Hi, I'm Haus. I've had this account since 28 Feb 2006 and puttered about from IPs before then. I generally work on articles related to ships, the shipping industry, navigation, maritime unions -- the gentle reader may be able to detect a pattern emerging. My encyclopedic editing tends to focus on turning stub- and start-class articles into high-B-class articles. About once a year I go on a big maintenance-bender on the 40,000+ articles in WP:SHIPS, trying to focus on a "redheaded-stepchild" task. These benders are typically aided by some ad hoc technology.
I hope to one day have merchant shipping articles in good enough shape that I can kick back and work on something amusing like Mick Farren.
I go to sea for months on end, so if I appear dormant it's probably because I am.
If you're wondering if I'm that Haus, the answer is yes. I used to have a pet demon named Balzhur that was the bane of the silly people everywhere.
MacEwen, William A.; William Hayler; Turpin, Edward A. (1989). Merchant Marine officers' handbook: based on the original edition by Edward A. Turpin and William A. MacEwen (5th ed.). Cambridge, Md: Cornell Maritime Press. ISBN0-87033-379-8.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
Roland, Alex (2008). The way of the ship: America's maritime history reenvisioned. Hobokken, New Jersey: John Wiley and Sons. ISBN9780470136003. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |accessyear=, |origmonth=, |accessmonth=, |chapterurl=, |month=, and |origdate= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics (2005). "ISL Market Analysis"(PDF). Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics. pp. p. 3. Retrieved 2008-04-26. {{cite web}}: |pages= has extra text (help); Cite has empty unknown parameters: |month= and |coauthors= (help)
Portals and Projects
I've put some effort into developing wikiprojects and portals. Here's the (not quite current) list:
On 22 March, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Harry Lundeberg, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.
In recognition of the tremendous work you've done, converting over 3,200 ship infoboxes in less than a week. Keep up the good work! Parsecboy (talk) 13:14, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
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For sterling work in migrating all the old ship infoboxes to the new template Socrates2008 (Talk) 12:49, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
On 10 April, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Needlegun scaler, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
In recognition of your diligent work to convert deprecated infoboxes, on many military ship articles, I hereby award you the Military History WikiProject Chevrons. -MBK004 20:59, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
On 28 April, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Fednav Group, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
On 3 May, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Pumpman, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
On 10 May, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Sealift Incorporated, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
On 13 May, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article MV Ascension, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
Another one. --Gatoclass (talk) 09:12, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
On 14 October, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Tugboat Spence, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
Keep up the good work! ~ User:Ameliorate!(with the !) (talk) 00:16, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
On August 3, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article MV Montauk, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
On August 9, 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Cargo control room, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check ) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
On 26 August 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article MV Geysir, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check ) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
On 5 September 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article MV Mariam, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check ) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
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