Welcome to my User Page v.2.1.01
About Me
editOccupation: Former Rocket Scientist (FRS, get it?)
Interests: Engineering, science, law, politics and history
Nationality: US
Languages: American, but I can understand English, if you type slow enough; also, I can usually make out menus and specs in French and Russian
Age, race, gender, religion, marital status, sexual preference: Decline to state
Residence: US, but have spent time in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Greece, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico (well, Cancún), Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Singapore, Spain, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Switzerland, Thailand and Vatican City
Pronoun preferred to be used when discussing me in the third person: he/him/his
Current Wiki Projects
editFinding and correcting PoV problems
For example: Human Radiation Experiments, Ayat al-Akhras, Bush & H. Katrina
Pet Peeves
editMy user page look much worse than practially every other one I've seen
Useful Links
edit(thanks to User:Pmanderson)
- [[1]]
- NPOV_disputes
- Wikipedia:Tutorial
- Wikipedia:Help desk
- Wikipedia:Policy Library
- Wikipedia:Utilities
- Wikipedia:Cite your sources
- Wikipedia:Verifiability
- Wikipedia:Wikiquette
- Wikipedia:Civility
- Wikipedia:Conflict resolution
- Wikipedia:Use English
- Wikipedia:Neutral point of view
- Wikipedia:Pages needing attention
- Wikipedia:Peer review
- Wikipedia:Boilerplate text
- Wikipedia:Articles for Deletion
- WP:NOT#Wikipedia_is_not_a_soapbox
- Wikipedia:Don't disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point
Commentary
editI may make some additional comments about my edits here from time to time that don't seem appropriate to link inextricably to the edited page.
Initial Itinerary
editThis is my initial transit through WP (reverse chronological order): Irving Langmuir Plasma (physics) solar wind Current (electricity) Steinhart-Hart equation Van der Pauw method Hall effect Hall effect thruster
Then I realized that the physics pages were too well written and NPOV (aka BOOOORRRRING) to spend much time in