User:MBisanz

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[edit] Tasks

1. Split long articles to make Wikipedia more user friendly.
2. Expand coverge of Hofstra University and related, notable, individuals and orgs.
3. Save company logos from NFCC deletion where possible.
4. Upload compliant company logos.
5. Expand coverage of FASB, GASB, FASAB, CASB, APB, and CAP issuances.
6. Fight vandalism wherever it may lurk.
7. Typo/general cleanup on law and social science categories.

Hi, yea I've been on this site for a few years and finally got around to using my account. I have a variety of interests that I hope to work on. My name is Matthew Bisanz and I currently reside in Uniondale, NY. Feel free to refer to me by my username or real name, your choice. MBisanz ^talk 06:19, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Articles written

• Luther v. Borden
• Frank G. Zarb School of Business
• Herman A. Berliner
• Church of the Holy Trinity, Poughkeepsie
• Church of Regina Coeli (Hyde Park)
• Dime Savings Bank of Williamsburgh
• Empire Savings Bank
• HoeBowl
• Frank G. Zarb
• The National Conference Center
• The Corporate Center
• IBM Somers Office Complex
• 800 Westchester Avenue
• Bell Labs Holmdel Complex
• Merck headquarters
• National Park Community College
• University of Arkansas Community College at Hope
• Rich Mountain Community College

[edit] Philosophy

If I'm reading a page and it has spelling errors or is formatted more like an IM conversation than an encyclopedia entry, I will probably trust it less, as I will think the creator and subsequent editors did not have enough knowledge of or interest in what they were doing to do a good job at it. We have lots of content editors, and when I can I add sources, images, and content, however, I mainly follow behind others making sure what they've written puts its best face to the world.

codicil In scanning several thousand articles, I've often "found" those that should be deleted through their poor spelling and formatting. Wandering from page to page won't always find every non-notable article on a particular topic, especially if the article in question is OR uploaded and never linked from another article by the creator.

• My recall criteria: User:MBisanz/Recall
• Best Practices for sensitive deletions: Keeper76
  
• My COI Statement
• Articles I've created
• Admin coaching stuff User:MBisanz/Coaching
• Ref Car
• To check an image for NFCC compliance, replace the image name in this link: http://tools.wikimedia.de/~betacommand/cgi-bin/check?&file=Image:HUSeal.gif
• http://toolserver.org/~daniel/WikiSense/CheckUsage.php?i=ACTC_Main.jpg&w=_100000
• http://toolserver.org/%7Emagnus/makeref.php
• funny
• poor man's checkuser
• Userid
• mw:Help:Range_blocks
• User:MBisanz/Quotes
• Image:AdminCoach.pdf

[edit] Requests

• Rollback
• EnWP RFA
• OTRS access request
• WMF Board election
• MedCom Nomination
• RfBAG
• WMF-wiki access request
• OTRS Permissions access request
• Commons RFA

[edit] Me

At the Beta Gamma Sigma induction ceremony Fall 2005	At my Excelsior College graduation May 2006	At my Excelsior College graduation May 2006	‎Before my Homecoming Court interview Fall 2006
At Homecoming in October 2006	At the Judicial Panel Winter Dinner 2006	Presenting my senior thesis on appellate court structure at CAA 2007	In the airport on the way home from CAA 2007
At FORUM 63 presenting my paper on aviation patent law	At my Hofstra University graduation in May 2007	At a dinner banquet in the Spring of 2007	At my BAP installation dinner in May 2007

[edit] Where are we headed?

Per TOV from User:Daniel I cannot add this image to WP:ARBCOM, so I add it here.

[edit] Commons Valued images

[edit] Other user pages

I'm registered on other projects, but mainly work here (so leave me a message on en-wikipedia)

• m:User:MBisanz Main place, other than here, to reach me.
• commons:User:MBisanz
• wmf:User:MBisanz
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  • User:Mattbisanz
  • User:MattBisanz
  • User:Matt_Bisanz
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Color sorter: http://www.dereckson.be/tools/colorpicker/ Cute chipmunks: commons:User:ElC

[edit] Me in pictorial form

Education LSAT This user scored 178 on the LSAT. This user has a MBA in Accounting This user has a BA in Political Science. This user has a BS in Liberal Studies. This user has a BBA in Accounting, Management, and Legal Studies in Business . This user has a minor in English.

Affiliations This user has been on Wikipedia for 3 years, 5 months, and 15 days. This user has been an admin for 10 months and 20 days. This user a member of a local board of the Selective Service FMS This user studies at, or is an alumnus of, a Marist Brother school. NHS This user is a member of National Honor Society. ΦΘΚ This user is a member of Phi Theta Kappa national honor society. ΦBK This user is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. This user is interested in Higher Education. This user is a graduate student in Accounting. MBA This user has a Master of Business Administration degree. 3.75 This user has a GPA of 3.75. This user has created a global account. This user is a member of WikiProject Bell System

