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Hi, I am [[Noel Chiappa]]. As of September 29, 2022, that page contains two errors. Have fun trying to work out what they are! (I refuse to look at it, to see if they are still there - it would just piss me off.) |
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<big>I am on indefinite Wiki-break since October, 2005, although I occasionally putter around. If you need to reach me, please [http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Special:Emailuser&target=Jnc email] me, as I'm ''not'' reading my Talk: page here. Do '''''not''''' leave messages for me on my Talk: page; I do not want any messages left there. </big> |
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==On break== |
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I am on indefinite Wiki-break since October, 2005, although I occasionally putter around. If you need to reach me, please [http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Special:Emailuser&target=Jnc email] me, as I'm ''not'' reading my Talk: page here. Do '''''not''''' leave messages for me on my Talk: page; I do not want any messages left there. |
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I was badly affected by having to deal with a particular problematic user (who has since, ironically, left Wikipedia), and even more upset at what I perceive(d) to be a [[Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Jnc and Barberio|lack of support from the community]] in dealing with a clueless, argumentative, biased, stubborn nitwit who persisted in trying to fill major articles with erroneous, highly-biased POV, based on ignorance, prejudice, and personal research (which I can only characterize as incompetent, sketchy, worse-than-amateurish, incomplete, and pathetic) - the conclusions of which were, needless to say, not supported by the standard reference works on the field. A wonderful example of him displaying all these traits in action (in a pointless argument with another editor) may be found [[Talk:Packet_switching/OriginsArchive#Non-issue|here]]. |
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I was badly affected by having to deal with a particular problematic user (who has since, ironically, left Wikipedia), and even more upset at what I perceive(d) to be a [[Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Jnc and Barberio|lack of support from the community]] in dealing with a clueless, argumentative, biased, stubborn nitwit who persisted in trying to fill major articles with erroneous, highly-biased POV, based on ignorance, prejudice, and personal research (which I can only characterize as incompetent, sketchy, worse-than-amateurish, incomplete, and pathetic) - the conclusions of which were, needless to say, not supported by the standard reference works on the field. |
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A wonderful example of him displaying all these traits in action (in a pointless argument with another editor) may be found [[Talk:Packet_switching/OriginsArchive#Non-issue|here]]. |
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I just don't need that kind of grief, and I don't see the point of working hard on articles if some ignorant moron can come along and trash them. If that's the situation, I'd rather spend the time working on academic papers (a conclusion, alas, that many other good contributors before me have come to). So, I have concluded that for the moment my time will be more profitably spent working on a number of papers I need to write and/or finish off, on important topics such as [http://www.chiappa.net/~jnc/tech/endpoints.txt endpoints]. |
I just don't need that kind of grief, and I don't see the point of working hard on articles if some ignorant moron can come along and trash them. If that's the situation, I'd rather spend the time working on academic papers (a conclusion, alas, that many other good contributors before me have come to). So, I have concluded that for the moment my time will be more profitably spent working on a number of papers I need to write and/or finish off, on important topics such as [http://www.chiappa.net/~jnc/tech/endpoints.txt endpoints]. |
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I've been on extended Wiki-breaks before (I was gone from the fall of '03 to the middle of '04), and may decide to continue contributing in the future, but I cannot reliably predict the future, so we'll have to see. (Note to bureaucrats: I will be monitoring the account to make sure it is not broken into, so don't change its status.) |
I've been on extended Wiki-breaks before (I was gone from the fall of '03 to the middle of '04), and may decide to continue contributing in the future, but I cannot reliably predict the future, so we'll have to see. (Note to bureaucrats: I will be monitoring the account to make sure it is not broken into, so don't change its status.) |
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==About Me== |
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I've been a [[Wikipedia:Wikipedian|Wikipedian]] (not to mention a [[Wikipedia:Wikipediholic|Wikipediholic]] :-) since August, 2003. I've been an [[User:Ambivalenthysteria/top sekrit sysop kabal|admin]] since September, 2003. I managed to make it into the 10,000 edit club on 30 May, 2005; I later made it up to about #174 on the [[Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits|English Wikipedia edit list]] at the time I went on Wikibreak. |
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I used to do article creation and editing on a random and broad range of topics (an encyclopaedia is the perfect project for me :-). As [[User:David Gerard|David Gerard]] so pithily and perfectly puts it: |
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[[Image:JncSml.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Me]] |
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Hi, I've been a [[Wikipedia:Wikipedian|Wikipedian]] (not to mention a [[Wikipedia:Wikipediholic|Wikipediholic]] :-) since August, 2003. I've been an [[User:Ambivalenthysteria/top sekrit sysop kabal|admin]] since September, 2003. I managed to make it into the 10,000 edit club on 30 May, 2005; I later made it up to about #174 on the [[Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits|English Wikipedia edit list]] at the time I went on Wikibreak. |
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I do article creation and editing on a random and broad range of topics (an encyclopaedia is the perfect project for me :-). As [[User:David Gerard|David Gerard]] so pithily and perfectly puts it: |
