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About me Bad mav, Good mav mav is an administrator on the English Wikipedia. (verify) 2002 UID 62 mav has been editing Wikipedia since 2002-01-02. (verify) 23 mav has written or substantially contributed to 23 featured articles on Wikipedia. ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ {verify) 70,000 mav has made over 70,000 edits on Wikipedia. (verify) What I've been up to e - v NOTE: I am not a bot, nor have I ever used one. My most recent major contributions: Improved plutonium and put through FAC (25 Oct 2008 to 31 Dec 2008) Addressing FAR concerns for Zion National Park (14 Dec 2008 to present) Addressing FAR concerns for Bryce Canyon National Park (16 Nov 2008 to present) Saved Death Valley National Park from de-featuring by addressing FAR concerns (16 Sep 2008 to 9 Oct 2008) Saved Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve from de-featuring by addressing FAR concerns (24 Aug 2008 to 24 Sep 2008) Expanded Yttrium and put through FAC (2 Aug 2008 to 16 Sep 2008) Saved Geology of the Zion and Kolob canyons area from de-featuring by addressing FAR concerns (11 Aug 2008 to 10 Sep 2008) Uploaded my cleaned-up Egypt photos to commons:User:Mav/Gallery (1 Sep 2008) In Egypt on vacation and attending Wikimania 2008 (13-22 July 2008) Helped get Oxygen featured (11 Sep 2007 - 6 Feb 2008) Saved Geology of the Bryce Canyon area from de-featuring (9 July - 13 August 2007) Put Geology of the Lassen volcanic area through FAC (17 July 2007) Expanded Geology of the Grand Teton area (16 June - 9 July ; on hold) Helped save 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens from de-featuring (5 June 2007) Got uranium featured (3 Mar 2007) Helped save Yosemite National Park from de-featuring (12 Feb 2007) Saved Titanium from de-featuring (2 January 2007) Saved Mount St. Helens from de-featuring. (28 Nov 2006) Expanded Geology of the Lassen volcanic area (21 & 25 September 2006) Expanded Lassen Peak (18 Sep 2006) Expanded Cinder Cone and the Fantastic Lava Beds (17 Sep 2006) Major WikiProjects mav is a founder of WikiProject Elements. Check changes to articles mav is a member of WikiProject Geology. mav is a member of WikiProject Volcanoes. mav is a member of WikiProject Protected Areas.

This user page has been vandalized 50 times (including once from WoW) as of 10 April 2008

Hello, I have been a Wikipedian since January 1, 2002 (as an anon) and I created an account named maveric149 (UID 62) the next day. After getting totally hooked on the idea of Wikipedia I became an Administrator and went a bit wikicrazy by racking-up an insane number of edits (most active non-bot-using contributor from early 2002 to early 2004). My focus slowly turned from quantity to quality (23 FAs) and along the way I ran for the first Wikimedia Board (Summer 2004), was appointed the volunteer CFO of the Foundation (July 2004 to August 2006), served as a founding member of the Arbitration Committee (January 2004 to September 2005) and became a Steward (April 2004 to the present).

My real name is Daniel Mayer and I was born and raised in California. In December 2001 I graduated with a bachelors degree in biology and a minor in geology but I'm interested in a great many things. From my last year at university until the end of 2003 I was working for Caltrans part-time on transit planning, specifically transit-oriented development. During that period I was going to night school studying Geographic Information Systems (GIS). For most of 2004 I worked for the City of Sacramento, California on a GIS contract. In December 2004 I moved to Atlanta, Georgia when my partner DakKat149's job was relocated. Soon afterward I was hired on another GIS contract but started my career in late 2005 when my client decided to hire me as a full-time employee (which led to a major decrease in my editing here). I tend to shy away from contributing on biology, GIS, or transport articles because that reminds me too much of work.

Taking GIS courses has totally hooked me on geography and helped feed interest in my long-time favorite subject geology by going on field studies (see my images section). I've also always had a fascination with the periodic table and its elements. So those three areas, geography, geology (esp of North America) and chemical elements (co-founded WikiProject Elements) are where I spend most of my FA-writing Wiki time nowadays. Attending Wikimania 2008 at the amazing Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt has reinvigorated my wiki-spirit. I'm now trying to develop a good work-life-wiki balance. I'd like to spend more time on history, especially battles and English monarchs (maybe reestablish some Emsworth FAs). So far, the most I've done in that area is significantly expand about half the day of the year articles and set up the 'On this day...' section on the Main Page.

