Tim Ivorson

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Wikipedia:Babel de-1Dieser Benutzer hat grundlegende Deutschkenntnisse. enThis user is a native speaker of the English language. Search user languages
Writing This user doesn't trust books. They're all fact, no heart. 2600This user reads 2600: The Hacker Quarterly. Er...This user is (cont. page 94) WBA GNF ARBThis user thinks Dave Barry would be a good name for a rock band. And this user is not making that up. This user is an admirer of Borges.
Normativity This user is opposed to regional lockout. This user supports immigration and the right to travel freely upon the planet we share. This user finds censorship offensive. This user is interested in Utilitarianism, the belief that a moral action is one which increases the total happiness of humanity. This user uses free software wherever and whenever possible.
Sound 6×9=42This user jokes in base 13. NThis user works for K.E.N.T., the Key Environmental Nonjudgemental Taskforce. NWThis user plays NumberWang.
Video BBFThis user has interviewed George Parr. GWThis user plays Guyball This user has visited Royston Vasey, and will never leave! This user demands you respect my authoritah! YMAre you a fan? Yes Minister. FLThis user only likes A Bit of Fry & Laurie. Not 9This user is not wild, they're absolutely livid! TDTThis user gets their news from The Day Today, because fact into doubt won't go. BEThis user is a fan of Brass Eye. BTThis user has entered The World Stare-Out Championship Finals. jamThis user was born dead through their own arse. WLIIAThis user watches Whose Line Is It Anyway?
Mathematics lisp-1This user is a basic Lisp programmer. C-1This user is a beginning C programmer. $\textstyle {\frac {\partial }{\partial x}}\,\;$ This user only partially understands mathematics.
Games MIThis user knows all the Monkey Island Insults by heart!

I may be barely active on Wikipedia for a while.

Useful information

Article lists

• Category:Candidates for speedy deletion
• Fix common mistakes
• Special:Allmessages
• Special:Ancientpages
• Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links
• Wikipedia:Offline reports
  • Is this really a disambiguation page?
  • Nothing links to this article, Wikipedia:Orphaned Articles, Wikipedia:Orphaned Articles/M-Z and Special:Lonelypages
  • Nothing links to this stub
  • Should this be a stub?, Wikipedia:Shortpages and Special:Shortpages
  • This article links to a redirect back to itself

Guidelines

• Wikipedia:As of
• Wikipedia:Avoiding common mistakes
• Wikipedia:Categorization FAQ#Where should the category tag go in the article?
• Wikipedia:Criteria for inclusion of biographies
• Wikipedia:External links
• Wikipedia:Guide to writing better articles#Use of 'refers to'
• Wikipedia:Ignore all rules
• Wikipedia:List of policies
  • Citing sources
    • Archive 31#Access date
  • Criteria for speedy deletion
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style
  • Dates and numbers
  • Guide to layout
  • Headings
  • Links ("do not use a piped link where it is possible to use a redirected term that fits well within the scope of the text")
  • Naming conventions
    • Acronyms
• Wikipedia:Perfect stub article
• Wikipedia:Profanity
• Wikipedia:Redirect#What do we use redirects for? Wikipedia:Template messages/Redirect pages
• Wikipedia:User page

Information for administrators

• Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard
• Wikipedia:Administrators' reading list
• Wikipedia:Requests for sysop attention

Instructions

• Help:Magic
• User:Ta bu shi da yu/Useful vi commands - don't use until a serious bug is fixed! Sorry 'bout this... - Ta bu shi da yu 21:47, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Wikipedia:How to edit a page and Help:Editing
• Wikipedia:How to link to Wikimedia projects
• Wikipedia:How to use tables and m:Help:Table [1]
• Wikipedia:Picture tutorial
• Wikipedia:Template messages

HTML entities

Brackets

(&#40 and ) produce parentheses)
[[ and ] produce square brackets]
{{ and } produce braces}
<&lt; and &gt; produce angle brackets ⟨and so do &lang; and &rang;⟩>

Quotation marks

‘‘ and ’ produce single quotation marks’
““ and ” produce double quotation marks”
‹‹ and › produce single angle quotation marks›
«« and » produce guillemets or double angle quotation marks»
"" produces APL quotes"

Templates

• Album infobox
• Allmusicguide
• Cquote
• ImageStackRight
• Imdb name and Imdb title
• Infobox Person
• Infobox musical artist
• Infobox record label
• Infobox Single
• This article is about
• Unsigned

Useless information

• User:FrancisTyers/Fuck the Border
• Wikipedia:Department of Fun

Entries started by me

• Capital Radio - I turned the redirect page into a stub.
• Cutting (music) - I wrote the original stub.
• Droit de suite
• Ion (window manager) - I wrote a stub at Ion (window manager)/Temp after the contents of the article were removed due to copyright violation.
• Rawkus Records - I wrote the original stub.
• Tha Dogg Pound - I wrote the original stub.
• The Power of Nightmares - I wrote the original stub.
• York.TV - I wrote the original stub.
• File:YorkTV.jpg - I uploaded it.

Albums

• Dogg Food - I wrote the original stub.
• The Platform - I wrote the original stub.
• The RBX Files - I wrote the original stub.
• File:DilatedPeoplesThePlatform.jpg - I uploaded it.
• File:DoggPoundDoggFood.jpg - I uploaded it.
• File:GzaLegend.jpg - I uploaded it.
• File:PublicEnemyApocalypse91.jpg - I uploaded it.
• File:RBXTheRBXFiles.jpg - I uploaded it.

