User:Rmhermen

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Admin[edit]

I am a Wikipedia:administrator since July 5, 2004. I first contributed to Wikipedia in April of 2001 (oldest edits lost in early software upgrades). My first edit with my username appears to be on April 26. I have been active on a number of online projects - active and passive (SETI@Home, Distributed Proofreaders, Mars crater labeling, Stardust@Home, Folding@Home on the Wikipedia team: Team page, etc.)


Admin statistics
Action Count
Edits 61457
Edits+Deleted 64640
Pages deleted 3955
Revisions deleted 14
Pages restored 30
Pages protected 80
Pages unprotected 9
Protections modified 23
Users blocked 101
Users reblocked 1
User rights modified 1

Template:Admin dashboard I am at about 70,000 edits aross all Wiki projects.

I, Solipsist, hereby award you this Barnstar of Diligence for you extraordinary patience, over many years, in handling perennial Corn vs. Maize debates.
The Minor Barnstar
Minor edits make a major difference. Gaff ταλκ 04:03, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
The Minor Barnstar
Ahh, a sigh of relief from IvoShandor to Rmhermen, thanks for your work on articles related to the Black Hawk War. IvoShandor 05:31, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar, for good deed #1 The Original Barnstar
This barnstar is for that quick and poisonous work you did on the Ayina River. Yours sincerely, GeorgeLouis (talk) 19:52, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

Templates I use often but never remember[edit]

  • {{NorthAmNative}} {{WikiProject Michigan}} {{WikiProject Protected areas}} {{river}}
  • (Wikipedia:Template_messages/Image_namespace)
  • {{fact}}{{no license}} {{no source}} {{or-fu-re|Image:replacementimage}} {{Orphaned fairuse not replaced or {{or-fu-nr}} *{{PD-USGov-Interior-NPS}} {{subst:deletedpage}} {{globalize/USA}}{{intro-missing}}
WP:AIV
WP:ANI
WP:NPP
WP:RPP
WP:RFR
WP:AFD
WP:XFD
CAT:CSD
WP:CSD
WP:RM
WP:RAA
WP:DR
WP:TM
WP:TT
WP:RCU
WP:LOP
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WP:BS
WP:RD
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WP:IUP

Help box by Jennavecia (talk · contribs)

"Do you want to take a survey?"[edit]

On Feb. 12, 2005, I did a random pages survey. Out of 100 random pages, only 1 was a U.S. town. That's progress. Three towns in the UK, 1 in Spain and 1 in Portugal also turned up. Overall biographies were the largest category at 22%, followed by geography with 15% total. Then Lists at 7%, Disambiguation pages at 6%.

On Feb. 24, 2006, I repeated the 100 random page survey, this time getting 5 U.S. towns. Overall, geography had 26%, biography 21%, fiction 9%, music 4%, colleges 4%, lists 3% and disambigs 4%. Clearly geography and biography are our largest areas. Music, science and business scored less than I expected. Non-individual History was hardly discernable.

Even by Feb. 2005, 100 out of almost 500,000 was not statistically significant but was as much as I had patience for.

Wikiprojects I am a member of:[edit]

Wikipedia:WikiProject Protected areas
Wikipedia:WikiProject Rivers
Wikipedia:WikiProject Space missions
Wikipedia:WikiProject Michigan

Short To Do list[edit]

Early Anon work, no need to bug the developers[edit]

Up to Dec 16, 2003, all the edits at these anonymous id's were mine (59 edits):

More recently 1,250 or so edits on 75.41.110.200 are apparently all mine. Apparently my new ID is 75.41.109.190. There are undoubtedly many others as the earliest history of many articles was not preserved by the software.

List of most of my original pictures and some maps[edit]

For copyright declaration purposes The following photographs and diagrams on Wikipedia were taken by and uploaded by me and released under GNU-FDL:

  • Update March 21, 2006 by searching with Interiot's Tool (no longer updated - [1] does edit counts though)

Pictures[edit]

Maps[edit]

Numerous locator maps for U.S. national parks like Image:LocMap Big Bend National Park.png and Image:LocMap Tongariro National Park.png - most now replaced by dynamic map system