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I am now an administrator here on English Wikipedia. That means I work for you! If there's anything at all I can help with, please leave a message on my talk page. (I'll reply on yours, unless you request otherwise.)

You can also email me; I generally prefer to communicate on-wiki, so only do this for matters where on-wiki communication would be undesirable for some reason.

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[edit] About me

J This user trusts Jimbo.
en This user is a native speaker of English.
es-1 Este usuario puede contribuir con un nivel básico de español.
This user's LHC apparatuS is toroidal.
This user attends or attended the University of Chicago.
UCB This user attends or attended the University of California, Berkeley
This user understands that no user on Wikipedia 'owns' any of its pages and welcomes the assistance of others in making this page perfect.

I'm a graduate student in experimental particle physics at the University of California, Berkeley; I sometimes work in Berkeley and sometimes at CERN in Switzerland. I originally intended to write only about stuff I have direct personal experience with or know a lot about, for example the ATLAS experiment, of which I am a member. I have now defined myself to know at least enough about many areas of particle physics that don't need highly-quantitative explanations. Plus I edit other stuff, when I feel like it, although I always keep track of my own limitations and respect experts on a subject.

In the past I've muddled a bit the process of Wikipedia policymaking. It's usually a big mess, with contentious arguments whose usual result is defaulting to the status quo, but I think it's worth doing anyway. For example, there are some schools I don't think are notable, but I will never nominate one for deletion because I know that there's no consensus to do so; at the same time, I may vote to delete a particular school someone else nominated, if that's what I genuinely believe is appropriate. Not creating arguments is one thing, but arguments that others have started in good faith should be dealt with in good faith as well.

Lately I'm trying to focus primarily on adding content. It's too easy to let administrative details take up all my time, but that's ultimately not what Wikipedia's about.

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[edit] Articles I intend to make changes to

[edit] Categories I am working on

[edit] Things I'm proud of

[edit] Stubs I've created and plan to expand

Most of these are already pretty damn useful, but I do plan to expand them someday:

[edit] Substantial contributions

A selected chronological list of articles I contributed to and am proud of:

[edit] Images I've created

See User:SCZenz/Images.

[edit] For my convenience

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Today is Friday, December 15, 2006; it is now 10:43 (UTC/GMT)
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Particles in physics - elementary particles
Fermions: Quarks: (Up · Down · Strange · Charm · Bottom · Top) | Leptons: (Electron · Muon · Tau · Neutrinos)
Gauge bosons: Photon | W and Z bosons | Gluons
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[edit] For my amusement

Picture of the day
Petrified wood

Petrified wood, such as this sample found in Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, United States, is a fossil wood where all the organic materials have been replaced with minerals, while retaining the original structure of the wood. The petrifaction process occurs underground, when wood becomes buried under sediment. Mineral-rich water flowing through the sediment deposits minerals in the plant's cells and as the lignin and cellulose decay, a stone cast forms in its place.

Photo credit: Daniel Schwen
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