User:Cburnett

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My wikiphilosophy:

With each and every edit ask yourself this: does the edit make Wikipedia better? Edit warring is an automatic no. Bad Faith editing is an automatic no. Edits that suit your personal/political agenda is an automatic no. Edits that suit a business's agenda (advertising) is an automatic no.


User page of Colin M.L. Burnett. My first edit was of Nevada, Iowa on 01:04, November 23, 2004 [1]. Since then I've made more than 24,039 edits on 10,346 unique pages (as of 18:37 March 22, 2007 (CDT) counter) in addition to any edits made on interwiki accounts. This ranks me (as of February 9, 2007) #270 of users who have contributed the most number of edits. Go magic save button!

Some time ago I came up with an idea for reorganizing WP: User:Cburnett/Hierarchy. The point is that article content is more-or-less separated from the title and the title is then combined with redirects and categories. Knowledge is not necessarily hierarchial but it does conform to a cyclical directed graph.

I was nominated for adminship (WP:RFA/Cburnett) on April 23, 2005 and promoted on May 1 by Cecropia.

My interests in topics on wikipedia is quite varied and I tend to migrate from one topic to another as time goes on. I tend to be a perfectionist and spend many of my edits simply converting tabular data into tables. I've had a fair amount of success in this endeavor and I've seen a general increase in the use of tables in the following areas that, IMHO, started from my edits:

My latest kick is creating Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) images with Inkscape (as of March 25, 2007 I've contributed over 250 SVGs to wikipedia).

See my wikipinion (wiki-pin-yon) for my opinion on Wikipedia.

Contents

[edit] Me

26 year old with a BS in electrical engineering and computer engineering from Iowa State University.

I'm generally interested in these topics:

The remainder is just a bunch of topics of interest to me and some of my favorites from each.

Why is all this here? If you ever have a question about anything listed here or related to anything list here, then hit me up on my talk page and I might be able to give an answer (not saying it will be right :) though).

[edit] Books

Books; my favorites:

[edit] Movies

Movies; my favorites:

[edit] Music

Music

[edit] Musicals

Musicals I've seen:

[edit] TV

Television programs I like:

[edit] Photography

Photography; quick equipment list:

Wanted:

  1. Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM — A nice macro
  2. Canon EF 100-400mm lens — More zoom range than the 70-200
  3. Canon EF-S 10-22mm lens — More wide-angle than the 24-70
  4. Canon EOS 5D or better/newer — The 300D won't last forever and it'd be nice to have better metering, higher resolution, higher continuous frames/sec, 50 ISO, larger screen
  5. Canon EF 500mm lens — Good long zoom
  6. Canon EF 600mm lens — Gooder longer zoomer
  7. Canon EF 1200mm lens — pfftttt, yeah right........

See User:Cburnett/GFDL images for a list of images I've contributed to wikipedia that I've taken.

[edit] Video games

I guess you could say I've been a loyal fan of Nintendo since the beginning.

[edit] Other

[edit] Zoos

Been to:

Huzzah.

[edit] Member of

[edit] Programming languages/Frameworks

[edit] Familiar topics

[edit] Periodicals I read

[edit] Places to go

Basically a list of places to go to at some point in my life. By no means is this a complete list...it never will be. I mostly just add stuff when I come across it.

Main article: User:Cburnett/Places to go

[edit] Images

For images I have uploaded that I didn't release into public domain (e.g., Template:PD-self), please attribute them:

  • to "Colin M.L. Burnett" if used external to wikipedia (or sister projects)
  • to "[[en:User:Cburnett]]" if used internal to wikipedia (or sister projects).

Of course, if you want to use the exact image I (or any image for that matter) uploaded then just use it. The image page gives attribution to the creator.

If you desire to have the picture under another license, please feel free to email me (see "E-mail this user" under the toolbox menu) and ask. The images are also scaled-down from their originals. I'm likely to oblige...

Attribution signature I use on images: {{User:Cburnett/image sig}}

[edit] GFDL'ed images

Main article: User:Cburnett/GFDL images

As of February 11, 2007 I've contributed over 350 images to wikipedia under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). As mentioned above, I've been on a Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) kick lately with over 200 SVGs so far.

