User:ScottSteiner

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This user is proud to be a resident native citizen of the United States.

en

This user is a native speaker of the English language.

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Wikipedia

This user has been on Wikipedia for 15 years, 1 month and 16 days.

This user has made over
5900 edits to Wikipedia.

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

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

Did you know... that this user has contributed 1 article to the Did you know column?

This editor is a Yeoman Editor and is entitled to display this Service Badge.

SB

This user lets SuggestBot recommend articles to edit once a month.

This user page has been vandalized 30 times.

This user fights vandalism with Twinkle and Huggle. Sometimes simultaneously...

This user bites vandals. Hard.

This user reports vandals to administrators so they can be blocked.

This user destroys vandalism when they see it.

This user is a recent changes patroller.

This user is signed up for the Feedback Request Service.

This user is a participant in
WikiProject Rhode Island.

This user participates in WikiProject Video games.

This user is in the free and open-source software task force.

Copyleft

This user finds that international copyright law does more harm than intended good.

This user respects copyright, but is not a lawyer, and thinks that sometimes it can be a major pain.

This user supports the Creative Commons.

This user believes that DRM restricted products are Defective by Design.

Supporter

This user thanks Richard Stallman and Creative Commons for letting Wikipedia become CC and GFDL dual licensed.

Grammer

US

This user uses
American English.

~~ain’t~~

This user considers ain’t nonstandard English usage.

~~alternate~~
alternative

This user does not alternate between "alternate" and "alternative" because he or she knows that the former is not an alternative for the latter.

’s

Thi's user know's that not every word that end's with s need's an apostrophe and will remove misused apostrophe's from Wikipedia with extreme prejudice.

,

This user fixes comma-splices; they are annoying.

...ing

Hating dangling modifiers, this user fixes them wherever they are found.

from/to

This user says different from not different to.

. The

This user puts two spaces after a period.

less & fewer

This user understands the difference between less & fewer.

man-
kind

Regarding gender, this user prefers the vernacular, not what is politically correct.

Why?

This user is very strict on proper grammer.

if & whether

This user knows how to use "if" and "whether" correctly.

its & it's

This user understands the difference between its and it's. So should you.

"…"!
~~US vs. UK~~

This user uses "logical quotation marks". Forcing internal punctuation leads to factual errors. It's not a nationalistic style issue!

much & many

This user understands the difference between much & many.

…in.

Ending a sentence with a preposition is something that this user is okay with.

they

This user considers singular they standard English usage.

A, B and C

This user prefers not to use the serial comma.

snuk

This user says snuck.

than
then

This user understands the difference between using "than" and "then."

their
there
they're

This user thinks that there are too many people who don’t know that they're worse than their own children at spelling!

to
too
two

This user thinks that too many people have no idea how to use words that they should have learned in grade two.

who(m)

This user uses either who or whom in the object case.

your & you're

This user understands the difference between your and you're. So should you.

You and Me

This user thinks that if you believe it is incorrect to use "you and me" as the object of a sentence, a little talk needs to be had by you and me...

Interests

B

This user is a fan of black or dark comedy.

This user is a MSTie.

SU

This user is a fan of stand-up comedy.

This user has a Facebook account as Scott Steiner.

User tweets at Twitter as SteinerIsFiner

This user tracks what he listens to on Last.fm (NothingFiner).

This user has a channel on YouTube.

cvg-3

This user is an advanced gamer.

This user prefers to play games on a PC.

This user is a Valve whore.

λ	What's inside The Orange Box?

λ

This user plays Half-Life 2.

DAL

This user is a fan of the
Dallas Cowboys.

BOS

This user is a fan of the
Boston Celtics.

ATL

This user is a fan of the
Atlanta Braves

ORL

This user is a fan of the
Orlando Magic.

COL

This user is a fan of the
Colorado Avalanche

Politics

This user is interested in the
Politics of the United States.

According to the Political Compass this user is:
Economic Neutral (-.75) and
Social Libertarian (-1.79)

Technology

This user contributes using GNU/Linux and disagrees with those who simply call the OS "Linux".

This user contributes using Debian GNU/Linux.

This user uses Windows but just because most games are not released for Linux.

This user contributes using
Google Chrome.

This user uses Mozilla Firefox.

This user converts raster images to SVG format.

This user reverts vandalism in the blink of an eye with Twinkle!

r

This user uses rTorrent.

prog-3

This user is an advanced programmer.

C++-1

This user is a beginning C++ programmer.

HTML-3

This user is an advanced HTML user.

js-2

This user is an intermediate JavaScript programmer.

Perl-2

This user is an intermediate Perl programmer.

PHP-3

This user is an advanced PHP programmer.

py-3

This user is an advanced Python programmer.

sed

This user can program in sed.

Tcl-4

This user is an expert Tcl scripter.

vb-1

This user is a beginner Visual Basic programmer.

= != ==

This user knows that equal does not equal equal equal.

This user's Internet service provider is Cox Communications.

This user has wired his home to the bone with Cat5e+ cabling to create a Gigabit_Ethernet home LAN.

IP

This person's IP is 127.0.0.1

IP

This user's IP is ::1.

I build my own computers

intel
Core

This user contributes with a computer based on the Intel Core 2 Duo microprocessor.

64

This user uses an x86-64 processor.

This user learnt how to use all his fingers for typewriting.

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Wikipedia vandalism information
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Low to moderate level of vandalism

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Volume 22, Issue 4 — 2026-03-10

Interview: Bernadette Meehan, new Wikimedia Foundation CEO
Part 2.

News and notes: Security testing unleashes computer worm on Meta-wiki
Dormant worm awakes; a sketchy archiving site struck; ether burns.

Special report: What actually happened during the Wikimedia security incident?
A horrifying exploit took place, which could have had catastrophic and far-reaching consequences if used maliciously; instead, it seems to have happened by accident and was used for childish vandalism. How did this happen, and what did the script actually do?

In the media: Indonesian government blocks Wikimedia logins; archive site scoured from Wikipedia after owner runs malware
As well as controversy over LLM translations.

Recent research: To wiki, perchance to groki
Comparisons continue.

Obituary: Madhav Gadgil, Fredrick Brennan, Mark Miller, Chip Berlet
Rest in peace.

Opinion: Interface administrators and trusting trust
Potential attacks are the logical consequence of giving a group of users unlimited control over JavaScript.

Technology report: English Wikipedia deprecates archive.today after DDoS against blog, altered content
After the archive site launched a DDoS campaign against a small blog in January 2026, a request for comment was started, with consensus to deprecate the site used almost 700 thousand times.

Op-ed: Why is "Trypsin-sensitive photosynthetic activities in chloroplast membranes" cited in "List of tallest buildings in Chicago"?
The answer is slop.

Essay: The pursuit of a button click
Volunteering for Wikipedia has its rewards. The thank-button, for example.

In focus: Short descriptions: One year later
A discussion of the challenge set forth to the Wikipedia community one year ago!

WikiProject report: Unreferenced articles backlog drive
Unreferenced articles in English Wikipedia - help us in the backlog drive!

Community view: Speaking of planning ...
The WMF planning process is underway.

Traffic report: Over the mountain, kissing silver inlaid clouds
Death and the Winter Olympics.

Crossword: "It will never happen"
Want to take a break?

Comix: BRIEn't
Or is it.

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