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User:Seth Ilys

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Me

Me, circa 8:30 p.m., 25 March 2005.

The Ant

an ant

The ant has made himself illustrious
Through constant industry industrious.

So what?
Would you be calm and placid
If you were full of formic acid?


-- Ogden Nash


Seth (leave a message at the sound of the tone) is

  • "...just another guy with weird philosophical objections... which I cannot profess to understand." - Fennec
  • in agreement with Jengod in saying "Semicolons are my favoritest punctuation..."
  • one of the "oddly freakish people who are exceptional." - User:Menchi
  • "prefer[s] to work behind the scenes. The reward is nearly as great, and the risk far, far less." - Londo Mollari, in Babylon 5: "The Coming of Shadows," written by J. Michael Straczynski

You can reach me by posting a message on my Wikipedia talk page, sending an email to seth (dot) ilys (at) gmail (dot) com, catching me on IM (AOL, MSN, Yahoo) as JehanneDaix, or finding me in the wikipedia IRC chatroom on Freenode,

[edit] All you need to know about Wikipedia

[edit] Seth's NPOV Primer

Because people tend to forget that NPOV policy is actually a positively phrased policy and not a negatively phrased one (because the N doesn't stand for No!), I thought I'd paraphrase a familiar song as a reminder:

(credit to Cookie Monster for, well, everything)

N is for Neutral. That's good enough for me.
N is for Neutral. That's good enough for me.
N is for Neutral. That's good enough for me.
Neutral, neutral, neutral starts with Ni!

[edit] Wikipedia Meets Real Life

[edit] Works in Progress

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Nobody has given you a BarnStar! Insane. Do I need to even give a reason? This says it all really. Thanks! Tom- 23:13, 4 May 2004 (UTC)

Image:Raok barnstar.png
For your inspired and brave self re-nomination in order to take the heat out of RfA debates, I hereby award you the Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar. Enjoy! Grutness 11:39, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)]]

[edit] Current Projects

These days, I spent more of my Wikipedia time researching and writing high-quality articles -- creating featured article-or-better quality content. The list below of some of my current targets betrays my identity as a geography geek:

[edit] Past Major Projects

  • User:Seth Ilys/Dot Project: creating dot-maps for Rambot U.S. location articles. Status map at left. Since superceded by people who make spiffier maps than I do.
  • Sethbot: a bot creating redirects with U.S. postal abbreviations (so Bolivia, TN redirects to Bolivia, Tennessee, for instance). Hasn't run in a while, but was, in June 2005, on its second pass through the alphabet, somewhere around D.
  • 2005 College of Cardinals: wrote articles for every remaning cardinal elector at the 2005 papal conclave (April 2005)
  • U.S. County Redirects: created redirects and disambiguation pages from "Name County" to "Name County, State," for all U.S. counties. (completed, late March 2004)
  • North Carolina General Assembly: stub bios of all current NCGA members, with pics. (completed, early February 2004)
  • U.S. Executions since 1976: list of all executed prisoners in the U.S. since 1976, by state. (completed, December 2003)

[edit] Copyrights

You can use any of my text submissions to Wikipedia freely, with no restrictions. I try to remember to tag all the images I take myself as public domain, but some (like the dot-maps) are adapted from other (more restricted) sources. When in doubt, ask me, and I'll probably tell you it's PD.

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