User:Nate Silva
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Nate Silva
Hi, I'm Nate. My primary contributions are copyediting and finding pages that should be deleted. I've also been known to shrink large graphics with pngcrush (http://pmt.sourceforge.net/pngcrush/) to save Wikipedia a few bytes. I've written several pages about my hometown, Portland, Oregon.
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Pages I've worked on
- Devanagari
- Distributed Server Boycott List
- Henry F. Phillips
- Largest mobile phone companies, T-Mobile, Vodafone
- Latin alphabet: created "letter graphics" for A-Z (unfortunately not pngcrushed)
- List of mail servers: moved to its own linked page as part of my effort to keep main articles from becoming enumerative lists.
- Portland, Oregon, Metropolitan Area Express (Portland, Oregon) and MAX, Portland International Airport, Portland Streetcar, Steel Bridge (a cool picture with the lower deck raised)
- S&P 500
- Single UNIX Specification (merged from POSIX)
- Tram
- U.S. Congress (all subpages for "non-voting members")
- Unit test
- Urban growth boundary and UGB
- Vancouver, Washington
Pet peeves
- "Some" people (usually "others") are so authoritative, aren't they? ;-)
- There is a tendency for any article with even the slightest hint of controversy to include "opinion dump" sentences like "others point out that...", "critics note that...", "some would say that...". It sounds like a fourth-grade term paper. This is actually a form of my next pet peeve:
- Enumerative lists in the main article. Put them in their own section or even their own article.
- This is just me-tooism. Everyone wants their favorite thing or point of view to be mentioned in the article. You can subvert this list-ification by creating a separate section or even a separate article for (List of whatever).
- It's also the equal time fallacy: that articles must be balanced by presenting opposing points of view — as though there are always equal opposing points of view. If an article contains truth, shall we add a lie to make it balanced?
- Capitalizing every Noun.
- Linking every possible word. Relevant words should be linked; for everything else there's the search function!
Favorite subjects (no, I'm not an expert on these)
- Commercial aircraft
- Fighting spam
- I18N
- Standards and standards bodies
- Urban planning and transportation
License
I agree to multi-license all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below: Template:DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual