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Stevietheman is Steve Magruder (born 1966) from Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. He is a hacker, gnome, rational skeptic, foodist/ gastronerd and Wikipedian. In no particular order.
The Wikipedia is beyond an encyclopedia of all potential notable subjects — it is also an almanac and the beginning of a possibly unforeseen civic infrastructure. Steve has often thought about what the Wikipedia's raison d'être really is beyond how it is commonly promoted. Ultimately, in his humble opinion, the Wikipedia and derivative efforts are about:
And Steve thinks all of these are a Good Thing™.
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3.32 RPM according to EnterpriseyBot 23:10, 18 June 2024 (UTC) change |
In general, Steve believes that dedicating one's time to the development of anything positively useful by humankind is the highest moral act, especially because these kind of contributions tend to keep on giving past one's existence. With respect to the Wikipedia, Steve participates to:
Steve can accomplish all of the above without ever becoming an admin. He sees no joy in the idea of being an admin—boring, thankless tasks aren't his bag. On the contrary, he finds immense joy in authoring articles and managing projects that enhance the process of authoring articles. Unless and until admins are paid a significant stipend, please do not nominate him for adminship.
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Steve made his first contribution to the Wikipedia on March 20, 2004, adding a self-promotional link to direct democracy. Not much later he realized doing that wasn't appropriate, but ultimately he added worthwhile content to this and many other articles related to the subject of democracy.
Steve contributes to many articles and discussions, especially related to his hometown of Louisville and his home state of Kentucky. Also, using AutoWikiBrowser, he runs many cleanup processes that seek to improve article quality.
As of April 26, 2017, Steve is the 284th most active Wikipedian in the English language Wikipedia and has completed more than 127,000 live edits (97.5% of all edits), over 75,000 (59.4%) of which are directly to articles. 24.7% of his work is on article talk pages (and 2.7% on category talk pages), largely due to tagging and assessment for two WikiProjects. See his full list of contributions.
Steve believes in making constructive changes to articles in a very bold manner, but whenever a change dramatically alters the content of a well-established article, he will either: 1) seek consensus first from currently heavily involved contributors to the article; or 2) if there are not any currently heavily involved contributors, simply explain his changes on the talk page and then proceed.
When it comes to editing articles, Steve addresses obvious spelling, grammar and structural issues. But that's not all. As an editor, Steve always takes a strong look at:
Archive of news items over 5 years old
Steve adheres to the idea that policies are law in the Wikipedia and should be strictly followed, except when doing that interferes with reasonable, very necessary actions. However, he believes that guidelines are just that, guidelines, and are not absolute. Guidelines should be used to guide in one's contributions and to serve as weighted points in the determination of the correctness of content or its structuring. In some cases, strict adherence to guidelines over common sense or usability has been a bad thing for the Wikipedia. Further, while most guidelines are sensible and well-considered, Steve every now and then comes across a guideline and thinks "Who wrote this crapola?".
Steve uses {{ prod}} to deal with unencyclopedic articles he comes across in the Wikipedia. But he won't bother unless the article's subject is obviously non-notable or the article's development is extremely weak. If he can't decide one way or another, he defaults to doing nothing.
Except with respect to pages included by WikiProject Louisville or WikiProject Kentucky, he normally does not participate in XfD processes. Steve is not exactly an "inclusionist", but figures the inclusion disputes are best left to those who enjoy the heat of these kind of disputes. It's also hard for Steve to think of himself as a truly contributive Wikipedia "author" if he spends much, if any, time deciding whether an article hardly anybody will ever look at should be kept or removed.
When it comes to disagreements over the content in articles, Steve is a strong adherent to seeking honorable compromises that maintain factuality and proper balance above all else. However, there are times when some other contributors descend into game playing, process abuse, personal attacks, muddying tangential discussion or repeated circular argumentation rather than faithfully discussing content disputes and answering straight questions (usually, "Do you have evidence or sources for your position?"). These folks are usually dealt with via consensus of the other involved contributors.
See Wikipedia:WikiProject Louisville#Louisville disambiguation. This activity isn't as anal as you may think. :)
Following are Steve's 40 most edited articles (as of April 26, 2017):
Following are articles and other pages created by Steve:
Note: I've created many Louisville-related categories that have been renamed via deletion followed by creation of the new ones, without credit made to the original creators.
This is the list of things Steve is planning to do in the Wikipedia. Of course, please feel free to beat Steve to the punch in getting any of these things done.
