User:Jnc
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I am on indefinite Wiki-break. If you need to reach me, please email me, as I'm not reading my Talk: page here. Do not leave messages for me on my Talk: page; I do not want any messages left there.
I was badly affected by having to deal with a particular problematic user, and even more upset at what I perceive(d) to be a lack of support from the community in dealing with a clueless, argumentative, biased, stubborn nitwit who persisted in trying to fill major articles with erroneous, highly-biased POV, based on ignorance, prejudice, and personal research (which I can only characterize as incompetent, sketchy, worse-than-amateurish, incomplete, and pathetic) - the conclusions of which were, needless to say, not supported by the standard reference works on the field.
I just don't need that kind of grief, and I don't see the point of working hard on articles if some ignorant moron can come along and trash them. If that's the situation, I'd rather spend the time working on academic papers (a conclusion, alas, that many other good contributors before me have come to). So, I have concluded that for the moment my time will be more profitably spent working on a number of papers I need to write and/or finish off, on important topics such as endpoints.
In homage to Professor Steve Ward of MIT, who wrote an incredibly funny parody of his testimony and cross-examination as an expert witness in a civil trial, I have created a parody of my own. Believe it or not, much of this is actually taken from real events here on Wikipedia.
I've been on extended Wiki-breaks before (I was gone from the fall of '03 to the middle of '04), and may decide to continue contributing in the future, but I cannot reliably predict the future, so we'll have to see. (Note to bureaucrats: I will be monitoring the account to make sure it is not broken into, so don't change its status.)
Hi, I've been a Wikipedian (not to mention a Wikipediholic :-) since August, 2003. I've been an admin since September, 2003. I managed to make it into the 10,000 edit club on 30 May, 2005.
I do article creation and editing on a random and broad range of topics (an encyclopaedia is the perfect project for me :-). As David Gerard so pithily and perfectly puts it:
- My life has been spent filling my head with unbelievable quantities of trivia and rubbish. Here's a chance to get some of it out.
|
|
||
|
||
| Search user languages |
I also try and lend a hand with the boring maintainence work, particularly on Wikipedia:Redirects for deletion, and also Wikipedia:Cut and paste move repair holding pen (fixing cut-and-paste bogo-moves is something of a passion, and a specialty, of mine). I took care of Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard for quite a while, but I finally "hit the wall" on doing that. (Plus to which, I wanted to work on articles, and I didn't have much time for that anymore!)
My current Wikipediholic score (as of July, 2005) is 194 - but I claim I should get bonus points for writing an special Epsilon extension in EEL for Wikipedia editing, something I reckon should be worth about 15 points or so, bringing my total score to 209.
For more about me, look at my home page here:
http://ana.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/
When I am not logged in, my contributions show up at 68.10.112.83, 68.10.115.135 and 68.10.244.80.
[edit] Useful stuff
Wikipedia:Naming conventions (common names)
Wikipedia:Naming conventions (use English)
Wikipedia:Blocking policy#Disruption
Block user
List of blocked IP addresses and usernames
Block log
Protected pages
Protection log
Purge cached page
No redirect
What links here
Redirects from : to User:
Missing redirects
Wikipedia:WikiProject Early computers
Wikipedia:WikiProject Early computers/Books
Meta
Wikidev
Commons
Wiktionary
Wikiquote
Wikisource
Wikinews
Wikibooks
[edit] Pages I've Added
[edit] Music
Duane Allman - David Clark (guitar player) - E. Power Biggs - Nicholas Bruhns - Shakti (band)
Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor - Toccata and Fugue in D Minor - I Remember Clifford (song) - Layla
At Carnegie Hall - I Remember Clifford (album) - Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs - Shakti (album)
[edit] Japanese Woodblock Prints / Japan
Kunisada - Kuniyoshi - Sharaku - Toyokuni - Yoshitoshi
