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My name is '''D. Derby'''.



See also my [[User:DDerby/activities|Wikipedia activities]] 

== Notices ==

==== Featured articles ====
[[User:Jengod]] has written an excellent [[User:Jengod/Some common objections to featured status and how to avoid them|list]] of often-overlooked procedures for bringing your article to featured status. 

==== English spelling and grammar ====

Please do not correct usages of [[Commonwealth English]] in Wikipedia. Wikipedia accepts [[American and British English differences|all common forms of English]], though particular usages should be uniform throughout an article. Common usages mistaken by users of American English as misspellings include words that end in "s"ed (Anglicised/Anglicized) and punctuation outside of quotes when it is not part of the quote, "like this".

==== Toki Pona ====
The [[Toki Pona]] wikipedia now exists at [[Wikicities]]. Learn the language - by far the simplest I've ever seen - at the [http://www.tokipona.org/ Toki Pona website], then create a few articles at [http://tokipona.wikicities.com/wiki/lipu_lawa sin Toki Pona alisona]!

==== Heroes ====
People I aspire to be like:
[[Jesus Christ]]. Loving yet uncompromising. Gave His life for those he loves. Homeless itinerant philosopher for 3 years.
[[John Taylor Gatto]]. A teacher who teaches life, not servitude to the social-corporate system.
[[George Washington]]. Turned down an offer of kingship in favor of government by the people.
[[Johnny Cash]]. Wore black, gave concerts at prisons.
[http://xanga.com/no_4tun8_son Jonathan C]. A friend who is more like the above people, or at least tries to be like them harder than anyone else I know.
[[Chuck Norris]]. Contrary to popular belief, it was Chuck Norris, not meteors or global climate change, that killed the dinosaurs.

==== List of films that provide accurate and revealing looks at world affairs ====
Americans should watch these [[films]] because Americans often know too little about the world around them. And because these films are good.

*[[Brokedown Palace]] - read the real-life story of [[Schapelle Corby]] first. For deep thinkers, it's also a [[postmodernism|postmodern]] take on [[Christ]]'s words "greater love has no man than this, that one lay down his life for his friend." (Later) I had to write this article after some [[lamer]] created it with the text "Brokedown Palace is a movie that stars Claire Danes.  It is quite lame." Thanks to [[User:*drew|*drew]] for adding all the standard details and making it look nice.
*[[Hotel Rwanda]]. The story of a man who fights to save lives in the [[1994]] [[Rwandan genocide]].
*[[Maria Full of Grace]]. A [[Columbia]]n woman becomes a [[drug mule]], visits America.
*[[Lord of War]] - release date [[September 16]], [[2005]]. A look at the international illegal arms trade. See its [http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/lord_of_war/ Rotten Tomatoes] page. I don't know the quality of this film firsthand yet; there is no consensus among reviewers.

====Major props====
[[User:RickK|Rick]][[User talk:RickK|K]] was an awesome editor, a voice of reason and a dam standing firm against the crap that finds itself into Wikipedia every day. I miss him. [[User:DDerby|DDerby]] 06:08, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

==== Old illustrations ====
Currently preparing to upload ~15 images from ''Pictoral History of the United States of America'', published [[1855]] - waiting until I can get on my other computer and save them as PNGs. I will update the images as I find time to clean them up in an image editor. See also [[commons:User:DDerby]]

== Unwanted content ==

Articles that receive a lot of vandalism, fandalism (thanks, [[User:RMoloney|RMaloney]]!), POV, graffiti, and other unwanted edits include:

*[[2005]] (and various day of the year entries) - this article is vandalized regularly, in addition to attracting some not-quite-relevant entries like breakups of somewhat notable bands.
*[[Good Charlotte]]
*[[Napoleon Dynamite]]
*[[George W. Bush]] - at  01:18, 8 September 2005 (UTC), 2 out of the previous 50 edits were useful, one of which was by a logged-in user. 21 vandalisms were performed by 17 unique non-logged-in IPs and 2 logged-in users. All within 21 hours.

