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This user is a software engineer.

prog

This user is a programmer.

This user is a mad scientist.

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Microsoft Windows.

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1E

This user will debug Windows BSODs for food.

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This user uses or contributes using Morse code.

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United States of America.

This user lives in or hails from the U.S. State of California.

This user is of Irish and British ancestry.

Dad

This user is a father and proud of it!

This user supports the legalization of same-sex marriage.

This user is interested in LGBT issues—which does not necessarily reflect the user's sexual orientation or gender identity.

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-N

This user is a native speaker of American English.

1 km = 1000 m

This user grew up with American system units, but vastly prefers the "metric system" (SI).

1 mi = 5280 ft

1 GB ≠ 1024³ bytes

This user prefers to use (and helps promote) IEC binary prefixes for powers of 1024.

This user's time zone is UTC-8.

This user begrudgingly observes Daylight Saving Time.

’s

Thi's user know's that not every word that end's with s need's an apostrophe and will remove misused apostrophe's from Wikipedia with extreme prejudice.

,,,,

This user helps enforce the Comma Conservation Criteria by fixing comma splices and other Sentences Of Unusual Size.

This editor is a Most Perfect Tutnum and is entitled to display this Book of Knowledge with Coffee Cup Stain and Cigarette Burn.

Beware! This user is a known talk page stalker.

This user has pending changes reviewer rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify)

This editor is not an administrator and does not wish to be one.

This user enjoys electronics or is an electronics hobbyist.

This user is an FCC-licensed amateur radio operator, with General-class privileges.

This user is a skeptic.

ath

This user is interested in atheism.

This user has been touched by His Noodly Appendage.

INFP

This user's MBTI type is INFP.

This user enjoys reading science fiction.

This user enjoys swing dancing.

This user enjoys ballroom dancing.

This user likes most types of music.

Cat Lover

This user is a
cat lover.

This user remembers using
a rotary dial telephone.

Warning! This user functions at a sub-optimal level before their morning coffee.

This user has visited 35 of the 50 United States.

6	This user has set foot in 6 continents of the world.

This user has visited 38 of the 208 countries in the world.

Depiction of WMF destroying Wikipedia with Visual Editor and mobile access.

Wikipedia vandalism information
(abuse log)

Very low level of vandalism

[view • purge • update]

2.95 RPM according to Philipnelson99 via RedWarn 04:30, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

This user is a member of the
Counter-Vandalism Unit.

This user reverts vandalism in the blink of an eye with Twinkle!

"Email this user"

Yes, I have that enabled. Be aware that if you send me email, through that option or any other, I am free to do anything with such messages that I please. That includes publicizing them along with any identifying information they come with, not excepting headers, logs from mail servers, etc. A statement in your email claiming that you regard it as private communication and attempting to place limits on what I may do with it is legally not binding on me. If you want that sort of arrangement, first send me a request to enter into a non-disclosure agreement, and I'll let you know if I agree.

Handy stuff I don't want to have to find again

user warning templates (but Twinkle helps a lot)
maintenance templates
WP:COSMETICBOT
WP:COIBLP, WP:BLPCOI
Use single line breaks
Help:List-defined references (so that's what they're called...)
WP:Don't link to WP:AGF
Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits - for edit-count junkies
Websites and their publishers
Responding to a failure to discuss
Optional styles
Editor interaction analyzer
New user log search

Another styletip ...

Subset terms

A subset term identifies a set of members of a larger class. Common subset terms are including, such as, and among.

Don't use redundant subset terms (so avoid constructions like these: Among the most well-known members of the fraternity are included two members of the Onassis family; The elements in stars include hydrogen, helium and iron, etc.).
Don't use including to introduce a complete list, where comprising, consisting of, or composed of would be more accurate.

Basics

I am a moderately well known consultant and seminar leader in the field of Windows device drivers, debugging, and general kernel mode development. I've been working with Windows NT device drivers since the October '92 Driver Developer's Conference. For a few years after that I was a prolific contributor to the Windows NT device driver newsgroups, and that work earned me an MS MVP (NT DDK) award for a few years, but the consulting/training business has taken too much of my time lately to continue those efforts. (And Microsoft decided that they would no longer have MVPs for driver development!)

