User:Jnc

Hi, I am Noel Chiappa. As of September 29, 2022, that page contains two errors. Have fun trying to work out what they are! (I refuse to look at it, to see if they are still there - it would just piss me off.)

On break

I am on indefinite Wiki-break since October, 2005, although I occasionally putter around. If you need to reach me, please email me, as I'm not reading my Talk: page here. Do not leave messages for me on my Talk: page; I do not want any messages left there.

I was badly affected by having to deal with a particular problematic user (who has since, ironically, left Wikipedia), and even more upset at what I perceive(d) to be a lack of support from the community in dealing with a clueless, argumentative, biased, stubborn nitwit who persisted in trying to fill major articles with erroneous, highly-biased POV, based on ignorance, prejudice, and personal research (which I can only characterize as incompetent, sketchy, worse-than-amateurish, incomplete, and pathetic) - the conclusions of which were, needless to say, not supported by the standard reference works on the field.

A wonderful example of him displaying all these traits in action (in a pointless argument with another editor) may be found here.

I just don't need that kind of grief, and I don't see the point of working hard on articles if some ignorant moron can come along and trash them. If that's the situation, I'd rather spend the time working on academic papers (a conclusion, alas, that many other good contributors before me have come to). So, I have concluded that for the moment my time will be more profitably spent working on a number of papers I need to write and/or finish off, on important topics such as endpoints.

In homage to Professor Steve Ward of MIT, who wrote an incredibly funny parody of his testimony and cross-examination as an expert witness in a civil trial, I have created a parody of my own. Believe it or not, much of this is actually taken from real events here on Wikipedia; for example, check out this and then read this.

I've been on extended Wiki-breaks before (I was gone from the fall of '03 to the middle of '04), and may decide to continue contributing in the future, but I cannot reliably predict the future, so we'll have to see. (Note to bureaucrats: I will be monitoring the account to make sure it is not broken into, so don't change its status.)

About Me

I've been a Wikipedian (not to mention a Wikipediholic :-) since August, 2003. I've been an admin since September, 2003. I managed to make it into the 10,000 edit club on 30 May, 2005; I later made it up to about #174 on the English Wikipedia edit list at the time I went on Wikibreak.

I used to do article creation and editing on a random and broad range of topics (an encyclopaedia is the perfect project for me :-). As David Gerard so pithily and perfectly puts it:

My life has been spent filling my head with unbelievable quantities of trivia and rubbish. Here's a chance to get some of it out.

Wikipedia:Babel

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Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau intermédiaire en français.

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I used to lend a hand with the boring maintainence work, particularly on Wikipedia:Redirects for deletion, and also Wikipedia:Cut and paste move repair holding pen (fixing cut-and-paste bogo-moves was something of a passion, and a specialty, of mine). I took care of Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard for quite a while, but I finally "hit the wall" on doing that. (Plus to which, I wanted to work on articles, and I didn't have much time for that anymore!)

My Wikipediholic score (as of July, 2005) was 194 - but I claim I should get bonus points for writing an special Epsilon extension in EEL for Wikipedia editing, something I reckon should be worth about 15 points or so, bringing my total score to 209.

Admin statistics
Action	Count
Edits	16974
Edits+Deleted	18354
Pages deleted	1909
Pages restored	159
Pages protected	114
Pages unprotected	34
Users blocked	46
Users unblocked	20
User rights modified	1

For more about me, look at my home page here:

 http://www.chiappa.net/~jnc/

When I am not logged in, my contributions show up at 68.10.112.83, 68.10.115.135 and 68.10.244.80.

Useful stuff

Wikipedia:Naming conventions (common names)
Wikipedia:Naming conventions (use English)
Wikipedia:Blocking policy#Disruption

Block user
List of blocked IP addresses and usernames
Block log
Protected pages
Protection log

User stats
My database entry
My edit count
Another edit counter

Purge cached page
No redirect
What links here

Wikipedia:Cleaning department

Redirects from : to User:
Missing redirects

Wikipedia:WikiProject Early computers
Wikipedia:WikiProject Early computers/Books

MediaWiki
Meta
Wikidev
Commons
Wiktionary
Wikiquote
Wikisource
Wikinews
Wikibooks

Kate

MAM full

Pages I've Added

Pages I've Significantly Upgraded

Music

Johann Sebastian Bach - List of compositions of Johann Sebastian Bach - Johann Nikolaus Forkel

Allman Brothers Band - At Fillmore East - Eat a Peach - Love in Vain - W. C. Handy - Clifford Brown

Japanese Woodblock Prints / Japan

Hokusai - Utamaro

47 Ronin - Ronin - Seppuku - The Master of Go - Yasunari Kawabata

Medici / Florence

Baptistery - Medici

Michelozzo - Cosimo de' Medici (Pater Patriae) - Lorenzo de' Medici (Il Magnifico) - Cosimo I de' Medici (Grand Duke Cosimo I) - Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici (the Unfortunate)

Bermuda / Virginia

History of Bermuda - Politics of Bermuda - Transportation in Bermuda - St. George, Bermuda - Bermudian English - Third Supply

Jamestown, Virginia - Bartholomew Gosnold

Egypt

Amarna - Valley of the Kings - Burials in the Valley of the Kings - Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt - KV5 - KV55