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: ''My life has been spent filling my head with unbelievable quantities of trivia and rubbish. Here's a chance to get some of it out.'' |
: ''My life has been spent filling my head with unbelievable quantities of trivia and rubbish. Here's a chance to get some of it out.'' |
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My Wikipediholic [[Wikipedia:Are You a Wikipediholic Test|score]] (as of July, 2005) was 194 - but I claim I should get bonus points for writing an [[User:Jnc/wiki.e|special Epsilon extension in EEL for Wikipedia editing]], something I reckon should be worth about 15 points or so, bringing my total score to 209. |
My Wikipediholic [[Wikipedia:Are You a Wikipediholic Test|score]] (as of July, 2005) was 194 - but I claim I should get bonus points for writing an [[User:Jnc/wiki.e|special Epsilon extension in EEL for Wikipedia editing]], something I reckon should be worth about 15 points or so, bringing my total score to 209. |
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For more about me, look at my home page here: |
For more about me, look at my home page here: |
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[[User:Cullhach|Kate]] |
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[http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Military_Aviation_Museum&oldid=519081922 MAM full] |
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[[At Carnegie Hall]] |
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- [[I Remember Clifford (album)]] |
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- [[Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs]] |
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- [[Shakti (album)]] |
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[[Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould]] |
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[[Giovanni de' Medici]] (disambiguation) |
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[[Djhutmose]] |
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[[Amenhotep]] (disambiguation) |
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[[Special Tasks]] |
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[[The Gathering Storm (1974 film)]] |
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[[Nanthaniel Stebbins]] |
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- [[Reliance (yacht)]] |
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- [[Charles E. Leiserson]] |
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- [[Martin Richards]] |
- [[Martin Richards (computer scientist)|Martin Richards]] |
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- [[Stanford AI Lab]] |
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- [[Booting (computer slang)]] |
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===Cars=== |
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[[Manfred von Brauchitsch]] |
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- [[Griffith Borgeson]] |
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[[Virginia Beach Airport]] |
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- [[Military Aviation Museum]] |
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- [[Robert Woodruff (director)]] |
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- [[Clark Graebner]] |
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- [[Howard Kinsey]] |
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- [[Pseudibis]] |
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[[Castel Sant'Angelo]] |
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[[Dosso, Niger]] |
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[[Firbank Grammar School]] |
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[[Levels of the Game]] |
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- [[Special Tasks]] |
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- [[The Traveler (novel)]] |
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[[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (movie)]] |
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[[The Gathering Storm (1974)]] |
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- [[Warm Springs (film)]] |
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- [[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (movie)]] |
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- [[Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult]] |
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- [[Romani ite domum]] |
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- [[Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould]] |
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- [[Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat]] |
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[[Firbank Grammar School]] |
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- [[School of American Ballet]] |
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[[Castel Sant'Angelo]] |
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- [[Engineer's degree]] |
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- [[Exocentric]] |
- [[Exocentric]] |
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- [[Game point]] |
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- [[Gold coins]] |
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- [[Jirga]] |
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- [[List of people known by full name]] |
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- [[List of people known by middle name]] |
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- [[Mountbatten]] |
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- [[Municipal water system]] |
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- [[Syedna Burhanuddin]] |
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- [[Tamaroa (tribe)]] |
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- [[Two state solution]] |
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- [[Underground government]] |
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- [[USCGC Tamaroa]] |
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- [[Cosimo I de' Medici]] (Grand Duke Cosimo I) |
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- [[Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici]] (the Unfortunate) |
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- [[Tadukhipa]] |
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- [[Tutankhamun]] |
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[[Ramesses]] (disambiguation) |
