User:David Jordan

"The Windows registry gives me hives."
THIS ARTICLE is a user page and is not encylopedia content.
Wikipedia User Level: sub-rookie.

Editorial: Examples of how Wikipedia works

Hope these behaviors aren't something I modeled. Do you see yourself in any of these examples?

• If you cite an example of a product or service in an article, someone will remove it and warn you that Wikipedia is not a platform for advertising. If you do not cite an example, someone will flag the article as lacking sources.
• Someone looked at a piece of art that I created and uploaded to illustrate an article. It took me about an hour to draw. By looking at it, the viewer determined the art was copyrighted by someone other than I and removed it from the article.
• Someone looked at a piece of art that I created and uploaded to illustrate an article. It took me about two hours to draw. It wasn't perfect but I had posted it for others to use and view under the GDFL. By looking at it, the viewer determined the art was uploaded for my personal gain rather than to illustrate a concept. The viewer removed it from the article.
• Later, a second person flagged the art work as orphaned and warned that "Wikipedia is not a personal web page." The art work was deleted. What's the user's incentive to upload more art?
• A user removed an image from a geographic location article because it lacked artistic merit. This left the article with no illustrations rather than a single illustration.

What if:

• Instead of deleting text, you write something better and replace, or append-to, the original stuff?
• Instead of deleting an image showing a geographic location, you fly or drive to the location to create a better one? Then you overwrite the marginal image with your high-quality one.
• You consider ethics, balance and motives before deleting information in an article. You want to delete a paragraph about a hazardous waste dump in an article about your community. Do you own a home in a community? Even though you don't like it, is the article factually correct? Could it be left in the article but worded better to reflect differing views?
• Instead of flagging an article, you fix the problem with it?

Contributed to articles including:

Geography

Community size rule of thumb: The smallest communities which are too small to be a stand-alone CDP usually start to gain identity with a fire station. Next they become a CDP. Following that, they get an elementary school.

Allensworth, California Alturas, California Bagdad, California Bangor, California Beatty, Nevada Beckwourth, California Bell Station, California Berry Creek, California Borrego Springs, California Boulevard, California Brawley, California Buck Meadows, California Burbank, Santa Clara County, California Butte Meadows, California Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge Caliente, California California Valley, California Camp Eighteen, California Campo, California Campo Indian Reservation Casa Loma, Santa Clara County, California Cedarville, California Centerville, Butte County, California Cherokee, California Chester, California Chiriaco Summit, California Cohasset, California Columbia, California Death Valley Junction, California DeSabla, California Downieville, California Eagleville, California Ely, Nevada Famoso, California Feather Falls, California Firebaugh, California Frazier Park, California Forest Ranch, California Fort Bidwell, California

Freestone, California Gilroy, California Glenn, California Groveland, California Hamilton City, California Havilah, California Inskip, California Jacumba, California Kenwood, California Kings Mountain, California La Honda, California Ladera, California Lakeview Gusher (oil well) Laws, California Los Gatos, California Los Trancos Woods, California Lost Lake Resort, California Loyola, California Loyalton, California Madera County, California Malpai Borderlands (geomorphic province) Maricopa, California Mavericks, California Mendota, California Mercey Hot Springs, California Merrimac, California Middleton Tract, California Moccasin, California Modoc County, California Mount Signal, California Mountain Mesa, California New Idria, California Newell, California North Fork, California Ocotillo Wells, California Ogilby, California Onyx, California Ordbend, California Orland, California Paicines, California Pala Indian Reservation

Palo Alto, California Palo Verde, California Panamint Springs, California Panoche, California Pine Mountain Lake, California Pozo, California Pulga, California Ravendale, California Redwood Estates, California Richvale, California Ripley, California River Bend Lodge, California Riverside, California Riverside County, California Rolinda, California Rosamond, California Rucker, California San Antonio Valley, California Sandy Valley, Nevada Saratoga, California Sargent, California Shark Cafe Silver Peak, Nevada Simla Junction, California Skeggs Point, California Sky Londa, California South Lake, California Stovepipe Wells, California Sunfair, California Sunfair Heights, California Summerland, California Surprise Valley, California Thermal, California Tionesta, California Tres Piños, California Tuolumne County, California Walker Basin, California Warner Mountains (California) Winterhaven, California Zzyzx, California

Biography

Birk, Sandow (artist) Dallin, Professor Alexander Stephen Fox (author/educator)

Grimm, Paul (artist) Mannon, James M., Ph.D. Monmonier, Mark (author)

Roadways

California State Route 12 California State Route 25 California State Route 35 California State Route 78 California State Route 84 California State Route 99

California State Route 120 California State Route 140 California State Route 152 California State Route 178 California State Route 180 Interstate 505

Software-related

Computer-aided dispatch Current (Windows PIM) Miniprop (radio software)

R:Base (relational database) Resource Ordering Status System (enterprise system) State of California enterprise IT systems Tracon II (game software)

Technology

Current loop 9/11 (radio communications) Automatic ringdown circuit (telephony) Automatic vehicle location Base station Continuous Tone-Coded Squelch System Dispatch (logistics) Diversity combining (radio) Diversity reception (radio) Falsing GE Marc V MDC-1200 Mobile radio Quik Call I

Radio repeater Selcall (two-way radio signaling) Selective calling Signal strength Siren (noisemaker) Squelch Telephone exchange Tone remote Trunked radio system Two-way radio UNICOM (aviation jargon) Unintentional radiator Walkie talkie Water supply network Wheeling (electric power transmission)

Government

• California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection
• California Department of Transportation
• California Public Utilities Commission

