User:GabeIglesia

Not to be confused with Gabriel Iglesias.

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This Wikipedian joined Wikipedia on September 20, 2012 (13 years, 10 months, 2 weeks and 5 days ago).

This editor is a WikiGnome.

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This user is a citizen of the United States of America.

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This user has visited 61 of the 205 countries in the world.

My interests on Wikipedia include anything from international relations to astronomy to video games. As a detail-oriented editor, I identify as a WikiGnome. As such, most of my edits are typo fixes, grammatical improvements, bolding main subjects and abbreviations, citations, Wikilinks, disambiguation pages, redirects, and category pages. In my view, improving the little details helps improve the bigger picture overall. On occasion, I do create articles of my own and make effort to substantially improve stubs (see projects below).

Pages created

This editor is a
**Veteran Editor IV**
and is entitled to display
this
**Gold Editor Star**.

Articles

Disambiguation pages

Templates

Project pages

Pages significantly expanded or overhauled

Pages to be created

Various ambassadors of the United States
Various notable embassies and consulates of the United States
List of federal agencies represented at U.S. diplomatic missions abroad

My current Wikipedia to-do list

Expand U.S. Bilateral Relations Fact Sheets and Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
Update Ambassadors of the United States, list of ambassadors to the United States, and list of current Permanent Representatives to the United Nations
Add succession boxes for various U.S. ambassadors and officials
Update and expand infoboxes for various U.S. ambassadors and officials
Clean and update references for various U.S. ambassadors, officials, and government agencies
Find OIG reports for expanding government agency infoboxes
Fix bolding in lead paragraphs, per MOS:BOLDTITLE and MOS:BOLDSYN
De-capitalize section headings, per MOS:SECTIONCAPS
Tag article talk pages with the appropriate English variant, per MOS:TIES
Tag article talk pages for WP:USGOV
Invite editors to WikiProject United States Government
Search for information from the State Department's Office of the Inspector General and Office of the Historian to expand State Department-related articles
Starting January 20, 2017, update government officials to reflect end of terms (i.e. any politically-appointed Assistant Secretaries of State, Under Secretaries of State, Ambassadors, etc. who are stepping down)
Edit Assistant Secretary and Ambassador articles to update the appointer in the infobox (Many say Barack Obama or John Kerry, but should be changed to the general post)
Clean up the mess that is the Model United Nations article
Update Foreign Affairs Policy Board
Expand State Department bureau articles with information from the Congressional Budget Justification
Add Peace Corps alumni to Peace Corps volunteer category (and alumni of other programs)
Help clean out Category:Overpopulated categories, per WP:SUBCAT

Scripts, gadgets, and other shortcuts I use

COI declarations

In accordance with Wikipedia's conflict of interest policies, I declare my connection with the subjects of the following articles.

United States Diplomacy Center - Former intern at the State Department
Antioch College - Alumnus
Olive Kettering Library - Alumnus of Antioch College
Bureau of Public Affairs - Former intern at the State Department
Bureau of International Organization Affairs - Former intern at the State Department
Tom Manley (college president) - Alumnus of Antioch College
Foreign Service Institute - Former staff

Contributions to State Department articles

Per 5 FAM 777 in the Foreign Affairs Manual:

"Employees, acting in their private capacity, may establish personal blogs, wikis, or any other collaborative forum; however, the provisions of 3 FAM 4172.1-3 must be followed. Any posting to a wiki or blog that contains information "of official concern" to the Department must be cleared through PA (for domestic employees) or Chief of Mission (for employees serving abroad), unless being referenced from existing publicly available information. No employee shall accept compensation from any source other than the United States Government for writing that relates to the employee's official duties."