User:Paulmcdonald

My Favorite Portals: College football  • Food  • Kansas  • National Register of Historic Places  • Scouting  • World War I  • World War II Paul McDonald's User Page This editor is a Senior Editor III and is entitled to display this Rhodium Editor Star. This editor is a Yeoman Administrator and is entitled to display this Bronze Service Badge. Paul D. McDonald, MBA, DTM, and Labutnum of the Encyclopedia, (born July 19, 1968)*, is a speaker, writer, and consultant. Paul earned a Master of Business Administration from Keller Graduate School of Management in Chicago, Illinois and a Bachelor of Arts in Physics from Southwestern College. He also earned an Associate of Arts from Cloud County Community College as well as completed additonal coursework at Kansas State University, Missouri Western State University, and Harper College. I became a Wikipedia:Administrator on May 6, 2013. You can read the escapades here. You are invited to: Browse this page and learn more about some of my favorite Wikipedia pages and articles I am involved in Collaborate on articles in progress in my userspace Leave me a message I promise to read it! View or award me a Barnstar I like barnstars... Review my userboxes They are fun, but also take up a lot of space... Count my edits it's a fun page but doesn't mean as much as some think it does. *When I'm dead, I wonder who is going to change this? If you need administrative help, plesae feel free to leave a message on my talk page. The bulk of my administrative actions include non-controversial cleanup--what we affectionately call the "mop and bucket" actions. When I have time, I participate in administrative-related discussions. I don't always get things right, but I'm confident with our team of administrators we will get to what is right through discussions and listening. VEPaulmcdonald does not support VisualEditor's WYSIWYG appearance. Featured articles Front Page Feature Wikipedia main page screenshot, evening of December 23, 2015, Central time zone (US). Note featured article of William Wurtenburg in top left hand column. The Wikipedia main page featured William Wurtenburg on December 24, 2015. This was an article I originally created on June 16, 2008. Thanks to all Wikipedia editors including @A Texas Historian:, @Jweiss11:, and others who also helped improve it. The article as it exists now looks so much better than what I made. I created the original article on June 16, 2008 as a part of a campaign to complete articles for every head football coach for United States Naval Academy. Coach Wurtenburg was head coach for the 1894 season and led the team to a record of 4 wins, 1 loss, and 2 ties. Their only loss that year was to Pennsylvania who ended the season as undefeated national champions. As you can tell by visiting the article page now, it has been greatly enhanced to include his coaching at Dartmouth and his time as a player at Yale where he was a part of the 1887 National Championship team, finishing with a record of 9 wins and 0 losses. After coaching, he became an official for college football. Around 1904, Wurtenburg began pursuing a career as a physician. He set up a medical office near his house in New Haven, Connecticut, and became an ear, nose and throat specialist where he lived until his death in 1957. It's truly rewarding to see an article that I started end up on the Wikipedia main page! Woo-hoo!!! Media of the Day Wikimedia MOTD September 17, 2015 A video I posted was declared Wikimedia's "Media of the Day" on September 17, 2015. Watch closely as the cheese monger at Whole Foods Market in Overland Park, Kansas cracks open a wheel of Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese on March 9, 2013 (part of a 2013 world record attempt by Whole Foods Market). I recorded this video on March 9, 2013 and posted it the next day. It was a recording of one location where Whole Foods Market was attempting (and I believe succeeded) in setting a world record for the most number of Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese at the same time. They were attempting this feat by using multiple stores and locations across their service footprint. The best part was that we all got to sample! Current projects Here's a list of my current active projects. Feel free to pitch in! Football coaches 2022 Kansas State Wildcats football team List of Tabor Bluejays head football coaches List of Friends Falcons head football coaches List of College of Emporia Fighting Presbies head football coaches (check for correct name) source Previous project proposal Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Wikipedia editor business card project not created College Football "Harvard Beats Yale, 29–29" Yale Bulldogs Harvard Crimson (8–0) (8–0) 29 29 Head coach:  Carmen Cozza Head coach:  John Yovicsin 1 2 3 4 Total Yale 7 15 0 7 29 Harvard 0 6 7 16 29 Date November 