User:Tim Pierce



Tim Pierce is a Boston-area software engineer and recovering Usenetter.

In a former life I was moderately well known for kibitzing on Usenet software, being a cranky contrarian and reading bad pornography.

I am still not, when last I checked, an L.A. session guitarist or a basketball player for the Arizona State Sun Devils.

To date I am still unimpressed with the Arctic Monkeys.

WikiFriends include, , , , , , and. Jay and I used to have a mighty fine feud going on, but it turns out he's really a pretty cool guy.

Wikipedia Contributions
My contributions to Wikipedia include:
 * I negotiated a substantial rewrite of the Jewish Defense League article during a December 2005 revert war that both parties accepted.
 * PhotoCatBot, a bot that categorizes generic photo requests and promotes easier navigation of Category:Wikipedia requested photographs and subcategories.
 * Recently I've become enthusiastic about contributing photographs to Wikipedia, mostly by scouring articles under Category:Wikipedia requested photographs for practical contributions I can make. Articles I have contributed images to include:


 * Abiel Smith School
 * Berklee College of Music
 * Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
 * Boston Children's Museum
 * Boston Tea Party
 * Charles Playhouse
 * Citi Performing Arts Center
 * Congress Street Fire Station
 * Dearborn School
 * Dillaway School
 * Dudley Station Historic District
 * Dudley Square (MBTA station)
 * Edward H. Haskell Home for Nurses
 * Eliot Burying Ground
 * Eliot Congregational Church
 * Frederick Douglass Square Historic District
 * Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
 * Hibernian Hall (Boston, Massachusetts)
 * InterContinental Boston
 * John B. Gough House
 * Lawrence Model Lodging Houses
 * Massachusetts Avenue (MBTA Orange Line station)
 * Massachusetts gubernatorial election, 2014
 * Massachusetts School of Art
 * Metropolitan Theatre
 * Millennium Place
 * Mission Hill, Boston
 * New Riding Club
 * North Terminal Garage
 * Occupy Wall Street
 * The Riviera
 * Roxbury Highlands Historic District
 * Russia Wharf
 * Timothy Hoxie House
 * Students House
 * Union Boat Club


 * Abraham Watson House
 * Alewife (MBTA station)
 * Alewife Brook Reservation
 * Alpheus Mead House
 * American Net and Twine Company Factory
 * Andrew Newman House
 * Asa Ellis House
 * Athenaeum Press
 * Anna's Taqueria
 * Beth Israel Synagogue (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
 * Bigelow Street Historic District
 * Blake and Knowles Steam Pump Company National Register District
 * Bottle House Block
 * Building at 102-104 Inman Street
 * Building at 106-108 Inman St
 * Building at 1707-1709 Cambridge Street
 * Building at 1715-1717 Cambridge Street
 * Building at 42 Edward J. Lopez Avenue
 * Buildings at 110-112 Inman Street
 * Buildings at 15-17 Lee Street
 * Benjamin Hoyt House
 * Carter's Ink Company
 * Cheney Read House
 * Deane-Williams House
 * e.e. cummings House
 * East Cambridge Historic District
 * East Cambridge Savings Bank
 * Edmund Reardon House
 * F. A. Kennedy Steam Bakery


 * The First Parish in Cambridge
 * George D. Birkhoff House
 * George Gale House (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
 * Hastings Square Historic District
 * Hasty Pudding Club
 * Hooper-Eliot House
 * Inman Square
 * Issac Fay House
 * Josiah Mason, Jr. House
 * Kendall Square
 * Lechmere (MBTA station)
 * Lechmere Point Corporation Houses
 * Lechmere Square
 * Lesley University
 * Maple Avenue Historic District (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
 * Meigs Elevated Railway
 * Norfolk Street Historic District
 * Odd Fellows Hall (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
 * Old Cambridgport Historic District
 * Porcellian Club
 * Rufus Lamson House
 * Salem-Auburn Streets Historic District
 * St. John's Roman Catholic Church
 * Upper Magazine Street Historic District
 * Urban Rowhouse (26-32 River Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts)
 * W. A. Mason House
 * Wilbur Theatre
 * Winter Street Historic District


 * Central Square Historic District (Waltham, Massachusetts)
 * Christ Episcopal Church (Waltham, Massachusetts)
 * Eastern Middlesex County Second District Court
 * Francis Buttrick Library
 * First Congregational Church (Waltham, Massachusetts)
 * Francis Buttrick House
 * Gale-Banks House
 * Hager-Mead House
 * Gilbrae Inn
 * Newton Street Bridge
 * Prospect House (Waltham, Massachusetts)
 * US Post Office-Waltham Main
 * Waltham High School
 * Waltham Water Works Shop


