User:Alaskanjackal

Profile
Ancient 1.5-decade-old content removed; profile due for a much-needed overhaul. :)

Major Wikipedia Contributions
Somehow, they usually seem to fall under three main categories:


 * Travel
 * Alaska - Started the Transportation section and contributed information about air, car, ferry and railroad travel in Alaska as well as a brief overview of dog mushing.
 * Alaska Permanent Fund - Added information about the proposed change to the Percent of Market value approach
 * Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend - Created article and wrote stub with overview and history
 * Alaska Railroad - Contributed information on routes and scenery
 * Cook Inlet - Added info on Turnagain Arm tides and Turnagain/Knik Arm mudflats


 * Transportation
 * Railroads
 * Glendale train crash - Added miscellaneous details and a link to the Los Angeles Times's collection of articles
 * Direct traffic control - Started article! See the first [bad] version here
 * Flashing rear-end device - Two-way FREDs and Wilma (HOT) devices
 * Railway signalling - Completely rewrote and vastly expanded section. The whole article still needs work, though.
 * Air brake (rail) - Contributed information on emergency applications. The article, including my contributions, still needs significant reorganization and copyediting.
 * EMD SD70 series - the nicer, newer of the Alaska Railroad's engines
 * EMD 710 - the engine used in the SD70-series. Started table and put the Expert template on it--the engine designations are alphabet soup!
 * EMD GP49 - a model of engine that the Alaska Railroad has but no one else does. I started a stub...
 * North American railway signaling - Preexisting stub. I copied my contributions and some other info from the railway signalling article to this one.


 * Technology
 * Cable television - Contributed detailed information about digital cable telephony
 * General Communications (GCI) - Another article had a reference to GCI, so I created a stubbed entry with a brief overview of the company
 * Mobile phone - Contributed information about mobile phone usage on aircraft
 * (This information was later moved to Mobile phones on aircraft)

But also these:
 * Politics
 * Religion
 * Other
 * Spectacor Management Group - Created article and pasted list of SMG-managed properties. (Shouldn't be a copyvio--it's just a list of cities and arenas). Surprising the article didn't previously exist--it seems to be a fairly large company.

Real-time list of contributions

Also check out WikiTravel:User:Cluth and WikiNews:User:Cluth. I've begun to contribute over there as well.

Other Interesting Articles
Here are some other articles which I have found especially fascinating. These are in addition to the ones I've contributed to above. These are ones that I either haven't had time to contribute to or really don't need contributions.
 * Travel
 * Transportation
 * Technology
 * Politics
 * Religion
 * Transformationalism
 * Neo-evangelicalism

To Do
New article ideas
 * DTAG (Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group)
 * User:Cluth/International_economics
 * User:Cluth/Copyright law for church worship pastors

Existing articles or stubs to expand
 * Sound reinforcement system
 * Eric Whitacre
 * Tom Bodett
 * California State Route 46
 * WikiProject California State Highways
 * Cellular One

Specific information contributions
 * Anchorage, Alaska
 * Suburban growth not as carefully planned out, lack of zoning (research this)
 * Warm weather -> lots of outdoor activities: walking, biking, horse riding, etc. -- out-of-towners come and wear fleece, locals are in tank tops
 * Rank
 * Add Salvation Army
 * National LambdaRail
 * What it is: wavelength control, etc. (I just watched a 1 hour lecture on it, and that was more informative than this article!)
 * Salvation Army
 * Make more NPOV (less like an Army PR statement)--facts are good but the wording makes lots of assumptions
 * Organizational data (THQ, DHQ, quasi-military command structure--Lieutenant Commanders, Majors, Captains, etc.)
 * Subsection on rank to link to from Rank
 * Worship band
 * Newer popular songs?
 * Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport
 * New terminal information
 * USPS "hub" is actually called...? (Refer to USPS Web site or USPS to double check)
 * Olive Garden
 * Culinary Institute of Tuscany
 * Air brake (rail)
 * Emergency vs. Service applications
 * Yield management
 * Yield management in rates

Copy editing
 * Manga
 * Mobile phones on aircraft
 * Clownfish (capitalization and other grammatical stuff)
 * Gear ratio
 * DACS (Digital Access Carrier System)
 * Short Message Service
 * Short Circuit
 * San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
 * PNG
 * San Marcos Pass
 * Head of Government
 * Sam Cooke
 * Railway signalling - article organization, mediocre writing
 * Authorization hold - clean up, new headings, expand with technical details; link from other financial articles or integrate into credit card article?

Links

 * University of Alaska Anchorage
 * University of Alaska Anchorage
 * UAA's journalism program
 * The Northern Light - UAA's student newspaper — Someday, when I have time, I'll freelance for it
 * KRUA - UAA's student radio station — you can hear occasional newscasts featuring my contributions
 * UAA's aviation program


 * Alaska links
 * State of Alaska
 * State of Alaska Facts and Visitor Information
 * Alaska Travel Industry Association - sponsored by the State of Alaska
 * SLED (Statewide Library Electronic Doorway)
 * SLED's tourist info site (has similar links to what's on this page)
 * Alaska.com
 * Alaska Airlines
 * Alaska Channel - available in hotel rooms; site offers good, solid travel tips from locals and they produce a great free guidebook. I use its restaurant reviews and I live here.
 * Alaska Railroad
 * Anchorage Convention and Visitors Bureau
 * Anchorage Daily News
 * Municipality of Anchorage
 * The Milepost - the best book for traveling by road in Alaska (hint: it's half as expensive if you buy it at one of the Anchorage Costcos)
 * National Weather Service Anchorage Forecast Office (It's not as cold in Anchorage as people think!)
 * Thrifty Car Rental of Anchorage, cheap, brand new cars and the ultimate in customer service :-)
 * University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute's Aurora Forecast


 * Other travel links
 * Let's Go - travel guides for travelers on the cheap (that is, poor college students like me)
 * Lonely Planet - travel guides for adventurous, budget-oriented travelers
 * Rick Steves - travel guides for budget-oriented travelers who want one step above a youth hostel


 * Other links
 * Costco, the best store in the world
 * My Web site. More links there (eventually).
 * And last but not least: My new blog of random musings!