User:Ram-Man
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Commentary
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Hi, I'm an avid (Score: 212) Wikipedia supporter (since September, 2002), although I frequently take large amounts of time between short bursts of editing. Here I am most well known for having authored thousands of articles on U.S. cities and counties using the rambot and other automatic article generation techniques. I am a happily married male living in the U.S. near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
I have a B.S. degree in computer science from the Rochester Institute of Technology. I am employed as a software engineer (see: resume (http://www.cs.rit.edu/~dlr1225/resume)) and occasionally work part-time as a preacher in the Church of the Brethren denomination. I'm an amateur photographer, aquarist, woodworker/carpenter, chef, and gardener. I play chess as a hobby with an unofficial USCF rating of 1669.
Having a strong background in mathematics, I am naturally drawn to programming and statistics, which is part of the reason for the creation of the various geographic articles from gigabytes of raw public domain data. I also enjoy writing about topics that have local implications for my birthplace in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, such as the section on covered bridges. I also have an interest in health related topics partially due to my wife, an Occupational Therapist. One of my hobbies is as an aquarist, and so I have written many articles of a variety of freshwater fish species.
I'm pretty easygoing and don't mind emails from users with any type of question or comment for me. Feel free to email me (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Emailuser&target=Ram-Man). I check my mail more often than my user talk page.
I've recently been fortunate enough to be mentioned by name in a couple articles:
- WIRED Magazine: The Book Stops Here (http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.03/wiki.html)
- WIRED News: Wiki Becomes a Way of Life (http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,66814,00.html/wn_ascii)
Licensing
Articles
All English Wikipedia main, main talk, and template namespace articles or edits produced by Ram-Man are dual licensed as described below. Any other namespace (such as Wikipedia:) is excluded. This license is retroactive, however, I reserve the right to cease using the dual license at any time by removing this notice from my page. The most recent notice shall have priority. I encourage you to dual-license your contributions as well. Template:DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Tri-2.5 Template:WikimediaTextLicensing
Images
All images are released under terms of either the GNU FDL 1.2 or the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license (cc-by-sa version 2.0). It is up to you which license to choose, but I'd prefer if the dual-license is kept.
Animals:
Labradoodle Sitting
Fish:
Black Ghost Knifefish 1 -
Black Ghost Knifefish 2 -
Black Ruby Barb -
Gold Barb -
Plecostomus -
Red Empress Cichlid -
Silver Dollar -
Tiger Barb -
Tinfoil Barb
Food:
Pot of Chili
Places:
Verrazano Narrows Bridge
Things:
Wedding and Engagement Rings
Citations
The following is a rough citation template
- *Author's Last Name, First Name. "Title of specific article." ''Title of complete work''. ed. Editor Name(s) (City: Publisher, year), ##-##. URL: [http://www.address.com/path.html path.html] ISBN #-###-#####-#
- See also Wikipedia:Template messages/Sources of articles
Pictures
- Fish and Wildlife Service (http://pictures.fws.gov/)
- Department of Interior (http://www.doi.gov/oirm/photolib/)
- National Park Service (http://www.nps.gov/hafe/photo.htm)
- U.S. Geological Survey (http://www.usgs.gov/fact-sheets/photographic-library/photographic-library.html)
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/)