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<span style="font-size:large;">''It's clean-up duty, mopping up after the dishonest, incompetent, and fanatical. Can't imagine why you'd have a problem with that.''</span><br>

:The above obviously includes the various trolls, spammers, quacks, greedheads, and crackpots -- and their enablers -- who hang out at ED and WR. I also seem to have attracted the unwanted attention of a crackpot spamming "psychologist", an indefinitely banned (for good reason) spammer, a serial plagiarist from Colorado, an egotistical ex-publisher of a freebie magazine in Tokyo, and an indefinitely banned anger-management poster child socking from the Czech Republic (and his reincarnated sock). If you're one of the those various trolls, spammers, quacks, greedheads, crackpots, and/or their enablers, welcome! Now get lost.


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*[[User:Calton/SpammerList]]
*[[User:Calton/Watchlist]] - Sockpuppet IP list
*[[User:Calton/Pictures|Some pictures I've taken and which are used on Wikimedia projects.]] Ansel Adams I'm not, but I might as well be useful.

[[File:Artsmetier.jpg|thumb|right|'''Random Picture''': [[Arts et Métiers (Paris Métro)|Arts et Métiers]] station of the [[Paris Métro]].]]
Yes, I took the picture on the right. Yes, I change it <s>frequently</s> very occasionally. Yes, they're all used on Wikimedia Commons. Come back often for a new, marginally-in-focus picture! Collect them all!

I'm a Westerner living in the [[Tokyo]] area, about {{convert|170|mi}} south of [[Fukushima I nuclear accidents|Fukushima]]. I've never been this close to a potential nuclear catastrophe, and I can't really say that I've enjoyed the experience.  

I first became aware of Wikipedia when I began using it to look up some technical terms, since I was an English-literature major screwing around with computers, not vice versa. Being of a copy-editor bent, I noticed typos, misspellings, and generally screwy language occasionally, and after a while I realized that I could in fact edit them myself. So I did. Soon, I was hitting the random page button, just for my own amusement, and I got sucked in.   
[[Image:Aerogelbrick.jpg|thumbnail|right|Trying to impart common sense into the clueless is a tough job, one which you do particularly well.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion&diff=prev&oldid=33062318][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion&diff=prev&oldid=33062806][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Jimbo_Wales&diff=prev&oldid=33091173]. As such, you the very first of Raul's common sense bricks. [[User:Raul654|Raul654]] 22:58, 29 December 2005 (UTC)]]

Now, this has turned into a relaxing break from my required copy editing: I get to exercise my pedantic tendencies, without the responsibility of deadlines or deliverables.  I've occasionally gotten a little deeper into things, and have written a few articles from scratch.  

This whole project is infectious: hitting the random page button, I encounter whole swatches of text and knowledge areas requiring work, and I suddenly feel compelled to try to do something about it, even if I didn't have any particular interest in the subject to begin with. For example, I did a massive edit (for style, organization, and a general readability) for the submarine [[USS Trout (SS-202)]]. I have no particular interest in the military, especially not the Navy, yet I found myself sucked into doing this. Same with entries on community colleges and [[Booker Prize]] winners.  

It's kind of like my current project -- if you can call it that -- of eliminating spam and [[MySpace]]-like vanity pages disguised as editor pages. This started out as a simple task which I figured to complete fairly quickly, but the more I dig the more I find. A few years back, over a six-month-or-so period, I figure that I tagged maybe 1,500 so-called user pages for oblivion, of whom maybe 3 have since done any editing whatsoever. And I keep finding more to this day, not to mention the brand-new ones cropping up daily, including obvious vanity articles that have been userfied by other editors who ought to know better.

So far I have added a few articles and stubs (and yes, I plan to expand the stubs if I can), but mostly it's janitorial work. As I told one troller, ''It's clean-up duty, mopping up after the dishonest, incompetent, and fanatical. Can't imagine why you'd have a problem with that.'' 

==International Travels==
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|align="right"|Months to Days:
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|align="right"|Hours:
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|align="right"|To go some day:
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|align="left"|<small>''Idea and layout stolen from ''[[User:Guettarda]] ''who borrowed it from ''[[User:Coolcat]] (who calls himself <s>[[User:White Cat]]</s> [[User:とある白い猫]] these days)</small>
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==US Travels==
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|align="left"|<small>''Idea and layout taken from [[User:Calton]], who appropriated it from [[User:Salsb]], who stole it from ''[[User:Guettarda]] ''who borrowed it from ''[[User:White Cat/ref|User:White Cat]]</small>
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==User sub-pages==
Various subpages I have, listed in one place until I get around to doing something about them:
===Drafts/Starts===
*[[User:Calton/Nara List]]
*[[User:Calton/Kyoto List]]
*[[User:Calton/St. Mary's Square (San Francisco)]]
*[[User:Calton/Noriyuki Haraguchi]]
*[[User:Calton/Sandbox#West Marin| West Marin]]
*[[User:Calton/Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Natural History]]
*[[User:Calton/Tobacco and Salt Museum]]

===Stubs, now moved===
*[[User:Calton/Hirakushi Denchū]]
*[[User:Calton/Fumio Asakura]]
*[[User:Calton/Kodaira Hirakushi Denchu Art Museum]]
*[[User:Calton/Asakura Museum of Sculpture]]

===General===
*[[User:Calton/Pictures]]
*[[User:Calton/Sandbox]]
:*[[User:Calton/Sandbox#Testing| Testing]]
::*[[User:Calton/Sandbox#Articles| Articles]]
::*[[User:Calton/Sandbox#Editors| Editors]]
:*[[User:Calton/Sandbox#Wikipedia is not paper| Wikipedia is not paper]]
:*[[User:Calton/Sandbox#Of Exactitude in Science| Of Exactitude in Science]]
:*[[User:Calton/Sandbox#International Travels| International Travels]]
:*[[User:Calton/Sandbox#American States| American States]]
:*[[User:Calton/Sandbox#Test table|Test table]]
:*[[User:Calton/Sandbox#Diners| Diners]]
:*[[User:Calton/Sandbox#Sam Spade (temp)| Sam Spade (temp)]]
:*[[User:Calton/Sandbox#Impact| Impact]]
:*[[User:Calton/Sandbox#Table test| Table test]]
:*[[User:Calton/Sandbox#ISBN Test|ISBN Test]]
*[[User:Calton/Testbed]]
===Watchlist===
*[[User:Calton/Userfied pages]]
*[[User:Calton/Userfied pages to watch]]
*[[User:Calton/Sandbox#Self-promotion watch| Self-promotion watch]]
*[[User:Calton/Watchlist]]
:*[[User:Calton/Watchlist#Articles_that_should_probably_be_AFD.27ed|Articles that should probably be AFD'ed]]
:*[[User:Calton/Watchlist#Walled garden alert|Walled garden alert]]
:*[[User:Calton/Watchlist#Them_what_bear_watching|Them what bear watching]]
::*[[User:Calton/Watchlist#Jack_Sarfatti|Jack Sarfatti]]
::*[[User:Calton/Watchlist#Cisco.27s_Own_Hindu_Nationalist:|Cisco's Own Hindu Nationalist]]

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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | For numerous jobs cleaning up the project. [[User:Tyrenius|Tyrenius]] 02:52, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
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|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: middle; height: 1.1em;" | '''The Special Barnstar'''
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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | Thanks for defending my honour. :)<br />--[[User:WebHamster|WebHamster]] 00:22, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
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