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I'm originally from Salt Lake City, but now live in the Boston area. I'm a computer programmer by profession. Linux and Unix are my preferred development platforms, and I program in Java, Perl, Korn shell, bash, and a handful of others.

Interests include:

• Geology
• Paleontology
• Celtic mythology, particularly Welsh.
• I'm learning Welsh

Miscellaneous Wikipedia Tasks

Besides updating some Welsh mythology pages, I seem to be fixing a lot (well, some) redirected links.

Pages I might be able to contribute to or help with:

• Salem, Massachusetts
• (Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links)

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• Wikipedia:Citing_sources
• Wikipedia:Merging and moving pages
• Wikipedia:Neutral point of view
• Correcting Vandalism, etc.
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  • Wikipedia:Vandalism
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Wikipedia Tasks

You can help improve the articles listed below! This list updates frequently, so check back here for more tasks to try. (See Wikipedia:Maintenance or the Task Center for further information.)

Fix spelling and grammar

• List of Shropshire County Cricket Club List A players
• Kamal Adli
• Plame affair grand jury investigation
• Zen Pencils
• Isobel Miller Kuhn

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Fix wikilinks

• Rhinobatos holcorhynchus
• Cairndale Hotel and Spa
• MySuper insurance
• Durgham Al-Maliki
• Association (ecology)

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Update with new information

• Zagreb Pride
• Pulmonary embolism
• Soundset Music Festival
• Non-voting members of the United States House of Representatives
• Water Engineers for the Americas

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Expand short articles

• Someshwar Fort
• Bishunpurwa (census code 216586)
• Bargajwa village
• Mathura, Bihar
• Auraia

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Check and add references

• 2010 United States Senate special election in Delaware
• Stachybotrys chartarum
• Stereophonics
• Isabel Ruffell
• Single (William Wei song)

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Fix original research issues

• LaserDisc
• North American integration
• Islamic world
• Chimaroke Nnamani
• Abdul Rasheed Baloch

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Improve lead sections

• Delinquency spiral
• Rugrats
• Seasonal effects on suicide rates
• Nothing (film)
• Orion (character)

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Add an image

• Acacia Prison
• Allahuddins Building
• Adams Park (Omaha, Nebraska)
• African Space Agency
• Abbamele

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Translate and clean up

• Fernando Holiday
• Poncé Gaudissard
• Spirit (supernatural entity)
• Toyouke-hime
• Battle of Shumshu

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Help counter systemic bias by creating new articles on important women.

Help improve popular pages, especially those of low quality.

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• My Edit Count
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