User:Sethant

Me Me, circa 8:30 p.m., 25 March 2005.

The Ant The ant has made himself illustrious Through constant industry industrious. So what? Would you be calm and placid If you were full of formic acid? -- Ogden Nash

Seth Anthony (leave a message at the sound of the tone) is

• a Wikipedian (user #35314, since 20 December 2003) and a Wikipedia administrator (since 19 March 2004).
• not a bot himself, but operates the Sethbot. (since May 2004)
• a resident of Fort Collins, Colorado (since 1 June 2005),
• a graduate student in physical chemistry and chemistry education at Colorado State University (since 1 June 2005)
• an alumnus of North Carolina State University (B.A., chemistry, minor in music theory, 2003),
• a native of the Research Triangle region of North Carolina, having lived in Chapel Hill, Cary, Carrboro, Raleigh, and Apex (my real hometown), born in Durham.
• a genuine living, breathing human being (since 26 November 1982)

• "...just another guy with weird philosophical objections... which I cannot profess to understand." - Fennec
• in agreement with Jengod in saying "Semicolons are my favoritest punctuation..."
• one of the "oddly freakish people who are exceptional." - User:Menchi
• "prefer[s] to work behind the scenes. The reward is nearly as great, and the risk far, far less." - Londo Mollari, in Babylon 5: "The Coming of Shadows," written by J. Michael Straczynski

You can reach me by posting a message on my Wikipedia talk page, sending an email to seth (dot) ilys (at) gmail (dot) com, catching me on IM (AOL, MSN, Yahoo) as JehanneDaix, or finding me in the wikipedia IRC chatroom on Freenode,

All you need to know about Wikipedia

Seth's NPOV Primer

Because people tend to forget that NPOV policy is actually a positively phrased policy and not a negatively phrased one (because the N doesn't stand for No!), I thought I'd paraphrase a familiar song as a reminder:

(credit to Cookie Monster for, well, everything)

N is for Neutral. That's good enough for me.

N is for Neutral. That's good enough for me.

N is for Neutral. That's good enough for me.

Neutral, neutral, neutral starts with Ni!

Wikipedia Meets Real Life

• Everyone on Wikipedia should read Charles van Doren's 1963 essay "The Idea of an Encyclopedia." Since it's kinda hard to come by, I've posted pics of it here: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
• I was profiled (under my old screenname) in Daniel Teridman's 8 March 2005 Wired News article "Wiki Becomes a Way of Life" and was one of the Raleigh Independent Weekly's Our Favorite Geeks on 6 April 2005 (article scan).
• I presented a talk at the 2006 Wikimania in Boston titled "Contribution patterns among active Wikipedians: Finding and keeping content creators."

Works in Progress

Nobody has given you a BarnStar! Insane. Do I need to even give a reason? This says it all really. Thanks! Tom- 23:13, 4 May 2004 (UTC)

For your inspired and brave self re-nomination in order to take the heat out of RfA debates, I hereby award you the Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar. Enjoy! Grutness 11:39, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)]]

Current Projects

These days, I spent more of my Wikipedia time researching and writing high-quality articles -- creating featured article-or-better quality content. The list below of some of my current targets betrays my identity as a geography geek:

• Caroline Island - (, 31 July 2006)
• Severnaya Zemlya
• Fairway Rock
• Palmerston Island
• Cache La Poudre River
• Horsetooth Reservoir
• Islands north of Cape Morris Jesup
• Pawnee National Grassland
• Sharbat Gula
• The Blue Marble
• United States Congressional Apportionment
• Timnath, Colorado

Past Major Projects

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User:Seth Ilys/Dot Project: creating dot-maps for Rambot U.S. location articles. Status map at left. Since superceded by people who make spiffier maps than I do. Sethbot: a bot creating redirects with U.S. postal abbreviations (so Bolivia, TN redirects to Bolivia, Tennessee, for instance). Hasn't run in a while, but was, in June 2005, on its second pass through the alphabet, somewhere around D.

2005 College of Cardinals: wrote articles for every remaning cardinal elector at the 2005 papal conclave (April 2005) U.S. County Redirects: created redirects and disambiguation pages from "Name County" to "Name County, State," for all U.S. counties. (completed, late March 2004) North Carolina General Assembly: stub bios of all current NCGA members, with pics. (completed, early February 2004) U.S. Executions since 1976: list of all executed prisoners in the U.S. since 1976, by state. (completed, December 2003)

Copyrights

You can use any of my text submissions to Wikipedia freely, with no restrictions. I try to remember to tag all the images I take myself as public domain, but some (like the dot-maps) are adapted from other (more restricted) sources. When in doubt, ask me, and I'll probably tell you it's PD.

Multi-licensed into the public domain

I agree to multi-license my eligible text contributions, unless otherwise stated, under Wikipedia's copyright terms and into the public domain. Please be aware that other contributors might not do the same, so if you want to use my contributions in the public domain, please check the multi-licensing guide.

Licensing rights granted to Wikimedia Foundation

I grant non-exclusive permission for the Wikimedia Foundation Inc. to relicense my text contributions under any copyleft license that it chooses, provided it maintains the free and open spirit of the GFDL. This permission acknowledges that future licensing needs of the Wikimedia projects may need adapting in unforeseen fashions to facilitate other uses, formats, and locations. It is given for as long as this banner remains.