User:Alaskanjackal

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Ancient 1.5-decade-old content removed; profile due for a much-needed overhaul. :)

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Somehow, they usually seem to fall under three main categories:

• Travel

:Alaska - Started the Transportation section and contributed information about air, car, ferry and railroad travel in Alaska as well as a brief overview of dog mushing.

::Alaska Permanent Fund - Added information about the proposed change to the Percent of Market value approach

::Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend - Created article and wrote stub with overview and history

::Alaska Railroad - Contributed information on routes and scenery

::Cook Inlet - Added info on Turnagain Arm tides and Turnagain/Knik Arm mudflats

• Transportation

:Railroads

::Glendale train crash - Added miscellaneous details and a link to the Los Angeles Times's collection of articles

::Direct traffic control - Started article! See the first [bad] version [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Direct_traffic_control&oldid=69746756 here]

::Flashing rear-end device - Two-way FREDs and Wilma (HOT) devices

::Railway signalling#Signaling in the U.S. - Completely rewrote and vastly expanded section. The whole article still needs work, though.

::Air brake (rail) - Contributed information on emergency applications. The article, including my contributions, still needs significant reorganization and copyediting.

::EMD SD70 series - the nicer, newer of the Alaska Railroad's engines

::EMD 710 - the engine used in the SD70-series. Started table and put the Expert template on it--the engine designations are alphabet soup!

::EMD GP49 - a model of engine that the Alaska Railroad has but no one else does. I started a stub...

::North American railway signaling - Preexisting stub. I copied my contributions and some other info from the railway signalling article to this one.

• Technology

:Cable television - Contributed detailed information about digital cable telephony

:General Communications (GCI) - Another article had a reference to GCI, so I created a stubbed entry with a brief overview of the company

:Mobile phone - Contributed information about mobile phone usage on aircraft

::(This information was later moved to Mobile phones on aircraft)

But also these:

• Politics
• Religion
• Other

:Spectacor Management Group - Created article and pasted list of SMG-managed properties. (Shouldn't be a copyvio--it's just a list of cities and arenas). Surprising the article didn't previously exist--it seems to be a fairly large company.

Real-time list of contributions

Also check out WikiTravel:User:Cluth and WikiNews:User:Cluth. I've begun to contribute over there as well.

Here are some other articles which I have found especially fascinating. These are in addition to the ones I've contributed to above. These are ones that I either haven't had time to contribute to or really don't need contributions.

• Travel
• Transportation
• Technology
• Politics
• Religion

:Transformationalism

:Neo-evangelicalism

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New article ideas

:DTAG (Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group)

:User:Cluth/International_economics

:User:Cluth/Copyright law for church worship pastors

Existing articles or stubs to expand

:Sound reinforcement system

:Eric Whitacre

:Tom Bodett

:California State Route 46

:Wikipedia:WikiProject California State Highways

:Cellular One

Specific information contributions

:Anchorage, Alaska

::*Suburban growth not as carefully planned out, lack of zoning (research this)

::*Warm weather -> lots of outdoor activities: walking, biking, horse riding, etc. -- out-of-towners come and wear fleece, locals are in tank tops

:Rank

::*Add Salvation Army

:National LambdaRail

::*What it is: wavelength control, etc. (I just watched a 1 hour lecture on it, and that was more informative than this article!)

:Salvation Army

::*Make more NPOV (less like an Army PR statement)--facts are good but the wording makes lots of assumptions

::*Organizational data (THQ, DHQ, quasi-military command structure--Lieutenant Commanders, Majors, Captains, etc.)

:::*Subsection on rank to link to from Rank

:Worship band

::*Newer popular songs?

:Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport

::*New terminal information

::*USPS "hub" is actually called...? (Refer to USPS Web site or USPS to double check)

:Olive Garden

::*Culinary Institute of Tuscany

:Air brake (rail)

::*Emergency vs. Service applications

:Yield management#Rental cars

::*Yield management in rates

Copy editing

:Manga

:Mobile phones on aircraft

:Clownfish (capitalization and other grammatical stuff)

:Gear ratio

:DACS (Digital Access Carrier System)

:Short Message Service

:Short Circuit

:San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge

:PNG

:San Marcos Pass

:Head of Government

:Sam Cooke

:Railway signalling - article organization, mediocre writing

:Authorization hold - clean up, new headings, expand with technical details; link from other financial articles or integrate into credit card article?

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• University of Alaska Anchorage

:*[http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/ University of Alaska Anchorage]

:*[http://jpc.uaa.alaska.edu/ UAA's journalism program]

:*[http://www.thenorthernlight.org/ The Northern Light] - UAA's student newspaper — Someday, when I have time, I'll freelance for it

:*[http://krua.uaa.alaska.edu/ KRUA] - UAA's student radio station — you can hear occasional newscasts featuring my contributions

:*[http://aviation.uaa.alaska.edu/ UAA's aviation program]

• Alaska links

:*[http://www.state.ak.us/ State of Alaska]

:*[http://www.state.ak.us/local/facts.shtml State of Alaska Facts and Visitor Information]

:*[http://www.travelalaska.com/ Alaska Travel Industry Association] - sponsored by the State of Alaska

:*[http://sled.alaska.edu/ SLED] (Statewide Library Electronic Doorway)

::*[http://sled.alaska.edu/tourist.html SLED's tourist info site] (has similar links to what's on this page)

:*[http://www.alaska.com/ Alaska.com]

:*[http://www.alaskaair.com/ Alaska Airlines]

:*[http://www.alaska.org/ Alaska Channel] - available in hotel rooms; site offers good, solid travel tips from locals and they produce a great free guidebook. I use its restaurant reviews and I live here.

:*[http://www.akrr.com/ Alaska Railroad]

:*[http://www.anchorage.net/ Anchorage Convention and Visitors Bureau]

:*[http://www.adn.com/ Anchorage Daily News]

:*[http://www.muni.org/ Municipality of Anchorage]

:*[http://www.themilepost.com/ The Milepost] - the best book for traveling by road in Alaska (hint: it's half as expensive if you buy it at one of the Anchorage Costcos)

:*[http://pafc.arh.noaa.gov/ National Weather Service Anchorage Forecast Office] (It's not as cold in Anchorage as people think!)

:*[http://www.thriftyak.com/ Thrifty Car Rental of Anchorage], cheap, brand new cars and the ultimate in customer service :-)

:*[http://www.gi.alaska.edu/cgi-bin/predict.cgi University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute's Aurora Forecast]

• Other travel links

:*[http://www.letsgo.com/ Let's Go] - travel guides for travelers on the cheap (that is, poor college students like me)

:*[http://www.lonelyplanet.com/ Lonely Planet] - travel guides for adventurous, budget-oriented travelers

:*[http://www.ricksteves.com/ Rick Steves] - travel guides for budget-oriented travelers who want one step above a youth hostel

• Other links

:*[http://www.costco.com/ Costco], the best store in the world

:*[http://www.danubealaska.net My Web site]. More links there (eventually).

:*And last but not least: [http://thejackalscackle.blogspot.com/ My new blog] of random musings!

Cluth