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I sometimes give quick, seemingly unkind and terse comments on talk pages and in edit summaries. However meanness is not at all the intent, just efficiency. This is a quirk of my rare personality type: INTJ. I do try to moderate what I say and how I say it -- mainly because my terseness sometimes leads to inefficient discussion to resolve misunderstandings on talk pages.

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Contents 1 Selected contributions 1.1 Featured ★ - RC 1.2 uncategorized articles started with new content - RC 1.2.1 still sub-1KB 1.3 uncategorized articles expanded/improved - RC 2 Images 2.1 created/expanded with public domain text 2.2 Special projects 2.2.1 WikiProject Tree of Life 2.2.2 WikiProject Countries 2.2.3 WikiProject Elements 2.2.4 WikiProject Protected Areas 2.2.5 WikiProject Battles 2.3 Historical anniversaries 2.3.1 January 2.3.2 February 2.3.3 March 2.3.4 April 2.3.5 May 2.3.6 June 2.3.7 July 2.4 August 2.5 September 2.6 October 2.7 November 2.7.1 December

[edit] Selected contributions

[edit] Featured ★ - RC

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Work that I've done has significantly contributed to the below articles getting featured:

1. Titanium - history - talk - December 2003
2. Yellowstone National Park - history - talk - March 2004
3. Geology of the Bryce Canyon area - history - talk - May 2004
4. Bryce Canyon National Park - history - talk - June 2004
5. Mount St. Helens - history - talk - July 2004
6. 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens - history - talk - August 2004
7. Geology of the Zion and Kolob canyons area - history - talk - September 2004
8. Zion National Park - history - talk - September 2004
9. History of the Yosemite area - history - talk - December 2004
10. Craters of the Moon National Monument - history - talk - January 2005
11. Death Valley National Park - history - talk - February 2005
12. Yosemite National Park - history - talk - March 2005
13. Helium - history - talk - April 2005
14. Geology of the Grand Canyon area - history - talk - April 2005
15. History of the Grand Canyon area - history - talk - May 2005
16. Technetium - history - talk - May 2005
17. Geology of the Death Valley area - history - talk - May 2005
18. Geology of the Capitol Reef area - history - talk - April 2006
19. Uranium - history - talk - March 2007
20. Geology of the Lassen volcanic area - history - talk - July 2007
21. Oxygen - history - talk - February 2008

Listed in 6th place at List of Wikipedians by featured article nominations as of October 2007

Helped save from de-featuring

1. Edward VI of England - 11 June 2006

Priority list for FA push.

1. Geothermal areas of Yellowstone
2. Geology of the Grand Teton area
3. Mount Garibaldi (work with Black Tusk)
4. Phosphorus (start early 2008 with Pyrotec
5. Mary I of England (pretty much just needs a good copyedit and inline cites)
6. Zinc (work with Stone)
7. Radon (work with Nergaal)
8. Plutonium (already A class)
9. Antoine Lavoisier (start in summer 2008 with Awadewit
10. Battle of Hastings (too important not to be featured)
11. Carbon (WP:VITAL)
12. Carl Wilhelm Scheele
13. Rocky Mountains (WP:VITAL; merge this PD text)
14. Aluminium (WP:VITAL)
15. Mercury (element)
16. Grand Canyon (WP:VITAL)
17. Silver (WP:VITAL)
18. Billy the Kid (work with Claygate
19. Grand Teton National Park
20. Periodic table (WP:VITAL; complete rewrite needed, what a mess)

[edit] uncategorized articles started with new content - RC

An uncategorized list of some articles that I have started (or restarted) with unique content (public domain copy/paste created articles and redirects/change of article name omitted) (partial listing -- newer entries are at top):

