User:JerryOrr

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Wikipedia:Babel en This user is a native speaker of English. es-1 Este usuario puede contribuir con un nivel básico de español. This user's time zone is UTC-4.
Background
This user lives in the United States of America. BCS This user has a Bachelor of Computer Science degree. This user graduated from Shippensburg University.
Interests
CSB This user is a member of the Countering Systemic Bias Wikiproject This user is a member of WikiProject Organized Labour This user is a member of WikiProject Stub Sorting. PHI This user is a Philadelphia Eagles fan. According to the Political Compass this user is: Economic Left (-4.25) and Social Libertarian (-4.00)
Wikipedia Philosophies
exclu This user is a Wikipedia exclusionist. vanity This user supports the removal of Vanity pages with extreme prejudice. This user believes that a user's edit count does not necessarily reflect on the value of their contributions to Wikipedia.

Contents 1 A little about me 2 Notable contributions 3 Pet Wikipedia peeves 4 Things I like about Wikipedia

[edit] A little about me

I'm a 20-something American software engineer from central Pennsylvania. Though I probably know more about computer science than any other subject, I generally don't contribute to computer-related topics. My main reasons are:

1. I waste far too much of my day in a cubicle thinking about computer-related topics
2. There are plenty of Wikipedia contributors working on computer-related topics... probably more than any other subject

Reason #2 leads me to focus my attention on more needy areas of Wikipedia, such as countering system bias and organized labor. And that's probably about as much as you care to know about me.

[edit] Notable contributions

• Member of the WikiProject Countering Systemic Bias
  • Extensive work on Bill Haywood article, American labor organizer; work included providing citation for exisiting content and significantly expanding the article
    • Before
    • After
  • Created article on Katô Shidzue, Japanese feminist
  • Created article on League of Coloured Peoples, an early British civil rights organization
  • Created article on Fanny Jackson Coppin, early African-American educator and missionary
• Maintenance Projects
  • Participant in WikiProject Stub sorting
  • Disambiguation Link Repair
• Miscellaneous Work
  • Created article on Joseph Girzone, author of the Joshua series

[edit] Pet Wikipedia peeves

• Vanity pages
• Failure of Wikipedia contributors to recognize vanity pages when they show up in AfD
• The fact that Wikiprojects such as Stargate and Buffy attract more users and have more activity than projects such as Countering System Bias and Organized Labor

[edit] Things I like about Wikipedia

• A wise man once said Tis easier to bitch than to say nice things... thus, I'll get around to this part later