Some of my favorites:

Shamu at SeaWorld San Diego

Cape Thick-knees

Diana Monkey

Mantled Guereza

Wolf's Mona Monkey

Cattle Egret

Jaguar

Jaguar

Fountain of Four Seasons

Campanile

Milwaukee Art Museum

Bayer filter

RGBE filter

Example map avoiding race hazard

Light knight on light (Chess pieces)

World's first, last, and only panoramic/stitched image of a Granola bar

Strawberry

Baseball

Hamming distance

Hamming code

King of spades

[edit] Non-GFDL'ed images

Main article: User:Cburnett/Images

The bulk of my non-GFDL images come in the form of screenshots of TV episodes and movies. I'm too lazy to count them.

Some of my favorites that I can visually display (non-fair use):

Mountain Dew

[edit] Links

[edit] Things to work on

Disambiguate:

[edit] Past/Current/Future releases

Movie/Book/DVD releases that I care (or might care) about. Light blue are those already released and light red is the next release(s).

2007 releases
Date Movie Notes
March 27 Casino Royale
January 30 Lucky Louie Season 1
January 23 Saw III
January 2 Snakes on a Plane
2006 releases
Date Movie Notes
December 19 Lady in the Water Never seen it though
December 5 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
November 28 Next (novel) Next Michael Crichton novel
October 24 MacGyver Season 7
October 10 NUMB3RS Season 2
October 3 Lost (TV series) Season 2
Medium Season 2
September 19 The Unit Season 1
Battlestar Galactica Season 2.5
September 5 Commander in Chief (TV series) Season 1, volume 2
August 29 Desperate Housewives Season 2
August 22 Threshold (TV series)
August 15 Surface (TV series)
August 1 V for Vendetta
July 11 30 Days Season 1
June 13 MacGyver Season 6
June 13 Medium (TV series) Season 1
May 30 NUMB3RS Season 1
April 4 The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
March 28 Robot Chicken Volume 1
March 21 South Park Season 7
March 14 MacGyver Season 5
March 7 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film) Movie #4
January 24 Flightplan
January 3 Wedding Crashers
2005 releases
Date Movie Notes
December 6 MacGyver Season 4
November 29 March of the Penguins
November 18 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (movie) Movie #4
November 1 Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
October 11 Arrested Development (TV series) Season 2
September 20 Lost Season 1
September 6 Desperate Housewives Season 1
MacGyver Season 3
July 26 Star Trek: Enterprise Season 2
July 16 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Book #6
July 12 Bill & Ted's Most Excellent Collection
June 7 Star Trek: Insurrection Special collector's edition
MacGyver Season 2
May 24 Law & Order Season 3
The Day After Tomorrow Collector's edition
I, Robot (movie) Collector's edition
May 19 Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith Oooo, now in PG-13!
May 17 Team America: World Police
May 4 Law & Order Season 2
May 3 National Treasure
Spaceballs Collector's edition
The Phantom of the Opera (2004 movie)
Star Trek: Enterprise Season 1
April 19 Meet the Fockers
April 12 Oceans Twelve
March 29 Closer (movie)
January 25 MacGyver Season 1

[edit] Current projects

[edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject Zoo

WikiProject Zoo open tasks
watch · edit · discuss
Project-wide tasks
  • Start articles for red links at List of zoo associations; include list of members or accredited zoos.
  • Add infoboxes to zoo, aquarium, and aviary articles (see Category:Zoos or Category:WikiProject Zoo articles for lists of articles).
  • Request logos and photos of zoo signs/entrances for inclusion in infoboxes.
  • Flesh out infoboxes with sourced information (# of animals, featured exhibits, date opened, etc.).
  • Add {{Zoos}} to each page.
  • Add {{WPZOO}} to each talk page.
  • Revamp {{Zoos}} to include non-facility related articles; organize it.
  • Write articles :)
  • Find non-facility articles to include that are related to zoos, aquaria, and aviaries.
Specific article tasks
FAC/FAR/GAC 
Articles here that are undergoing Featured Article or Good Article processes.
Cleanup 
Kansas City Zoological Park
Attention needed 
More...
Requested articles 
More...
Requested images 
Werribee Open Range Zoo • More...
Expansion needed 
Aquarium Barcelona • Cleveland Metroparks Zoo • Diergaarde Blijdorp • Granby Zoo • Knoxville Zoo • Montreal Insectarium • More...

