Who I Am, or Might Be
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Due to the untrue press about me of late, I find it necessary to point out the breadth and depth of some of my work here, to put the lie to the press coverage that I am here as a POV strumpet:
I'm not normally one to toot my own horn, or rather I do a lot of horn-tooting, just not usually about myself. This beginning of a revamp to my userpage is an assemblage of the barnstars I've been conferred, a couple of wikibeers, a wikithanks-sunflower, and some nice compliments-in-lieu-of-barnstar. I haven't found all the "get the hell lost" posts but am thinking of assembling some of the choicer ones. This section isn't bragging, it's a way of thanking the people who gave me the barnstars....I tried getting drunk on the wikibeers but they turned out to be non-alcoholic.... Skookum1 ( talk) 00:52, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar | ||
For your brilliant line on Jimbotalk: "I've been around one hell of a long time and have contributed massive amounts to Wikipedia, and remember the days when AGF and NPA were not used to inflict AGF and NPA, but when people actually sought to talk to each other and reconcile differences..." Please do hang in there, Wikipedia needs you. —Tim /// Carrite ( talk) 16:33, 6 April 2014 (UTC) |
The Copyeditor's Barnstar | ||
Thank you for helping the History of Canada, grammar is not my strong point and I greatly appreciate you fixing the technical errors. Moxy ( talk) 18:14, 18 April 2010 (UTC) |
The Golden Maple Leaf Award
Thanks Skookum1, we're really fortunate that you're a Canadian. Keep up all the great work. œ ™ 20:12, 10 July 2009 (UTC) |
The Socratic Barnstar | ||
For your very thoughtful arguments related to the articles in the "Performance Enhancing Drugs" family, I award you this barnstar. Please continue to provide the community with your insightful input. H1nkles ( talk) 18:56, 7 January 2009 (UTC) |
The Alaskan Barnstar
I hereby award this Barnstar to Skookum1 for his significant contributions to Alaska related articles, particularly his work on the history of Russian America and the Alaska Boundary Dispute. -- Shunpiker ( talk) 23:23, 14 January 2009 (UTC) |
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File:Interlingual Barnstar.png | The Geography Barnstar | |
For a staggering amount of work and passion on Pacific Northwest geo articles, especially. Shawn in Montreal ( talk) 18:15, 9 June 2008 (UTC) |
Haha thank you, that was a good laugh =D « Gonzo fan2007 ( talk ♦ contribs) 07:10, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
And I must do the same. No hard feelings! Dionix ( talk) 17:37, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar | ||
Skookum1 is hereby awarded the Original Barnstar for his extensive work throughout British Columbia related articles. Adding the new cats over the past few days has enabled me to see just how extensive that work has been. It is clearly an invaluable contribution taht extends to nearly all facets of the province. Also, for standing your ground, albeit colourfully, against such accusations of "hysterics" and acting like a "chicken with your head cut off", and being told to go get a blog, &etc. amidst controversies. The fact that you continue to contribute in the ways described above trumps any of these.-- Keefer4 | Talk 23:39, 8 April 2007 (UTC) |
Wow. Thanks. I now have two - one for CanCon, of all things, given I'm virtually a BC separatist, and a Bridge River-Lillooet separatist on top of that ;-) Should I put these on my userpage or what? Been thinking of overhauling it and archiving what's there; esp. since my Grand Recuse is about to start.... Skookum1 23:49, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
Always enjoy running across your comments on talk pages. They're always extremely informative and interesting. I learn a lot, so thank you.
I'd give you a barnstar, but I'm afraid I'm not finding anything suiting, so this'll have to do. Cheers. RichMac (Talk) 09:33, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
In January 2006, I proposed that this CanCon Barnstar be awarded to those who make significant or "important contributions about Canada or Canadians." Since then, others have awarded it to those Wikipedians whose contributions fit the criteria I proposed. But I never did so myself. (Although it has since grown into a Barnstar of National Merit, the resolution of my initial proposal was to turn it into a personal user award, which I then never awarded.)
Having reviewed Skookum's contributions, however, I am happy to recognize his work as being reflective of the spirit I had intended for the award: this Barnstar of National Merit is therefore given not only for creating new Canadian works, but also (and additionally in this case) for advocating (e.g., at the journalist talk page) on behalf of the importance of CanCon on Wikipedia.
