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I recognize that this user page belongs to the Misplaced Pages project and not to me personally. As such, I recognize that I am expected to respectfully abide by community standards as to the presentation and content of this page, and that if I do not like these guidelines, I am welcome either to engage in reasonable discussion about it, to publish my material elsewhere, or to leave the project.
Hi! My real name is Larry Pieniazek and I am probably not notable. I like LEGO(r) Brand building elements.
I am an English Misplaced Pages administrator. Let me know if you have any questions or issues, and I'll do what I can to help.
Outside interests
Avocations
I'm a LEGO community activist, I guess you could say, getting involved in lots of LEGO related projects... some might say more to the detriment of the project than the benefit! Lately I've been involved in BrickWiki a MediaWiki based wiki concerned with LEGO, LEGO fans, and LEGO creations. My personal website is Milton Train Works. (yes I realise that the WP:MoS says LEGO isn't to be written in all caps. I'll do my articles that way, but this is my user page!!! Deal!)
Professionally I am a System architect, working on data and application integration projects and I travel for work a lot (most of the states and countries below are due to work related travel). I live in Michigan with a wife, 2 kids, 0-2 exchange students depending on season, 4 cats, 1 dog, 3 cars and a horse that doesn't live with us.
Beliefs
I believe in WP:NPOV so these beliefs are listed so you know how I feel about stuff and (VERY IMPORTANT) you should call me on any editing that looks like I'm POV pushing!!!! Seriously. Please do if you see it. Mostly I edit technical stuff so hopefully it's not that big an issue, but if you see it, call me on it.
Politically I'm a libertarian, or a freedom advocate. I come out in the far upper right on the Nolan Chart almost to anarchy. I don't think government is good socially for much of anything except protecting our individual liberties. I've belonged to the ACLU on and off for years.
Economically I'm a libertarian too, or a free market capitalist if you prefer. I don't think goverment is good economically for much of anything except protecting people from fraud and theft and suchlike.
I'm pro choice on *everything*. Legalise everything and expect people to do the right thing, or suffer the consequences.
I'm an atheist, or at best a very skeptical agnostic. Personally I think religions as a whole have done more harm than good, overall, to society since we've been civilised. I oppose any sort of state imposition of a particular religion, but if you want to have one, by all means, be my guest. Just don't impose your views on me and mine.
I'm a Misplaced Pages noviceapprenticejourneyman administrator, with only a fewa few hundredless than just over twothreefour five thousand edits to my credit, mostly typos I spotted and WP related advocacy in Wikiproject space, but I have created a few articles here and there. I think Misplaced Pages is great but it can take up a LOT of time so I've held back. (ha!)
I am an inclusionist but not enough to join an association.
I may (see above) have a bit of editcountitis (d'ya think??).
When I get too proud of my edits, I need to go look at WP:1000
When I get too proud of my adminship, I need to remember that not everyone looks favorably on my actions here, or in my previous community activities: 1 and 2... (don't discount that user just because they chose to speak anonymously)
Some comments:
Feel free to mail me with comments or concerns, my mail link should work.
One annoying habit I have, I forget to hit preview before save, or preview, but miss some typo causing multiple edits. I hate that!
If you need access to a Misplaced Pages article that has been deleted, ask me. If it's not a copyright violation, libel, or personal information, and has not been deleted as a suspected biographies of living persons violation, I will userfy the article for you.
Other projects... I have the ID "Lar" on many other places. Among them:
Commons
Meta
BrickWiki
Yellowiki
UnCyclopedia
Encyclopedia Dramatica (this id has been set up but the password discarded, to prevent impersonation)
Projects
Maybe too many projects to do right by any?
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Awards and trinkets people left me
Thanks everyone...
