User:Tysto

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Tysto in 2007
Tysto in 2007
Tysto in 2004
Tysto in 2004
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This user lives in Indiana.
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Tysto [TISS toe] is Derek Jensen (September 1, 1967 (1967-09-01) (age 40)), a professional writer, training and communication consultant, frequent business traveler, and avid amateur photographer with an interest in architecture. I am the operator of Tysto.com, a web magazine where my articles and photos can be found, including those I freely upload to Wikimedia Commons.

Although I feel my primary value to Wikipedia is in providing high-quality, high-resolution photographs of interesting places, I also like helping to keep Wikipedia concise, relevant, and encyclopedic in tone. I frequently edit articles for spelling, tone, flow, and point of view rather than to add information. I have an imaginary child named Æþöñéß.

I am a devoted enemy of fan zeal, television minutia, band vanity, lists for the sake of lists, infotisements, transportation nerdery, and all ephemera. I am a card-carrying member of the Association of Deletionist Wikipedians. I believe that the purpose of an encyclopedia is to document everything that is notable, not everything that is true. I believe that non-notable articles hurt Wikipedia's performance, confuse casual users, and make it harder for people to find genuinely valuable information.

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[edit] Some Wikipedia articles where my pictures appear

[edit] Wikipedia articles I've started or made substantial contributions to

[edit] Some of my photos on Wikimedia Commons

[edit] My home town of Bremen, Indiana

Bremen from the east; you can see my house from here!

Old Bremen water tower

Bremen town hall

Typical extended US Midwestern family

[edit] South Bend

College Football Hall of Fame

South Bend Regional Airport

Coveleski Stadium

University of Notre Dame

[edit] Cincinnati

Tyler Davidson Fountain, Cincinnati, Ohio

Roebling Suspension Bridge

Paul Brown Stadium

Fifth Third Bank building

[edit] New Jersey

Newark Broad Street

Jersey City Chase Bank building

Exchange Place subway platform

News media outside Prudential Financial headquarters

[edit] Liberty Park

Statue of Liberty from below, front (the pic that got chosen for the ACLU userbox)

Statue from her front left

Liberty Park main building

Ellis Island main building

[edit] New York City

WTC 2004 memorial

WTC post-9/11 train station

David Nederlander Theatre

Chinatown

[edit] Miscellaneous

Doric columns

Ionic columns

Corinthian columns

Fire escapes

Corbels

Digital clock

Hotel room

Youth soccer in the US


[edit] The dumbest pages on Wikipedia

  • List of shopping malls—Just put each article in the Shopping center category, idiots.
  • Jenn Rivell, Vincent Margera, and the other family and friends articles related to Viva La Bam—Talk about these morons on the Viva La Bam page, dorks.
  • Black metal—Holy crap— er... unholy crap—this tiny, unimportant sub-genre of heavy metal is barely even worth a magazine article, let alone a huge encylopedia article nearly as big as rock and roll.
  • Riding the Bullet—Pointless article about a terrible and unnoticed flop movie that admits that it wasn't successful. Wikipedia is not IMDB.
  • Nasir Lamine—An unremarkable Ghanian footballer whose team doesn't even have an entry.
  • Arland D. Williams Jr. Elementary School—Valueless stub about an unremarkable Matoon, Illinois elementary school, beloved by schoolcruftians.
  • Naming of British railway rolling stock—Utterly stupid British train article about all the names of train engines and cars. This is pure railroad nerdery.
  • The entire—Dozens and dozens of giant robot articles detailing every last minutia of this Japanese adolescent sci-fi fantasy cartoon. Stupefying.
  • List of Ohio county name etymologies—This is a featured list for Godssake. I'm not saying the information is worthless; it should just be put into each county's page. Who's going to do this for every county in America, much less Ireland, the UK, Canadian provinces, every other damn country in the world? It's ridiculous.
  • Washington State Route 900—The only thing you can say about a state road like this is that it goes from point A to point B. There is devoted micro-culture of road nerds who love this crap and are willing to document it ad nauseum. But not even other road nerds look at it (they only care about their local regions) and no one else will maintain it, so it will quickly become out of date.