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RedWolf
Interested in climbing (non-technical) Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Kenya? If so, leave a message on my User talk:RedWolf.
== About Me ==
IT Consultant working primarily in the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition environment for the past couple of years. I hold a Bachelor of Science and Master's degree in computer science.
My main interests, outside computers obviously, are mountaineering and scrambling, motorcycles and chess. I have been hiking and scrambling in the Canadian Rockies for the past 20 years.
My highest Canada ascent is Mount Athabasca at 3491m/11,453'. This is a snow/ice climb over glaciers with a brief stint of scrambling. Summitted on August 4, 2003.
My highest USA ascent is Flattop Mountain at 3,756m/12,324'. Just a strenous hike.
== Nepal 2002 ==
I visited Nepal in 2002 where I summitted Kala Patar (5545m/18,192') on October 18. Unbelievable views of Mount Everest, Lhotse, Nuptse and Pumori. On October 22, I climbed Imja Tse (Island Peak) (6106m/20,033'). You can see some of the photos I took at my [http://www.applelinks.net/redwolf/ AppleLinks web site].
Along the way, I got to see a lot more big mountains such as: Ama Dablam, Cholatse, Kangtega, Khumbila, Kongde Ri, Kusum Kangguru, Makalu, Lobuche East, Tawoche, Thamserku
For future trips, I'm looking at Aconcagua and Mount Kilimanjaro.
== What is dab? ==
When doing a wikipedia:Disambiguation session, I usually have something already in the clipboard for pasting in the most common replacement. So, like others have used "fmt" for format, "sp" for spelling, etc. I use "dab".
dab stands for "disambiguation" -- quick and easy to type with one hand while using the right to click the mouse on the "Save page" button.
== Article Contributions ==
Some of the articles I have created include:
*2005
** Feb 19 Castle Mountain
** Jan 8 When the Tigers Broke Free
*2004
** Dec 28 Template:GNIS_source
** Dec 26 Javadoc
** Dec 4 Template:Mac_specs
** Nov 2 Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition
** Aug 11 Lake Minnewanka
** Aug 7 Template:Canada_CP_2001
** May 14 Valley of the Ten Peaks
** May 9 Trekking peak, Nepal Mountaineering Association
** May 3 George Mercer Dawson, Geological Survey of Canada
** May 1 Sir Winston Churchill Range
** Apr 5 Prism (band)
** Mar 6 Toto (band)
** Feb 11 Juncaceae
** Jan 17 University of Regina
** Jan 3 Chogolisa
** Jan 1 Icefields Parkway
*2003
** Dec 27 Tom Cochrane
** Dec 14 Mount Temple, JavaCC
** Dec 12 Red Rider, Mount Kitchener
** Dec 9 Scott Fischer, Sirdar
** Dec 6 Anatoli Boukreev
** Dec 5 James Outram, Colin James
** Dec 3 Pink Anderson
** Nov 28 Field, British Columbia
** Nov 27 Tom Berenger, Della Falls
** Nov 24 Kurt Diemberger
** Nov 23 Glissade
** Nov 21 Sagarmatha National Park
** Nov 20 Black Rhinoceros
** Nov 17 Prince Albert National Park
** Nov 15 Triumph (band)
** Nov 14 acetazolamide
** Nov 13 Rakaposhi
** Nov 12 Lukla
** Nov 10 Namche Bazaar, Nepal, Dorothy Stratten, Himalayan Trust
** Nov 9 George Mallory, Mount Chimborazo
** Nov 8 Conrad Kain
** Nov 6 Scrambles in the Canadian Rockies, crampons, ice axe, Mount Columbia (Alberta)
** Nov 5 Mount Chephren
** Nov 4 Canadian Rockies
** Nov 2 Cho Oyu, Dhaulagiri
** Oct 26 Mount Robson
I have also created numerous articles on albums for Pink Floyd, Colin James, Bruce Springsteen, Triumph (band), among others.
