User:Jnc
Hi, I am Noel Chiappa. As of September 29, 2022, that page contains two errors. Have fun trying to work out what they are! (I refuse to look at it, to see if they are still there - it would just piss me off.)
On break
I am on indefinite Wiki-break since October, 2005, although I occasionally putter around. If you need to reach me, please email me, as I'm not reading my Talk: page here. Do not leave messages for me on my Talk: page; I do not want any messages left there.
I was badly affected by having to deal with a particular problematic user (who has since, ironically, left Wikipedia), and even more upset at what I perceive(d) to be a lack of support from the community in dealing with a clueless, argumentative, biased, stubborn nitwit who persisted in trying to fill major articles with erroneous, highly-biased POV, based on ignorance, prejudice, and personal research (which I can only characterize as incompetent, sketchy, worse-than-amateurish, incomplete, and pathetic) - the conclusions of which were, needless to say, not supported by the standard reference works on the field.
A wonderful example of him displaying all these traits in action (in a pointless argument with another editor) may be found here.
I just don't need that kind of grief, and I don't see the point of working hard on articles if some ignorant moron can come along and trash them. If that's the situation, I'd rather spend the time working on academic papers (a conclusion, alas, that many other good contributors before me have come to). So, I have concluded that for the moment my time will be more profitably spent working on a number of papers I need to write and/or finish off, on important topics such as endpoints.
In homage to Professor Steve Ward of MIT, who wrote an incredibly funny parody of his testimony and cross-examination as an expert witness in a civil trial, I have created
I've been on extended Wiki-breaks before (I was gone from the fall of '03 to the middle of '04), and may decide to continue contributing in the future, but I cannot reliably predict the future, so we'll have to see. (Note to bureaucrats: I will be monitoring the account to make sure it is not broken into, so don't change its status.)
About Me
I've been a
I used to do article creation and editing on a random and broad range of topics (an encyclopaedia is the perfect project for me :-). As David Gerard so pithily and perfectly puts it:
- My life has been spent filling my head with unbelievable quantities of trivia and rubbish. Here's a chance to get some of it out.
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I used to lend a hand with the boring maintainence work, particularly on
My Wikipediholic
Action | Count |
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Edits | 16971 |
Edits+Deleted | 18352 |
Pages deleted | 1909 |
Pages restored | 159 |
Pages protected | 114 |
Pages unprotected | 34 |
Users blocked | 46 |
Users unblocked | 20 |
User rights modified | 1 |
For more about me, look at my home page here:
http://www.chiappa.net/~jnc/
When I am not logged in, my contributions show up at 68.10.112.83, 68.10.115.135 and 68.10.244.80.
Useful stuff
Wikipedia:Naming conventions (use English)
Wikipedia:Blocking policy#Disruption
Block user
List of blocked IP addresses and usernames
Block log
Protection log
User stats
My database entry
My edit count
Another edit counter
Purge cached page
No redirect
What links here
Redirects from : to User:
Missing redirects
MediaWiki
Meta
Wikidev
Commons
Wiktionary
Wikiquote
Wikisource
Wikinews
Wikibooks
Pages I've Added
Music
Duane Allman
- David Clark (guitar player)
- E. Power Biggs
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At Carnegie Hall - Jazz at Oberlin - Time In - I Remember Clifford (album) - Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs - Shakti (album)
Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
Japanese Woodblock Prints / Japan
Kunisada
- Kuniyoshi
- Sharaku
- Toyokuni
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Snow Country
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Medici / Florence
Piero di Cosimo de' Medici (The Gouty)
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Belvedere
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Bermuda / Virginia
Egypt
History / Military / Cryptography / Espionage
Robert C. Duncan
- Anatoly Marchenko
Tom Loyless
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John Earl Haynes
- Harvey Klehr
- Pavel Sudoplatov
- Vladimir Vetrov
Committee of Imperial Defence - Moscow Helsinki Group - Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam - Two-state solution
Brigade of Guards
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Castle Romeo - Castle Union - Castle Yankee
The Gathering Storm (1974 film) - Warm Springs (film)
Nautical
Boom vang
- Deadeye
- Foresail
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Computers / Networking
