User:RoyLeban

Yes, this is my real name. In 2009, I created this Wikipedia account to replace an anonymous account I previously used, in order to edit the Ambigram page and create a couple of pages related to those edits (a biography of a living person and a page about a company). I thought that, by using my real name, I would defuse any attacks where people claimed I was creating pages for my own benefit, associated with the company, etc. Sadly, I was wrong.

I hate it when people think they own Wikipedia pages. I really try not to do that myself. Well more than a decade after becoming non-anonymous, I still feel that anonymous editing is one of the worst things about Wikipedia.

My interests on Wikipedia have always been widely varied. In 2009, I spent a lot of time on the Ambigram page and did a lot of work to improve it, fix inaccuracies, and add additional historical information. A few others helped and one person got in the way, so most of those changes were, sadly, lost.

I also created two related pages for Robert Petrick and FlipScript. I happen to have an invented an ambigram-like game, WIM, which is listed on the Scrabble variants page (strictly speaking, it's not really a Scrabble variant, nor is the other game listed -- they are letter tile games). Information on WIM is at www.almanaq.com/wim.

My blogs

 * www.thisuser.com - design & usability
 * www.thisdev.com - development & execution
 * www.thistangent.com - musings & speculation

My companies

 * Puzzazz, a puzzle technology company with a best-in-class iOS app for puzzles
 * Almanaq, a puzzle and game design and publishing company, publisher of my puzzle books The Librarian's Almanaq and The Conjurer's Almanaq: Escape This Book

Personal home page

 * www.royleban.com

Useful Wikipedia stuff

 * Don't demolish the house while it's still being built aka WP:DEMOLISH
 * There is no deadline aka WP:DEADLINE
 * Potential, not just current state aka WP:POTENTIAL
 * The world will not end tomorrow aka WP:CHILL
 * What isn't grounds for article deletion aka WP:WIGAD
 * Give an article a chance aka WP:CHANCE
 * Ownership of articles aka WP:OWN
 * Do not disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point aka WP:POINT
 * Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions aka WP:ATA