Snow Country - Shugaku-in imperial villa
[edit] Medici / Florence
Piero di Cosimo de' Medici (The Gouty) - Giuliano di Piero de' Medici - Giuliano di Lorenzo de' Medici (Duke of Nemours) - Lorenzo II de' Medici (Duke of Urbino) - Alessandro de' Medici - Giulio di Alessandro de' Medici - Giulia de' Medici - Ippolito de' Medici - Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici - Gian Gastone de' Medici - Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici
Giovanni de' Medici (disambiguation) - Giuliano de' Medici (disambiguation) - Giulio de' Medici (disambiguation) - Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici (disambiguation) - Cosimo di Giovanni de' Medici (disambiguation)
Belvedere - Palazzo della Signoria - Pitti Palace - Pazzi Conspiracy - Donatello's David - Pontormo
[edit] Bermuda / Virginia
[edit] Egypt
Amenhotep (disambiguation) - Thutmose (disambiguation)
[edit] History / Military / Cryptography / Espionage
Tom Loyless - Desmond Morton - Ralph Wigram - Horace John Wilson
John Earl Haynes - Harvey Klehr - Pavel Sudoplatov - Vladimir Vetrov
Alphonso II of Naples - Frederick IV of Naples - Prince Christopher of Greece
Committee of Imperial Defence - Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam
Brigade of Guards - Highland Brigade (Scottish) - Lowland Brigade (Scottish)
Castle Romeo - Castle Union - Castle Yankee
[edit] Nautical
Boom vang - Deadeye - Foresail - Headsail - Luff - Spinnaker pole
[edit] Computers / Networking
Byte stream - Congestive collapse - Endocentric environment - Exocentric environment - Retransmission (data networks)
Bean Scripting Framework - Bravo - Gypsy - runoff - XMLTV
EFTP - List of assigned Class A IP addresses - Network Control Program - PARC Universal Packet
Bob Braden] - Wesley A. Clark - André Danthine - Peter Kirstein - H. T. Kung - Charles E. Leiserson - Brian Randell - Martin Richards
ISO 8652 - Charles Babbage Institute - Internet Experiment Note - Sorcerer's Apprentice Syndrome - Stanford AI Lab - SIGCOMM - Ben Bitdiddle - Booting (computer slang) - Canard (computing) - Hack (technology slang) - Tiger team - Template:Jargon
[edit] Cars
European Championship (auto racing)
Manfred von Brauchitsch - Griffith Borgeson
[edit] Random
Suzanne Farrell - Darci Kistler - Robert Woodruff (director)
Calvin Griffith - Clark Graebner - Howard Kinsey - Frank Kovacs - Welby Van Horn - Joe Whalen
1458 (number) - Lithium hydride - Water pressure
Geronticus - Peruvian Torch cactus - Pseudibis - Scirpus
Levels of the Game - Special Tasks - The Traveler (novel)
House & Garden - Condé Nast Traveler
The Gathering Storm (1974) - Warm Springs (film) - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (movie) - Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult - Romani ite domum - Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould - Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat
Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse - Dark Seed (game)
Dosso, Niger - Strait of Canso
Firbank Grammar School - School of American Ballet
Castel Sant'Angelo - Engineer's degree - Exocentric - Game point - Gold coins - Jirga - List of people known by full name - List of people known by middle name - Mountbatten - Municipal water system - Placeholder - River journey - Substantive title - Syedna Burhanuddin - Tamaroa (tribe) - Two state solution - Underground government - USCGC Tamaroa
Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/3RR - Wikipedia:Cut and paste move repair holding pen
[edit] Pages I've Significantly Upgraded
[edit] Music
Johann Sebastian Bach - List of compositions of Johann Sebastian Bach - Johann Nikolaus Forkel
Allman Brothers Band - At Fillmore East - Eat a Peach - Love in Vain - W. C. Handy - Clifford Brown
[edit] Japanese Woodblock Prints / Japan
47 Ronin - Ronin - Seppuku - The Master of Go - Yasunari Kawabata
[edit] Medici / Florence
Michelozzo - Cosimo de' Medici (Pater Patriae) - Lorenzo de' Medici (Il Magnifico) - Cosimo I de' Medici (Grand Duke Cosimo I) - Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici (the Unfortunate) - Piero de' Medici (disambiguation)
[edit] Bermuda / Virginia
History of Bermuda - Politics of Bermuda - Transportation in Bermuda - St. George, Bermuda - Bermudian English - Third Supply
Jamestown, Virginia - Bartholomew Gosnold
