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My name is Bill Pringle. I was laid off by Unisys as a software engineer, and I used to teach part time at Penn State Great Valley.

I have a personal web site[1] that has various things about me, and sample programs that were used by my students and others.

I also run a web site for singer/songwriter Cheryl Wheeler[2].

I have interests in computers, music, video games (mostly console-based RPGs), math, and religion (I started Catholic, went to agnostic, and then Mormon). My web site has more information about all of these areas.

I started reading science fiction, mostly from Baen Books. I recently read the Honor Harrington series, and have done some minor editing of that page. I also have started watching Doctor Who episodes, as well as Murdoch Mysteries.

Major Areas of Contributions

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My contributions to Wikipedia have touched on all of the above topics, including:

Music:


Programming:


Religion:


Video Games:


Misc.
I monitor changes to various topics of interest to me, including:

Vandalism

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While monitoring pages on my watchlist, I keep an eye out for vandalism. I really don't understand why people would choose to spend time defacing something, but there seem to be a lot of them out there. :-(

In general, if I see somebody that vandalizes one of the pages on my watchlist, I will add a template to their talk page, and usually watch their talk page. If they vandalize too much, then I request that they be blocked. If anyone contributes to a page on my watchlist that doesn't have a talk page (yet), then I will add a welcome message to their talk page as well.

On those rare cases when I have some extra time, I will check the recent changes page.

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Here are some useful links:

User warning templates

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There are a number of templates that can be used when dealing with new users and/or vandals.

This "User talk page" section identifies what should be added to the talk page to create a section for warnings. Warnings should be grouped by months, and the messages should be placed in a numbered list.

The "Common templates" section contain the templates I normally use for welcoming and vandalism warnings. You can copy and paste them into a page. Replace PAGE with the page name that they edited, and N (if present) with a number between 1 and 4, depending on how many times they have vandalized recently.

In general, this is how I deal with vandalism:

  • Copy the article name that was vandalized
  • Click on the user contributions link to examine past history
  • Click on the User Talk page and edit
  • At the bottom of the User Talk page, hit ENTER a few times, and then paste the article name for later
  • If the page was blank, copy and paste the "User Talk Page" section at the top
  • Copy the appropriate template from "Welcome", "Warning" or "Blocking" Templates and paste it into the page
  • Cut the article name at the bottom of the page, double-click on the "PAGE" part of the template and paste the page name over top
  • If a number is appropriate, change "N" to the appropriate number (based on past history and/or blatant vandalism)
  • If I want to add a personal note, then I click before the signature tag, hit ENTER, and then type the message.
  • Copy the template line and paste it into the Edit Summary box
  • Click on "Show preview" button and check it
  • Click on "Save page" when done

Since the templates are stored in a table, I can copy the template by triple-clicking inside the cell.

User talk page

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==Warnings==

{{subst:s/wnote}}

===October 2009===

Welcome templates

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WP:WARN

{{subst:welcome|art=PAGE}} -- ~~~~ {{subst:anon|art=PAGE}} -- ~~~~ {{subst:welcomenpov|PAGE}} -- ~~~~
{{subst:uw-editsummary|PAGE}} -- ~~~~  

Warnings templates

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{{subst:uw-testN|PAGE}} -- ~~~~ {{subst:uw-vandalN|PAGE}} -- ~~~~ {{subst:uw-deleteN|PAGE}} -- ~~~~
{{subst:uw-errorN|PAGE}} -- ~~~~ {{subst:uw-unsourcedN|PAGE}} -- ~~~~ {{subst:uw-spamN|PAGE}} -- ~~~~
{{subst:uw-jokeN|PAGE}} -- ~~~~ {{subst:uw-biogN|PAGE}} -- ~~~~ {{subst:uw-mosN|PAGE}} -- ~~~~
{{subst:uw-npovN|PAGE}} -- ~~~~ {{subst:uw-defamatoryN|PAGE}} -- ~~~~ {{subst:uw-chatN|PAGE}} -- ~~~~

Blocking templates

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Generic Anonymous Spam
{{subst:uw-block1|time=TIME}} -- ~~~~ {{subst:uw-ablock|time=TIME}} -- ~~~~ {{subst:uw-sblock}} -- ~~~~
Vandal Delete 3RR
{{subst:uw-vblock|time=TIME}} -- ~~~~ {{subst:uw-dblock|time=TIME}} -- ~~~~ {{subst:uw-3block|time=TIME}} -- ~~~~
31 hours 48 hours 1 week
indefinite 1 month 6 months
:* Researching complaint against [[User:USER]] -- ~~~~
{{subst:uw-aiv|USER|MESSAGE}} -- ~~~~
:* No vandalism by [[User:USER]] after final warning -- ~~~~

References

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  1. ^ Personal web site: BillPringle.com[1]
  2. ^ CherylWheeler.com[2]