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==Current Tasks (requests for help)==
{{quote|Why is it that no one can tell me how I'm misunderstanding policy, but they always tell me that I don't understand it?}}
If someone wants to help explain one or more of these things to me, I'd love to have a nice little discussion with them.

===Notability===
I've heavily defended a couple articles up at AFD, and usually, people think differently than I do about the "trivial" portion of the Primary notability criterion. Admittedly, the policy is intentionally little ambiguous, but I think everyone else misunderstands the policy. If a news article article is about X and Y together, Is "Y" trivial? I say no. I'd say that Y is one of the primary subjects of the article. What about an article about how X affected Y. I'd say that in that case, it is clear that X and Y are subjects of the article. sure, An article about X that mentions Y in it, even for a few paragraphs is a grey area. The canonical example of trivial, is a one sentence mentioning in an entire book. Only on that scale can someone say something is clearly trivial. A single sentence in a news article? probably trivial. A paragraph? Definite grey area, deletionists will say "trivial", inclusionists will say "non-trivial". That's where I stand on the matter. Apparently, an article has to be about only Y to be considered a non-trivial mentioning by many.

====James Earl Salisbury====
[[James Earl Salisbury]] is my father (Archived at [[User:mckaysalisbury/James Earl Salisbury]]).
*When I was WikiYoung, I created the article, I used "google hits" as criterion for inclusion. ([http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James_Earl_Salisbury&oldid=38738445creation version]). Someone asked about notability, and I was able to satisfy questions then (see [[Talk:James Earl Salisbury]] for discussion).
*Eventually the article was nominated for deletion. ([[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/James Earl Salisbury]]. I thought that the outcome of the article was obviously "keep", but the end result was that [[User:Cuchullain]], the closing administrator, thought that the result of the debate was "merge", so he merged it. So, today, I put a note on his talk page with my reasoning of why I think he was mistaken. ([http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3ACuchullain&diff=120818565&oldid=120773793 my post to his talk page]).
I think that he's mistaken in his decision on a couple of levels:
#He executed his vote, rather than consensus
#His vote wasn't something ''I think'' is in line with policy, but I kinda see where he's coming from
So am I crazy? Am I missing some crucial piece of Wikipedia policy?
=====collecting sources about him, not just mentioning him=====
*[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9506E4D6173BF932A25757C0A9659C8B63&n=Top%2fNews%2fWorld%2fCountries%20and%20Territories%2fChina]

===Consensus===
History has shown that I'm not understanding what consensus means. I've read the article, and I think I understand it, but according to others, I don't understand it. I've asked for help specifically to administrators about this, but I don't ever get a response.

===Bias===
Some have hinted that Creation of an article means that AFD votes shouldn't count, so does that mean I shouldn't ever be allowed to delete or redirect my own article (e.g. [[Canyonlands Desert]])? Or am I only biased when it's in favor of keep?

==What do I do with my life?==
I'm a [[computer scientist]]. Mainly that means I'm a [[programmer]], [[software engineer]], and [[software architect]]. I currently work in [[databases]] and [[computer security]]. I've worked a lot with [[Relational Databases]]. I'm rather familiar with the theory, and I've built 5 [[DBMS]]s, but most of the time I end up implementing [[database systems]], or building systems on top of them. I really enjoy [[math]] and [[physics]] programming. Also, I'm doing some real [[computer science]] research in my spare time, and I've written a few [[indie gaming|indie]] [[video game]]s, some by myself, some with teams.

I love playing [[video games]] (and [[board games]]). I don't spend as much time doing this as I like. I might like to work in video games in the future.

My hobbies include: Literature and movies, mainly [[Science Fiction]]. ([[Postcyberpunk|Post]])[[Cyberpunk]] and [[Time Travel]] are probably my favorite sub genres. I enjoy reading about the latest discoveries in [[math]] (like [[Rational Trigonometry]]) and [[science]] (sorry Pluto, you're not a planet). From a non-geek perspective, I like [[social dance]], and [[rock climbing]].