Minor contributions include:
Mount Waddington, K2, List of climbing topics, List of climbers, Garry Kasparov, American black bear, X3D Fritz, Climbing glossary, Lake Louise, Alberta, Takakkaw Falls, Yoho National Park, List of Canada-related topics, Votes for deletion
Updated offline reports:
Wikipedia:Offline reports/This is one of the most linked to disambiguation pages
== Images ==
The list of my personal images I have uploaded and given permission under GNU Free Documentation License:
*:Image:Lukla airplane wing.jpg
*:Image:Sagarmatha NP sign.jpg → Sagarmatha National Park
*:Image:Takkakaw_Falls.jpg → Takkakaw Falls
*:Image:Sherbrooke Lake.jpg → Field, British Columbia
*:Image:Mount Robson South.jpg → Mount Robson
*:Image:Angel_Glacier.jpg → Mount Edith Cavell
*:Image:Yoho_Natural_Bridge.jpg → Yoho National Park
*:Image:Lake_Louise.jpg → Lake Louise, Alberta
*:Image:Lake_Louise-75.jpg
*:Image:Mt_Temple.jpg → Mount Temple
*:Image:Mt_Temple-75.jpg → Mount Temple
*:Image:Ama_Dablam_ck_Oct2002.jpg → Ama Dablam
*:Image:Sagarmatha_ck_Oct18_2002.jpg → Mount Everest
*:Image:Deltaform_Mtn_ck_2004.jpg → Deltaform Mountain
See User:RedWolf/Image Gallery for a visual representation.
The list of public domain images I have uploaded:
:Image:Redwolf-tn.jpg, :Image:Thomas_Walter_Scott.jpg, :Image:Thomas_Walter_Scott-tn.jpg
Fair use images:
* January 2005: :Image:Michelle_Yeoh_20040129_50.jpg
Album cover images uploaded under fair use:
* April 2005: :Image:Alex Lifeson Victor AC.jpg
* November 2004: :Image:DP_Perfect_Strangers.jpg
* November 2003: :Image:PinkFloyd Piper Album.jpg :Image:PinkFloyd Saucerful album.jpg :Image:Pink Floyd The Wall.png :Image:PinkFloyd amlor cover.jpg
* January 2004: :Image:TC Ragged Ass Road.jpg :Image:Colin James album.jpg :Image:Colin James Sudden Stop.jpg :Image:Colin James National Steel.jpg :Image:Colin James Fuse.jpg
* February 2004: :Image:Judas Priest DotF.jpg :Image:Judas Priest SforV.jpg :Image:Judas Priest Turbo.jpg :Image:Pink Floyd More.jpg :Image:Pink Floyd Ummagumma.jpg :Image:Pink Floyd Relics 1971.jpg :Image:Pink Floyd acogds.jpg :Image:Pink Floyd The Final Cut.jpg :Image:Pink Floyd DSOT.jpg :Image:Pink Floyd The Division Bell.jpg
* March 2004: :Image:Red Rider Dont Fight It.jpg :Image:Red Rider As Far as Siam.jpg :Image:Red Rider Neruda.jpg :Image:Colin James Little Big Band II.jpg :Image:Pink Floyd Works.jpg
* April 2004: :Image:Pink Floyd Shine On.jpg :Image:Red Rider Breaking Curfew.jpg :Image:Pink Floyd Pulse.jpg
* May 2004: :Image:Tom Cochrane HOTYR.jpg :Image:TC Mad Mad World.jpg :Image:Tom Cochrane SoaCS.jpg :Image:Tom Cochrane X-Ray Sierra.jpg :Image:Colin James Traveler.jpg
== Wikipedia Projects ==
I am a member of the following Wikipedia:WikiProject:
* Wikipedia:WikiProject Albums
* Wikipedia:WikiProject Mountains
== Disambiguation Watches ==
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Whatlinkshere&target=Canadian Canadian] |
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Whatlinkshere&target=Java Java] |
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Whatlinkshere&target=Macintosh Macintosh]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Whatlinkshere&target=English English] |
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Whatlinkshere&target=French French] |
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Whatlinkshere&target=German German] |
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Whatlinkshere&target=Japanese Japanese] |
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Whatlinkshere&target=Russian Russian] |
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Whatlinkshere&target=Spanish Spanish]
My bot User:CanisRufus and his [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&target=CanisRufus recent activity].
