User:Kingturtle

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It is approximately 9:14 AM where this user lives (California). [refresh]

This user has been on Wikipedia for 23 years, 4 months and 25 days.

This user has been editing Wikipedia for more than twenty years.

This user is a random page patroller.

This user participates in
WikiProject Chess.

This user supports equal rights for queer people.

This user has given 18 barnstar(s) to others.

This user knows the Ultimate Answer.

This user believes in the power of nonviolence.

This user plays the ukulele.

I'm an awesome Wikipedian!

This user has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian and was awarded their own day.

This user has contributed 30+ images to Wikipedia and Commons.

This user knows civility is policy on Wikipedia and tries always to operate within behavioral guidelines.

CG

This user aligns
Chaotic good

This user is a birder.

This user has Spina bifida
and supports stem cell research.

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You are halfway through this user's userboxes.

This user attends or attended
The Harley School.

UCSC

This user attends or attended the
University of California,
Santa Cruz

9	This user has been to 9 Major League Baseball stadiums.

This user abides.

This user's got a case of the Mondays.

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This user is an omnipotent member of the Q Continuum.

This user has a
cunning plan, my lord.

This user enjoys music by
Ludwig van Beethoven.

This user is thankful to Bob Dylan for going electric.

Here's another clue for you all. This user was Paul.

This user don't use jelly.

This user listens to The Only Band That Matters.

This user is a Goth.

This user is a mutt lover.

This user is interested in Genealogy and has started plotting their family tree.

This user is interested in Buddhism.

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This user is an atheist.

This user wants to believe,
but verifiability is policy.

Treasure each day you're alive.

If we disagree, it is never personal.

No matter what our differences, I'm glad you're here
& that you care as much as I do.

The best way to stop a troll is to not take the bait.

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I was en.wiki's 9th Bureaucrat, a status I held from 28 Feb 2004 to 1 March 2019. Busy family life took time away from Bureaucrat activities, so I was phased out because of lack of activity.

Origin story

I discovered Wikipedia the evening of February 27, 2003 while searching for information on the internet to fatten a lecture I was writing on prohibition for my U.S. History class. By discovery I mean, I had come across Wikipedia a few times while doing Google searches, but it was that night that I took a closer look and realized what it really was. The discovery of Wikipedia matched love-at-first-sight. For years, I've been collecting old almanacs and encyclopedia. I bandied about different ideas regarding sharing and documenting the information revealed in these discarded sources, but Wikipedia was by far the best idea out there. I had also been working on a system within Word Docs to compile Afghan history. That system was cumbersome, and clunky. To stumble on a thriving community devoted to sharing information gave me a tremendous thrill and a curious sense of relief. Thank heavens you're all out there!

Quotes

"A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way." Mark Twain
"Develop your legitimate strangeness." - Rene Char
"People think it's a cluster of junk. I see it as a cluster of possibilities. Each object gives a direction; each is a line picked up here and there - indeed, gleaned - and which become my paintings. The aim of art is to tidy up one's inner and exterior worlds." - Louis Pons discussing his paintings, but I think it applies to our work here at Wikipedia.
"There is such a thing as a free lunch. You just have to offer it." - Kingturtle
"I long to accomplish some great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble." - Helen Keller
"Foreigners, because they never have enough words to express their ideas, often invent remarkable new modes of expression. Poets are all foreigners." - Denis Diderot
"Me fail English? That's unpossible." - Ralph Wiggum
"I'm not here for rage; I'm here for revenge!" - George Costanza
"Maintaining one's own dignity hangs on maintaining the dignity of others." Kingturtle
"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing" - Theodore Roosevelt

Through 21 April 2009 I have created 725+ articles and 1070+ redirects.

