User:Trevor MacInnis

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[edit] About this user

Welcome to the User page about me, Trevor MacInnis. I am a Beechcraft King Air MEDEVAC pilot in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada. Born the year the Tim Horton's Timbit was introduced, I grew up in Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia. After a brief stint at Saint Mary's University I attended flight school in Moncton, New Brunswick where I learned to fly. I have been on Wikipedia since Norway banned smoking in bars and restaurants and became the 450th (approx) of 1,077 administrators on the Bicentennial of the Battle of Trafalgar.

I created my first article, Descent (aircraft) [1], the same day the Riemann hypothesis was proven.

You could call me an Eventualist, I am definitely a Wikipediholic and I am happy to help Wikipedia someday reach usefulness. I believe the single greatest problem with Wikipedia (excluding vandalism) is its lack of Featured Article quality articles.

I'm an RC Patroler, the maintainer of the Aviation Portal, active in the following projects: Aircraft, Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team

I've now re-dedicated myself to improving articles, with the aim of making FA-quality articles across a spectrum of topics. A few ares I will be focusing my attention: add references to unreferenced articles, Category:Wikipedia articles needing copy edit, Category:Aviation stubs, my own ACID project, etc.

Keep in mind:

"Qui tacet consentit" (silence implies consent)
"Quod scripsi, scripsi." (What I have written, I have written--Pilate
"Aequam memento rebus in arduis servare mentem" (remember to keep a calm mind in difficulties)
Malum consilium quod mutari non potest. It's a bad plan that can't be changed.(Publilius Syrus 403)

Editing - Just doin' my part to help.

E-mail · Contribs · Avi Portal · A/C Project · Sub's · Edit#

[edit] Article Creation and Improvement Drive

My little project to help with Wikipedia:100,000 feature-quality articles.

The path to a Featured Article

#Start a new article
#Research and write a great article
#Check against the featured article criteria
#Get creative feedback (Peer review)
#Apply for featured article status
#Featured articles

[edit] Start a new article

Articles for creation

Wikipedia:Vital articles

Article requests (Backlog)

Most wanted articles

Most wanted stubs

Wikipedia:Former featured articles

m:List of articles all languages should have

Wikipedia:Topics where Wikipedia is weak

Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Core topics

Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Core biographies

Wikipedia:Featured articles in other languages

Expansion requests

Wikipedia:List of 2007 Macropedia articles

[edit] Research and write a great article

[edit] Check against the featured article criteria

Wikipedia:What is a featured article?

A featured article has the following attributes:

It exemplifies our very best work.
It is well written, comprehensive, factually accurate, neutral, and stable. Read Great writing and The perfect article to see how high the standards are set. In this respect:
- (a) "well written" means that the prose is compelling, even brilliant; See How to satisfy Criterion 1a
- (b) "comprehensive" means that an article covers the topic in its entirety, and does not neglect any major facts or details;
- (c) "factually accurate" includes the supporting of facts with specific evidence and external citations (see Wikipedia:Verifiability); these include a "References" section where the references are set out, complemented where appropriate by inline citations (see Wikipedia:Citing sources). For articles with footnotes or endnotes, the meta:cite format is strongly encouraged; you can use Wikipedia:Template messages/Sources of articles to format bibliographic references for you.
- (d) "neutral" means that an article is uncontroversial in its neutrality and factual accuracy (see Wikipedia:Neutral point of view);
- (e) "stable" means that an article does not change significantly from day to day and is not the subject of ongoing edit wars.
It complies with the standards set out in the style manual and relevant WikiProjects. These include having:
- (a) a concise lead section that summarizes the entire topic and prepares the reader for the higher level of detail in the subsequent sections;
- (b) a proper system of hierarchical headings; and
- (c) a substantial but not overwhelming table of contents (see Wikipedia:Section).
It has images where appropriate, with succinct captions and acceptable copyright status; however, including images is not a prerequisite for a featured article.
It is of appropriate length, staying tightly focused on the main topic without going into unnecessary detail; it should use summary style to cover sub-topics that are treated in greater detail in any "daughter" articles.