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Steve doesn't work in the Wikipedia to get awards, but still, they are kind recognition of his humble work, and he appreciates them.
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The Technical Barnstar |
Thank you very much for looking into all of my JWB settings and such to try to find out what the issue was. It was really helpful!!!![]() |
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Citation Barnstar | |
This award is given in recognition to StefenTower for collecting more than 5 points during the WikiProject Unreferenced articles's FEB24 backlog drive. Your contributions played a crucial role in sourcing 14,300 unsourced articles during the drive. Thank you so much for participating and helping to reduce the backlog! – – DreamRimmer ( talk) 17:58, 8 March 2024 (UTC) |
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The Original Barnstar | |
For your tireless work in maintaining and improving RegExTypoFix. Wikipedialuva ( talk) 09:44, 28 January 2024 (UTC) |
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The Barnstar of Good Humor |
Thank you for gently and kindly making smart, fair edits to a momentarily sloppy change I made and for all the great work it looks like you do RYPJack ( talk) 18:06, 8 February 2017 (UTC) |
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The Original Barnstar |
Stevietheman helped me learn the ropes of Wikipedia after I jumped into editing. Thanks! Zach Murrell ( talk) 00:24, 2 February 2017 (UTC) |
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The Original Barnstar |
Thank you for the great job you are doing on the editing of articles especially mine. Chitt66 ( talk) 22:29, 10 January 2017 (UTC) |
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The Special Barnstar | |
For your efforts at the Muhammad Ali page in fighting vandalism and disruptive edits as well as for your constructive editing on this page. May you continue to keep an eye on this page always. Soham321 ( talk) 17:40, 4 December 2016 (UTC) |
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The Citation Barnstar |
Thank you. Here's a barnstar for your citation cleanups and also for the much-needed images you added to Lincoln Memorial at Waterfront Park Mitzi.humphrey ( talk) 13:48, 27 August 2016 (UTC) |
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The Special Barnstar | |
In appreciation of your important contributions to Wikipedia. You are an asset to this website. And Adoil Descended ( talk) 17:06, 10 August 2016 (UTC) |
Pony!
Congratulations! For
saving American Pharoah from an overeager bot, you have received a
pony! Ponies are cute, intelligent, cuddly, friendly (most of the time, though with notable exceptions), promote good will, encourage patience, and enjoy carrots. Treat your pony with respect and he will be your faithful friend!
Montanabw
(talk) 22:25, 11 June 2015 (UTC)
To send a pony or a treat to other wonderful and responsible editors,
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The Original Barnstar |
Well...I like your user page. Add and Got ( talk) 15:11, 30 April 2015 (UTC) |
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The Original Barnstar |
Thanks for your help. I appreciate your attention to the Louisville-related articles. Mitzi.humphrey ( talk) 17:16, 6 February 2015 (UTC) |
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The Barnstar of Diligence |
Thanks for your watchful eye! It is greatly appreciated. Taxee ( talk) 16:15, 2 February 2015 (UTC) |
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The Bluegrass Barnstar | |
I hereby award you with this bluegrass barnstar for your invaluable work to improve articles for the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Keep up the outstanding work! -- Steven Williamson ( HiB2Bornot2B) - talk 17:56, 19 June 2007 (UTC) |
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The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar | |
Thanks for your help in preventing recent vandalism at Louisville, Kentucky and at other articles in the past. Your efforts are much appreciated! Seicer ( talk) ( contribs) 04:30, 13 January 2007 (UTC) |
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The Editor's Barnstar | |
For all you have done for Wikipedia, especially in regards to the Louisville Metro, I award you, Stevietheman, the Editor's Barnstar. Keep up the awesome work! -- Moreau36 16:48, 1 October 2006 (UTC) |
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The Original Barnstar | |
I award this Barnstar to Stevie for his tireless efforts in WikiProject Louisville and because he has received entirely too few barnstars for his hard work. |
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The Original Barnstar | |
For your continued excellent work on the PHP article! --james // bornhj (talk) 10:14, 28 July 2006 (UTC) |
As a 13-year Wikipedian, Steve very much acknowledges Wikipedia's greatness and potential, but for the sake of honest participation here, he feels obligated to list and describe its faults as well:
The product that is Wikipedia is made technically possible by MediaWiki, brilliantly designed wiki software, along with various other bots, tools, etc. But no software is perfect, and the following are the technical issues and limitations that Steve currently sees.