== Work in Progress==
User:RedWolf/Worksheet
User:RedWolf/Black RhinocerosRedWolfArchives: User_talk:RedWolf/Archive User_talk:RedWolf/2004_Archive User_talk:RedWolf/2003_Archive ==Himalayas== Please please please, tell me you have some good Himalayan pics that you can add to articles. We have plenty of Europe and US mountain pictures, but almost nothing in Asia. User:Stan Shebs 07:04, 3 Nov 2003 (UTC) : image uploading is disabled, so this is a bit academic ... User:Mfc 21:33, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC) :: I do have some nice pictures of Everest, Lhotse, Nuptse, Ama Dablam, Cholatse, Pumori, Imja Tse. However, I'm not sure yet if I want them to be put under GFDL. -- RedWolf, Nov 7/03 12:10am :There's little reason not to license them unless you're planning to make a living by selling copies of the pictures, and your income would be cut into by having copies available on the net. GFDL is just a license that permits use by WP and downstream publications, while you retain copyright and ownership and credit. In fact, WP is a great way to get a large audience for the photos; its traffic is comparable to Britannica Online now, and growing. I figure that at some point, photographers are going to be contributing pics just to get some greater visibility for their work! User:Stan Shebs 06:26, 7 Nov 2003 (UTC) ::What I've done is only put tiny (300 pixel wide) photos under the GFDL. I figure no harm done --- small photos like that have no commercial value. -- User:Hike395 05:17, 26 Nov 2003 (UTC) :::Good idea, I might just do that. User:RedWolf 00:12, Dec 14, 2003 (UTC) == Image deletion == The image you uploaded was listed on Wikipedia:Possible copyright infringements on March 2nd. The image text indicated that you were the copyright owner and agreed to the GFDL but you added text indicating further restrictions on the copyright that did not meet the requirements of GFDL. If you will remove those additional restrictions and release your image solely under the GFDL I will undelete the image or you can reupload it. Is that acceptable? - User:Texture 03:59, 10 Mar 2004 (UTC) == Kilimanjaro == Interested in climbing kili? Be sure to get a good guide. I climbed it in 1999 and had some trouble with a guide who didn't know the way (You need a guide by law to climb kili) I wrote up my story of it if youre interested: [http://www.seabhcan.com/kili_files/kilistry.htm Kili Climbing Story] User:Seabhcan 15:33, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC) :Hi. Interesting story of your climb. Sounds to me like that might have been the first time, not the 10th time for your "guide". We are considering the Machame or Rongai routes, the Marangu (Coca-cola route) was discarded a while back by us. I've done a lot of scrambling in my days and a bit of glacier travel. I'd give more consideration to some of the more demanding routes but the other person is not quite up to that. You sure didn't leave much time for acclimatization. I spent two nights in a tent at nearly 5100m in Nepal and while not easy I was comfortable after being above 4,000m for 9 days. RedWolf 04:10, Apr 24, 2004 (UTC) ::Ya. The guide was a bit of a chancer allright. There is a problem with kili guides in that most of the best known guide companies are based in kenya but Tanzanian law forbids kenyans from guiding on Kili. The kenyan companies will find you a tanzanian guide, but you really have to trust them to trust him. Tanzanians can guide on mount kenya, however. The Machame and Rongai routes aren't (If I'm remembering right - its been a number of years) much more than tough hikes, and I didn't have experience of anything more technical at the time. Also, 5100m in Nepal is far more difficult than the same height at the equator. Its to do with the Coriolis effect - the atmosphere is thicker at the equator and so the percentage of oxygen at a particular height is more. Good luck with your trip - and dont eat the salad! User:Seabhcan 15:49, 25 Apr 2004 (UTC) Greetings! Saw your Kilimanjaro post on the user page. I was just wondering if you've made any plant to this end, and had any ideas on the timeframe and such for the climb? I'm most definitely interested, sounds like it would be fun. User:Metlin 12:22, 30 Aug 2004 (UTC) :Hi. I would be looking either at the late January - February or late August - September timeframe for any attempt on Kili. I would do Mt. Kenya first for acclimitization although there's an alternate in Tanzania. User:RedWolf 05:13, Aug 31, 2004 (UTC) Ahhh, I climbed the cola route in '98 and have been longing to go back. I would love to try Rongai. Next summer might be possible. User:Sj+">User Talk:Sj 10:54, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC) ==Offline report update== Howdy. I noticed that you've updated Wikipedia:Offline reports/Is this really a stub? and wanted to ask if you used a User:Topbanana/Reports/Scripts/Create Link Analysis Database, and if so did you experience any problems? I'd appreciate any feedback you have. - User:Topbanana 10:48, Aug 6, 2004 (UTC) :Hi. Yes, I built a Link Analysis Database under Mac OS X. The database load took just over one hour and running the analysis script took about 2 hours I believe. Your comment say the analysis script takes 10 hours to run which makes me wonder a bit if I did everything correctly (I'm attributing it to faster