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• In the top 100 on the Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by article count. Having made thousands of articles, I'm sure that if you lined up all of my articles from best to least best, the bottom ten would probably be pretty... I don't want to say 'bad', but definitely rudimentary.
• I have edited about 14.25% of the articles on Wikipedia; if you have edited more than seven articles, there is probably an article that both you and I have edited.

This editor is a Grand High Togneme Laureate and is entitled to display the Book of All Knowledge: 3rd Edition and attach the library barcode.

This user has been editing Wikipedia for more than fifteen years.

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

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

This user is an administrator on Wikisource. (verify)

This user attended Wikimania 2012 in Washington, D.C., United States.

This user attended Wikimania 2014 in London, United Kingdom.

This user attended Wikimania 2016 in Esino Lario, Italy.

This user has published peer-reviewed book chapters.

This user has published peer-reviewed articles in academic journals.

This user has written books, novels or plays that have been published.

This user prefers to communicate on-wiki, rather than by email.

• I have been paraphrased in this article in Slate. I have also been mentioned in this paper and in a graph in this article.

Some principles to live by

At Wikimania 2014.

Wearing the t-shirt that I won for my work in the September 2014 disambiguation contest.

Wearing the t-shirt that I won for my work in the March 2015 disambiguation contest.

1. Be aware of Google bias when testing for importance or existence: bear in mind that Google will be biased in favor of modern subjects of interest to people from developed countries with Internet access, so it should be used with some judgment.
   • Also, beware Citogenesis.
2. Wikipedia is not an experiment in democracy: its primary method of finding consensus is discussion, not voting. That is, majority opinion does not necessarily rule in Wikipedia. Various votes are regularly conducted, but their numerical results are usually only one of several means of making a decision. The discussions that accompany the voting processes are crucial means of reaching consensus.
3. Wikipedia is not the edge of the world: if you really want to say something on the Internet, and it doesn't belong here, there are always alternatives.
4. Observe Chesterton's fence.
5. There is no deadline.
6. Give thanks.

Wikithings To Do

• Support Wikipedia:Moral rights
• Source and clean up Offset (law)
• Wikipedia:WikiProject National Register of Historic Places/GSA federal building links
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject United States courts and judges/courthouses
  • naming legislation
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers
• Historicity (needs sources)
• Redirects with excess content
• Category:All Wikipedia files with the same name on Wikimedia Commons
• Overlap checker

WikiProjects

Wikipedia:WikiProject United States courts and judges

1. Fix (jurist) entries.
2. List of United States federal judges by longevity of service
3. Wikipedia:WikiProject United States courts and judges/Court evaluations
4. Special:PrefixIndex/User:Polbot/scrap/
5. John J. Gore
6. Complete List of courts of the United States (including info from User:Postdlf/courts).
7. List of United States federal courthouses‎
8. Wikipedia:WikiProject United States courts and judges/courthouses
   1. Wikipedia:WikiProject National Register of Historic Places/GSA federal building links
9. Wikify biographies from List of Judges of the United States Tax Court.
10. Category:Bot-created FJC subpages needing merge action
11. Pages that link to "Template:Cleanup FJC Bio"
12. Tidy Impeachment investigations of United States federal judges‎

Wikipedia:WikiProject Law and Wikipedia:WikiProject United States courts and judges

The work just keeps right on rolling along.

Under the banner of Wikipedia:WikiProject Law, we will make Wikipedia the world's most comprehensive internet source of free legal information.

1. List of U.S. state constitutional provisions allowing self-representation in state courts.
2. /Tax protesters - the role of courts.
3. Make sure that all court cases have citations.
4. Fill in Postdlf's court case infoboxes for all of my court cases (and then for everyone elses).
5. Add Category:United States courts of appeals cases to all U.S. Court of Appeals cases.
6. Fix errant links to Supreme court.
7. Case articles to do:
8. Fix up United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp.

Ongoing labors

This user repairs links to disambiguation pages.

Templates

Portals

Categories

Pumping out the disambig fixes.

1. Regular reports
   1. Wikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation/Candidates for disambiguation by extending link
   2. User:RussBot/Invalid redirect hatnotes
   3. Wikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation/Possible hatnote disambiguation links
   4. Wikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation/Potentially intentional dablinks

1. Projects
   1. Recently added disambiguation pages with links
   2. Questionable redirects to disambiguation pages
   3. Incomplete dabs, Compound dab titles, Categories with dabs
   4. User:RussBot/Disambiguation not needed/001 and User:RussBot/Disambiguation not needed/002
   5. User:RussBot/Foo of Bar dab pages/001
   6. User:RussBot/Plural dab pages/001
   7. Wikipedia:Database reports/Broken section anchors
2. Populate List of political and geographic subdivisions by total area
3. Category:Copy to Wikiquote
4. Chip away at Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links:
   1. Pages to de-disambiguate: CCTV International
   2. Long term disambig projects (need articles written): Capacity, Ward
   3. Disambig maintenance: Oscar, Phoenix, Ainu, Battery, Crest, Dean, Hart, Mohawk, Pantheon, Rancid, Sam, Vulcan, NASL.
      1. Non-disambig pages with frequent erroneous links: judgment, Supreme Court.
5. Keep an eye on new anonymous edits
6. Condemn spamvertisers to Wiki-Hell.
7. Keep an eye on this and various things from the list and the guide.
8. Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 100#Offering a prize for an editing contest.

Other specific tasks

1. Provide articles for red links on the following pages:
   1. Most wanted law articles
   2. Notable terms at Wikipedia:Requested articles/Applied arts and sciences/Law (merge or redirect the rest to more appropriate places); I hammered through much of it while studying for the Bar exam.
   3. Lists of United States Supreme Court cases
   4. List of United States federal legislation
   5. List of law schools in the United States

Barnstars
& Ǚzerbǿxen

Please feel free to add to the collection here. Cheers!

Legalese

• Yes, I am a lawyer. No, I am not giving you legal advice.

• I agree to multi-license all my text, image, and design contributions, including my user pages, as described below:

Licensing rights granted to Wikimedia Foundation

I grant non-exclusive permission for the Wikimedia Foundation Inc. to relicense my text contributions under any copyleft license that it chooses, provided it maintains the free and open spirit of the GFDL. This permission acknowledges that future licensing needs of the Wikimedia projects may need adapting in unforeseen fashions to facilitate other uses, formats, and locations. It is given for as long as this banner remains.

Etcetera

This user has been editing Wikipedia for more than fifteen years.

This user has been on Wikipedia for 17 years and 16 days.

This user has been an admin for 16 years and 3 months.

This editor is a Grandmaster Editor First-Class and is entitled to display this Mithril Editor Star with the Neutronium Superstar hologram.

This editor is a Grandmaster Administrator First-Class and is entitled to display this Gold Service Badge and carry the Silver Keys to the Encyclopedia.

This user is in the Disambiguator Hall of Fame.

This user is ranked 54 on the list of Wikipedians by articles created.

This user is the fourth most active Wikipedian.

This editor uses AutoWikiBrowser to automate tedious repetitive tasks!

Ranked 8th in page creations including redirects as of 13 October 2017 (3,049 articles, 86,792 redirects, total 89,841).

Ranked 53rd in main article creations with 6,954 as of 1 May 2021 (over 8,000 articles as of 31 January 2022).