User:Superm401

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Hey! My name's Matt Flaschen, but I go by Superm401 around here. I'm from Wynnewood, Pennsylvania. I'm 23. I graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology in December 2010, with a BS in Computer Science. I'm currently in Philadelphia, working as a software engineer at Entech Consulting.

I am a Wikipedia administrator. Feel free to make requests on my talk page or on the administrators' noticeboard.

I am also the lead developer on ProveIt, a new tool to make Wikipedia referencing easy.

2012-01-23

• News and notes: SOPA blackout, Orange partnership

• In the news: World watched as Wikipedia shut down for SOPA blackout

• WikiProject report: The Golden Horseshoe: WikiProject Toronto

• Featured content: Interview with Muhammad Mahdi Karim and the best of the week

• Arbitration report: Four open cases, proposed decision in Muhammad images, AUSC call for applications

• Technology report: Looking ahead to MediaWiki 1.19 and related issues

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Picture of the day

Non-uniform rational B-spline Image: Greg L Archive – More featured pictures...

Convenience Links

• Watchlist
• In-progress conversations
• Template:Opentask
• Image tagging notes
• Wikipedia error messages
• Custom Javascript
• Custom CSS
• Sandbox
• Sandbox2
• User:Superm401/decimal to binary

Wikipedia Quotes

• "There wasn't a big encyclopedia, then people were allowed to edit it just for fun. There was nothing, and people were allowed to create an encyclopedia." -- Notinasnaid
• "At the end of the day we are all flawed meatbots trying to build a great encylopedia together." -- R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine)
• "I'm addicted to reading Wikipedia, it's the only encyclopedia that grows faster than you can read :D" -- Taraborn

Contributions

I'm mostly a wikignome. Besides admin duties, I do verification and referencing, and update diagrams and illustrations to use SVG, an easily editable vector graphics format. Below are a few of my other contributions.

Creations

Articles

1. W.R. Grace Building (stub)
2. John Lovewell (Junior) (stub)
3. Damballa (company)
4. Nissan Altra
5. Qassem Suleimani (stub)
6. Alan Joyce (executive) (stub)
7. Somchai Wongsawat
8. Cavanagh Company
9. LaserMotive
10. Air India Flight 812
11. Meyer v. Grant

Templates

1. Template:rlk
2. Template:email
3. Template:AdopterRow
4. Template:Afd2 starter
5. Template:Afd3 starter

Improvements

1. A Dream Play
2. Golden angle
3. Bruce Harris
4. Arthur Gonzalez
5. John Granville

Awards

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  For your edits of utmost quality, and super-duper sleuthing skills - in particular, this one made on 25 August 2005 which ultimately lead to the new layout for the reference desk! --HC

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  For your due diligence in every endevour to which you attach your effort. We've never seen your activities directed towards anything but the betterment of this project. Our compliments to your energy and mannerism. You seem to make friends far more easily than others would wish for themseves . --Heidi and Joe

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  I award this The Original Barnstar to Superm401 for his amazing work on Wikipedia:Mirrors and Forks. -- WB 23:48, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

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  For adopting a user I User:Swirlex give you this adopting Barnstar.

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  For exemplary performance at the Resource Exchange, tirelessly delivering the reliable sources on which this encyclopedia depends, please accept this award. :) Given for your assistance in providing sources to complete the Lincoln Park (Jersey City, New Jersey) article. -- Jim Miller

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  Thank you for adopting me. Here is a cookie to thank you. Legolover26 (talk) 21:14, 20 September 2011 (UTC)