User:Madcoverboy

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My name is Brian C. Keegan and I am an American

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My dissertation examined how

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As this is my personal account, my edits do not reflect the views of my employers nor do I use this account for academic research. I previously controlled the account User:Collabolab for academic research purposes but no longer use or control this account. I controlled the account User:NEU-Brian for academic research purposes related to elections, polls, and political candidates.

I have been editing Wikipedia since June 2005. 1st edit 1000th 2000th 3000th 4000th 5000th 6000th 7000th 8000th 9000th 10000th I mostly help out at

, and other cruft that tends to accumulate on articles about American colleges and universities as well as reviewing articles going up for GA and FA.

I apparently really like to edit on Tuesdays: [1]

My long-time username stems from the fact that I was told I resembled Alfred E. Neuman growing up.

Wagers

• [2] If there is not a college/university ranking incorporating Wikipedia article "quality" into its methodology published by December 31, 2010, I will pledge my editing services to a randomly selected AAU member article to bring it up for FAC. 12:05, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Projects

Current

• Francis Amasa Walker is possibly the most fascinating man I have ever read about
• Finishing
  FA
• Getting Northwestern University to FA

On-going

• Combating boosterism, ranking-cruft, and other NPOV violations in University articles
• Patrolling new pages, stub sorting, categorizing, etc.

Future

• Getting Massachusetts Institute of Technology to FA
• Populating List of Northwestern University buildings or merging it into Campus of Northwestern University
• Finishing
  United States technological and industrial history

Previous

• Keeping Massachusetts Institute of Technology at GA
• Cleaning up
  UC Berkeley, University of San Francisco, College of William & Mary
• FL
• Keeping
  MBTA v. Anderson
  up to date
• Merging MIT-related stubs and redundant articles into mother articles to standardize coverage and style

Contributions

Seeded articles

• Angelika Amon
• Theodore Postol
• Margaret MacVicar
• History of MIT
• Architecture of MIT
• Traditions and student activities at MIT
• Thomas Magnanti
• Emilio Bizzi
• List of Northwestern University buildings
• Daniel I.C. Wang
• Chia-Chiao Lin
• John S. Waugh
• Hermann A. Haus
• Walter A. Rosenblith
• Francis O. Schmitt
• Jerrold R. Zacharias
• List of Northwestern University residences
• Carl R. Soderberg
• Edwin R. Gilliland
• Arthur T. Ippen
• List of Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty
• List of Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
• List of Northwestern University faculty
• History of Northwestern University

Seeded templates

• Template:Infobox US university ranking

Regular contributor

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Wrote substantial portions of the history, research, and alumni sections.
• Northwestern University
• Las Vegas, Nevada
• Institute Professor

Other

• Template:United States topics

WikiProject member

• WikiProject History of Science - all-around awesome project
• WikiProject Universities
  - always interesting anecdotes
• WikiProject Las Vegas
  - hometown
• WikiProject United States - for tech & industrial history

This user is a member of WikiProject Chicago, a WikiProject which aims to expand coverage of the Chicago area on Wikipedia. Please feel free to join us.

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