Articles I've contributed to substantially

John William Yettaw

Articles I've started

Regarding Afghanistan

Timeline of Afghan history (and all the sub-links) - International Security Assistance Force - North Zone of Afghanistan - Taliban members - Afghan National Army - Badar - Orfeo Bartolini - Haji Bashar - BearingPoint - Benazir Bhutto - Dasht-i-Leili massacre - International Resources Group - Jaghalkani-i-Takhta Pul massacres - Displaced person - Abdullah Gan - Haji Gilani - Durand line - Viktor Karpukhin - Zalmay Khalilzad - Juma Khan - List of Afghan Transitional Administration personnel - Juma Mohammad Mohammadi - Zacarias Moussaoui - Ricardo Munguia - Operation Blessing International - Mohammed Qalamuddin - Mohammad Rabbani - Ahmed Ressam - Mullah Salam - Vice and Virtue Ministry - Albert Wohlstetter - Haji Mohammed Zaher - Ishaq Shahryar - Ali Ahmad Jalali - Yusuf Nooristani - Anwar ul-Haq Ahadi - Telephone Systems International - Afghan Wireless Communication Company - Heather Mercer - Sediq Afghan - Richard Green (soldier) - John Vines - Bacha Khan Zadran - Women's Edge - Afghan Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration Program - Hedayat Arsala - Syed Ishay Ghalani - Operation Haven Denial - Faryadi Sarwar Zardad - Operation Warrior Sweep - AINA (organization) - OMAR Mine Museum - Zabul Province - Gul Agha Sherzai - Operation Mountain Viper - Provincial reconstruction team - Camp Julien - Civil-Military Co-operation - Operation Avalanche (Afghanistan) - 2003 Loya jirga - Hezb-e Jomhorikhahan - Comprehensive Disabled Afghans Program - Operation Headstrong - 100 Classrooms program - Operation Mountain Resolve - Kuchis - Kabul Soccer Club - Kabul University - The Afghan Women - Abdul Ahad Mohmand - Muhammad Ismail Agha - Asadullah Abdul Rahman - Afghanistan Meteorological Authority - Kabul-Kandahar highway - Daikondi Province - Panjshir Province - Economic Cooperation Organization - Abdullah Shah - Sayed Nabi Siddiqui - William Umbach - Reza Khan (Taliban) - Afghan New Beginnings Programme - Brent Bennett - Jamal Naseer - Afghan Special Narcotics Force - Counter Narcotics Police of Afghanistan - Six-plus-two nations - Alfredo Witschi-Cestari - Mohammad Saleheen - Radio Shariat - Istalif - Norbert Holl - Growler (vehicle)

Regarding baseball, board games, and sports

Regarding birds and nature (and toxonomy-related topics)

List of birds of Santa Cruz County, California - Pied-billed Grebe - Clark's Grebe - American White Pelican - Brown Pelican - Brandt's Cormorant - Double-crested Cormorant - Pelagic Cormorant - American Bittern - Mei (dinosaur) - GoldenPalace.com Monkey - Neltje Blanchan - Avian Brain Nomenclature Consortium - Huayna Picchu - Temple of the Moon - Lake Buel - Great pond - Common Shiner - Scirpus fluviatilis - Pontederia cordata - Carex stricta - Sparganium eurycarpum - Cirsium discolor - Spiraea latifolia - Geum laciniatum - Ranunculus longirostris - Macrophyte - Bosmina - Potamogeton amplifolius - Potamogeton illinoesis - Potamogeton robbinsii - Potamogeton praelongus - Abortive flower - John Noble Wilford - Harriet Hemenway

Regarding health, psychology, math and science

Spina bifida - Arnold-Chiari malformation - Hydrocephalus - Neural tube - Shunt (medical) - Paul Petard (botanist) - Comprehensive health insurance (Maine) - Temik - Rychard Bouwens - Isosorbide dinitrate/hydralazine - Aggregate data - Chained dollars - Decathexis - Chickenpox party - Flux transfer event - LEBU

Regarding history, government, business, geography, religion, scholarship and current events