My activity in Wikipedia comes and goes.

my webpage can be found at [https://www.mckaysalisbury.com/ https://www.mckaysalisbury.com/]

==My Watchlist==
I've watched about a bajillion pages. Many of them have so infrequent changes, that I forget I have them in my watchlist. I have several topics that I try to keep the articles pure, mostly in the database industry. I don't watch my watchlist as much as I have in the past:
*[[Codd's 12 rules]] 
*[[D4 (programming language)]]
*[[D (data language specification)]]
**[[Industrial D]]
**[[Tutorial D]]
*[[Dataphor]]
*[[Edgar F. Codd]]
*[[Relational Database Management System]]
*[[Relational database]]
*[[Relational model]]

Some other computer science topics:
*[[AVL tree]] Kinda related to current research
*[[The Joel Test]]

I watch a few math related topics:
*[[Pi]]
*[[Fibonacci number]] Kinda related to current research

Some science topics:
*[[Definition of planet]]
*[[Lorentz factor]]
*[[Mars Desert Research Station]]
*[[Singularity]]
*[[Time Travel]]

Some Science-Fiction topics:
*[[Cardassian]] I had a question about spoonheads, and I'm awaiting a response. Maybe I'll eventually see the episode again
*[[Star Trek]]

And, finally, from nowhere, a couple of people topics:
*[[User:Mckaysalisbury]] duh, I wouldn't want someone changing me would I?
*[[James Earl Salisbury]]
*[[Chris Burgess]]

Yeah, there are other pages in my watchlist, but these are the important ones.

''Update:'' 04:08, 20 October 2007 (UTC) My watchlist isn't helpful anymore because I have too much on it. ("539 pages watched not counting talk pages.") My wikitime is far less than what it used to be, so I'm going on a watchlist purge. I'm removing topics I don't care about as much. If you'd like me to help out with something, let me know on my talk page, and I'll be glad to help out. [[User:Mckaysalisbury|McKay]] 04:08, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

===Articles I started===
*[[Gaikai]]
*[[Project Tuva]]
<!--*[[Flying into Love]] (or [[Flying into Love (film)]]) Removed :( -->
*[[The Joel Test]]
*[[Wei-Hwa Huang]]
*[[America's Freedom Festival at Provo]]
*[[Dataphor]]
*[[D4 (programming language)]]
*[[Vault (revision control system)]]
*[[Harmonic (color)]]
*[[Ken Darby]]
*[[David Mann (artist)]]
*[[Elevator surfing]]
*[[Fixed Acquirer Network Fee]]
*[[Murder Bay]]
*[[Marvel Rising]]
*[[Microsoft Surface 2]]
*[[Microsoft Surface Pro 2]]
*[[Quarriors!]]
*[[GamerGate]] which later got moved to [[Gamergate controversy]]
*[[revenge bedtime procrastination]]

===Articles I Spoke===
My wife has had [[insomnia]]. We discovered that one of the best things I can do to help her sleep is to [[WP:SPEAK|read Wikipedia articles aloud]]. Why not help other people fall asleep by reading it for all on the Internet to listen to.
* [[Satoru Iwata]] [[File:En-Satoru Iwata-article.oga]]
* [[United States Sesquicentennial coinage]] [[File:En-United_States_Sesquicentennial_coinage-article.ogg]]
* [[Chickasaw Turnpike]] [[File:en-Chickasaw Turnpike-article.ogg]]
* [[Mortara case]] [[File:en-Mortara case-article.ogg]]
* [[Seacology]] [[File:en-Seacology-article.ogg]]

==Todo list==
*add more photographs to various pages (including [[MDRS]] [[Fatal1ty]]...)
*[[Transparent aluminum]] @ [[Houston Museum of Natural Science]] in the [[Houston Museum District]]
*Fix and update [[Pilgrimage]] and [[RaD Man]]
*Finish my current research topic
**Fix and update related wikipedia articles
*Finish [[MDRS]] article
**Add current research
**Add lots of pictures
*Finish programming game
**Fix and update related wikipedia articles