23, 1968 Season 1968 Stadium Harvard Stadium Location Boston, Massachusetts Attendance 40,280 United States TV coverage Announcers Don Gillis The 1968 Yale vs. Harvard football game was a college football game between the Yale Bulldogs and the Harvard Crimson, played on November 23, 1968. The game ended in a 29–29 tie after Harvard made what is considered a miraculous last-moment comeback, scoring 16 points in the final 42 seconds to tie the game against a highly touted Yale squad. The significance of the moral victory for Harvard inspired the next day's The Harvard Crimson student newspaper to print the famous headline "Harvard Beats Yale, 29–29". In 2010, ESPN ranked it No. 9 in its list of the top ten college football ties of all time. Yale came into the game with a 16-game winning streak and its quarterback, Brian Dowling, had only lost one game when he was in the starting lineup since the sixth grade. Both schools entered the game with perfect 8–0 records. It was the first time both schools met when undefeated and untied since the 1909 season. The tie left both teams 8–0–1 for the season. The famous headline was later used as the title for Harvard Beats Yale 29–29, a 2008 documentary about the game directed by Kevin Rafferty. Actor Tommy Lee Jones, who played on the offensive line for Harvard in the game, was interviewed for the documentary. This game stands as the final tie in the Harvard–Yale series, as subsequent rule changes have eliminated ties from college football. (Full article...) Kansas May Louise Cowles (September 25, 1892-January 11, 1978) was an economist, researcher, author, and advocate of Home Economics. She had many submissions published in the Journal of Home Economics, the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, and Rural Sociology. She also produced several widely-read pamphlets including Meeting Housing Needs of Older People in Rural Areas (1957) and spoke at a string of national seminars to encourage the addition of family economics to home economics instruction across the United States. Cowles "created some of the first family economics courses in the nation" at the collegiate level. She was born on September 25, 1892 in Sibley, Kansas and attended Kansas State Agricultural College where she earned a B.S. in home economics in 1912 and entered the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1915 to earn her master's degree in home economics. Kansas State University recognized her contributions to home economics and her participation in the field by awarding her the Distinguished Service Award for "outstanding achievement in home economics" in 1959. Read more... Other fun stuff Elizabeth "Liz" Heaston Thompson (born 1977) is an American athlete who is the first woman ever to score in a college football game. She accomplished this feat on October 18, 1997 as a placekicker for the Willamette University Bearcats, which was competing in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA). She also played women's soccer for Willamette. Heaston's accomplishment was widely noted by the media and the sports community. Learn more... Collaborate... John Papas is a high school football coach who has coached for more than thirty years. He is currently the head coach at Buckingham Browne & Nichols and the director of the New England Elite Football Clinic. He was the first football coach at Mount Ida College. In his youth, he played for the football team, the Red Raiders, at Watertown High in Watertown, Massachusetts. He is also the co-host of "Watertown Rant" on access TV (WCATV.org). Collaborate on full article... Selected picture Concordia, Kansas Main Street Did You Know? A fact from 1921 Centre vs. Harvard football game appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on August 12, 2008. Wikibooks Football coaches of the past A collection of college football coaches and the unique information about them Fighting Presbies Football The Rich History of the College of Emporia Football Team KCAC Football the past and hard-hitting present WikiConCordia A collection of articles on Wikipedia that involve Concordia, Kansas Essays Essays in Mainspace General essays Wikipedia:Quote your own essay Editors should feel free to quote their own essay in AFD discussions. Wikipedia:Confusing arguments mean nothing Be clear and state your point. Wikipedia:WP Athlete is not exclusionary Abraham Lincoln doesn't meet WP:ATHLETE, but that's no reason to delete the article! Wikipedia:Avoid repeated arguments During AfD discussions, don't be Bugs and Daffy Wikipedia:Counting and sorting are not original research Wikipedia:Discriminate vs indiscriminate information discusses the difference between "indiscriminate" and "discriminate" collections of information as it applies to the policy at WP:IINFO. Wikipedia:Encourage full discussions If someone makes an argument in an AfD, it's okay if someone