User:Xtifr

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Hi, I'm Christopher Waters from the San Francisco Bay Area. My nickname "Xtifr", which puzzles many people, was given to me as an Xmas present, years ago. Most people pronounce it "eks-tuh-fer", but I'm not picky. People call me Chris, Christopher, Xtifr or even "X"; I'm happy with any of those. Just don't call me "Shirley"! :)

I'm a third-generation science fiction fan, and a second-generation computer programmer. New words probably need to be coined just to describe how geeky that makes me, I know. I used to fight my geeky side, but as I've gotten older, I've come to accept and appreciate it. My userboxes are over to the right, hidden.

Magic link to my subpages

General

 * disambiguation cleanup
 * PROD patrol (saved articles at /PROD)
 * (re)categorization, especially musicians and musical groups
 * Listification of categories scheduled for conversion (done with Emacs)
 * Internet Archive collection templates (still in planning stage)

Music

 * The Radiators, a great band from New Orleans
 * support/maintain/enhance
 * Band That Allow Taping general (re)organization.
 * Populating new Category:Taper-friendly musicians and Category:Taper-friendly musical groups

Other

 * Organizing and cleanup articles on former constellations and other astronomical topics.
 * I seem to be being roped into helping with Tom Holt, a British humourist

Completed

 * Created Category:Musicians of New Orleans
 * Added "Notable_instruments" field to for compatibility with WP:GUITAR standards
 * Added "Landscape" option to for better display of wide, short images.

Random stuff

 * The Dangers of overcategorization, link to a revision of Cindy Crawford with over 100 categories.