Delaware Basin [1] - history of the Grand Canyon area [2] - Racetrack Playa [3] - Places of interest in the Death Valley area [4] - History of the Yosemite area [5] - Geology of the Death Valley area [6] - Geology of the Capitol Reef area [7] - Geology of the Canyonlands area [8] - Grand Teton National Park [9] - Geology of the Grand Teton area [10] - Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve [11] - Snake River Land Company [12] - 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens [13] - Mount Garibaldi [14] - Geology of the Bryce Canyon area [15] - Geology of the Zion and Kolob canyons area [16] - Zion National Park [17] - Geology of the Grand Canyon area [18] - Mount McLoughlin [19] - Mount Mazama [20] - Mount Adams [21] - Mount Thielsen [22] - Mount Jefferson [23] - Newberry Caldera [24] - - Newberry Volcano [25] - Dorothea Puente [26] - Geology of Mount Shasta [27] - I AM Foundation [28] - Chaos Crags [29] - Geothermal areas in Lassen Volcanic National Park [30] - Geology of the Lassen area [31] - Cinder Cone and the Fantastic Lava Beds [32] - Lassen Peak [33] - Lassen Volcanic National Park [34] - Leon Day [35] - Geology of the Yosemite area [36] - John Muir [37] - Mono-Inyo Craters [38]* - Owens Lake [39] - Devils Postpile National Monument [40] - 1872 Lone Pine earthquake [41]*#1 - spheroidal weathering [42]*#3 - Divergent boundary [43]* - Slab gap hypothesis [44]*#1 - Laramide orogeny [45]*#2 - Wikimedia [46]*#1 - The Ed Sullivan Show [47]* - Death Valley Pupfish [48] - Basin and Range [49]* - Geothermal areas of Yellowstone [50]*#1 - Richard Ramirez [51]* - Barbara Boxer [52] - centipede [53] - California Gold Rush [54] - anti-hero [55] - Ira Flatow [56]* - cartography [57] - Herb Ritts [58]* - William Hyde Wollaston [59]*#2 - Philippe Starck [60] - Lincoln County War [61]*#2 - Billy the Kid [62] - Charles Hatchett [63]*#1 - Jimmy Doolittle [64]*#1 - Yucca Mountain [65] - List of countries by population [66]*#1 - Chick Hearn [67]* - impact event [68]*#3 - bacteriocin [69]* - smallpox vaccine [70] - glycomics [71]* - Nuclear bunker buster [72]* - endosymbiosis [73]*#3 - Hallucigenia [74]*#3 - homeobox [75]* - List of elements by name (I know - not an article - but still a lot of work!) [76]*#1 - barium (there was only two sentences there before - so I'm counting this as an aGeology of Mount Shasta]] [77] - I AM Foundation [78] - Chaos Crags [79] - Geothermal areas in Lassen Volcanic National Park [80] - Geology of the Lassen area [81] - Cinder Cone and the Fantastic Lava Beds [82] - Lassen Peak [83] - Lassen Volcanic National Park [84] - Leon Day [85] - Geology of the Yosemite area [86] - John Muir [87] - Mono-Inyo Craters [88]* - Owens Lake [89] - Devils Postpile National Monument [90] - 1872 Lone Pine earthquake [91]*#1 - spheroidal weathering [92]*#3 - Divergent boundary [93]* - Slab gap hypothesis [94]*#1 - Laramide orogeny [95]*#2 - Wikimedia [96]*#1 - The Ed Sullivan Show [97]* - Death Valley Pupfish [98] - Basin and Range [99]* - Geothermal areas of Yellowstone [100]*#1 - Richard Ramirez [101]* - Barbara Boxer [102] - centipede [103] - California Gold Rush [104] - anti-hero [105] - Ira Flatow [106]* - cartography [107] - Herb Ritts [108]* - William Hyde Wollaston [109]*#2 - Philippe Starck [110] - Lincoln County War [111]*#2 - Billy the Kid [112] - Charles Hatchett [113]*#1 - Jimmy Doolittle [114]*#1 - Yucca Mountain [115] - List of countries by population [116]*#1 - Chick Hearn [117]* - impact event [118]*#3 - bacteriocin [119]* - smallpox vaccine [120] - glycomics [121]* - Nuclear bunker buster [122]* - endosymbiosis [123]*#3 - Hallucigenia [124]*#3 - homeobox [125]* - List of elements by name (I know - not an article - but still a lot of work!) [126]*#1 - barium (there was only two sentences there before - so I'm counting this as an add) [127]* - soluble [128]* - Manzanar [129] - Nisei Japanese American [130]*#1 - Japanese American [131] - batholith [132]* - Linda Lovelace (yeah - yeah - I know she was a heterosexual porn queen - but she reformed!) [133]* - roundabout intersection [134]*#1 - Treaty of Nanking [135]*#3 - Scott Bakula [136] - Chandra Levy [137]* - mycorrihiza [138]*#1 - cowpox [139]*#1 - Shmi Skywalker [140]*#3 - War of Jenkins' Ear [141]* - [Giant Impact theory] (now giant impact theory) [142]* - [hieroglyphics] (now Egyptian hieroglyph [143]*#1 - Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi [144] - [Ural mountains] (now Ural Mountains) [145]*#2 - 1400 [146] - First Transcontinental Railroad [147]* - Fermi paradox [148]* - Dolly the sheep [149]* - [Michelangelos David] (now Michelangelo's David) [150]*#2 - paclitaxel [151]* - Pericles [152] - Arabesque [153] - Arabic calligraphy [154] - brown dwarf [155]* - picometre [156]* - symbiosis [157] - E. coli [158] - Acetic acid bacteria [159]*#1 - arthrobacter [160]* - Mineral salts pyridone broth [161]*#1 - bacterial growth [162] - Bdellovibrio [163]*#3 - Botulism [164] - Clostridium botulinum [165]* - micrometer [166]* - Aerobic organism [167]*#1 - petri dish [168]* - disulfide bond [169]*#2 - Medici [170]* - carbon cycle [171] - Cambrian Explosion [172]* - desert varnish [173]* - Death Valley National Park [174] - Mono Lake [175] - Japanese American Internment [176] - Long Valley Caldera [177] - John Sutter [178]* - [Sutters Fort] (now Sutter's Fort State Historic Park) [179]* - 1478 [180]* - [Davis] (now Davis, California) [181]* - James Lovelock [182]* - 1480 [183]* - The Book of the Courtier [184]* - [Sacramento] (now Sacramento, California) [185] - Decameron [186] - The Book of the City of Ladies [187]* - Christine de Pizan [188]* - Canterbury Tales (some original text from Chaucer) [189] - David Bowman (no big surprise there) [190]* - Lucrezia Borgia [191] - Lorenzo de' Medici [192]*

