User:Dhartung

I'm Dan Hartung, a native and resident of Janesville, Wisconsin. For most of my career in computer consulting I lived in Evanston, Illinois, and briefly in New York City. After years of watching the growth of the Wikipedia from a very basic concordance to the essential reference work that it is quickly becoming, I decided to create my own account in November 2004. So far it's been a rewarding experience.

As of October 2005, I'm taking a bit of a break as I ramp up coding activity for a startup.

Biography

I've been online since the days of the BBS, and participated in the internet soon after the end of bang paths. I watched the web grow up from the inside! I was a well-known weblog author from 1999 to 2003 when family life intervened; my weblog was Lake Effect and is presently unavailable.

I have also been a very-long-term member of MetaFilter, one of the pre-eminent community weblogs. Although I had been exposed to Wikis long before, my first real experience with contributing to one was the MetaFilter Wiki, which serves as a FAQ.

I have an irregular weblog at stilicho.blogspot.com.

I have profiles at last.fm (join the wikipedia group) and 43things..

Wikipedia philosophy

I'm inclusionist by nature. Wikipedia isn't paper. But notability guidelines are generally good.
I don't think recentism is a serious flaw.
Categories help people find stuff. My category clutter limit is higher than others'.
This is a hypertext encyclopedia. Link to things that are relevant. Why prevent users from exploring?

Pending tasks/To-do

	Pending tasks for User:Dhartung :	edit this list - add to watchlist
	Complete User:Dhartung/Frank Rockefeller Complete User:Dhartung/USS Fulton pages Compuete User:Dhartung/Sandbox/Raed Jarrar Expand Tanita Tikaram Debut Albums Continue sourcing Prescott Bush Continue sourcing Samuel P. Bush Cleanup Stanislav Petrov, add refs for POV De-turf Northwestern Hawaiian Islands National Monument Roll back Lynching in the United States & rebuild Internationalize tree lawn/verge Scour ladder theory, friend zone per AFD Refs for exit strategy Refs for grok Create Danny Postel Military history of the United States#Gulf War needs trimming Jazz up user page Create Juárez radiation accident Janesville To-Do: Daniel Hale Williams npov, refs, cleanup Tallman House Janesville Armory Henry Palmer Burr Robbins Edward V. Whiton Angie King Cordelia Harvey Shopiere Jenkin Lloyd Jones Lavinia Goodell William Wallace Cargill founder of Cargill, born NYS, grew up Jvl

Highlights

Trial against the Bulgarian medics and a Palestinian doctor in Libya - a little-watched story; the article is decent but could use some knowledgeable polishing.
Web 2.0 - I had to thoroughly rewrite this article due to a high fog index. It could still use expansion and improvement.

Pages I've Created

DYK featured

Media Whores Online - the mysterious, MIA muckraking blogger
Clint Hartung - I'm not related, always thought he should have an article
Bettye LaVette - fascinating story, surprised no article
James A. Baker (government attorney) - people were getting him confused with the "other" James Baker
Philip Perry - every husband of the daughter of the VP who is also in government should have an article
Miles Copeland, Jr. - another fascinating figure in US history, he was like the anti-Zelig
McLane-Ocampo Treaty - fascinating what-if, we might have had a Mexico Canal today
Nellie Y. McKay - namesake of the singer, fascinating story

After this DYK submission quality increased substantially; many are almost to good article status nowadays. Good for DYK and Wikipedia, but a lot more work!