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[[James Somerville]] |
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- [[Isoroku Yamamoto]] |
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[[Zachary Lemnios]] |
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[[W. T. Tutte]] |
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[[Beirut Summit]] |
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- [[Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering|Director of Defense Research and Engineering]] |
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- [[History of Laos]] |
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- [[International Helsinki Federation]] |
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[[Amber Room]] |
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- [[Attack on Pearl Harbor]] |
- [[Attack on Pearl Harbor]] |
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[[Project Babylon]] |
[[Project Babylon]] |
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- [[Paris Gun]] |
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- [[Supergun]] |
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- [[Browning 1919A4]] |
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- [[Malmö MFI-9]] |
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- [[Focke-Wulf Fw 190 operational history]] |
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- [[Lorenz SZ 40/42]] |
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- [[Siemens and Halske T52]] |
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[[Lady Jane (movie)]] |
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- [[The Gathering Storm (2002)]] |
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- [[Leonard Kleinrock]] |
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- [[Butler Lampson]] |
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- [[J. C. R. Licklider]] |
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- [[Jon Postel]] |
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===Cars=== |
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- [[Harry Arminius Miller]] |
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- [[Chinese and English compared]] |
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- [[Condé Nast Publications]] |
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- [[Displacement (fluid)]] |
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[[Day of the Fight]] |
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- [[Flying Padre]] |
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- [[Ronin (movie)]] |
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[[List of Frasier episodes]] |
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- [[:Image:DaveBrubeckQuartetAtCarnegieHall.jpg|''At Carnegie Hall'' Cover]] |
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- [[:Image:IRememberClifford.jpg|''I Remember Clifford'' Cover]] |
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Hokusai |
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[[:Image:ToyokuniKabukiduo.jpg|Kabuki duo]] |
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[[:Image:ToyokuniPorter.jpg|Porter]] |
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[[:Image:IntFeb82.jpg|Internet map 1982]] |
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- [[:Image:InetCirca85.jpg|Internet map circa '85]] |
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[[:Image:YachtReliance.jpg|Yacht ''Reliance'']] |
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[[:Image:Brightongrammarlogo.jpg|Brighton Grammar logo]] |
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==Removed From WatchList== |
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- [[The Layla Sessions]] |
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== Disambiguation pages== |
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* [[/TooManyBoxes]] - A classic, should have been kept IMO |
* [[/TooManyBoxes]] - A classic, should have been kept IMO |
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* [[/Cold War Classic]] - A classic, lengthy, and hilarious hoax |
* [[/Cold War Classic]] - A classic, lengthy, and hilarious hoax |
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* [[/Slow Blind Driveway]] - Another |
* [[Wikipedia:Silly Things/Slow Blind Driveway|Slow Blind Driveway]] - Another |
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* [http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=San_Serriffe&oldid=1859677 San Serriffe] - The original, before Ed Poor discovered it and (reluctantly) nuked it. |
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=San_Serriffe&oldid=1859677 San Serriffe] - The original, before Ed Poor discovered it and (reluctantly) nuked it. |
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Latest revision as of 16:29, 6 February 2024
Hi, I am Noel Chiappa. As of September 29, 2022, that page contains two errors. Have fun trying to work out what they are! (I refuse to look at it, to see if they are still there - it would just piss me off.)
On break
[edit]I am on indefinite Wiki-break since October, 2005, although I occasionally putter around. If you need to reach me, please email me, as I'm not reading my Talk: page here. Do not leave messages for me on my Talk: page; I do not want any messages left there.
I was badly affected by having to deal with a particular problematic user (who has since, ironically, left Wikipedia), and even more upset at what I perceive(d) to be a lack of support from the community in dealing with a clueless, argumentative, biased, stubborn nitwit who persisted in trying to fill major articles with erroneous, highly-biased POV, based on ignorance, prejudice, and personal research (which I can only characterize as incompetent, sketchy, worse-than-amateurish, incomplete, and pathetic) - the conclusions of which were, needless to say, not supported by the standard reference works on the field.
A wonderful example of him displaying all these traits in action (in a pointless argument with another editor) may be found here.
I just don't need that kind of grief, and I don't see the point of working hard on articles if some ignorant moron can come along and trash them. If that's the situation, I'd rather spend the time working on academic papers (a conclusion, alas, that many other good contributors before me have come to). So, I have concluded that for the moment my time will be more profitably spent working on a number of papers I need to write and/or finish off, on important topics such as endpoints.