Less than serious department
I award you this amphibian with fins for working so hard to get rid of the strange things on Misplaced Pages. —pschemp 00:18, 5 March 2006 (UTC)Hearty congratulations, well done. Now get to work ... :-) Cactus.man✍File:Kissing.jpg A hasty kiss while I'm on my cell phone ;) -- Phaedriel♥tell me - 16:55, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
Barnstars department
Not directly to me
The Minor Barnstar
For taking time to vote in a Request for Adminship, it's a minor thing that helps keep this site ticking. Oh, and yes, it passed :) Tawker 06:14, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
To me
The Original Barnstar
➨ ≡ЯΞDVΞRS≡ awards this mouthful of Barnstars to Lar for the long hours and hard work put into Misplaced Pages:Did you know that benefit every user of the 'pedia.
The Working Man's Barnstar
For your continuing supervision of the DYKs, I, Piotrus, hearby award you with The Working Man's Barnstar. Wear it proudly and keep up the good job! Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 17:10, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
For always cheerfully assisting others and in general being a great guy to have on the Misplaced Pages! Kylu
The Original Barnstar
Regarding: Confederation of the Equator Thanks! This really means a lot to me! OMEN 19:02, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
To Lar, for being a kind administrator, for taking the time to assist other editors, and for doing the little things that make others "time in Misplaced Pages super" (to quote User:ForestH2). -- Samirधर्म 02:31, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
The Photographer's Barnstar
For your great work in adding images to the Project -- Where 03:50, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
Barnstar of Diligence
I award Lar the Barnstar of Diligence for his good work, and insightful and objective notes at T:DYK. A well deserved award, keep up the harmonious editing, Highway 19:38, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
Bragging about various things
This is probably too long... I do go on at length when bragging...
(Some taken by me, some found, and since I'm using special:contributions, some are just wording/license tweaks on images by others... should I build a gallery? Message me if you care one way or the other)
User:Dragons flight/AFD summary for statistics geeks, policy wonks, Deletionist Scum, people with grudges against articles, and those noble, heroic or angelic inclusionists out there (all 3 of you), this tool is for you.
to recapture a ghosted nic on IRC "msg nickserv ghost <ghostednick> <masterpass>" (without quotes)
to op yourself, you can type "/cs op #<channame>" (without quotes)
to kick a user, you type "/kick user" after being opped by yourself or someone else (without quotes)
Thought Provoking Essays and Neat Links
User:CatherineMunro#Why am I here? CatherineMunro is an old hand. Her essay on what participation means to her is thought provoking and very well written. There's something in it for just about every conscientious editor.
User:Geogre Geogre and I seem to be on the opposite side of just about everything we've both been involved in. But this is good stuff. The section dealing with how one should vote in AfDs is really well put, and the musings on article quality and why no article is better than an inadequate article seem very apt. I need to remember to reread these every so often.
Meta:Academic standards disease this is a counterpoint to the stance I've been taking that experts should be shown deference or at least given the benefit of the doubt by default.
User:Vaoverland Just an enjoyable read. Lots of little tidbits on how to be a better Wikipedian and interesting background facts about stuff he's worked on. I hope if I ever get as prolific as he is, that this page is half as good.
User:Anthere/Values "For any article you vote to delete, vote one to keep, or improve one which is on the border of being thrown in the bin."
Misplaced Pages:Xiong's stats Some fascinating analysis of number of edits/articles/sizes/growths and the correlations among them... not sure what it all means but it seems significant.
More as I find them. but I'm lazy, so feel free to suggest some!
Cool stuff
THIS
IS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA
One gateway to the wide garden
of knowledge, where lies
The deep rock of our past,
in which we must delve
the well of our future,
The clear water we must leave untainted
for those who come after us,
The fertile earth, in which
truth may grow in bright places,
tended by many hands,
And the broad fall of sunshine,
warming our first steps toward knowing
how much we do not know.
The easiest way to avoid making common mistakes is to know what they are. A collection of the most common recurring editing errors helps newcomers steer clear of them.
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John Henry Turpin (1876–1962) was a sailor in the United States Navy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was one of the first African-American chief petty officers in the U.S. Navy, becoming a chief gunner's mate on the cruiser Marblehead in 1917. He was transferred to the Fleet Reserve in 1919 and retired in 1925. He is also notable for surviving the catastrophic explosions of two U.S. Navy ships: USS Maine in 1898, and USS Bennington in 1905.Photograph credit: unknown photographer; restored by Adam Cuerden
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