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Jeffrey M. Smith (6 January 1983 - TBA 21st century) is a Wikipedian. Smith is no longer going to speak of himself in the third person.
Interests
I'm a graduate (Class of 2005) of The Evergreen State College, having earned a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Science for my studies focused in mathematics and the natural sciences. I am currently living in my hometown of Longview, Washington.
I'm a geek and/or nerd under many of the definitions stated in those articles. I use the Debian distribution of the GNU/Linux operating system, with KDE as my desktop environment of choice.
Additionally, I'm also interested in reading about philosophy (including such topics as stoicism, Taoism. rationalism, humanism, and atheism) and history.
Work on Wikipedia
Rather than focus on trying to compose the perfect article, I'm mostly focused on WikiGnomish maintenance work, such as fixing typos, bypassing disambiguating pages, fiddling with templates, wikifying articles, and other such cleanup tasks.
While I don't do much major editing, I consent to multi-license my contributions under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike License (as well as the GFDL) in case someone would find such licensed contributions useful.
Tools
A few things I've found useful to enhance my experience here:
- Navigation popups is an incredibly useful, JavaScript-based tool to preview linked article intros (without actually visiting the page directly), revert edits, fix links to disambiguation pages, and much, much more.
- Zocky's Picture Popups is a handy tool for looking at images in articles. It provides for enlarging and repositioning image previews, as well as showing the license of an image.
- Konqueror, my browser of choice, provides search-and-replace in edit boxes and highlights spelling errors.
Non-free content
I'm a big believer in upholding our Five Pillars, including the one about making our encyclopedia from free content. Non-free content, while arguably necessary in some cases, can be overused in more frivolous circumstances.
One of the most frivolous uses of non-free images is their use to decorate user pages and/or userboxes. This is why, aside from some substing in early 2006, my edits to userbox templates have been to bring them in compliance with our official policy expressed in the non-free content criteria. Non-free images are sometimes allowed for limited "fair use" under the non-free content guidelines in the encyclopedia (i.e., the actual articles of Wikipedia), as their usage can contribute to an article in situations where free alternative images aren't available. While non-free images serve an educational purpose in the encyclopedia proper, their usage on user pages (or templates, such as userboxes, intended for use on user pages) serves purposes of lesser importance. To minimize unnecessary usage of non-free images, their use on templates and user pages is explicitly prohibited by criterion #9 of the non-free content criteria:
- Non-free content is used only in the article namespace; it is never used on templates (including stub templates and navigation boxes) or on user pages.
Images removed from userboxes can be replaced with images uploaded under a free license. This includes images tagged as public domain, or any of the images tagged using one of the free license tags. Additionally, there are many images available at the Wikimedia Commons, all of which are public domain or released under a free license.
(See also User:Durin/Removal of fair use images for an excellent and more in-depth treatment of this topic.)
Contact info
If you don't want to use my talk page, feel free to email me. Additionally, you're welcome to send me a message using Jabber at jeffsmith@jabber.org . I can also occasionally be found on IRC; jeffsmith is my registered nick on freenode.
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Multi-licensed with all versions of the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike License |
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| 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. |