In homage to Professor Steve Ward of MIT, who wrote an incredibly funny parody of his testimony and cross-examination as an expert witness in a civil trial, I have created a parody of my own. Believe it or not, much of this is actually taken from real events here on Wikipedia; for example, check out this and then read this.
I've been on extended Wiki-breaks before (I was gone from the fall of '03 to the middle of '04), and may decide to continue contributing in the future, but I cannot reliably predict the future, so we'll have to see. (Note to bureaucrats: I will be monitoring the account to make sure it is not broken into, so don't change its status.)
About Me
[edit]I've been a Wikipedian (not to mention a Wikipediholic :-) since August, 2003. I've been an admin since September, 2003. I managed to make it into the 10,000 edit club on 30 May, 2005; I later made it up to about #174 on the English Wikipedia edit list at the time I went on Wikibreak.
I used to do article creation and editing on a random and broad range of topics (an encyclopaedia is the perfect project for me :-). As David Gerard so pithily and perfectly puts it:
- My life has been spent filling my head with unbelievable quantities of trivia and rubbish. Here's a chance to get some of it out.
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I used to lend a hand with the boring maintainence work, particularly on Wikipedia:Redirects for deletion, and also Wikipedia:Cut and paste move repair holding pen (fixing cut-and-paste bogo-moves was something of a passion, and a specialty, of mine). I took care of Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard for quite a while, but I finally "hit the wall" on doing that. (Plus to which, I wanted to work on articles, and I didn't have much time for that anymore!)
My Wikipediholic score (as of July, 2005) was 194 - but I claim I should get bonus points for writing an special Epsilon extension in EEL for Wikipedia editing, something I reckon should be worth about 15 points or so, bringing my total score to 209.
| Action | Count |
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| Edits | 16979 |
| Edits+Deleted | 18359 |
| Pages deleted | 1909 |
| Pages restored | 159 |
| Pages protected | 114 |
| Pages unprotected | 34 |
| Users blocked | 46 |
| Users unblocked | 20 |
| User rights modified | 1 |
For more about me, look at my home page here:
http://www.chiappa.net/~jnc/
When I am not logged in, my contributions show up at 68.10.112.83, 68.10.115.135 and 68.10.244.80.
Useful stuff
[edit]Wikipedia:Naming conventions (common names)
Wikipedia:Naming conventions (use English)
Wikipedia:Blocking policy#Disruption
Block user
List of blocked IP addresses and usernames
Block log
Protected pages
Protection log
User stats
My database entry
My edit count
Another edit counter
Purge cached page
No redirect
What links here
Redirects from : to User:
Missing redirects
Wikipedia:WikiProject Early computers
Wikipedia:WikiProject Early computers/Books
MediaWiki
Meta
Wikidev
Commons
Wiktionary
Wikiquote
Wikisource
Wikinews
Wikibooks
Pages I've Added
[edit]Music
[edit]Duane Allman - David Clark (guitar player) - E. Power Biggs - Nicholas Bruhns - Shakti (band)
Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor - Toccata and Fugue in D Minor - I Remember Clifford (song) - Layla
At Carnegie Hall - Jazz at Oberlin - Time In - I Remember Clifford (album) - Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs - Shakti (album)
Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
Japanese Woodblock Prints / Japan
[edit]Kunisada - Kuniyoshi - Sharaku - Toyokuni - Yoshitoshi
Snow Country - Shugaku-in imperial villa
Medici / Florence
[edit]Piero di Cosimo de' Medici (The Gouty) - Giuliano di Piero de' Medici - Giuliano di Lorenzo de' Medici (Duke of Nemours) - Lorenzo II de' Medici (Duke of Urbino) - Alessandro de' Medici - Giulio di Alessandro de' Medici - Giulia de' Medici - Ippolito de' Medici - Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici - Gian Gastone de' Medici - Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici
Belvedere - Palazzo della Signoria - Pitti Palace - Pazzi Conspiracy - Donatello's David - Pontormo