[edit] still sub-1KB

[Sutters Mill] (now Sutter's Mill) [193]* - California Department of Transportation [194] - Central Pacific Railroad [195]* - [Single Occupant Vehicle] (now single occupant vehicle) [196]*#1 - Bacillus cereus [197] - protium [198]* - Sansei Japanese American [199]*#1 - Issei Japanese American [200]*#1 - kinase [201] - hypha [202]* - Bridalveil Fall [203]*#2 - Verne Winchell [204]*#1 - beryllium copper [205] - Tulare Lake [206]* - Alluvial fan [207]* - Elastic-rebound theory [208]*#2 - Zabriskie Point [209]* - Wisconsinan glaciation [210]

[edit] uncategorized articles expanded/improved - RC

An uncategorized list of some articles that I have added a significant amount of unique content to (relative to the article size or quality of information presented when I found it) and/or edited significantly (adding of public domain text not counted -- although I do a lot of that too) (totally inadequate partial listing -- newer entries are at top):

Oxygen [211] Polish September Campaign [212] - History of Montreal [213] - Flatworm [214] - Plate tectonics [215] - Capitol Reef National Park [216] - Canyonlands National Park [217] - Mary I of England [218] - Reagan Administration [219] - Ronald Reagan [220] - Cascade Range [221] - Mount St. Helens [222] - Colorado Plateau [223] - Bryce Canyon National Park (massive expansion) [224] - Grand Canyon [225] - Crater Lake [226] - Crater Lake National Park [227] - Theodore Roosevelt [228] - Mount Shasta [229] - Giant sequoia [230] - Hetch Hetchy Valley [231]* - Yosemite Valley [232] - Mammoth Mountain [233] - Owens Valley [234] - Alabama Hills [235]* - Rodney King [236] - Spanish Armada [237] - United States National Monument [238] - Yosemite National Park [239] - All in the Family [240] - Rocky Mountains [241] - M*A*S*H (TV series) [242]*#1 - O. J. Simpson [243] - Elvis Presley [244] - Ed Sullivan [245] - I Love Lucy [246] - Wind [247] - Geography of California [248]* - Yellowstone National Park [249] - vanadium [250] - Saddam Hussein [251] - Panama Canal