User:Fishnagles

Things I've learned at Wikipedia

• Use "page preview" before saving an edit.
• Use the "thank" feature often.
• Check an article's history before proposing it for deletion.
• If I can't find good references easily, it probably does not belong here.
• Look for a plausible redirect in lieu of deletion.
• Check new articles for copyright violations.
• Old links sometimes redirect to bad stuff.

Wit and wisdom seen about town, good enough to share

• The problem with Wikipedia is that it only works in practice. In theory, it can never work.[1]
• I used to have a dream that my computer would be as easy to use as my phone. And my dream came true. Now I don't understand my phone either.
• The bad news is, the guy who bullied you in school is still taking your lunch money. The good news is, he makes a pretty good Subway sandwich.
• Age improves with wine. Fishnagles (talk) 14:41, 2 April 2016 (UTC)

About me

I am a native New Yorker (5th generation no less). I grew up in Babylon, New York, and now live in New York City. I attended Hendricks Institute of Technology. I have also lived in Los Angeles, and Honolulu. On Wikipedia I mainly work on articles related to New York, particularly things having to do with New York history and New York neighborhoods. I also clean up or proofread articles that I come across. I've been hanging around Wikipedia off and on since 2006. Fishnagles (talk) 14:41, 2 April 2016 (UTC)

Dead Link Assassin

There are many websites which exist, yet at a later date, have their domain names expire. Many times, these domain names are then registered by third parties and the websites which previously existed are replaced with spam and/or are used to attempt to install Malware on new visitors' computers. I try to find these and remove them from Wikipedia so that users are not tricked into visiting these harmful computer virus ridden websites from reading Wikipedia. It is beginning to become, in my opinion, a significant problem on Wikipedia.Fishnagles (talk) 15:56, 2 April 2016 (UTC)