User:Kbh3rd

When reusing any of my original images that have not been released into the public domain but made available under a license that requires attribution, that attribution may be given in one of these ways:


 * A hyperlink to the description page for the image on Wikimedia Commons or, if only available there, to the image description page on the English Wikipedia.
 * A hyperlink to my Wikipedia user page
 * The text "Wikimedia Commons by Kbh3rd" if the image is from Wikimedia Commons
 * The text "Wikipedian Kbh3rd" if the image is found on any Wikimedia Commons or on Wikipedia.

Different images have been uploaded with different licenses. I am more than happy to consider different licenses or custom terms to ease reuse for specific purposes.

 If you frequently roll back misguided edits, look at my vandal warning toolbox.

Foreign language study is interesting and rewarding, but I cannot say I'm fluent in any. Studied: 6 yrs Russian; 2 yrs Latin; 2 sem. Arabic; 1 sem. ea. Spanish, German, and French; limited self-study Esperanto.

In my youth I read encyclopedias for recreation. I spent some TV-free summers with the Junior Encyclopædia Britannica, a former red-bound companion to the regular edition meant for the middle school years.

Contributions
My higher education and career are in computers, programming, networking, and computer security, but that's not where I usually edit. Geology and geography articles, among others, seem to interest me – I brake for road cuts. I like maps and create some for topics that interest me and for which I can find source material.

Original contributions

 * Images: My Wikimedia category has superceded my Wikipedia gallery for a complete catalog of original images that I've uploaded for Wikipedia – photographs, maps, graphs, and diagrams. A few uploaded to the English Wikipedia and not yet migrated to Commons will not be categorized there.
 * Reused: I've found notable third-party re-use of some of my images in other publications on the web, not always properly attributed.


 * Articles started: The list of articles that I started includes a couple that have become quite respectable thanks to lots of help from other interested editors.
 * Scripts: I created a user script for quick and easy vandal warning. I've kept it under my userspace because I don't know how to make it more generally available nor if there would be enough interest.  But I find it very useful, and there are a number of other people who have it installed, too.

Style
I loathe parenthetical remarks and so should you. If a statement is worth making then it is most likely worth placing in a regular sentence. There will be exceptions, of course, but they should be very rare.

In addition to Wikipedia's Manual of Style, here is a good style guide that I adapted from one found on the internet, attributed to "the paper" at Fordham University in 1988:

How to Write Good

 * My several years in the word game have learnt me several rules.


 * Avoid Alliteration. Always.
 * Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
 * Avoid cliches like the plague. (They're old hat.)
 * Employ the vernacular.
 * Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.
 * Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
 * It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.
 * Contractions aren't necessary.
 * Foreign words and phrases are verboten.
 * One should never generalize.
 * Eliminate quotations. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said: "I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."
 * Comparisons are as bad as cliches.
 * Don't be redundant; don't use more words than necessary; it's highly superfluous.
 * Profanity sucks.
 * Be more or less specific.
 * Understatement is always best.
 * Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.

Working links
Boilerplate &middot; Tagging queries &middot; Untagged images talk &middot; Sleuthing &middot; Plain articles &middot; Vandal warning toolbox &middot; To do

N ASA Global Change Master Directory &middot; NCSU Finding GIS Data on the Internet &middot; ESRI world basemap

Copyrights
I agree to multi-license all my text contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

Images are licensed under the terms shown on the individual image description pages.

&mdash; Kbh3rdtalk


 *  NOTA BENE : In a case where the copyright owner sustains the burden of proving, and the court finds, that infringement was committed willfully, the court in its discretion may increase the award of statutory damages to a sum of not more than $150,000. U.S.C. Title 17 § 504(c)(2)