Due to deteriorating health I no longer actively contribute to Wikipedia. If my involvement is required, try to ping me or post on my talk page.
History
The beginning, 2008–2012: My first edit was in 2008. I think I never edited as an IP, and I don't believe in anonymous editing. From day one I thought that everyone should have an identity, so they are open to communication and take responsibility for their edits. I became very active in June 2010 and remained so until June 2012, when I got disillusioned with Wikipedia. As far as I recall this was after working two months on a list, trying to make it into a WP:FL, and being denied because of a WP:COI editor who kept reverting a single revision I made. I'm sure there were other factors, such as getting attached to some of my work which got vandalized, but for sure, I was suffering from a severe case of Wikistress, and lucky for me, I understood that I need a long Wikibreak.
June 2017 Comeback: In June 2017 I returned, trying this time to care less. The collapsed page below is my five years old (as of 2017) user page. Much of it is irrelevant, but I'm keeping it because... well, I don't care. You can treat it as a page in history or ignore it altogether. Did I say already how much I care?
April 2018 Update, to the not-interested and otherwise: in April 2018 I realized that again, I have drifted into subjects that are hopeless, mostly Education in India. I do not enjoy spending most of my time reverting boosterism and promotional edits, not to speak of bored students' vandalism. The system is NOT WORKING. There are not enough caring editors to keep filthy hands out of education institute articles, and those articles are gradually degrading into a pile of excrement. Since the system of allowing any anonymous IP to do anything to any page is not going to change, I have decided to withdraw my involvement with Education in India and try to contribute in fields where my contribution may be appreciated and may have some lasting effect on the quality of Wikipedia.
PS: Reading the paragraph above some years later, I realize how angry I was at the time. I don't feel that strongly about it anymore, but I keep it to remind myself.
March 2020 Update: And again, I found that I lost interest in what I do. A sure sign is that even though I am semi-isolated at home due to COVID-19, I still don't seriously consider editing as an option. I think it's time for another WikiBreak. I will try to be available from time to time, especially for template edits, but please {{ping}} me to get my attention.
November 2020 Update: It seems like this level of involvement is working well for me. I help when I'm asked to help and I watch some maintenance categories that need watching, especially related to album and single certification. I do much work around {{Certification Table Entry}}, where people are reasonable and appreciative. Happy editing!
June 2023 Update: I don't have time to edit Wikipedia as I used to, so I decided to take an extreme approach and clean my watchlist. I will add the things I do care about and try to keep it to the minimum. Hopefully this will work.
March 2024 Update: Due to deteriorating health I no longer actively contribute to Wikipedia.
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Mini projects, TDL, watchlist
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- Category:Cite certification used for Italy without ID (1,732) (of 2587)
- Category:Certification Cite Ref usages outside Certification Table Entry (1,221) (of 1200)
- Possible next?
- Recheck all France SNEP archives, some seem to work if pointed to http://www.snepmusique.com/fr/page-259165.xml:
- 2005 Album Silver https://web.archive.org/web/20120913020712/http://www.snepmusique.com/fr/page-259165.xml?year=2005&type=28
- 2007 Album Silver https://web.archive.org/web/20121012094746/http://www.snepmusique.com/fr/page-259165.xml?year=2007&type=28
- 1998 Single Gold https://web.archive.org/web/20131013113235/http://www.snepmusique.com/fr/page-259165.xml?year=1998&type=7
- French certification must use artist of title
- fanofmusic
- "Latin" should only apply where it should
- RIAJ cert without certyear/certmonth
- Certification
- icbse
- Verify
|type=
on {{Cite certification}} - Check all BPI from 2013 and change to July if needed.
- pag-259165-CERTIFICATIONS cleanup
- pag-259165-DISQUES-D-OR cleanup
- Radioscope?
- insource:/www.billboard.com\/bbcom\/search\/google\/article_display.jsp/
- http://www.australian-charts.com/forum.asp?todo=viewthread&id=40595
- http://www.top-france.fr/ add author
- ukmix.org/forums/viewtopic.php ?
- All usage of {{BillboardURLbyName}}
- Correct articles that need
|type=EP
for US certifications - Add id for all Italy certifications
- Check for errors like this?
- Tables with no caption?
- Hrvatska diskografska udruga (https://hdu.hr/)
- Check making
|id=
mandatory for Denmark in {{cite certification}} - Check making
|id=
mandatory for UK in {{cite certification}} - Parameter checking for Japan {{cite certification}}
- Add
|archiveurl=
to {{cite certification}} - Review Wikipedia:Link rot/URL change requests/Archives/2019/October#chartarchive.org and chartstats.com (again)
- Draft:Gandhi Memorial stone (Varanasi)?
