User:N35w101

Aspirations / Philosophy
I want to make contributions worthy of Barnstars, but I don't want to receive them. I want my reward for service to be useful, stable, un-vandalized text.

I like to randomly select articles in order to (a) learn something new & (b) find something I can contribute to in grammar, structure or (sometimes) fact. I also enjoy going to external sources to dig up needed citations.

I subscribe to the Wikipedian philosophy of Incrementalism. I wish users would verify an article exists before Wiki-ing a word -- red links are distracting.

Articles - initiated

 * Government of Tulsa, Oklahoma
 * BOK Financial Corporation

Articles - contribute / monitor at least occassionally

 * Tulsa, Oklahoma + Talk:Tulsa, Oklahoma
 * List of people from Tulsa, Oklahoma + Talk:List of people from Tulsa, Oklahoma
 * Jenks, Oklahoma
 * Barnsdall, Oklahoma
 * Robert Curbeam - a really great astronaut I met
 * Boeing 787

Articles - some I randomly contributed to

 * Crew Exploration Vehicle
 * Highland Single Malts - while reading about my favorite spirit, Scotch whisky
 * Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and Sarah, Duchess of York - during a fit of anglo-centric reading
 * Advanced tactical laser and Boeing YAL-1 - laser weapons in flight!
 * Prefecture - a geopolitical division of land in Japan
 * High-occupancy vehicle lane
 * Vladimir Zworykin - who had a hand in inventing television
 * Saxophone - the musical instrument
 * Minimo - a Soviet-era comedy
 * Jan Gies - hid Anne Frank from the Nazis
 * Reinhold O. Schmidt - a 1950s UFO "contactee"
 * High School Dressage (horse) - a horse-riding style
 * Category:People from Tulsa, Oklahoma - expanded it from 4 people to 57 as of 2006-July

Cool stuff I didn't know about before Wikipedia
You might want to check them out too.


 * NASA World Wind
 * Celestia
 * Stellarium

About me
but I know what a lorry, a lift, bangers, etc are!

Languages I've studied or dabbled in, but never gotten serious about: Latin, French, Spanish, Russian and Japanese.

Interests: Aerospace, Space exploration, Science fiction, Monty Python and Music (particularly Classical and Heavy Metal).

Cultures I find particularly interesting: Japanese, Russian, Scottish and German. My ethnicity is partly made up of the latter two, in fact.

I tend to have a verbose writing style, but try to avoid Doublespeak.