User:Dhartung
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I'm Dan Hartung, a native and resident of
As of October 2005, I'm taking a bit of a break as I ramp up coding activity for a startup.
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
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, which serves as a FAQ.
I have an irregular weblog at stilicho.blogspot.com.
I have profiles at last.fm (join the wikipedia group) and 43things. .
Wikipedia philosophy
- I'm inclusionist by nature. Wikipedia isn't paper. But notability guidelines are generally good.
- I don't think recentism is a serious flaw.
- Categories help people find stuff. My category clutter limit is higher than others'.
- This is a hypertext encyclopedia. Link to things that are relevant. Why prevent users from exploring?
Pending tasks/To-do
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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.
- fog index. It could still use expansion and improvement.
Pages I've Created
DYK featured
- Media Whores Online - the mysterious, MIA muckraking blogger
- Clint Hartung - I'm not related, always thought he should have an article
- Bettye LaVette - fascinating story, surprised no article
- James A. Baker (government attorney) - people were getting him confused with the "other" James Baker
- Philip Perry - every husband of the daughter of the VP who is also in government should have an article
- Miles Copeland, Jr.- another fascinating figure in US history, he was like the anti-Zelig
- McLane-Ocampo Treaty- fascinating what-if, we might have had a Mexico Canal today
- Nellie Y. McKay - namesake of the singer, fascinating story
After this DYK submission quality increased substantially; many are almost to
Others
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 Decemberists
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
- 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
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake article
[1] - initial stub [2] - after 24h [3] - after 48h [4] - after 72h
MetaFilter
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