User:Gilliam
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I'm Gilliam, Wikipedian since 2005. As an administrator and active editor, I strive to maintain a balance between volunteer admin duties and free writing contributions.
At the moment, I enjoy improving the history section of any U.S. town, especially small, unincorporated communities, formerly having focused on topics pertaining to my native Cincinnati–Northern Kentucky metropolitan area.
I rely on research sites such as Google Books, Google Newspapers, and when on-line sources are not available, print books from the Ohio-Kentucky public library systems.
A few indispensable sites and gadgets appear in the sections below...
Toolbox
- Citing sources
- ProveIt GT (Highly recommended!)
- Enable ProveIt at your preferences under 'Gadgets'; it will then appear in in the edit box. Create references by filling in fields such as URL, page title, etc.
- Citation Tool for Google Books (Highly recommended!)
- Search database at https://books.google.com with desired keyword(s). Once you find a page containing what you need, copy and paste page URL into the Citation Tool, and it will instantly generate a ref you can add directly to Wikipedia
- HathiTrust Digital Library similar to Google Books
- Project Gutenberg
- Google Newspaper Archive
- The free Google Newspaper Archive is a searchable database of old newspapers. Once you find the article you need, copy/paste URL, date, author, etc. into ProveIt.
- Counter vandalism
N.B. I encourage any vandal fighter to tick "Hide my edits from the watchlist" in the "Watchlist" section in your preferences. This will allow you to better monitor recent changes.
- Etc.
- Article list by WikiProject
- Dabfix
- Dablink pages
- Dashboard
- GNIS, the online Geographic Names Information System
- Comprehensive list of post offices (official USPS list)
- X!'s tools
- Search Wikipedia: (100)
- Checklinks
- Global user contributions
- Range tool 1, Range tool 2
- Topozone Map (How to reference?)
- Wikipedia:AutoEd
- User:Suggestbot
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| Edits+Deleted | 503921 |
| Pages deleted | 6699 |
| Revisions deleted | 304 |
| Pages restored | 68 |
| Pages protected | 1540 |
| Pages unprotected | 52 |
| Protections modified | 135 |
| Users blocked | 95708 |
| Users reblocked | 501 |
| Users unblocked | 72 |
| User rights modified | 232 |
| Users created | 1 |
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