Cheers (and thank you), JTBurman 19:19, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
I merely wanted to thank you for the consistent effort you're putting into our Wikiproject. Thanks to you and the work of other dedicated users, it has become a great initiative and a thrieving community. Way to go! Kisses, Phaedriel ♥ tell me - 22:16, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
Pe naika ticky potlatch konaway window kopa naika skookum illahee, naika hyas hyas stone illahee, yakwa siah-siah kopa lamonti. Chako nah alki (And I'd like to give everybody a window into my "skookum country" (the Pacific Northwest), my great, high stone country, that's high and far away in the mountains. Come there sometime ( Chinook Jargon)
I rarely edit music or musician articles, though keep an eye on Canadian bands and composer articles and occasionlly kibbitz. I did create my own grandfather's article, however - Endre Johannes Cleven - in a breach of WP:AUTO/COI but he's notable enough to have deserved it, thought maybe for other things than as a composer, conductor and musician. However, as you spend time with the long list below of obsessions and delusions, please amuse yourself by visiting my music pages:
- these two preceding are orchestral-sounding, though all played on a keyboard I had to sell for survival reasons. Part of the deal was I got a strat copy in return, and wound up buying first a Rockman, then a Danelectro Honeytone mini-amp, and this is some of my rangitang-y music, which is somewhere between acid rock, cowboy, traditional and funk. I know nothing about recording and have a tin ear, and some of this was recorded outside using a Zoom H4 recorder in harsh subzero weather or heavy rain, or just at night, so is not in concert pitch or in tune. People with perfect pitch should probably pass these by:
And all of what follows below needs major reorganization/focus, which I haven't had the stomach to re-do since through-writing it....
There are two subpages within my user/talkpage: User talk:Skookum1/BC&PacificNorthwestHistory User talk:Skookum1/BC&PacificNorthwestHistory/MapResources
The first was a list of topics and some discussions; I'd meant to coordinate a kind of storehouse of various resources and links to talkpage discussions, but never had time to complete it, although certain other editors contributed to it on various topics. The second is a compilation, again incomplete, of map-making resources, including a catalogue of NASA/JPL satellite photos useful for making certain kinds of maps (see Monashee Mountains and Vancouver Island Ranges for examples.
Some topics I'm usually interested in and tend to quibble or kibbitz over; redlinks are articles intended or needed, and some non-redlinked articles may be things I intend to expand/rework but haven't gotten to yet. Some of the articles here are things I started; others those I've contributed to.:
and more
and more
and more
added maps to various geographic features, including ranges, rivers and other areas/items not listed here (yet)
See Talk page (actually I'll write a subpage...) for discussion of this topographic concept and my work on it for The Canadian Mountain Encyclpedia
A long time ago I was avidly researching sources and material for various articles and compiling the info and comments and links on sandbox pages. These are:
I completely agree with your comments made a decade ago regarding the pointlessness of the stub articles that were created on this subject. /info/en/?search=User_talk:M@sk#Railway_stations. After the passage of time, I am yet to find a single one of the stubs forming part of the Jasper – Prince Rupert train route that adds any useful information. Furthermore, these stubs vary from a little to largely inaccurate. At a minimum, all links to them should be removed for the wellbeing of any readers. Rewriting them is pointless, since it would merely duplicate the more comprehensive information included in many articles for the respective places. I am puzzled why your advice has not been taken up to merge the stubs into the place name articles. Surely there must be a general consensus to flag all these stubs for deletion.
or am intending to, if redlinked :)
Lots as yet unlisted as I don't come back here after creating things and/or editing/adding to them...
more to be added here, of all backgrounds, as well as historically or politically imporant chiefs and other native and other figures.
I did most or the work for Nearly all of the pre-1966 riding histories for ALL British Columbia provincial ridings, historical and otherwise, and for many federal ridings. The easiest way to search these is to use the index of British Columbia general elections to find individual ridings in any given election, as there are too many to list here. Profiles of historical MLAs are one of my ongoing projects, although I haven't done any for a while.
I went to UBC and McGill in Composition, never graduating but wandered off to Europe in search of medieval song; in later years I began to write/play my own stuff, some of which is online at http://www.cayoosh.net/music/. Entirely improvisational and minimalist in inspiration and form, much of what's on that page will sound "classical" because of the instrument-patches I used; my instrument at the time was a Kurzweil PC-2x. Newer material on the guitar, also minimalist in form but because of the guitar more folk/traditional-sounding than classical I've posted onto myspace; translations of each pages Chinook name follow each link:
All of the tracks on those pages are song-writing bedtracks and are not to be considered finished material; put 'em up in the process of trying to find other players. Hopefully better tracks will be uploadable once I learn to record myself properly (and finish some lyrics).
I know much of what I know of musicology I admit to having learned from certain classes at university, and remain interested in:
My favourite composers (some of whose music I can actually half-assed play) are:
list is incomplete
Way more than I could ever list; I've forgotten the titles of well over half of what I read (except the contents). I don't read any more because (a) my eyes are going and I'd rather talk and (b) an increasingly scattered attention span from having read too much...
Books/series I've read and am familiar with:
list is incomplete
Readings in Languages and Philology: at some time or other, sometimes more than once, and others where once was enough.
