User:Spiffy sperry

This user is a Christian. PL 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 UIUC This user is or was a student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This user has completed a marathon!!! This user enjoys football.

This user plays the guitar. This user enjoys singing. This user has a baritone vocal range. EAG 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 have such a hard time with them.

This user is proud to be a Wikipedian. This user lives in the U.S. State of Illinois This user has reviewer rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify)

I live in Illinois, USA, where I work at a state government agency. I have been interested in Wikipedia since June 2004, and a contributor since September 2005.

Past Wiki projects

• 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
• various pages related to tropical cyclones (mainly due to my obsession with spreadsheets)
• County and Township articles for Illinois

Articles that make me chuckle

• Recursive acronym and Backronym
• Strategery and More cow bell
• The Colbert Report and Truthiness
• Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo
• WP:HOLICTEST - WP:LAST - WP:SPIDER - WP:STUPID

External links

• my Yahoo! LAUNCHcast station - listen to music I like (no guarantees)
• Places I used to have time to contribute to:
  • Climate Audit
  • RealClimate
  • Environmental News Network (forum currently closed)