User:MECU

My current projects: TracTrak

Every time a free image is uploaded to Wikipedia, a kitten dies.

Please, think of the kittens. Upload free images to Commons. It's FREE! And you'll save someone work later on.

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Useful links for me:

• User:MECU/OrphanImages
• User:MECU/ImagePatrol
• {{subst:User:Kukini/Welcome}}
• Free Navy Photos
• Simple Stats
• Detailed Stats
• Kate's Stats
• All pages in my userspace (non talk)
• MECU's BR fixer

• Things to do:
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Moving free images to Wikimedia Commons
  • Category:Wikipedia images by subject
  • Category:Images without source

• Followup:

Wikipedia

Barnstars etc. The College football Barnstar I, BigDT, present you with the new college football barnstar for your phenomenal work with college football articles this season. BigDT 22:02, 3 January 2007 (UTC) The Template Barnstar For very quickly granting my request to help solve code problems with the Law Enforcement Wikiproject's banner template code. While he had no obligation to help me out, Mecu re-wrote it and saved it in record time, and it works perfectly! Many thanks SGGH 15:21, 4 January 2007 (UTC) The Working Man's Barnstar A Working Man's Barnstar for your diligent work clearing the backlog at Category:Fair use size reduction request. Your efforts are much appreciated. ShadowHalo 22:49, 5 February 2007 (UTC) The da Vinci Barnstar <Sarcasm>Thank you for making my life a living hell by creaing yet one more brilliant table-type that I now have to work into every article I write.</Sarcasm> Just kidding - great table. I will definitely begin using it. Johntex\talk 17:26, 15 March 2007 (UTC) The Working Man's Barnstar I've been working on Category:Rescaled fairuse images lately, and you and ShadowHalo have done an incredible job clearing out the requests. Congratulations on a job well done! – Riana ऋ 14:20, 17 April 2007 (UTC) Tireless Contributor Barnstar I hereby award Mecu the "Tireless Contributor Barnstar" for dealing with a group of dubiously licensed images. Dealing with images is a thankless task that often ends in complaints. You deserve a thank you! Royalbroil 18:50, 20 March 2008 (UTC) Imperial Triple Crown Jewels Thank you for contributions to the project, Great work, especially on Ralphie - that Colorado State Senate resolution is really neat, and the article's got great free-use images. May you wear the crowns well. Cirt (talk) 11:38, 8 April 2008 (UTC) Milestones 25k WP:CFB Eventually COM:A WP:IMG 1st edit (June 22th, 2006): Add score of 2004 Sugar Bowl on Bowl Championship Series 1st vandalism removal (June 30th, 2006): "Lets go raiders" on Bowl Championship Series 1,000th edit (July 13th, 2006): Tagged Talk:Border War with {{WikiProject College football}} 2,500th edit (August 11th, 2006): add {{blp}} to Talk:Fisher DeBerry 5,000th edit (December 6th, 2006): Delete vote on Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/2006 December 6#Template:Australian COTW candidate 7,500th edit (January 1st, 2007): Removing the {{no rationale}} tag I put on Image:2003 Quebec general election, Charest on election night.jpg wrongfully since it was uploaded prior to May 4, 2006 10,000th edit (January 7, 2007): subst: {{ncd}} on Image:Reclaimed mine sign.jpg (Moved image to commons) First RFA (January 28 - February 4, 2007): Did not succeed 18/29/10 12,500th edit (February 2nd, 2007): Add {{WPBiography}}, {{NFLproject}} and {{WikiProject College football}} to Harry Gilmer's talk page Commons RFA (April 7th-14th, 2007): Successful 18/0/0 First vandalism to my userpage (June 14th, 2007): Lasted 18 minutes Second RFA (June 10 - 17, 2007): Successful 47/7/4 Picture I took of Monsella Tulips.

Contributions : Featured List : Good article : Quality Image : Featured on Did you know Fifth Down is the name given to a play erroneously given to the Colorado Buffaloes who used it to score the game winning touchdown and go on to win a share of the 1990 NCAA Division I-A National Championship. Ralphie is the live mascot for the Colorado Buffaloes football team. Tulip Monsella 2006.jpg Picture I took of Monsella Tulips. ...that William E. "Bud" Davis wanted "to be the world's greatest football coach" and got a chance to prove it in 1962, but went 2-8 and never coached again, but went on to a successful career as university president at 4 universities? ~ January 14, 2007 ...that Ralphie, the live mascot of the Colorado Buffaloes, is actually a female American bison? ~ January 31, 2007 ...that Larry Blakeney, the current head coach of the Troy Trojans football team, is one of only two men to take a college football team from Division II to Division I-AA and then Division I-A? ~ March 13, 2007 ...that 2007 Colorado Buffaloes' starting quarterback Cody Hawkins was on ESPNU's reality show Summer House? ~ March 19, 2008 Colorado Buffaloes football competes in the NCAA Division I-A for American football. Wikipedia:WikiProject College football/MasterTeamTable A useful table of information for those of us in WP:CFB. Colorado Buffaloes Athletics at the University of Colorado at Boulder. 2005 NCAA Division I-A football rankings of the polls used in college football for 2005 2006 NCAA Division I FBS football rankings of the polls used in college football for 2006 Templates: {{NCAATeamFootballSeason}} Infobox for articles about a single season for a single team, like 2006 Colorado Buffaloes football team {{NCAAFootballSingleGameHeader}} A header "infobox" for articles about a single college football game. {{1ColPollTable}} {{2ColPollTable}} {{3ColPollTable}} {{4ColPollTable}} {{5ColPollTable}} {{6ColPollTable}} {{7ColPollTable}} {{8ColPollTable}} {{9ColPollTable}} {{10ColPollTable}} {{11ColPollTable}} {{12ColPollTable}} {{13ColPollTable}} {{14ColPollTable}} {{15ColPollTable}} {{16ColPollTable}} {{17ColPollTable}} 2008 Colorado Buffaloes football team 2007 Colorado Buffaloes football team 2006 Colorado Buffaloes football team

Identity

30This user is 30 years old.	This user is a citizen of the United States of America.	This user lives in the U.S. State of Colorado.
This user is an engineer.	This user is a member of the United States Marine Corps.	This user is male.
	This user's time zone is MST.

Wikipedia

This user helped promote 2005 NCAA Division I-A football rankings to featured list status.	This user has helped promote 2 good articles on Wikipedia.	This user helped promote 2006 NCAA Division I FBS football rankings to featured list status.
	This user has written or expanded 3 articles featured in the Did You Know section on the Main Page.
evenThis editor is an eventualist.	This user had an RFA that was not successful.
{#if}This user understands and uses ParserFunctions.	This user scored 3397.8725926535894 on the Wikipediholic test (revision 95467054).	{{t|c}}This user can use and program conditional templates.
This user participates in WikiProject College football.	This user is a member of the Image Monitoring Group WikiProject.	This user thinks that registration should be required to edit articles.
	This user believes free images should be moved to the Commons.

Interests

CU This user is a Colorado Buffaloes fan.	CU This user is a Colorado Buffaloes fan.	CUThis user is a Colorado Buffaloes fan.
This user is a Corporal in the United States Marine Corps.	DENThis user is a fan of the Denver Broncos.	This user contributes using Firefox.
This user has visited 37 of the 50 United States.37	This user is an Eagle Scout.	6This user has visited 6 of the 205 countries in the world.