else responds to it. WP:KOOLAID Don't drink the consensus Kool-Aid Wikipedia:Liar Liar Pants on Fire During AfD discussions, please provide information instead of calling editors a liar or mis-informed: bring the truth, not the accusation. Wikipedia:Nothing A response to the WP:EVERYTHING argument Wikipedia:Pocket Consensus An essay about specialist topic consensus Wikipedia:Read the Source Be sure to read the source first before discussing it. Wikipedia:Try another wiki An essay about finding an appropriate home for articles that may not be right for Wikipedia. Wikipedia:User pages make great bookmarks An essay to help teachers and presenters use Wikipedia for live lesson plan and presentation navigation. Wikipedia:Relisting can be abusive Re-listing is not a method of crying "sour grapes" Wikipedia:Oh, Well Sometimes you should just shrug and move on. Wikipedia:What is and is not routine coverage Make sure you understand the meaning of WP:ROUTINE before applying it to everything. Wikipedia:Unopposed AFD discussion An unopposed AFD discussion should never be closed as "keep" Wikipedia:Wikipedia does or does not need that article Wikipedia doesn't "need" any article... Wikipedia:Do not confuse stub status with non-notability Stub articles are okay. Wikipedia:But I'm an Administrator! being a Wikipedia administrator doesn't make them right. Wikipedia:A weak personal attack is still wrong any personal attack--no matter how light or severe--is wrong. Wikipedia:Profanity, civility, and discussions Don't cuss on talk pages. Please. Wikipedia:Let's try to avoid using too many acronyms, okay? or as I like to say, WP:LTTAUTMAOK Wikipedia:Inconsistent enforcement just because there is inconsistent enforcement of a rule doesn't make the rule wrong. Wikipedia:All Five Pillars are the same height Wikipedia has its fundamental principles, called the Wikipedia:Five pillars. No one pillar is more important than another. Wikipedia:Keep discussions focused Discussion topics (AFD, talk pages, etc.) should focus on the question at hand and not become a forum for a larger topic. College football project essays Wikipedia:WikiProject College football/Write a football game summary Basic guidelines for creating game summaries in college football related articles Wikipedia:WikiProject College football/Images Comprehensive guidelines for images in the college football project Wikipedia:WikiProject College football/Notability Comprehensive notability guidelines for the college football project Wikipedia:WikiProject College football/Please Refrain from Spamming History AfDs during the season An essay resulting from a large amount of historical deletion nominations during the season. Hey, we're busy here! Wikipedia:WikiProject College football/Reliable Sources Comprehensive guidelines for reliable sources in the college football project Wikipedia:WikiProject College football/West precedent A discussion about a specific series of articles deleted en masse -- I believe inappropriately. Essays in Userspace Mc-Mac Opposition Essay Lists List of defunct colleges and universities in Kansas List of college football coaches with 200 career wins List of college football coaches with 100 career losses List of college football coaches with 20 career ties List of college football coaches with 0 career wins List of college football coaches with 30 seasons List of college football coaches with a .750 winning percentage List of college football head coaches with non-consecutive tenure List of historically significant college football games List of Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference people Wikiprojects Wikipedia:WikiProject College football Wikipedia:WikiProject Big 12 Conference Wikipedia:WikiProject National Register of Historic Places Wikipedia:WikiProject Kansas Wikipedia:WikiProject Parliamentary Procedure Wikipedia:WikiProject PipeOrgan Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals Wanna help? Wanna help source some college football BLP's? Wanna help resurrect some deleted articles? Wanna catch up on football-related deletion reviews or Kansas deletion reviews? Wanna review my pages edited? Wanna collaborate on the User:Paulmcdonald/Mc-Mac Opposition Essay? Wanna see what's in my sandbox? Wanna see a full list of my user pages (plus some others that sneak through on the search)? Wanna discuss semi-pro football notability? Wanna write a football game summary? Personal facts Resident of Kansas Former resident of Illinois Traveled to Mexico,Canada, Australia, and Fiji Active in Toastmasters International and National Association of Parliamentarians Played Tuba in the Kansas State University Marching Band Earned Eagle Scout in Boy Scouts of America and currently a Sea Scout Skipper Enjoy Barbecue and cooking References Unlike traditional portals, I feel compelled to list references for the stories displayed, if any exist.