User:Dhartung
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I'm Dan Hartung, a freelance computer consultant living in my hometown, Janesville, Wisconsin. For most of my career I lived in Evanston, Illinois, and briefly in New York City. After years of watching the growth of the Wikipedia from a very basic concordance to the essential reference work that it is quickly becoming, I decided to create my own account in November 2004. So far it has been a rewarding experience.
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Biography
I've been online since the days of the BBS, and participated in the internet soon after the end of bang paths. I watched the web grow up from the inside! I was a well-known weblog author from 1999 to 2003 when family life intervened; my weblog was Lake Effect and is presently unavailable.
I have also been a very-long-term member of MetaFilter, one of the pre-eminent community weblogs. Although I had been exposed to Wikis long before, my first real experience with contributing to one was the MetaFilter Wiki (http://mssv.net/wiki.cgi?Home), which serves as a FAQ.
NEW: As of January 2005, I have a new weblog at stilicho.blogspot.com.
I have profiles at last.fm (http://www.last.fm/user/stilicho) (join the wikipedia group (http://www.last.fm/group/wikipedia)) and 43things (http://www.43things.com/people/view/stilicho).
Highlights
- Trial against the Bulgarian medics and a Palestinian doctor in Libya - a little-watched story; the article is decent but could use some knowledgeable polishing.
- Web 2.0 - I had to thoroughly rewrite this article due to a high fog index. It could still use expansion and improvement.
Pages I've Created
Sweepstakes — McDonald's Monopoly — Saif al-Islam Qaddafi — Ayesha Qaddafi — Leyla Zana
Pages I've Modified
- Technology: Evan Williams Pyra Labs Blogger Matthew Haughey MetaFilter Jorn Barger Roger Schank Monkeyfilter
- Music: Bloc Party Ana Voog Michael Penn The Decembrists
Old list:
- Music video
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- The Parker Pen Company
- Chandra Levy
- David Mamet
- Aral Sea
- Zury Rios Sosa
- Efraín Ríos Montt - I've bailed on a very silly edit war here
- Beloit College - I attended
- Muammar al-Qaddafi
- Mary Kay Letourneau
- Merchandise Mart
- Dick Morris
- Chicago Flood - I lived there then
- Green Zone
- Casino Royale
- Madison, Wisconsin
- Juan Cole/Temp
- MEMRI
- Conestoga wagon
- National Socialist Party of America
- Roger Ebert
- Siskel & Ebert
- The Wall
- Battle of the Bulge
- Channel Tunnel
- Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act
- Air traffic controller - complete rewrite from heavily POV glurge
- Dimebag Darrell
- Rio Treaty - redirect and rework of base article
- Alexander "Sawney" Bean - merge w/ Sawney Beane
- Underground Railroad
- military cadence - jody calls
- Two Sicilies
- Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction
- Underground Railroad - key improvements for an important (sloppy) article
- Mason-Dixon line
- John Sasso
- Juan Cole
- First Indochina War
- Christmas truce
- Festivus
- Puerto Rican Independence Movement
- T-2 mycotoxin - yellow rain (cf. Yushchenko poisoning)
- President of the Palestinian Authority
- Popeye
- Zhongnanhai
- Chicagoland
- Nguyen Van Lem - removed stench of POV
- Elecia Battle
- Black History in Puerto Rico - saving a bad article
- Mexican Standoff
- Fists of Righteous Harmony
- El Dorado (myth)
- Guardia Nacional (Nicaragua) - improved from dumb Gardia [sic] substub
- Virginia opossum - merged in text from opossum
- 1992 Los Angeles riots
To Work On
From Wikipedia:Cleanup/Leftovers
From Wikipedia:Collaboration of the week/Removed
- Partitions of Poland
- Fourth Generation War - move to Fourth generation warfare
- Gladio - move to Operation Gladio; create stay-behind and/or NATO stay-behind operations
- Population history of American indigenous peoples - mainly formatting/organization
- Cossack
To Add
Wikipedia Stuff
Wikipedia:Oh, no! More bad jokes and other deleted nonsense
Advice
Tasks
- Wikipedia:Pages needing attention
- Wikipedia:Cleanup - I don't know why but I love combing through these for fixer-uppers
- US Collaboration of the Week - a little less often than that :)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Albums/Featured Albums Project
Discussions
- User:Pedant - debate over Wikipedia:WikiProject Ships
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake article
[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake&oldid=8828080) - initial stub [2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake&oldid=8852182) - after 24h [3] (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake&oldid=8885170) - after 48h [4] (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake&oldid=8916240) - after 72h
MetaFilter
Other MeFites I know are here (feel free to add your name, or say hello on my Talk page):
- User:Stbalbach
- User:Feelinglistless
- User:Linnwood - Steve@Linnwood
- User:Brownpau
- User:Céçaquiéça - from MonkeyFilter
- User:adamrice
- User:neckro - necKro
- User:Twiin - Jairus
- User:Azazello
- User:fvw (inactive)
- User:Utilitaritron
- User:ElfWord
- User:PrinceValium
- User:TNLNYC
