User:Jordanblocker

Hi there!
"Jordanblocker" is actually the name of a hockey team at Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, where I went for grad school. I thought it was a smart pun with a cool pronunciation even though I have no interest in hockey. It just came into my mind when I registered this Wikipedia account perfunctorily, not expecting myself to be a long-term Wikipedia editor.

Wikipedia has been an extremely helpful resource for me to get new knowledge and I believe it has even partly contributed in forming my personality.

More about me
My first language is Mandarin Chinese and am consciously trying to make English my primary language. I'm fluent in the speaking and listening of Shanghainese too, which I consider is a different language as Mandarin Chinese.

My activities on English Wikipedia
Some of my editing has been undone and some may turn out useless, and it's hard to measure how much meaningful contributions I have actually made for each page I'm involved in. Thus, I decide to just list out the pages where I spent more than half an hour editing. They are:


 * Alessandro Strumia
 * Barbary pirates
 * Magda Goebbels
 * Avital Ronell
 * Nien_Cheng
 * Julian Casablancas
 * Richard Lindzen
 * | Lolita fashion:Confusions
 * South_Park_Republican
 * Helmholtz_decomposition
 * Radon_transform
 * University_of_Science_and_Technology_of_China
 * Coriolis_force.

The full record of the contribution history from my account can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Jordanblocker

List of things I'm planning to do
This section records the things I want to do on Wikipedia that I have not done yet due to my procrastination.

Big projects
Each task here would probably take at least 3 hours away from me. Please contact me if you want to work together to get some of these done sooner.


 * Revamp the Coriolis Force entry. The status quo is intolerable. I plan to add the rigorous mathematical derivation (applying the change of basis matrix) and try to persuade the other editors to put that in a prominent position. Some stuff in the current version is wrong while others may be redundant or extremely unfriendly to someone new with the concept, and I will try to fight with the editors on deleting them. I will also add some applications of the Coriolis effect in atmospheric/oceanic dynamics that I consider important.


 * Create the entries for a few important meteorological terms, such as "Gradient wind", "Eliassen–Palm flux".


 * Revamp the Scholar-official entry.


 * Revamp the Farewell My Concubine (play) entry.


 * Adding a controversy section to the Red Cross Society of China entry.

Small projects
Each will probably take me 0.5-1 hour.


 * Translate parts of the Chinese version of Kirchhoff's circuit laws and add to the English version.


 * Edit the Accessory_nail_of_the_fifth_toe entry: focus on adding the controversies and ongoing researches about its origin in Han Chinese.

My user page on Chinese Wikipedia
I'm starting editing on Chinese Wikipedia as well now. My user page on Chinese Wikipedia is:

https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jordanblocker