User:Obankston

About me Information technology practitioner and computer scientist for 40+ years Prior positions are Security & Compliance Technical Analyst, Health Information Exchange (HIE) which interfaces medical records systems, building websites using SharePoint for Fortune 500 companies, and a SCADA and information technology support engineer for power generation

Hobbies and interests Dual-sport motorcycles and motocross Airplanes Space exploration and Astronomy Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) Generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity Science and technology (generalist) Biblical studies Musician Ontology (information science), upper ontology, and planning/scheduling EVE Online (in-game names Pommonde, Ygenesis, Asporus, and Effinite)

Biggest personal triumphs In a self-employed capacity, I developed process control algorithms for a wastewater treatment plant that helped rescue the plant from being environmentally the worst in the region to not one violation for a period of years. I did this in 1990 using a vintage 1972 computer system. My older son has an IQ of 155 and does classified computer science research for a prestigious government research laboratory. The company does have giant underground laboratories like you see in the movies, and he has visited them, but he normally works in a nondescript office. Biggest personal tragedies I have an in-law that is a call girl. My elderly mother is one of those that perished November 8, 2018 in the Camp Fire (2018) that mostly destroyed the city of Paradise in Northern California. My daughter passed away three years after graduating from college cum laude. My younger son passed away seven years after successfully becoming a Black Hawk military helicopter pilot. They were boy-and-girl fraternal twins, chimeras by placental anastomosis. Biggest personal relationship My wife of 40+ years is a second cousin of Elvis Presley, and has received invitations to the same family reunions that Lisa Marie Presley has received invitations to, but has never attended those family reunions, and has never met any of the famous people. Regarding the Elvis Presley phenomenon, she disagrees with worshiping Elvis, and says that Elvis himself would not agree with it, either. Regarding whether Elvis actually died in 1977 or not, the third-hand information she received through her family was that Elvis did fake his death in 1977 and "disappeared", and she speculates that he went under a witness protection program or became a police undercover agent. She has heard that "disappearing" was a family discussion subject in the extended family of Elvis, and this could have influenced Elvis.

Lofty Life Goals
 * Qualify for the 70+ class in motocross; this requires the ability to race off-road motorcycles when over 70 years old
 * Translate the Bible into an ontology; the vision statement in http://www.semanticbible.com/semant/semant-overview.html expresses my vision also

Goals for Wikipedia
 * I like to fix spelling, punctuation, grammar, and formatting issues (as in WikiGnome).
 * I like to contribute regarding current events, especially if the event involves both technical (e.g., science, technology, law) and controversial issues.
 * I like to improve cross referencing by adding wikilinks, by resolving red links, by adding entries to See Also, by hatting (e.g., not to be confused with WWWW) (e.g., YYYY redirects here; for other uses see ZZZZ), and by creating lists or outlines of Wikipedia articles.
 * I like to resolve  tags and fix errors in citations.
 * I like to reorganize subject headings in disambiguation pages, because I like to organize, title, and summarize information (an aspect of ontologies).
 * I like to resolve the templates Insufficient Context, Lead Too Short  , and Too Technical   and   by writing introductions or sections that describe things in commonly-understood terms, simplify technical content, and summarize the article.
 * I like big-picture grand abstract organizing, classification, and procedural/planning/goal-based principles, like User:The Tetrast and User:The Tetrast/2.
 * I don't like trampling on the work of others, but I remove vandalism, disruptive edits, and inappropriate/non-notable material on my watch list. I tend to be harsher on faceless IP contributors than on users with a user page that I can talk to.
 * I don't like trampling on the work of others, but I may support, let stand, or even make a technical repair to changes (individual or en masse) by others that I wouldn't do myself.

Significant work on Wikipedia

Reorganized subject headings:
 * 100+ disambiguation pages

Added new articles for computer science and ontology:


 * List of JBoss software
 * JBoss Enterprise Application Platform‎
 * JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform
 * JBoss Operations Network
 * JBoss (disambiguation)
 * Qualitative reasoning‎
 * Process ontology
 * Sequence of events
 * International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling


 * JADE (planning system)
 * Task analysis environment modeling simulation (TAEMS or TÆMS)
 * Object-centered high-level reference ontology‎ (OCHRE) (deleted by the consensus of a discussion)
 * Woof (Linux)
 * OGX (disambiguation)
 * ETIM (standard)

Added new articles for astronomy:




 * HLV2514 (deleted because Wikipedia is not a newspaper)

Added new articles for other subjects:


 * Association of Musical Electronics Industry
 * Spanish Peaks Airfield
 * Colorado Springs East Airport
 * Aroya, Colorado
 * Hall Station, Colorado
 * Dennis Montali
 * John K. Trotter
 * American College of Bankruptcy