Akhenaten - Nefertiti - Tadukhipa - Tutankhamun

History / Military / Cryptography / Espionage

Ferdinand II of Naples - Lady Jane Grey
James Somerville - Isoroku Yamamoto
Zachary Lemnios
W. T. Tutte
Judith Coplon

We shall fight on the beaches - This was their finest hour - Never was so much owed by so many to so few - Isoroku Yamamoto's sleeping giant quote

Beirut Summit - Director of Defense Research and Engineering - History of Laos - International Helsinki Federation - Pathet Lao - Vientiane Treaty

Amber Room - Attack on Pearl Harbor - USS Grunion (SS-216)

Project Babylon - Paris Gun - Supergun - Browning 1919A4 - Malmö MFI-9 - Focke-Wulf Fw 190 operational history

Operation Ivy - Ivy Mike - Operation Castle - Castle Bravo

Colossus computer - Fish (cryptography) - Lorenz SZ 40/42 - Siemens and Halske T52

Lady Jane (movie) - The Gathering Storm (2002)

Nautical

Downhaul - Mechanical traveller - Outhaul - Parts of a sail - Sheet (sailing)

Deutschland - HMS Hood (51) - Pocket battleship

Computers / Networking

Input/output - Instruction pointer - Integrated circuit - Multi-user - Virtual machine - Virtual memory - Word processor

RUNOFF - roff - nroff
BCPL - PL/I

Pilot ACE - DEUCE
PDP - PDP-6 - PDP-10 - PDP-11 - PDP-20

Multics - CTSS - OS/360 - VM/CMS - CMS

E-mail - Internetworking - OSI model - Packet - Packet switching - Reliable byte stream - Router - Truncated binary exponential backoff

Asynchronous Transfer Mode - Multiprotocol Label Switching

ARPANET - CHAOSnet - CYCLADES - History of the Internet - Xerox Network Services

Internet Architecture Board - Internet Engineering Task Force - Internet Society - Request for Comments

Classful network - Classless Inter-Domain Routing - EIGRP - Internet Control Message Protocol - Internet protocol suite - Internet Protocol - IPv4 - IPv4 address exhaustion - Subnetwork - Transmission Control Protocol - Trivial File Transfer Protocol

Fernando Corbato - Vint Cerf - Jack Dennis - Bob Kahn - Leonard Kleinrock - Butler Lampson - J. C. R. Licklider - Jon Postel - David P. Reed - Jerry Saltzer

MIT AI Lab - Boat anchor - Hacker - Xerox PARC

Cars / Planes

Engine displacement

Lotus Elite - Auto Union

Colin Chapman - Harry Arminius Miller - Hans Stuck - Gilles Villeneuve

2005 United States Grand Prix

Random

1Time - BA Comair - Brighton Grammar School - Canonical - Chinese and English compared - Condé Nast Publications - Displacement (fluid) - Endocentric - Hierarchy - Irish Cream - Orion Syndicate - Reservoir - Towednack - Treasure hunt - University of Liège

Capability Brown - David G. Clark - Stefano Garzelli - Clonie Gowen - Kay Redfield Jamison - Paul Neil Milne Johnstone - Elizabeth Morgan - Condé Montrose Nast - Bonnie Somerville - Horace Wilson

Architectural Digest

Day of the Fight - Flying Padre - Ronin (movie) - The Good Shepherd (film)
List of Frasier episodes

Wikipedia:Cleaning department - Wikipedia:Requested moves - Wikipedia:Redirects for deletion - Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard - Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents

Images I Provided

Incomplete

Layla Cover - Shakti Cover - At Carnegie Hall Cover - I Remember Clifford Cover Hokusai Chushingura - Hiroshige Chushingura - Yoshitoshi Climber Old Woman Rats - Sharaku Two Actors Actor - Kunisada Spiderweb Box - Toyokuni III Actor - Toyokuni Actor Kabuki duo Porter Internet map 1982 - Internet map circa '85 Yacht Reliance Brighton Grammar logo - Firbank Grammar logo

Removed From WatchList

Network Control Protocol - Sant'Angelo - The Fillmore Concerts - The Layla Sessions - Whirlwind

Disambiguation pages

Doing maintainence on WP:RfD, I wind up creating many Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages. Lots of disambiguation pages. So many I have moved them all to a separate page!

Subpages

/LinkFarm - Links to images (as opposed to inclusion) don't show up in 'what links here' tables
/Disambiguation - A rant about disambiguation
/CryptoDictIndex - Alphabetical index to the Cryptographic Dictionary, July 1944
/wiki.e - Epsilon editor extension for writing Wikipedia text

/ToDo - Things I might actually work on someday
/Test - Small test area, usually for template hackery
/Sandbox - Sandbox

/Welcome - My personalized welcome message
/ReplyMyTalk - Message about where I see replies
/NewReplyMyTalk - Version for new users

/RedirMissingTarget - Templates for warning message
/MvRedirMissingTarget - Template for redir left by a move
/DelRedirMissingTarget - Template for redir left hanging by a delete
/NeverRedirMissingTarget - Template for redir to something never existing

Fun stuff

/TooManyBoxes - A classic, should have been kept IMO
/Cold War Classic - A classic, lengthy, and hilarious hoax
Slow Blind Driveway - Another
San Serriffe - The original, before Ed Poor discovered it and (reluctantly) nuked it.