[edit] Userboxes

I haven't been a huge fan of the user boxes for the simple reason that it's very akin to pigeon holing users. Anyway, here's a list of them at the bottom of my user page assuming that if you've scrolled this far down then you're not pigeon holing me. :) But even still, you get an explanation with each.

[edit] Projects

Image:Tv-episode-list-project.png This user is a participant of the Episode list task force of WP:TV
My initial work on List of Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes got the ball rolling, IMHO, on a layout.
This user is a member of WikiProject Zoo.

My work on {{Infobox zoo}} got the project going.
This user contributes to the Medicine WikiProject
Yeah for feeling good 'n stuff.
TREK This user is a member of
WikiProject Star Trek
This project is where, IMHO, tv lists started going and the particular format gained popularity to start off the tv episodes wikiproject.

[edit] Programming

My guideline for picking each level:

  • expert — I know my way in, out, through, and behind; can code it in my sleep; I can list pros and cons as well as what I'd change
  • advanced — I know well enough to be proficient
  • intermediate — Used it before, would recognize and understand it; reference or sample code mandatory to code more of it
  • beginner — I've used it before but that's about it
asm-2 This user is an intermediate assembly language programmer.
I "get" it, can use it, but I've never written stuff in assembly "for the fun of it" or tweaked C code with assembly to improve performance.
c-4 This user is an expert C programmer.
Expert? Dynamic runtime modules, void *, char ****? No problem.
c++-2 This user is an intermediate C++ programmer.
I "get" it but think it's a hack on C and there are better OOP languages, so I've never enhanced my skills.
for-1 This user is a beginning Fortran programmer.
Used it for a class once.
java-0 This user has some undisclosed problems with Java.
My Java rant is too long to say here.
Perl-2 This user is an intermediate Perl programmer.
I've written some but don't my way in and out through perl.
php-4 This user is an expert PHP programmer.
I find so much crap in it that it drives me nuts and boggles my mind.
py-3 This user is an advanced Python programmer.
I've written some python but find some aspects of it quite annoying.
ruby-0 This person does not understand Ruby (or understands it with considerable difficulties, or does not want to program in Ruby).
The whole 5.times thing also boggles my mind because the iteration is not a property of a number, but the operation like for or foreach.
css-2 This user is an intermediate Cascading Style Sheets user.
I know how to use it but haven't spent my time doing super-mega fancy stuff with it.
<html> This user can write HTML.
The slack browsers have for HTML drives me nuts.
js-3 This user is an advanced JavaScript coder.
Done some semi-fancy stuff with it.
mysql This user writes programs that access MySQL.
Use it but it's slowness to adopt standard SQL features like cursors, views, and...sequences is appaling.
sql-3 This user is an advanced SQL programmer.
Oh, I'm sure there's plenty of people that can whiz around SQL better than I but I haven't used it sufficiently enough that I find the shortcomings of it.
{{Wiki}} This user can write in the Wikipedia language
Wiki is so easy
xml-4 This user is an expert XML coder.
Well-formedness, xpath, etc. XML isn't that hard.
xhtml-4 This user is an expert XHTML user.
Pft!

[edit] Computing

Linux This user contributes using Linux.
Dumped Microsoft with 98SE. I disagree with MS on their business practices, but Linux offers much more than I can get with Windows. Besides, I can save my bucks for real beer.
Firefox This user prefers Mozilla Firefox.
IE is slacking off. Debugging JS is infinitely easier in Firefox.
G This user uses Google as a primary search engine.
Actually, google is second to wikipedia but first for non-topical information seeking.
g This user contributes using Gentoo Linux.
RedHat -> Slackware -> Mandrake -> Gentoo
This user contributes with
KDE.
I've flipped-flopped between KDE and Gnome several times and have ended up with KDE.
This user contributes using Vim.
My philosphy on this: you hate vim until you learn it, then you hate to be without it. Nano is painful. Actually, using any text entry (like this very box in Firefox I'm typing in now) without vim commands is painful. I WANT VIM BINDINGS FOR EVERYTHING! And if you can't empathize, then I'd bet $10 that you don't use vim or emacs or any "fancy" editor. :)
64 This user uses an x86-64 processor.
At home.
>56k This user contributes using a broadband connection.
Qwest...bleh

[edit] Custom userboxes

Found here: User:Cburnett/userboxen

This user wishes he had an interplanetary driver's license.

Others:

This user's got a case of the Mondays.
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