory and Henry
- Florida
- Grove City
- Harvard
- Hiram
- IUP
- Knocks
- Lafayette
- LaRoche
- Lehigh
- Marietta
- Missouri State
- MIT
- Navy
- North Carolina
- Ohio State
- Old Dominion
- Penn State
- Plymouth State
- Point Park
- Texas
- Texas A&M
- The Citadel
- Virginia
- Virginia Tech
- Washington & Jefferson
- West Virginia
- I am a reasonably sophisticated amateur psychologist, especially with regard to the work and ideas of ENTP, the rational Inventor. They do things like making this crazy user page and living the life it depicts. (Jung said that people see ENTPs as "amoral adventurers." He was right. They are wrong about the "amoral," and right about the "adventurers.")
- In another realm, I'm well into thinking of Euler: my Erdős number is unknown but probably infinite. I have a friend with Erdős number 2, and there's an outside chance that he and I could coauthor some sort of paper. If that happens—and I'm encouraging it—my Erdős number will be known, and will be 3.)
- I am a black-eyed peas; they are best if cooked with fatback and followed with sweet potato pie. Okra is some pretty good soul food, too.
- As a teacher, I practice the soft bigotry of low expectations. My students definitely appreciate it.
- Since I was a little kid, I have been fascinated by Pentel Quicker Clicker, in all its colors and lead types, and I own a lot of them. Also, like the astronauts in the International Space Station, I love and use the Sharpie. Though I don't own any of THESE, I'd be pleased to get any of them as a gift. I empathise with many of THESE euphoric experiences, but I am not in favor of office supplies that come in pastel colors or that in any way are designed to be "cute".
- 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
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:
- 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.
- They ignore or dismiss what YOU think or say, but frequently want to engage you in discussions about what THEY think or say.
- They arrogate to themselves the thoughts and behaviors of the larger community of editors, e.g., "This is how WE do things."
- 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.
- They use the words "clearly" and "obviously" a lot, especially about things that aren't clear or obvious.
- 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.
- They suggest that other editors review some sort of Wikipedia policy or guideline. "I suggest you read WP:RS," for example.
- When they assert "Fringe!".
- They conjure up reasons why reliable sourcesthat they disagree with are really not reliable.
- 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.
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
- I've started 117 articles on U.S. Navy ships. Click HERE to see them.
- 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:
- 5"/38 caliber gun
- Ammunition ship
- Andromeda class attack cargo ship
- Arcturus class attack cargo ship
- Artemis class attack cargo ship
- Battle Efficiency Award
- Beach Jumpers
- Combat loading
- Cruise book
- Davisville, Rhode Island
- Keel laying
- List of squadrons in the Dictionary of American Naval Aviation Squadrons
- Marjorie Sterrett Battleship Fund Award
- Moore Dry Dock Company
- NAAS Chincoteague
- Naval Air Station Midway
- Naval Supply Depot, Oakland
- Navy Department Library
- North Carolina Shipbuilding Company
- Onslow Beach
- Quarterdeck
- Tampa Shipbuilding Company
- Tolland class amphibious cargo ship
- Type C2 ship
- Type C3 ship
- United Engineering Co.
- United States Federal Maritime Board
- United States Navy Regulations
- Walsh-Kaiser Co., Inc.
- Click HERE to see the number of "hits" to any Wikipedia article
- I've started these articles on books from The Collected Works of C. G. Jung (or in two cases just significantly upgraded them):
- Psychiatric Studies
- Experimental Researches
- Psychogenesis of Mental Disease
- Freud & Psychoanalysis
- Symbols of Transformation
- Psychological Types (NOTE 1)
- Two Essays on Analytical Psychology
- Structure & Dynamics of the Psyche
- Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
- Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self
- Civilization in Transition
- Psychology and Religion: West and East
- Psychology and Alchemy
- Alchemical Studies (NOTE 1)
- Mysterium Coniunctionis
- Spirit in Man, Art, and Literature
- Practice of Psychotherapy
- Development of Personality
- The Symbolic Life
- 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.
- NOTE 1 – I significantly upgraded this article, but did not start it.
