User:Spiffy sperry

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This user is a Christian. This user is Pro-Life. This user supports recycling. Secondhand smoke is one of this user's pet peeves. This user supports the ban on smoking in public places.

STL This user is a fan of the St. Louis Cardinals UIUCThis user is or was a student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. BScThis user has a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering. This user has completed a marathon.

This user plays the guitar. This user enjoys singing. This user has a baritone vocal range. This user was too slack to make Eagle Scout.

This user is interested in astronomy. $\sum _{k=1}^{\infty }{x^{k} \over k!}$This user loves problem solving. This user enjoys solving Sudoku puzzles. ?met?This user prefers metric units and cannot figure out why Americans and Brits have such a hard time with them.

I live in central Illinois, USA. I've been a Wikipedia editor since September 2005.

Shortcuts

• templates for user warnings: {{Multi notice links}}
• WP:RSPS - reliable & perennial sources
• WP:REFILL - tool for expanding citations
  • check for generic or incorrectly author names
  • check for deprecated "deadurl=y" parameter; change to "url-status=dead" or delete, since this is the default
  • if it adds default reference definition names (like "auto"), follow up edit with RefNamer to avoid duplicate reference errors for transcluded sections
• Help:Cite errors - categories showing articles that need attention
• advice regarding a "controversial" comment and the resulting media frenzy

Wiki projects

• Current
  • various pages related to tropical cyclones and potentially hazardous asteroids (mainly due to my obsession with spreadsheets)
  • presidential election info (e.g., polling and results) in 2012, 2016, 2020, and 2024
  • sports-related articles for my favorite teams, which has expanded to college basketball tournaments, NFL standings templates, and MLB rivalries.
• Past
  • environmental articles related to my former employment
  • adding sort keys to category labels (Wikipedia:Categorization#Category_sorting) - mostly for "List of" categories, so the 'L' section isn't crammed (now made easier by Template:DEFAULTSORT)
  • "wikifying" deadend pages (Special:Deadendpages) - remember the guidelines on linking!
  • General clean-up
    • Category:Articles requiring unit attention
    • fixing brackets and quotes (Wiki Syntax)
    • fixing double redirects (Special:DoubleRedirects) - apparently, there's a bot for this, so anything I do is a shameless way to pad my edit stats
  • County and Township articles for Illinois

Articles that make me chuckle

• Recursive acronym and Backronym
• Strategery and Truthiness
• More cow bell and The Ministry of Silly Walks
• Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo
• WP:HOLICTEST - WP:LAST - WP:SPIDER - WP:STUPID

External links

• Places I used to have time to contribute to:
  • Climate Audit
  • RealClimate
  • Environmental News Network (forum currently closed)
  • Watts Up With That