User:Loadmaster

Loadmaster — David R. Tribble Unified login: Loadmaster is the unique login of this user for all public Wikimedia projects. My Wikimedia Commons account → User:Loadmaster My Wikimedia account → User:Loadmaster My Wiktionary account → User:Loadmaster My Wikibooks account → User:Loadmaster My Wikiquote account → User:Loadmaster My Simple English Wikipedia account → User:Loadmaster My Wikinews account → User:Loadmaster My Conservapedia account → Loadmaster My Wikimedia Bugzilla account → david@​tribble.​com My Google Picasa → portfolios My PGP public key → User:Loadmaster/PGP public key My web page → david.tribble.com

Loadmaster Born David R. Tribble Nationality American Citizenship American Education B.S. in Mathematics, minor in Computer Science Occupation Software Engineer Known for Software Engineer Photography (amateur) Wikipedian Political party Conservative Libertarian / Liberal conservative Children 2 Website david.tribble.com

→ Current date and time: 12:59, Monday, January 6, 2025 (UTC) → Leave me a message at my user talk page → Yes, I am a fan of the original Star Trek TV series → More tribbles → No, I am not actually a loadmaster Articles of interest See: User:Loadmaster/Articles of interest See: Wikipedia:Unusual articles See: Wikipedia:Lamest edit wars Projects Projects of which I am a member WikiProject Computing WikiProject Java WikiProject Time Contributions This user is one of an infinite number of monkeys editing Wikipedia right now. 13,000+This user has made more than 13,000 contributions to Wikipedia. This user has been on Wikipedia for 18 years, 11 months and 11 days. → My current edit count → 13,000th edit (2018-08-10): The Few → 12,000th edit (2015-12-30): System time → 11,501st edit (2014-07-22): American Dream → 11,000th edit (2013-12-18): Binary-coded decimal → 10,500th edit (2013-06-06): Intel 4040 → 10,000th edit (2013-01-15): USS Wyandot (AKA-92) → 9,500th edit (2012-06-04): S. E. Cupp → 9,000th edit (2011-08-29): Brian Clark (September 11 attacks survivor) → 8,500th edit (2011-01-12): COT → 8,000th edit (2010-05-24): Talk:COBOL → 7,500th edit (2009-08-28): User:Loadmaster → 7,000th edit (2009-08-28): Eiffel (programming language) → 6,000th edit (2009-05-12): Mystery Science Theater 3000 → 5,000th edit (2008-10-25): Pink noise → 4,000th edit (2008-01-17): Template:Chset-tableformat → First edit (as user Loadmaster): Controversy over Cantor's theory (2006-04-11) Using my work If you wish to use any of the photographs or images created or uploaded by me, see the "Licensing" section for each image. Also refer to Commons:User:Loadmaster/permissions for more details. Articles Started by Me 4294967295   9223372036854775807   Abby Hornacek   Antarctica Cup Yacht Race   Balls and vase problem   Charles W. Eisemann Center for Performing Arts  Chris Muir (pic)   Composite odontoma   Concatenation (mathematics)   Control-Z   Curiosity Shop   EBCDIC 1047   EBCDIC 500   Edward P. Felt   — deleted[1], Jun 2008 Eight Ones   Exit (operating system)   fg (Unix)   Half-carry flag   Harrison Ellenshaw   Jin-Song Chung   List of Lutheran schools in the United States   List of private schools in Texas   Nappily Ever After (film)   — deleted, Oct 2007 Nappily Ever After (novel)   National Cartoonist Day   Necrorealism   North Korea Uncovered   Parent function   Path (variable) Places of worship near Dallas, Texas   — deleted, Oct 2010 Principle of Permanence   Public key fingerprint   Range-R   Roy Kurban   Sleep (operating system)   Smith (programming language)   — deleted, Jan 2010 strtol   System time   Tequila Party   time_t   — moved to C date and time functions, Nov 2011 Tribbles (game)   Usenet celebrity   — see Category:Usenet people User exit   Voluntary Content