User:Pmsyyz

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Pmsyyz is Phillip M. Stewart, who was born in 1975 in Mississippi where he lived until he joined the USAF at age 25. He then lived in Colorado Springs, Colorado until 2014.

Welcome to my user page. Feel free to improve this page. I enjoy contributing to Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, which I first starting doing on 15 May 2004. I registered on 4 July 2004. Some pre-registration edits: 68.64.7.68

I have at least three ancestors with Wikipedia articles: William Bradford (governor), Stephen Hopkins (merchant), and Constance Hopkins. (probably more)

Links

• Twitter: http://twitter.com/pmsyyz
• Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/phillip.stewart
• Photos at Flickr
• LibraryThing: http://www.librarything.com/profile/pmsyyz
• Old blog at LiveJournal
• Old journal at Slashdot

Other wikis

Look further down for the Wikimedia project links.

• Xiph (Xiph.Org Foundation)
• Mozilla Development Center, Mozilla Wiki
• Ubuntu (the Linux distribution)
• VideoLAN Wiki (VLC media player)

Opinions

• 2011-09-04 Andrew G. West performed unethical research.
• 2011-02-09 When looking at a diff of changes to several separate paragraphs, there should be an option to revert just the change to one paragraph.
• 2010-10-02 There needs to be a search just for each article's history. This would allow you to find when certain content was added or went missing.
• Most TV episode lists should include fair use screenshots.
• Ads on Wikipedia: I don't want ads on Wikipedia unless donations can't cover costs, but I'm curious as to how much money can be generated from 24 hours of Google text ads placed under the interlanguage links.

Donations

Wikipedia and other Wikimedia Foundation projects are valuable resources, but it takes more than volunteers to keep it running. See where the money goes. But the quick staffing numbers increase makes me nervous. I have stopped donating. 36.7 million dollars to be granted to other orgs in FY 21-22...

• 2004-07-10 $10
• 2005-08-02 $20
• 2005-11-06 $20
• 2005-12-16 $20
• 2006-01-05 $30
• 2007-01-06 $30
• 2007-10-22 $30
• 2008-11-06 $30
• 2009-10-17 $40
• 2010-10-15 $40
• 2012-xx-xx $60 (via Combined Federal Campaign)
• 2013-xx-xx $60 (via Combined Federal Campaign)
• 2017-12-31 $5

Qualifications / areas of expertise

I acquired a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration from Mississippi State University in 1998 and have been in the United States Air Force since 2001.

• Comic books (collected for most of the 1990s)
• Computers and the Internet (been on since late 1995)
• Free software and open source
• Manga and anime
• Mississippi (first 25 years of my life)
• Mozilla and other web browsers
• World Wide Web

I'm also generally interested in history, geography, etc.

To do/drafts

see User:Pmsyyz/sandbox

Contributions

Edits by namespace (including their talk pages) as of 27 February 2014

  Mainspace (88%)

  User (8%)

  Wikipedia (2%)

  Other (2%)

• Special:Contributions/Pmsyyz
• My current edit count (February/March 2007 was my peak until May 2012 surpassed it) see Wikipedia:WikiProject edit counters
• Per article stat service

Articles (I started most of these)

"Pages created" Toolserver app or alternate (alt) that list my article creations.

Enlisted Performance Report • Peer Name Resolution Protocol • DisplayPort • E-Government Act of 2002 • 22d Space Operations Squadron • 50th Space Wing • 380th Air Expeditionary Wing • Al Dhafra Air Base • Media Play • Google Secure Access • Loop Current (look how this one took off after I created it) • Sierra Grande • Johnson Mesa • Gacha Gacha • 2d Space Operations Squadron • Jabal Yibir • Joint Task Force North • Mississippi Highway 463 • 10th Air Base Wing • Air Force Communications Agency • Desert Hawk • 2d Space Wing • United States Air Force Symbol • United States Central Command Air Forces • 850th Space Communications Squadron • KYK-13 • Iturralde Crater • 172d Airlift Wing • Headquarters Air Force badge • Prince Sultan Air Base • The Great War (documentary) • Ali Air Base • 15th Airlift Wing • 50th Space Communications Squadron • Air Force Combat Action Medal • Treaty of Doak's Stand • NGC 4449 • 403d Wing • 552d Air Control Wing • Elmwood, Oklahoma • 435th Air Base Wing • 917th Wing • Punkin Center, Colorado • Ami Tokito • Barr Trail • 50th Network Operations Group • 926th Group • 11th Space Warning Squadron • Nordkalotten 365 • Guidon (United States)#Air Force • Truckton, Colorado • Sidi Toui National Park • Dan Rather Reports • Cyberjets • Special Operations Command Korea • James A. Roy • Richard E. Webber • 3d Space Wing • 1st Space Wing • 502nd Air Base Wing • Aiken Canyon Preserve • 609th Air Communications Squadron • Heavy Airlift Wing • Man, Woman, Wild • Kamil Crater • Hyppolit, the Butler • WebP • chntpw • Bruce Randolph School • Yao Chen • Baidu Yi • Doomsday Preppers • Bride Wannabes • 19th Expeditionary Weather Squadron • Comparison of online music lockers • 960th Cyberspace Operations Group • Echo Cliffs [1] • Psammotermes allocerus • Daniel Cremieux • 2013 Colorado wildfires • Google Play Music • BTC China • Open Automotive Alliance • 2015 RR245 • Moto E3 Power • Neuralink • Force 47 • Electrify America • Magecart • 838th Air Expeditionary Advisory Group • Robert E. Lee Building • 1876th Communications Squadron • Bathynomus yucatanensis

