SirGrant Skills Education This user is a university student. This user's favourite subject is Chemistry. This user is a student at UC Irvine. Lanugages en-us -N This user is a native speaker of American English. Mathematics a²+b²=c² This user is an intermediate mathematician. This user is greater than the sum of their userboxes. This user knows that 0.999... is exactly 1. Interests Books This user enjoys reading fiction. HDM This user loves His Dark Materials. And is Dusty too, by the way.. This user knows that 42 is the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything. HP This user is a Harry Potter fan. This user enjoys comics. This user reads webcomics. Computing This user uses Skype. This user maintains a Facebook profile. This user has a profile on MySpace. This user uses Google as a primary search engine. This user uses Wikipedia as a primary point of reference. This user uses Gmail as a primary email service. This user's Internet service provider is Comcast. This user's primary Instant Messaging software is Trillian. This user contributes using GIMP. This user contributes using Firefox. This user contributes using Ubuntu. This user contributes using a PC. This user uses an AMD Athlon processor Food This user is an omnivore. This user eats potatoes. This user loves eating carrots. This user eats apples. This user eats pears. This user eats cheese. This user eats chili. C2H5OH-0 This user is a non-drinker. This user drinks orange juice. This user drinks milk. Games cvg-2 This user is an intermediate gamer. This user contributes using a PC. This user plays Warcraft III. Media User:Scepia/digital terrestrialNG Good news, everyone! This user is a fan of Futurama! H * R This user is a fan of Homestar Runner. Seriously. BSG This user is a fan of the reimagined Battlestar Galactica series. The 4400 This user is a member of the 4400. firefly This user thinks Firefly is the greatest television series ever made. This user is a Browncoat. We've done the impossible, and that makes us mighty. This user's got a case of the Mondays. Music This user enjoys electronic music. 80s This user rocks out to totally rad 80s new wave music. This user advocates the use of more cowbell. This user has an iPod. Sports This user is a bicyclist. This user enjoys skiing. This user does weight training. Life Health This user is more than happy to retain their "personality disorder(s)" and delights in telling their mental health professional to screw off. This user has social anxiety. This user is near sighted. User:Akrabbim/UBX/No secondhand smoke This user is ambidextrous. Life teen This user is a teenager. 19 This user is 19 years old. This user is male. This user is of multiple ancestries. Personality ISTJ This user's MBTI type is ISTJ. Pets This user owns one or more dogs. Sexuality This user is straight. This user is a supporter of the LGBTQ community. This user is single. This user wishes they had a girlfriend. This user is someone's knight in shining armor. Zodiac This user is a Capricornian. This user was born in the year of the Tiger. 虎 Location and time Location This user has left the planet Earth 0 times. This user is a citizen of the United States of America. Time This user is nocturnal. This user's time zone is GMT-7. Other Emoticons This user feels like a benzene ring. /_\ Humor This user's future is so bright they have got to wear shades. This user is a paladin. IP This user's IP is 127.0.0.1. All your base are belong to this user. 6 C 12.011 This user is made out of Carbon. Userboxes This user was up all night finding userboxes and is now very drowsy. Wikipedia This user is a Wikipedian. no ads This user is against commercials in Wikipedia. Warning to Vandals: This user is armed with VandalProof. This user is a member of the Counter-Vandalism Unit. This user is not a Wikipedia administrator but would like to be one someday. This user does not understand mean people. Please be nice. "It is awfully hard to be b-b-brave, when you are a very small user."

• Age: 20
• Sex: Male
• Place of birth: Richardson, Texas
• Previous locations: Issaquah, Washington, Santa Rosa, California, Windsor, California
• Current location: Irvine, California
• Political views: Other
• Education:
  • High School: Graduated from Windsor High School on June 16th, 2005
  • University: Second-year chemistry student at University of California, Irvine
  • Website: http://www.granthoulgate.com

• Favorite Music: Electronic music, Lyrics Born, Less Than Jake
• Favorite TV Shows: 30 Days, The 4400, Battlestar Galactica, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Degrassi: The Next Generation, Firefly, Frasier, Freaks and Geeks, Futurama, Teen Titans
• Favorite Movies: Aliens, The Blues Brothers, A Knight's Tale, Mystery Men, Office Space, Secondhand Lions
• Favorite Games: Day of Defeat: Source, EverQuest (retired)
• Favorite Books: Ender's Shadow, His Dark Materials, The Game
• Friends: Theemissary (talk · contribs), UCSDundergrad (talk · contribs)
• Goals: Get in shape, finish my degree
• Interests: Computers, Folding@Home, Weight training

The idea of an open source type encyclopedia is in my mind a excellent idea. I have in recent years been a fan of open source software but could not contribute because of my lack of programming skills. Wikipedia however allows me to contribute without the need for a background in computer programming. Secondly, my favorite book series the His Dark Materials trilogy advocates the message of creating a "republic of heaven". This means that it is up to each individual to lead a good life and create and pass on knowledge and skills and I truely believe wikipedia allows me to do this. Secondly, working on this project allows me to feel a sense of contribution to society. In my life I've felt that I haven't really contributed to society, mainly because I'm 19 and most of my life has been spent in education which is self focused.

I will admit I have certain strengths and weaknesses as far as my ability to help on wikipedia. Firstly, my English skills have always been sub-par therefor I try not to write long paragraphs or sections of articles if I can avoid it because I know it will most likely be riddled with errors. Regardless though, I do understand that it is important to be bold so my grammatical errors do not stop me if I feel the article can truely benifit from my addition. I do however prefer to work more on the structure of an article through the addition of tables or infoboxes. I believe that this greatly increases the quality of the articles and is something I can do and manage to avoid mistakes. I also enjoy making additions to chemistry stubs or articles lacking information that is available to me in my text book and through my studies.

Overall I believe wikipedia is a great undertaking and couldn't be possible without the support of it's users and I'm very honored to be able to help in this project.

This is a personal list of things I need to get done:

• Fix "references" section for Bill Clinton
• Use templates to update "references section for Al Gore
• Change HTML boxes to infoboxes for the Netherland Prime Ministers - Done