User:Sebwite

Userboxes This user has visited 36 of the 50 States and the District of Columbia. 36 This user lives in or is from the District of Columbia. This user is from Baltimore. This user lives in or hails from the state of Maryland. 10,000+ This user has made over 10,000 contributions to Wikipedia. This user is of Polish ancestry. This user is of Russian ancestry. Dem This user is a Democrat. This user wants the World Trade Center rebuilt as it was. This user thinks President George W. Bush should have been impeached. This user thinks Vice President Dick Cheney should have been impeached. This user supported Barack Obama for President in 2008. : This user supports immigration and the right to travel freely upon the planet we share. This user is interested in maps. This user supports public transit. This user is a Hypermiler GSV This user thinks Google Street View totally rocks. This user collects US State Quarters This user is a Scorpio. V This user is a vegetarian. This user knows how to solve a Rubik's Cube. : This user is a newpage patroller. :

Some of my beliefs as a Wikipedia editor

On building Wikipedia

• Wikipedia is a volunteer service. No one has any obligation to complete any articles or other jobs by any deadlines. No articles should be considered for deletion just because they are not completed, updated, or otherwise improved by a deadline.
• All good-faith contributions are extremely valuable, even when they are rejected by others. It is important to respect the good-faith contributions of others, and only remove them when absolutely warranted.
• All articles created in good faith should be given a chance before they are considered for deletion. If one feels deletion may be necessary, it is better to have a discussion with the creator prior to the proposal.
• I oppose overzealous deletion proposals, and feel that deletion should be a last resort except when content is obviously inappropriate.
• Speedy deletion should be limited to gross violation of policy and other serious abuses, and for technical deletions (such as author's request or page moves).
• Other forms of deletion should be avoided if at all possible. Alteratives should always be considered, such as merging, in order to preserve the edit histories.
• Previously deleted material can be recreated and improved, and if so, should be given a chance, and not speedy deleted
• Editors should think for themselves, and not let others have too much of an influence, especially in deletion discussions
• There is no shame in having views that differ from other Wikipedians, even the majority
• There should be a navbox in every article and in most project pages so that fewer pages are orphaned.

On notability

• The following are inherently notable:
  • Cities, towns, and other officially defined settlements
  • Major roads linking communities
    • Even if a street or road is not notable enough to have its own article, it can be mentioned in a transportation section within the city or town it is located in
  • Public transportation services
    • Public bus lines are notable. They should at first be mentioned in the article about the agency providing the service, and if enough information can be provided beyond that, individual articles about the bus lines can be written. This could be the case in many major cities, where bus lines have lengthy histories.
• The following constitute reliable sources for topics that are inherently notable
  • An atlas or street map
  • Government-issued documents

Some of my creations

Articles

I have created more than 250 articles, far too many to list. For a list, click here.

Essays and similar

1. Wikipedia:A navbox on every page (WP:NBFILL)
2. Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in edit wars (WP:ATAEW)
3. Wikipedia:Arguments to make in deletion discussions (WP:GOODARG)
4. Wikipedia:Award barnstars (WP:AWARDBARN)
5. Wikipedia:Bare notability (WP:BARE)
6. Wikipedia:Before commenting in a deletion discussion (WP:BCD) (not completed)
7. Wikipedia:Bombardment (WP:BOMBARD)
8. Wikipedia:Circumventing policy (WP:TRICK) (not completed)
9. Wikipedia:Content removal (WP:REMOVAL)
10. Wikipedia:Dealing with dictionary definitions (not completed)
11. Wikipedia:Deletion of newly created pages (WP:NEWP)
12. Wikipedia:Don't be ashamed (WP:NOSHAME)
13. Wikipedia:Existence ≠ Notability (WP:ENN)
14. Wikipedia:Geographic imbalance (WP:IMBALANCE)
15. Wikipedia:Go ahead, vandalize (WP:GAV) - humor
16. Wikipedia:Follow the leader (WP:LEADER)
17. Wikipedia:How to save an article proposed for deletion (WP:SAVE)
18. Wikipedia:Issues with an article are not a reason for deletion (not completed)
19. Wikipedia:Lamest edit war topics (WP:LEWT)
20. Wikipedia:List of policies and guidelines to cite in deletion debates (WP:PGL)
21. Wikipedia:Make protection requests sparingly (WP:SPARE)
22. Wikipedia:Masking the lack of notability (WP:MASK)
23. Wikipedia:No-edit orders (WP:NOEDIT)
24. Wikipedia:Nothing is in stone (WP:STONE)
25. Wikipedia:Overzealous deletion (WP:ZEAL)
26. Wikipedia:List of policies and guidelines to cite in deletion debates (WP:PGL)
27. Wikipedia:Run-of-the-mill (WP:MILL)
28. Wikipedia:The value of essays (WP:VALUE)
29. Wikipedia:WikiBullying (WP:BULLY)
30. Wikipedia:Wikipedia clones (WP:CLONE)
31. Wikipedia:Wikipedia is a volunteer service (WP:VOLUNTEER)
32. Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not guess, guess, guess (WP:GUESS) (not completed)
33. Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not being written in an organized fashion (WP:ORGANIZE)

I also originally wrote the proposal Wikipedia:Notability (events) that ultimately became a guideline.

Help pages

1. Help:Drawing attention to new pages (WP:ANP)
2. Help:Hidden text (WP:HIDDEN)
3. Help:Pageview stats (WP:PVS)
4. Help:Whitespace (WP:WHITE)

Templates

Navboxes

1. Template:Baltimore neighborhoods
2. Template:Civility
3. Template:Commercial air travel
4. Template:Hospitals in Maryland
5. Template:Museums in Maryland
6. Template:Public transport
7. Template:Roads in Baltimore area
8. Template:Roads in Montgomery County, Maryland
9. Template:Roads in Prince Georges County, Maryland
10. Template:Shopping malls in Maryland
11. Template:Wcs

Infoboxes

Template:Infobox nature center

Other

Template:Gsvlink for listing the link to the site on Google Street View
Template:newpage for newly constructed articles

Some of my plans

• Creating articles on Washington, D.C. area buses. For a list of my plan, click here.
• Work on de-orphaning as many essays as possible. Many essays have been written and forgotten.
• Become an administrator. I have tried once and failed, and I am ready for this to take several tries.

Barnstars

		The Photographer's Barnstar
		For the picture added to WP:AMOUNT. I was looking for something, and this was perfect.  Blanchardb -Me•MyEars•MyMouth- timed 04:54, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

The name Sebwite is a spoonerism of the word website.