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Nate Silva

Hi, I'm Nate. My primary contributions are copyediting and finding pages that should be deleted. I've also been known to shrink large graphics with pngcrush (http://pmt.sourceforge.net/pngcrush/) to save Wikipedia a few bytes. I've written several pages about my hometown, Portland, Oregon.

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Table of contents

1 Pages I've worked on

2 Pet peeves

3 Favorite subjects (no, I'm not an expert on these)

4 Favorite advice for using Wikipedia

Pages I've worked on

Devanagari
Henry F. Phillips
Largest mobile phone companies, T-Mobile, Vodafone
Latin alphabet: created "letter graphics" for A-Z (unfortunately not pngcrushed)
Portland, Oregon, Metropolitan Area Express (Portland, Oregon) and MAX, Portland International Airport, Portland Streetcar
S&P 500
Tram
United States Congress (all subpages for "non-voting members")
Unit test
Urban growth boundary and UGB
Vancouver, Washington

Pet peeves

"Hedging" by making articles purposely vague ("Some people believe...", "Many people would say that...").
Captializing every Noun.
Huge lists.
Linking every possible[?] word. Relevant words should be linked; for everything else there's the search function! (and Wikipedia's not Everything2)

Favorite subjects (no, I'm not an expert on these)

Favorite advice for using Wikipedia

In Mozilla Firebird, create a bookmark to the following URL: /w/wiki.phtml?search=%s. In the bookmark properties set the keyword to w. Now you can instantly search Wikipedia by typing w subject in your address bar. If you press Alt+Enter you'll even get the Wikipedia page in a new tab.

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