 * A. L. Lovejoy House
 * Abby Kelley Foster Charter Public School
 * Anawan Club Clubhouse and Caretaker's House‎
 * Arlington Center Historic District
 * Arlington High School (Arlington, Massachusetts)
 * Art Longsjo
 * Arthur J. DiTommaso Memorial Bridge
 * Barneyville Historic District
 * Bedford, Massachusetts
 * Benjamin Caryl House
 * Boston and Maine Railroad
 * Bowers School (Clinton, Massachusetts)
 * Brigham Cemetery
 * Brookside Historic District
 * Burncoat High School
 * Butler School (Lowell, Massachusetts)
 * Capitol Theater Building
 * Carlisle, Massachusetts
 * The Carroll School
 * Charles Follen
 * Colburn School (Lowell, Massachusetts)
 * Col. Adelbert Mossman House
 * Corcoran School
 * District No. 5 School (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts)
 * E. Brown House
 * Farnum Block
 * Felton Street School
 * First Presbyterian Society Meeting House
 * First Unitarian Church (Somerville, Massachusetts)
 * Follen Church Society-Unitarian Universalist
 * General John Nixon Elementary School
 * George Carpenter House
 * George Loring House
 * Glenwood Cemetery (Maynard, Massachusetts)
 * Harry B. Ingraham Three-Decker
 * History of Uxbridge, Massachusetts
 * Horseneck Beach State Reservation
 * Hortonville Historic District
 * House at 35 Temple Street
 * Howe Building
 * Israel Loring Elementary School
 * James McPartland Three-Decker
 * Jerathmell Bowers House
 * John Brown Bell
 * John Brown IV House
 * John Cotting House


 * Lexington, Massachusetts
 * Littleton, Massachusetts
 * Lowell Post Office
 * Luther Store
 * Luther's Corner
 * Maplewood Cemetery
 * Marlborough Center Historic District
 * Marlborough Country Club
 * Martin Farm (Rehoboth, Massachusetts)
 * Martin House and Farm
 * Maynard, Massachusetts
 * Minuteman Bikeway
 * Montachusett Regional Transit Authority
 * Moses Taft House (Uxbridge, Massachusetts)
 * Nathan Bowen House
 * Norton Abrasives
 * Norton House (Swansea, Massachusetts)
 * Old Schwamb Mill
 * Old Cemetery (Somerville, Massachusetts)
 * Pan Burying Ground
 * Robin Hill Cemetery
 * Rocklawn Cemetery
 * S. A. Hall House
 * Sentinel & Enterprise
 * Shrewsbury High School (Massachusetts)
 * Somerville High School (Massachusetts)
 * South Common Historic District
 * Southborough, Massachusetts
 * Stow, Massachusetts
 * Thacher Island
 * US Post Office (Lowell, Massachusetts)
 * Uxbridge, Massachusetts
 * Warren Fox Building
 * Wesley Davis Three-Decker
 * Westborough High School
 * Westborough State Hospital
 * William P. Mason House
 * Worcester, Massachusetts


 * All Souls Chapel (Poland Spring, Maine)
 * Battle of Norridgewock
 * Center Meeting House and Common
 * Eaton School (Norridgewock, Maine)
 * Father Rale's War
 * First Congregational Church, United Church of Christ
 * Hiram Ramsdell House
 * Little Red Schoolhouse (Farmington, Maine)
 * Maine State Building
 * Marrett House
 * Mercer Union Meetinghouse
 * Mount Blue (Maine)
 * National Register of Historic Places listings in Cumberland County, Maine
 * New Sharon Congregational Church
 * Norridgewock
 * Rumford Point Congregational Church
 * Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village
 * Sébastien Rale
 * Skowhegan Fire Station
 * Smalls Falls
 * Tumbledown Mountain
 * Union Church (Naples, Maine)
 * Union Church (Phillips, Maine)
 * Weld Town Hall (photo on National Register of Historic Places listings in Franklin County, Maine)
 * West Paris, Maine


 * Ace Atkins
 * Andre Royo
 * Anita Hill
 * Ann McLane Kuster
 * Bernard A. Harris, Jr.
 * Brendan Emmett Quigley
 * Carol Shea-Porter
 * Charles Ogletree
 * Chris Van Allsburg
 * Colin Van Ostern
 * Dan Kelly (musician)
 * Donna Soucy
 * Elizabeth Warren
 * Hillary Clinton
 * Janet Evanovich
 * Jim Braude
 * Jim True-Frost
 * Keyboard Cat
 * Laurence Canter
 * Lou D'Allesandro
 * Maggie Hassan
 * Margery Eagan
 * Michael K. Williams
 * Michelle Obama
 * Morris Dees
 * Paul Kelly (musician)
 * Samantha Buck
 * Scott Lively
 * Sonja Sohn
 * Sophie Trudeau
 * Tim Kaine
 * Will Shortz


 * 2010 Times Square car bombing attempt
 * Adam Brown Block
 * Adolph Lomb House
 * Atlantic white-sided dolphin
 * Best Kept Secret (film)
 * Browncroft Historic District
 * Cathedral of St. Joseph (Hartford, Connecticut)
 * Chester Dewey School No. 14
 * Cox Building
 * East Avenue Historic District
 * Emmanuel Presbyterian Church (Rochester, New York)
 * English Evangelical Church of the Reformation and Parish House
 * Fraunces Tavern
 * George Tiller
 * German United Evangelical Church Complex
 * Godspeed You! Black Emperor
 * H. C. Cohen Company Building-Andrews Building
 * Hildreth-Lord-Hawley Farm
 * Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, 2016
 * Jewish Young Men's and Women's Association
 * Kirstein Building
 * Linden-South Historic District
 * Rochester Savings Bank
 * ROFLCon
 * Same-sex marriage in Massachusetts
 * Sibley Triangle Building
 * Thomas Youngs House
 * University Club (Rochester, New York)
 * Vehicle fire

Wikipedia photography projects

 * User:Twp/Drafts/WikiProject Photo Requests -- draft of a guideline for organizing and cleaning up photo request templates.
 * User:Twp/Photo Cleanup Drive - draft proposal for a Photo Cleanup Drive, to kick up some enthusiasm for adding missing photos