User:RossPatterson

In the beginning
I've started to add things to the Stuyvesant High School page and other related pages, so it's time to get a userid and (cue the What's My Line music!) "enter and sign in please!".

About me
As to who I am, I'm the Ross Patterson you find on the web most of the time. I've been an active and occasionally noisy geek since at least 1972, when I was lucky enough to encounter an IBM 1130 computer system at Stuyvesant. Until 2000 or so, all the search engines knew about were me and some piano player. Since then, there was a movie called The New Guy, with some other Ross Patterson in a supporting role with Eliza Dushku. Ah, we should all be so lucky.

I've been doing email since 1978 (rap@mit-mc, if I recall), but haven't had much need to write on this "World Wide Web" thing (although I do support a small mainframe software package via a Geocities site). For many years I was involved with SHARE, an IBM-oriented computer user group - in fact, the oldest computer user group. I've also been active in the HTTP standardization effort, among many other Internet-related activities.

ROM
Stuff I look for again and again, so I'm putting it here and then I'll never have to again!


 * I created Category:Articles with broken citations, so I monitor it for new errors.


 * The AfD rules
 * The AfD procedures
 * The PROD rules and procedures
 * The Speedy Deletion rules
 * The Speedy Deletion procedures
 * The IfD rules and procedures
 * My edit history, courtesy of Interiot's "wannabe kate" tool.
 * What version of Mediawiki etc. is running here?
 * Bazzargh's citemark tool for scraping cite web info from web pages.

EEPROM
Temporary storage, wiped without warning from time to time:

Customizations
I've got stuff in:
 * /monobook.css - the Monobook user CSS file
 * /monobook.js - the Monobook user Javascript file
 * /ISO8601 to mmm dd yyyy.js - a script to add a tab called de-iso8601 to convert  dates to , since my side lost the date-formatting war.
 * /Reorganize References.js - a script to add a tab called RefReorg that moves all the references into the  section.

Article improvement
I neglected to include you on my comment on the Eugene Delgaudio Talk page. You had posted there regarding the difficult task of cleaning up the non-RS sourcing which I expect may be placed there by the article's semi-literate subject. Activist (talk) 16:34, 12 February 2018 (UTC)