User:Dessources

Userboxes This user has been on Wikipedia for 17 years, 5 months and 13 days. fr Cet utilisateur a pour langue maternelle le français.

I live in France, accross the border from Geneva, Switzerland. I am a Wikipedia fan: a truly global community sharing its knowledge - a dream come true for an old-timer like me. Although I have my own biases on many issues, I am trying to tame them and be as objective as possible - not an easy thing. I am quite eclectic and I can cover a variety of topics, although my main areas of interest are public health, computer science and the visual arts.

Being a Wikipedia editor is something that has a significant learning curve, but the reward is huge: what I have learnt and am still in the process of learning has substantial repercussions on other aspects of my intellectual life, way beyond my activity as Wikipedia editor.

--Dessources 12:32, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

Links to key contributions

Passive smoking

• Introduced FCTC definition of passive smoking with four key references
• Discussion: "Scientific evidence shows that exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke causes death, disease and disability"
• Discussion: "Note on the World Health Organization Report 'Controversy'"
• Discussion: "Notes about the 'controversy' surrounding the WHO/IARC study"
• Note on the WHO inquiry report
• Discussion: "Denialism and passive smoking"

Macro (computer science)

• Macros as solution to machine independent software

Tools

• Dave's template filler
• External links search tool
• toolserver
• Wikipedia:Template_messages
• WikiRoll
• Journals Cited

Notes

• Mathematical symbols in LaTeX
• List of mathematical symbols
• The Comprehensive LATEX Symbol List
• R (programming language)