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I am an OTRS volunteer, and I assist people with general questions about Misplaced Pages as well as process verification of the identity of people wishing to release the copyrights to their work on Commons under a free license. When I can, I also try to assist with the ] where editors can seek assistance with impartial resolution of their disputes with other editors. Which is surprisingly difficult.
I am an OTRS volunteer, and I assist people with general questions about Misplaced Pages as well as process verification of the identity of people wishing to release the copyrights to their work on Commons under a free license. When I can, I also try to assist with the ] where editors can seek assistance with impartial resolution of their disputes with other editors. Which is surprisingly difficult.
==Paid work==
I have sometimes been paid to create Misplaced Pages articles for individuals or organizations. I have done this in accordance with ]. If you are considering hiring me to create a Misplaced Pages article on your behalf, please click ].
==Illustrations==
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Revision as of 13:56, 9 August 2017
Although this user (pictured, 2011) is not a hat collector, he does like wearing hats.
This user, in accordance with the Terms of Use, discloses that he has been paid by Burt Prelutsky to edit Misplaced Pages.
Significant article creations (unpiped) and date of creation
I am credited with creating 117 extant Misplaced Pages articles. I think of the following set as the important ones, the last one in particular:
Mire - as in a peatland or bog; created from what had been a disambiguation page on 15 January 2013 (as of 28 October 2015 there were 88 pages on Misplaced Pages which linked to this article; 100-180 views per day)
Cirrus (biology) - a long, thin structure on an animal's body, 31 July 2013 (as of 23 July 2017 there were 104 articles containing links to this page; 10-30 views per day)
Ofrenda - the mostly-Mexican "Day-of-the-Dead" ritual altar, 24 October 2013 (usually viewed 20-60 times daily but around Halloween gets close to 2,500 views per day; in October of 2016 it received 13,499 views)
Peter J. Pitchess Detention Center - the oldest Los Angeles County jail, 21 January 2013 (which was viewed 592 times on 11 August 2015 and 445 times on 28 September 2015, no good idea why)
I am an OTRS volunteer, and I assist people with general questions about Misplaced Pages as well as process verification of the identity of people wishing to release the copyrights to their work on Commons under a free license. When I can, I also try to assist with the WP:Dispute resolution noticeboard where editors can seek assistance with impartial resolution of their disputes with other editors. Which is surprisingly difficult.
Paid work
I have sometimes been paid to create Misplaced Pages articles for individuals or organizations. I have done this in accordance with WP:COI. If you are considering hiring me to create a Misplaced Pages article on your behalf, please click HERE.
Illustrations
Below is a gallery of images I created and uploaded through Wikimedia Commons using this login or my previous Commons login (KDS444), in no particular order. Some have been considered good enough to become Featured Pictures and a few of those have been Picture of the Day for all of the English Misplaced Pages. I have only modest formal training as a graphic artist, but I enjoy the creative process immensely. In April of 2013 I began creating vector-based images using Adobe Illustrator instead of my usual Photoshop JPGs, and have never looked back (the gif images, though, those are all still Photoshop creations until Commons can accept and effectively use animated SVG files, and I am sure it's just a matter of time). Want to use one?? See my "Illustrations notice" at the bottom of this page— thanks!
I've also put together a help file on Commons to assist would-be graphic artists create .svg files for use on Commons and the various Wikipedias. It can be found under this link.
Oh, and I like writing articles, too! So many dimensions, so little time... A list of those I have at least started (if not necessarily finished) appears under the image gallery in my "article nursery," in their raw pre-article status (mostly for my own reference— if you want to see the actual current article, don't look here). Below that are some handy reminders for me and some tools I like to use (the Google Books citation creator app, for example, is a Godsend, and now no one has any excuse for creating another unreferenced article on the English Misplaced Pages, ever).
I like seeing citations. They make me happy. That and, well, apparently the inner parts of worms and molluscs. They make me happy too, though I also draw radiation capsules and sintering kilns and bathymetric maps of the floors of large bodies of water. And dormer windows and fingernails. And Australian spiders. It's a lot of non-sequitors, really. Anyhow, here's the gallery:
Diagram of a 9-day old chicken egg, recently made a Featured Picture
The "Basket of Flowers" egg originally created by Fabergé and depicted here by me
A Quality Image on Commons, derived from another file
Technically, Gray gets the credit for this— I just added color and made it an .svg file
Anatomy of a true limpet, a Featured Picture on Misplaced Pages and on Wikimedia Commons, as well as a finalist for Picture of the year 2016 on Commons, and Misplaced Pages Picture of the Day for July 31, 2017.
A hypothetical diagram of a nyasasaurus which has been picked up for use on 11 Wikipedias beyond the English one so far (Africaans, Czech, Spanish, Farsi, French, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Ukranian, and Chinese) (not considered good enough for the German Misplaced Pages.
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Diagram of a 9-day old chicken egg, recently made a Featured Picture
The "Basket of Flowers" egg originally created by Fabergé and depicted here by me
A Quality Image on Commons, derived from another file
Technically, Gray gets the credit for this— I just added color and made it an .svg file
Anatomy of a true limpet, a Featured Picture on Misplaced Pages and on Wikimedia Commons, as well as a finalist for Picture of the year 2016 on Commons, and Misplaced Pages Picture of the Day for July 31, 2017.
The geologic process of subduction (not considered good enough for the German Misplaced Pages)
Diagram of the head region of a typical earthworm, Picture of the Day, March 29, 2016
A teletherapy capsule
A segment of an annelid, Picture of the Day, July 12, 2014
Proposed for feature picture; declined because another image of the same spider had recently been freely licensed (thanks to me) on Commons
The nerves of a scallop, Picture of the Day, August 31, 2014
A male C. elegans nematode, Picture of the Day, October 13, 2013
Another nematode Picture of the Day, August 13, 2015
A brief anatomy of a nautilus pompilius, Picture of the Day, April 11, 2015
A human testicle
An anatomical diagram of a scallop, Picture of the Day, November 13, 2014
A whipstaff
A hypothetical diagram of a nyasasaurus which has been picked up for use on 11 Wikipedias beyond the English one so far (Africaans, Czech, Spanish, Farsi, French, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Ukranian, and Chinese) (not considered good enough for the German Misplaced Pages.
The mouth of the Columbia River
A ship's wheel diagram
An obscure deep sea limpet, Picture of the Day, January 27, 2014
A physical vapor transport crucible
A hypothetical ancestral mollusc, Picture of the Day, October 14, 2014
Cannon diagram, Featured Picture, Wikimedia Commons
A hip roof dormer
Diagram of the inner workings of a laser printer
The ridges in the Superior Shoal
Diagram of a boom
An animation of an Austrian drape