system speed at the moment). The result count for the above report seemed to be comparable to what was there before. I just looked at the script run and noticed a few issues: extract_links.sql did not run. I guess I should re-run the analyze - what do you do to clear out the previous analyze run? Manually drop all the tables? :I didn't really run into any significant issues. I did write a quick C program to generate the extract scripts although I don't quite understand the deal with adjusting the "pos". One question I have is what do you do when you want to load a fresh database dump? Create a new database or just truncate/drop the existing tables? User:RedWolf 17:07, Aug 6, 2004 (UTC) :: Glad to hear it worked - the script ''should'' take 1-2 hours to run on a modern PC, the 10 hours thing looked to me to be a bug in the MySQL optimiser, it was just plain refusing to use a perfectly good index. The 'pos' column is there to handle the lack of iterators (for, while, repeat etc) in MySQL 4.1 - a nasty hack that should vanish along with the need for the repetative 'extract_xxx.sql' scripts when version 5 arrives. To rebuild, I create a new database and start afresh each time. Any problems please do shout. - User:Topbanana 18:54, Aug 6, 2004 (UTC) == Article Licensing == Hi, I've User:rambot#Free the Rambot Articles project to get users to Wikipedia:Multi-licensing all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (''CC-by-sa'') v1.0 and v2.0 Creative Commons Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The ''CC-by-sa'' license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the Wikipedia:List_of_Wikipedians_by_number_of_edits Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at ''minimum'' those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information: *User talk:Ram-Man#Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered *Wikipedia:Multi-licensing *User:rambot#Free the Rambot Articles project To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the " You seem to have uploaded an image under the name of :image:PrusikKnot.jpg, but it was deleted for lack of copyright info. If you can supply it, it'd be a candidate for undeletion. --User:Smack (User talk:Smack) 04:47, 1 May 2005 (UTC) :Hi. No, I was not the uploader (I even checked the page history). User:RedWolf 04:51, May 1, 2005 (UTC) == Substituting templates == Hi RedWolf, I noticed you placed {{template:idw-uo}} on User talk:SparqMan ([http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:SparqMan&diff=13073666&oldid=11271643 diff]). Don't forget to use {{subst:(template)}} for these, because (as happened in this case) the template was accidentaly blanked. Thanks, User:Alphax User talk:AlphaxSpecial:Emailuser/AlphaxSpecial:Contributions/Alphax 00:52, 5 May 2005 (UTC) == Template:Mountain == That's fine: I just changed many of the talk page templates over with the understanding that if the change was undesirable they would be reverted. – User:ClockworkSoulUser talk:ClockworkSoul 13:13, 7 May 2005 (UTC) == Category:Islamic terrorist organizations == Hi, it appears you listed :Category:Terrorist organizations for deletion back in March. From what I understand, there was a lengthy recategorization discussion, but I don't know where that is. I bring it up because I have just noticed that there is still this category: :Category:Islamic terrorist organizations, which would have been a subcategory of the other, and hence also should have been recategorized. FWIW, I oppose such categories, as I oppose stating in the editorial voice that groups are "terrorists"; I believe that it is an opinion that should be attributed, hence such categories as those above are inherently POV. If this issue is not on your radar, forgive me for bringing it up on your talk page. -- User:Viajero 16:33, 18 May 2005 (UTC) *I believe I may have tagged it for deletion only after someone else listed it on CFD without tagging it. I think the category you listed and other related cats are now up for deletion on CFD. User:RedWolf 06:10, May 21, 2005 (UTC) == Interwiki Bots == Hi RedWolf. I've been thinking over the recent number of interwiki bot requests and I feel that introducing a more restrictive policy would slightly benefit the Wikipedia. I'd be delighted to hear your thoughts on the matter. Please see my comments regarding this matter at: Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28policy%29#Interwiki_Bot_Policy_Proposal. Thank you for your time. --User:AllyUnion User talk:AllyUnion 08:22, 21 May 2005 (UTC) ==EPs category?== While working on some band releases I came across with a problem: I know that there are categories especially created to order albums, and singles, but what about EPs? I thought I could use RedwolfRedwolfHello and Welcome! I hope you like the place. --User:Maveric149 See other meanings of words starting from letter: RRA | RB | RC | RD | RE | RF | RG | RH | RI | RJ | RK | RL | RM | RN | RO | RP | RS | RT | RU | RW | RX | RY | RZ |Words begining with RedWolf: RedWolf RedWolf Redwolf Redwolf RedWolf/2003_Archive RedWolf/2004_Archive RedWolf/Archive RedWolf/Black_Rhinoceros RedWolf/English RedWolf/Image_Gallery RedWolf/Image_permissions RedWolf/Image_Statistics RedWolf/monobook.css RedWolf/untaggedImages-xaa RedWolf/Worksheet Redwolf24 Redwolf24 |
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