User:Mike.lifeguard

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This user speaks Canadian English at a godlike level.

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Cette personne peut contribuer avec un niveau intermédiaire de français.

This user is an administrator, bureaucrat, and checkuser on the English Wikibooks. (verify)

This user thinks Wikibooks will be the next big thing in education.^[Jimmy]

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Contacting me: If I'm online, you can probably find me in #wikibooks (with the nick Mike_lifeguard), which would be fastest. Otherwise, please leave me a message on my talk page. Please email me only when you need to contact me privately.

About me

The last vandal who crossed me.

Yes, my real name is Mike
Yes, I am a lifeguard
I have a bot account using AWB and pywikipediabot.
My original reason for coming to Wikibooks was to bring sanity to First Aid, which is now a featured book.
- I've made a semi-canonical PDF version, but I haven't used it in any courses yet. It will be updated as I figure out what works and what doesn't.
- I've put together Subject:First aid, which lists First Aid along with other stuff that deals with the subject
I've also started Wikijunior:Water Safety, which is currently on the backburner. I do intend to finish it eventually. Same goes for Sensory Neuroscience: Hearing and speech and Knots.
I've written an essay about integrity.
I am currently an admin, CheckUser and 'crat here, as well as an administrator and CheckUser at Commons, and an admin at Meta. I was previously an oversighter for Meta, but I've since relinquished that role. Most recently, I was elected as a steward. Since this is one of my home wikis, I am not permitted to take action here as a steward.
- My main tasks are currently keeping the cleanup backlogs just this side of the apocalypse. {{Backlog}} shows the tasks where non-admins can help with these backlogs.
- My main challenges are vandalism (mostly bad page creation); keeping up with new page patrol and verifying media uploads; and copyvios (especially in the cookbook).
- If you are a vandal, you'll get one warning. If you're particularly vulgar, you won't even get that.
I have rather strong views on rights. If you need them, are trusted, and active, you should have them. You only need the tools while you meet those requirements - if you're no longer trusted, active, or don't need them you shouldn't have them.
- This is the correct reaction to removal of admin tools for inactivity.