User:DavidCary

Howdy everyone.

What do you want to know ?

• wiki fan
• robot enthusiast
• learning Español (Spanish)
• interested in computer architecture
• interested in the Wikipedia:WikiNode network
• learning the Java programming language
• Visual Wiki http://visual.wiki.taoriver.net/
• Mad Scientist wiki http://oddwiki.taoriver.net/wiki.pl/MadScientist/DangerSign
• pretty good at the C programming language
• pretty good at Deutsch (German) --> English translation
• ... anything else I should say ?

Sometimes I help Wikipedia:Cleanup Wikipedia:Peer_review .

Often I feel a page is too long (Wikipedia:Page size) or too complicated.

I try to update the parallel http://simple.wikipedia.org/ page with a simpler explanation, often failing miserably.

I am more successful at reducing size. "What!", you may exclaim, "you not only delete stuff, but then you brag about it on your user page ?!". Not exactly. I (try to) follow the Wikipedia:Refactoring guidelines. I *move* blocks of text -- from one article or talk page, to a more relevant article or talk page. (I try to leave behind a link to the new location so people won't think I'm randomly deleting stuff). Occasionally I create a new article specifically about one large section of the old article.

I wish more people refactored. I find it annoying when much of the text of some long article or talk page is yet another re-hash of something already thoroughly examined on several other pages.

I created the page low-power --DavidCary 11:04, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)

I created the page barrel processor -- DavidCary 01:29, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I created the page Universal code 2005-01-04. --DavidCary 10:16, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)