User:Carl Henderson

About
Born in 1963, somewhere between the end of the Baby Boom and the beginning of Generation X, Carl Henderson was raised in Fort Worth, Texas. He grew up playing with Legos, attending Fort Worth Country Day School, and reading way too much. After graduating Country Day, he went on Texas A&M University, which he attended on a Lechner Fellowship.

At Texas A&M, he started out as an English major, but grew bored with the general pointlessness of it. After learning that a Dungeons & Dragons major was not an option, he switched to Political Science.

He has a BS in Political Science from Texas A&M University (1985) and a MS in Information Systems from the University of Texas at Arlington's College of Business (1991). Carl Henderson has worked at General Dynamics, UTA's Automation and Robotics Research Institute, Nortel, DSC Communications, Micrin Technologies, USRF Corporation, and Roam Technologies.

His hobbies include reading (science fiction, fantasy, mysteries, fanfiction, history, and science), Second Life (where he co-founded the Caledon Oxbridge Gateway), Dungeons & Dragons Online, gamemastering pen-and-paper role-playing games, goofing off on the internet (since 1991), collecting Tarot decks, and collecting fantasy miniatures.

He is single, a skeptic, and lives in Irving, Texas (an inner ring suburb of Dallas).

He can most easily be reached via email at j.carl.henderson@gmail.com.

Wikipedia articles primarily written by myself
These are articles that I either wrote in their entirety, or so extensively revised and expanded that the article is essentially 90-100% my work:
 * Valz Prize
 * Luis Cruls
 * Council of Governments – DYK for July 2, 2015
 * Clallam County Courthouse – DYK for May 17, 2015
 * William Mundy (composer) – DYK for May 14, 2015
 * Müller (Martian crater)

Wikipedia articles with significant contributions from me
Then there are articles that I’ve contributed to substantially–approximately 50-90% of the writing/rewriting, as well as extensive research and citations for any unreferenced original content.


 * Adland
 * Alliance of Women Directors
 * Thomas M. Blackstock
 * Thomas M. and Bridget Blackstock House
 * Anya Camilleri
 * Hayden Schilling
 * Herschel (Martian crater)
 * Kirby krackle
 * Vernon Jones – Good Article – DYK for November 9, 2015

"No, but I've put a lot work into it"
These articles may not quite meet my "approximately 50-90% of the writing/rewriting" guideline, but I've done extensive work, and collaborated with many excellent editors, and I'm quite pleased with them.


 * 2015 Mina stampede
 * Mecca crane collapse
 * The Hunting Ground

Old articles primarily written by myself (2004 to 2008)
Though I'm still proud of the work I did on these articles, I haven't touched them in years. They have all been greatly expanded and improved by subsequent editors. In some cases, little or nothing of my work remains. But that's how Wikipedia is supposed to work!
 * Frank Belknap Long
 * Michael Whelan
 * Grethe Rask
 * PerkinElmer

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