User:Albany NY - Wikipedia

Welcome to Albany NY's user page. I have been editing Wikipedia since 2006. Although my original focus was on improving articles relating to New York's Capital District, I often edit articles in numerous areas. Common tasks of mine include adding infoboxes, geolinks, and references to articles, wikifying dead-end pages, creating redirects, uploading photographs, editing section headings, and formatting bold text, italics, and capitalization. I'm a fairly passionate inclusionist in regard to Wikipedia philosophy (see [1][2][3]).

• List of contributions to Wikipedia
• Edit count and statistics

I have made significant contributions to the following pages. Articles that I created are in bold.

• The Alan Colmes Show
• Albany City Hall
• Albany City School District
• Albany High School
• Albany Institute of History & Art
• Alfred E. Smith Building
• Aquarium of Niagara
• "The Carnival"
• Dunn Memorial Bridge
• Empire State Aerosciences Museum
• Encyclopedia Brunoniana
• Erastus Corning Tower
• Gerald Jennings
• Legislative Gazette
• Menands Bridge
• The Media Project
• New York State Department of Education Building
• New York State Executive Mansion
• New York State Capitol
• Palace Theatre
• Quarterback
• Schenectady City Hall
• Schenectady Museum
• Seeing Voices
• Times Union

I have taken the following images. Most were shot with a Canon PowerShot S50 digital camera, and some were edited with Adobe Photoshop. I have released them under free licenses.

• The Egg, a performing arts center located in the Empire State Plaza, is an Albany landmark. The Erastus Corning Tower is visible on the right.

• The Cultural Education Center is also located in the Empire State Plaza. The ten story building houses the New York State Museum, Library, and Archives.

• The Home Savings Bank Building is a 1927 office tower in downtown Albany. It is the city's tenth tallest structure.

• The New York State Court of Appeals in Albany is the state's highest judicial body.

• The Times Union Center is a major sports and entertainment venue in downtown Albany. When this photo was taken in 2006, it was still known as the Pepsi Arena.

• The Times Union Center's semi-enclosed atrium

• A tour boat passes though the Livingston Avenue Bridge, a railroad swing bridge over the Hudson River.

• The New York State Education Building is an imposing Neoclassical structure across the street from the Capitol. It formerly housed the New York State Museum.

• Chancellors Hall in the State Education Building

• One Commerce Plaza is Albany's eleventh tallest building. Completed in 1971, it has 20 floors and is 270 feet tall.

• The Albany Institute of History & Art is a museum in Albany. Founded in 1791, it is among America's oldest museums.

• A rear view of Albany High School, the Albany City School District's flagship institution.

• Albany High's courtyard.

• SEFCU Arena is a 4,600-seat venue located on the campus of the University at Albany.

• The Maine State House in Augusta. Designed by Charles Bulfinch, it was completed in 1832.

• The Blaine House is the official residence of the Governor of Maine. Built in 1833, it is located across the street from the State House.

Edit counts in the main namespace:

Approximately 95 percent of my edits are to articles, and I have edited more than 10,000 unique pages. I appear on the list of Wikipedians by number of edits, ranked in the 7000s as of February 2016. In September 2013, I was ranked at 2879 on the list of Wikipedians by number of recent edits. I was granted rollback and reviewer rights in February 2015.

To contribute to articles related to the Albany area, see:

• WikiProject Capital District
• Category:Capital District (New York)
• Category:Albany County, New York
• Category:Albany, New York

• Wikimapia: A website where users can add place descriptions to Google Maps (this external link leads to the map of Albany). For more information, see Wikimapia.

These documents and tools are useful for contributors to Wikipedia:

• Manual of Style: Every contributor should read and be familiar with this document. Unfortunately, many articles do not comply with its guidelines, especially those dealing with section headings, bold text, and italics.
• Picture Tutorial: A useful reference for dealing with images in articles.
• Glossary: A directory of common terms used in Wikipedia.
• Infobox templates: Infoboxes make articles appear much more professional and visually appealing. They should be added to any page where they are applicable.
• Graphics Lab: A place where Wikipedians work to improve images in the encyclopedia.
• Featured Picture Candidates: These are some of Wikipedia's best photographs.
• Article Rescue Squadron: Saving the encyclopedia from itself, one article at a time.
• Department of Fun: Lots of entertainment and time-wasters.

• Edit Counter: Use this tool to find the edit count and statistics of a Wikipedia editor.
• Wikipedia Article Traffic Statistics: Gives page views for any article and lists Wikipedia's most viewed pages.
• Deletionpedia: A repository of deleted articles.
• Firefox: The latest version of the Mozilla Firefox web browser, which includes a spell checking feature for online forms. This allows Wikipedians to easily find spelling errors while editing.

• "The Charms of Wikipedia" (Nicholson Baker, The New York Review of Books)
• "Wikipedia Is the Last Best Place on the Internet" (Richard Cooke, Wired)

This list memorializes deleted articles and removed features.

• Jeopardy! set evolution (now a redirect) (version at U.S. Game Shows Wiki)

• Date autoformatting
• "In popular culture" sections (some still exist, but they are banned on other pages)
• Spoiler alerts