(from [[wp:vand]]) A [[as of 2002|2002]] study by [[IBM]] found that most Wikipedia vandalism is [[Wikipedia:How to revert a page to an earlier version|reverted]] within five minutes. (See [http://researchweb.watson.ibm.com/history/results.htm official results].)

=== External link spam ===

[[Wikipedia:Spam#External_link_spamming|External spam links]] are a growing problem on Wikipedia, particularly in business-related articles ([[venture capital]]) and articles on topics that attract a lot of business ([[golf]]). Some of my criteria for spam removal are:
#If anyone posts similar links to more than two articles, it is spam and can be removed. See edits by [[Special:Contributions/Danjwp]]. Such a person can be called a "linkspammer."
#If a link goes to a subpage of a generic site, the link ''may'' be removed as spam if the subpage is not extremely useful and original. For example, links to drumscore.com such as [http://www.drumscore.com/scores/killers/index The Killers Drum Kit Scores] (note that I removed these because of criteria #1, not #2). To comment on this, see [[Wikipedia talk:Spam#External links criteria]].

[[Marketing]] and related topics in particular receive lots of spam links.

See [[Wikipedia:Spam#External_link_spamming]] for more on this growing problem, and what kinds of links you can help search and destroy.

Here is a message, possibly a future template, to use in the talk pages of external link spammers. It's really hard to [[WP:AGF|assume good faith]], especially from someone named [[User_talk:NBA-Forum.net]], but he began making good edits after I gave him a message similar to this: 

==== Possible message template for external link spammers ====

<nowiki>Your recent edit history consists entirely of adding an external link to Wikipedia articles. Putting a link in multiple articles is considered [[WP:SPAM|spam]]. This specific link, NBA-Boards.com, is inappropriate for Wikipedia because it can not be accessed at all without logging in. Please [[Wikipedia:External links#What should not be linked to|be careful about adding external links]] to articles. But please continue to '''[[WP:BOLD|be bold]]''' and improve the encyclopedia! ~~~~</nowiki>

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Your recent edit history consists entirely of adding an external link to Wikipedia articles. Putting a link in multiple articles is considered [[WP:SPAM|spam]]. This specific link, NBA-Boards.com, is inappropriate for Wikipedia because it can not be accessed at all without logging in. Please [[Wikipedia:External links#What should not be linked to|be careful about adding external links]] to articles. But please continue to '''[[WP:BOLD|be bold]]''' and improve the encyclopedia! <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>

Other templates:
*[[Template:Spam]]
Please do not add commercial links (or links to your own private websites) to Wikipedia.  [[Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not|Wikipedia is not]] a vehicle for [[Wikipedia:Spam|advertising]] or a mere collection of [[Wikipedia:External links|external links]].  You are, however, [[m:When should I link externally|encouraged to add ''content'' instead of links]] to the encyclopedia. See the [[Wikipedia:Welcome, newcomers|welcome page]] to learn more.  Thanks. <!-- Template:Spam --> 
*[[Template:Spam2]]
Please stop. If you continue to use Wikipedia for advertising, you will be [[Wikipedia:Blocking policy|blocked]] from editing. <!-- Template:Spam2 --> 
*or, [[Template:Spam2a]]
Adding unrelated external links to articles is considered [[Wikipedia:Vandalism|vandalism]]. If you continue to use Wikipedia for advertising, you will be [[Wikipedia:Blocking policy|blocked]] from editing. <!-- Template:Spam2a --> 
*[[Template:Spam3]]
[[Image:Stop hand.svg|30px|left]] This is your '''last warning'''. The next time you insert a [[Wikipedia:Spam|spam]] link, you ''will'' be blocked from editing Wikipedia. <!-- Template:Spam3 --> 
*[[Template:Spam4]]

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