Tim Pierce is a Boston-area software engineer and recovering Usenetter.
In a former life I was moderately well known for kibitzing on Usenet software [1], being a cranky contrarian [2] and reading bad pornography [3].
I am still not, when last I checked, an L.A. session guitarist or a basketball player for the Arizona State Sun Devils.
To date I am still unimpressed with the Arctic Monkeys.
WikiFriends include Bcordes, Shevett, Agaran, CruiserBob, Jrlevine, Vzafrin, Moominmolly and Joelfurr. Jay and I used to have a mighty fine feud going on, but it turns out he's really a pretty cool guy.
Wikipedia Contributions
editMy contributions to Wikipedia include:
- I negotiated a substantial rewrite of the Jewish Defense League article during a December 2005 revert war that both parties accepted.
- PhotoCatBot, a bot that categorizes generic photo requests and promotes easier navigation of Category:Wikipedia requested photographs and subcategories.
- Recently I've become enthusiastic about contributing photographs to Wikipedia, mostly by scouring articles under Category:Wikipedia requested photographs for practical contributions I can make. Articles I have contributed images to include:
Boston
- Abiel Smith School
- Berklee College of Music
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
- Boston Children's Museum
- Boston Tea Party
- Charles Playhouse
- Citi Performing Arts Center
- Congress Street Fire Station
- Dearborn School
- Dillaway School
- Dudley Station Historic District
- Dudley Square (MBTA station)
- Edward H. Haskell Home for Nurses
- Eliot Burying Ground
- Eliot Congregational Church
- Frederick Douglass Square Historic District
- Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
- Hibernian Hall (Boston, Massachusetts)
- InterContinental Boston
- John B. Gough House
- Lawrence Model Lodging Houses
- Massachusetts Avenue (MBTA Orange Line station)
- Massachusetts gubernatorial election, 2014
- Massachusetts School of Art
- Metropolitan Theatre
- Millennium Place
- Mission Hill, Boston
- New Riding Club
- North Terminal Garage
- Occupy Wall Street
- The Riviera
- Roxbury Highlands Historic District
- Russia Wharf
- Timothy Hoxie House
- Students House
- Union Boat Club
Cambridge
Waltham
- Central Square Historic District (Waltham, Massachusetts)
- Christ Episcopal Church (Waltham, Massachusetts)
- Eastern Middlesex County Second District Court
- Francis Buttrick Library
- First Congregational Church (Waltham, Massachusetts)
- Francis Buttrick House
- Gale-Banks House
- Hager-Mead House
- Gilbrae Inn
- Newton Street Bridge
- Prospect House (Waltham, Massachusetts)
- US Post Office-Waltham Main
- Waltham High School
- Waltham Water Works Shop
Other Massachusetts
Maine
- All Souls Chapel (Poland Spring, Maine)
- Battle of Norridgewock
- Center Meeting House and Common
- Eaton School (Norridgewock, Maine)
- Father Rale's War
- First Congregational Church, United Church of Christ
- Hiram Ramsdell House
- Little Red Schoolhouse (Farmington, Maine)
- Maine State Building
- Marrett House
- Mercer Union Meetinghouse
- Mount Blue (Maine)
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Cumberland County, Maine
- New Sharon Congregational Church
- Norridgewock
- Rumford Point Congregational Church
- Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village
- Sébastien Rale
- Skowhegan Fire Station
- Smalls Falls
- Tumbledown Mountain
- Union Church (Naples, Maine)
- Union Church (Phillips, Maine)
- Weld Town Hall (photo on National Register of Historic Places listings in Franklin County, Maine)
- West Paris, Maine
People
- Ace Atkins
- Andre Royo
- Anita Hill
- Ann McLane Kuster
- Bernard A. Harris, Jr.
- Brendan Emmett Quigley
- Carol Shea-Porter
- Charles Ogletree
- Chris Van Allsburg
- Colin Van Ostern
- Dan Kelly (musician)
- Donna Soucy
- Elizabeth Warren
- Hillary Clinton
- Janet Evanovich
- Jim Braude
- Jim True-Frost
- Keyboard Cat
- Laurence Canter
- Lou D'Allesandro
- Maggie Hassan
- Margery Eagan
- Michael K. Williams
- Michelle Obama
- Morris Dees
- Paul Kelly (musician)
- Samantha Buck
- Scott Lively
- Sonja Sohn
- Sophie Trudeau
- Tim Kaine
- Will Shortz
Other
- 2010 Times Square car bombing attempt
- Adam Brown Block
- Adolph Lomb House
- Atlantic white-sided dolphin
- Best Kept Secret (film)
- Browncroft Historic District
- Cathedral of St. Joseph (Hartford, Connecticut)
- Chester Dewey School No. 14
- Cox Building
- East Avenue Historic District
- Emmanuel Presbyterian Church (Rochester, New York)
- English Evangelical Church of the Reformation and Parish House
- Fraunces Tavern
- George Tiller
- German United Evangelical Church Complex
- Godspeed You! Black Emperor
- H. C. Cohen Company Building-Andrews Building
- Hildreth-Lord-Hawley Farm
- Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, 2016
- Jewish Young Men's and Women's Association
- Kirstein Building
- Linden-South Historic District
- Rochester Savings Bank
- ROFLCon
- Same-sex marriage in Massachusetts
- Sibley Triangle Building
- Thomas Youngs House
- University Club (Rochester, New York)
- Vehicle fire
Wikipedia photography projects
edit- User:Twp/Drafts/WikiProject Photo Requests -- draft of a guideline for organizing and cleaning up photo request templates.
- User:Twp/Photo Cleanup Drive - draft proposal for a Photo Cleanup Drive, to kick up some enthusiasm for adding missing photos
References
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