User:Timdwilliamson

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Busy old fool, unruly sun, Why dost thou thus, Through windows, and through curtains call on us? — John Donne, from The Sunne Rising

Bio
I was born in Mobile, Alabama and lived my entire life (so far) in various suburban and rural areas east of Mobile in Baldwin County. I attended Loxley Elementary School, Loxley Junior High and Robertsdale High School, graduating in 1988 with an Advanced Diploma. I attended the University of South Alabama in Mobile, and graduated in 1992 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts with concentrations in graphic design and marketing. After a year working as a restaurant manager, I was hired by the Mobile Press-Register newspaper as a graphic designer. In 1995 I married Darla R. Lee of Semmes, Alabama. I spent twenty years with the Press-Register designing newspaper and direct mail advertising and acting as a liaison between technical support, software vendors and our in-house design staff. During that time, I also freelanced for a range of clients, including furniture stores, churches and an adult film distribution company. When Advance Publications reorganized their Alabama publishing arm as Alabama Media Group in 2012, I was asked to stay on as a marketing and web advertising designer. In 2013, I left to become a full time stay-at-home parent to my son, who was born in August of that year.

As of 3 March, 2020 I’ve been a Wikipedia editor for 15 years.

Articles Significantly Edited

 * Wales West RV Resort & Light Railway
 * Samar Badawi
 * Coloring book
 * Johanna Basford
 * Blackwater River (Florida)

Articles Created

 * Ethylene-vinyl acetate - Created 2005
 * NGC 676 - Created 2020
 * Marat Arakelian - Created 2020

All contributions
Contributions/Timdwilliamson

What are user pages and how does one create them?

 * User:Timdwilliamson/WWLR
 * User:Timdwilliamson/NGC 676
 * User:Timwilliamson/City of Foley Museum & Archives and Model Train Exhibit
 * User:Timdwilliamson/Test railway map
 * User:Timdwilliamson/SamarBadawiArrest
 * User:Timdwilliamson/Menu
 * User:Timdwilliamson/drafts/X11 colors
 * User:Timdwilliamson/Basford citations
 * User:Timdwilliamson/visited
 * User:Timdwilliamson/SRCCIT
 * User:Timdwilliamson/Marat Arakelian

User Page Design Center
Spruce up your user page!

Alerts! Alerts!

 * WikiProject Alerts

CSS
Why is this here?
 * User:timdwilliamson/common.css

Other Wiki Userpages

 * My Commons user page and WikiCommons Uploads
 * Wiktionary user page
 * Wikiquote user page
 * Wikinews user page
 * Wikiversity user page
 * Wikisource user page
 * Wikibooks user page
 * Wikidata user page
 * Wikivoyage user page
 * Wikispecies user page
 * Mediawiki user page
 * Meta-wiki user page

To Do

 * Bahamas Fracture Seismic Zone
 * 3 earthquakes in a week still ‘normal seismic activity’
 * Earthquake near Florida border tied for Alabama’s 13th largest
 * Moscow Planetarium
 * history
 * Arakelian galaxies
 * link
 * Frank Key - add info from Drabblecast podcast
 * Laura Adorkor Kofi
 * African Universal Church
 * Florida Times-Union
 * Encyclopedia of African American Religions
 * www.lauraakofi.org
 * Faisal Saeed al Mutar Skepticality 221
 * Edinburgh_Festival_Fringe add info about Johanna Basford
 * Secular Policy Institute info for Edwina Rogers
 * 5 Rivers Delta Resource Center
 * Central Baldwin Middle School
 * François Clemmons add StoryCorps quotes and info

Useful links

 * Quick_directory
 * New Userbox Announcements
 * Userbox Requests
 * The Graphics Lab
 * Category:Wikipedia_requested_photographs_in_Alabama
 * Template:Convert
 * Template:Verify source
 * Cite web
 * Infobox Person - Parameters
 * Userbox template
 * Useful template for citing a podcast
 * User Talk messages
 * What does that acronym/initialism mean?
 * How to cite various source types
 * Page view stats
 * Typographia Alsatiae
 * A Complete Guide to Heraldry

Users of note

 * Susan Gerbic
 * Tim Farley, What's the Harm
 * Felicia Day
 * Loren Coleman, Cryptozoologist
 * Stephen Barrett, Quackwatch
 * Richard Dawkins
 * Brian Dunning of Skeptoid
 * Russell Glasser of the Atheist Experience
 * Sasha Grey
 * Bernard Haisch, Fringe Physicist
 * John Hodgeman
 * Grant Imahara
 * Brian Josephson, Creationist
 * Eric Mona
 * Derek Muller, Creator of the YouTube channel Veritasium.
 * Randall Munroe, Cartoonist
 * Phil Plait, Astronomer
 * Paul Schenck, Christian Lobbyist
 * Seedfeeder, Artist
 * Mike Selinker
 * Karl Shuker, Cryptozoologist
 * Dana Ullman, Homeopathy
 * Marcus Schierbecker, editing Faisel al Mutar article
 * NobuTamura - paleoillustrator

WikiFriends

 * Etamni
 * Susan Gerbic
 * باسم

Userboxes
What is a Userbox?

Note: these are just userboxes I made. They may not apply to me personally.

My custom header template

Web Safe Colors
In the table below, each color code listed is a shorthand for the RGB value; for example, code 609 is equivalent to RGB code 102-0-153 or HEX code #660099.

X11 color names
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