User:Guy M
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| Name | Guy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | May 17, 1969 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country |  United States | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Current location | Las Vegas, Nevada | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ethnicity | European & Native American (Cherokee) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sexuality | Homosexual | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Marital status | Single | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Education and employment | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation | Former Taxicab Driver | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| High school | American High School | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Guy M (May 17, 1969) is a (retired) taxicab driver in Las Vegas, Nevada. Known primarily for once having a Dodge Ram 1500 extended cab for a taxicab.
Early life
Guy was born in Vallejo, California on May 17, 1969. He lived in Fremont and graduated from American High School in 1987.
While exploring life, Guy has lived in many locations including Napa, Portland, Vancouver, San Jose, Oakland, Boston, Honolulu, San Diego and Las Vegas.
Occupations
Guy has worked in fast food (Taco Bell, Burger King), amusement park (Marriots Great America), retail sales (Macy's, RadioShack), hospitality (Royal Hawaiian Hotel), IT (Micro Focus, STAC, Qualcomm), and 20 years in transportation, as a taxicab driver (retired).
Wikimedia software
On July 26, 2005, Guy suggested a better lay out for MediaWikis User Contributions, Recent Changes and Watchlist listings. These suggested changes were ignored or unnoticed for two years before being denied (see quote) without discussion. Although there was one vote in favor of the changes.
| “ | It's been rather well-established as of late that users don't like us messing about with the appearance of change lists... | ” |
| — Rob Church, August 1, 2007 | ||
Wikipedia
WikiProjects
Guy founded WP:LAS Vegas to focus on articles related to Las Vegas, Nevada.
Article space
Created
- Close Up Foundation (November 1986 participant)
Future?
- Chrome (book), possibly the first homo-erotic science fiction novel, written by George Nader.
- TREX (bbs), a multi-line chat system located in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Saved from (AfD) deletion
(Joint efforts from Wikipedians)
User space
Sock puppets
Tools used
- Wikipedia Cleaner (start), to fix links to disambiguation pages
- Navigation Popups, also to fix links to disambiguation pages
- Friendly, welcoming new editors
- Twinkle, to patrol recent changes and new pages for test edits and vandalized pages
Tags
- Very-Short New Pages, New page patrolling
- Large New Pages, New page patrolling
- Possible libel or vandalism, New page patrolling