Wikipedia:Editor's index to Wikipedia

Greenmaven's boxes: This editor is a Senior Editor and is entitled to display this Rhodium Editor Star. This user is a member of the Counter-Vandalism Unit. This user has classified 25259 edits using the STiki anti-vandalism tool. This user is a member of the Guild of Copy Editors. This user has participated in 4 Backlog Elimination Drives with the Guild of Copy Editors. This user is a member of WikiProject Editor Retention This user has rollback and pending changes reviewer rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify) This user has been a Wikipedian since 5 November 2010. This user has been on Wikipedia for 14 years, 3 months and 14 days. 7 This user has created 7 of Wikipedia's 6,956,194 articles. 2120 As of last count, this user is # 2120 of active Wikipedians. H This user had access to HighBeam through The Wikipedia Library. This user is a donor to the Wikimedia Foundation. You can be one, too. This user believes that anyone who thinks Wikipedia is an unreliable source should continue their quest to find a better website. This user is a WikiPlatypus. This user's time zone is UTC+11. It is approximately 11:14 AM where this user lives. AU This user speaks Australian English. fr-1 Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau élémentaire de français. de-1 Dieser Benutzer hat grundlegende Deutschkenntnisse. This user believes that a user's edit count does not necessarily reflect on the value of their contributions to Wikipedia. This user remembers (with nostalgia) having to use punched cards to run Fortran programs. This user believes that you should never put milk in with the tea bag.

Most of my work has been to maintain or improve articles chosen randomly across the spectrum. I have done a lot of copyediting and vandal fighting. I participate in several projects and discussion forums. I occasionally create an article when I see an opportunity, or make a major contribution to an underdeveloped article. I try to provide comprehensive references to any articles where I have provided most of the content. I am fortunate to live close to an outstanding research library. These are my "Barnstars"

"A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger." Proverbs 15:1 King James Version

This user seeks the peaceful resolution of disputes.

I retired as a computer programmer in 2001, and as a personal and workplace counsellor in 2007.

After using Wikipedia for several years, I found an article which I thought I could improve, and decided to become an editor.

I have some knowledge of French, and some German, . I began learning Russian in 1992, but have forgotten most of it.

Learning Latin and Classical Greek , helped me to understand etymology and the history and structure of European languages.

Studying these languages improved my understanding of English Grammar, the peculiarities of English, and the difficulty of really mastering one language, let alone several.

I learned numerous computer programming languages and scripting languages, between 1968 and 2001, beginning with FortranIV and Assembler Language on a Control Data Corporation 3000 series mainframe, ending with 'Avenue' (a GIS scripting language for ArcView 3.x), Perl and HTML. I thought of myself as a technical applications programmer.