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:Merging and moving pages
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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

• Economies of agglomeration
• Basimba people
• Estadio Ángel Malvicino
• Business process modeling
• Minho (river)

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Fix wikilinks

• Aldous Huxley bibliography
• Bhai Jai Singh Khalkat
• Visual impairments in Alzheimer's disease
• Haplogroup E-M2

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Update with new information

• Coalition casualties in Afghanistan
• Oregon County, Missouri
• ATA over Ethernet
• List of legislatures by number of members
• Communist Party of Nepal (United Marxist)

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Expand short articles

• Radocza
• Wyźrał
• Wieprz, Lesser Poland Voivodeship
• Tłuczań
• Witanowice, Lesser Poland Voivodeship

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Check and add references

• Neerali
• Labeoninae
• Blitz Week
• Debbie Gibson
• USL League One

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Fix original research issues

• Air-ground radiotelephone service
• Dine and dash
• Legambiente
• U.S. Music Corporation
• Timeline of Romanian history

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Improve lead sections

• V. Manikandan
• Manuel Ugarte (writer)
• Zimbabwe Library Association
• JC Carroll
• Keith Mitchell (golfer)

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Add an image

• Jokpyeon
• Jerry Collins Stadium
• Jinnah Mansion
• John Hunter Grounds
• Judson Health Center

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Translate and clean up

• Ken Terajima
• Alsterhaus
• Knulp
• SONACA
• Issei Ishida

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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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