Prior to my work involvement with the Windows NT family I worked for many years in similar areas of DEC's VMS operating system. While working for a DEC IHV/ISV I was responsible for the device drivers for a line of intelligent programmable front-end communications interfaces... some of which I later learned were still in use years later in Operation Desert Storm. I won several awards for various contributions to the DEC User's Society.

Before VMS I worked principally with HP's DOS-M, RTE-M, and 2000F operating systems. These ran on 16-bit minicomputers, the HP 2100 and 1000MX, classic load-and-store machines like many of the minis before the PDP-11. I also put in some time on the HP 3000 under MPE, and PDP-11's under RSTE/E and RSX-11/M.

MCTS for Windows Internals, for what that's worth. And General class ham operator.

COI disclosure

See user:Jeh/coi.

Welcome template (cheat sheet)

Hello, Jeh, and Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place ((Help me)) on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by using four tildes (~~~~) or by clicking

if shown; this will automatically produce your username and the date. Also, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field with your edits. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! User:Pingveno (talk) 13:06, 18 September 2013 (UTC)

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To do list

Short term

Continue cleanup of Laserdisc (2015-01-26T09:22:43‎ )

Long term

Host controller interface - generalize, explain "register level interface", treat current sections as point examples rather than the entire article

Architecture of Windows NT, Windows library files, kernel32, Windows NT processor scheduling, and other Windows components articles: many conceptual problems; general cleanup and mutual rationalization is needed

64-bit#Pros_and_cons fix points re. 3GB barrier and Windows DLLs in user space

BCD article - find cites for various packed decimal claims

Balanced line - explanation section needs a rewrite.

Significant contributions to

various Windows articles

...but maybe that's just me.

Your right to a free press does not mean I have to give you free access to my press.

Corollary: Wikipedia doesn't have to give you free access to theirs, either.

Moving a page can be mildly disruptive. It should nearly always be discussed first (unless it is mandated by some policy). Heck, even if it is mandated, input should be solicited re the new name. After all, those who are watching the talk page may have been concerned with the page for some time and so might have some opinions worth listening to about what the new name should be, or if it should be moved at all, and reverting a move is sometimes not trivial. But official WP policy is that a page move is only slightly more deserving of concern than any other edit (inasmuch as anon editors aren't allowed to move pages).

New editors who come in with the attitude that "Wikipedia is all wrong and it must be fixed!", combined with a pattern of what I will here call "bristly" responses to any disagreement, tend to have short, unhappy careers here. See WP:RIGHTGREATWRONGS.

If your belief requires you to assume that there's a vast conspiracy arrayed against you, you probably should re-examine your belief.

Sometimes, when it's you against many, it's time to consider that the "many" just might have a point. (see WP:1AM)

Some people who claim e.g. "ten years' experience" actually do have skill and wisdom commensurate with ten years' experience. Others seem to have had the same year's experience ten times over.

...then again, maybe not.

Tips for the angry new user - Gamaliel

Wikipedia is not a parts catalog. (unpublished draft by Wtshymanski (talk · contribs))

Wise words given to a blocked editor: "This absolute adherence to the idea that your interpretation of the rules is paramount
and everyone else's input is merely an obstacle to overcome is an accurate summary of how you ended up in this position." - Basalisk ^{inspect damage}⁄_berate 4 August 2013

"Any article about some esoteric techical gubbins is going to sound too technical to someone; we give context in the opening paragraph, which should be helpful to the non-electrical-engineer who runs across this term and may not want to know more" - edit summary by Wtshymanski, upon removing a "too technical" template

About fighting vandalism

Inspector Javert (or Zenigata) doesn't have a fun job, but somebody has to do it. Of course, some could also choose to not be Jean Valjean (or Lupin III).

Found on someone else's talk page, quoted by permission: "Early on, I came across a comment from someone high up in the WMF. He said if content creators all left, Wikipedia could go on for years. Information would gradually go out of date, but it'd still be there. If the vandal fighters all left, Wikipedia would be overrun in a few days by vandals, spammers, and trolls." - this edit by --NeilN ^{talk to me} 00:44, 18 July 2016 (UTC)