User:Dhartung

I'm Dan Hartung, a native and resident of Janesville, Wisconsin. For most of my career in computer consulting I lived in Evanston, Illinois, and briefly in New York City. After years of watching the growth of the Wikipedia from a very basic concordance to the essential reference work that it is quickly becoming, I decided to create my own account in November 2004. So far it's been a rewarding experience.

As of October 2005, I'm taking a bit of a break as I ramp up coding activity for a startup.

Biography
I've been online since the days of the BBS, and participated in the internet soon after the end of bang paths. I watched the web grow up from the inside! I was a well-known weblog author from 1999 to 2003 when family life intervened; my weblog was Lake Effect and is presently unavailable.

I have also been a very-long-term member of MetaFilter, one of the pre-eminent community weblogs. Although I had been exposed to Wikis long before, my first real experience with contributing to one was the MetaFilter Wiki, which serves as a FAQ.

I have an irregular weblog at stilicho.blogspot.com.

I have profiles at last.fm (join the wikipedia group) and 43things. .

Wikipedia philosophy

 * I'm inclusionist by nature. Wikipedia isn't paper. But notability guidelines are generally good.
 * I don't think recentism is a serious flaw.
 * Categories help people find stuff. My category clutter limit is higher than others'.
 * This is a hypertext encyclopedia. Link to things that are relevant. Why prevent users from exploring?

Highlights

 * Trial against the Bulgarian medics and a Palestinian doctor in Libya - a little-watched story; the article is decent but could use some knowledgeable polishing.
 * Web 2.0 - I had to thoroughly rewrite this article due to a high fog index. It could still use expansion and improvement.

DYK featured

 * Media Whores Online - the mysterious, MIA muckraking blogger
 * Clint Hartung - I'm not related, always thought he should have an article
 * Bettye LaVette - fascinating story, surprised no article
 * James A. Baker (government attorney) - people were getting him confused with the "other" James Baker
 * Philip Perry - every husband of the daughter of the VP who is also in government should have an article
 * Miles Copeland, Jr. - another fascinating figure in US history, he was like the anti-Zelig
 * McLane-Ocampo Treaty - fascinating what-if, we might have had a Mexico Canal today
 * Nellie Y. McKay - namesake of the singer, fascinating story

''After this DYK submission quality increased substantially; many are almost to good article status nowadays. Good for DYK and Wikipedia, but a lot more work!''

Others
Sweepstakes &mdash; McDonald's Monopoly &mdash; Saif al-Islam Qaddafi &mdash; Ayesha Qaddafi &mdash; Leyla Zana &mdash; Murray Waas &mdash; Radio and Television Correspondents' Association &mdash; Supercar (band) &mdash; Thrilladelphia Music Festival &mdash; Buckeye Steel Castings &mdash; James M. Brady &mdash; Taurid &mdash; Katharine Hamnett &mdash; Ben Domenech &mdash; Hugh Rodham &mdash; Salt (band) &mdash; American Boychoir School &mdash; American Folk Blues Festival &mdash; 37signals &mdash; Steve Wood of Microsoft &mdash; Shortlist Music Prize &mdash; New Pantheon Music Award &mdash; Ravinia Festival &mdash; Eric Volz &mdash; Linda Stein (artist) &mdash; Hilton family &mdash; Napoléon (1955 film) &mdash; Max Maxfield &mdash; Ursula Martinez &mdash; Ben Stevens &mdash; Thomas W. LaSorda &mdash; Jim Fitzgerald &mdash; Deletion (music industry) &mdash; Campbell Center for Historic Preservation Studies

Pages I've Modified

 * Technology: Evan Williams Pyra Labs Blogger Matthew Haughey MetaFilter Jorn Barger Roger Schank Monkeyfilter
 * Music: Bloc Party Ana Voog Michael Penn The Decemberists

Old list:
 * Music video
 * Lyndon B. Johnson
 * The Parker Pen Company
 * Chandra Levy
 * David Mamet
 * Aral Sea
 * Zury Rios Sosa
 * Efraín Ríos Montt - I've bailed on a very silly edit war here
 * Beloit College - I attended
 * Muammar al-Qaddafi
 * Mary Kay Letourneau
 * Merchandise Mart
 * Dick Morris
 * Chicago Flood - I lived there then
 * Green Zone
 * Casino Royale
 * Madison, Wisconsin
 * Juan Cole/Temp
 * MEMRI
 * Conestoga wagon
 * National Socialist Party of America
 * Roger Ebert
 * Siskel & Ebert
 * The Wall
 * Battle of the Bulge
 * Channel Tunnel
 * Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act
 * Air traffic controller - complete rewrite from heavily POV glurge
 * Dimebag Darrell
 * Rio Treaty - redirect and rework of base article
 * Alexander "Sawney" Bean - merge w/ Sawney Beane
 * Underground Railroad
 * military cadence - jody calls
 * Two Sicilies
 * Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction
 * Underground Railroad - key improvements for an important (sloppy) article
 * Mason-Dixon line
 * John Sasso
 * Juan Cole
 * First Indochina War
 * Christmas truce
 * Festivus
 * Puerto Rican Independence Movement
 * T-2 mycotoxin - yellow rain (cf. Yushchenko poisoning)
 * President of the Palestinian Authority
 * Popeye
 * Zhongnanhai
 * Chicagoland
 * Nguyen Van Lem - removed stench of POV
 * Elecia Battle
 * Black History in Puerto Rico - saving a bad article
 * Mexican Standoff
 * Fists of Righteous Harmony
 * El Dorado (myth)
 * Guardia Nacional (Nicaragua) - improved from dumb Gardia [sic] substub
 * Virginia opossum - merged in text from opossum
 * 1992 Los Angeles riots
 * 1992 Los Angeles riots

2004 Indian Ocean earthquake article
- initial stub - after 24h - after 48h - after 72h

MetaFilter
See /MetaFilter Wikipedians.