User:Dhartung

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I'm Dan Hartung, a native and resident of Janesville, Wisconsin. For most of my career in computer consulting I lived in Evanston, Illinois, and briefly in New York City. After years of watching the growth of the Wikipedia from a very basic concordance to the essential reference work that it is quickly becoming, I decided to create my own account in November 2004. So far it has been a rewarding experience.

As of October 2005, I'm taking a bit of a break as I ramp up coding activity for a startup.

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[edit] Biography

I've been online since the days of the BBS, and participated in the internet soon after the end of bang paths. I watched the web grow up from the inside! I was a well-known weblog author from 1999 to 2003 when family life intervened; my weblog was Lake Effect and is presently unavailable.

I have also been a very-long-term member of MetaFilter, one of the pre-eminent community weblogs. Although I had been exposed to Wikis long before, my first real experience with contributing to one was the MetaFilter Wiki, which serves as a FAQ.

I have an irregular weblog at stilicho.blogspot.com.

I have profiles at last.fm (join the wikipedia group) and 43things.

[edit] Wikipedia philosophy

  • I'm inclusionist by nature. Wikipedia isn't paper. But notability guidelines are generally good.
  • I don't think recentism is a serious flaw.
  • Categories help people find stuff. My category clutter limit is higher than others'.
  • This is a hypertext encyclopedia. Link to things that are relevant. Why prevent users from exploring?

[edit] Pending tasks/To-do

Pending tasks for User:Dhartung:

edit this list - add to watchlist
  1. Rewrite User:Dhartung/Requested moves draft
  2. Create template for RM?
  3. Complete User:Dhartung/Frank Rockefeller
  4. Complete User:Dhartung/USS Fulton pages
  5. Expand Tanita Tikaram
    1. Debut
    2. Albums
  6. Continue sourcing Prescott Bush
  7. Continue sourcing Samuel P. Bush
  8. Cleanup Stanislav Petrov, add refs for POV
  9. De-turf Northwestern Hawaiian Islands National Monument
  10. Iran hostage crisis
    1. Expand ...
    2. Repair rescue text deleted in '05
  11. Roll back Lynching in the United States & rebuild
  12. Expand 37signals (prereq: Google Web Accelerator)
  13. Card game Monte
  14. Controversy section for Beloit College
  15. Internationalize tree lawn/verge
  16. Scour ladder theory, friend zone per AFD
  17. Refs for exit strategy
  18. Refs for grok
  19. Create Danny Postel
  20. Military history of the United States#Gulf War needs trimming
  21. Category:Nature reserves is a mess
  22. Refs for Condit fallout @ Chandra Levy
  23. Jazz up user page
  24. Split Metafilter page
  25. Create Juárez radiation accident
  26. Janesville To-Do:
    1. Daniel Hale Williams npov, refs, cleanup
    2. Tallman House
    3. Janesville Armory
    4. Henry Palmer

[edit] Highlights

[edit] Pages I've Created

[edit] DYK featured

[edit] Others

SweepstakesMcDonald's MonopolySaif al-Islam QaddafiAyesha QaddafiLeyla ZanaMurray WaasRadio and Television Correspondents' AssociationSupercar (band)Thrilladelphia Music FestivalBuckeye Steel CastingsJames M. BradyTauridKatharine HamnettBen DomenechHugh RodhamSalt (band)American Boychoir SchoolAmerican Folk Blues Festival37signalsSteve Wood of Microsoft — Shortlist Music PrizeNew Pantheon Music AwardRavinia Festival

[edit] Pages I've Modified

Old list:

[edit] 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake article

[1] - initial stub [2] - after 24h [3] - after 48h [4] - after 72h

[edit] MetaFilter

See /MetaFilter Wikipedians.

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