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User:Muhandes

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 edit

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.

Mini projects, TDL, watchlist edit

  • Current TODO list:
  • Possible next?
  • Watching
Category:Pages using certification Table Entry with sales figures (7,280) Category:Pages using certification Table Entry with sales footnote (7,323)
Category:Pages using certification Table Entry with shipments figures (15,833) Category:Pages using certification Table Entry with shipments footnote (15,964)
Category:Pages using certification Table Entry with streaming figures (16,309) Category:Pages using certification Table Entry with streaming footnote (16,208)
Category:Pages using certification Table Entry with streaming-only figures (1,226) Category:Pages using certification Table Entry with streaming-only footnote (1,226)

Usefull edit

My old user page

Old User Page edit

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 edit

General edit

  • 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 edit

I mostly just choose random acronyms and correct them. Whenever I do, I adopt. Thanks Wiki Cleaner for making this so easy:

  • Random pages I adopted:

Contributions edit

Articles I created or rewrote edit

Templates created edit

Articles I made significant contributions to edit

Other things I do / TODO edit

AUS sources edit

Education in India edit

Useful? discussions edit

DYK/GAN Nominations edit

  • Future GA:

Miscelenia edit

UserBoxMania edit

Where I've Been edit

These are just places I visited. I also probably forgot a few US states which I visited as a kid.

Europe North America Asia & Australia

† only in transit

Subpages edit

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