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This user lives in or hails from the state of Maryland. |
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My name is Jeff and I live on Kent Island, Maryland. Some of my interests include computer programming, video games, and just about anything to do with my home state of Maryland. The current projects that I'm working on include getting the Chesapeake Bay Bridge article to GA status and assessing articles for WikiProject Maryland.
Since I forget to log in sometimes and edited before I joined, my anonymous contributions can be found here.
[edit] How I'm Helping Wikipedia
This editor is a
Yeoman Editor, and is entitled to display this
Service Badge.
I had already made a few edits here from the time I first discovered Wikipedia to the time I decided to join.
I've noticed that I don't have quite as high an edit count as most people who have been members as long as I have. My philosophy is that a high edit count doesn't make you better than anyone else, it just means you don't know how to use the preview button.
Most of my edits here have involved creating and fixing up articles about important places and things in my home state, Maryland, particularly the Eastern Shore region. My first ever edit was making the word Annapolis into a link in the Chesapeake Bay Bridge article (this has since been edited over), this edit can be found here. Another edit I was pretty proud of in my earlier days was fixing two broken external links in the Flag of Maryland article. My first full article, which I created after joining, was for Kent Island, Maryland, where I live. I have also worked on creating articles for Maryland state highways. Though a lot of them are either stubs or pretty short, the way I see it, even if an article is just a stub, it's still worth creating since it is likely to get expanded by someone. I've found highway articles pretty easy to create, since it is pretty easy to find alot of factual information on them.
[edit] Some of My Major Contributions
Some pages I have made major contributions to:
[edit] Planned Contributions
[edit] Articles
[edit] Images
- Key Bridge route marker - not started (still haven't found spec)
- Capital Beltway route marker - not started (still haven't found spec)
- Flag of Kent Island, after the flag contest winner is decided in July
[edit] Interests
[edit] Programming
One of my favorite hobbies is programming, As far as programming languages go, I only know C, C++, D, and Java (but I wouldn't claim fluency in Java though). I've done some research to start learning some other languages (mostly here at Wikipedia), but haven't experimented with them.
[edit] Video games
I'm also a fan of video games, especially Pokémon games. Yes, I am a proud 23 year old Pokémon fan! I am a member of the Pokémon online community, where I go by simply as Jeff. I am a member of both TPM and the Bulbagarden forums.
One time, on one of my usual trips to UMBC (thankfully, it wasn't for a class), I accidentally missed the exit from Maryland Route 295 onto I-195. Since I hadn't been going to the school that long I didn't realize anything was wrong for a while, but when I did notice I was off course I panicked and just kept driving. I eventually wound up in Baltimore and got as far as M&T Bank Stadium when I finally pulled myself together and found somewhere to turn around. After that, I began studying maps of the area to make sure that I didn't get lost again, this is likely what sparked my interest in highways. I'm still a "Google Earth enthusiast" as I like to call myself and have started the Roads in Maryland WikiProject. One of my largest contributions to that project is the uploading of SVGs of road signs that are used in Maryland.
[edit] How I became a Wikipedian
My online history can be summed up as one big chain reaction. I started out posting at the PokeMasters forums in November 2004. Later on, on those forums, I was basically invited to join Bulbapedia by Bulbagarden's webmaster, Archaic (after I made a complaint about a couple of mistakes on the 'pedia). Shortly thereafter, I joined the Bulbagarden Forums (which are the forums whose members started Bulbapedia), and eventually, my work on Bulbapedia inspired me to join Wikipedia.
[edit] Cool/Humorous Stuff
[edit] The stranger side of Wikipedia
Here's a list of some odd article titles I've found here, enjoy
Most of these are just Internet fads, but the titles are still entertaining.
[edit] Unusual Multi-state Routes
- Arkansas Highway 43 meets up with Oklahoma State Highway 20 and the two are merged along the state line, they even veer off to the west completely entering Oklahoma for the last mile before they reach the three corners of Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Missouri, entering Missouri and becoming Missouri Route 43.
- West Virginia Route 46 has a gap in it and on both sides of the gap, the route enters Maryland where the gap can be crossed by using Maryland Route 135 and a very brief section of Maryland Route 36. WV 46 is presumably unsigned within Maryland.
- Delaware/Maryland Route 54 starts in Maryland as MD 54 (from the west), then enters Delaware becoming DE 54, then turns south to straddle the state line, before turning north again entering Delaware completely once again. Although the state line section would make sense as DE 54, it actually switches over to Maryland maintenance at least once. A MD 54 marker can even be seen along this section.
[edit] Links Placed Here for My Convenience
[edit] Sites I'm A Member of
