User:Straif

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I'm originally from Salt Lake City, but now live in the Boston area. I'm a computer programmer by profession. Linux and Unix are my preferred development platforms, and I program in Java, Perl, Korn shell, bash, and a handful of others.

Interests include:

• Geology
• Paleontology
• Celtic mythology, particularly Welsh.
• I'm learning Welsh

Miscellaneous Wikipedia Tasks

Besides updating some Welsh mythology pages, I seem to be fixing a lot (well, some) redirected links.

Pages I might be able to contribute to or help with:

• Salem, Massachusetts
• (Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links)

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• Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links - Disambiguation link repair - [[Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links|You can help!]]
• Wikipedia:Citing_sources
• Wikipedia:Merging and moving pages
• Wikipedia:Neutral point of view
• Correcting Vandalism, etc.
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  • Wikipedia:Counter Vandalism Unit
  • Wikipedia:Revert
  • Wikipedia:Vandalism
  • Wikipedia:Administrator_intervention_against_vandalism
  • Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress
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  • Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents
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Wikipedia Tasks

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.)

Fix spelling and grammar

• Hall effect sensor
• Indomie
• Cayouche
• My People, My Country (song)
• Anti-appeasement steles

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Fix wikilinks

• Max Fishman
• Valentino Rossi
• Puteri Indonesia 2022
• Miryang
• List of analog television stations in the Philippines

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Update with new information

• Manchester Southern
• Architects (Recognition of European Qualifications etc and Saving and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2008
• San Luis Rey, Oceanside, California
• International rankings of the United States
• Play Anywhere

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Expand short articles

• Oshogbo Stadium
• Nigeria at the 1956 Summer Olympics
• Oghara Township Stadium
• Polo in Nigeria
• Nigeria national baseball team

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Check and add references

• Proton Iriz
• Vijay (director)
• Acetylene
• Gag name
• Lauren Daigle

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Fix original research issues

• Ciociaria in cinematography
• Horrible Histories (2000 TV series)
• Technopaganism
• Miss Perú 2004
• Jason Voorhees

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Improve lead sections

• Cynthia Webster
• Firdos Square statue destruction
• Chief (train)
• Bobby Ray Inman
• New Zealand–Sweden relations

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Add an image

• Malta Fairs & Conventions Centre
• Meenkara Dam
• Meadows Archeological District
• Madonna University, Nigeria
• Margate, Tasmania

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Translate and clean up

• Fights Break Spheres
• Ferdinando Marinelli Artistic Foundry
• Zella-Mehlis
• Avtokam
• Álvaro Uribe

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Help counter systemic bias by creating new articles on important women.

Help improve popular pages, especially those of low quality.

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• My Edit Count
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