==Cool Links==
*[[User:Mckaysalisbury/templates]]
*[[/Vandalism]]

===Heroes of the day===
*[[Randy Pausch]] is my hero of the day (7 Oct 2009). Did good work, as a computer science professor, and even made an appearance in [[Star Trek]]!
*[[Liviu Librescu]] is my hero of the day. (11 June 2007). I guess the [[Virginia Tech massacre]] article and his sums it up nicely. Though his life of [[Holocaust]] survivor -> education -> hero is a pretty impressive resume.
*[[Jiang Yanyong]] is my hero of the day. (8 Feb 2006) I found him while researching [[SARS]] for the article on my father [[James Earl Salisbury]] (another hero).
*[[Saul Bass]] is my hero of the day. (23 Aug 2015). He isn't heroic per se, but he changed credits in cinema. We need more people innovating in credits.
*[[Arland D. Williams, Jr.]] is my hero of the day. (31 Aug 2015). [[Air Florida Flight 90|Very heroic.]] He was a bank examiner (and I've done work for the [[FDIC]], so that's interesting too. I discovered this article looking up his story which was found in a religious classroom manual I was reading where they compared his heroics to the [[Crucifixion of Jesus]].
*[[Isaac Allerton]] is not quite a hero of the day, but he's my Great<sup>13</sup> Grandfather, and a Plymouth Colony settler who came on the ''Mayflower''. His son [[Isaac Allerton Jr.]] is also an ancestor.
*[[Charles Joseph Minard]] Is someone I've been thinking about for a while, but he's my "hero" of the day (6 Oct 2020). His One image of the map of Napoleon's Russian campaign single-handedly gave me the understanding of the fall of Napoleon's empire.

===Cool Diffs===
*Elephants tripling: [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elephant&diff=next&oldid=67030916]
*Off by one error: [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Programmers%27_Day&diff=next&oldid=572759609]
*Jeremy Renner the Velociraptor: [https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q23365&diff=459757755&oldid=455799806]

==Humor==
I'm having trouble getting [[Closure (psychology)|closure]] on this [[Closure (computer programming)|closure]] I'm writing in [[Google_Closure_Tools|closure]] which performs the [[Closure (mathematics)|closure]] to calculate the transitive [[Closure (mathematics)|closure]] of a set.

==Other Wikis==
I hereby certify that I am [[user:mckaysalisbury]] on [[wiktionary:user:mckaysalisbury|Wiktionary]], [[m:user:mckaysalisbury|Meta]], [[w:es:user:mckaysalisbury|Spanish Wikipedia]], [[memoryalpha:user:mckaysalisbury|Memory Alpha]], and [http://www.wowwiki.com/User:Mckaysalisbury WoWwiki] ([http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Mckaysalisbury&diff=111272258&oldid=110284982 certification diff]).

==Block History==
I feel my [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=block&page=User:Mckaysalisbury block log] is very clean, but yet, there are entries. I feel a bit of a need to explain myself in these cases. Yes, I've got the final edit on this page, but feel free to take a look at the page histories (the ones I provide or others)

*June 6, 2007, I was blocked for making a [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Allison_Stokke&diff=prev&oldid=136388240 single edit] to a page. I felt very justified in the edit, as it seemed like it was in full compliance with all of the policies particularly because I was sourcing my material. I had [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Allison_Stokke&diff=136127910&oldid=136120525 discussed] how the [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Allison_Stokke&diff=136060443&oldid=136058981 enforcement] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Allison_Stokke&diff=136116578&oldid=136115583 BLP] wasn't correct policy. I discussed the block with a friend of mine, and he suggested I email some admins, so I did. A large discussion with several admins got involved, and I eventually got unblocked before the 3 hours was up. Since, several admins have said they disagreed with the block, and one (via email) even said "PS. Being punished by a tyrant is generally considered an honour."

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