Who I Am, or Might Be
|
Due to the untrue press about me of late, I find it necessary to point out the breadth and depth of some of my work here, to put the lie to the press coverage that I am here as a POV strumpet:
I'm not normally one to toot my own horn, or rather I do a lot of horn-tooting, just not usually about myself. This beginning of a revamp to my userpage is an assemblage of the barnstars I've been conferred, a couple of wikibeers, a wikithanks-sunflower, and some nice compliments-in-lieu-of-barnstar. I haven't found all the "get the hell lost" posts but am thinking of assembling some of the choicer ones. This section isn't bragging, it's a way of thanking the people who gave me the barnstars....I tried getting drunk on the wikibeers but they turned out to be non-alcoholic.... Skookum1 ( talk) 00:52, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar | ||
For your brilliant line on Jimbotalk: "I've been around one hell of a long time and have contributed massive amounts to Wikipedia, and remember the days when AGF and NPA were not used to inflict AGF and NPA, but when people actually sought to talk to each other and reconcile differences..." Please do hang in there, Wikipedia needs you. —Tim /// Carrite ( talk) 16:33, 6 April 2014 (UTC) |
The Copyeditor's Barnstar | ||
Thank you for helping the History of Canada, grammar is not my strong point and I greatly appreciate you fixing the technical errors. Moxy ( talk) 18:14, 18 April 2010 (UTC) |
The Golden Maple Leaf Award
Thanks Skookum1, we're really fortunate that you're a Canadian. Keep up all the great work. œ ™ 20:12, 10 July 2009 (UTC) |
The Socratic Barnstar | ||
For your very thoughtful arguments related to the articles in the "Performance Enhancing Drugs" family, I award you this barnstar. Please continue to provide the community with your insightful input. H1nkles ( talk) 18:56, 7 January 2009 (UTC) |
The Alaskan Barnstar
I hereby award this Barnstar to Skookum1 for his significant contributions to Alaska related articles, particularly his work on the history of Russian America and the Alaska Boundary Dispute. -- Shunpiker ( talk) 23:23, 14 January 2009 (UTC) |
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File:Interlingual Barnstar.png | The Geography Barnstar | |
For a staggering amount of work and passion on Pacific Northwest geo articles, especially. Shawn in Montreal ( talk) 18:15, 9 June 2008 (UTC) |
Haha thank you, that was a good laugh =D « Gonzo fan2007 ( talk ♦ contribs) 07:10, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
And I must do the same. No hard feelings! Dionix ( talk) 17:37, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar | ||
Skookum1 is hereby awarded the Original Barnstar for his extensive work throughout British Columbia related articles. Adding the new cats over the past few days has enabled me to see just how extensive that work has been. It is clearly an invaluable contribution taht extends to nearly all facets of the province. Also, for standing your ground, albeit colourfully, against such accusations of "hysterics" and acting like a "chicken with your head cut off", and being told to go get a blog, &etc. amidst controversies. The fact that you continue to contribute in the ways described above trumps any of these.-- Keefer4 | Talk 23:39, 8 April 2007 (UTC) |
Wow. Thanks. I now have two - one for CanCon, of all things, given I'm virtually a BC separatist, and a Bridge River-Lillooet separatist on top of that ;-) Should I put these on my userpage or what? Been thinking of overhauling it and archiving what's there; esp. since my Grand Recuse is about to start.... Skookum1 23:49, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
Always enjoy running across your comments on talk pages. They're always extremely informative and interesting. I learn a lot, so thank you.
I'd give you a barnstar, but I'm afraid I'm not finding anything suiting, so this'll have to do. Cheers. RichMac (Talk) 09:33, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
In January 2006, I proposed that this CanCon Barnstar be awarded to those who make significant or "important contributions about Canada or Canadians." Since then, others have awarded it to those Wikipedians whose contributions fit the criteria I proposed. But I never did so myself. (Although it has since grown into a Barnstar of National Merit, the resolution of my initial proposal was to turn it into a personal user award, which I then never awarded.)
Having reviewed Skookum's contributions, however, I am happy to recognize his work as being reflective of the spirit I had intended for the award: this Barnstar of National Merit is therefore given not only for creating new Canadian works, but also (and additionally in this case) for advocating (e.g., at the journalist talk page) on behalf of the importance of CanCon on Wikipedia.
