User:Tim Starling

I'm a PhD student studying quantum computation at the University of Melbourne in Australia. I've been a wikipedian since October 11, 2002. My email address is ua.ude.bleminu.scisyhp@gnilrats.t, or something like that.

My time zone, converting from PST (-8) to AEST (+10):

My Votes for deletion edit summary notation

"rm(d) [[xxxx]]"

xxxx[?] was removed from VFD because it has been deleted

"rm(r) [[xxxx]]"

xxxx[?] was removed from VFD because the issue has been resolved: by consensus, it is no longer considered deletable. This is shorter than a summary Kingturtle recently (June 17) used to indicate the same thing: "took [[Neutrosophy]] off this list. but i did NOT delete the article. the article will remain. if you want it deleted, offer it up again to this list."

"cm [[xxxx]]"

I commented on whether or not xxxx[?] should be deleted

"+[[xxxx]]" or "[[xxxx]]"

new entry

Java Haiku

cd jdk

rm -r *.*

garbage collection

Contributions I've started the following pages (not including stubs):

• Light-dependent resistor
• Computational physics
• Band gap
• Aluminium gallium arsenide
• List of compounds
• Laser diode
• Varistor
• Electron hole
• Gallium arsenide
• Valence band
• University of New South Wales
• Isaac Newton Britannica subpages:
  • Isaac Newton/Early Life and Achievements
  • Isaac Newton/The First 15 Years as Lucasian Professor
  • Isaac Newton/Authoring Principia
  • Isaac Newton/Later Life -- The Mint and the Royal Society
• Torque/Angular momentum proof
• Effective mass
• Magnetic field
• Fermi energy
• Electrical conduction
• Albertanism[?] but that didn't really get off the ground. See the Albertanism archive (http://starling.f2g.net/albertanism)
• Ben Folds Five -- has anyone ever noticed that "G minor on C" rhymes with "Jackson Cannery"?
• Carl Gustav Jakob Jacobi
• William Prout
• Henry Briggs
• Evangelista Torricelli
• Brook Taylor
• Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
• Marie Cornu
• George Gabriel Stokes
• Willebrord Snell
• Hippolyte Fizeau
• Leon Foucault
• Myxomatosis
• Win32s
• Monte Carlo method (I effectively started it)
• Lake Macquarie
• Morisset

And made a significant contribution to these pages (including rewrites):

• Field effect transistor
• Photodiode
• Chemical compound
• Conservation of mass
• Conduction band
• Boltzmann constant
• Electric field
• Torque
• Potash
• Sodium chloride
• Fermi-Dirac statistics
• Direct bandgap
• Indirect bandgap
• Electrodynamics
• Linear polarization
• Circular polarization
• Elliptical polarization
• Muonium
• Earl Doherty
• David Brewster
• Frankenstein
• GDI
• List of computing topics
• T-symmetry
• Random walk Monte Carlo
• Music lessons
• Bright
• History of East Timor
• SPC
• Wikipedia:Press coverage
• Albedo

I compiled the data for the inorganic property tables and the Australian states tables and their associated images.

Images I've created:

• :Image:PHEMT_cross_section.png
• :Image:Darlington_configuration.png
• :Image:Moment_arm.png
• :Image:Semiconductor_band_structure_(lots_of_bands).png
• :Image:accelerating electron.png
• :Image:Articles per day 20030418.png
• :Image:Articles per day 20030418 scale 200.png

To do:

• Rewrite Fed Standard articles, e.g.
  • Fresnel zone
  • Group delay
  • Coherence length
  • Propagation
  • Reflection coefficient
• Hassle Graham

Qualifications

For some reason I can express an opinion on civil engineering and no-one will bat an eyelid. But if I express an opinion on law, people tend to gasp and mumble something about not being qualified. I disagree with the basic principle of needing a degree to be allowed to express an opinion. I have read stuff, I am reasonably intelligent, and I enjoy conversing with lawyers. Deal with it.

Perhaps lawyers simply wish to scare people away from legal discussion, to encourage a dependence on their profession. Expressing an opinion about law carries qualitatively the same exposure to negligence torts as expressing an opinion on civil engineering, travel insurance or computer programming.

My legal "qualifications" are a ~30 hour introductory course, described here: [1] (http://www.student.unsw.edu.au/handbook/courses/GENL5020.shtml). I am not a lawyer.

Other stuff

I've written a little piece of JavaScript which wikifies chemical formulas. Details at Formula wikifier

I wrote a search and replace bot, called Timbot. It's not allowed. (obscure Kibology reference) I'm doing it on the server side instead.

User:Tim Starling/Mapping has been moved back to Talk:Cartographic Congress. I had intended the subpage to be just an archive of my work, but since it still has active discussion, it should be in the talk namespace.

/Inorganic compound project.
/Protected page list
/Greetings
In progress: a new Special:Movepage (http://starling.f2g.net/move)

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