User:Kralizec!

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Contents 1 About 1.1 Ancient history 1.2 Recent history 1.3 Beliefs 1.4 Interests 2 Travel 2.1 By nation 2.2 Detailed by region 3 Wikipedia 3.1 Philosophy 3.2 Edit history 3.3 Community recognition 4 Projects 4.1 Current 4.2 Former 5 Recent changes patrol 6 Contributions 6.1 Articles 6.2 Photographs and images 6.3 Disambiguation pages 6.4 Categories 6.5 Redirects 6.6 Templates 7 Contact info

[edit] About

My first Wikipedia edit was on 1 March 2005. After an unanimous RfA, I became an administrator on 11 December 2007. If you want to know more about me, you must be either lost or bored. Either way, this page is me in a nutshell. --Kralizec! (talk) 15:59, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Ancient history

Born in rural Ohio in 1973, I am of Scotch-Irish descent and am the only child of a working-class father and white-collar mother. I was raised on a steady diet of PBS and attended the same public school district all 13 years. During my teen years I was a very active hospital volunteer, and I attended weekly Presbyterian church services with my grandparents from the time I was in seventh grade until I graduated from high school and moved away to college.

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 vacations during fifteen of these years. Virtually every summer we would pack up the camper and enjoy a 5 - 15 day, 1500+ km long road-trip to somewhere interesting (four of our vacations were even over 3000 km long!). (see Travel below)

AdminBoxes This user is an administrator on the English Wikipedia. (verify) This administrator is open to recall. Were this admin is to act in a foolish, trollish, or dickish way, he is open to being slapped with a large trout. This user has been an admin for 5 months and 30 days.

My Bachelor of Science degree was earned from Bowling Green State University where I initially majored in Health Care Administration, but eventually changed to Management information systems. Along the way, I also picked up a minor in Interpersonal communications. In college I was involved in student government and the Honors Student Association (despite not being an honors student). During four of my college years, I worked in the university's network services department. I also did a three month internship with a software developer in New England.

[edit] 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 midwestern bank, where I held a variety of information technology jobs. From 2003 to 2008 I served as a team leader in the company's network monitoring department, which because I worked four ten-hour days each week, I was able to keep our kids home with me three days every week (enabling me to enjoy being a semi-stay-at-home dad). After my employer was eaten by a competitor and I was subsequently downsized, in April 2008 I began work as an independent contractor doing IT work in the banking industry.

BeliefBoxes agn This user is an agnostic. This user is a secular humanist. This user understands biological evolution. This user has been touched by His Noodly Appendage. This user is a Board Game Geek.

[edit] Beliefs

Personally, I self-identify as being an agnostic secular humanist. On the American political spectrum I am a Moderate Republican with mostly conservative fiscal views (including being an advocate for fiscal responsibility) and moderate social views (including strong support for same-sex marriage and the environment) ... however some of my more conservative friends accuse me of being a Republican In Name Only. Despite being agnostic and a devout believer in Evolutionism, I semi-regularly attend services at our local Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).

[edit] Interests

My interests and hobbies include playing with my three rambunctious kids; travel (see below; by age 29, I had already been to 30 U.S. states and territories, 2 Canadian provinces, and 6 Australian states and territories); reading books (science and science fiction) and magazines (The Economist, National Geographic, Newsweek); amateur photography (primarily digital these days, via my Canon PowerShot S80); tropical fish (Mickey Mouse Platys); strategy games, both on the computer (RTS, turn-based, and the historic city building genres) and board games (such as Axis & Allies, Shogun, Ticket to Ride, A Game of Thrones, etc.); as well as sushi and Japanese cuisine.

In my free time I moderate an email list on Palladium RPG's and often frequent the message boards at RPGnet.

[edit] Travel

TravelBoxes 3 This user has set foot in 3 countries of the world. This user has visited 6 of the 8 states and territories of Australia. 6 This user has visited 4 of the 13 provinces and territories. 4 This user has visited 30 of the 50 States and the District of Columbia. 30

Here are the places I have been to. Concept and general layout stolen from User:Calton who got it from User:Guettarda who borrowed it from User:White Cat.

