User:Dgw

I'm finally getting back into this! Awesome! I started college in September 2011, and now I often pull up Wikipedia or Huggle for a bit as a break from homework. Did I mention that I think it's awesome?

Tuvok's status: Offline

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I'm Voyagerfan5761, known as "Tuvok" in my signature (a symptom of my love for Tim Russ' character on Star Trek: Voyager). I started editing here back in April 2006, and have been hooked ever since. Wikipedia has jeopardized my high school career more than once (</hyperbole>).

I am obviously very much into Star Trek: Voyager (this I've already mentioned), and not-so-obviously into technical editing and dabbling in various programming languages like JavaScript and PHP. I also like to mess around in CSS and HTML, plus helping out a bit at the Support Desk on MediaWiki.org. Most of the work I do here is minor cleanup stuff, with some recent changes and new pages patrol sessions along the way.

I get a lot of questions about my username, so let me explain a bit. The first time I ever signed up for an account anywhere, really, was on Neopets in 2002. Since "voyagerfan" was taken (I was a Voyager fan by the age of 11), I appended the current Hebrew year at that time to the username I wanted, and it was available. Since registering for Neopets, I've registered at dozens of other sites, including here, all with the same username. A Google search for my username brings up only results related to me, which is great for vanity searching. :P

Much of my info can be found in my userboxes below. (That's my excuse for being lazy and not writing more up here. :D )

"...You may say, I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope some day you'll join us, and the world will be as one..." (John Lennon)

Projects

Userboxes

I have created a few humble userboxes, mostly by imitation (I freely admit). If you're interested, I've listed them on a subpage.

Dan Broida

I am currently researching information on Dan Broida (the founder of Sigma-Aldrich Corporation in St. Louis, MO) to write a biography. To contribute to the project, go to the project page. To ask questions about the project, go to the project talk page.

This page

I also really, really have to give this userpage an overhaul... It's really disorganized. Vulcans hate can't tolerate clutter. :P

Web Presences

For a list of my other Web presences, check out my Web Presences page.

Userboxes

Now for some information, distributed via userboxes:

About me

This user has been on Wikipedia for 18 years, 5 months and 12 days.

12,000*+

This user has made over 12,000* contributions to Wikipedia.

This user has been helping the Internet not suck since March 24, 2006.

This editor is an Experienced Editor and is entitled to display this Service Badge.

This user tries to do the right thing. If he makes a mistake, please let him know.

16This user is 16 years old.

12th Grade

This user is in 12th Grade.

This user has visited 28 of the 50 United States.28

5This user has visited 5 of the 205 countries in the world.

STAR TREKDgw is a fan of Star Trek: Voyager.VOY

STAR TREKDgw is a fan of Star Trek: The Next Generation.TNG

STAR TREKDgw is a fan of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.DS9

This user is Jewish.

Neat!

This user is intrigued by the dietary laws of Kashrut.

This user enjoys photography.

This wikipedian is involved in FIRST Robotics

USThis user uses American English.

USage decline

This user uses American English, but is appalled at its rapid and continuing deterioration.

This user is not British, but can speak with a British accent.

en-USThis user is a native speaker of American English.

{{Wiki}}This user can write in the MediaWiki language.

AIM-AbleThis user understands AIM talk perfectly well, but does not seriously use it. Ever.

əThis user is a Grammar Nazi.

Computers

This user contributes using Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition.

This Windows user has experienced one or more Blue Screens of Death.

This user uses Microsoft Windows under duress.

F@HThis user crunches numbers with Folding@Home.

This user BOINCs
as voyagerfan5761.

This user contributes using Firefox.

This user thinks an explorer can't be better than a fox!

Notepad++This user contributes using Notepad++.

css-2This user is an intermediate Cascading Style Sheets user.

<html>This user can write HTML.

js-1This user is a beginning JavaScript programmer.

W3CThis user believes in compliance with W3C standards.

PHP-1This user is a beginning PHP programmer.

re-1This user writes regular expressions at a basic level.

This user had a number of bugs and votes reported at Bugzilla. You can report yours too.

Q	This user's internet service provider is Qwest.

This user uses Google as a primary search engine.

This user uses Wikipedia as a primary point of reference.

This user uses Gmail as a primary email service.

This user contributes using a laptop.

