User:JoeAnderson
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A thirtysomething chemist-cum-computer go-to guy.
I've finally gotten around to registering this user account. I don't remember, I may have registered it and it had gotten deleted, but I noticed this was on a list of user pages that don't have active users, and figured I should register it.
Among the IP numbers I use to access Wikipedia, several are at Iowa State University.
In my early wikipedia days (prior to early October 2001) I connected from home via the modem pool into the Project Vincent machines isua.iastate.edu (which resolve, in round-robin fashion, to five different IP addresses). To indicate my use of one of these, I associated some of these IP numbers with the more generic signature "CyFan" (preferred) or "IowaStateUniversity" (perhaps more accurate but misleadingly official-looking). I felt that this was more appropriate than a personal signature since each IP is, in principle, usable by any one of 40,000 or so people with ISU network IDs who can log on to this family of machines. Even so, I'm the only one I've noticed doing any Wikipedia work :-)
Since October 2001, I still connect from various ISU-administered IP numbers (typically from within several /24 blocks in ISU's 129.186.0.0/16 block) which I haven't bothered to register, and from my home DSL IP (likewise, haven't bothered to register). When I'm waiting for something else, or feel like taking a Wikipedia break, I check in from wherever is most convenient, and that's the IP that shows up.
I started keeping track of articles on which I've worked, but I'd rather spend my time reading and writing articles than keeping track. My wikipedia writing tends toward article stubs, re-writes of article sections, redirectss or fact-, grammar-, and spelling-checks rather than wholesale authoring of full blown articles or sets of articles.
With that said, I think my training and experience allows me to write with some (at least minor) authority on articles involving chemistry and biochemistry, though my interests might take me a good deal off that range from time to time. For instance, I've been chipping away at getting some information included for several of the colleges and universities with which I have some familiarity, as well as some of the geographical areas I know somewhat.