Steve was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky. Steve attended public school at Auburndale Elementary (1–3, 5), Parkland Elementary (4), Lassiter Middle (6–8), Butler High (9) and Fairdale High (10–12).
In 1984, Steve began attending J. B. Speed School of Engineering (formerly Speed Scientific School) at the University of Louisville, majoring in Engineering Math and Computer Science (concentrating in Computer Science), and received his B.S. in Engineering Science in 1989. Subsequently, he worked alternately as a permanent employee and contractor with various firms and organizations (including two Fortune 500 companies) as a software developer.
Since graduating from college, he has lived in Endicott, New York, Atlanta, Georgia, Charlotte, North Carolina and Fremont, California. He has been living in his hometown of Louisville since 2001.
In Fall 2003, Steve began focusing on independent web-related work (paid and volunteer), including web design/ programming, online sales and Wikipedia editing. Aspects of this work continue to this day.
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This is not an encyclopedia article. If you find this page on any site other than Wikipedia, you are viewing a mirror site. Be aware that the page may be outdated and that the user this page belongs to may have no personal affiliation with any site other than Wikipedia itself. The original page is located at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:StefenTower/archive. |
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participant in
WikiProject Louisville, an open collaborative effort to coordinate and develop appropriate, comprehensive and well-connected content covering
metropolitan
Louisville, Kentucky and related subjects in the Wikipedia.
Join us! •
Patrol changes •
Cleanup issues (3,341) •
Project Talk
WikiProject Louisville Alerts have been posted:
Good article nominees
Articles to be merged
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![]() | This editor is a Grandmaster Editor and is entitled to display the Lapis Philosophorum Editor Star with the Neutronium Superstar. |
35% | This user has been a Wikipedian for 35.2% of his life. |
![]() | This user is one of the 300 most active English Wikipedians of all time. |
![]() | This user is from
Louisville, home of the Kentucky Derby. |
UofL | This user attends or attended the University of Louisville. |
![]() | This user lives in the United States Commonwealth of Kentucky. |
Stevietheman is Steve Magruder (born 1966) from Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. He is a hacker, gnome, rational skeptic, foodist/ gastronerd and Wikipedian. In no particular order.
The Wikipedia is beyond an encyclopedia of all potential notable subjects — it is also an almanac and the beginning of a possibly unforeseen civic infrastructure. Steve has often thought about what the Wikipedia's raison d'être really is beyond how it is commonly promoted. Ultimately, in his humble opinion, the Wikipedia and derivative efforts are about:
And Steve thinks all of these are a Good Thing™.
![]() |
3.32 RPM according to EnterpriseyBot 23:10, 18 June 2024 (UTC) change |
In general, Steve believes that dedicating one's time to the development of anything positively useful by humankind is the highest moral act, especially because these kind of contributions tend to keep on giving past one's existence. With respect to the Wikipedia, Steve participates to:
Steve can accomplish all of the above without ever becoming an admin. He sees no joy in the idea of being an admin—boring, thankless tasks aren't his bag. On the contrary, he finds immense joy in authoring articles and managing projects that enhance the process of authoring articles. Unless and until admins are paid a significant stipend, please do not nominate him for adminship.
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![]() | This user
participates in WikiProject Louisville. |
![]() | This user is a
participant in WikiProject Kentucky. |
127,000+ |
284 | This user is ranked 284 on the list of Wikipedians by number of edits. |
![]() | This user uses AutoWikiBrowser to quickly make repetitive edits. |
NEWS | This user has access to Newspapers.com through The Wikipedia Library. |
![]() | This user is a member of the Association of Categorist Wikipedians. |
![]() | This user knows why redirects exist and how to use them effectively. |
< ref> | This user recognizes the importance of citing sources. |
![]() | This user believes that adding relevant links is never a bad thing. |
![]() | This user enforces WP:NFC. |
![]() | This user has strong political views, but feels that Wikipedia is not the proper place to express them. |
![]() | This user believes that process is important on Wikipedia and is opposed to its circumvention. |
<sum>:1 | This user believes that every edit should have a summary. |
Steve made his first contribution to the Wikipedia on March 20, 2004, adding a self-promotional link to direct democracy. Not much later he realized doing that wasn't appropriate, but ultimately he added worthwhile content to this and many other articles related to the subject of democracy.
Steve contributes to many articles and discussions, especially related to his hometown of Louisville and his home state of Kentucky. Also, using AutoWikiBrowser, he runs many cleanup processes that seek to improve article quality.
