User:Engineer Bob
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Engineer Bob
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Welcome to my user page! I'm a 50-something married male living in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, and have been contributing to Wikipedia since mid-2005.
Yes, I'm an engineer. No, not a person who operates a railroad locomotive -- but instead, one of those nerdy guys who had no time for a social life in college (in my case, at Purdue University). I'm currently employed in the aerospace electronics industry, so you'll sometimes find me contributing or editing articles in that genre. And I may occasionally have something to say about consumer electronics products.
Since engineers love to fix things, I'm also constantly looking for (and correcting) broken or ambiguous links, spelling & punctuation errors, etc. One of my ongoing Wikipedia "crusades" is to remind U.S. editors that ours was not the only Civil War ever fought. About once a month I spend a few hours correcting newly-created links by pointing them to the American Civil War.
I'm also very interested in pop and rock music, particularly "classic rock" and other music of the 1960s and 1970s. I've contributed material to numerous existing articles and have created several new articles where I've identified voids. You may not share my enthusiasm for groups like The Buckinghams, Chicago, The Grass Roots, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, or Toy Matinee -- but each has a place in music history.
I hope I'm helping to make Wikipedia more useful for all. Thanks for stopping by!
[edit] Wikipedia contributions
I'm made more than 6000 edits to the English-language Wikipedia. Click here for current data
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Date Count October 22, 2005 1000 January 2, 2006 2000 March 11, 2006 3000 May 15, 2006 4000 November 5, 2006 5000 January 20, 2007 6000
Here's a partial list of articles that I either authored or have made substantial contributions to:
Music-related articles
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Technology-related articles
Miscellaneous contributions
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