Hokeman

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Articles created

Lists

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Golf tournaments & awards

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Scientific and Technical

Featured articles to which I have contributed

Cougar
Bob Dylan
Imperial Japanese Navy (former featured article)
Jersey Shore Shark Attacks of 1916 – one of this articles early contributors
Oceanic whitetip shark – one of this articles major contributors

On-going Projects

List of fatal alligator attacks in the United States by decade
List of fatal bear attacks in North America by decade
List of fatal cougar attacks in North America by decade
List of fatal, unprovoked shark attacks in the United States by decade
Clean-up and improve various shark articles

Active sandboxes

User:Hokeman/Sandbox 1 Former PGA Tour Events
User:Hokeman/Sandbox 2 List of College Football Players who became professional athletes in other sports
User:Hokeman/Sandbox 4 List of notable men's golfers who didn't win a PGA Tour sanctioned event

The "To Do" List

List of Notable Men's Golf Professionals who played on the PGA Tour without winning. Name|Years Played|Number of Events Played|Top 10 finishes| Candidates for inclusion in this list include work this out first as Hokeman:Sandbox 4. Name|Years played on PGA Tour e.g. 1984-1994| Best finish in a PGA Event e.g. T-6 at the 1984 Chattanooga Classic| (Put the ones that do not have their own page as redirects into the list.)
Golf professional bio pages to do: Laurie Hammer; Fred Haskins Resources for golfer bios: [1][2][3] [4] [5][6] This page on Arnold Palmer.com for locations of old tournaments [7]
Added best major championship to existing golfer articles using golfmajorchampionships.com as the resource
Golfers with existing pages to expand and/or reference and/or cleanup: Ben Crenshaw (references, cleanup); Jonathan Kaye (expand, cleanup); Tom Kite (cleanup); Bruce Lietzke (add references); Davis Love III (references, cleanup); Moe Norman (references, cleanup - much fluff exists and incorporate career highlights into prose); Scott Simpson (golfer) (add references- use the USC reference on Stadler's page)
Non-bio golf pages to do or work on: San Francisco Open - reference [8]contains a lot of good information; create List of golfers to win their debut Champions Tour event (Wikitable:name|year|tournament name|runner(s)-up|comments)
Non-golf bio pages to do or existing pages to work on: expand Dempsey Barron good material in references on his page;Barton Corbin (categories-American people convicted of murder, American serial killers, American prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment); Daryl Dragon do an early years section; Thomas Ryman for whom Ryman Auditorium in Nashville is named; expand Rex Morgan (basketball player) (good bio on JU HoF); cleanup references in Walter O'Keefe & Edward G. Robinson; cleanup & reference Dwight Stephenson, Jack Lambert (American football); cleanup and expand Ivan Mestrovic; add an early years section to Larry Little and Tony LaRussa; add a personal life section to Beth Behrs; expand and cleanup Edward T. Foote II like I did with Henry King Stanford
Other pages to do: Coyote Ugly - create an article explaining concept; I like the first sentence from idiom to help explain this concept (Coyote Ugly (concept) Coyote Ugly is an idiom used to describe...) --> Category:Metaphors referring to animals;
Other Non-bio pages to do or work on: create Manhattan Showcase, List of Megachurches in the United StatesName-Location-denomination-congregation relative size(see also-Megachurch)(move List of Megachurches redirect to a redirect to the new page)
List of college football players who became professional athletes in other sports (alphabetical); currently being assembled in Hokeman:Sandbox 2/ Consider introducing this as a category College football players who played another sport professionally
See Template: Former PGA Tour Events for former events which do not have an article. Continue adding defunct tournaments to the template and create new articles.
Periodically check: Wikipedia:Most wanted articles and look for people, places and things to add
Periodically check: Wikipedia:Requested articles/Sports#Golf for golfers, tournaments, awards, clubs to add
Periodically check Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Shark articles by quality for shark articles that need improvement
Systematic review of articles I started: Completed 9/20/07
Also high priority project Will soon need to start archiving talk page --> see Help:Archiving a talk page; and consolidating user page

Golfer page cleanup/WikiGnome duties

Watch for the use of redundant qualifiers attached to present tense verbs that need no qualification. e.g. Nicklaus currently holds the record...--> Nicklaus holds the record...
Common nicknames aren't needed in the nickname section of the infobox (e.g. Kenny <--> Kenneth)
User:Carptrash has a compilation of 23 POV/weasel words to BOLO for in the first section of his userpage.