Bean Scripting Framework
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EFTP
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Bob Braden - Wesley A. Clark - André Danthine - Charles M. Herzfeld - Peter T. Kirstein - H. T. Kung - Charles E. Leiserson - Brian Randell - Martin Richards - John Shoch
Cars / Planes
Manfred von Brauchitsch - Griffith Borgeson
Virginia Beach Airport - Military Aviation Museum
Random
Suzanne Farrell
- Darci Kistler
- Robert Woodruff (director)
1458 (number)
- Lithium hydride
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Geronticus
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Dosso, Niger - Strait of Canso
Levels of the Game
- The Traveler (novel)
House & Garden
- Condé Nast Traveler
Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse
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Engineer's degree
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Pages I've Significantly Upgraded
Music
Johann Sebastian Bach
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Japanese Woodblock Prints / Japan
Medici / Florence
Michelozzo
- Cosimo de' Medici (Pater Patriae)
- Lorenzo de' Medici (Il Magnifico)
- Cosimo I de' Medici (Grand Duke Cosimo I)
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Bermuda / Virginia
History of Bermuda
- Politics of Bermuda
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Jamestown, Virginia - Bartholomew Gosnold
Egypt
Amarna
- Valley of the Kings
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Akhenaten - Nefertiti - Tadukhipa - Tutankhamun
History / Military / Cryptography / Espionage
Ferdinand II of Naples
- Lady Jane Grey
James Somerville
- Isoroku Yamamoto
W. T. Tutte
Judith Coplon
We shall fight on the beaches - This was their finest hour - Never was so much owed by so many to so few - Isoroku Yamamoto's sleeping giant quote
Amber Room
- Attack on Pearl Harbor
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Project Babylon
- Paris Gun
- Supergun
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Operation Ivy - Ivy Mike - Operation Castle - Castle Bravo
Colossus computer
- Fish (cryptography)
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Lady Jane (movie)
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Nautical
Downhaul
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Computers / Networking
Input/output
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BCPL
- PL/I
Pilot ACE
- DEUCE
PDP
- PDP-6
- PDP-10
- PDP-11
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Multics
- CTSS
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Asynchronous Transfer Mode - Multiprotocol Label Switching
ARPANET
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Internet Architecture Board - Internet Engineering Task Force - Internet Society - Request for Comments
Classful network
- Classless Inter-Domain Routing
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Cars / Planes
Colin Chapman
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Random
Capability Brown
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Day of the Fight
- Flying Padre
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List of Frasier episodes
Wikipedia:Cleaning department
- Wikipedia:Requested moves
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Images I Provided
Incomplete
Layla Cover - Shakti Cover - At Carnegie Hall Cover - I Remember Clifford Cover Hokusai Chushingura - Hiroshige Chushingura - Yoshitoshi Climber Old Woman Rats - Sharaku Two Actors Actor - Kunisada Spiderweb Box - Toyokuni III Actor - Toyokuni Actor Kabuki duo Porter Internet map 1982 - Internet map circa '85 Yacht Reliance Brighton Grammar logo - Firbank Grammar logo
Removed From WatchList
Network Control Protocol
- Sant'Angelo
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Disambiguation pages
Doing maintainence on
Subpages
- /LinkFarm - Links to images (as opposed to inclusion) don't show up in 'what links here' tables
- /Disambiguation - A rant about disambiguation
- /CryptoDictIndex - Alphabetical index to the Cryptographic Dictionary, July 1944
- /wiki.e - Epsilon editor extension for writing Wikipedia text
- /ToDo - Things I might actually work on someday
- /Test - Small test area, usually for template hackery
- /Sandbox - Sandbox
- /Welcome - My personalized welcome message
- /ReplyMyTalk - Message about where I see replies
- /NewReplyMyTalk - Version for new users
- /RedirMissingTarget - Templates for warning message
- /MvRedirMissingTarget - Template for redir left by a move
- /DelRedirMissingTarget - Template for redir left hanging by a delete
- /NeverRedirMissingTarget - Template for redir to something never existing
Fun stuff
- /TooManyBoxes - A classic, should have been kept IMO
- /Cold War Classic - A classic, lengthy, and hilarious hoax
- Slow Blind Driveway- Another
- San Serriffe - The original, before Ed Poor discovered it and (reluctantly) nuked it.