Iduan

Latest revision as of 14:41, February 22, 2014

SEMI-RETIRED, BUT NOT DEAD

This user is no longer active at Conservapedia. God Bless.

"There's only one rule that I know of, babies ... you've got to be kind." -Kurt Vonnegut

As a user with blocking privileges, I'm willing to listen to users who think they've been unfairly blocked.

I can be reached at ian.t.duan@gmail.com

I am IDuan of Arlington, Virginia - a suburb right next to the District of Columbia.

Conservapedia

I joined Conservapedia in late April 2007 and started seriously editing in August.

What I'm Currently Working on

I recently finished my project to create a page on every Supreme Court justice in American history (that we did not have a page on, as well as placing my officeholder template on all those that we did).

Full list of works

User:Iduan/Works

Highlights of work

Pages

A few of the many articles I've really worked on (see all of them at User:Iduan/Works) are Frank Murphy, Nelson Mandela, Barack Hussein Obama, Marquis de Lafayette, Majoritarianism, Waves, Eddystone Lighthouse, XYZ Affair, Congressional Page, Stephen Johnson Field and HTML table formatting. I've also done many universities, including UMD, Boston, Arizona, UNC, UConn, Penn St., Johns Hopkins, Howard and NIU. Beyond that I like to spread my edits around and vary them.

I put a lot of work into Nigeria#Structure - where I described the structure of the executive, judiciary and legislature. The judiciary is probably the most detailed part I have, simply because I'm most interested in judicial aspects. Ditto with John Jay#The Jay Court.

Templates

I have created a few templates, the ones I'm most proud of are: Template:Template, Baseball, Template:USState, Template:NBA, Template:NFLDraft, Template:Officeholder (and a bunch of sub-pages for that), Template:Supreme Court (and every subpage from the Jay to Roberts Courts), Template:MLBTeam (which I've added to every MLB team) and Template:University (which I have put on about 131 articles so far). Some templates that I did not create but I did do a lot of work on are Template:Country and Template:Taxonomy.

My editing style/preferences

Basic page format:

Body
==Notes== (if there are references not used with <ref> tags
==References==
==See also==
==External links==

The above is the same as the format in the Conservapedia:Manual of Style, and it makes the most sense. References are most pertinent to the article text itself, so they go first; see also links are internal, so they go second, and external links go last.

As far as minor edits go: I do not use French spacing, and I usually remove it where I see it (the wiki software renders it as one space anyway, so it's just an extra character); I also remove serial commas.

References always go outside grammar marks (punctuation).

Punctuation does not always go inside quotation marks. For example, periods. If the text enclosed within the quotation marks is a full sentence - the period goes inside the quotation marks. "John said, 'My name is John.'" If not, then the period goes outside: "John said that he was '17 going on 18'."

Images, unless they are within templates/tables, should always go in thumbs - they should not stand alone.

Large blocks of text should usually be split up by sections - no one wants to read what looks like 2 paragraphs with 50 sentences. Wiki sections allow emphasis to be added and they allow clear organization.

My Computing World

I'm a pretty big fan of Mac OSX Leopard, but before it came out I was definitely an XP guy. I think that Spotlight just puts Macs miles ahead of PCs. I use Safari, XCode (for python) and Smultron (for html).

