User:Tjrudebeck

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Tjrudebeck (born 1986) is an actor, filmmaker, writer, performer and radio newscaster, in addition to being a college student and frequent Wikipedia contributor.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Work Within Wikipedia 2.1 My Philosophy 2.2 Articles I Created 2.3 Existing Article Improvement 2.4 In the Works, in Subpages 2.5 Pictures What I Took

[edit] Biography

I'm pretty boring. I've lived pretty much all over the Midwest. I have a really strange (or cool?) accent; people often mistake me for a Canadian. Not that that's a bad thing.

One of my goals in life is to become interesting enough that I get an article written about me on Wikipedia. Ideally, it won't be the above copy; aside from being autobiography (which is discouraged), it'd be much cooler to have somebody doing research on me.

[edit] Work Within Wikipedia

[edit] My Philosophy

I suppose I could be called a Mergist, though I'm not a member of their society. I don't mind big articles at all (that warning about pages reaching 56K drives me nuts), and in fact prefer them to short articles. I also think certain articles are kind of absurd, but I don't necessarily believe that such things are black and white. For example, I don't think every single Metra station requires its own article. Most of them are the same, admit it. However, some are architecturally notable (which might require a rewrite of the current article to focus more on that side), and some (like Ogilvie Transportation Center) are large enough that I can see the need for the article. Still, I think I would prefer that the lists stay in the Metra article. In this example, anyway.

Also, I like articles that are succinct and use small words. My view on technical jargon is, I consider myself well-read. I have a pretty good vocabulary. If I can't understand what you've written, then somebody who doesn't know English so well, or who doesn't know lots of technical words, is going to be completely at sea.

[edit] Articles I Created

• Thilmany
• Valley Transit

[edit] Existing Article Improvement

• Kaukauna, Wisconsin
• Appleton, Wisconsin
• Lawrence University
• Evanston, Illinois
• Wisconsin State Highway 441
• Northwestern University

[edit] In the Works, in Subpages

• NU School of Communication
• A version of Kaukauna, Wisconsin, with a city infobox and other improvements added
• The same for Appleton, Wisconsin
• User:Tjrudebeck/Fox Cities, a concerted attempt at a more fact-based article about the metro area

[edit] Pictures What I Took

Yay photography.

The North Side.	The South Side.	The South Side downtown area of Kaukauna, Wisconsin	The Veterans Memorial Bridge.
Veterans Memorial Park.	The Charles A. Grignon home. The house is also known as "The Mansion in the Woods".	The Thilmany paper mill.	The Thilmany factory in Kaukauna as seen from the Grignon home.
The Thilmany factory in Kaukauna as seen from the 1000 Islands Environmental Center.	Looking north on Wisconsin State Highway 441 from the Newberry Street viaduct in Appleton, Wisconsin.	The Appleton skyline from the south bank of the Fox River.	The Lawrence University campus at night from the Oneida Skyline Bridge, Appleton.