Film-related

The Best Bad Thing (film) Getaway (1994 film) Go Now Highway (film)

Lewis & Clark & George (film) Microprocessor Chronicles (documentary) Seven Girls (documentary) Two Girls and a Guy

Images

Photos

Q. Why do these images look so bad? A. Most of them are scanned Polaroid prints shot with a US$30 camera.

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  Onyx California post office.
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  CalTrans guide sign along State Route 178.
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  San Gabriel Mountains and Interstate 210.
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  Frazier Park fire station.
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  Frazier Park post office.
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  Walker Basin, California.
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  CalTrans G9-2 guide sign looking westbound on SR178 at the eastern extent of Mountain Mesa.
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  Lake Isabella and Mountain Mesa.
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  Entering Kernville from the south along Sierra Way.
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  Lebec, California post office at dusk.
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  View of Bodfish and Lake Isabella.
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  Guide sign at east extent of Bodfish on Lake Isabella Blvd.
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  Tule Elk.
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  Tupman post office and guide sign.
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  California Aqueduct near mile 237.
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  McKittrick historic landmark sign along SR58.
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  View of McKittrick from the south.
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  Kern County Fire Dept., Station 24 (McKittrick).
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  Guide sign at the east extent of South Lake, California.
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  State Route 33 at Brown Material Road.
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  SR178 eastbound from M Street in Bakersfield.
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  Arvin-Edison Water Storage District tank
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  Kaweah Delta Hospital at night
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  County government offices, Madera County, CA
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  Bell Station, California
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  Van Ness Avenue, Fresno, California
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  Huron Middle School, Huron, CA.

Art

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Image:Sunnyvale, California seal circa 1965.png
Image:CDCAndRehab.png

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DVD and VHS jackets

Housekeeping: how I keep track of which ones have been uploaded...

Image:Best Bad Thing jacket.png Image:About Last Night VHS.jpg Image:Lewis and clark and george VHS.jpg Image:The Getaway VHS.jpg Image:Seven girls DVD jacket megan abubo.jpg Image:Highway Jacket DVD.jpg Image:Go Now VHS.jpg

Image:Ice castles jacket.jpg Image:Havasupai Tribal Video.jpg Image:Dreamlife of Angels film VHS.png Image:Dogtown VHS jacket art thumbnail.png Image:Two Girls and a Guy VHS screener.jpg Image:Microprocessor chronicles DVD.jpg Image:Dancing at the Blue Iguana.png

Book covers

Image:RBase 3 manual cover.png
Image:RBASE for CTOS disk photo.png
Image:RBase 4 manual cover.png
Image:IBM Current 1.1 package cover.png
Image:OS2 2.0 upgrade box.png
Image:PC-DOS 3.2 box jacket.png
Image:PC-DOS 4 getting started manual.png
Image:IBM PC-DOS 5 manual cover.png
Image:CA-Clipper 5.2 manual cover.png
Image:DESQview 386 v2.4 manual cover.png
Image:Novell DOS 7 manual cover.png
Image:Microsoft Project 4.1 box.png
Image:Miniprop version 3 manual cover.png
Image:Borland Delphi 3.jpg
Image:Access 1 1 cover.jpg
Image:Emergency Encounters cover.png

Humor

• File:Coldsore Canker.jpg
• File:CRISCO systems.jpg
• File:HP logo fun.jpg
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• File:Blow chow house.jpg
• File:WinManualGag.jpg

Maps

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• File:Soviet Electric grid 82.jpg
• File:US UTM Zones.png

Captured screens

Image:Tracon 1.jpg
Image:ROSS screenshot.png
Image:IBM Current screenshot.png

Telecom sounds

Need help with sound files? Click this.

• Sound: step-by-step call to busy. ( file info: )

• Sound: GE Mark V trunked system simulated radio traffic. (file info )

• Sound: Example of a SelCall CCIR-format call. (file info )

• Sound: Example of pick up and delivery truck radio traffic using Modat unit ID. (file info )

• Sound: a two-tone sequential dial up paging terminal. (file info )

• Sound: Single tone or tone burst selective calling audio example. (file info )

• Sound: MDC-1200 leading push-to-talk ID with data muting. (file info )

• Sound: MDC-1200 leading push-to-talk ID without data muting. (file info )

• Sound: Two Quik Call I sequences. (file info )

• Sound: Collection calls answering machine messages to a wrong number from Tokai Credit, Wells Fargo Bank, Nordstom, Answerdata. (file info File:Collection calls typical examples.ogg)

• Sound: A Discover Card telemarketing call. (file info File:Discover card telemarketing call.ogg)

• Sound: Three function tones used in remote control.(file info )

• Sound: listening across a phone line connected to a tone remote. (file info )

• Sound: push-to-talk ID using DTMF over two-way radio.. (file info )

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Navigation templates

Created templates:

Template:Trunked radio systems
Template:Two-way radio

Worked to fill templates:

Template:Butte County, California (added unincorporated communities)
Template:Kern County, California (added unincorporated communities)
Template:Riverside County, California (added unincorporated communities)
Template:San Benito County, California (added unincorporated communities)
Template:San Diego County, California (added unincorporated communities)
Template:San Mateo County, California (added unincorporated communities)
Template:Santa Clara County (added unincorporated communities)

More on this user

This user lives in or hails from the U.S. State of California.

This user is a citizen of the United States of America.

This user has never left the Northern Hemisphere.

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en-us-caDude, this person is totally a California English speaker.

This user is old enough to remember what a typewriter is, and that's all you need to know.

This user remembers using
a rotary dial telephone.