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-[Teacher's name removed] just told me that (she thinks ... she's not sure if the email was sent through) the person told you I didn't exist - which frankly, I'm not too surprised at, because I was getting a lot of teasing due to the fact that I told people I edited a wiki - but I'm extremely surprised that you would believe them. After all the time I've spent improving your site - what is it that you think of me? That I've spent ... almost a year so that what? In the future when you make me sysop I can have thirty seconds where I vandalize pages? How can you even think that makes sense? You know what, I gave you my home address, I gave you a recommendation, and I gave you a personal guarantee that I would do no harm - and frankly, this is just your way of telling me that you never intend to give me rights. I mean all these months - I've received harassing emails from RW users - but I always defended you in my head-  that you just needed a confirmation that I wouldn't hurt the site - but now I don't know what think. I am deeply hurt over your actions - and not just today but really for the last few months - where you've just toyed with me, trying to convince me to think that you were on my side by saying you would try to "get me on the path" to sysopship - and all you needed was EITHER an address, a reference or a personal guarantee - I gave you both my home address and my word - because I believed you - but then when you demanded the reference I was a little upset, but I still believed you, and now I've gotten you the reference even though I knew it would result in some bullying directed at me (because I had to tell the teacher, and a good amount of the class by proximity, that I edited your site even though the vast majority of the class is liberal) - ONLY to find out that one idiot got on my teachers computer to suggest to you that I don't exist - and you believed him!!! I'm not getting anything else for you - I'm done going so far out of my way to get rights that will only allow me to better YOUR site. You can make me sysop, or you can ask me to leave - pick one, but don't you dare expect me to do more work on your site - especially after all I have done (most notably writing about 60 university articles) - and be OK with you not trusting me at all.
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+<center><b align="center" style="width: 70%; background:#000;color:#eee;border: 4px gold solid; font-size: 40px;">SEMI-RETIRED, BUT NOT DEAD</b><br><br><br>'''This user is no longer active at Conservapedia. God Bless.'''</center>
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+|style="background:#D7D9FF;" |"[[CP:Guidelines#Civility|There's only one rule that I know of, babies ... you've got to be kind]]." -Kurt Vonnegut
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+|style="background:#FFCCFF"|As a user with blocking privileges, I'm willing to listen to users who think they've been unfairly blocked.
-I'm asking you to reply to this email - to give me some reason or to notify me that you will/will not give me rights - however if you don't I can only think that it's because of the same problem that's been there all along - no matter how much I do, no matter how much support I have (including support from sysops) - you just aren't willing to trust me).
+I can be reached at '''ian.t.duan@gmail.com'''
+|}
+<div style="float:right">
+'''I''' am IDuan of [[Arlington, Virginia]] - a [[suburb]] right next to the [[District of Columbia]].<br/>
-IDuan
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+==Conservapedia==
+I joined Conservapedia in late April 2007 and started seriously editing in August.
+===What I'm Currently Working on===
+I recently finished my project to create a page on every Supreme Court justice in American history (that we did not have a page on, as well as placing my [[Template:officeholder|officeholder template]] on all those that we did).
+===Full list of works===
+[[User:Iduan/Works]]
+===Highlights of work===
+====Pages====
+A few of the many articles I've really worked on (see all of them at [[User:Iduan/Works]]) are [[Frank Murphy]], [[Nelson Mandela]], [[Barack Hussein Obama]], [[Marquis de Lafayette]], [[Majoritarianism]], [[Waves]], [[Eddystone Lighthouse]], [[XYZ Affair]], [[Congressional Page]], [[Stephen Johnson Field]] and [[HTML table formatting]]. I've also done many universities, including [[University of Maryland|UMD]], [[Boston University|Boston]], [[University of Arizona|Arizona]], [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill|UNC]], [[University of Connecticut|UConn]], [[Pennsylvania State University|Penn St.]], [[Johns Hopkins University|Johns Hopkins]], [[Howard University|Howard]] and [[Northern Illinois University|NIU]]. Beyond that I like to spread my edits around and vary them.
+I put a lot of work into [[Nigeria#Structure]] - where I described the structure of the executive, judiciary and legislature. The judiciary is probably the most detailed part I have, simply because I'm most interested in judicial aspects. Ditto with [[John Jay#The Jay Court]].
+====Templates====
+I have created a few templates, the ones I'm most proud of are: [[Template:Template]], [[Template:Baseball|Baseball]], [[Template:USState]], [[Template:NBA]], [[Template:NFLDraft]], [[Template:Officeholder]] (and a bunch of sub-pages for that), [[Template:Supreme Court]] (and every subpage from the Jay to Roberts Courts), [[Template:MLBTeam]] (which I've added to every MLB team) and [[Template:University]] (which I have put on about 131 articles so far).  Some templates that I did not create but I did do a lot of work on are [[Template:Country]] and [[Template:Taxonomy]].
+===Categories===
+I don't work much in this area, but I did help [[User:TK]] clean out [[:Category:Navigation box]] (which was full because of missing <nowiki><noinclude></nowiki> tags on templates - this took a while to find everything, and I also worked a lot on cleaning up [[:Category:Information technology]] - it's now much cleaner because there are specific categories and pages are better organized.
+===My editing style/preferences===
+Basic page format:
+<blockquote><pre><nowiki>Body
+==Notes== (if there are references not used with <ref> tags
+==References==
+==See also==
+==External links==</nowiki></pre></blockquote>
+The above is the same as the format in the [[Conservapedia:Manual of Style]], and it makes the most sense. References are most pertinent to the article text itself, so they go first; see also links are internal, so they go second, and external links go last.
+As far as minor edits go: I do not use [[French spacing]], and I usually remove it where I see it (the wiki software renders it as one space anyway, so it's just an extra character); I also remove [[serial comma]]s.
+References always go outside grammar marks ([[punctuation]]).
+Punctuation does not always go inside quotation marks. For example, periods. If the text enclosed within the quotation marks is a full sentence - the period goes inside the quotation marks. "John said, 'My name is John.'" If not, then the period goes outside: "John said that he was '17 going on 18'."
+Images, unless they are within templates/tables, should always go in thumbs - they should not stand alone.
+Large blocks of text should usually be split up by sections - no one wants to read what looks like 2 paragraphs with 50 sentences. Wiki sections allow emphasis to be added ''and'' they allow clear organization.
+==My Computing World==
+I'm a pretty big fan of [[Mac OSX]] Leopard, but before it came out I was definitely an [[Windows XP|XP]] guy. I think that Spotlight just puts Macs miles ahead of PCs. I use [[Safari (web browser)|Safari]], [[XCode]] (for python) and Smultron (for [[html]]).