The following guides focus on the most common problems in nominated articles:

[edit] Articles to be ACID-burned

Halifax Explosion
International Space Station
George Back Canadian arctic explorer
John Franklin Arctic explorer
William Edward Parry Arctic explorer
map see talk page (add history, stuff from temp page etc)
National Gallery of Canada
Archaeoastronomy
items in Category:Ancient Britain,Category:Ancient Rome
Boeing
Hudson's Bay Company
Halifax, Nova Scotia, must put up for colab or imp drive (esp history section)
Citizen Kane
Wayne Gretzky
Lance Armstrong
Nicolaus Copernicus
Big Dig
History of Canada
Meteorology, put up for colab or imp drive
Texas hold 'em put up for imp drive, colab? or is it ready for peer review?
SETI
RAF
Victoria Cross
Orson Welles
Supersonic and merge in related pages
Max Ward (bush pilot)

[edit] Post Peer Review

[edit] Worklist

update P:Air to Wikipedia:Featured content/Portals
update WP:Air to Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history stuff
Crawford expedition has great references to books
add comments to Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Aircraft articles by quality/1, etc
work on genealogy links and add tl:ns towns to articles.
fix, unwikilink basic terms such as one, two, and Category:Disambiguation
add Template:Infobox Skyscraper to all articles in Category:Skyscrapers and fix links to Template:Skyscraper
create artices from Category:Canada-related lists, List of Canadian provincial parks,
create movie pages from the redlinks on actor/esses pages
AWB avoid redirects of Template:Crash infobox, User:Trevor macinnis,
add Template:YearCategoryHeader to every category.Fix for 100s
make a map of Wikipedia:Reference pages
create pages/category for Nobel prizes by year, then remove all nobel sections from year pages
Update/move AIP to AIM
Add to List of aviation, aerospace and aeronautical terms from AIP
Wikipedia needs a rewrite and re-propotion to FA. Go through history to find a good version to use, start with the one that was initially promoted.
check http://www.boeing.com/commercial/airports/plan_manuals.html for usable pic/info
translate [2]
update portal to one of these: [3][4] [5][6] [7][8][9]
add reference templates to Wikipedia:WikiProject Aircraft/page content, may need to create some for my encyclopedias
create logo for aviation portal from
work in Category:Aircraft without proper specifications
add to Portal:Aviation/Aviation Topics with Category:Aviation lists
add to List of aviation, aerospace and aeronautical terms from AIM
Wikipedia:People by year/Reports/Stats add births/deaths to long ago year articles
Update List of NGC objects from Wikipedia:WikiProject Astronomical objects and http://www.seds.org/messier/xtra/ngc/ngc.html
W:AWB - Category:Lists that should be categories//Wikipedia:Template substitution
update browse tab proposal with icons used already by Goforit's updates to browse, glossaries, etc. perhaps get him involved.
Wikipedia:Computer help desk/Category graph study
divide up/clean up year cats
Wikipedia:Categorization projects (current)
Make some kind of Directed acyclic graph for Wikipedia:Categorization
and User:Stephen Gilbert/Documentation survey
add National Gallery stuff
expand History of Canada from Timeline of Canadian history esp pre-confederation
Meteorology - in topics and phenomenon add everything.. and reorder
Dogrib language
Chapman as a last name (history, origin)
Autopilot cleanup
Flying ace add canadians

[edit] Add pic

[edit] Vandalism / spam

User:Henna/VF#Downloads_and_release_notes

[edit] Article cleanup

Cleanup Taskforce

Cleanup backlogs

Backlogs by month

Copy edit (need)

Elements of Style (more)

Neglected articles

Category:NPOV disputes

[edit] Policy creation and revision

Village pump policy and proposal forum	WP:VPP
Policies and guidelines, an overview	WP:RULES
Policies^{(Deletion, Image use, )}	WP:LOP
Guidelines^{(External links)}	WP:GUIDELINES

[edit] Other Article creation and improvement projects

Wikipedia:Article Creation and Improvement Drive

Active fixup projects

Categorization projects

Encyclopedic Standards

Countering systemic bias

Version 1.0 Editorial Team

Editing for hire

Task trading

[edit] WikiProjects

Collaborations I am a member/supporter of.