[edit] By nation

The countries I have been to:

Spent years:  United States

Months to weeks:  Australia  Canada

[edit] Detailed by region

The provinces, states, and territories I have been to:

Spent years:  United States  Ohio Months to weeks:  United States  Florida  Pennsylvania  South Carolina  Vermont  Wyoming

Weeks to days:  Australia  New South Wales  Northern Territory  Queensland  Victoria  Canada  Ontario  United States  Alabama  Illinois  Kentucky  Maine  Nevada  New Hampshire  Oklahoma  Virginia

Days to hours:  Australia  Australian Capital Territory  South Australia  Canada  New Brunswick  Nova Scotia  Quebec  United States  Arizona  California  Colorado  Connecticut  Georgia (U.S. state)  Indiana  Iowa  Maryland  Massachusetts  Michigan  New York  North Carolina  Rhode Island  South Dakota  Tennessee  Washington, D.C.  West Virginia

[edit] Wikipedia

[edit] Philosophy

WikiBoxes 16,000+ This user has made over 16,000 contributions to Wikipedia. 6,400+ This user has made over 6,400 contributions to Wikipedia articles. even This editor is an eventualist. This user prefers the Bold, Revert, Discuss cycle. ESU 100% for major edits and 100% for minor edits. – Last update: 18:40, 17 December 2007 (UTC). This user believes that process is important on Wikipedia and is opposed to its circumvention.

Initially an adherent of Inclusionism, a few years ago I became a subscriber of Eventualism as a response to the large amount of non-notable, in-universe cruft seeping into the project. I also feel that process is important to the smooth operation of the project, however the natural prevalence of Instruction creep gives me pause.

[edit] 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!

Milestones:

• 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] - Image: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 • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log) - 15 May 2008

[edit] Community recognition

Main article: User:Kralizec!/community recognition

On occasion my efforts have been recognized by members of the Wikipedia community.

[edit] Projects

ProjectBoxes This user is a member of the Ships Wikiproject. This user is a member of the WikiProject on User Warnings. This user is a member of the Maritime warfare task force of the Military history WikiProject.

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] Recent changes patrol

While not a member of the recent changes patrol per se, there are several articles I watch very closely in order to prevent vandalism. They include:

• New Seven Wonders of the World
• Oklahoma City bombing
• Oral Roberts University
• Pensacola Christian College
• Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
• Shia Islam
• Walt Disney World Monorail System
• Wonders of the World

[edit] Contributions

LanguageBoxes en-5 This user is able to contribute with a professional level of English. Mix This user has been influenced by too many dialects of English to use one orthography, vocabulary and grammar consistently. US This user uses American English. UK This user uses British English. ANAL 5 This user is incredibly stringent with professional grammar.

This section is pretty long and boring ... but a lot shorter since I forked the category, disambiguation, photography, and template sections to their own pages. This area serves primarily as my own reference, especially when I need a template for starting a new article, category, template, or disambiguation page.

[edit] Articles

Articles created, de-stubbed, or heavily contributed to by Kralizec! (talk • contribs • email):

• 5"/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
• 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
• Casino Sault Ste. Marie in Ontario
• 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
• Dolza, a character in the fictional Robotech universe
• Ed Galloway's Totem Pole Park in Foyil, Oklahoma
• First Citizens BancShares, Inc., a bank holding company headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina
• Galveston class cruiser in the United States Navy
• Gul Agha Sherzai of Afghanistan
• 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 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
• HMAS Mermaid (A 02), a Paluma class survey motor launch of the Royal Australian Navy
• New York Private Bank & Trust Corp., a bank holding company headquartered in New York City
• Ohio Historical Society in Columbus, Ohio
• Oklahoma City bombing - I helped bring the article up to Good Article status
• Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma
• 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
• Providence class cruiser in the United States Navy
• Ramona Valley a wine region in Southern California
• Raspberry Island in Alaska, the 64th largest island in the country
• S6W reactor, used by the United States Navy
• Shenaz Treasurywala the Bollywood actress and model
• South Financial Group, a bank holding company headquartered in Greenville, South Carolina
• 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
• Truxtun class cruiser in the United States Navy
• Vermilion Lighthouse in Vermilion, Ohio
• The Web Planet, a 1965 episode from Doctor Who
• Wicher class destroyer in the Polish navy

[edit] Photographs and images

PhotoBoxes This user is a member of WikiProject Photography. This user enjoys photography.

Main article: User:Kralizec!/gallery

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.

[edit] Disambiguation pages

Main article: User:Kralizec!/dab

Despite my disdane for them, disambiguation pages do serve a purpose. I have even created a few.

[edit] Categories

Main article: User:Kralizec!/categories

So far I have created over fifty categories. A large number of them have a naval theme and stem from my participation in WikiProject Ships.

[edit] 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.

[edit] Templates

TemplateBoxes This user is a WikiProject Templates Participant.

Main article: User:Kralizec!/templates

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 Ships WikiProject.

[edit] Contact info

• Email me
• Web: The Chronicles of Kralizec!