Editing Reminders

Place these at the top of the article or section
Use {inuse} (while actively editing new articles) so those well meaning but annoying people who monitor new page creation will not destoy subsequent edits, and {underconstruction} (for brief periods between major edits during the construction phase)
Use {merge} for short articles --> merge into a larger one
Use {npov} for bias; also used are {POV-section} and {POV-intro}
Use {Inappropriate tone} and/or {Copyedit} for amateurish, poorly-worded articles
Use {Expert-subject|subject name (e.g. military history)|date} when article needs expert attention
Use {reqphoto} on the talk page to request photos be placed in articles
Use {expandsect} when a section requires expansion
Use {prune} when an article or section needs condensing, summarizing or reconstructing
Use {lead too long} when the introductory section is too long
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Use {nofootnotes} when articles contain external links or list of references but no in-text citations
Use {timefact} when a chronology source is needed
Use {notenglish} when encountering an article written in a foreign language on english Wikipedia
Use {citations broken} to tag an entire article or section in the same manner {dead link} is used as an individual tag
Place these in-line
Use {fact} for citation needed, {cite quote} for a quote needing a citation and {failed verification} for not in citation given
Use {dubious} when something just sounds too much like a crock
Use {who} when you come across a phrase like "Some observers have said..." or "They say..."
Use {says who} in similar instances as above where no source is mentioned
Use {weasel words} for evasive, ambiguous, misleading content
Use {lopsided} when an opinion needs balancing

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Use wiki markup {DEFAULTSORT:Last name, First name} instead of the name in each Category --> for people with last names beginning with McXyz use Macxyz (e.g. McMiller -->Macmiller)
Don't forget to put in a colon between User:Hokeman/Sandbox N (otherwise it will appear in mainspace).
Category:Possibly living people is for 90+ only (per MOS)
Remove non-disambiguating wikilinks on disambiguation pages (per MOS)
Put redirects in bold rather than as an internal link in articles (per MOS).
Edit summary concepts: More precise link, rv unexplained removal of content, amplification, clarification, refinement, gen. fixes, replaced dead link with viable one, minor copyedits, wikilinks, improved chronological flow of information, major reorganization/left original text, added hatnote (short notes placed at the top of an article), catsort (rearr. categories to comport with sequence recom. by MOS)
Useful Wiki stuff: Wikipedia:Manual of Style; Wikipedia: Citation templates; Wikipedia:Citing sources; Wikipedia:Footnotes; Wikipedia:Hat collecting; Template:disambig - more of this is on User:Boing! said Zebedee under the heading Stuff for Reference; User:Truthanado also has a lot more of this useful stuff on his or her user page.
Don't forget 3RR (An editor must not make more than 3 reverts on a page within a 24-hour period)
Templates used in vandal control: {uw-vandalism1|article} (reference the specific article) through {uw-vandalism4|article} up to {uw-vandalism4im}; try warnings first, but if these don't work or something requires immediate attention ---> Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism. See Wikipedia:UTM for more relevant templates
Special note: In good faith or borderline cases like the Mlpearc delinking matter --> report on WP:AN/I rather than WP:AIV as this is for vandalism only

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New Orleans museum ship

Re: In 1992, during a visit to New Orleans, I took a river tour. I noticed, on the opposite bank a mile or so upriver from the city, a WWII Escort "Jeep" Carrier . The tour guide said that it was in the process of being turned into a memorial/museum. I saw some photographs of New Orleans- post Katrina. I didn't see the ship. Whatever happened to it?Hokeman 18:17, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

I dont know of this - what is a WWII Escort "Jeep" Carrier? - is it a Landing craft tank or smaller like a LCVP? May be able to track it down still. - mervyn 12:04, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

An escort or "jeep" carrier was the smallest type of aircraft carrier used in WWII. They were used primarily for convoy escort duty in the Atlantic; although a few were also used in the Pacific. Some fought heroic actions (e.g. Taffy 3 in the Battle of Leyte Gulf.) I have tried everything I could think of to find that ship- internet searches,looking through old photo albums- to no avail. I still need to hear from my buddy who went on the trip with me to see if he has any photo's. If I find out anything, I'll keep you posted. Thanks for your help.Hokeman 17:21, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Could this be the answer? -- USS Cabot , more info here: [9] alas no longer with us. mervyn 15:37, 5 March 2006 (UTC)