WikiProject directory^(Guide)	WikiProject Council
Wikipedia:WikiProject Aircraft^(assessment)	Portal:Aviation
Wikipedia:WikiProject Airports^(assessment)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Airlines^(assessment)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check
Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias
Wikipedia:WikiProject Usability
Wikipedia:WikiProject Years
Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles	List
Wikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation
Wikipedia:WikiProject User Page Help
Wikipedia:Canadian wikipedians' notice board/Dictionary of Canadian Biography

[edit] Help departments

Help Desk	WP:HD
Requests for administrator attention	WP:RAA
Village pump (technical)	WP:VPT
Table of Contents	WP:CONTENT • WP:TOC
Help menu	WP:HELP
Frequently asked questions	WP:FAQ
Shortcuts	WP:
User page design	WP:UPD
User page help desk	WP:UPH/HD
Reference desk	WP:RD
Humanities	WP:RD/H
Science	WP:RD/S
Mathematics	WP:RD/Math
Computing	WP:RD/C
Language	WP:RD/L
Miscellaneous	WP:RD/M
Archives

[edit] News departments

Community bulletin board	WP:CBB
The Signpost	WP:POST
Wikipedia in the media	WP:MEDIA
Village pump news (for news or issues that need discussion)	WP:VPN
Announcements	WP:A
Stats	WP:S
Milestones

[edit] Opinions

[edit] And I quote...

"Far too often we have endless a priori debates about certain things, debates which lead nowhere because we have no evidence. A better approach is to be flexible and try things and see what happens, and proceed thoughtfully based on lessons learned. --Jimbo"

I totally agree with the above quote.

There are a few problems with Wikipedia I think need to be addressed: Stay tuned.

AfD - the more I see of this the less I like. I believe the whole thing needs to be scrapped in favor of something else, what that is I don't yet know , but I have some ideas...
1. Ignore AFD - focus on article creation/improvement. Too many people are spending their time deleting articles instead of contributing. Lets stop deleting altogether, with the exception of articles that have offensive/abusive/etc titles or have offensive/abusive content that needs removal quickly, or articles linked to. I don't see a problem with leaving an article with a good title but no good content up. If nothing links to it then nobody will see it. Someday someone may want to create a valid article there and find one already created, but needing to be changed to good content.
2. Maybe don't delete that page but blank it, put up a do not create notice, and protect the page. A large part of the deletetion work is re-deleting pages that constantly get re-created.
3. WP:PWDS
Lead sections - are not being used to their full potential. I believe that a lead section should be small enough to hold a readers attention, but should be long enough to half all the information about the subject a reader may want to see....
The See also section - I don't like it. Except for a few cases (antonyms, synonyms, "List of" links) this section is just a cop out for not including the links in the article body or placing the article in a category. If the link has to do with the topic it should be explained why in the text, or evident in the categories the page is placed in. This will add to artiicle, giving it a better context, and reducing the number of nonsence listings in see also sections (See:Flight)(and then you won't need the see also link)...
This ones a bit of a rant. Sometimes protected pages are treated with too much reverance. Just because it is protected does not make it perfect. And just because a non-admin suggests a change does not mean you have to agree with it. Some editors superiority complexes lead them to believe that since they've been around long enough, they know what should and should not be done in every situation. Newbies are not being taken seriously in their suggestions and edits and a lot of good edits are being ignored/reverted. I say - if a non-admin asked for an edit to be done on a protected page, as long as it is not vandalism then it should be done. If it doesn't work then someone will revert it, but give it a chance first.