Bermuda / Virginia
[edit]Egypt
[edit]History / Military / Cryptography / Espionage
[edit]
Robert C. Duncan
- Anatoly Marchenko
Tom Loyless
- Desmond Morton
- Ralph Wigram
- Horace John Wilson
John Earl Haynes
- Harvey Klehr
- Pavel Sudoplatov
- Vladimir Vetrov
Alphonso II of Naples
- Frederick IV of Naples
- Prince Christopher of Greece
Committee of Imperial Defence - Moscow Helsinki Group - Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam - Two-state solution
Brigade of Guards - Highland Brigade (Scottish) - Lowland Brigade (Scottish)
Castle Romeo - Castle Union - Castle Yankee
The Gathering Storm (1974 film) - Warm Springs (film)
Nautical
[edit]Boom vang - Deadeye - Foresail - Headsail - Luff - Spinnaker pole
Nanthaniel Stebbins - Reliance - USCGC Tamaroa
Computers / Networking
[edit]Byte stream - Congestive collapse - Endocentric environment - Exocentric environment - Packet switch - Retransmission (data networks)
Bean Scripting Framework - Bravo - Gypsy - runoff - XMLTV
EFTP - List of assigned Class A IP addresses - Network Control Program - PARC Universal Packet
Bob Braden - Wesley A. Clark - André Danthine - Charles M. Herzfeld - Peter T. Kirstein - H. T. Kung - Charles E. Leiserson - Brian Randell - Martin Richards - John Shoch
ISO 8652 - Charles Babbage Institute - Internet Experiment Note - Sorcerer's Apprentice Syndrome - Stanford AI Lab - SIGCOMM - Booting (computer slang) - Hack - Tiger team - Template:Jargon
Cars / Planes
[edit]European Championship (auto racing)
Manfred von Brauchitsch - Griffith Borgeson
Virginia Beach Airport - Military Aviation Museum
Random
[edit]
Suzanne Farrell
- Darci Kistler
- Robert Woodruff (director)
Henry Cust
- Calvin Griffith
- Clark Graebner
- Howard Kinsey
- Frank Kovacs
- Welby Van Horn
- Joe Whalen
1458 (number) - Lithium hydride - Water pressure
Geronticus - Peruvian Torch cactus - Pseudibis - Scirpus
Dosso, Niger - Strait of Canso
Firbank Grammar School - School of American Ballet
Levels of the Game
- The Traveler (novel)
House & Garden
- Condé Nast Traveler
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (movie) - Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult - Romani ite domum - Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat
Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse - Dark Seed (computer game)
Engineer's degree - Exocentric - Game point - Gold coins - Jirga - Mountbatten - Municipal water system - Placeholder - River journey - Substantive title - Syedna Burhanuddin - Tamaroa (tribe) - Underground government
Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/3RR - Wikipedia:Cut and paste move repair holding pen
Pages I've Significantly Upgraded
[edit]Music
[edit]Johann Sebastian Bach - List of compositions of Johann Sebastian Bach - Johann Nikolaus Forkel
Allman Brothers Band - At Fillmore East - Eat a Peach - Love in Vain - W. C. Handy - Clifford Brown
Japanese Woodblock Prints / Japan
[edit]47 Ronin - Ronin - Seppuku - The Master of Go - Yasunari Kawabata
Medici / Florence
[edit]Michelozzo - Cosimo de' Medici (Pater Patriae) - Lorenzo de' Medici (Il Magnifico) - Cosimo I de' Medici (Grand Duke Cosimo I) - Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici (the Unfortunate)
Bermuda / Virginia
[edit]History of Bermuda - Politics of Bermuda - Transportation in Bermuda - St. George, Bermuda - Bermudian English - Third Supply
Jamestown, Virginia - Bartholomew Gosnold
Egypt
[edit]Amarna - Valley of the Kings - Burials in the Valley of the Kings - Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt - KV5 - KV55
Akhenaten - Nefertiti - Tadukhipa - Tutankhamun
History / Military / Cryptography / Espionage
[edit]
Ferdinand II of Naples
- Lady Jane Grey
James Somerville
- Isoroku Yamamoto
Zachary Lemnios
W. T. Tutte
Judith Coplon
We shall fight on the beaches - This was their finest hour - Never was so much owed by so many to so few - Isoroku Yamamoto's sleeping giant quote
Beirut Summit - Director of Defense Research and Engineering - History of Laos - International Helsinki Federation - Pathet Lao - Vientiane Treaty
Amber Room - Attack on Pearl Harbor - USS Grunion (SS-216)
