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I am a retired engineer living in Sonoma County, California. I registered as a Wikipedia user in November 2007, but occasionally made small contributions before then. I tend to be online after 17:00 UTC and before 6:00 UTC. I am proud of my barnstars and other awards.

• Special:Search
• CatScan tool
• 0 page(s) in Category:Articles lacking sources from November 2006

Geocoordinate to-do list

• 39 page(s) in Category:Pages with malformed coordinate tags
• 0 page(s) in Category:Coord template needing repair
• 58 page(s) in Category:California articles missing geocoordinate data
• redlinks prefix search
• Uses of coor_d

Handy templates

• Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace
• {{Representative|cacd|1|fmt=usleader}}
• <ref name="govtrack">{{Cite GovTrack|CA|1|accessdate=April 29, 2024}}</ref>
• <ref name="">{{Cite web|url=|title=|publisher=|accessdate=April 29, 2024}}</ref>
• <ref name="gnis">{{Cite gnis|id=|name=|accessdate=April 29, 2024}}</ref>
• <ref name="gpn">{{GPN|id=|name=}}</ref>
• <ref name="cgndb">{{Cite cgndb|id=|name=|accessdate=April 29, 2024}}</ref>
• {{DEFAULTSORT:Last, First}}

Tagging problematic pages and content

• {{Unreferenced stub|date=April 2024}}
• {{Refimprove|date=April 2024}}
• {{Primary sources|date=April 2024}}
• {{Citation needed|date=April 2024}}
• Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion/Deletion templates

Project templates

• {{WikiProject California|class=stub|importance=low|sfba=yes|sfba-importance=low}}
• {{WikiProject Lakes|class=stub|importance=low|mapneeded=yes|needs-infobox=yes}}

Articles

• List of articles on which I've done extensive work

Wikipedia has plenty of articles that need improvement, so creating new articles is not a high priority for me. I'm particularly interested in:

• ragtime and
• the geography of Sonoma County and surrounding areas.

To be created:

• Bill Kortum obit obit book review

Images

I have a digital camera, which I use to take photographs for the English Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons. You can find examples on my gallery page.

Ideas for future work

• Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Sonoma County, California

Categories

I was involved in category maintenance during 2008 – 2009. Details may be found on a subpage.