 * Terbium gallium garnet
 * East Peak fire
 * WhitePages.com
 * Actin remodeling
 * Abundant life
 * UFO sightings in outer space (salvaged at UFO/Sightings in outer space)

Added new articles for lists of articles, outlines, or navigation purposes:


 * List of life forms (originally a list of articles that relate to physical, hypothetical, alleged, religious, or fictional life forms, but the title was repurposed to be an outline of articles for organic life)
 * List of articles related to negative energy (deleted by the consensus of a discussion)
 * List of esoteric healing articles
 * Outline of principles of interpretation
 * List of weight-of-evidence articles (deleted by the consensus of a discussion)
 * Nonpoint source


 * Abundant life (disambiguation)
 * White pages (disambiguation)
 * Tailwind (disambiguation)
 * Lifeform (disambiguation)
 * Teiid

Added significant new material or significant reorganization:


 * Oracle Identity Management
 * Meadow Lake Airport (Colorado)
 * Punkin Center, Colorado
 * Colorado State Highway 94
 * List of UFO sightings
 * Knobby Tire
 * Beadlock
 * 2014 Ferguson unrest
 * Moment of Peace
 * Camp Fire (2018)
 * Pacific Gas and Electric Company


 * New Horizons
 * Obergefell v. Hodges
 * Carnival Triumph
 * Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse
 * Kalman filter
 * Olbers' paradox
 * Cat intelligence
 * Mercalli intensity scale
 * Oral Roberts
 * Prayer Tower
 * Prayer Tower

Copyedit of newly added articles for breaking news:


 * Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse
 * 2024 New Jersey earthquake
 * 2024 Iranian strikes against Israel


 * Attempted assassination of Donald Trump
 * 2024 CrowdStrike incident

Copyedit and new material for the Russian invasion of Ukraine:


 * 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
 * Timeline of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
 * Economic impact of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine


 * Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant
 * Siege of Enerhodar

Copyedit and new material for the Japanese earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear accidents:


 * 2011 Japanese nuclear accidents
 * List of civilian nuclear accidents
 * List of civilian nuclear incidents
 * Timeline of the Fukushima I nuclear accidents
 * Fukushima I nuclear accidents
 * Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant


 * Fukushima II Nuclear Power Plant
 * Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant
 * Tōkai Nuclear Power Plant
 * Fukushima 50
 * 2011 Great Eastern Japan Earthquake Disaster

Added to lead or introduction, or resolved Too Technical, Intro-rewrite, Context, or Confusing tags:


 * Planning Domain Definition Language
 * Process management
 * Upper ontology (information science)
 * Process Specification Language
 * ISO TC 184/SC 4
 * Balance spring
 * SOALIB


 * Actin remodeling of neurons
 * Kalman filter
 * 331 model
 * Arduino
 * Arbitration Inter Frame Spacing
 * Dissipator (building design)

Copyedit articles:


 * Comparison of C Sharp and Java‎
 * Masking threshold
 * Golden Eagle Broadcasting
 * Functional discourse grammar
 * Direct digital control
 * Lost Empire
 * Ammunition Technician
 * Chitreshwar
 * Resource dependence theory
 * Eve Online
 * Ransom


 * Protection racket
 * 8A4 class ROUV
 * Wiener filter
 * Dual-sport motorcycle
 * Types of motorcycles
 * Motorcycle tire
 * Downward stroke
 * and minor changes to 500+ other articles

Useful links


 * Editing guidelines
 * Manual of Style (disambiguation pages)
 * Disambiguation
 * Suggestions for disambiguation repair
 * How to copy-edit
 * Category:Disambiguation pages in need of cleanup
 * Category:Disambiguation pages
 * Category:Disambiguation categories
 * Category:Disambiguation message boxes
 * Category:Disambiguation and redirection templates
 * Category:Disambiguation lead templates
 * Disambiguation dos and don'ts
 * Disambiguation pages with links (Monthly DAB Challenge)
 * Make technical articles understandable
 * Category:Wikipedia articles that are too technical
 * Category:Orphaned articles
 * Article titles, Help:Moving a page
 * Special characters, Help:Displaying a formula, Template:Math
 * WikiProject Council/Assessment FAQ and Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment


 * Help:Wiki markup
 * Template messages/Deletion
 * Help:Contents/Browse/Links
 * Lists in Wikipedia
 * Manual of Style/Stand-alone lists
 * Advice for the cultural sector
 * Wikipedia's three core content policies
 * Neutral point of view
 * Verifiability
 * No original research
 * What Wikipedia is not
 * Please do not bite the newcomers
 * Citation templates
 * Citing sources
 * Copying within Wikipedia, e.g.
 * Category:Bible link templates
 * Userboxes
 * User:Obankston/Userboxes
 * Wikimedia
 * ISBN
 * WikiProject Motorcycling
 * WikiProject Motorcycle racing