User:Pat Palmer

I live in the United States with a spouse and cat(s). Worked 40 years as a programmer, sysadmin, professor, and tech-of-all-trades consultant. Formal education: M.A. in public sector management; and M.S. in computer science, most of a Ph.D. (not completed) in Germanic linguistics and literature, and B A. in liberal arts, major English. I joined this wiki in 2007. Some articles I have worked on:

Amaryllis Amy Lowell (poet) Appalachian Mountains Claude Shannon Clean Water Act Coal mining Croquet C_Sharp David Bradford Park Delaware River Donald Trump Eugene Daub (sculptor) Evening primrose Georgette_Heyer Gertrude_Stein James H. Schmitz Klamath River Knoxville, Tennessee Larry McMurtry Liaden universe Lois_McMaster_Bujold Macrobiotics Mary Baker Eddy Matter (standard)

New Jersey One-way encryption Outside the Magic Circle Paris, Tennessee Patriot_Act Paul Prestopino Quinto_(grid_game) Rainer_Maria_Rilke Roosevelt, New Jersey Rosetta Stone Ruby (programming language) Scylla (sea monster) Sharon Lee (author) Smart home Smoke Signals (film) Steve Miller (author) Tennessee Heritage Protection Act Tennessee River The Feminine Mystique The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge Theater in the round Theodor Fontane Thread (network protocol) To Have and To Hold (Johnston novel) Walt Whitman What is language?

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How to subpage an article

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ONGOING CLEANUP:

Ext (182) |  Refs (54)
Definition only (3,734)

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Things needing my attention:

• CZ:Pages_without_metadata
• Category:Lemma Subpage
• CZ:Proposed for deletion | Category:Articles_for_deletion | CZ:Article_Deletion_Policy
• CZ:Suspect article list
• Known issues
• CZ:Stub length

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• CZ:Fulfilled Article Requests | CZ:Requested_Articles | CZ:Wanted articles

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• Category:Flagged for Review
• Category:Reviewed Passed if Improved
• Category:Reviewed Passed
• Category:Living Person

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• Category:Pseudoscience Subgroup
• Category:Complementary and alternative medicine Subgroup
• Category:Need def
• CZ:Unused notice

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