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"Relax, it's not a cabal, it's a dictatorship" -- Ram-Man
Commentary
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) and occasionally work part-time as a preacher at the church that I attend 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 1543.
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.
I've recently been fortunate enough to be mentioned by name in a couple articles:
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.
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
