User:Jnc

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I am on indefinite Wiki-break since October, 2005, although I occasionally putter around. 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 (who has since, ironically, left Wikipedia), 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. A wonderful example of him displaying all these traits in action (in a pointless argument with another editor) may be found here.

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.)



Me
Me

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 later made it up to about #174 on the English Wikipedia edit list at the time I went on Wikibreak.

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.


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I used to 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 was 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!)


This Working Man's Barnstar is awarded to Jnc for his tireless effort in archiving WP:AN - Weyes 01:59, 18 May 2005
This Working Man's Barnstar is awarded to Jnc for his tireless effort in archiving WP:AN - Weyes 01:59, 18 May 2005

My Wikipediholic score (as of July, 2005) was 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://www.chiappa.net/~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
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Protected pages
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User stats
My database entry
My edit count
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Purge cached page
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What links here

Wikipedia:Cleaning department

Redirects from : to User:
Missing redirects

Wikipedia:WikiProject Early computers
Wikipedia:WikiProject Early computers/Books

MediaWiki
Meta
Wikidev
Commons
Wiktionary
Wikiquote
Wikisource
Wikinews
Wikibooks

Kate

[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

Art-name - Utagawa school

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

Virginia Historical Society

[edit] Egypt

Djhutmose - KV60

Amenhotep (disambiguation) - Thutmose (disambiguation)

[edit] History / Military / Cryptography / Espionage

Tom Loyless - Anatoly Marchenko - 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 - Moscow Helsinki Group - Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam

Brigade of Guards - Highland Brigade (Scottish) - Lowland Brigade (Scottish)

Secure voice

Castle Romeo - Castle Union - Castle Yankee

[edit] Nautical

Boom vang - Deadeye - Foresail - Headsail - Luff - Spinnaker pole

Nanthaniel Stebbins - Reliance (yacht)

[edit] Computers / Networking

Byte stream - Congestive collapse - Endocentric environment - Exocentric environment - Packet switch - Retransmission (data networks)

Bean Scripting Framework - Bravo - Gypsy - runoff - XMLTV

ITS - WAITS - VM

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 33⅓: 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 (computer 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

Utamaro

47 Ronin - Ronin - Seppuku - The Master of Go - Yasunari Kawabata

[edit] Medici / Florence

Baptistery - Medici

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 - International Helsinki Federation - Pathet Lao - Vientiane Treaty

Attack on Pearl Harbor

Project Babylon - Supergun - Browning 1919A4 - Malmö MFI-9

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 - CYCLADES - 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 - David P. Reed - Jerry Saltzer

MIT AI Lab - Boat anchor - Hacker - Xerox PARC

[edit] Cars

Engine displacement

Lotus Elite - Auto Union

Colin Chapman - Harry Arminius Miller - Hans Stuck

2005 United States Grand Prix

[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

Architectural Digest

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

Yacht Reliance

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

  • /ToDo - Things I might actually work on someday
  • /Test - Small test area, usually for template hackery
  • /Sandbox - Sandbox