Albert Wohlstetter - United States casualties of war - Wilfred Burchett - List of civil wars - Iraqi no-fly zones - Bernard Dowiyogo - Rick Santorum - Declaration of Windhoek - World Press Freedom Day - Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf - Securities and Exchange Commission appointees - James M. Landis - Charles Thomson - Transylvania (colony) - James Stockdale - UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador - Kim Phuc Phan Thi - Nathanael Greene - Aspasia - Servilius Casca - John Carver - Harriet Acland - Paul O'Neill - Gong Shengliang - Rafael E. Martinez - David Ahenakew - Billboard (advertising) - War Crimes Law (Belgium) - Iraqi dinar - Casey Jones - CARE (relief) - 10-in-1 food parcel - Irvin McDowell - Alain-René Lesage - Baghdad zoo - SAGEM Sperwer - Miantonomoh - List of United States Presidents by military rank - Operation Enduring Freedom - Philippines - Eurocorps - Hazel Carter - Anton Dostler - List of current monarchs - Nicaraguan Institute of Natural Resources and the Environment - List of United States Presidential assassination attempts - List of people granted honorary French citizenship during the French Revolution - United States Office of Economic Opportunity - Robert A. Lovett - Neil H. McElroy - Thomas S. Gates Jr. - James R. Schlesinger - Harold Brown (Secretary of Defense) - War Cabinet - Presidential Emergency Operations Center - Larry Thompson - Nuclear Risk Reduction Center - Office of Net Assessment - Andrew Marshall (foreign policy strategist) - Operation Orient Express - Diplomats and Military Commanders for Change - Emmet John Hughes - Harvey Matusow - Owen Lattimore - Deterrence theory - Panic of 1907 - Narodnaya Volya - Narodnaja Volya (newspaper) - Harry Fischel - George Opdyke - Abraham Cahan - Abraham Jacobi - Night letter - Salah Khalaf - Operation Red Dog - Beate Sturm - Dalal Mughrabi - Callixte Mbarushimana - Jobs created during U.S. presidential terms - Philadelphia Liberty Medal - List of United States presidential vetoes - Arab Islamic Republic - Herbert Porter - Central Asian Cooperation Organization - Robert Preston (private) - Victor Samuelson - Watergate Seven - Talon News - Curveball (informant) - Children's Environmental Exposure Research Study - Hippolyte Havel - Jennifer Wilbanks - Jerrie Mock - NICE Systems - WorldTeach - United States general elections, 2005 - UN Security Council Resolution 688 - List of UN Security Council Resolutions 1 to 100 (and the associated subpages with the assistance of User:IceKarma) - 1856 Republican National Convention - Michael Taylor - Denny Altes - Mark Rosenker - Clement Eaton - World Assembly of Youth - Michael Froman - Julius Genachowski - Donald Gips - Sonal Shah - Mark Gitenstein - Michael Strautmanis - Cassandra Butts - Melody Barnes - Dan Pfeiffer - Patrick Gaspard - Phil Schiliro - Thomas C. Reeves - Wisconsin Policy Research Institute - Hilary Michael Milko - George C. Mathews - 139th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment - Diablo Management Group - Center for Cultural Studies at UC Santa Cruz - Américo Paredes Center for Cultural Studies - List of places named for their units of production - I didn't start John William Yettaw, but I did a great deal of work on it - Sonam Lhundrup - Wikipedia:WikiProject Nonviolence - Tyler Clementi

Image I've scanned or clipped that are in use

DeSoto
Defoe
Corneille
L Alcott
Alcibiades
H Knox
Macaulay
Miltiades
Murillo
Nordenskjold
A Pope
Barbarossa
H Gates
O Goldsmith
Hippocrates
Addison
Bodo Otto

Photos I have taken that are in use

Images I've scanned that are not in use

Cooper
Bryant
N Green
Meyerbeer
Racine
Brutus
Aspasia
W Hogarth
EK Kane

Images I've uploaded from other sources that are in use

FDR & LBJ
Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp
Queen Mary ship
Marine Raiders
Chief Bender
Recruit training
SS Savannah
Daniel Burnham
Johann Heinrich Lambert
Innoko National Wildlife Refuge
Russian River (Alaska)
American Avocet
Lucretia Mott
William Allen (Congressman)
Hazel Carter
Platt Adams
USS Wyoming
Voisin brothers
USS Utah
Left Louie & Gyp the Blood
James Aloysius O'Gorman
John Schrank
X-ray of TR
Rochester parade
Rochester parade
Wilson inauguration preparations
The center of the U.S. population
De Wolfe Hopper
Mike Gibbons
Ernestine Rose
Marion Mann (singer)
Turner's Landing
Eltac Səfərli
Michael Adams
Adibans Bāškarans
Evgeny Alekseev
Bassem Amin
Alexander Areshchenko
Max Judd
Hidden pictures

Images I've uploaded from other sources that are not in use

Grey Plover

Photos I've taken that are not in use

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