Tim Pierce is a Boston-area software engineer and recovering Usenetter.

In a former life I was moderately well known for kibitzing on Usenet software [1], being a cranky contrarian [2] and reading bad pornography [3].

I am still not, when last I checked, an L.A. session guitarist or a basketball player for the Arizona State Sun Devils.

To date I am still unimpressed with the Arctic Monkeys.

WikiFriends include Bcordes, Shevett, Agaran, CruiserBob, Jrlevine, Vzafrin, Moominmolly and Joelfurr. Jay and I used to have a mighty fine feud going on, but it turns out he's really a pretty cool guy.

Wikipedia Contributions

My contributions to Wikipedia include:

• I negotiated a substantial rewrite of the Jewish Defense League article during a December 2005 revert war that both parties accepted.
• PhotoCatBot, a bot that categorizes generic photo requests and promotes easier navigation of Category:Wikipedia requested photographs and subcategories.
• Recently I've become enthusiastic about contributing photographs to Wikipedia, mostly by scouring articles under Category:Wikipedia requested photographs for practical contributions I can make. Articles I have contributed images to include:

Wikipedia photography projects

• User:Twp/Drafts/WikiProject Photo Requests -- draft of a guideline for organizing and cleaning up photo request templates.
• User:Twp/Photo Cleanup Drive - draft proposal for a Photo Cleanup Drive, to kick up some enthusiasm for adding missing photos

References

• Tim Pierce's Snoozenet Page
• Joel Furr's Tim Pierce mini-FAQ
• rec.arts.erotica group summary

Interests

This user is a member of WikiProject Wikify. There is currently a massive backlog of articles (30,992 articles) that need to be wikified, and we need your help! If you have a spare moment, please visit the project page and wikify an article, or tell your friends about the WikiProject.

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en This user is a native speaker of the English language. ase-1 This user can communicate at a basic level in American Sign Language. es-1 Este usuario puede contribuir con un nivel básico de español. C This user can program in C. lisp-1 This user is a basic Lisp programmer. Perl This user is just another Perl hacker. This user hacks happily with Emacs.
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This user is a participant in WikiProject Massachusetts.

This user is a recent changes patroller.

This user finds copyright paranoia disruptive.

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This user has contributed 554 images to Wikipedia and Commons.

This user helped promote Christ Episcopal Church (Waltham, Massachusetts) to good article status.

This user runs a bot, PhotoCatBot ( contribs). It performs tasks that are extremely tedious to do manually.