User: Babbage
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Hello!
I'm just getting started, advice welcome.
Things I'd Like to Know
What happens when there is a name collision? For instance:
Dave_Evans is now redirected to The Edge. But there must be a computer scientist Dave Evans, since one is listed on List_of_computer_scientists. As things stand, if someone follows the link they might think The Edge is a programmer.
Okay maybe not. But what to do? Create a disambig page Dave_Evans, I guess, even though the c.s. guy has no actual article. Then, should the title be Dave Evans (computer scientist)?
- There is some discussion of standardizing these titles, but right now theyre not standard. If you know their middle names, you can use that to disambiguate [dab]. It's usually NAME (obvious clarifier). If you've got one scientist and one musician, you can use profession. If you've got lots of random bios, you can use (birth-death) dates. +sj.+
Or what?
Sudan stuff
Lately I've been reading rather obsessively about Sudan, and I'm hoping to learn enough to add a few articles. I've started (barely) one on the Beja. I'm trying to get a Wikiproject on Sudan going.
Language, Linguistics, Natural Language Processing
Haven't been working on this as much of late, but it's my primary interest. In, you know, life.
As far as languages go, I read Portuguese (especially Brazilian Portuguese, which I love to death) and Spanish, and a smattering of Welsh, French, and a few others. Lately I've been messing around with Finnish.
I hang around on the Portuguese and Spanish wikipedias, and occasionally translate bits out of them into English, but I don't write there.
Articles I've Started
I started Seger Ellis, about the jazz pianist.
For some reason I've taken to rescuing horrible eighties bands from obscurity. I don't really like them... it's just an odd compulsion.
Takako Minekawa is a Japanese musician I like quite a bit.
On a far more serious note, I started the bio of Hassan al-Turabi, which still needs a lot of work.
Things I've Worked On
The first edit I made was adding an and. :)
My Sandbox
My todo list
I've been perplexed by the Template:Infobox Biography...
Wikipedia:Picture of the day/September 7, 2008