- Albino Rock Lighthouse?
- User:Muhandes/Itay Lukach?
- User:Muhandes/Os Barões da Pisadinha?
- Lenny Tavárez?
- es:Almighty
- Watching
- Category:Pages using certification Table Bottom with no footnotes (0)
- Category:Certification Table Entry usages for unsupported region without source (0)
- Category:Pages using Certification Table Entry-Sales with missing information (0)
- Category:Cite certification used with missing parameters (12)
- Category:Single chart used with missing parameters (0)
- Category:Pages using certification Table Entry with unknown parameters (4)
- Category:Pages using certification Table Bottom with unknown parameters (0)
- Category:Pages using certification Table Top with unknown parameters (0)
- Category:Pages using cite certification with unknown parameters (0)
- Category:Pages using Certification Cite Ref with unknown parameters (1)
- Category:Certification Table Entry usages of salesamount without salesref (54)
- Category:Pages using Certification Table Entry with unsupported award (2)
- Category:Pages using Certification Table Entry with unsupported type (0)
- Category:Articles using Cite rowlett template with invalid page designation (0)
Usefull
- {{Refideas}}
- search
- 3-letter codes
- Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Music/Archive 40#RfC on whether Navigational templates should have articles that do not have their own dedicated article, or are a redirect to their artists discography
Old User Page
Muhandes is a WikiGnome, mostly involved with gnomish activities. Muhandes delved into some subjects in the past, e.g. lighthouses, higher education in India and certifications of music recordings. Still, most of his contributions were made since some other activity prompted it.
This is mainly a huge To-Do list, reminding Muhandes of what he wants to do, and what he already did. Please don't treat it harshly, it's just a big pile of links and wikilinks.
Activities
General
- I check My Watchlist quite often. It includes every page I ever edited, so I catch some vandalism on less patrolled pages. I remove pages from the watchlist when I see other people are patrolling them.
Correct Disambiguation pages with links
I mostly just choose random acronyms and correct them. Whenever I do, I adopt. Thanks Wiki Cleaner for making this so easy:
- Pages from WP:DPL I adopted
- Random pages I adopted:
Contributions
Articles I created or rewrote
- List of lighthouses in Israel : Akko Light, Haifa Lee Breakwater Light, Stella Maris Light, Mikhmoret Light, Herzliya Light, Reading Light, Jaffa Light, Ashdod Light, Ashkelon Marina Breakwater Light, Ashkelon Coal Jetty Breakwater Light, Eilat Light, Template:Lighthouses of Israel
- Tallest lighthouses: Phare de Gatteville, Jeddah Light, List of lighthouses in Saudi Arabia, Lesnoy Mole Rear Range Light, Storozhenskiy Light, Osinovetskiy Light, Vittoria Light, Świnoujście Lighthouse, Recalada a Bahía Blanca Light, Planier Light, Maasvlakte Light, Roches-Douvres Light, Adziogol Lighthouse, Lange Jaap, Chipiona Light, Aveiro Light, Bari Light, El Rincón Light, Voslapp Range Rear Light, Borkum Großer Light, Phare d'Eckmühl, Nosy Alañaña Light
- Template:Lighthouses of New South Wales : Bradleys Head Light, Burrewarra Point Light, Richmond River Light, Cape Bailey Light, Cape Byron Light, Crookhaven Heads Light, Crowdy Head Light, Eastern Channel Pile Light, Fingal Head Light, Fort Denison Light, Grotto Point Light, Kiama Light, Montague Island Light, Nelson Head Light, Nobbys Head Light, Robertson Point Light, Norah Head Light , North Solitary Island Light, Parriwi Head Light, Point Perpendicular Light, Point Stephens Light , Shark Island Light, South Solitary Island Light, Sugarloaf Point Light , Western Channel Pile Light, Warden Head Light , Hornby Lighthouse , Clarence River Light
- Template:Lighthouses of the Northern Territory: Cape Don Light , Cape Fourcroy Light, Cape Hotham Light, East Vernon Light, Emery Point Light , Point Charles Light
- Template:Lighthouses of Queensland: Archer Point Light , Bay Rock Light , Booby Island Light , Bulwer Island Light, Old Burnett Heads Light, New Burnett Heads Light, Bustard Head Light , Sandy Cape Light , Old Caloundra Light , New Caloundra Light , Sea Hill Light , Grassy Hill Light , Goods Island Light, Cape Capricorn Light , Point Danger Light , Fitzroy Island Light , Point Cartwright Light, Cape Bowling Green Light , Lady Elliot Island Light , Cape Moreton Light , Cape Cleveland Light , Cleveland Point Light , Dent Island Light , Double Island Point Light , Pine Islet Light , Moreton Island lighthouses , Creal Reef Light , North Reef Light , Flat Top Island Light , Eborac Island Light, Low Isles Light , Moreton Bay Pile Light , Wharton Reef Light , Wyborn Reef Light
