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Alaskanjackal

Joined 20 September 2003

Profile

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Ancient 1.5-decade-old content removed; profile due for a much-needed overhaul. :)

Major Wikipedia Contributions

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Somehow, they usually seem to fall under three main categories:

  • Travel
Alaska - Started the Transportation section and contributed information about air, car, ferry and railroad travel in Alaska as well as a brief overview of dog mushing.
Alaska Permanent Fund - Added information about the proposed change to the Percent of Market value approach
Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend - Created article and wrote stub with overview and history
Alaska Railroad - Contributed information on routes and scenery
Cook Inlet - Added info on Turnagain Arm tides and Turnagain/Knik Arm mudflats
  • Transportation
Railroads
Glendale train crash - Added miscellaneous details and a link to the Los Angeles Times's collection of articles
Direct traffic control - Started article! See the first [bad] version here
Flashing rear-end device - Two-way FREDs and Wilma (HOT) devices
Railway signalling#Signaling in the U.S. - Completely rewrote and vastly expanded section. The whole article still needs work, though.
Air brake (rail) - Contributed information on emergency applications. The article, including my contributions, still needs significant reorganization and copyediting.
EMD SD70 series - the nicer, newer of the Alaska Railroad's engines
EMD 710 - the engine used in the SD70-series. Started table and put the Expert template on it--the engine designations are alphabet soup!
EMD GP49 - a model of engine that the Alaska Railroad has but no one else does. I started a stub...
North American railway signaling - Preexisting stub. I copied my contributions and some other info from the railway signalling article to this one.
  • Technology
Cable television - Contributed detailed information about digital cable telephony
General Communications (GCI) - Another article had a reference to GCI, so I created a stubbed entry with a brief overview of the company
Mobile phone - Contributed information about mobile phone usage on aircraft
(This information was later moved to Mobile phones on aircraft)

But also these:

  • Politics
  • Religion
  • Other
Spectacor Management Group - Created article and pasted list of SMG-managed properties. (Shouldn't be a copyvio--it's just a list of cities and arenas). Surprising the article didn't previously exist--it seems to be a fairly large company.

Real-time list of contributions

Also check out WikiTravel:User:Cluth and WikiNews:User:Cluth. I've begun to contribute over there as well.

Other Interesting Articles

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Here are some other articles which I have found especially fascinating. These are in addition to the ones I've contributed to above. These are ones that I either haven't had time to contribute to or really don't need contributions.

  • Travel
  • Transportation
  • Technology
  • Politics
  • Religion
Transformationalism
Neo-evangelicalism

To Do

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  Open tasks for Wikipedia:WikiProject Alaska.
Edit or discuss these tasks.

Shortcuts: Recent changes | Categories | History

See the talk page (or archives of same) of WP:ALASKA, or of the articles in question, for more information.
Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

See also Wikipedia:WikiProject Trains/Todo and Wikipedia:Pages needing attention/Railroads

New article ideas

DTAG (Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group)
User:Cluth/International_economics
User:Cluth/Copyright law for church worship pastors

Existing articles or stubs to expand

Sound reinforcement system
Eric Whitacre
Tom Bodett
California State Route 46
Wikipedia:WikiProject California State Highways
Cellular One

Specific information contributions

Anchorage, Alaska
  • Suburban growth not as carefully planned out, lack of zoning (research this)
  • Warm weather -> lots of outdoor activities: walking, biking, horse riding, etc. -- out-of-towners come and wear fleece, locals are in tank tops
Rank
  • Add Salvation Army
National LambdaRail
  • What it is: wavelength control, etc. (I just watched a 1 hour lecture on it, and that was more informative than this article!)
Salvation Army
  • Make more NPOV (less like an Army PR statement)--facts are good but the wording makes lots of assumptions
  • Organizational data (THQ, DHQ, quasi-military command structure--Lieutenant Commanders, Majors, Captains, etc.)
  • Subsection on rank to link to from Rank
Worship band
  • Newer popular songs?
Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport
  • New terminal information
  • USPS "hub" is actually called...? (Refer to USPS Web site or USPS to double check)
Olive Garden
  • Culinary Institute of Tuscany
Air brake (rail)
  • Emergency vs. Service applications
Yield management#Rental cars
  • Yield management in rates

Copy editing

Manga
Mobile phones on aircraft
Clownfish (capitalization and other grammatical stuff)
Gear ratio
DACS (Digital Access Carrier System)
Short Message Service
Short Circuit
San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
PNG
San Marcos Pass
Head of Government
Sam Cooke
Railway signalling - article organization, mediocre writing
Authorization hold - clean up, new headings, expand with technical details; link from other financial articles or integrate into credit card article?


You can help improve the articles listed below! This list updates frequently, so check back here for more tasks to try. (See Wikipedia:Maintenance or the Task Center for further information.)

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Help improve popular pages, especially those of low quality.


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  • University of Alaska Anchorage
  • Alaska links
  • Other travel links
  • Let's Go - travel guides for travelers on the cheap (that is, poor college students like me)
  • Lonely Planet - travel guides for adventurous, budget-oriented travelers
  • Rick Steves - travel guides for budget-oriented travelers who want one step above a youth hostel
  • Other links
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