User:Dravecky

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Dravecky On Wikipedia This user is proud to be a Wikipedian. This user strives to maintain a policy of neutrality on controversial issues. incl This editor is an inclusionist. This editor is a WikiGnome. This user has been on Wikipedia for 1 year and 5 days. This editor is a Yeoman Editor, and is entitled to display this Service Badge. Wikipedia Projects This user is a member of the Alabama WikiProject. This user is a member of Wikiproject Texas. This user is a member of WikiProject Radio Stations. This user is a member of WikiProject Stub Sorting. This user is a member of WikiProject Science Fiction. About Me This user is a citizen of the United States of America. This user lives in or hails from Huntsville, Alabama. "The Rocket City" This user has a website, which can be found here. This user remembers STS-107. May the crew rest in peace. This user supports Barack Obama for President in 2008. Science Fiction MST3K This user is a MSTie. This user is a hoopy frood who really knows where their towel is. T This user knows that "the 21st century's when everything changes - and you've got to be ready!" This user is a Doctor Who fan. Scouting This user is an Eagle Scout. This user is a Vigil Honor member of the Order of the Arrow. ΑΦΩ This user is a Brother of Alpha Phi Omega. This user is a 2-bead Wood Badger. Television This user knows that bears are Godless killing machines. TDS This user watches the most trusted name in fake news. Babel en This user is a native speaker of English. pig-3 Isthay useryay ancay ontributecay ithway anyay advancedyay evellay ofyay Igpay Atinlay. Y'all This here user talks Southern, y'all.

[edit] About Me

I am originally from Huntsville, Alabama. I currently live in Allen, Texas. I'm also a member of the Alabama WikiProject and WikiProject Texas. I collect books, autographs, science fiction convention memorabilia, and Texiana. My literary tastes run to science fiction, mysteries, satire, and space science.

I am a former washed-up disc jockey who worked at radio stations that no longer exist. I broadcast under my own name as well as the airnames Scott Montgomery (my idea) and Skip Church (not my idea). Yes, "Skip" had the Sunday morning shift before the syndicated countdown show. Surprisingly, the station received no complaints.

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"Don't believe anyone. Don't read your mail. Make light of every word you hear. Turn off your radio. Quit your job. Do something different. Disappear." —Brave Combo

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For the record, I am not now nor have I ever been a major league baseball player in California, a minor league hockey player in New Hampshire, an American history teacher in Alabama, or the Slovak ambassador to Bulgaria. What I'm getting at is that there are more Draveckys in the world that you realize and I'm probably not the one you're thinking of.

[edit] My Wikipedia habits

I'm happy to have been recognized for my contributions to Wikipedia. If you're interested, you can look at my Wikipedia awards collection.

I enjoy creating, updating, and expanding pages about radio stations, science fiction conventions, the U.S. space program, articles related to the Apollo 1 astronauts, and other items that pique my interest. A former proofreader and technical writer, I also try to correct minor flaws when I encounter them to give Wikipedia a more professional polish. I do my best to keep the "Living persons" category[1] empty. I feel strongly about adding defaultsort tags where needed to allow lists to be properly alphabetized.

[edit] My work in progress on Wikipedia

I've declared a personal Project Visine to "get the red out" of the lists of radio stations in the United States.

• To be completed: Arkansas (153) · California (111) · Colorado (71) · Idaho (21) · Illinois (207) · Indiana (132) · Iowa (80) · Kansas (83) · Kentucky (210) · Louisiana (88) · Massachusetts (33) · Minnesota (86) · Mississippi (88) · Missouri (164) · Nebraska (38) · New Mexico (82) · Ohio (82) · Oklahoma (125) · Oregon (98) · Pennsylvania (77) · Tennessee (220) · Texas (312) · Washington (82) · Wisconsin (128)

48 states now have unique stub categories for their radio station articles but Delaware, Rhode Island, and Washington DC can't reach speedy status as they are complete but should they get their own stub categories for consistency? Must ponder and discuss.

Here's the template I use for AM radio stations in the United States: User:Dravecky/AMradio

[edit] My to-do list on Wikipedia

I've got a treasure trove of mid-1990s radio station logos, somewhere, and need to upload them for historical context. Some neglected articles about science fiction fandom, especially in Texas, should get some attention as well. Detailed WikiProject Radio Stations tasks like sorting, creating, and categorizing continue. There's still plenty more WP Alabama work to do, too.

[edit] My long-term plans on Wikipedia

I've been enjoying Mission: Impossible reruns on cable the past couple of months and was shocked to see how badly these articles have been neglected. I've updated the infoboxes for the main cast of the original show but there's a lot more work to do for this classic series.

The template (now a navbox) for NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and related articles has been well received so next will be one for the Johnson Space Center and then on to the Kennedy Space Center and other facilities. (There's been a polite request for Dryden so I'll likely bump that up the line a bit.) I plan to continue mining the NASA archives for useful official portraits and other images.

I welcome all to join me in bringing these articles up to Wikipedia standards.

[edit] commons:User:Dravecky

I assert to be the same user as commons:User:Dravecky - Dravecky (talk) 01:20, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

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