- Unimodality
- Master of Design
- UK Asian Music Awards
- Holon Institute of Technology (abandoned due to WP:COI)
- Stanislav Range Front Light
- Music Group (company)
- Rao Sikandar Iqbal
- Tideland Signal
- Belgian Entertainment Association , Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry Recording Industry Foundation in Taiwan
- Vinita Gupta (co-written)
- Management Aptitude Test
- Bhagavad-gita Museum
- Institutes of Eminence
- All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bibinagar , All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Kalyani , All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Deoghar , Bihar Animal Sciences University , National Institute of Food Technology Entrepreneurship and Management
- Brit Asia TV Music Awards
- Bups Saggu (co-written)
- ZieZie (co-written), Geko (rapper)
Templates created
- Lighthouse template: {{cite uscgnavbib}}, {{Cite Rowlett}}, {{Cite loaidx}}, {{Cite Lighthouses of Australia}}, {{Cite sslidx}}, {{Cite ssl}}
- Australian heritage templates: {{Cite AHPI}}, {{Cite AHD}}, {{Cite QHR}}
- Certification templates: {{cite certification}}, {{Certification Cite Ref}}
- Certification table: {{Certification Table Top}}, {{Certification Table Entry}}, {{Certification Table Summary}}, {{Certification Table Separator}}, {{Certification Table Bottom}}
- Music artist navboxes: {{X Marks the Pedwalk}}, {{Balzac (band)}}, {{Neil Finn}}, {{Kotiteollisuus}}, {{Swervedriver}}, {{Phunk Junkeez}}, {{Vamps}}, {{Hyde}}, {{Pablo Ruiz}}, {{The Ex}}, {{Unheilig}}, {{Kish Mauve}}, {{Arrogance}}, {{In the Fishtank}}, {{Acumen Nation}}, {{Lil' Mo}}, {{Will Holland}}, {{Angela Zhang}}, {{An Angle}}, {{Redbone}}, {{Lucifer's Friend}}, {{Novembre}}, {{TAT (band)}}, {{The Free Design}}, {{Marit Larsen}}, {{Archers of Loaf}}, {{Pastor Troy}}, {{Something for Kate}}, {{Pentangle}}, {{Krokus}}, {{Doseone}}, {{Loud Luxury}}, {{Regard (DJ)}}, {{Ocean Alley}}, {{Sticky Fingers (band)}}, {{Big Fun}}, {{Buffalo (band)}}, {{Sweetbox}}, {{504 Boyz}}, {{Internet Money}}, {{Gregory Porter}}, {{Russ}}, {{Marracash}}, {{Mylo}}, {{Los Amigos Invisibles}}, {{Joel Corry}}, {{Sebastián Yatra}}, {{3T}}, {{Farruko}}, {{El Alfa}}, {{Strong Arm Steady}}, {{Eyedress}}, {{Jelly Roll}}, {{Roger Sanchez}}, {{Álex Ubago}}, {{Zhu}}, {{Leon Bridges}}, {{Colin Hay}}, {{Rauw Alejandro}}, {{Patrizio Buanne}}, {{Børns}}, {{Cheat Codes}}, {{Topic (DJ)}}, {{Reef}}, {{Chantay Savage}}, {{Cedric Gervais}}, {{Eleanor McEvoy}}, {{Bars and Melody}}, {{Brent Faiyaz}}, {{Kshmr}}, {{One Night Only}}, {{Dory Previn}}, {{Jamie xx}}, {{GoldLink}}, {{The Shires}}, {{Gabry Ponte}}, {{Coi Leray}}, {{Seeb}} {{John Gibbons}}
- Other navboxes: {{Forts of Casco Bay}}
- {{Infobox India university ranking}}
- {{cite Kent}}, {{cite Ryan}}, {{cite Scapolo}}
- {{Music recording certification}}
Articles I made significant contributions to
- Ptitim - rewrote some sections
- Exponential smoothing - added additional smoothing methods
- Lithium-titanate battery - Merged SCiB and rewrote the uses section
- The Broadway League - merged Broadway on Broadway, Broadway Under the Stars, Stars in the Alley, rewrote
- Idaho Department of Correction - merged South Boise Prison Complex, South Idaho Correctional Institution, Idaho State Correctional Institution, Idaho Maximum Security Institution, South Boise Women's Correctional Center, Idaho Correctional Center, Idaho Correctional Institution- Orofino, Pocatello Women's Correctional Center, St. Anthony Work Camp
- Women's Sport and Fitness Foundation - added history and current state
- Self-Organized Time Division Multiple Access, and by linkage Automatic Identification System, Automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast, Håkan Lans - added information about patents and litigation status
- University of Ibadan - rewrote alumni section following an argument
- Gamer - merged Types of gamers
- Red Hat Certification Program - practicably rewrote while merging Red Hat Certified Technician, Red Hat Certified Engineer, RHCSS, Red Hat Certified Datacenter Specialist, Red Hat Certified Architect
- List of epidemics - merged List of historical plagues
- Light characteristic - merged Flashing light, Occulting light and Isophase light and much expanded.