Project Babylon - Paris Gun - Supergun - Browning 1919A4 - Malmö MFI-9 - Focke-Wulf Fw 190 operational history
Operation Ivy - Ivy Mike - Operation Castle - Castle Bravo
Colossus computer - Fish (cryptography) - Lorenz SZ 40/42 - Siemens and Halske T52
Lady Jane (movie) - The Gathering Storm (2002)
Nautical
[edit]Downhaul - Mechanical traveller - Outhaul - Parts of a sail - Sheet (sailing)
Deutschland - HMS Hood (51) - Pocket battleship
Computers / Networking
[edit]Input/output - Instruction pointer - Integrated circuit - Multi-user - Virtual machine - Virtual memory - Word processor
RUNOFF
- roff
- nroff
BCPL
- PL/I
Pilot ACE
- DEUCE
PDP
- PDP-6
- PDP-10
- PDP-11
- PDP-20
Multics - CTSS - OS/360 - VM/CMS - CMS
E-mail - Internetworking - OSI model - Packet - Packet switching - Reliable byte stream - Router - Truncated binary exponential backoff
Asynchronous Transfer Mode - Multiprotocol Label Switching
ARPANET - CHAOSnet - CYCLADES - History of the Internet - Xerox Network Services
Internet Architecture Board - Internet Engineering Task Force - Internet Society - Request for Comments
Classful network - Classless Inter-Domain Routing - EIGRP - Internet Control Message Protocol - Internet protocol suite - Internet Protocol - IPv4 - IPv4 address exhaustion - Subnetwork - Transmission Control Protocol - Trivial File Transfer Protocol
Fernando Corbato - Vint Cerf - Jack Dennis - Bob Kahn - Leonard Kleinrock - Butler Lampson - J. C. R. Licklider - Jon Postel - David P. Reed - Jerry Saltzer
MIT AI Lab - Boat anchor - Hacker - Xerox PARC
Cars / Planes
[edit]Colin Chapman - Harry Arminius Miller - Hans Stuck - Gilles Villeneuve
Random
[edit]1Time - BA Comair - Brighton Grammar School - Canonical - Chinese and English compared - Condé Nast Publications - Displacement (fluid) - Endocentric - Hierarchy - Irish Cream - Orion Syndicate - Reservoir - Towednack - Treasure hunt - University of Liège
Capability Brown - David G. Clark - Stefano Garzelli - Clonie Gowen - Kay Redfield Jamison - Paul Neil Milne Johnstone - Elizabeth Morgan - Condé Montrose Nast - Bonnie Somerville - Horace Wilson
Day of the Fight
- Flying Padre
- Ronin (movie)
- The Good Shepherd (film)
List of Frasier episodes
Wikipedia:Cleaning department - Wikipedia:Requested moves - Wikipedia:Redirects for deletion - Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard - Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents
Images I Provided
[edit]Incomplete
Layla Cover - Shakti Cover - At Carnegie Hall Cover - I Remember Clifford Cover Hokusai Chushingura - Hiroshige Chushingura - Yoshitoshi Climber Old Woman Rats - Sharaku Two Actors Actor - Kunisada Spiderweb Box - Toyokuni III Actor - Toyokuni Actor Kabuki duo Porter Internet map 1982 - Internet map circa '85 Yacht Reliance Brighton Grammar logo - Firbank Grammar logo
Removed From WatchList
[edit]Network Control Protocol - Sant'Angelo - The Fillmore Concerts - The Layla Sessions - Whirlwind
Disambiguation pages
[edit]Doing maintainence on WP:RfD, I wind up creating many Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages. Lots of disambiguation pages. So many I have moved them all to a separate page!
Subpages
[edit]- /LinkFarm - Links to images (as opposed to inclusion) don't show up in 'what links here' tables
- /Disambiguation - A rant about disambiguation
- /CryptoDictIndex - Alphabetical index to the Cryptographic Dictionary, July 1944
- /wiki.e - Epsilon editor extension for writing Wikipedia text
- /ToDo - Things I might actually work on someday
- /Test - Small test area, usually for template hackery
- /Sandbox - Sandbox
- /Welcome - My personalized welcome message
- /ReplyMyTalk - Message about where I see replies
- /NewReplyMyTalk - Version for new users
- /RedirMissingTarget - Templates for warning message
- /MvRedirMissingTarget - Template for redir left by a move
- /DelRedirMissingTarget - Template for redir left hanging by a delete
- /NeverRedirMissingTarget - Template for redir to something never existing
Fun stuff
[edit]- /TooManyBoxes - A classic, should have been kept IMO
- /Cold War Classic - A classic, lengthy, and hilarious hoax
- Slow Blind Driveway - Another
- San Serriffe - The original, before Ed Poor discovered it and (reluctantly) nuked it.