User:Nate Silva

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Nate Silva

Hi, I’m Nate. My primary contributions are copyediting and finding pages that should be deleted. I have also been known to shrink large graphics with pngcrush to save Wikipedia a few bytes. I’ve written several pages about my hometown, Portland, Oregon.

AOL Instant Messenger: nhsilva1

1 Pages I’ve worked on
2 Pet peeves
3 Favorite subjects (no, I’m not an expert on these)
4 License

[edit] Pages I’ve worked on

Devanagari
Distributed Server Boycott List
Henry F. Phillips
Largest mobile phone companies, T-Mobile, Vodafone
Latin alphabet: created letter graphics for A-Z (unfortunately not pngcrushed)
List of mail servers: moved to its own linked page as part of my effort to keep main articles from becoming enumerative lists.
McNary Field and Salem Municipal Airport
Portland, Oregon, Metropolitan Area Express (Portland, Oregon) and MAX, Portland International Airport, Portland Streetcar, Steel Bridge (a cool picture with the lower deck raised)
S&P 500
Single UNIX Specification (merged from POSIX)
Tram
U.S. Congress (all subpages for "non-voting members")
Unit test
Urban growth boundary and UGB
Vancouver, Washington

[edit] Pet peeves

Some people (usually “others”) are so authoritative, aren’t they? ;-)
- There is a tendency for any article with even the slightest hint of controversy to include opinion dumps like “others point out that…,” “critics note that…,” “some would say that…” It sounds like a fourth-grade term paper. This is actually a form of my next pet peeve:
Enumerative lists in the main article. Put them in their own section or even their own article.
- This is just me-tooism. Everyone wants their favorite thing to be mentioned in the article. You can subvert this by creating a separate section or even a separate article for (List of whatever).
Capitalizing every Noun.
Linking every possible word. Relevant words should be linked. For everything else there’s ~~MasterCard~~ the search function.

[edit] Favorite subjects (no, I’m not an expert on these)

[edit] License

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