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I am siliconred. My real name is Nathan Drezner. I understand there is some danger to associating my real identity with my wiki identity, so I do ask folks to respect my personal privacy — but feel free to leave me a message on my talk page 😊. Thanks!
You can see my statistics for my work in AfC here.
I manage a Twitter bot that posts the Picture of the Day, and I've written an open-source tool for Python to download edit histories from Wikipedia articles. Go check them out!
Pages I have created
editI tend to work on articles about musicians, Internet culture, and topics local to Montréal.
- Template:Montreal Metro route diagram - 17 Jan 2023
- Ça va bien aller - 7 Jun 2022
- Either/Or - 1 Jun 2022
- Kidsticks - 31 May 2022
- Snow removal in Montreal - 24 Apr 2022
- Fuji GS645 - 22 Feb 2022
- Sherelle - 18 Feb 2022
- Anz (musician) - 15 Feb 2022
- D. Tiffany - 15 Feb 2022
- Ciel (musician) - 18 Jan 2022
- Ivor Arbiter - 10 Nov 2018
- Black Velvet - 5 Nov 2018
- Serpentwithfeet - 5 Jul 2018
- Lush - 8 Jun 2018
- Jon Drezner - 14 Mar 2018
In Progress
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... that more than 30,000 cars were being towed annually by the 1970s to accommodate snow removal efforts in Montreal?
Using Wikipedia for non-Wikipedia things
editThe formatting, manual of style, and citation templating from Wikipedia can be very useful to craft non-Wikipedia works. I've written a couple of essays using Wikipedia (not for use on Wikipedia) taking advantage of these handy capabilities. In some ways, I regret not submitting more of my academic papers using Wikipedia markup as my editor of choice. LaTeX markup nerds can eat it! Wikipedia markup is better, for one major reason: It's web native (it also lacks the nightmarish compilation process of LaTeX).
- A paper on Judith Thompson's Palace of the End: "Reconciliation in Chaos"
- A submission for SSHRC to fund my previous research on Wikipedia
Notes
edit- Take a look at my presentation on Wikipedia for McGill's Poetry Matters! I had a lot of fun putting this together, and I hope some of my content in the slides is illuminating.
- I have one sockpuppet account, User:Nathan Drezner, which I use for business not associated with my Wikipedia identity. The account is largely inactive.
This user, in accordance with the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use, discloses that he has been paid by Bookmark Content for his contributions to Wikipedia. I wrote the article Bookmark Content and Communications. I have no other paid edits.
