User:Alaskanjackal
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Ancient 1.5-decade-old content removed; profile due for a much-needed overhaul. :)
Major Wikipedia Contributions
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Somehow, they usually seem to fall under three main categories:
- Travel
- Alaska - Started the Transportation section and contributed information about air, car, ferry and railroad travel in Alaska as well as a brief overview of dog mushing.
- Alaska Permanent Fund - Added information about the proposed change to the Percent of Market value approach
- Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend - Created article and wrote stub with overview and history
- Alaska Railroad - Contributed information on routes and scenery
- Cook Inlet - Added info on Turnagain Arm tides and Turnagain/Knik Arm mudflats
- Transportation
- Railroads
- Glendale train crash - Added miscellaneous details and a link to the Los Angeles Times's collection of articles
- Direct traffic control - Started article! See the first [bad] version here
- Flashing rear-end device - Two-way FREDs and Wilma (HOT) devices
- Railway signalling#Signaling in the U.S. - Completely rewrote and vastly expanded section. The whole article still needs work, though.
- Air brake (rail) - Contributed information on emergency applications. The article, including my contributions, still needs significant reorganization and copyediting.
- EMD SD70 series - the nicer, newer of the Alaska Railroad's engines
- EMD 710 - the engine used in the SD70-series. Started table and put the Expert template on it--the engine designations are alphabet soup!
- EMD GP49 - a model of engine that the Alaska Railroad has but no one else does. I started a stub...
- North American railway signaling - Preexisting stub. I copied my contributions and some other info from the railway signalling article to this one.
- Technology
- Cable television - Contributed detailed information about digital cable telephony
- General Communications (GCI) - Another article had a reference to GCI, so I created a stubbed entry with a brief overview of the company
- Mobile phone - Contributed information about mobile phone usage on aircraft
- (This information was later moved to Mobile phones on aircraft)
But also these:
- Politics
- Religion
- Other
- Spectacor Management Group - Created article and pasted list of SMG-managed properties. (Shouldn't be a copyvio--it's just a list of cities and arenas). Surprising the article didn't previously exist--it seems to be a fairly large company.
Real-time list of contributions
Also check out WikiTravel:User:Cluth and WikiNews:User:Cluth. I've begun to contribute over there as well.
Other Interesting Articles
[edit]Here are some other articles which I have found especially fascinating. These are in addition to the ones I've contributed to above. These are ones that I either haven't had time to contribute to or really don't need contributions.
- Travel
- Transportation
- Technology
- Politics
- Religion
To Do
[edit] | Cluth is busy in real life and may not respond swiftly to queries. |
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Open tasks for Wikipedia:WikiProject Alaska. Edit or discuss these tasks. Shortcuts: Recent changes | Categories | History |
- Urgent: An editor in Alaska able/willing to actively work with the Wikipedia Ambassador Program to provide direction/oversight for any articles within the project which are being improved upon under the program.
- To Rate: Unassessed Alaska articles, Unknown-importance Alaska articles
- To Nominate at WP:FAC:
- To Improve to Featured standard: Alaska, Anchorage, Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska, Juneau, Alaska, History of Alaska
- Collaboration:
- To Expand: Category:Alaska stubs, Alaskeros, Sheldon Jackson, Scouting in Alaska
- Governor articles: Steve Cowper, Bill Sheffield, Keith Harvey Miller, Waino Edward Hendrickson
- To Clean up: Diomede Islands
- To Merge:
- To Destub: See: Category:Alaska stubs
- To Deorphan:
- To Categorize:
- To Create: Articles on incoming (2019) legislators (and updating outgoing ones), Articles for new 2010 Census CDPs: Badger, Alaska, Chena Ridge, Alaska, Eureka Roadhouse, Alaska, Farmers Loop, Alaska, Goldstream, Alaska, Loring, Alaska, Point Possession, Alaska, South Van Horn, Alaska, Steele Creek, Alaska, Whitestone, Alaska
- Lists to de-redlink: List of mayors of Anchorage DoneDavid chamberlain (talk) 20:49, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
- Lists to complete: List of mayors of Fairbanks, Alaska
- Wanted Pics/Graphics:
- Wanted New Pics: See Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Alaska
- Common mistakes to avoid (and correct):
- Knik, Alaska, the ghost town, and Knik River, Alaska, the CDP, are not the same place. In fact, they are approximately an hour's drive away from each other.