People

• Adam Curtis - I wrote the original stub.
• Linda Smith (novelist) - I wrote the original stub.
• Francesca Martinez - I wrote the original stub.
• Jimmy Mulville - I wrote the original stub.
• James Murdoch (media executive) - I wrote the original stub.
• Craig Murray - I wrote the original stub.
• Matt Pritchett - I wrote the original stub.
• Skinnyman - I wrote the original stub.
• Harry Thompson - I wrote the original stub.
• Don Ward - I wrote the original stub.

Interesting articles

• List of postal areas in the United Kingdom
• List of United Kingdom dialling codes

Computing

• Audio file format
• Computer accessibility
• Computer security
  • Executable space protection
  • Veriexec
• File system
  • Allocate-on-flush
  • Copy-on-write
  • Journaling file system, Crash counting, Log-structured file system and Softupdates
• Internet Control Message Protocol
• Internet Mail 2000
• List of common keyboard shortcuts and Table of keyboard shortcuts
• Open standard
• Operating system
  • CapROS
  • OpenVMS
• Radix economy
• Software license
  • Open source
• USB mass storage device class

Economics

• Market economy
• Mixed economy
  • Market socialism
    • New Economic Policy
• Planned economy
• Retailer
  • Shrinkage

Events that have caught my attention

Here is a timeline of events with Wikipedia articles, about which I also heard elsewhere at the time.

• United Kingdom general election, 1992, 9 april
• United Kingdom general election, 1997, 1 May
• Good Friday Belfast Agreement, 1998-04-10
• WTO Meeting of 1999, 30 november
• UK fuel protest, from 2000-09-05
• U.S. presidential election, 2000, 7 november
• Selby rail crash, 2001-02-28
• 2001 UK foot and mouth crisis
• United Kingdom general election, 2001, 7 june
• September 11, 2001 attacks
• U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, 2001
• 2002 Bali bombing, 12 october
• September Dossier, published 2002-09-24
• UK Firefighter dispute 2002/2003
• Iraq disarmament crisis, 2002–2003
• Dodgy Dossier, published 2003-02-03
• Popular opposition to war on Iraq
• 2003 invasion of Iraq
• Georgian Rose Revolution, parliament occupied 2003-11-22
• Hutton Inquiry, 2003-2004
• Grey Tuesday, 2004-02-24
• 2004 Haiti rebellion, President Aristide taken away 29 february
• 11 March 2004 Madrid attacks
• European Parliament election, 2004, 10 june–13 june
• Butler Review, published 2004-07-14
• Ryanggang explosion, 2004-09-09
• 2004 Osama bin Laden video, released 29 october
• U.S. presidential election, 2004, ending 2 november
• Ufton Nervet rail crash, 2004-11-06
• Ukrainian presidential election, 2004, results originally announced 23 november
• 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, 26 december
• Bush administration payment of columnists, reported from 2005-01-07
• Ukrainian Orange Revolution, ending with President Yushchenko's inauguration 2005-01-23
• Iraqi National Assembly election, 2005, 30 january
• Spanish referendum on the European Constitution, 2005-02-20
• Lebanese Cedar Revolution, government resigns 2005-02-28
• Tulip Kyrgyz revolution of 2005, government overthrown 24 march
• Desecration of the Qur'an at Guantánamo Bay
• Downing Street memo, printed 2005-05-01
• May 2005 unrest in Uzbekistan
• French referendum on the European Constitution, 2005-05-29
• Dutch referendum on the European Constitution, 2005-06-01
• Operation Murambatsvina, from 2005-05-19
• Live 8, 2005-07-02
• 31st G8 summit, 2005-07-06–2005-07-08
• 7 July 2005 London bombings
• Israel's unilateral disengagement plan, completed 12 september, 2005
• 2005 Bali bombings, 1 october

Poetry

• English poetry
• Found poetry
• Meter (Monometer, Dimeter, Trimeter, Tetrameter, Pentameter, Hexameter, Heptameter, Octameter)
  • Foot
  • Sprung rhythm
• Nursery rhyme
• Onegin stanza
• Performance poetry
  • Dub poetry
  • Slam poetry
• Poetry analysis
• Rhyme
  • Rhyme scheme
• Rubaiyat
• Sestina
• Verse novel
• Category:Poetic forms

Politics

• British Nationality Act 1981
• Bush transfer of power
• Carnivore
• Colour revolution
• Constitution of the United Kingdom
• Diego Garcia
• Glasnost
• ECHELON
• European Free Trade Association
• Extraordinary rendition
• Form of government
• Free Territory of Trieste
• Israeli-Palestinian conflict
• Law
  • Arkell v. Pressdram
  • Intellectual property
    • Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights
    • Copyright
      • Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works
      • Buenos Aires Convention
      • Common law copyright
        • Donaldson v. Beckett
      • Copyright treaty table
      • Copyleft
      • Copyright misuse
      • Grand Upright Music, Ltd. v. Warner Brothers Records, Inc.
      • Universal Copyright Convention
      • WIPO Copyright Treaty
      • WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty
    • Digital rights management
      • Copy protection
    • Non-disclosure agreement
    • Patent
      • Software patent
    • Trademark
  • International law
    • Odious debt
  • Property
• Liberalism in the United States
• Magic Lantern (software)
• May 1968
• Military Action Against Iraq (Parliamentary Approval) Bill
• Nolan Chart
• Non-Aligned Movement
• Perestroika
• Police riot
• Political correctness
• Pournelle chart
• Propaganda model
• South Park Republican
• Stakhanovite
• Treaty of Osimo
• Vanguardism
• Voting system

Sound

• Audio data compression
• Audio level compression
• Audio system measurements
• Colours of noise
• Radio
  • Crystal radio receiver
  • Digital radio
    • Digital Audio Broadcast
• Pulse-code modulation
• Sound recording
  • White label