User:Mattflaschen

Hey! My name's Matt Flaschen. My original username was Superm401. I'm from Lower Merion, Pennsylvania. I'm. I graduated from Georgia Tech in December 2010, with a BS in Computer Science. I'm currently living in Philadelphia.

Ideas

 * Frank Hecker - Mozilla Foundation executive director. Helped convinced Netscape to open source their code.  In Revolution OS..  Disambiguate Frank J. Hecker.
 * Umaru Fofana - BBC world reporter renowned in Sierra Leone.
 * Donald Trump v. Timothy L. O’Brien - Lawsuit in which Trump unsuccessfully alleged that his wealth was misreported causing reputational damage.

Convenience Links

 * Watchlist
 * Watchlist Anonymous Article Edits
 * New Pages Patrol from back
 * In-progress conversations
 * Template:Opentask
 * Image tagging notes
 * Wikipedia error messages
 * Custom Common (all skins) JavaScript
 * Custom Common (all skins) CSS
 * Custom Vector Javascript
 * Custom Vector CSS
 * Sandbox
 * Sandbox2
 * User:Mattflaschen/decimal to binary

Wikipedia Quotes

 * "There wasn't a big encyclopedia, then people were allowed to edit it just for fun. There was nothing, and people were allowed to create an encyclopedia." -- Notinasnaid
 * "At the end of the day we are all flawed meatbots trying to build a great encylopedia together." -- R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine)
 * "I'm addicted to reading Wikipedia, it's the only encyclopedia that grows faster than you can read :D" -- Taraborn

Contributions
I'm mostly a wikignome. Besides admin duties, I do verification and referencing, and update diagrams and illustrations to use SVG, an easily editable vector graphics format. Below are a few of my other contributions.

Articles

 * 1) W.R. Grace Building (stub)
 * 2) John Lovewell (Junior) (stub)
 * 3) Damballa (company)
 * 4) Nissan Altra
 * 5) Qassem Suleimani (stub)
 * 6) Alan Joyce (executive) (stub)
 * 7) Somchai Wongsawat
 * 8) Cavanagh Company
 * 9) LaserMotive
 * 10) Air India Flight 812
 * 11) Meyer v. Grant
 * 12) Goldenberg restaurant attack
 * 13) Oracle v. Google
 * 14) Libor scandal (converted redirect to article)
 * 15) app.net
 * 16) Chalk Hill Middle School (stub)
 * 17) School resource officer (stub)
 * 18) Friedrich Beer (stub)
 * 19) History of Iraq (2011–present) (stub)
 * 20) Vladimir Kononov (military) (stub))
 * 21) 2015 bombing of Médecins Sans Frontières hospital
 * 22) USS Fitzgerald and MV ACX Crystal collision

Templates

 * 1) Template:rlk
 * 2) Template:email
 * 3) Template:AdopterRow
 * 4) Template:Afd2 starter
 * 5) Template:Afd3 starter

Improvements

 * 1) A Dream Play
 * 2) Golden angle
 * 3) Bruce Harris
 * 4) Arthur Gonzalez
 * 5) John Granville
 * 6) CloudStack
 * 7) Trump campaign–Russian meeting

Software

 * 1) I was one of the developers of ProveIt, a graphical tool for Wikipedia referencing.  Georgia Tech paid me as a research assistant for some of the software development.

Awards
Thank you to everyone. I appreciate your kindness.