- Despite its name of "City and Borough of Yakutat," this entity is a borough, not a consolidated city-borough.
- See the talk page (or archives of same) of WP:ALASKA, or of the articles in question, for more information.
- Maintain: add {{WikiProject Alaska}} to the talk pages of Alaska-related articles and add the articles to Wikipedia:WikiProject Alaska/Recent changes (if not done already by a bot) so related changes link works.
- To expand: Rie Muñoz, Rosita Worl
See also Wikipedia:WikiProject Trains/Todo and Wikipedia:Pages needing attention/Railroads
New article ideas
- DTAG (Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group)
- User:Cluth/International_economics
- User:Cluth/Copyright law for church worship pastors
Existing articles or stubs to expand
- Sound reinforcement system
- Eric Whitacre
- Tom Bodett
- California State Route 46
- Wikipedia:WikiProject California State Highways
- Cellular One
Specific information contributions
- Anchorage, Alaska
- Suburban growth not as carefully planned out, lack of zoning (research this)
- Warm weather -> lots of outdoor activities: walking, biking, horse riding, etc. -- out-of-towners come and wear fleece, locals are in tank tops
- Rank
- Add Salvation Army
- National LambdaRail
- What it is: wavelength control, etc. (I just watched a 1 hour lecture on it, and that was more informative than this article!)
- Salvation Army
- Make more NPOV (less like an Army PR statement)--facts are good but the wording makes lots of assumptions
- Organizational data (THQ, DHQ, quasi-military command structure--Lieutenant Commanders, Majors, Captains, etc.)
- Subsection on rank to link to from Rank
- Worship band
- Newer popular songs?
- Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport
- New terminal information
- USPS "hub" is actually called...? (Refer to USPS Web site or USPS to double check)
- Olive Garden
- Culinary Institute of Tuscany
- Air brake (rail)
- Emergency vs. Service applications
- Yield management#Rental cars
- Yield management in rates
Copy editing
- Manga
- Mobile phones on aircraft
- Clownfish (capitalization and other grammatical stuff)
- Gear ratio
- DACS (Digital Access Carrier System)
- Short Message Service
- Short Circuit
- San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
- PNG
- San Marcos Pass
- Head of Government
- Sam Cooke
- Railway signalling - article organization, mediocre writing
- Authorization hold - clean up, new headings, expand with technical details; link from other financial articles or integrate into credit card article?
You can help improve the articles listed below! This list updates frequently, so check back here for more tasks to try. (See Wikipedia:Maintenance or the Task Center for further information.)
Fix spelling and grammar
Fix wikilinks
Update with new information
Expand short articles
Check and add references
Fix original research issues
Improve lead sections
Add an image
Translate and clean up
Help counter systemic bias by creating new articles on important women.
Help improve popular pages, especially those of low quality.
Links
[edit]- University of Alaska Anchorage
- University of Alaska Anchorage
- UAA's journalism program
- The Northern Light - UAA's student newspaper — Someday, when I have time, I'll freelance for it
- KRUA - UAA's student radio station — you can hear occasional newscasts featuring my contributions
- UAA's aviation program
- Alaska links
- State of Alaska
- State of Alaska Facts and Visitor Information
- Alaska Travel Industry Association - sponsored by the State of Alaska
- SLED (Statewide Library Electronic Doorway)
- SLED's tourist info site (has similar links to what's on this page)
- Alaska.com
- Alaska Airlines
- Alaska Channel - available in hotel rooms; site offers good, solid travel tips from locals and they produce a great free guidebook. I use its restaurant reviews and I live here.
- Alaska Railroad
- Anchorage Convention and Visitors Bureau
- Anchorage Daily News
- Municipality of Anchorage
- The Milepost - the best book for traveling by road in Alaska (hint: it's half as expensive if you buy it at one of the Anchorage Costcos)
- National Weather Service Anchorage Forecast Office (It's not as cold in Anchorage as people think!)
- Thrifty Car Rental of Anchorage, cheap, brand new cars and the ultimate in customer service :-)
- University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute's Aurora Forecast
- Other travel links
- Let's Go - travel guides for travelers on the cheap (that is, poor college students like me)
- Lonely Planet - travel guides for adventurous, budget-oriented travelers
- Rick Steves - travel guides for budget-oriented travelers who want one step above a youth hostel
- Other links
- Costco, the best store in the world
- My Web site. More links there (eventually).
- And last but not least: My new blog of random musings!