User:Finney1234
OK [as I wrote about 10 years ago], it's time to make a user page.
I wrote most of one major article (Harris Isbell) that I'm proud of; he was a research pharmacologist who deserved a serious, accurate, non-sensationalist writeup, while not ignoring the dubious aspects.
Musically, I made sure the Turtles got credit for doing the first (documented) rock song in 5/8 (
In geology, I created an article on geologist Henry G. Ferguson (a local geezer when I was a kid), and even uploaded and included a few images for the occasion. For better or worse, that has gotten me down a rabbit hole of trying to clean up articles on related geologists (basically, geologists working in the
More recently, I've jumped into trying to fix up the scientific parts of
I haven't done anything else major, but I fix errors and clean up references when I see something that needs it, and add random pieces of information here and there (well, the information isn't random, but the selection of articles is)
I wrote what I think is a fun and useful article on how to get started with Wikipedia, which I called "Ask Mr. Wikipedia Person". I posted it on Jimmy Wales' Talk Page, but no one there seemed interested in it. I think it's useful, concise, and a different style from standard Wikipedia documentation. It can be downloaded from http://sfinney.com/articles .
Steve Finney (Piled Higher and Deeper) Finney1234 (talk) 03:08, 25 November 2021 (UTC)
- ^ Wright, Lauren; Troxel, Bennie (2002). Levi Noble: Geologist (PDF) (Open-File Report 02-422 ed.). U.S. Geological Survey. Retrieved 9 Nov 2021.