[edit] Egypt
Amarna - Valley of the Kings - Burials in the Valley of the Kings - Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt - KV5 - KV55
Akhenaten - Nefertiti - Tadukhipa - Tutankhamun
Ramesses (disambiguation)
[edit] History / Military / Cryptography / Espionage
Ferdinand II of Naples - Lady Jane Grey
James Somerville - W. T. Tutte - Isoroku Yamamoto - Isoroku Yamamoto's sleeping giant quote
Beirut Summit - History of Laos - Pathet Lao - Vientiane Treaty
Project Babylon - Supergun - Browning 1919A4
Operation Ivy - Ivy Mike - Operation Castle - Castle Bravo
Colossus computer - Fish (cryptography) - Lorenz SZ 40/42 - Siemens and Halske T52
[edit] Nautical
Downhaul - Mechanical traveller - Outhaul - Parts of a sail - Sheet (sailing)
Deutschland - HMS Hood (51) - Pocket battleship
[edit] Computers / Networking
Input/output - Instruction pointer - Integrated circuit - Multi-user - Virtual machine - Virtual memory - Word processor
RUNOFF - roff - nroff
BCPL - PL/I
Pilot ACE - DEUCE
PDP - PDP-6 - PDP-10 - PDP-11 - PDP-20
Multics - CTSS - OS/360 - VM/CMS - CMS
E-mail - Internetworking - OSI model - Packet - Packet switching - Reliable byte stream - Router - Truncated binary exponential backoff
Asynchronous Transfer Mode - Multiprotocol Label Switching
ARPANET - CHAOSnet - History of the Internet - Xerox Network Services
Internet Architecture Board - Internet Engineering Task Force - Internet Society - Request for Comments
Classful network - Classless Inter-Domain Routing - EIGRP - Internet Control Message Protocol - Internet protocol suite - Internet Protocol - IPv4 - IPv4 address exhaustion - Subnetwork - Transmission Control Protocol - Trivial File Transfer Protocol
Fernando Corbato - Vint Cerf - Jack Dennis - Bob Kahn - Leonard Kleinrock - Butler Lampson - Jon Postel - Jerry Saltzer
MIT AI Lab - Boat anchor - Hacker - Xerox PARC
[edit] Cars
Colin Chapman - Harry Arminius Miller - Hans Stuck
[edit] Random
1Time - Amber Room - BA Comair - Brighton Grammar School - Canonical - Chinese and English compared - Condé Nast Publications - Displacement (fluid) - Endocentric - Hierarchy - Irish Cream - Orion Syndicate - Prussian Holocaust - Reservoir - Towednack - Treasure hunt - University of Liège
Capability Brown - David G. Clark - Judith Coplon - Stefano Garzelli - Clonie Gowen - Kay Redfield Jamison - Paul Neil Milne Johnstone - Elizabeth Morgan - Condé Montrose Nast - Bonnie Somerville - Horace Wilson
We shall fight on the beaches - This was their finest hour - Never was so much owed by so many to so few
Day of the Fight - Flying Padre - Lady Jane (movie) - Ronin (movie) - The Gathering Storm (2002)
List of Frasier episodes
Wikipedia:Cleaning department - Wikipedia:Requested moves - Wikipedia:Redirects for deletion - Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard - Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents
[edit] Images I Provided
Incomplete
Layla Cover - Shakti Cover - At Carnegie Hall Cover - I Remember Clifford Cover
Hokusai Chushingura - Hiroshige Chushingura - Yoshitoshi Climber Old Woman Rats - Sharaku Two Actors Actor - Kunisada Spiderweb Box - Toyokuni III Actor - Toyokuni Actor Kabuki duo Porter
Internet map 1982 - Internet map circa '85
Brighton Grammar logo - Firbank Grammar logo
[edit] Removed From WatchList
Network Control Protocol - Sant'Angelo - The Fillmore Concerts - The Layla Sessions - Whirlwind
[edit] Disambiguation pages
Doing maintainence on WP:RfD, I wind up creating many Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages. Lots of disambiguation pages. So many I have moved them all to a separate page!
[edit] Subpages
- /Disambiguation - A rant about disambiguation
- /CryptoDictIndex - Alphabetical index to the Cryptographic Dictionary, July 1944
- /wiki.e - Epsilon editor extension for writing Wikipedia text
- /ToDo - Things I might actually work on someday
- /Test - Sandbox
- /TooManyBoxes - A classic, should have been kept IMO
- /Welcome - My personalized welcome message
- /ReplyMyTalk - Message about where I see replies
- /NewReplyMyTalk - Version for new users
- /RedirMissingTarget - Templates for warning message
- /MvRedirMissingTarget - Template for redir left by a move
- /DelRedirMissingTarget - Template for redir left hanging by a delete
- /NeverRedirMissingTarget - Template for redir to something never existing