[edit] Essays

User:DavidLevinson/Future

Wikipedia:Image copyright issues for dummies

[edit] Edits of note

: Featured on Did you know// : Featured content : Good article

[edit] I've created

For a full list see:[10]

Portal:Aviation - (especially the Historical anniversaries section//
Portal:Browse (now Portal:List)

[edit] Science

Created from List of NGC objects// Ludwigite// Coma cluster of galaxies// Coma star cluster//

[edit] Film

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies// AFI 100 Years... series// List of Star Wars planets Subpages// List of references to Citizen Kane in other work// [[

[edit] British Isles

Ardgour// Clan MacInnes// Kinlochaline Castle

[edit] Family history

Trevor// Yorkshire Emigration to Nova Scotia// Slow Movement// Chapman

[edit] Aircraft

Twin Otter// King Air// DHC-3// De Havilland Gipsy Moth// De Havilland Hornet Moth// Altocumulus Castellanus// British Air Line Pilots Association// Pilatus Aircraft// Air Tindi// Noorduyn// Air Tractor// Aichi D1A// Aircraft marshalling// Aviat A1 Husky// Cessna 550 Citation II// Beriev Be-30// Aérospatiale Epsilon// Airco DH.5

[edit] Aviation

List of airports in Canada (A-C)(Originally "List of airports in Canada")// Hold (aviation)// Aircraft marshalling// Small Aircraft Transportation System// DUATS// North-Wright Airways// Lynden Air Cargo// [[

[edit] War

List of World War II aces by country subpages// James Francis Edwards// Irving Farmer Kennedy// Battle of Campaldino// Battle of Ilipa// Battle of Soissons (1918)// Battle of Soissons (923)// [[

[edit] Templates

Template:YearsProject// Template:AirlineProject// Template:AircraftProject// Template:Box portal skeleton// Template:Main portals// Template:Centurybox// Template:Decadebox// Template:Yearbox// Template:Millenniabox//

a Survey related to time standards//Many many many redirects from Wikipedia:List of encyclopedia topics//

[edit] People

Liza Frulla// Michael Francklin// André-Jacques Garnerin// Peter Cope// Mark Charles Honeywell// Dominique Maltais// John Livingston// Walter Henry Zinn// Demore Barnes // Georges Nomarski // Hans Ritter von Adam // Albert Achard// Joe E. Tata

[edit] The North

Gjoa Haven, Nunavut//

[edit] Lists

List of references to Citizen Kane in other work// List of '2007 in' articles

[edit] Various

Neuromarketing// Cook Group// Metonic calendar

[edit] I've worked on

Wikipedia:WikiProject Years and Wikipedia:Timeline standards new standards proposed and implemented
revamped Wikipedia:Tutorial
tables updated in many decade/years/century pages
standardized month pages to Current events style
I've updated Wikipedia:Wikiportals, added instuctions etc.
List of World War II aces by country//List of Star Wars planets split up lists
100 Years Series//Airport//Runwayadded info
rewrote Air traffic controlrewrote
cleaned up links in List of aircraft
Template:C21YearInTopic//changed to new box
Added history to Halifax//Yellowknife, Northwest Territories//Isthmus of Chignecto
Changed some portals to new format (Canada, History, Literature, Science, Archaeology, Quebec, Sports, Trains etc//
Lots of Vandalism patrol

[edit] I've added references to

lots of minor edits, more to come

[edit] My DYK's

Neuromarketing

[edit] My FA's

None, yet.

[edit] My GA's

[edit] My Featured Pic's

P-51 Mustang

[edit] System administration departments

Administraton index	CAT:WP • CAT:WIKI
Requests for administrator attention	WP:RAA
Directory of administrators	WP:DOA • WP:LOA
Administrators' noticeboard	WP:ANB
Administrator preparation^{(Del. guidelines for admins)}	WP:ARL • WP:PREP
Requests for adminship	RfA

[edit] Main Page departments

Main Page design discussions
Today's featured article (dept.)	WP:TOFA
Picture of the day (dept.)	WP:POTD
Did you know (dept.)	WP:DYK
In the news (dept.)	WP:ITND
Selected anniversaries (dept.)	WP:SA
Main Page alternatives	WP:MPA

[edit] Featured status departments

Featured Article Help Desk	WP:FAD • WP:FAHD
The first step: peer review	WP:PR
Featured article candidates	WP:FAC
Featured list candidates	WP:FLC
Featured picture candidates	WP:FPC
Featured portal candidates	WP:FPCAN

Featured articles	WP:FA
Featured lists	WP:FL
Featured pictures	WP:FP
Featured portals	WP:FPORT
Featured article removal candidates	WP:FARC
Picture of the day department	WP:POTD

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