User:Duncan1800

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Hi! I'm Duncan1800 (Duncan Malloch). I'm a fan of anything automotive, and a follower of pretty much anything mechanical (tractors, trains, trucks, motorcycles, aircraft, engines, etc.). If there's a car or truck article you don't see, or that you feel needs updating or sourcing, let me know and I'll see what I can do! Lately, my automotive interests have spread into the deep history of motorsports as well.

I'm also interested in old computers and video games, as well as comic books (and the occasional manga series). Yes, I'm a geek, and I'm becoming rather proud of it! Add to that my recent understanding of the term roadgeek, and I guess that fits too. Put it this way - if I actually went to parties, I'd either be intensely boring or extremely fascinating depending on your opinion. To temper those geek-tendencies, I'm also a fairly massive sports fan - baseball and football are favorites, but I also watch a lot of basketball when the other two aren't on.

Perfection is a (remarkably unattainable) goal of mine; hence, I have a tendency to make small edits for what might seem like minor issues. Yes, I have actually edited numerous articles simply to add one mark of punctuation or spell a word correctly. I'm also something of a stickler for clean formatting when it comes to tables and lists - I feel that the code underneath should be at least as clean and readable than the information it presents. Same goes for infoboxes, too.

Feel free to leave a comment on my talk page, and thanks for stopping by!

Personal projects

 * Orphaned articles: At least in places where I have enough knowledge to help
 * Photos of all the cities and towns noted in the Colorado infobox, and (sometime later) any of the county seats not already included under that list
 * Photos of scenic spots along Colorado's major highways

Articles I've created

 * Calhan School District RJ-1: Built from scratch (Jul 2008)
 * List of Allis-Chalmers tractors: Built from scratch (Nov 2007)
 * List of Dodge concept vehicles: Removed from main Dodge page, expanded, and sourced (Nov 2007)
 * List of FIA member organisations: Originally built on FIA page, then moved out (Feb 2008)
 * Manitou Springs School District 14: Built from scratch (Sep 2008)
 * Trinidad State Junior College: Built from scratch (Jul 2008)

Articles I've contributed to

 * AC Cars: Cleaned up, adjusted, general editing (Oct 2007)
 * Advance-Rumely: Major rewrite and expansion (Dec 2007)
 * Big Allis: Cleaned up, verified (Nov 2007)
 * Chapel Hills Mall: Added infobox, minor adjustments (May 2008)
 * Citadel Mall (Colorado Springs, Colorado): Added infobox (May 2008)
 * Colorado Springs Police Department: Minor expansion, sourcing, cleanup (Sep 2008)
 * Colorado State University - Pueblo: Some cleanup work, sourcing, more needed (Feb 2008)
 * Dodge: Major rewrite and expansion (Nov 2007)
 * List of Dodge automobiles: Reorganized and cleaned up (Nov 2007)


 * Enzmann: Slightly expanded, added source (Oct 2007)
 * GMC Caballero: Rewritten, reorganized, general editing (Jan 2008)
 * Interstate 25: Minor adjustments; more planned (Feb 2008)
 * Interstate 25 in Colorado: Major expansion and sourcing (Feb 2008)


 * Interstate 70 in Colorado: New infobox (Feb 2008)
 * List of GM engines (in progress): Massive cleanup and expansion (May 2008)
 * List of NASCAR race tracks (in progress): Massive expansion with new tables, sourcing (Mar 2008)
 * List of people from Colorado (in progress): Cleanup and editing for consistency (May 2008)
 * May Department Stores: Another table project, converted from a messy list (May 2008)
 * Mazda: Major rework, expansion, sourcing, updating (Mar 2008)
 * U.S. license plate designs and serial formats (in progress): Updating for the new year (Feb 2009)

Articles I plan to create or contribute to

 * 1994 Major League Baseball strike: Needs rewrite and sourcing (as of Feb 2009)
 * Allis-Chalmers: Desperately in need of expansion and editing (as of Nov 2007)
 * Allis-Chalmers U Series: Does not exist! (as of Nov 2007)
 * Allis-Chalmers W Series: Does not exist! (as of Nov 2007)


 * Amateur sports: Deserves a much better treatment than it currently has (as of Feb 2008)
 * Chevrolet: In need of some rewriting and historical expansion (as of Feb 2008)
 * FIA: Currently in disarray; some small edits made but structure needs work (as of Mar 2008)
 * GMC Sprint: Currently redirects to Caballero (as of Jan 2008)