User:Vonkje

Hello,

I am Vonkje -- In Dutch, the word approximates the English word "Sparky" as in the character "Sparky-the-Penguin" in the comic strip "This Modern World" by Tom Tomorrow (aka Dan Perkins). I joined in April 2005.

In real life
Name: John C. Sloan

Qualifications: PhD Computer Science.

Day jobs: Post doctoral researcher at Florida Atlantic University, followed by job as an industrial mathematician in a data business. Currently retired.

Wikipedia (and real life) specialties: computer science, applied mathematics, discrete mathematics

Quality Control Issues
If there were four policies to improve the quality of Wikipedia entries they might be:
 * In addition to banning anonymous edits, use also real names.
 * Prohibit all self-citation -- At least one notable computer scientist stubbornly insisted on citing his own work. This introduced bias into articles in areas like concurrency that favored the actor model.  The policy on No Original Research needs to be strengthened here, lest I bore you with self-cites of my own published work in finite models and reliability.
 * Protect articles in mathematics and the sciences from the trolls.

Please post your comments to my talk (A.K.A. Discussion) page.

Quotes
"DONT FEED THE TROLLS!".

"Do not be tricked into equating unbiased thinking with uncritical thinking."
 * In Praise of Close-Mindedness -- A Manifesto for the Thoughtful Asshole

Links I use:

 * Help:Formula
 * How to write a Wikipedia article on Mathematics
 * WikiProject Mathematics

Templates I use
From Template messages:

Citation templates
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Template_messages/Sources_of_articles/Generic_citations

Page templates I use

 * 1) REDIRECT to other article