Rating   — moved to User:ArneBab/Voluntary Content Rating, Dec 2010 Wait (operating system)   Won Chik Park   Other Pages Added by me Asta (disambig) Bank holiday (disambig) Biff (disambig) Blast! (disambig) COBOL (disambig) Concatenated SMS Concatenation (disambig) Eleusis (disambig) Exec (disambig) Felts (disambig) Hendecatope (redirect) Ketcham (disambig) Killjoy (disambig) Latitude (disambig) Pennies from Heaven (film) Shatner (disambig) Sheetal (disambig) Shive (disambig) sin(x) (redirect), et al Stubroutine (redirect) Time share (disambig) Topal (disambig) Topal (surname) Transcendental (disambig) Tribble (disambig) See also: Tribble (surname) Triblade (disambig) Wait (disambig) WfMC (redirect) Wild Flower Festival (disambig) Images Uploaded See also the images I uploaded to Wikicommons See also my Google Picasa portfolios     See also Requesting copyright permission See also Wikipedia:Moving images to the Commons AshleighBrilliant3c.jpg (here) Asta1.jpg (here) (deleted) replaced by: Asta in After the Thin Man trailer.jpg Borax-20MuleTeam-7860c.jpg (here) ChrisMuir2d.jpg (here) DavidClennon1.jpg (here) (deleted) DavidClennon2.png (here) (deleted) DeathSeventhSeal.png (here) (cf: Palpatine ROTJ.jpg) EdFelt_1.jpg (here) (deleted/orphaned) Happy-Hill-Farm-1432c.jpg (here) (deleted) HarpoMarx41e.jpg (here) (deleted 2012-02-10) Hellmans-Mayo-6836e.jpg (here) ISO-IEC-9899-1999-cover.png (here) JohnDerbyshire1.jpg (here) JohnDerbyshire2.jpg (here) Koffee-Kup-Kafe-Hico-TX.jpg (here) LaughingSutra-Salzman.jpg (here) MarkSalzman.jpg (here) (deleted) McEwansScotchAle-3182e.jpg (here) MichaelShermer1.jpg (here) MichaelShermer4.jpg (here) Miss-Jane-Pittman-DVDcover.jpg (here) More_short_11c.png (More) NadineVelazquez1.jpg (here) (deleted 2011-02-16) replaced by: Nadine Velazquez.jpg NickAndNoraCharles2c.jpg (here) (deleted 2007-08-07) replaced by: William Powell and Myrna Loy in ... .jpg PatriciaKalember45c.png (here) (deleted) Pepsodent-0179c.jpg (Pepsodent|Church and Dwight) PerezPrado1.jpg (here) PGPgui1.png (here) (replaced) PGPkey1.png (here) (deleted) PGPkey2.png (here) (deleted) Quaker-Oats-4321.jpg (here) Sarsaparilla-Hey-Song-4294.jpg (here) SolyentGreen28d.png (here) (deleted ) Spamalot-0958.jpg (here) (deleted) Steven-Seagal-Drink-4313.jpg (here) Synergy-Audion1.jpg (here) Synergy-Cords1.jpg (here) Synergy-Games.jpg (here) Synergy-Metropolitan1.jpg (here) Synergy-Realizations1.jpg (here) Synergy-Sequencer1.jpg (here) TribblesGame.jpg (here) USA-Taekwondo-logo.png (here) Picture of the Day 5 October 2017 Categories added by me Category:Articles with character tables needing cleanup   Category:Black rock musicians   (deleted 2009-06-18) (CfD) Category:African-American rock musicians   Category:Black British rock musicians   Category:Character set table templates   Category:Popular mathematics books   Templates added by me Template:Chset-cell3 Template:Chset-cell4 Template:Chset-ctrl3 Template:Chset-ctrl4 Template:Cleanup-chartable Template:Chset-color-alpha Template:Chset-color-ctrl Template:Chset-color-digit Template:Chset-color-graph Template:Chset-color-intl Template:Chset-color-punct Template:Chset-color-undef Template:Brown (example) Template:Cyan (example) Template:Inverse (example) Template:Magenta (example) Ideas for Wikipedia proposed by me Village pump (idea lab) – English variants (dialects) Character codes and code set articles Main pages: Category:Character sets and Category:Character encoding Code page 437 Code page 850 Code page 855 Code page 866 EBCDIC EBCDIC 037 EBCDIC 285 KOI7 ISO/IEC 646 ISO/IEC 6937 ISO/IEC 8859-1 ISO/IEC 8859-2 ISO/IEC 8859-15 Windows-1250 Windows-1251 Windows-1252 Control-C Control-V Control-X Articles Needing Improvement Ashleigh Brilliant C++ examples