As of April 26, 2017, Steve is the 284th most active Wikipedian in the English language Wikipedia and has completed more than 127,000 live edits (97.5% of all edits), over 75,000 (59.4%) of which are directly to articles. 24.7% of his work is on article talk pages (and 2.7% on category talk pages), largely due to tagging and assessment for two WikiProjects. See his full list of contributions.
Steve believes in making constructive changes to articles in a very bold manner, but whenever a change dramatically alters the content of a well-established article, he will either: 1) seek consensus first from currently heavily involved contributors to the article; or 2) if there are not any currently heavily involved contributors, simply explain his changes on the talk page and then proceed.
When it comes to editing articles, Steve addresses obvious spelling, grammar and structural issues. But that's not all. As an editor, Steve always takes a strong look at:
Archive of news items over 5 years old
Steve adheres to the idea that policies are law in the Wikipedia and should be strictly followed, except when doing that interferes with reasonable, very necessary actions. However, he believes that guidelines are just that, guidelines, and are not absolute. Guidelines should be used to guide in one's contributions and to serve as weighted points in the determination of the correctness of content or its structuring. In some cases, strict adherence to guidelines over common sense or usability has been a bad thing for the Wikipedia. Further, while most guidelines are sensible and well-considered, Steve every now and then comes across a guideline and thinks "Who wrote this crapola?".
Steve uses {{ prod}} to deal with unencyclopedic articles he comes across in the Wikipedia. But he won't bother unless the article's subject is obviously non-notable or the article's development is extremely weak. If he can't decide one way or another, he defaults to doing nothing.
Except with respect to pages included by WikiProject Louisville or WikiProject Kentucky, he normally does not participate in XfD processes. Steve is not exactly an "inclusionist", but figures the inclusion disputes are best left to those who enjoy the heat of these kind of disputes. It's also hard for Steve to think of himself as a truly contributive Wikipedia "author" if he spends much, if any, time deciding whether an article hardly anybody will ever look at should be kept or removed.
When it comes to disagreements over the content in articles, Steve is a strong adherent to seeking honorable compromises that maintain factuality and proper balance above all else. However, there are times when some other contributors descend into game playing, process abuse, personal attacks, muddying tangential discussion or repeated circular argumentation rather than faithfully discussing content disputes and answering straight questions (usually, "Do you have evidence or sources for your position?"). These folks are usually dealt with via consensus of the other involved contributors.
See Wikipedia:WikiProject Louisville#Louisville disambiguation. This activity isn't as anal as you may think. :)
Following are Steve's 40 most edited articles (as of April 26, 2017):
Following are articles and other pages created by Steve:
Note: I've created many Louisville-related categories that have been renamed via deletion followed by creation of the new ones, without credit made to the original creators.
This is the list of things Steve is planning to do in the Wikipedia. Of course, please feel free to beat Steve to the punch in getting any of these things done.
|
Steve doesn't work in the Wikipedia to get awards, but still, they are kind recognition of his humble work, and he appreciates them.
![]() |
The Technical Barnstar |
Thank you very much for looking into all of my JWB settings and such to try to find out what the issue was. It was really helpful!!!![]() |
![]() |
Citation Barnstar | |
This award is given in recognition to StefenTower for collecting more than 5 points during the WikiProject Unreferenced articles's FEB24 backlog drive. Your contributions played a crucial role in sourcing 14,300 unsourced articles during the drive. Thank you so much for participating and helping to reduce the backlog! – – DreamRimmer ( talk) 17:58, 8 March 2024 (UTC) |
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The Original Barnstar | |
For your tireless work in maintaining and improving RegExTypoFix. Wikipedialuva ( talk) 09:44, 28 January 2024 (UTC) |
![]() |
The Barnstar of Good Humor |
Thank you for gently and kindly making smart, fair edits to a momentarily sloppy change I made and for all the great work it looks like you do RYPJack ( talk) 18:06, 8 February 2017 (UTC) |
![]() |
The Original Barnstar |
Stevietheman helped me learn the ropes of Wikipedia after I jumped into editing. Thanks! Zach Murrell ( talk) 00:24, 2 February 2017 (UTC) |
![]() |
The Original Barnstar |
Thank you for the great job you are doing on the editing of articles especially mine. Chitt66 ( talk) 22:29, 10 January 2017 (UTC) |
![]() |
The Special Barnstar | |
For your efforts at the Muhammad Ali page in fighting vandalism and disruptive edits as well as for your constructive editing on this page. May you continue to keep an eye on this page always. Soham321 ( talk) 17:40, 4 December 2016 (UTC) |
![]() |
The Citation Barnstar |
Thank you. Here's a barnstar for your citation cleanups and also for the much-needed images you added to Lincoln Memorial at Waterfront Park Mitzi.humphrey ( talk) 13:48, 27 August 2016 (UTC) |
![]() |
The Special Barnstar | |
In appreciation of your important contributions to Wikipedia. You are an asset to this website. And Adoil Descended ( talk) 17:06, 10 August 2016 (UTC) |
Pony!
