User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.

Joe Beaudoin Jr. is the webmaster and head wikipedian for the Battlestar Wiki. Much to my chargin, I am the oft-mentioned God that Six refers to almost on an per-episode basis. :-)

Biography

I hail from Vero Beach, Florida, best known to most as victim of both Hurricane Frances and Hurricane Jeanne in mid-to-late 2004.

When not working as a Media Supervisor at my local Best Buy, I do endeavor to get some work done not only here, but at Wikipedia (english) as an administrator. My user name at Wikipedia is Joe Beaudoin Jr.. (My username here -- Joe.Beaudoin -- is derived from my e-mail address at gmail.)

While I do prefer that you just contact me on my talk page, I can be contacted by clicking the "e-mail this user" link in the toolbox, itself being on the left margin of this page.

As for computing, I use a custom built, AMD-64 Debian Linux machine called "Zen". ("Zen" is the name of the computer that ran the Liberator on Blake's 7.) I did have a Toshiba laptop called "Orac" (yet another Blake's 7 reference), but I no longer have it as I gave the computer to my father for his real estate business. Instead, I have a PowerBook G4 -- swearing off Windows-based machines for good.

I constructed a computer -- calling that one "Orac" as well -- that serves as a Linux based multimedia center, with all my music and movie collections, to be loaded on three 300 GB+ Western Digital hard drives.

I also have an XBox, Playstation 2, Playstation Portable and, yes, a Nintendo 64 (for Goldeneye, otherwise I would've sold it).

P.S. Yes, you can edit my user page. I trust you. Besides, I can always re-edit your edits.

Contact Info

You may mail me at joebeaudoin@joebeaudoin.net. You can also contact me via AIM (panda ho joe) or via Google Talk (joe.beaudoin@gmail.com).

My tasks

While I really leave all the day to day editing to the contributors, leaving me free to concentrate on major issues (such as policy and so forth, being the "sysop"), I plan to work on the following:

• Work on articles pertaining to the original Battlestar Galactica as well as upload appropriate images.
• Create the following policies:
  • Battlestar Wiki:Image Tagging - wikiproject/policy to tag all images added to the wiki, so that they may be categorized in some fashion
  • Battlestar Wiki:Conflict Resolution - policy regarding resolution of disputes between editors; not that this is a problem, but I'd like to get something concrete set up should there be any issues in the future, given the growth of this Wiki
• Work on the following non-policies:
  • Battlestar Wiki:Community Portal - links to outside sites and items related to Battlestar Wiki:Wikipedian Quorum
  • Battlestar Wiki:Template List - list of all templates available for this wiki

I also plan to import and rewrite some policies from Wikipedia, mainly pertaining to style and the "nomination for administration" guidelines.

The red links are obviously stuff I haven't done yet.

Completed Stuff

• Battlestar Wiki:Vandalism - You know, just in case some Toaster decides to vandalise pages... Look at what they did to the restaurant that Helo and Boomer were in.
• Battlestar Wiki:Quality Articles - As the name might suggest, this is a project to ID quality pages and develop potential quality pages. The best of the best.
  • Battlestar Wiki:Site support - place to beg for donations, which will go towards paying for the hosting and for future upgrades; not that it's a burden, but I want to give people the option to give back in whatever way they feel is best -- and some people like to do it financially

My toolbox

• Battlestar Wiki:Standards and Conventions

Links of Interest

• Battlestar Wiki at Alexa
• Battlestar Wiki (old url) at Alexa

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I get some of my images from http://galactica.emedian.net/. --DrBat 08:24, 7 February 2006 (EST)