User:Damian Yerrick

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Damian Yerrick Web This user has a website. Lib This user supports the United States Libertarian Party. This user believes in Christianity. pro-life (not a contradiction) This user approves of approval voting. This user is opposed to online censorship. Doubts some macroevolution conclusions. en- us-N This user is a native speaker of American English. ... This user would like to be able to speak some more languages. ipa-2 ə This user has an intermediate understanding of the International Phonetic Alphabet. Mix This user has been influenced by too many dialects of English to use one orthography, vocabulary and grammar consistently. A, B, and C This user prefers the serial comma. to¦go This user chooses to sometimes use split infinitives. …in. Ending a sentence with a preposition is something that this user is okay with. its/it’s It’s really not that hard to use each word in its proper manner. BSc This user has a Bachelor of Science degree. A.S. This user has Asperger syndrome. This user does not smoke. This user assumes good faith. This user contributes using Mozilla Firefox. This user contributes using The GIMP. (here and commons) C-4 This user is an expert C user. HTML-3 This user is an advanced HTML user. asm-3 This user is an advanced assembly language programmer. Java-2 This user is an intermediate Java programmer. c++-2 This user is an intermediate C++ programmer. js-2 This user is an intermediate JavaScript coder. php-1 This user is a beginning PHP programmer. -..- .--. .--. -..- This user has independently discovered the Morse-Thue sequence game dev This user is interested in computer and video game development. + This user plays retro games. This user plays games on the Nintendo DS portable console. 塊魂 Na na-na na-na na na na na Katamari Damacy! This user kicks butt at Tetris. This user plays Dance Dance Revolution (or another dance game such as In The Groove or StepMania). (details) This user plays games in the Super Mario series. This user enjoys playing spit. Santa is an anagram of Satan.

Rectus dominus, sanguis bibimus, corpus edimus, tolle corpus Christi.

Damian Yerrick (b. October 1, 1980) is originally from Fort Wayne, Indiana, and graduated with a 4-year degree in computer science at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. He contributes to Wikipedia, a free encyclopedia.

Contact: User talk:Damian Yerrick | e-mail | AIM: PinocchioPoppins | ICQ: 45269874

Contents 1 This user is working on 2 Preview 3 Video games 4 History 4.1 The E2 era 4.2 Early contributions to Wikipedia 4.3 Uncyclopedia 4.4 Awards 5 Licensing

[edit] This user is working on

• Keeping an eye on articles in his watchlist, such as Pinocchio and Tetris
• Adding use rationales to logos and other non-free images, using {{logo fur}}, {{emulator fur}}, and the like
• Personal sandbox projects:
  • User:Damian Yerrick/Otheruses4
  • YOU SUCK!
  • Peppers

[edit] Preview

I try to use the preview button when I can, but the following limitations may force me to make repeated edits:

1. The file upload page does not have a preview for the summary nor for the automatic SVG to PNG translation.
2. On a template page that transcludes itself in a usage example, the preview transcludes the last saved version, not the version being edited.
3. Bug 5492: Footnotes are not previewed when editing a section if the {{reflist}} is in another section.
4. Sometimes I want to substitute a template or add a signature. These are not reflected in the editing area until after I have saved the page. If the substitution produces an unexpected result, I need to go in and correct the markup in another edit.

[edit] Video games

I do not have a MlayStation (MSX). I do not have a BlayStation (BS-X). I have a PlayStation (PSX). I also have all five Nintendo systems, including Wii, plus a GBA and a DS.

I do not have an Xbox nor an Xbox 360, but I have played halo two on my PlayStation and halo five on my Dreamcast. (On Wikipedia, all Halo number articles were originally redirects to articles about Nine Inch Nails releases. As of December 2007, Halo 1 through Halo 4 are titles of or redirects to articles about Microsoft/Bungie's Halo franchise, while Halo 5 through Halo 25 still point to NIИ.)

[edit] History

[edit] The E2 era

I started on Everything2. I found Wikipedia on September 24, 2001, and for a few months bounced ideas back and forth between the two projects, until E2 moved squarely in a subjective direction. If you want to see one or more of my E2 writeups merged into the corresponding Wikipedia article, leave a message, making sure to mention the specific writeup.

[edit] Early contributions to Wikipedia

A long time ago, Wikipedia had few articles and many red links. I did my part to change that. Here are some of the first things I did:

• Started Everything2, mask work, denormalization, ClearType, PackBits, cyclic redundancy check, parallax scrolling, audio timescale-pitch modification, Spellevator, Zoop, Dr. Mario (many of them being imports from my E2 writeups)
• Expanded Copyright Term Extension Act, Tetris, tetromino, Apple II family, Game Boy Advance, some other video game console articles, a few telecommunication and data compression articles, tengwar
• Overhauled countable, Common phrases in different languages
• Rescued Muslim language
• Corrected part-of-speech of trademarks in Java programming language, Unix, Oreo (which may likely have since been reverted)
• Made images for Sierpinski carpet, Sierpinski triangle
• Suggested a system that led to Category:Wikipedians by location
• Wrote pseudocode for Arithmetic-geometric mean

And then I was hooked. As of December 2006, I have made over 4,000 edits in the main namespace of Wikipedia. You can see a list of my latest contributions or, if you use a web browser that conforms to recent web standards, count them yourself.

[edit] Uncyclopedia

For some time, I contributed to Uncyclopedia under the name Tepples. But it took me a long time to understand the way Uncyclopedia does things. There is some brilliant satiric prose in Uncyclopedia, but there's also crap (just as on Wikipedia), and at the time I couldn't figure out the "right way" to clean up Uncyclopedia's flavor of crap without getting reverted. It took me a lot longer to get used to Uncyclopedia than to Wikipedia, as I had to overcome some of these issues:

• Bold edits easily get reverted, as not everybody finds funny what you find funny.
• Like on E2, a single author on Uncyclopedia is expected to take a page from blank to Start-class. It's less strict at Uncyc than at E2 because an Uncyc editor can avoid a stub prod by adding to an article once a week.
• Uncyclopedia humor is supposed to be accessible to all, but there are still a lot of official in-jokes, such as "Fisher Price" and "Euroipods". At least Wikipedia appears to do a decent job of keeping its own insiderisms to the Wikipedia: namespace.

[edit] Awards

Two barnstars so far.

[edit] Licensing

I acknowledge practical problems with the GNU Free Documentation License and thus agree to multi-license all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

	Multi-licensed with all versions of the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike License
I agree to multi-license my text contributions, unless otherwise stated, under the GFDL and the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license version 1.0, version 2.0, version 2.5, version 3.0, and all future versions of the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license. Please be aware that other contributors might not do the same, so if you want to use my contributions under the Creative Commons terms, please check the CC dual-license and Multi-licensing guides.