Politically, I am both a fiscal and social conservative. There should be as little government as necessary and no more. On the
World's Smallest Political Quiz, I score in the libertarian region, close to the conservative region. But I do not affiliate with any political party, especially not the
twomajor political parties in the
United States.
No human can be truly unbiased. However, I do truly strive for the Wikipedia NPOV. Other useful Wikipedia knowledge is found
here.
This user prefers to use the
serial commaonly when its omission can be confusing.
its & it's
This user understands the difference between its and it's. So should you.
’s
Thi's user know's that not every word that end's with
s need's an apostrophe and will remove misused apostrophe's from Wikipedia with extreme prejudice.
I enjoy playing
board games. I used to go to the monthly meeting of a board game group in
West Valley City,
Utah (next to
Salt Lake City about four to six times a year. I'd go more often, but it is about an hour away from my house. There is now a
board game group forming in
Ogden,
Utah. Join us.
I hold an active
Amateur radio license, technician class.
Major Wikipedia Edits
I've made some major edits to some topics of which I have personal knowledge. Most have been rewording while adding some additional information. I worry more about editing than keeping this list up to date, so I've missed some major edits. Rather than try to maintain chronology, I have grouped them by topic.
LDS movies: Created this article. I've been meaning to do it for a few months, but the article in the
Deseret News today about Man's Search for Happiness spurred me on.
Creationism and
Creation belief: Tried to help without getting stuck in the muck, but was chased off by those who made it into an anti-creationism article.
Great Salt Lake: I live about three miles east of this lake.
Extremes on Earth: Created this page because I'm interested in this type of information.
Extremos en la Tierra: Translated my page to
Spanish. It was corrected with the comment (translated), "This translation appears to be a mix of frightful
Spanish and
Esperanto to Spanish."
Legacy Highway: I'm for the Legacy Highway. As a computer programmer and former
ISP worker, I recognize the logic of redundancy in network paths. But I stuck to a
NPOV.
Eddie Aikau: Created this entry because a guy at work has a
T-shirt with the phrase "Eddie would go" and some vague recollection of Eddie's story. I decided to look it up and create a
Wikipedia stub.
After an article was nominated for the third time for deletion within a few months, I developed a personal policy to automatically vote against deletion unless it had been at least six months since the previous nomination. This went over like a lead balloon when I used it in a recent deletion review, so much so that those desiring deletion didn't read the other reasons I'd given to keep the article. However, in a recent discussion, someone brought up the
Wikipedia policy on renominations, so I will now use this with a "six month" limit for "reasonable amount of time".
Politically, I am both a fiscal and social conservative. There should be as little government as necessary and no more. On the
World's Smallest Political Quiz, I score in the libertarian region, close to the conservative region. But I do not affiliate with any political party, especially not the
twomajor political parties in the
United States.
No human can be truly unbiased. However, I do truly strive for the Wikipedia NPOV. Other useful Wikipedia knowledge is found
here.
This user prefers to use the
serial commaonly when its omission can be confusing.
its & it's
This user understands the difference between its and it's. So should you.
’s
Thi's user know's that not every word that end's with
s need's an apostrophe and will remove misused apostrophe's from Wikipedia with extreme prejudice.
I enjoy playing
board games. I used to go to the monthly meeting of a board game group in
West Valley City,
Utah (next to
Salt Lake City about four to six times a year. I'd go more often, but it is about an hour away from my house. There is now a
board game group forming in
Ogden,
Utah. Join us.
I hold an active
Amateur radio license, technician class.
Major Wikipedia Edits
I've made some major edits to some topics of which I have personal knowledge. Most have been rewording while adding some additional information. I worry more about editing than keeping this list up to date, so I've missed some major edits. Rather than try to maintain chronology, I have grouped them by topic.
LDS movies: Created this article. I've been meaning to do it for a few months, but the article in the
Deseret News today about Man's Search for Happiness spurred me on.
Creationism and
Creation belief: Tried to help without getting stuck in the muck, but was chased off by those who made it into an anti-creationism article.
Great Salt Lake: I live about three miles east of this lake.
Extremes on Earth: Created this page because I'm interested in this type of information.
Extremos en la Tierra: Translated my page to
Spanish. It was corrected with the comment (translated), "This translation appears to be a mix of frightful
Spanish and
Esperanto to Spanish."
Legacy Highway: I'm for the Legacy Highway. As a computer programmer and former
ISP worker, I recognize the logic of redundancy in network paths. But I stuck to a
NPOV.
Eddie Aikau: Created this entry because a guy at work has a
T-shirt with the phrase "Eddie would go" and some vague recollection of Eddie's story. I decided to look it up and create a
Wikipedia stub.
After an article was nominated for the third time for deletion within a few months, I developed a personal policy to automatically vote against deletion unless it had been at least six months since the previous nomination. This went over like a lead balloon when I used it in a recent deletion review, so much so that those desiring deletion didn't read the other reasons I'd given to keep the article. However, in a recent discussion, someone brought up the
Wikipedia policy on renominations, so I will now use this with a "six month" limit for "reasonable amount of time".