User:Lar

I recognize that this user page belongs to this Wikimedia project and not to me personally. As such, I recognize that I am expected to respectfully abide by community standards as to the presentation and content of this page, and that if I do not like these guidelines, I am welcome either to engage in reasonable discussion about it, to publish my material elsewhere, or to leave the project.

Commons maintenance announcements [+/−] More translations are needed for: Commons:Project scope (Sept 2008) Commons:Fan art (April 2009) Help:Gadget-ImageAnnotator#User interface texts (August 2009) Commons:File renaming (October 2009) Commons:Nudity Backlogs: as of 18 February 2010 Old deletion requests are still opened. Many files moved to Commons requiring review. Too many unprocessed files without source. Many files are OTRS pending for too long. There are 128 requested merges. The Vandalismpatrol has over 1190238 unpatrolled anonymous edits. Hi! I am Larry Pieniazek and I am not notable. I am extremely proud that User:Josette was my wife. I served on the WMF meta:Ombudsman commission for 2010. (While serving, I was temporarily suspended from all Checkuser roles and from my role as Steward. These suspensions were noted with strikeouts) I was an admin, bureaucrat, checkuser and oversighter on Commons and have access to OTRS. I was also an admin and checkuser on en:wp (the English Wikipedia), and I was also an admin, bureaucrat and checkuser on meta: (the Wikimedia Meta-Wiki), and would be happy to help you if I can. Feel free to email me about that or anything else. I think meatball:DefendEachOther is a great idea and I try to practice it. For more information, see: Wikipedia:User:Lar, or see my WikiMatrix of most all the wikis that I have ID's on. Projects and neat things when we went public I was involved in creating this: Wikimedia logo mosaic an early version: User:Lar/SolidMosaic Socks I have one sock here: Larbot (talk · contributions · Move log · Statistics · logs · block log), which someday may be a bot but for now, just reserving the name (and using it as a non admin ID when I need to test things out) Favorite Pics Taken and uploaded A few of my favourite pictures from among those I have taken uploaded here... QI seal Dapples and reflections of the Fallasburg Bridge near Lowell, Michigan Hertz Rent a racer Shelby Mustang at Boston Logan Airport Shivering Timbers at Michigans Adventure in Muskegon, Michigan M29 Weasel at the US Army Transportation Museum in arctic dress TECO Line Streetcar System streetcar in Tampa, Florida Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin West in Scottsdale, Arizona (used in Encyclopedia Britannica as well) A scene from Indiana Beach, an amusement park located in Monticello, Indiana on Lake Shafer A scene from Ada, Michigan on the Grand River Corn nuts, toasted large kernel corn Seen on the Seward Highway, SE of Girdwood, Alaska. The Gaylord Building in Lockport, a building on the National Register of Historic Places Drawn by me A few images created by other means than cameras. Cross sectional view of a steel dam, drawn with Visio A context map of the U.S. Army Transportation Museum in Fort Eustis, Virginia, done with Paint Shop Plus from TIGER generated maps A photo locator map of the location of the Hardy Dam, a dam and powerplant complex on the Muskegon River in Michigan. Uses letters for photo spots. From TIGER, converted in Inkscape. Diagram of a w:Brown Truss drawn in the West Point Bridge Designer program. Found on Flickr A few pics I found on Flickr and convinced the original photographer to license so we could use them A canoe livery on Lake Louise, Alberta Jumbo Kingdom, floating restaurant in Aberdeen Harbour, Hong Kong, from waterside. Croton Dam is a dam and powerplant complex on the Muskegon River, operated by Consumers Energy. Composite of 3 images. Found at other sites A few pics found at other sites which were already free, or which were old enough. Waldo Hancock Bridge in Maine (from HAER collection of the Library of Congress) A pass to ride on the SS Christopher Columbus signed by Alexander McDougall her inventor, from shipwreck.com A drawing from the patent application for the Brown Truss, from Google Patents Found A few favourites I did NOT upload, but just found. Baumgardener's Covered Bridge by Ram-Man NMRA National Train Show in w:Cincinnati Ohio, taken by Slambo. The blue striped white double ended train in the right background is mine, as is the ATSF pulling out of the trainshed in the far left background Flommons Here are my pictures via Flommons, a truly neat tool by Magnus.

Status This user was an administrator, bureaucrat, checkuser and oversighter on Commons (verify) This user was an administrator, bureaucrat and checkuser on Meta (verify) This user was an administrator and checkuser on the English Wikipedia (verify) This user was an administrator on Wikisource (verify) This user is a member of the Wikimedia OTRS team. Languages en This user is a native English speaker. de-1 Dieser Benutzer hat grundlegende Deutschkenntnisse. (or less) No other useful spoken languages, but I've used a lot of programming languages in the last 30 years or so... Media bitmap-2 This user is able to contribute at an intermediate level on bitmap graphics. VG-2 This user is able to contribute with a good level on vector graphics. PH-2 This user is able to take good quality photographs. Misc This user's timezone is UTC−4. (normally) This user stays melon mellow. (normally) Contact info IRC "lar" or "lar|something" (freenode IRC channels) Email via WP mail link AOL LarryPieniazek (IM only. Not a mail address. Rarely on.) MSN larrypieniazek(at)hotmail(dot)com (IM only. Not a mail address. Rarely on.) Yahoo Larry_Pieniazek (IM only. Not a mail address. Rarely on.) Stolen from User:Kelly Martin

another way to get to most of my stuff

Photos

Taken by Lar

Ada, Michigan, taken by Lar

Alaska, taken by Lar

Cascade Dam, taken by Lar

Cedar Point, taken by Lar

Croton Dam, taken by Lar

Disneyland California, taken by Lar

Flat River, Michigan, taken by Lar

Hardy Dam, taken by Lar

Indiana Beach, taken by Lar

Irving Dam, taken by Lar

Johnson Space Center, Taken by Lar

Kennywood, taken by Lar

Rogers Dam, taken by Lar

Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, taken by Lar

Trains, taken by Lar

US Army Transportation Museum, taken by Lar

Wikimania 2006, taken by Lar

Other things (drawings, etc)

Created by Lar

Taken by Lar

Helpful stuff

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• My No Info (check if {{Information}} is used on images of a user): http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/mynoinfo.php?user=lar&doit=Do+it (another one of Magnus's great toys)