User:Gronk Oz



I am now retired from the workforce after a career in the computer software field.

My interests include astronomy, critical thinking, martial arts and home renovation.

Human behaviour fascinates, confuses and scares me in pretty much equal degrees.

I made my first Wikipedia edit in March 2014, and one day I hope to be good at it.

Disclosure of interests
I strive to make improving Wikipedia my highest priority, and my contributions are my own. I have only used one account and I have not used a customised signature. I edited as an IP a few times before I registered as a user and, since then, very occasionally by accident. I have never been paid to edit Wikipedia and I have never edited on a topic in which I have a financial interest. I offer the following information for transparency:
 * I am a past employee of Honeywell, IBM, Logica, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Macquarie University, EDS and Hewlett-Packard. I no longer have any connection with any of these fine companies other than sometimes as a retail customer.
 * I have studied at the University of Sydney, Macquarie University, University of New South Wales, and the University of Technology, Sydney. I have been a member of the Macquarie University Sport and Aquatic Centre since 1986.
 * I have been a member of the Astronomical Society of New South Wales since the mid-1990s, although I have never been an employee.
 * I have been a member of Guerrilla Skeptics on Wikipedia ("GSoW") since 2014.

Projects

 * Stuff I am working on
 * User:Gronk Oz/Peter Botten
 * User:Gronk Oz/Michael Horowitz (endocrinologist)


 * To do tomorrow
 * Check List of companions of the Order of Australia
 * Irreligion in Australia
 * Alice MacLennan
 * Cecil Cook (physician)
 * Panacea (medicine)
 * Michael Ashley (astronomer)
 * Travis McHenry
 * Category:Australian_astronomers


 * Learning
 * Superannuation in Australia
 * Did you know
 * Did you know/Reviewing guide
 * Did_you_know/Supplementary_guidelines
 * Did you know/Learning DYK
 * A primer for newcomers
 * Article Grading scheme
 * Good article criteria
 * Category:GA-Class Australian places articles
 * Category:GA-Class biography (science and academia) articles
 * Better Articles: A Systematic Approach
 * Unusual articles
 * AutoWikiBrowser
 * AutoWikiBrowser/User manual
 * Category:Wikipedia quick introductions
 * Featured article criteria
 * User:Yunshui/Article creation for beginners
 * Twinkle
 * Counter-Vandalism Unit


 * Watchlists
 * Skeptical stubs
 * uses 2006 Census template
 * AWB Typos
 * Nearby
 * AutoWikiBrowser/Typos
 * Teahouse/Questions
 * New users' contributions ?userExpLevel=newcomer&hidebots=1&hidecategorization=1&hideWikibase=1&namespace=0
 * New users' contributions (obsolete)
 * Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Sydney
 * Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in New South Wales
 * Community portal/Opentask
 * Template_talk:Did_you_know
 * Contribution Team/Backlogs
 * Category:Orphaned_articles
 * Community_portal
 * WikiProject Astronomy
 * Category:All stub articles
 * A list of Wikipedia articles with bare URLs
 * Search for incategory:"New South Wales State Heritage Register" deepcat:"Ku-ring-gai Council" (etc.)
 * Commonly_misspelled_English_words
 * Uses template R with possibilities

Useful links 'n stuff

 * My user sub-pages