Congratulations! For
saving American Pharoah from an overeager bot, you have received a
pony! Ponies are cute, intelligent, cuddly, friendly (most of the time, though with notable exceptions), promote good will, encourage patience, and enjoy carrots. Treat your pony with respect and he will be your faithful friend!
Montanabw
(talk) 22:25, 11 June 2015 (UTC)
To send a pony or a treat to other wonderful and responsible editors,
click here.
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The Original Barnstar |
Well...I like your user page. Add and Got ( talk) 15:11, 30 April 2015 (UTC) |
![]() |
The Original Barnstar |
Thanks for your help. I appreciate your attention to the Louisville-related articles. Mitzi.humphrey ( talk) 17:16, 6 February 2015 (UTC) |
![]() |
The Barnstar of Diligence |
Thanks for your watchful eye! It is greatly appreciated. Taxee ( talk) 16:15, 2 February 2015 (UTC) |
![]() |
The Bluegrass Barnstar | |
I hereby award you with this bluegrass barnstar for your invaluable work to improve articles for the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Keep up the outstanding work! -- Steven Williamson ( HiB2Bornot2B) - talk 17:56, 19 June 2007 (UTC) |
![]() |
The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar | |
Thanks for your help in preventing recent vandalism at Louisville, Kentucky and at other articles in the past. Your efforts are much appreciated! Seicer ( talk) ( contribs) 04:30, 13 January 2007 (UTC) |
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The Editor's Barnstar | |
For all you have done for Wikipedia, especially in regards to the Louisville Metro, I award you, Stevietheman, the Editor's Barnstar. Keep up the awesome work! -- Moreau36 16:48, 1 October 2006 (UTC) |
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The Original Barnstar | |
I award this Barnstar to Stevie for his tireless efforts in WikiProject Louisville and because he has received entirely too few barnstars for his hard work. |
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The Original Barnstar | |
For your continued excellent work on the PHP article! --james // bornhj (talk) 10:14, 28 July 2006 (UTC) |
As a 13-year Wikipedian, Steve very much acknowledges Wikipedia's greatness and potential, but for the sake of honest participation here, he feels obligated to list and describe its faults as well:
The product that is Wikipedia is made technically possible by MediaWiki, brilliantly designed wiki software, along with various other bots, tools, etc. But no software is perfect, and the following are the technical issues and limitations that Steve currently sees.
Steve was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky. Steve attended public school at Auburndale Elementary (1–3, 5), Parkland Elementary (4), Lassiter Middle (6–8), Butler High (9) and Fairdale High (10–12).
In 1984, Steve began attending J. B. Speed School of Engineering (formerly Speed Scientific School) at the University of Louisville, majoring in Engineering Math and Computer Science (concentrating in Computer Science), and received his B.S. in Engineering Science in 1989. Subsequently, he worked alternately as a permanent employee and contractor with various firms and organizations (including two Fortune 500 companies) as a software developer.
Since graduating from college, he has lived in Endicott, New York, Atlanta, Georgia, Charlotte, North Carolina and Fremont, California. He has been living in his hometown of Louisville since 2001.
In Fall 2003, Steve began focusing on independent web-related work (paid and volunteer), including web design/ programming, online sales and Wikipedia editing. Aspects of this work continue to this day.
Village pump |
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Policy ( new post) |
Technical ( new post) |
Proposals ( new post) |
Idea lab ( new post) |
Miscellaneous ( new post) |
This is a Wikipedia user page.
This is not an encyclopedia article. If you find this page on any site other than Wikipedia, you are viewing a mirror site. Be aware that the page may be outdated and that the user this page belongs to may have no personal affiliation with any site other than Wikipedia itself. The original page is located at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:StefenTower/archive. |
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