User:David Jordan

"The Windows registry gives me hives."
THIS ARTICLE is a user page and is not encylopedia content.
Wikipedia User Level: sub-rookie.

Hope these behaviors aren't something I modeled. Do you see yourself in any of these examples?

• If you cite an example of a product or service in an article, someone will remove it and warn you that Wikipedia is not a platform for advertising. If you do not cite an example, someone will flag the article as lacking sources.
• Someone looked at a piece of art that I created and uploaded to illustrate an article. It took me about an hour to draw. By looking at it, the viewer determined the art was copyrighted by someone other than I and removed it from the article.
• Someone looked at a piece of art that I created and uploaded to illustrate an article. It took me about two hours to draw. It wasn't perfect but I had posted it for others to use and view under the GDFL. By looking at it, the viewer determined the art was uploaded for my personal gain rather than to illustrate a concept. The viewer removed it from the article.
• Later, a second person flagged the art work as orphaned and warned that "Wikipedia is not a personal web page." The art work was deleted. What's the user's incentive to upload more art?
• A user removed an image from a geographic location article because it lacked artistic merit. This left the article with no illustrations rather than a single illustration.

What if:

• Instead of deleting text, you write something better and replace, or append-to, the original stuff?
• Instead of deleting an image showing a geographic location, you fly or drive to the location to create a better one? Then you overwrite the marginal image with your high-quality one.
• You consider ethics, balance and motives before deleting information in an article. You want to delete a paragraph about a hazardous waste dump in an article about your community. Do you own a home in a community? Even though you don't like it, is the article factually correct? Could it be left in the article but worded better to reflect differing views?
• Instead of flagging an article, you fix the problem with it?

Community size rule of thumb: The smallest communities which are too small to be a stand-alone CDP usually start to gain identity with a fire station. Next they become a CDP. Following that, they get an elementary school.

• California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection
• California Department of Transportation
• California Public Utilities Commission

Q. Why do these images look so bad? A. Most of them are scanned Polaroid prints shot with a US$30 camera.

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  Onyx California post office.
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  CalTrans guide sign along State Route 178.
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  San Gabriel Mountains and Interstate 210.
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  Frazier Park fire station.
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  Frazier Park post office.
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  Walker Basin, California.
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  CalTrans G9-2 guide sign looking westbound on SR178 at the eastern extent of Mountain Mesa.
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  Lake Isabella and Mountain Mesa.
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  Entering Kernville from the south along Sierra Way.
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  Lebec, California post office at dusk.
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  View of Bodfish and Lake Isabella.
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  Guide sign at east extent of Bodfish on Lake Isabella Blvd.
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  Tule Elk.
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  Tupman post office and guide sign.
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  California Aqueduct near mile 237.
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  McKittrick historic landmark sign along SR58.
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  View of McKittrick from the south.
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  Kern County Fire Dept., Station 24 (McKittrick).
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  Guide sign at the east extent of South Lake, California.
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  State Route 33 at Brown Material Road.
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  SR178 eastbound from M Street in Bakersfield.
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  Arvin-Edison Water Storage District tank
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  Kaweah Delta Hospital at night
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  County government offices, Madera County, CA
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  Bell Station, California
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  Van Ness Avenue, Fresno, California
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  Huron Middle School, Huron, CA.

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Housekeeping: how I keep track of which ones have been uploaded...

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This user lives in or hails from the U.S. State of California.

This user is a citizen of the United States of America.

This user has never left the Northern Hemisphere.

This user is old enough to remember what a typewriter is, and that's all you need to know.

This user remembers using a rotary dial telephone.