Chris Muir Cindy Morgan Control-P EBCDIC 037 Eight ones (via EO) Exec (operating system) Filename Floyd M. Gunn Jr. High School Harrison Ellenshaw Instruction cycle Landscape format LR parser Michael Shermer Mirage (film) PETSCII Portrait format Repeat loop Spawn (operating system) System (C Standard Library) TI-58 Universe (mathematics) User exit Wait (operating system) Richard T. Williams (Williams Field) Other Sections 9/11 memorial page for Ed Felt Articles in progress See: User:Loadmaster/Proposed articles Articles that reference my other works Canonical LR parser — Practical LR(k) Parser Construction (Dec 2004) Compatibility of C and C++ — Incompatibilities Between ISO C and ISO C++ (Aug 2001) Considered harmful — Go To Statement Considered Harmful: A Retrospective (Feb 2005) Infinite monkey theorem — Chance and Probability (Jan 1998) LR Parser — The Honalee LR(k) Algorithm (Apr 2006) LR Parser — Practical LR(k) Parser Construction (Dec 2004) Helpful links Secure Wikipedia — HTTPS (SSL) connection to Wikipedia Wikipedia:Sandbox — Wikipedia sandbox for test edits Special:Newpages — List of Wikipedia's newest articles Special:RecentChanges — List of Wikipedia's most recent change edits Special:PendingChanges — List of edits pending review Help:Archiving a talk page — How to archive a talk page Wikipedia:Requested moves — How to request a page to be moved Wikipedia:Verifiability, not truth — Wikipedia operates on verifiable facts, not truth Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission Wikipedia:Moving images to the Commons Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion (WP:CSD) Wikipedia:Requests for page protection Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents — Bringing the attention of admins to to sensitive issues Wikipedia:Reference desk — User questions answered Wikipedia:Village pump — Discuss the technical issues, policies, and operations of Wikipedia Help:ParserFunctions – Includes expressions, if-tests, formatting, etc. Wikipedia:Graphic Lab — Image editing requests and tools Table of mathematical symbols — Symbols for cut-and-paste editing Better screenshot images To get the best screenshot images from DVDs, I use a technique of sampling two or more consecutive frames from the source film and then combining them together into a single image. Most graphics editing programs (I use Paintshop Pro) allow two (or sometimes more) images to be averaged together into a single image. The averaging smooths out the pixel noise of each individual image, making the result much cleaner than any of the source frames. The only trick to using this technique is getting two or more consecutive images that are alike enough so that the resulting combined image does not appear blurred. Non-moving subjects are usually the best to work from. Example images created using this technique: File:DeathSeventhSeal.png Fighting Wikipedia Vandalism The approach I take to fighting vandalism on Wikipedia is pretty simple. I check "my watchlist" page periodically, looking for edits made by unregistered users (i.e., users with IP addresses instead of user names). For each one of those edits, I click on the "diff" link for it. This displays the changes made by that user. If it's obviously vandalism, I then click on the user's name or the "contribs" link on the "diff" page, which shows a page listing all the contributions made by that user. I can then check many edits made from the same IP address. Typically, several edits are made by the same vandal within the span of an hour or so. Reverting the edits is then a straightforward thing to do. If a user looks like he is vandalizing pages, add a {{test1}} tag to his Talk page. If the vandalism continues, add {{test2}}, {{test3}}, and finally {{test4}} tags. As a last resort, ask for administrator intervention against vandalism. Another item to check is the inclusion of image Example.jpg within articles, which is a favorite target of vandals. As an example of vandalism idiocy, see that 98 edits were made to the article on Pythagoras, none of which contributed anything of value. Example of a blocked abusive vandal: User:Lookaroundyou (Oct 2007). I am of the opinion that vandalism could be greatly reduced by simply limiting editing access to Wikipedia articles to only registered users, but apparently this goes against the current policy. Marking bad new articles for deletion A small percentage of new articles are simply nonsense or vandalism. These articles should be tagged with {{db}} tags so that they can be deleted: {{db}} — Generic deletion tag {{db-bio}} — Person or organization of questionable importance {{db-spam}} — Advertising for an organization or website {{db-nocontent}} — Little or no content {{db-nonsense}} — Patent nonsense See also Wikipedia:Requests for page protection Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism Wikipedia:Counter-Vandalism Unit Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion (WP:CSD) Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not for things made up one day (WP:NFT) Cool signatures Interesting, but typically HTML-intensive, signature graphics by some Wikipedia users that I've collected: RedPooka (Nov 2006) Meteroid  Meteoroid »  (Mar 2007) >Radiant< (Mar 2007) ~Steptrip (Apr 2007)  G o a r a n y     talk   (Apr 2007) Phaedriel (Apr 2007) Starblind (May 2007) « hippi ippi » (May 2007)  ∴ Therefore  talk   (Apr 2007) sumnjim (Jun 2007) danielfolsom (Jun 2007) THEPROMENADER (Jul 2007) †Bloodpack† (Aug 2007) ALLSTAR ECHO (Oct 2007) SQLQuery me! (Dec 2007) JoshHuzzuh  Talk  (Dec 2007) Anonymous Dissident (Jan 2008)  X  S  G  (Sep 2008) ←ΣcoPhreek→ (Nov 2008)  WORMMЯOW  (Dec 2008) –⊥¡ɐɔıʇǝoNoetica!T– (Dec 2008) DoubleBlue (talk) (Dec 2008) لennavecia (Dec 2008) Possible signatures that I could use: Loadmaster ‡ Loadmaster Loadmaster Loadmaster talk Loadmaster talk Loadmaster Loadɹɘʇsɐɯ talk ɹɘʇsɐɯpɐoΓ talk Loadmaster Loadmaster Loadmaster Selected articles/categories nominated for deletion (AfD) Articles Archimedes Plutonium (AfD discussion) (1st, Sep 2006) → Keep Archimedes Plutonium (AfD discussion) (2nd, Mar 2007) → Keep Archimedes Plutonium (AfD discussion) (3rd, Jun 2007) → Delete, merged into Notable Usenet personalities Archimedes Plutonium (AfD discussion) (4th, Oct 2007) → Delete List of Usenet personalities (AfD discussion) (1st, Sep 2007) → No consensus (Keep) renamed, was → Notable Usenet personalities List of Usenet personalities (AfD discussion) (2nd, Apr 2009) → Keep AP has edited pages such as Talk:Archimedes Plutonium‎ from IP addresses in the range 216.16.55.* (PrairieWave.com) renamed to → Usenet celebrity Ctime (AfD discussion) (Apr 2007) → Convert Film and television clichés (AfD discussion) (May 2007) → Delete List of clichés found in science fiction literature (AfD discussion) (Jun 2007) → Delete Entries in Category:United Airlines Flight 93 victims: Edward P. Felt (AfD discussion) (Jun 2007) → Keep Edward P. Felt (AfD discussion) (Jun 2008) → Delete, redirected to United Airlines Flight 93 Richard Guadagno (AfD discussion) (Jun 2007) → Delete, redirected to United Airlines Flight 93 Jeremy Glick (September 11, 2001 attack victim) (AfD discussion) (Jun 2007) → Delete Lauren Grandcolas (AfD discussion) (Jun 2007) → No consensus (Keep) Waleska Martínez (AfD discussion) (Jun 2007) → Redirect to United Airlines Flight 93 Infinite monkey theorem in popular culture (AfD discussion) (Jul 2007) → Delete Infinite monkey theorem in popular culture (AfD discussion) (2nd) (Aug 