User:coldacid

Userboxes incl This user is an inclusionist. This editor is not an administrator and does not wish to be one. This user thinks that Wikipedia has become too bureaucratic. This user finds copyright paranoia disruptive. This user thinks fair use images should be allowed in userboxes. This user is a member of WikiProject Computing. This user is a proud member of WikiProject Toronto. This user is a member of WikiProject Userboxes.   This user is a member of WikiProject Microformats.

About me

Web This user has a website. @ This user can be reached by email at chris@coldacid.net T This user is a member of Toastmasters International. T This Toastmaster is a Competent Communicator. CC This user comes from Canada. This user supports the Pirate Party of Canada. en-ca-N This user is a native speaker of Canadian English. This user is or was a member of the Royal Canadian Army Cadets. prog-3 This user is an advanced programmer. KB This user asserts that a kilobyte is 210 bytes, not 103 bytes. This user likes to play Role-playing games.

Interests

This user is a bibliophile This user is interested in his or her family history. This user is interested in flags and emblems. This user is interested in maps and mapmaking. This user is interested in conworlding/conlanging. game dev This user is interested in computer and video game development. This user enjoys backpacking. This user is interested in hunting. This user is interested in politics.

If you want to know more about coldacid the person (as opposed to the Wikipedia editor) visit my website, in which you can find many interesting (and not so interesting) details about myself, as well as technical articles and works of fiction which I have painstakingly crafted. If you'd rather just know the part of me that lurks here and edits articles seemingly at random, please read on.

I'm an on-again off-again kind of editor, but I can really sink my jaws into some articles here. I've created and heavily revised a number of articles here, and have also created a variety of userboxes. The number one thing I'm working on at the moment is improving the Toastmasters International article.

I have my complaints and issues about Wikipedia (mostly related to bureaucracy and fair use paranoia) but I don't let that stop me from making my own improvements to the content. I've considered leaving the project in the past, and whenever I become a bit too melancholy, such thoughts are quick to return. As a font of information, Wikipedia would be so much better were it not for people of bureaucratic inclinations who are too heavily focused on the notion of notability, when rather they should focus on whether something is factual.

Wikipedia interests and activities

• Toastmasters International (help me make it a GA-rated article!)
• Toronto, Pickering, and historical townships and counties of Ontario
• Ad Astra convention (I'm on the convention committee), Anime North (staffer)
• Minor clean-up of pages (sweep, sweep)
• Userbox creation (sorry!)
• Making an ass of myself in discussions on controversial articles (not so sorry.)

All contributions

Pages I've started or contributed to heavily

This is not a complete list, and just because the article may be great (or crappy) now doesn't mean that I'm the reason for it. If I am responsible for such status, however, you'll see it bragged about below.

• City of Toronto Act (rewrite)
• Cure for Sanity (plus cover image)
• George Brown College
• OkCupid
• Port Union, Ontario
• Program Design Language
• Toastmasters International (rewrite; plus curriculum graph)
• {{User python-0}}
• {{oldmergefull}}

Former or minor interests

• Template:Holocene and other early civilization period templates
• Computer games
• Computer science and software engineering
• Big Eyes, Small Mouth and Tri-Stat

User subpages

• Userboxes by coldacid
• Complaints about Wikipedia

All subpages

Links

• Personal website, including programming articles and fiction by self
• LinkedIn profile
• Twitter