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Why We Assume Good Faith

Since we tend to see ourselves primarily in the light of our intentions, which are invisible to others, while we see others mainly in the light of their actions, which are visible to us, we have a situation in which misunderstanding and injustice are the order of the day

- J.G. Bennett The Crisis in Human Affairs

My Admin policy

I trust that my fellow admins' actions are done for the good of Wikipedia. So if any of my admin actions are overturned I will not consider such an action to be a "Wheel War", but rather an attempt to improve Wikipedia. If I disagree with your action, I will try to discuss it with you or with the admin community, but I absolve you in advance of any presumption of acting improperly. We should all extend the same benefit of the doubt to our fellow admins, until they repeatedly prove that they are unworthy of such a presumption. - (Wording by NoSeptember)

Useful things

XLinkBot

• Talk, Edits, Subpages

Things to Do

• CULinks, All Cleanups, Spam cleanups, Fix wikt twrs, Copyvios

Resources

• Scientific Papers Search Engine
• User Warnings, AntiSpam Tools, AfD Outcomes, LinkReports, How2AfD
• WP:SPAM , WP:EL, WP:COI, WP:NOT#LINK, WP:NOT#DIR, WP:NOBLECAUSE
• Plain and simple conflict of interest guide
• RC to spam cleanups, RC to FollowUps, My Subpages

Templates

• All article templates
• not subst : ((Cleanup-spam)), ((advert)), ((External links)), ((examplefarm)), ((cleanup-laundry))
• subst : ((NoMoreLinks)), ((User:Versageek/ws))

Guides

• Copyediting, Manual of Style, Naming conventions, Developing an article, Placing Pictures, Extended image syntax, Section Editing

A Place for Everything

Here are some options if your contribution has been deleted from Wikipedia for failing to meet our inclusion criteria.

• Biographies, Try: LinkedIn, Facebook, MySpace, Biographicon or WikiBios.
• Businesses, Try: AboutUs or MyWikiBiz.
• Bands, Try: MySpace or GarageBands Wikia.

Some of these (especially the externally linked ones) are new or fairly inactive projects which may or may not stand the test of time. Try your favorite search engine for others.

WikiDefinitions

• wiki-editor - One who modifies wiki pages in any manner which is not blatant vandalism or spam.
• wiki-admin - One who has access to the technical tools needed to protect and delete pages, and block disruptive users. Typically admins use these tools to perform maintenance and housekeeping tasks such as AfD, Speedy Deletes, and thwarting vandals and spammers via blocking & protection of pages. Admins are editors as well, but admin tools are not usually needed for editing tasks.
• wiki-spam - It is more complicated than just advertising. If I had to pick a term other than "spam" to describe the phenomenon, that term would be promotion. Often, but not always "self-promotion" involving a conflict of interest. When it involves external links; sometimes editors - especially new editors, think a site is good & want to share. This falls more towards WP:EL, and draws in elements of Wikipedia is not a directory.. but can also be seen as wiki-spam. I was thinking "(Subject|Self|Site)-Promotion-And-Marketing" might be an appropriate descriptive backronym. An interesting case of non-wiki spam can be seen here, it's certainly not cheap to do this sort of spamming and may get you in trouble with assorted patent offices... but I think we can now safely say, spammers are everywhere.

Wiki-drama and spine-tingling suspense

Essays & humor

• My Thoughts on Various Wiki-Topics
• Antandrus' Observations
• Wikipedia is in the Real World, The Dark Side, Spammer's Grief
• Wikipedia:An article about yourself is nothing to be proud of

My Milestones

• 1st edit - 8 July 2006
• 5000th edit - 11 June 2007
• 7000th edit - 13 August 2007
• 10,000th edit - 22 November 2007 (a db-bio tag, so I can't even link to it!)
• 15,000th edit - 6 August 2008 (reverting user page vandalism)
• 20,000th edit - 10 June 2009 rvv

 :: My Userboxen

Userboxen

This user is an administrator on the English Wikipedia. (verify)

This user is an administrator on the English Wiktionary.

This user spends WAY too much time on Wikipedia and really needs to get off the computer...after one more edit.

This user patrols recent changes with Twinkle!

This user knows where IRC hides the cookies, and knows how to feed them to XLinkBot.

This user is skeptical.

This user has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian and was awarded their own day.

3	It's really pretty simple: → Mind NPOV | Don't be a dick ← → Ignore all rules ←

This user has received a spot on the Illustrious & Honourable Hive Mind of Daniel Brandt.

 :: Awards

Awards

Defender of the Wiki Ribbon

Well earned!--Hu12 23:42, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Spamstars

		The Spamstar of Glory
		Presented to Versageek for diligence in the tireless battle against Linkspam on Wikipedia. --Hu12 07:52, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

		The Spamstar of Glory
		Presented to Versageek for dedication in fighting spam on Wikipedia.--A. B. (talk) 20:41, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

The da Vinci Barnstar

		The da Vinci Barnstar
		The da Vinci Barnstar may be awarded to anyone who has enhanced Wikipedia through their technical work. Awarded to Versageek for the resurrection and enhancement of such a good bot, XLinkBot. --Hu12 (talk) 12:54, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Other Goodies

• Spam cans were pictured here: These cans of SPAM are for you and XLiknBot for beating me on removing spam links. Keep it up! Alexius08 is welcome to talk about his contributions. 00:15, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
• An angel picture was here: You have been voted Micky 1234567890123's User Of The Month! Thanks! (Feb. 2009)