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) |
- I've started these articles relating to songs, songwriters, singers, etc., mostly connected with The Top 100 Western Songs of All Time, a web site with which Wikipedia has a symbiotic relationship, due to its hundreds of links to these and other Wikipedia articles:
- Bar D Wranglers (Western singers)
- Bill Barwick (singer/songwriter)
- Buck Ramsey (singer/songwriter)
- Buddy Pepper (composer)
- Call You Cowboy (song and album)
- Carl Stutz (composer)
- Coyotes (song)
- Curley Fletcher (cowboy poet)
- D. J. O'Malley (cowboy poet)
- Edith Lindeman (lyricist)
- Eliot Daniel (songwriter/lyricist)
- Empty Saddles (song)
- Everett Marshall (singer)
- Gary McMahan (singer/songwriter)
- Goodbye Old Paint (song)
- Herb Metoyer (singer/songwriter)
- I Ride an Old Paint (song)
- I'd Like to be in Texas for the Roundup in the Spring(song)
- Inez James (composer)
- Jeff Hanna (singer/songwriter/performer)
- John A. Stone (singer/songwriter)
- Ken Carson (cowboy singer)
- Larry Russell (composer)
- Lee Pockriss (songwriter)
- Little Joe the Wrangler (song)
- Mary Hadler (songwriter)
- Mike Blakely (singer/songwriter)
- Mike Taylor (guitarist)
- N. Howard Thorp (cowboy poet)
- Shifting Whispering Sands (song/poem)
- Tex Owens (singer/songwriter)
- The Colorado Trail (song)
- The Hotmud Family(band)
- The Old Double Diamond (song)
- The Ramblin' Riversiders (band)
- The Strawberry Roan (song)
- V. C. Gilbert (songwriter)
- W. C. Jameson (singer/songwriter)
- Wagon Wheels (song)
- When the Work's All Done This Fall (song)
- I've started these additional articles. Some were created from redirect pages:
- Abigail Thernstrom (political scientist and writer)
- Albert C. Sutphin (sports impresario)
- Allegheny Regional Asset District
- American Association for Thoracic Surgery
- American Bus Association
- American Roentgen Ray Society
- Andres Institute of Art
- Anthony Hamlet
- Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry
- Atoy Wilson (figure skater)
- Average and over (baseball statistic)
- Bakewell Cream (baking powder popular in Maine)
- Bere (grain)
- Born a Crime (Trevor Noah autobiography)
- Catherine E. Lhamon (U.S. Commission on Civil Rights member)
- Center for Individual Rights
- Crown Publishing Group
- Dagny Hultgreen (TV personality)
- David Kladney (U.S. Commission on Civil Rights member)
- Donald Burke (distinguished professor)
- Easter Parade(cultural event)
- Electronics for Medicine
- Federal Prison Camp, Florence
- Gail Heriot (U.S. Commission on Civil Rights member)
- Gerhard Adler (Jungian psychologist)
- Giant Raccoon's Flatulence theory (deleted, alas)
- Goldfish Club
- Gwendolyn Oxenham
- Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania
- Infinity walk
- International Society for Horticultural Science
- International Symposium on the Analytic Hierarchy Process
- Jaime Peraire (MIT professor)
- James E. Schrager (Chicago Booth professor)
- Jane Kirby (figure skater)
- Jean-François Richard (distinguished professor)
- Jeremy A. Rabkin (law professor)
- John B. Sollenberger (sports executive)
- John H. Harris (entertainment)
- Kenneth F. Schaffner (distinguished professor)
- Libertarian Party of Connecticut
- Maffin Bay (a bay in New Guinea)
- Municipal Authority(Pennsylvania government)
- National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives
- National Sheriffs' Association
- National Sleep Foundation
- Navajo Nation Museum
- Orkney College
- Oro Bay (another bay in New Guinea)
- Pasco Bowman II (U.S. Federal Judge)
- Pennsylvania Library Association
- Perrysville, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
- Peter A. Tyrrell (entertainment entrepreneur)
- Peter N. Kirsanow(U.S. Commission on Civil Rights member)
- Peter Wipf (distinguished professor)
- Pissant
- Pitkeathly Wells
- Police Executive Research Forum
- Posit Science Corporation
- Protected group
- Quarter Century Wireless Association
- R.F.C. Hull(Jung's translator)
- Seasonal Pattern Assessment Questionnaire
- Simpleton (stock character)
- Sini (Turkish dining)
- Sodium aluminum phosphate
- Sparrows Point(location in Maryland)
- Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art
- Sun King Warriors (band)
- Teluk Yos Sudarso(yet another bay in New Guinea)
- The Colorado Trail Foundation
- The International College of Surgeons
- U.S. Soccer Foundation
- User:Lou Sander
- Viewtron (early Internet service)
- Water Tupelo(tree)
- Wilse B. Webb (psychology professor)
- WQED Multimedia
- Yerba Mate Association of the Americas
- Yos Sudarso (Indonesian naval hero)
Other Articles of Interest
I've made extensive and/or important contributions to:
- Acey-deucey
- Amphibious cargo ship
- Analytic hierarchy process (I VERY extensively rewrote it.)
- Proceso Analítico Jerárquico, a Spanish translation of the above article as rewritten by me. Others did the translation; I assisted with the images and uploading the article.
- Метод анализа иерархий, a Russian translation as above.
- Arabictranslation as above.
- توماس ساعاتي, an Arabic translation of the English Thomas L. Saaty article, to which I had made substantial revisions.
- Ann Coulter (A pretty contentious article.)
- Baking powder
- Bannock (food)
- Caterpillar Club (A cool subject that needed work.)
- Datura and these related articles:
- Dictionary of American Naval Aviation Squadrons
- Ice Capades
- Minimum wage
- Paul Francis Webster (I added lots of links to his songs.)
- Scone (bread)
- Tembagapura
- The Collected Works of C.G. Jung(Very extensively rewritten.)
- The Wirral(My son and I were there once, and the locals couldn't explain what it was.)
- Thomas L. Saaty
- Turkish crescent