Hi, I'm John Reid ( talk · contribs). If you want to know who I am, I think the best way is for you to see what I've done -- not all of it, just the stuff I like.
I don't know much more than you do about anything important so I've not contributed substantially to very many articles. Mostly, I copyedit, fix grammar and style, check links, and look for other opportunities. There are a lot of other editors doing this, too, so I don't make many mainspace edits.
I'm excessively proud of my work in social fields -- in editing policy, in speaking clearly into the wordsmog generated by warring factions. Generally, both sides hate me equally by the time I'm done, so I figure I'm doing right.
No brag page is complete without a gallery. Being among other things a graphic designer, I tend to see things visually and often create images even when there's no obvious reason to do so. Here's a few of my favorites:
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I created this to illustrate
Billion; non-English speakers and/or friends have forced this article to move to 1000000000 (number), just so we know. My care in selecting a nice extra bold font to label the big cubes was overlooked by the fellow who did a shoddy SVG imitation. | |
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Created this for the {{
Builder Award}}, "to Wikipedians who have contributed heavily toward the construction or reconstruction of our political infrastructure." The photo is of the
United States Capitol building, during reconstruction by the
United States Army Corps of Engineers in
1861. |
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A
requested picture for (what else?)
Cartesian materialism. The subjects are a portrait of
Albert Einstein, a
Coati, and my conception of the
Holy Grail. | |
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I have been working on a series of
Chicago, Illinois maps. This is the most recent. It's a ridiculously difficult project to gather sufficient source materials, overlay them to proper scale, and draw new, libre content on top. The intent is to provide high-resolution sources for derivative maps of specific city features. |
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I did not create this old map but merely salvaged it from the mists of time. The file is perfectly valid but seems simply to be too huge for the engine to resize properly. I haven't the heart to upload a small one. | ||
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An editor suggested that any editor could do the work of a
Clerk "but without the fez and the tiny car". I agree that the tiny car is unnecessary.
I have an entire line of editor headgear at
User:John Reid/Fez. One size fits all! |
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Another Requested picture. These are the
dramatic masks of
Thalia and
Melpomene, the
Muses of
Comedy and
Tragedy. | |
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File:Five-legged-horse.jpg | No matter how often you call a horse's tail a leg, the statement is still
horseshit. | |
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The game Alpha Centauri includes real and fabricated quotes from a future version (?) of Wikipedia. I have always been taken by this one: " Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice; the dice are loaded." |
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The classic statement of graphic design on Wikipedia: a stenciled W -- with, of course, full alpha-channel transparency. |
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No illustration for
Mille Bornes?? Of course, the deck -- all the decks -- are copyright. I created a full set of iconic cards as well as this tableau. | |
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This, the 6th version designed by me and the 7th uploaded to the project by all editors, finally made
Featured Picture with an amazing, near-unanimous level of support. |
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Another Requested picture, this one to demonstrate geometric similarity. | |
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A slightly more cautious warning. |
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[[Image:NonFreeImageRemoved.svg<|300px]]
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This
excellent novel by literary acrobat
Ira Levin demands illustration -- but its complex and unfilmable plot means it has never been made into a movie, hence there are few easy grabs for pictures. This is the best I could do: a bookshelf. | |
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For
Category:Workpages. |
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Hi, I'm John Reid ( talk · contribs). If you want to know who I am, I think the best way is for you to see what I've done -- not all of it, just the stuff I like.
I don't know much more than you do about anything important so I've not contributed substantially to very many articles. Mostly, I copyedit, fix grammar and style, check links, and look for other opportunities. There are a lot of other editors doing this, too, so I don't make many mainspace edits.
I'm excessively proud of my work in social fields -- in editing policy, in speaking clearly into the wordsmog generated by warring factions. Generally, both sides hate me equally by the time I'm done, so I figure I'm doing right.
No brag page is complete without a gallery. Being among other things a graphic designer, I tend to see things visually and often create images even when there's no obvious reason to do so. Here's a few of my favorites:
| ||
![]() |
I created this to illustrate
Billion; non-English speakers and/or friends have forced this article to move to 1000000000 (number), just so we know. My care in selecting a nice extra bold font to label the big cubes was overlooked by the fellow who did a shoddy SVG imitation. | |
| ||
Created this for the {{
Builder Award}}, "to Wikipedians who have contributed heavily toward the construction or reconstruction of our political infrastructure." The photo is of the
United States Capitol building, during reconstruction by the
United States Army Corps of Engineers in
1861. |
![]() | |
| ||
![]() |
A
requested picture for (what else?)
Cartesian materialism. The subjects are a portrait of
Albert Einstein, a
Coati, and my conception of the
Holy Grail. | |
| ||
I have been working on a series of
Chicago, Illinois maps. This is the most recent. It's a ridiculously difficult project to gather sufficient source materials, overlay them to proper scale, and draw new, libre content on top. The intent is to provide high-resolution sources for derivative maps of specific city features. |
![]() | |
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![]() | ||
I did not create this old map but merely salvaged it from the mists of time. The file is perfectly valid but seems simply to be too huge for the engine to resize properly. I haven't the heart to upload a small one. | ||
| ||
An editor suggested that any editor could do the work of a
Clerk "but without the fez and the tiny car". I agree that the tiny car is unnecessary.
I have an entire line of editor headgear at
User:John Reid/Fez. One size fits all! |
![]() | |
| ||
![]() ![]() |
Another Requested picture. These are the
dramatic masks of
Thalia and
Melpomene, the
Muses of
Comedy and
Tragedy. | |
| ||
File:Five-legged-horse.jpg | No matter how often you call a horse's tail a leg, the statement is still
horseshit. | |
| ||
The game Alpha Centauri includes real and fabricated quotes from a future version (?) of Wikipedia. I have always been taken by this one: " Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice; the dice are loaded." |
![]() | |
| ||
The classic statement of graphic design on Wikipedia: a stenciled W -- with, of course, full alpha-channel transparency. |
![]() | |
| ||
![]() |
No illustration for
Mille Bornes?? Of course, the deck -- all the decks -- are copyright. I created a full set of iconic cards as well as this tableau. | |
| ||
This, the 6th version designed by me and the 7th uploaded to the project by all editors, finally made
Featured Picture with an amazing, near-unanimous level of support. |
![]() | |
| ||
![]() |
Another Requested picture, this one to demonstrate geometric similarity. | |
| ||
A slightly more cautious warning. |
![]() | |
| ||
[[Image:NonFreeImageRemoved.svg<|300px]]
|
This
excellent novel by literary acrobat
Ira Levin demands illustration -- but its complex and unfilmable plot means it has never been made into a movie, hence there are few easy grabs for pictures. This is the best I could do: a bookshelf. | |
| ||
For
Category:Workpages. |
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