This user contributes using a wireless connection.

BBThis user contributes using a broadband connection.

C-0This person does not understand C (or does not want to program in C).

Grammar

they
he or sheThis user considers the singular they to be substandard English usage.

snukThis user says snuck.

byThe passive voice may be used by this user.

to¦goThis user chooses to sometimes use split infinitives.

…in.Ending a sentence with a preposition is something that this user is okay with.

mankindThis user supports the use of gender-neutral language.

man-
kindRegarding gender, this user prefers the vernacular, not what is politically correct.

to
too
twoThis user thinks that too many people have no idea how to use words that they should have learned in grade two.

which & thatThis user knows how to use which and that correctly.

less & fewerThis user understands the difference between less & fewer.

whoThis user prefers using who for both the object and subject case. Who does it hurt to simplify things?

if & whetherThis user knows how to use "if" and "whether" correctly.

their
there
they'reThis user thinks that there are too many people who don’t know that they're worse than their own children at spelling!

your
you'reThis user thinks that if your grammar is incorrect, then you're in need of help.

than
thenThis user understands the difference between using "than" and "then."

“,;:’This user is a punctuation stickler.

.  TheThis user puts two spaces after a period.

A, B, and
A and BThis user uses the serial comma unless its inclusion is confusing.

itsThis user is a native speaker of Itsekiri.

its
it'sIt's really not that hard to use each word in its proper manner.

itsThis user understands the difference between its (of it) and it's (it is or it has).

’sThi's user know's that not every word that end's with s need's an apostrophe and will remove misused apostrophe's from Wikipedia with extreme prejudice.

…This user is addicted to ellipses and has been known to use them indiscriminately...

Majority ≠ right

This user recognizes that even if 300,000,000 people make the same mistake, it's still a mistake.

Wikipedia

vn-23This user page has been vandalized 23 times.

vn-5This user's talk page has been vandalized 5 times.

<sum>:1This user believes that every edit should have a summary.

This user scored 90010523 on the Wikipediholic test (revision 163713069).

This user is not a Wikipedia administrator but would like to be one someday.

This user uses Lupin's navigation popups.

This user reverts vandalism in the blink of an eye with Twinkle!

This user welcomes new users with Twinkle!

{{tone}}

This user tags articles for maintenance with Twinkle!

Warning to Vandals: This user is armed with VandalProof.

This user edits with the gadget wikEd.

This user is a recent changes patroller.

This user is a member of the
Counter-Vandalism Unit.

CUTFThis user is a member of the Cleanup Taskforce. His desk is located here.

This user is a participant in WikiProject Spam.

With Other Wikipedians

This user is friends with Robotic Sam.

This user is friends with I80and.

This user is friends with Rishabhnasa.

Math

$\sum$This user is greater than the sum of his userboxes.

This user knows by heart the first 7 digits in the decimal representation of pi.

$0.{\bar {9}}=1$This user knows that 0.999... is exactly 1.

This user is pretty sure that it is an outlier compared to everybody else.

Music

vln-3This user is an advanced violinist.

voc-3This user is an advanced vocalist.

pno-1This user is a novice pianist.

Time

00:00This user uses 24-hour time.

This user begrudgingly observes Daylight Saving Time.

This user's time zone is UTC-6.

GMT
varThis user's time zone changes every so many days/weeks/months.

This user had a flux capacitor seized by the FBI.

This user has no understanding of time and does everything at the last minute.

Web-Related

BThis user keeps a weblog at Blogger as voyagerfan5761.

This user has helped design or create a website for Southwest Robotics Team 2129, which can be found here.

This user has helped design or create a website for another entity, which can be found here.

P	This user has a Google PicasaWeb account with public galleries.

This user posts on X as @voyagerfan5761.

This user maintains a Facebook profile.

Other

This user subscribes to Lifehacker.

ft-lbThis user uses American Measurements.

This user's deviation is standard.

This user knows Who's on First.

Notes

* Based on information from the query.php count, located at http://en.wikipedia.org/w/query.php?what=contribcounter&titles=User:Voyagerfan5761

Awards

Awards have been moved to a subpage, named (very creatively) Awards.

Identity

Committed identity: 3f8f62cc095036c896e39541d249aba0 is an MD5 commitment to this user's real-life identity.