Cheers (and thank you), JTBurman 19:19, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
I merely wanted to thank you for the consistent effort you're putting into our Wikiproject. Thanks to you and the work of other dedicated users, it has become a great initiative and a thrieving community. Way to go! Kisses, Phaedriel ♥ tell me - 22:16, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
Pe naika ticky potlatch konaway window kopa naika skookum illahee, naika hyas hyas stone illahee, yakwa siah-siah kopa lamonti. Chako nah alki (And I'd like to give everybody a window into my "skookum country" (the Pacific Northwest), my great, high stone country, that's high and far away in the mountains. Come there sometime ( Chinook Jargon)
I rarely edit music or musician articles, though keep an eye on Canadian bands and composer articles and occasionlly kibbitz. I did create my own grandfather's article, however - Endre Johannes Cleven - in a breach of WP:AUTO/COI but he's notable enough to have deserved it, thought maybe for other things than as a composer, conductor and musician. However, as you spend time with the long list below of obsessions and delusions, please amuse yourself by visiting my music pages:
- these two preceding are orchestral-sounding, though all played on a keyboard I had to sell for survival reasons. Part of the deal was I got a strat copy in return, and wound up buying first a Rockman, then a Danelectro Honeytone mini-amp, and this is some of my rangitang-y music, which is somewhere between acid rock, cowboy, traditional and funk. I know nothing about recording and have a tin ear, and some of this was recorded outside using a Zoom H4 recorder in harsh subzero weather or heavy rain, or just at night, so is not in concert pitch or in tune. People with perfect pitch should probably pass these by:
And all of what follows below needs major reorganization/focus, which I haven't had the stomach to re-do since through-writing it....
There are two subpages within my user/talkpage: User talk:Skookum1/BC&PacificNorthwestHistory User talk:Skookum1/BC&PacificNorthwestHistory/MapResources
The first was a list of topics and some discussions; I'd meant to coordinate a kind of storehouse of various resources and links to talkpage discussions, but never had time to complete it, although certain other editors contributed to it on various topics. The second is a compilation, again incomplete, of map-making resources, including a catalogue of NASA/JPL satellite photos useful for making certain kinds of maps (see Monashee Mountains and Vancouver Island Ranges for examples.
Some topics I'm usually interested in and tend to quibble or kibbitz over; redlinks are articles intended or needed, and some non-redlinked articles may be things I intend to expand/rework but haven't gotten to yet. Some of the articles here are things I started; others those I've contributed to.:
and more
and more
and more
added maps to various geographic features, including ranges, rivers and other areas/items not listed here (yet)
See Talk page (actually I'll write a subpage...) for discussion of this topographic concept and my work on it for The Canadian Mountain Encyclpedia
A long time ago I was avidly researching sources and material for various articles and compiling the info and comments and links on sandbox pages. These are:
I completely agree with your comments made a decade ago regarding the pointlessness of the stub articles that were created on this subject. /info/en/?search=User_talk:M@sk#Railway_stations. After the passage of time, I am yet to find a single one of the stubs forming part of the Jasper – Prince Rupert train route that adds any useful information. Furthermore, these stubs vary from a little to largely inaccurate. At a minimum, all links to them should be removed for the wellbeing of any readers. Rewriting them is pointless, since it would merely duplicate the more comprehensive information included in many articles for the respective places. I am puzzled why your advice has not been taken up to merge the stubs into the place name articles. Surely there must be a general consensus to flag all these stubs for deletion.
or am intending to, if redlinked :)
Lots as yet unlisted as I don't come back here after creating things and/or editing/adding to them...
more to be added here, of all backgrounds, as well as historically or politically imporant chiefs and other native and other figures.
I did most or the work for Nearly all of the pre-1966 riding histories for ALL British Columbia provincial ridings, historical and otherwise, and for many federal ridings. The easiest way to search these is to use the index of British Columbia general elections to find individual ridings in any given election, as there are too many to list here. Profiles of historical MLAs are one of my ongoing projects, although I haven't done any for a while.
I went to UBC and McGill in Composition, never graduating but wandered off to Europe in search of medieval song; in later years I began to write/play my own stuff, some of which is online at http://www.cayoosh.net/music/. Entirely improvisational and minimalist in inspiration and form, much of what's on that page will sound "classical" because of the instrument-patches I used; my instrument at the time was a Kurzweil PC-2x. Newer material on the guitar, also minimalist in form but because of the guitar more folk/traditional-sounding than classical I've posted onto myspace; translations of each pages Chinook name follow each link:
All of the tracks on those pages are song-writing bedtracks and are not to be considered finished material; put 'em up in the process of trying to find other players. Hopefully better tracks will be uploadable once I learn to record myself properly (and finish some lyrics).
I know much of what I know of musicology I admit to having learned from certain classes at university, and remain interested in:
My favourite composers (some of whose music I can actually half-assed play) are:
list is incomplete
Way more than I could ever list; I've forgotten the titles of well over half of what I read (except the contents). I don't read any more because (a) my eyes are going and I'd rather talk and (b) an increasingly scattered attention span from having read too much...
Books/series I've read and am familiar with:
list is incomplete
Readings in Languages and Philology: at some time or other, sometimes more than once, and others where once was enough.