User:Shirik

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Hello! I am a student attending Embry Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida, pursuing a degree in Computer Engineering with a Master's of Software Engineering. I also currently work as an intern at a leading UAS manufacturer as a Software Engineer. I develop code for school, for work, and for fun. When I'm not doing that, I also occasionally play the Cello. When I'm not doing any of that, I'm probably locked in my room with some anime and get cranky when disturbed. Finally, I am a World of Warcraft fan, and I play as a priest healer, and am totally shameless to admit this.

I am an avid photographer, and I own a Canon 5D Mark II. I upload all of my worthy pictures to DeviantArt and you can find those pictures there, if you'd like. Feel free to leave comments about my pictures either on that site or on my talk page.

In the software industry, I deal a lot with open source projects. I currently actively work on two projects. My focus tends to be in the communications, embedded systems, and real-time systems. I also have extensive background in application security and white-hat hacking.

Around here, I try just to keep everything clean and orderly. I value the prospect of a high-quality encyclopedia that Wikipedia can become. I frequent the recent changes list to monitor for unusual activity, and take action where it is warranted. I also monitor and patrol recently created pages to help with maintenance tagging and deletion of very inappropriate articles. Accordingly, if you're here because I reverted something you wrote or because I proposed your article for deletion, please feel free to discuss it on my talk page.

Future projects

This is a list of projects I intend to touch up at some point in the future, either because I think I can contribute significantly to it, am interested in it, or because it is in a poor state and needs help.

• Subroutine -- Controversial, uncited statements floating around. I will try to link this up with IEEE conference publications that I have access to; shouldn't be too difficult.
• Join (SQL)
• Software Requirements Specification -- Was PROD, I will revive it!
• Verilog -- Majority of it is written by someone whom clearly has no understanding of Verilog or HDLs in general. Needs quite a bit of work.
• RAS latency -- To compliment CAS latency
• User:Shirik/CollabRC -- A tool to assist with recent changes and new pages patrolling in a distributed manner
• User:CollabRCBot -- a bot to assist in vandalism greylisting
• C++ classes -- Needs a lot of cleanup
• Partying with Obama

My contributions

Wikipedia is, by definition, the encyclopedia anyone can edit. However, everyone contributes in a different way. Some people create stub pages. Some take those stub pages and turn them into pages with significant detail. Others perform copy edits on pages to pull them to a fully refined and easily readable quality. Still others spend their time protecting those developed pages from persistent vandals. It takes teamwork from all of these differing editors to be able to create magnificent articles. This doesn't even consider the ever-important roles held by administrators, bureaucrats, bot operators, tool developers, and countless other roles that keep Wikipedia coherent, organized and efficient. Without work from everyone, Wikipedia would not be what it is today.

All of those positions are necessary. Missing just one of any of those groups would severely cripple Wikipedia's usefulness. But no matter how hard anyone tries, there is no way all of those roles can be filled by a single person. Wikipedia is a team effort and it takes contributions from everyone to get us where we want to be. Because everyone is different, editors fill in different roles based on what they enjoy. There is no "right" or "wrong" way to contribute to Wikipedia. While I may not do certain tasks, I recognize that those tasks are vital to Wikipedia's success and am thankful for all of the editors that have filled in where I have not helped out.

Personally, I enjoy and focus on the following tasks:

• Vandalism detection, reversion, and vandal reformation
• New page patrolling
• Discussion at WP:AFD
• Copy editing and review
• Policy development

Stuff I started

These are articles and files I started. Naturally, I do not own, nor do I attempt to claim ownership of, these articles, but I am happy that I have been able to contribute significantly to these articles alongside other authors.

• North American blizzard of 2009
• Super Saturday
• File:Home noreaster 2009.jpg
• Aspect weaver
• File:Panther Creek Falls.jpg
• {{Infobox programming tool}}
• File:AspectWeaver.svg

My essays

Personal views of Wikipedia. Might be a majority view, might be a minority view, but it is definitely my view.

• WP:TEARHEADOFF

Articles I copy edited

These are articles I copy edited on request. When I receive a copy edit request, I typically take a few hours reviewing the article to seriously analyze it and review it. I feel that this significantly improves the article's quality. I often get these requests right before a content editor nominates it as a good article or featured article, and am always willing to help out. If you want me to copy edit something, feel free to ask on my talk page.

• Flying Spaghetti Monster 2 Dec 2009
• The Kinks 3 Dec 2009
• John Christie (murderer) 29 Dec 2009
• Spontaneous cerebrospinal fluid leak 29 Dec 2009
• School for Creative and Performing Arts 4 Jan 2010
• List of tallest residential buildings in the world 6 Feb 2010
• Flag of Japan 13 Feb 2010

Articles I reviewed

Adhering to my desire for a high-quality encyclopedia, I feel reviewing articles is a great way to benefit the encyclopedia as a whole. While good article status is not difficult to attain, it still has high standards that produce a high-quality article. Reviewing good article candidates is a great way to reduce backlogs and significantly improve the quality of Wikipedia as a whole. The following articles I reviewed for GA status:

• Statute of Uses 25 January 2010
• The Avery Coonley School 27 January 2010
• Obscene Publications Act 1959 9 February 2010

Awards

I like to think I'm useful. These people seem to think so too. All too often, contributing to Wikipedia is a thankless job, as the majority of the use of Wikipedia is by users whom are trying to get information without any respect for where that information comes from or how its quality is asserted. Those of us that actually spend significant amounts of time on Wikipedia know just how time consuming this work can be, and I thank all those that have thanked me for everything I've done, and of course I thank everyone that has worked on Wikipedia. This is a team project and every one of the barnstars and other awards listed below is not only something I am proud of, but also something I realize I could not have done without help from many other editors, so they belong to everyone.

		The Special Barnstar
		You got your rollback right recently and already you are countering established vandals.You also reverted vandalism on my user-page.Now that's a great beginning and wish you will be the ultimate nightmare for many more vandals in future.Take this barnstar as a token of my appreciation :) arunkumarcheckmate me 02:04, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

		The Copyeditor's Barnstar
		For doing an excellent and thorough job copyediting The Kinks, I hereby award you this Copyeditor's Barnstar. Many thanks! I.M.S. (talk) 17:22, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

		The Copyeditor's Barnstar
		I hereby award you this barnstar for your extensive, amazing and excellent copyediting of Spontaneous cerebrospinal fluid leak Basket of Puppies 07:07, 29 December 2009 (UTC).

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		In recognition of your tireless effort and dedication patrolling recent changes and cleaning out the muck, I hereby award you this barnstar. -- Tom N (tcncv) talk/contrib 03:55, 1 January 2010 (UTC)

		The Copyeditor's Barnstar
		I want to award you this barnstar for your speedy, careful, and excellent copyediting of School for Creative and Performing Arts. Thank you for your help and great work! Vaughanchris (talk) 01:41, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

Other shiny things

User:Shirik has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian, and therefore, I've officially declared today as Shirik's day! For being such a beautiful person and great Wikipedian, enjoy being the Star of the day, dear Shirik! Peace, Rlevse 06:46, 21 January 2010 (UTC) A record of your Day will always be kept here.