N35w101

About my Wiki-tivity

Aspirations / Philosophy

I want to make contributions worthy of Barnstars, but I don't want to receive them. I want my reward for service to be useful, stable, un-vandalized text.

I like to randomly select articles in order to (a) learn something new & (b) find something I can contribute to in grammar, structure or (sometimes) fact. I also enjoy going to external sources to dig up needed citations.

I subscribe to the Wikipedian philosophy of Incrementalism. I wish users would verify an article exists before Wiki-ing a word -- red links are distracting.

Articles - initiated

• Government of Tulsa, Oklahoma
• BOK Financial Corporation

Articles - contribute / monitor at least occassionally

• Tulsa, Oklahoma + Talk:Tulsa, Oklahoma
• List of people from Tulsa, Oklahoma + Talk:List of people from Tulsa, Oklahoma
• Jenks, Oklahoma
• Barnsdall, Oklahoma
• Robert Curbeam - a really great astronaut I met
• Boeing 787

Articles - some I randomly contributed to

• Crew Exploration Vehicle
• Highland Single Malts - while reading about my favorite spirit, Scotch whisky
• Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and Sarah, Duchess of York - during a fit of anglo-centric reading
• Advanced tactical laser and Boeing YAL-1 - laser weapons in flight!
• Prefecture - a geopolitical division of land in Japan
• High-occupancy vehicle lane
• Vladimir Zworykin - who had a hand in inventing television
• Saxophone - the musical instrument
• Minimo - a Soviet-era comedy
• Jan Gies - hid Anne Frank from the Nazis
• Reinhold O. Schmidt - a 1950s UFO "contactee"
• High School Dressage (horse) - a horse-riding style
• Category:People from Tulsa, Oklahoma - expanded it from 4 people to 57 as of 2006-July

Cool stuff I didn't know about before Wikipedia

You might want to check them out too.

• NASA World Wind
• Celestia
• Stellarium

My tools

my sandbox
Wikipedia:Userboxes -	Category:Wikipedia_userboxes -	Wiki templates
Edit summary key	Citing sources guide	Help:Table

About me

incrThis editor is an incrementalist.

AmEThis user is a native speaker of American English.

but I know what a lorry, a lift, bangers, etc are!

Languages I've studied or dabbled in, but never gotten serious about: Latin, French, Spanish, Russian and Japanese.

Residency:	Universe	Local Group	Milky Way	Solar System	Earth	Western Hemisphere	North America	USA [1]	OK [2]	[3] ]]
Where I might want to live someday:	Moon or	Mars or	space colony!

Interests: Aerospace, Space exploration, Science fiction, Monty Python and Music (particularly Classical and Heavy Metal).

Cultures I find particularly interesting: Japanese, Russian, Scottish and German. My ethnicity is partly made up of the latter two, in fact.

I tend to have a verbose writing style, but try to avoid Doublespeak.