Images

I upload some fair use images (book and album covers mostly) to the English Wikipedia, see Special:ListFiles/Pmsyyz. In case I miss any being deleted, they are: File:CPT12 logo.png, File:1632-Eric Flint (2000) cover.jpg, File:Cover of 1635 The Cannon Law.jpg, File:Cover of 1634 The Baltic War.png, File:Google Currents icon.png, File:Goto Maki - 3rd Station.jpg, File:CD cover of mini-moni Songs 2.png, File:1634 The Galileo Affair-Eric Flint.jpg, File:Polaris book cover.jpg, File:Seeker book cover.jpg, File:Mother of Demons cover.jpg, File:Book cover 1636-The Kremlin Games.jpg, File:Book cover 1636 Commander Cantrell in the West Indies.jpg, File:Book cover 1636 Seas of Fortune.jpg, File:1635 The Papal Stakes book cover.jpg, File:Book cover 1636 The Devil's Opera.jpg

I'm uploading free images to the Wikimedia Commons now. See my user page there for a list. I've contributed photos of the Colorado Springs area, my hometown, and of places I've driven through, such as Seiling, Oklahoma.

USAF ribbon rack

• Badges of the United States Air Force
• Awards and decorations of the United States Air Force
• Inter-service awards and decorations of the United States military

Mess dress medals

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Citation templates

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Picture of the day

The Heart Nebula is an emission nebula, 7500 light years from Earth, located in the Perseus Arm of the Milky Way in the constellation Cassiopeia. It was discovered by William Herschel on 3 November 1787. Spanning almost 2 degrees in the sky, its shape is driven by stellar winds from the hot stars in its core. The nebula displays glowing ionized hydrogen gas and darker dust lanes, and is also made up of ionised oxygen and sulfur gasses, which cause rich blue and orange colours to be seen in narrowband images. This photograph of the Heart Nebula, with the Fish Head Nebula also visible in the top right corner, is a narrowband image captured on a 70mm scope with a capture period of around 44 hours.Photograph credit: Ram Samudrala

Tip of the day...

How to insert a picture into an article

The syntax used for displaying an image is:

[[File:{name}|{type}|{location}|{size}|{alt=}|{caption}]]

Only [[File:{name}]] parameter is required.

Do not put spaces between parameters. The other parameters are optional and can be placed in any order. Some infoboxes do not require the brackets. Keep parameters in lower case. The other parameters are:

Type

'thumb' / 'thumbnail' or 'frame'. This causes image to be displayed with specific formatting. "thumb" is normally preferred.

Location

'right', 'left', 'center' or 'none'. Determines placement of the image on the page. "Left" or "right" is the norm, but large panoramas or timelines can be displayed in the center.

Size

{width}px or {width}x{height}px (e.g. 50x40px, would limit width to 50 pixels and height to 40 pixels). Normally only one variable is used. Use common sense when determining the sizes; you can use the "Show preview" button if you need to. If thumb or thumbnail is chosen, size should normally be left out, so that the size defaults to the size set in a user's preferences.

alt=

(keep it lower case). This is the "alternate image" parameter used to describe the image for screenreaders or for people with low-vision. It should be more descriptive than the caption alone. Do not use this for another copy of the caption or of the article title, as the reader will already be aware of these.

Caption

Any element which cannot be identified as one of the above is automatically treated as caption text. It is traditional to put this last. The caption should identify what the image is, and ideally be a complete sentence that adds to the article by pointing out something a casual reader would not have noticed otherwise, or add information the pertains to the image. Full sentence or multi fragment captions require full stop punctuation.

If you have created a picture that is not already in Wikipedia's image collection on the Commons that you want to include in an article, you will need to upload it first. Bonus tip: Similar formatting is used to insert basic audio or basic video clips into articles.

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