User:JimVC3

About Me This user is a Buckeye. PhD This user has a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Psychology. This user identifies as gay. This user has no cell phone. This user contributes using Safari.

Wikitrivia

This user has been on Wikipedia for 16 years, 1 month and 7 days. This editor is a Senior Editor II and is entitled to display this Rhodium Editor Star. This user has rollback rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify) This user is a recent changes patroller. This user reverts vandalism in the blink of an eye with Twinkle!

WikiProjects

tyop typo This user is a member of the Wikipedia Typo Team. This user participates in WikiProject Television.

Interests

This user enjoys reading mysteries. This user enjoys the works of Charles Dickens. Good evening! This user loves films by Alfred Hitchcock. This user is a fan of The West Wing.

...to my user page. My name is Jim and I'm a retired university administrator living in San Jose, California. I'm originally from central New York and completed my graduate work at the Ohio State University. My university experience is primarily in the areas of counseling and student activities. However, I've also worked as a researcher and software trainer.

After retirement I upgraded my entire home computer system and, while surfing the web, discovered Wikipedia during the summer of 2008. After spending quite a bit of time in the Wikipedia namespace, I created an account on October 24, 2008.

I began by correcting spelling and other typographical errors in articles. I also revised the Wikipedia Lists of Common Misspellings. While the pages don't seem to be used that often, it was a great way to learn about Wikipedia. And I enjoy working in the background to improve Wikipedia.

At the end of October I discovered the Recent Changes pages and started reviewing them on a daily basis as well. I've used the rollback feature to assist in reverting vandalism and sometimes patrol new pages. In 2011 I started editing pages tagged as needing sections (about 50 so far) and continued reverting vandalism using Twinkle.

I have interests in mystery writers and their novels, movies and television shows, actors and actresses, and science fiction. I anticipated that it would take me several months before I made a contribution in these areas, but created my first new article on November 10, 2008, with the second soon after. These articles 'fill in the blanks' for shows that are missing in Wikipedia. I've also been adding infoboxes to television show articles that are missing them and tagging the talk pages with the WikiProject Television template.

My Sandbox

My Drafts

List of Wikipedians by number of edits

Wikipedia:Lists of common misspellings

My Favorite Misspellings

Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/List of TV shows

Wikipedia:WikiProject Television/Style guidelines

Television articles without infoboxes

Television infobox templates

Pages with citations using unsupported parameters

Pages with citations using unrecognized parameters

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