User:Lowellian

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Lowellian

This user is an administrator on the English Wikipedia. (verify)

This user has been an admin for
20 years, 6 months and 8 days.

Please do...

...notify me if an article I have edited is listed for deletion.

Please do not...

...ask me about my personal life, which I keep separate from Wikipedia.

Thanks! —Lowellian

About me: I began editing Wikipedia during the late night of Tuesday, November 4, 2003, or the early morning hours of Wednesday, November 5, 2003. I became an administrator on Monday, May 24, 2004.^[1] I am among the earliest editors and administrators on Wikipedia.

My primary areas of interest are, in alphabetical order, China, comic books, economics, history, and international relations.

This is a Wikipedia user page.
This is not an encyclopedia article or the talk page for an encyclopedia article. If you find this page on any site other than Wikipedia, you are viewing a mirror site. Be aware that the page may be outdated and that the user whom this page is about may have no personal affiliation with any site other than Wikipedia. The original page is located at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Lowellian.

Past

Last update to this "Past" section: 2020-02-19. The lists in this section do not include the many pages in which I make small edits, fixing factual, grammatical, and stylistic errors and wikifying text.

Pages I moved to proper location (name given is current location)

I do considerable work on page names, enough that I found it to not be worthwhile to maintain a list and stopped doing so. Some pages from the past:

- bubble tea - Chinese yo-yo - D&D Adventurers League - Dream of the Red Chamber - Great Game - hostage crises: Beslan school hostage crisis, Budyonnovsk hospital hostage crisis, Moscow theater hostage crisis - Netherlands - yin and yang

Redirects or disambiguations I created or worked on

I do a ton of work on redirects and disambiguations, enough that I found it to not be worthwhile to maintain a list and stopped doing so.

Awards

		The Royalty and Nobility Barnstar
		For having started the article pertaining to HIH Masako the Crown Princess of Japan, I, BolinhasFofas, hereby award you The Barnstar of Royalty and Nobility.

Present

The Wikipedia Signpost

2024-11-18 (Volume 20, Issue 16)

News and notes: Open letter to WMF about court case breaks one thousand signatures, big arb case declined, U4C begins accepting cases

In the media: Summons issued for Wikipedia editors by Indian court, "Gaza genocide" RfC close in news, old admin Gwern now big AI guy, and a "spectrum of reluctance" over Australian place names

Recent research: SPINACH: AI help for asking Wikidata "challenging real-world questions"

News from the WMF: Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia Endowment audit reports: FY 2023–2024

Traffic report: Well, let us share with you our knowledge, about the electoral college

Interests

- China - comic books - economics - history - international relations

Tools

- Edit breakdown - Help:MediaWiki namespace - MediaWiki:Monobook.css - MediaWiki:Vector.css - Pageviews - Special:CentralAuth/Lowellian - Special:MostRevisions - Special:MyPage/skin.css - Special:MyPage/skin.js - Special:Version - User:Lowellbot - User:Lowellian (Chinese) (Commons) (French) (German) (Japanese) (MediaWiki) (Meta) (Norwegian) (Polish) (Spanish) (Swedish) (Wikia) (Wikiquote) (Wikisource) (Wiktionary) - User:Lowellian/List template - User:Lowellian/monobook.css - User:Lowellian/monobook.js - User:Lowellian/Nomination for adminship - User:Lowellian/randomlink.js - User:Lowellian/Sketchpad - User:Lowellian/Table template - User:Lowellian/vector.css - User:Lowellian/vector.js - Wikipedia:Goings-on - Wikipedia:MediaWiki messages - Wikipedia:Set index articles (SIAs) - Wikipedia:Top 25 Report (Archives) - Wikipedia:Wikipedia records - Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Archives - Wikipedia talk:China-related topics notice board - Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Comics

Help:Magic words: __FORCETOC__ __NOTOC__ __TOC__ {{DEFAULTSORT:strKey}}

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http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:AllPages&from=START&namespace=0

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log/block&page=User:USERNAME

Templates

- {{about}}, {{distinguish}}, and {{for}} - {{bracket|[[link]]}} - {{dts|yyyy|mm|dd}} - {{editnotice}} - {{efn}} and {{notelist}} (alternative: {{#tag:ref}}) - {{harv}} (see Ahura Mazda or grave robbery for examples of usage) - {{long comment}} - {{main|article}} and {{see also|article}} - {{otheruses}} - <ref name="name"/> and {{reflist}} - {{sort/sortkey|sortval|dispval}} - {{spa|username}} (single-purpose accounts)

For {{infobox comics character}}:

Marvel: #ff8080	DC: #8080ff	Hero: #ffc0c0	Villain: #c0c0ff	Neutral: #cccccc

Most bizarre articles

Some articles on Wikipedia are so bizarre they're humorous while still being informative.

- barreleye fish - exploding whale - fire balloon - Japanese toilet - OS-tan - Saturn's hexagon - vampire pumpkins and watermelons - Wikipedia:Unusual articles

Future

Need to be added as new article

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Changes to be made

- myr and byr

Articles needing expansion

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Articles to read

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Articles to watch closely

- File:Current Major Military Alliances.png - Cybil - formula for primes [2] - Great Game - Katherine Webb - Kim Cloutier - list of Super Bowl champions - Template talk:User Wikipedian for - totalitarian temptation - Wikipedia:Naming conventions (definite and indefinite articles at beginning of name) - Wikipedia talk:Disambiguation

Administrators' Newsletter
December 2024
Following a discussion, the discussion-only period proposal that went for a trial to refine the requests for adminship (RfA) process has been discontinued. Following a request for comment, Administrator recall is adopted as a policy. Mass deletions done with the Nuke tool now have the 'Nuke' tag. This change will make reviewing and analyzing deletions performed with the tool easier. T366068 Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate from 3 November 2024 until 12 November 2024 to stand in the 2024 Arbitration Committee elections. RoySmith, Barkeep49 and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2024 Arbitration Committee Elections. ThadeusOfNazereth and Dr vulpes are reserve commissioners. The Arbitration Committee is seeking volunteers for roles such as clerks, access to the COI queue, checkuser, and oversight.
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