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Pmsyyz is Phillip M. Stewart, who was born in 1975 in Mississippi where he lived until he joined the USAF at age 25. He then lived in Colorado Springs, Colorado until 2014.

Welcome to my user page. Feel free to improve this page. I enjoy contributing to Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, which I first starting doing on 15 May 2004. I registered on 4 July 2004. Some pre-registration edits: 68.64.7.68

I have at least three ancestors with Wikipedia articles: William Bradford (governor), Stephen Hopkins (merchant), and Constance Hopkins. (probably more)

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Other wikis

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Look further down for the Wikimedia project links.

Opinions

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  • 2011-09-04 Andrew G. West performed unethical research.
  • 2011-02-09 When looking at a diff of changes to several separate paragraphs, there should be an option to revert just the change to one paragraph.
  • 2010-10-02 There needs to be a search just for each article's history. This would allow you to find when certain content was added or went missing.
  • Most TV episode lists should include fair use screenshots.
  • Ads on Wikipedia: I don't want ads on Wikipedia unless donations can't cover costs, but I'm curious as to how much money can be generated from 24 hours of Google text ads placed under the interlanguage links.

Donations

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Wikipedia and other Wikimedia Foundation projects are valuable resources, but it takes more than volunteers to keep it running. See where the money goes. But the quick staffing numbers increase makes me nervous. I have stopped donating. 36.7 million dollars to be granted to other orgs in FY 21-22...

  • 2004-07-10 $10
  • 2005-08-02 $20
  • 2005-11-06 $20
  • 2005-12-16 $20
  • 2006-01-05 $30
  • 2007-01-06 $30
  • 2007-10-22 $30
  • 2008-11-06 $30
  • 2009-10-17 $40
  • 2010-10-15 $40
  • 2012-xx-xx $60 (via Combined Federal Campaign)
  • 2013-xx-xx $60 (via Combined Federal Campaign)
  • 2017-12-31 $5

Qualifications / areas of expertise

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I acquired a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration from Mississippi State University in 1998 and have been in the United States Air Force since 2001.

I'm also generally interested in history, geography, etc.

To do/drafts

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see User:Pmsyyz/sandbox

Contributions

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Edits by namespace (including their talk pages) as of 27 February 2014
  Mainspace (88%)
  User (8%)
  Wikipedia (2%)
  Other (2%)

Articles (I started most of these)

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"Pages created" Toolserver app or alternate (alt) that list my article creations.

Enlisted Performance ReportPeer Name Resolution ProtocolDisplayPortE-Government Act of 200222d Space Operations Squadron50th Space Wing380th Air Expeditionary WingAl Dhafra Air BaseMedia PlayGoogle Secure AccessLoop Current (look how this one took off after I created it) • Sierra GrandeJohnson MesaGacha Gacha2d Space Operations SquadronJabal YibirJoint Task Force NorthMississippi Highway 46310th Air Base WingAir Force Communications AgencyDesert Hawk2d Space WingUnited States Air Force SymbolUnited States Central Command Air Forces850th Space Communications SquadronKYK-13Iturralde Crater172d Airlift WingHeadquarters Air Force badgePrince Sultan Air BaseThe Great War (documentary)Ali Air Base15th Airlift Wing50th Space Communications SquadronAir Force Combat Action MedalTreaty of Doak's StandNGC 4449403d Wing552d Air Control WingElmwood, Oklahoma435th Air Base Wing917th WingPunkin Center, ColoradoAmi TokitoBarr Trail50th Network Operations Group926th Group11th Space Warning SquadronNordkalotten 365Guidon (United States)#Air ForceTruckton, ColoradoSidi Toui National ParkDan Rather ReportsCyberjetsSpecial Operations Command KoreaJames A. RoyRichard E. Webber3d Space Wing1st Space Wing502nd Air Base WingAiken Canyon Preserve609th Air Communications SquadronHeavy Airlift WingMan, Woman, WildKamil CraterHyppolit, the ButlerWebPchntpwBruce Randolph SchoolYao ChenBaidu YiDoomsday PreppersBride Wannabes19th Expeditionary Weather SquadronComparison of online music lockers960th Cyberspace Operations GroupEcho Cliffs [1]Psammotermes allocerusDaniel Cremieux2013 Colorado wildfiresGoogle Play MusicBTC ChinaOpen Automotive Alliance2015 RR245Moto E3 PowerNeuralinkForce 47Electrify AmericaMagecart838th Air Expeditionary Advisory GroupRobert E. Lee Building1876th Communications SquadronBathynomus yucatanensis

Images

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I upload some fair use images (book and album covers mostly) to the English Wikipedia, see Special:ListFiles/Pmsyyz. In case I miss any being deleted, they are: File:CPT12 logo.png, File:1632-Eric Flint (2000) cover.jpg, File:Cover of 1635 The Cannon Law.jpg, File:Cover of 1634 The Baltic War.png, File:Google Currents icon.png, File:Goto Maki - 3rd Station.jpg, File:CD cover of mini-moni Songs 2.png, File:1634 The Galileo Affair-Eric Flint.jpg, File:Polaris book cover.jpg, File:Seeker book cover.jpg, File:Mother of Demons cover.jpg, File:Book cover 1636-The Kremlin Games.jpg, File:Book cover 1636 Commander Cantrell in the West Indies.jpg, File:Book cover 1636 Seas of Fortune.jpg, File:1635 The Papal Stakes book cover.jpg, File:Book cover 1636 The Devil's Opera.jpg

I'm uploading free images to the Wikimedia Commons now. See my user page there for a list. I've contributed photos of the Colorado Springs area, my hometown, and of places I've driven through, such as Seiling, Oklahoma.

USAF ribbon rack

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Mess dress medals
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Baryte is a mineral consisting of barium sulfate (BaSO4). Generally white or colorless, it is the main source of the element barium, an alkaline earth metal. It is found across the world and can be deposited through biogenic and hydrothermal processes or evaporation. Early records of baryte date to the 16th century, when a radiating form gained notoriety among alchemists for specimens found near Bologna, Italy. Carl Wilhelm Scheele determined that baryte contained a new element in 1774, but elemental barium was not isolated until 1808 by Humphry Davy, using electrolysis of molten barium salts. Modern uses of baryte include oil and gas drilling, oxygen and sulfur isotopic analysis, and radiometric dating. These crystals of baryte on a dolomite crystal matrix was found at Cerro Warihuyn in Miraflores District, Peru. This photograph was focus-stacked from 24 separate images.Photograph credit: Ivar Leidus
 
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