- List of tallest lighthouses in the world, Calcanhar Lighthouse, Campen Lighthouse, Cape St George Lighthouse (Australia), Green Cape Lighthouse, Point Lookout Lighthouse, Australia
- List of lighthouses and lightvessels in Australia ongoing editing
- List of universities in India ongoing editing
Other things I do / TODO
- Template talk:Infobox India university ranking#Other rankings to consider (mostly a self reminder)
- cleanup Template:University of Calcutta
- Fix these if editor does not
- Correct style on these
- NDTV Indian of the Year
- Clean up Dalida articles
- Talk:Exponential smoothing
- create National Federation of Phonogram Producers
- List of countries by number of mobile phones in use
- German certified singles
- Category:Pages using Certification Table Entry-Sales with missing information, Category:Cite certification used with missing parameters
- When I have nothing else to do: Category:Album infoboxes lacking a cover
- Correct broken refs and missing reflists
- Clean up disambiguation pages. useful templates.
- Wyandanch, New York, Rangpur, Punjab, Sadulpur, Rajampet
- Sambhaji vandalism
- Foreign relations of Israel still misses some
- Check Wikipedia:WikiProject Check Wikipedia
- Rabari
- infoboxen for Category:Lighthouses in Rhode Island (User:BoxCrawler ?)
- Mark everything in Category:Lighthouses
- Doomsday List mark
- Clean spam: lpdiscography, kissfaq
- watch List of information technology acronyms
- source alumni for OCAD University
- Stephen M. Schwebel
- Apply {{CIA World Factbook link}}
- c/e Sanjay Ghose, Għaxaq
- http://www.cbs.gov.il/population/new_2010/table3.pdf
- tag in {{lighthouse|class=redirect}}
- Check Special:Contributions/79.97.1.191
- Write Common Entrance Examination for Design
- Padal petra stalam
- Bellevue Homestead
- Integrate http://bundaberg.qld.gov.au/library/Historic_Burnett_Heads_Lighthouse.pdf to Old Burnett Heads Light
- Have a look at "{{{2}}}". Queensland Heritage Register. Queensland Heritage Council.
- Add data from http://home.brisnet.org.au/~dunn/raaf/26radar.htm to Cape Cleveland Light
AUS sources
- Add AHPI ,AHD information to lighthouses
- Search NAA for
- Search Picture Australia
- Queensland Heritage Register
- The AMSA AN list, actual files
- ABC Shine a Light]
Education in India
- Template:Infobox India university ranking
- List of universities in India
- List of central universities in India
- List of state universities in India
- List of deemed universities in India
- List of private universities in India
- List of autonomous higher education institutes in India
- List of Institutes of National Importance
Useful? discussions
DYK/GAN Nominations
- DYK (Template:Did you know/Queue)
- GA/FA/FL candidates:
- Future GA:
- Cape Byron Light
- Sandy Cape Light (http://books.google.com/books?id=2tqPVekm6vMC pp. 142-243)
- South Solitary Island Light (http://www.southsolitaryisland.com.au/)
- Lady Elliot Island Light ?
- Bustard Head Light ?
- Pine Islet Light?
- Point Perpendicular Light?
- Dent Island Light?
- Double Island Point Light?
- Cape Don Light?
- Cape Capricorn Light?
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