User:Rspeer

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I'm Rob Speer, a graduate student in the MIT Media Lab. I am an administrator on Wikipedia.

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[edit] Contributions

Featured article: Voting system
Articles I've created Tremont Street Subway Majority criterion Wearing Someone Else's Clothes (with User:Cmouse) Parsing Expression Grammar (now merged to Parsing expression grammar)	Articles I've expanded from stubs Serge Lang Quorum	To-do list Source and possibly expand prolation, with an accompanying article on tempus (music) Clean up two-centage from 2001: A Space Odyssey (film)
Articles which aren't particularly good, but I clean them up sometimes in a perpetual struggle against entropy The Game (game) Vijay (actor) The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything		Editing resources I've cleaned up Help:Editing Wikipedia:Footnotes, describing the new footnote system

• I have over 300 articles on my watchlist that I monitor for vandalism.
• I sometimes browse to random pages and fix spelling and grammar.
• I am a defender of good writing style, fighting adamantly against the "two-centage" that bloats otherwise good articles, and taking a hatchet to the overuse of "however".
• I fight external link spam.
• I try to make Wikipedia guidelines and policies accessible to newbies who don't already understand how everything works.

Timeline of contributions

• First edit: creating Parsing Expression Grammar (July 16, 2004)
• 100th edit: supporting User:Duk for adminship (December 22, 2004)
• 500th edit: posting here that I had 500 edits (May 3, 2005)
• 1000th edit: creating the new article Tremont Street Subway, which was on the most wanted articles list. I swear I didn't even realize it was my 1000th edit. (October 10, 2005)
• 1500th edit: supporting Early life and military career of Hugo Chávez as a featured article candidate (December 2, 2005)
• 2000th edit: sometime in February 2006 (I should hunt it down)

(editcountitis can be fatal)

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