User:Kbh3rd

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In my youth I read encyclopedias for recreation. I spent some TV-free summers with the Junior Encyclopædia Britannica, an erstwhile red-bound companion to the regular edition meant for the middle school years.

My higher education and career are in computers, programming, networking, and computer security. But I've always had eclectic interests and make edits to a wide range of articles. Geology and geography articles seem to draw my interest, e.g.

Original contributions

Images

"Let's take some pictures for Wikipedia" is a great excuse to get out on a weekend with a camera. I have a few free GIS tools with which I can make some maps given the data, and gnuplot makes graphs a snap. My gallery contains all the images that I've uploaded here – photographs, maps, and graphs.

Articles started

I like others to edit my articles – it makes them better, which is a Good Thing. Pictures enhance most articles, so most of these were created with pictures(*), many of them pictures that I created(**).

1. 38th parallel structures**
2. Bagnell Dam*
3. Cryptoexplosion
4. Current River State Park
5. Delcambre Canal
6. Elephant Rocks State Park**
7. Eleven Point National Wild and Scenic River
8. Flood control Act of 1944
9. Fort de Chartres**
10. Fort Randall Dam*
11. Fort Randall, South Dakota*
12. Grand Gulf State Park**
13. Houdek (soil)*
14. Lawn Lake Dam*
15. List of Missouri covered bridges*
16. Maramec Spring**
17. Meades Ranch, Kansas**
18. Menfro (soil)*
19. Missouri Department of Conservation**
20. Missouri River Basin Project*
21. Nelson Horatio Darton*
22. Norman Sperling
23. Nubian Swell
24. Ogallala Aquifer** ¹
25. Ozark Trail**
26. Rockwoods Reservation**
27. Roger Pryor Pioneer Backcountry
28. St. Louis University High School
29. St. Peter Sandstone**
30. Sandy Creek Covered Bridge State Historic Site**
31. Taum Sauk pumped storage plant**
32. Taum Sauk Mountain**
33. Van Meter State Park
34. Weaubleau-Osceola structure**
35. WikipediaFS
36. William Burke Miller
37. William S. Harney*

And:

• 37 georeferenced stubs for Missouri state parks

Style

I loathe parenthetical remarks. If a statement is worth making then it is most likely worth placing in a regular sentence. There will be exceptions, of course, but they should be very rare. In addition to Wikipedia's Manual of Style, here is a good style guide that I adapted from one found on the internet[1], attributed to "the paper" at Fordham University in 1988:

How to Write Good

My several years in the word game have learnt me several rules.

1. Avoid Alliteration. Always.
2. Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
3. Avoid cliches like the plague. (They're old hat.)
4. Employ the vernacular.
5. Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.
6. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
7. It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.
8. Contractions aren't necessary.
9. Foreign words and phrases are verboten.
10. One should never generalize.
11. Eliminate quotations. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said: "I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."
12. Comparisons are as bad as cliches.
13. Don't be redundant; don't use more words than necessary; it's highly superfluous.
14. Profanity sucks.
15. Be more or less specific.
16. Understatement is always best.
17. Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.

Barnstars

For finishing up all the images on the "bj" list, I award you this Working-Man's Barnstar.Quadell (talk) (help) 00:21, Dec 24, 2004 (UTC)

I, EWS23, hereby award Kbh3rd the RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar for creating the extremely helpful vandal warning toolbox. Keep up the good work! 17:00, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

Working links

Boilerplate · Tagging queries · Untagged images talk · Sleuthing · Plain articles · Vandal warning toolbox · To do

NASA Global Change Master Directory · NCSU Finding GIS Data on the Internet · ESRI world basemap

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Copyrights

I agree to multi-license all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

	Multi-licensed with the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike License versions 1.0 and 2.0
I agree to multi-license my text contributions, unless otherwise stated, under Wikipedia's copyright terms and the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license version 1.0 and version 2.0. Please be aware that other contributors might not do the same, so if you want to use my contributions under the Creative Commons terms, please check the CC dual-license and Multi-licensing guides.

 — Kbh3^rdtalk

NOTE BENE: In a case where the copyright owner sustains the burden of proving, and the court finds, that infringement was committed willfully, the court in its discretion may increase the award of statutory damages to a sum of not more than $150,000. U.S.C. Title 17 § 504(c)(2)

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