User:Rcade

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I'm Rogers Cadenhead, a computer book author and Wikipedia contributor with around 200 edits. My full bio is available on my web site, and I write frequently about Wikipedia on my personal weblog.

Entries I have originated on Wikipedia:

Entries I have worked on extensively:

A few weblog posts that I wrote about Wikipedia attracted mainstream media coverage:

[edit] Editorial policy

Before I knew much about Wikipedia, I submitted my own biography as an experiment and it survived a deletion proposal. I no longer make significant edits to it or any other subject in which I'm directly involved.

I do occasionally create new entries on subjects of personal interest, such as the entry for the high school that I attended. I figure that it's better to have the subject in Wikipedia, where subsequent editors can correct for any bias they perceive in my contribution, than to omit it from the site entirely.

[edit] BBS door history

I'm parking this graf here until I find a better reference:

The first BBS to offer door games and use that term to describe them was Parallax BBS in Dallas, operated by Rogers Cadenhead from 1982 to 1986. A section of the site called the Zeppelin Door contained a shooting gallery, game show, and other doors that were rewritten by another programmer for OPUS software, helping to popularize an early form of online gaming.

It's the truth as far as I know it, but like any other discussion of technological invention highly subjective. References for door gaming prior to 1985 are hard to come by.