2007) → No consensus (Keep) Nappily Ever After (film) (AfD discussion) (Oct 2007) → Delete Alt.usenet.kooks (AfD discussion) (Feb 2008) → Delete Tribbles (game) (AfD discussion) (May 2008) → Keep Sagan's Identity (Sep 2008) → Delete Hadley's theorem (AfD discussion) (Sep 2010) Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Likebox/Archimedes Plutonium (Jan 2011) → Delete Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Imaginary unit (1 Apr 2012), an attempt at April Fools' Day (AfD?) humor → Keep Categories Category:Black rock musicians (CfD discussion) (Jun 2009) → Delete Notable People I Have Met or Interacted with (Who have articles on Wikipedia) Made contact Richard Bach (Jonathan Livingston Seagull) Alfred Chuang (BEA) Jin-Song Chung (TKD) Bill Coleman (BEA) Frank Conniff Kent Grusendorf (Darryl) Greg Gutfeld James Hong Richard Hamming Roy Kurban (TKD) Wendell Nedderman Roger Penrose Ed Scott (BEA) Bjo Trimble Steven Weinberg Exchanged emails Bill Amend Pete Becker Ashleigh Brilliant John Derbyshire Poul-Henning Kamp Stan Kelly-Bootle Scott Meyers Chris Muir P. J. Plauger Archimedes Plutonium Dennis Ritchie Michael Shermer Bjarne Stroustrup (C++) Other Stuff The Bicholim conflict article, a well-done hoax. Probably perpetrated by user A-b-a-a-a-a-a-a-b-a. Steven Colbert's infamous Wiki edit of the George Washington article: diff. User:AndrewDavis and User:24.107.41.241, who is (was) Bill Amend. My attempt to solve the infinite monkey theorem at this web page, but which was removed from the article (Mar 2007) with no explanation. The defacing of the Scooter Libby wiki article as reported by Wonkette (wonkette.com article and image) is a fake. No such revision exists between 2007-02-21T03:42:49 (when the caption on his picture was changed) and 2007-03-06 23:57:56 (past the date of the defacing "discovery" on 2007-03-06), purportedly done by User:12.182.129.106. — 18:43, 7 March 2007 (UTC) I predicted (on 2007-04-02) that Wikipedia would reach 5,000,000 articles on 2011-09-14 at Wikipedia:Five-million pool (Image); it reached 5m around Aug 2015. Selected historical article counts are here. → Current number of articles: 6,936,016 (stats) (old stats) The Seigenthaler controversy[2], which details the problems of editable biographical information on Wikipedia. I proposed the possible inclusion of a new "certificate (serial) number" field to Template:Infobox Film. For example, the film Lost Horizon (1937) has MPAA certificate no. 2006, and 300 (2007) has certificate no. 42864. Archimedes Plutonium resorted to legal threats after a long series of incendiary posts against WP editors over his displeasure at being categorized in List of Usenet personalities as an "eccentric" newsgroup poster, and after being blocked for a vandalizing edit. (May 2009) Embedded wiki tags: {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} → January {{CURRENTDAY}} → 6 {{CURRENTYEAR}} → 2025 Buglarian football player Vasil Panayotov, and Portuguese player José Fonte, in case anyone thinks that Wikipedia contains too much useless information. John Derbyshire's own edits of his bio page → here (2009-07-08). Kevin D. Williamson appears to approve of his WP bio page → here. Tags, etc. This user eats cheese. This user contributes images to Wikimedia Commons. This user is interested in computer engineering. This user is a participant in WikiProject Computing. This user is a member of WikiProject Java. SYNThis user is a synaesthete. This user knows 41 digits of pi. $\int \!\,$This user knows that $\sum _{n=1}^{\infty }n=-{\frac {1}{12}}$ (NYT 2014 reference/archive) This user lives in the U.S. State of Texas. This user's time zone is UTC−6 (CST/CDT). Other Projects Wikipedia:WikiProject Rational Skepticism