Albany NY

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]).

My Fair City

• List of contributions to Wikipedia
• Edit count and statistics

Significant contributions

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

The New York State Capitol

• 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

Photography

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.

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  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.
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  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.
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  The Home Savings Bank Building is a 1927 office tower in downtown Albany. It is the city's tenth tallest structure.
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  The New York State Court of Appeals in Albany is the state's highest judicial body.
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  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.
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  The Times Union Center's semi-enclosed atrium
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  A tour boat passes though the Livingston Avenue Bridge, a railroad swing bridge over the Hudson River.
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  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.
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  Chancellors Hall in the State Education Building
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  One Commerce Plaza is Albany's eleventh tallest building. Completed in 1971, it has 20 floors and is 270 feet tall.
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  The Albany Institute of History & Art is a museum in Albany. Founded in 1791, it is among America's oldest museums.
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  A rear view of Albany High School, the Albany City School District's flagship institution.
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  Albany High's courtyard.
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  SEFCU Arena is a 4,600-seat venue located on the campus of the University at Albany.
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  Brown University's 14-story Science Library, located in Providence, Rhode Island
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  The Maine State House in Augusta. Designed by Charles Bulfinch, it was completed in 1832.
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  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.
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  Newport, Rhode Island's City Hall.
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  The Massachusetts State House displaying a banner in honor of the Boston Red Sox's 2013 World Series appearance

Edit count milestones

Edit counts in the main namespace:

• 500 – May 2007
• 1000 – July 2009
• 1500 – December 2012
• 2000 – May 2013
• 3000 – November 2013
• 4000 – March 2014
• 5000 – July 2014
• 6000 – December 2014
• 7000 – April 2015
• 8000 – November 2015
• 9000 – December 2016
• 10,000 – March 2019
• 11,000 – April 2021
• 12,000 – November 2022

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.

You can help!

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

See also

• 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.

Wikipedia resources

These documents and tools are useful for contributors to Wikipedia:

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.

Tools

• 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.

Articles

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

The Wikipedia Graveyard

This list memorializes deleted articles and removed features.

Articles

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

Features

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

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Userboxes

This user is a citizen of the United States of America.

This user lives in the U.S. State of New York.

This user lives in or hails from New York's Capital District

This user lives in or hails from Albany

This user lives in
New York City

enThis user is a native speaker of the English language.

USThis user uses American English.

. TheThis user does not put two spaces after a full stop.

A, B, and CThis user prefers the serial comma.

MoSThis user follows the Wikipedia Manual of Style, and you should too!

This user is a member of
the Guild of Copy Editors.

This user is a member of
WikiProject Capital District.

This user contributes using Firefox.

This user has rollback rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify)

This user has pending changes reviewer rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify)

This user has been editing Wikipedia for more than 15 years (since 2006).

This user is a member of the Association of Inclusionist Wikipedians. The motto of the AIW is conservata veritate, which translates to "with the preserved truth". This motto reflects the inclusionist desire to change Wikipedia only when no knowledge would be lost as a result.

Awards

requesting comments
Thank you, "fairly passionate inclusionist", for quality articles such as Albany Institute of History & Art and Schenectady Museum, for adding substantially such as to the New York State Capitol, for gnomish work from adding infoboxes to capitalization, for restoring referenced content and boldly requesting comments, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:12, 8 June 2015 (UTC)

Disclaimer

For the City of Albany, New York, see Albany, New York.