My first Wikipedia edit as a registered user was on1 March2005. After aunanimous RfA, I became anadministrator on11 December2007. 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) 18:05, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
Born in ruralOhio in 1973, I am ofScotch-Irish descent and am theonly child of a working-class father and white-collar mother. I was raised on a steady diet ofPBS and attended the samepublic school district all 13 years. During my teen years I was a very activehospital volunteer, and I attended weeklyPresbyterian 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-statevacations during fifteen of those years. Virtually every summer we would pack up thecamper and enjoy a 5 - 15 day, 1500+km long road-trip to somewhere interesting (four of our vacations saw us travel over 3000 km!). (seeTravel below)
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MyBachelor of Science degree was earned fromBowling Green State University where I initially majored in Health Care Administration, but eventually changed toManagement information systems. Along the way, I also picked up a minor inInterpersonal communications. In college I was involved instudent government and the Honors Student Association (despite not being anhonors student). During four of my college years, I worked in the university'snetwork services department. I also did a three monthinternship with asoftware developer inNew England.
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 fromCounty Down, Ireland to theColony 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 threetanks of tropical fish. The username 'Kralizec!' has been myhandle (or .nic as we used to call it back in ye olde unix days) since 1993.
My employer from 1998 to 2008 was amidwestern bank, where I held a variety ofinformation technology jobs. From 2003 to 2008 I served as a team leader in the company'snetwork 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 subsequentlydownsized, in April 2008 I began doing ITcontract work in the banking industry. Once my kids got old enough tojoin Scouting, I rekindled my love of the great outdoors, and stayed on as anadult helper even after my eldestEagled-out.
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Personally, I self-identify as being anagnosticsecular humanist. On the American political spectrum I am aModerate Republican with mostly conservative fiscal views (including being an advocate forfiscal responsibility) and moderate social views (including strong support forsame-sex marriage, theenvironment, and theLincoln Project) ... however some of my more conservative friends accuse me of being aRepublican In Name Only. Despite being agnostic and a devout believer inEvolutionism, I semi-regularly attend services at our localPresbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
My interests and hobbies include spendingquality time with my wife and three kids; travel (see below; by age 29, I had already been to 30U.S. states and territories, 2Canadian provinces, and 6Australian states and territories); reading books (science andscience fiction) and magazines (The Economist,National Geographic,Newsweek); amateur photography (primarilydigital these days, via myCanon PowerShot SX200 IS); tropical fish (Mickey MousePlatys); and strategy games, both on the computer (RTS,turn-based, and thehistoric city building genres, withIkariam being my current top "time waster") as well as more traditional board games (such asAxis & Allies,Shogun,A Game of Thrones,Power Grid, etc.). Despite having never played any of the previous Pokemon card or console games, I am an avidPokémon Go player on my smartphone. Additionally I often say thatgluttony is myfavourite sin, withJapanese cuisine (specificallysushi) andChinese cuisine (especiallyMandarin andSzechuan style) being my most favourite.
In my free time Imoderate anemail list onPalladium RPG's and often frequent themessage boards atRPGnet.
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Here are the places I have been to. Concept and general layout stolen fromUser:Calton who got it fromUser:Guettarda who borrowed it fromUser:White Cat.
The countries I have been to:
Spent years:
United States
Months to weeks:
Australia
Canada
Weeks to days:
Austria
People's Republic of China
Germany
Switzerland
Less than a day:
France
Japan
Liechtenstein
The provinces, states, and territories I have been to:
Spent years:
Months to weeks: | Weeks to days: | Days to hours: | Less than a day (including airports and train stations):
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Initially an adherent ofInclusionism, a few years ago I became a subscriber ofEventualism as a response to the large amount of non-notable, in-universecruft seeping into the project. I also feel thatprocess is important to the smooth operation of the project, however the natural prevalence ofInstruction creep gives me pause.
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 theOil disambiguation page with its 1000+ links. Arg!
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As a Wikipedia administrator, I am involved in several "back office" areas of the project. On a daily basis I process requests atAdministrator intervention against vandalism as well asRequests for page protection. Additionally I often participate in administrative discussions at theAdministrators' noticeboard andAdministrators' noticeboard/Incidents. I also frequentVillage pump (policy) for the discussion of existing and proposed policies and guidelines.
When it comes to blocking editors, I take the officialBlocking policy very seriously. Sometimes this causes frustration for vandal fighters, as I will not make punitive blocks, and as perWP:IPB I do not hardblock IPs for long periods of time. Additionally as the blocking policy states that editors should be warned when their behaviour conflicts with our policies and guidelines, the length of time that I am willing to block an unregistered editor is directly proportional to the number of times that members of the Wikipedia community have tried to educate the IP. If an IP has only received one or two warnings, unless it is an especially egregious case of vandalism, I will rarely block the IP address for longer than six or twelve hours. Conversely, IPs that have received at least four warnings are rarely blocked for less than 31 hours.
Regarding other administrators, I feel thatwheel warring is incredibly harmful to the project and as such I personally follow a zero-revert-rule (0RR) for the actions of other admins. If you disagree with another admin's administrative action, either take it up with that individual or bring it up for a community review atWP:AN/I. That said, if another administrator notices that I have made a mistake, they should feel free to correct it without any need to contact me first (however a courtesy note on my talk page would be appreciated so that I may learn from my mistakes).
On occasion my efforts have been recognized by members of the Wikipedia community.
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To date, I have had varying degrees of involvement with the following projects:
Projects from which I have retired:
While not a member of therecent changes patrol per se, there are several articles I watch very closely in order to prevent vandalism. They include:
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This section is pretty long and boring ... but a lot shorter since Iforked 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.
Listed below are the articles I created, de-stubbed, heavily contributed to, or are just generally proud of my contributions to:
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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.
Despite my disdain for them, disambiguation pagesdo serve a purpose. I have even created a few.
So far I have created over fifty categories. A large number of them have anaval theme and stem from my participation inWikiProject Ships.
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 inWikipedia:Redirect.
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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 theShips WikiProject.
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