User:ExplorerCDT

Warnings

1. I like to be very bold in editing pages, even to the point of pissing people off.
2. I like to recommend articles for VfD, with my discerning eye.
3. It might take me a month to finish a big article or a major edit, given I usually do this while working on 57 other projects.
4. I have a hatred for the Wikipedia:Naming conventions policy dictating that the second and subsequent words in a title should be lowercase, uncapitalized.
5. I hate civility. No use sugar-coating the hard truth or being nice to stupid people...no matter what Wikipedia policy pleads.

About ME

I haven't decided yet what I want to write about myself.

Being humble in that respect, I might hire some poor, up-and-coming schmuck to write some profile here just so they can build their resume and earn a few bucks doing it.

Thus, until I pay that ghostwriter to whip something up, take a look at some of the things I've worked on in depth.

My work here

Works in progress

These are pages I intend to finish soon, but things keep getting in the way. I will, trust me, I will get around to putting the finishing touches on them:

• Gambino Crime Family another thing, regrettably, that I know too much about.
• Bufalino Crime Family— Scranton's little-known, but very powerful group of mobsters.
• Secret societies

Articles I gave birth to

• 17NOV04 - Damson, another plum
• 14NOV04 - Colonial Colleges
• 29OCT04 - Edmund Plowden (1518-1585), a noted English legal scholar and theorist
• 28OCT04 - Greengage, a tasty green plum.
• 18OCT04 - Norman Maclean, professor and author of A River Runs Through It
• 17SEP04 - Stephen Bronner, one of my favourite professors at Rutgers University, and an amazing political theorist.

Articles I will give birth to (eventually)

• Articles on some obscure, but delectable fruits: Mirabelles
• Perhaps an article on the fabled (and treasure-rich) Zerzura.
• An article on obscure, but important English composer William Croft.
• Rewriting the article on the other New Albion (not the one mentioned below), settled in 1634, and doing a corresponding article on its founder Sir Edmund Plowden (1590-1659).

I did a major edit here, one that made it, IM(not-so-)HO, into a new, much better article

• Rutgers University (my alma mater)
• Drew University
• Albert Anastasia
• New Albion
• Grand Illusion one of my favourite films.
• Harlem Renaissance

Articles I feel the need to rewrite

• Mafia needs some work—and that putting it lightly from someone who knows about the mob from the inside.
• I eventually hope to take a good look at the Notable Faculty section on the Rutgers University page, see if the ones listed are truly notable, look for others who haven't been mentioned, and get rid of the redlinks.

Test of the Week...

• List of letters in the alphabet between A and C
  • Attempt 1: — November 2004 — 47 seconds
  • Attempt 2: — 21 December 2004 — 16 minutes.