Wiki Stuff This user is an administrator on the English Wikipedia. (verify) (contribs) This user runs a bot, MBisanzBot. It performs tasks that are extremely tedious to do manually. This user helped promote the article The National Conference Center to good article status. This user is a member of the Wikimedia OTRS team for Permissions. This user is an administrator on Wikimedia Commons. (verify) This user uses AutoWikiBrowser. This user is a member of the New York State routes WikiProject. This user reserves the right to completely screw up his or her edits. This user reads The Wikipedia Signpost. Do you? (single-page edition) WIB? This user knows that the question is: Will It Blend?. This user maintains a strict policy advising against all personal attacks. AP This user was awarded AP Scholar by the College Board This user is a member of the Counter-Vandalism Unit. This user assumes good faith. This user was a member of the inactive League of Copyeditors. Warning to Vandals: This user is armed with VandalProof. This user might be an aspiring cabalist. If the cabal exists, that is. AC This admin was an Admin Coachee. Feel free to report him to one of his coaches when he screws up an edit.

Existence This alleged user can be said to maintain a policy or other custom of neutrality or other ambiguity-related quality on some or all issues that may be potentially controversial to some alleged people.

Web Stuff @ This user can be reached by email. This user contributes using Internet Explorer. This user contributes using Microsoft Windows XP. This user lives in or hails from the state of New York. This user lives on or hails from Long Island. This user is a member of WikiProject Hudson Valley

[edit] Awards

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		For your anti-vandalism work tonight. They call me X Really 04:09, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

		The DYK Medal
		...that Hofstra University named its business school after former NASDAQ director Frank G. Zarb? MBisanz talk 15:24, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

		The DYK Medal
		... that the National Conference Center, formerly known as Xerox Document University, is one of the largest corporate training facilities in Northern Virginia? MBisanz talk 22:02, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

		The DYK Medal
		... that The Corporate Center in Danbury, Connecticut is an innovative structure built on 5,000 pillars, some up to 40-feet (12 m) tall, to accommodate the hilly terrain? MBisanz talk 19:45, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

		The DYK Medal
		... that the I. M. Pei's IBM Somers Office Complex has been described as a "futuristic fortress" as a result of its unique modernist architecture? MBisanz talk 05:42, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

		The DYK Medal
		... that the former General Foods Corporate Headquarters in Rye Brook, New York, has been described as an "Aztec Temple"? MBisanz talk 12:05, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

		The DYK Medal
		... that Eero Saarinen's Bell Labs Holmdel Complex was called the "The Biggest Mirror Ever" because of its unique exterior? MBisanz talk 15:20, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

		The DYK Medal
		... that the Merck headquarters campus (pictured) is home to the largest ground-mounted solar power tracking system east of the Mississippi River? MBisanz talk 20:12, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

		The DYK Medal
		... that in 2008, the University of Arkansas Community College at Hope received a one-million-dollar gift from the AEP Southwestern Electric Power Company to fund technical and industrial programs? MBisanz talk 20:40, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

		The DYK Medal
		... that in 1983, Rich Mountain Community College was formed as a merger of Rich Mountain Vocational-Technical School and Henderson State University's off-campus programs? MBisanz talk 20:40, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

		The DYK Medal
		... that in 2006, National Park Community College received the largest cash donation in the history of Arkansas community colleges? MBisanz talk 02:48, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

		The Working Man's Barnstar
		I, DHowell, award you this Working Man's Barnstar for your work in adding appropriate fair use rationales to hundreds of images and keeping these validly used images from being deleted.

		The Template Barnstar
		For making some useful Recent Changes Newlinecinema (talk) 21:36, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

		The Business and Economics Barnstar
		For adding rationales to companies' logos and ensuring that they comply with Wikipedia's non-free content policy. Bláthnaid 11:05, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		For your anti-vandalism work tonight. Enigma message Review 04:09, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

		The Barnstar of Good Humor
		Aprils fools day was a blast. Loads of users lightened up to have good old fashion fun. I want to thank you for taking part in editing this page in particular and even though I may not know you, embrace the same talk pages, or even edit with you in the near future, I'd like to award you this Barnstar for making Wikipedia a fun environment in which to contribute. Until next year. :) SynergeticMaggot (talk) 12:56, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		Stop beating me already! 21655 τalk/ ʃign 15:55, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		Nice work with the reverts! Keep it up!!! J.delanoygabsadds 18:24, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

		The Commons Ambassador Barnstar
		For beating me to the punch in updating the links to Image:L'Oréal logo.svg so that the en-wiki version could be deleted, I hereby award you this barnstar. --jonny-mt 05:26, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

		The Prom3th3an Humour Barnstar
		I Prom3th3an, Almighty comedian of Wikipedia hereby award you (MBisanz) this barnstar for doing or saying something that I found extremly humourous or otherwise witty beyond expectation. Take a bow. PS: Your name has now been crossed of my whichunt list ;)   «l| Ψrom3th3ăn ™|l»  (talk) 15:02, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

		The Shapiros10 Anti-Vandalism Watermelon
		You wanted a custom TPS award, you got one! Sam Blab 19:38, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		I've noticed your RFDs of innappropriate redirects, all of them were great noms, great work Patton123 15:38, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Experience

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[edit] Stats Stuff

Calming down to around 9 rpm with 150 epm. Andy (talk) 18:20, 5 January 2009 (UTC) change