User:Ricky81682

I was born and raised in Diamond Bar, CA. I graduated from UCLA in 2003 with a degree in Mathematics/Economics. Right now, I work as a paralegal in a law firm in Century City, CA specializing in class action litigation.

Personal

Personally, I see the Wikipedia are more of a great organziational source than really a informational source. You can find most of this information anywhere, but there's few places where all this stuff is connected. (See Six degrees of separation, Wikipedia style).

Firefox extension

For people using the Mozilla Firefox browser, there's a great Wikipedia extension available here.

Parody

Similar to how Nirvana felt that they had "made it" after Weird Al recorded "Smells Like Nirvana" (parodying "Smells Like Teen Spirit"), I believe the Wikipedia has made it when The Onion satirizes it. Interestingly enough, The Onion's satire involves "Weird Al" too.

BJAODN

My favorite BJAODN pages are listed here. If you find anything funny, add a recommendations heading here and add it. =)

1. The list here. I'm studied math in college; so sue me. =)
2. The Baldwins
3. Another meaning for Exploding Wales
4. Pat Robertson is always good for a laugh.
5. This Demomotus article is great because it took 5 months to be deleted.
6. Climp Great picture.
7. This is another great picture.
8. Misogyny and you
9. Philosophical analysis of the Underpants Gnomes.
10. VfD seems to have had a little fun with C the band.
11. Someone really understands the Culture of England.
12. ASCII cows (somebody has got lots of free time)
13. Yak Combing
14. Mathematical animals
15. Common name for IRC.
16. Reports on the death of the Pillsbury Doughboy
17. Somebody's a fan of Edwin Starr's classic song
18. Somebody was celebrating a little early here.
19. There was a interesting pair of message boxes left here

Wiki work

You can see all my contributions here. Most of the contributions are minor, as it's mostly correcting links. Judging by the fact that most of the things I'm listing here are stubs really, my standards are still quite low for mention. As a aside, when I'm creating articles (or am basically the second person looking at an article), I make breaks after each sentence to made it easier to review edits.

Created

• The first site I created was the Law School Admissions Council page.
• Didn't realize this, but there was a 1949 film called Bagdad.
• Also a 1946 Vincent Price movie called Shock.
• Off the Wall (radio), although I simply took the information from Off the Wall and separated it.
• While cleaning Galileo's page, I decided a create the page for a disciple, Vincenzo Viviani.
• Created the Antonio da Sangallo disambiguation page.
• As I added tables for the Governors of Mississippi I had to create Winthorp Sargent and John J. Pettus.
• While reading the news about Dimebag Darrell's death on December 8 2004, I created Vinnie Paul (his brother) by wiping out 220.253.17.211's editing experiments.
• While working on The Matrix characters, I created Dozer, Seraph and Rama-Kandra.
• Split The Kid into the Chaplin movie, the Bruce Willis movie, the Hong Kong movie, and The Matrix character.
• Split Gorgias (Plato) off from Gorgias.
• Split Mount Shishaldin off from Shishaldin.
• Took the politician out of Charles Lynch and moved him to Charles Lynch (politician)
• Split the artist and the athlete from Winston Smith.
• Split the band off from Krang.

Major editing

• Reorganized Jesse Pomeroy into chronological order.
• Improved Boys Don't Cry (band) from substub to a mere stub.
• Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg - serious clean-up and reorganization, but needs someone there to put stuff in proper context.
• For some strange reason, I ended up wikifying lots of Dubuque, Iowa.
• After finding his Congressional Bio, I added a lot to John Rea (politician).
• I completely reorganized and split Chinese Rites controversy into sections, but it's still a mess.
• I spent a whole lotta time wikifying the dates on the List of painters page.
• Corrected a bunch of ships at Ship naming and launching & for History of the United States Navy.
• Improved Pokerwork from a substub to a mere stub.
• Lots of work tagging images on a number of pages, but made this particular list my personal obsession.
• Corrected number of links at Classics of political philosophy.
• Cleaned-up Ratan Tata
• Cleaned-up a bit of the B-movie Scarecrow Gone Wild.

Minor work

• List_of_The_Simpsons_episodes - wikifying dates.
• Followed that up by wikifying dates on the List_of_South_Park_episodes page.
• Timisoara - another date wikification attempt.
• Antipope - wikified dates and then the links for the locations of the modern "antipopes."
• U.S. Capitol shooting incident (1954) - added info about President Carter's pardon.
• Rewrote some parts of The Organon by Aristotle.
• Dialogue - wikifying dates
• Enneads - split Table of contents into sections and revised External links.
• A lot of wikifying links, mostly, at Hendrik Conscience.
• Wikified the dates in the Esterhazy family.
• Wikified a lot of dates regarding the city of Padua.
• Wikified plenty of dates and added to the table for the USS Raleigh (CL-7), USS Omaha (CL-4), USS Maddox (DD-731)
• Wikified plenty of dates (and add some too) for the List of Italians.

Disambiguation pages

I've cleaned up the links to a few disambiguation links too, which you can't tell by going there. Hopefully.

• Baldwin I.
• Bagdad (including those supposed to be to Baghdad).
• Alexander I.
• The next logical one, of course, was Alexander II.
• William Gibson.
• Mercury was one of the worst.
• Ottoman. Now a redirect to Ottoman Empire, but that does leave this Ottoman out.
• I've cleaned up the Republican page (there's really isn't a space for Republicans in the sense of the French Revolution) and then the Republican Party page. Just in case someone thinks I'm playing favorites, I've also cleaned up the Democrat page and the Democratic Party page.
• My next project was matrix, which mostly consists of changing a number of links to Matrix (mathematics).
• I don't know why but I cleaned up Anastasia and the links were mostly to the singer.
• All of the links to James Baldwin were set to the writer.
• Richard Hamilton contains a good mix of the basketball player, the artist and a surprisingly number for the mathematician.
• Most of OCR now links to Optical character recognition.
• Set most of Galileo to Galileo Galilei.
• Corrected most of the Act of Union links.
• Cleaned up what I could of Conrad.
• Cleaned up CA and may start on other two-letter combinations.
• Cleaned up USS Missouri (mostly to the famed USS Missouri (BB-63))
• Cleaned up the USS Alabama page.
• Cleaned up the following Matrix character links: Morpheus, The Kid, Neo, Trinity, The Oracle, Ghost.
• Set almost all of The Republic to go to Plato's The Republic.
• Bill O'Reilly
• Eddie Jones
• All the links for Howden now go to Howden, England.
• Lord Kitchener mostly going to Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener.
• Most of Jethro Tull goes to the band, not their namesake.
• Redirected most of cirrus to the cloud
• Took out the singer from Ashanti.
• Set Sarah Connor into either the character or the singer.
• Set most of Perfect Strangers to the sitcom.
• Set most of Arrested Development to the tv show.