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My name is Jeff and I live on [[Kent Island, Maryland]].  Some of my interests include [[computer programming]], [[video games]], and just about anything to do with my home state of [[Maryland]].  The current projects that I'm working on include getting the [[Chesapeake Bay Bridge]] article to GA status and assessing articles for [[WP:WPMD|WikiProject Maryland]].

Since I forget to log in sometimes and edited before I joined, my anonymous contributions can be found [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=207.255.185.129 here].

I'm not as active as I used to be, but I still continue to [[WP:GNOME|fix things that need fixing and perform other minor edits]].  One such thing that I continue to do is update the latest version of the [[D programming language]] in its article.

==How I'm Helping Wikipedia==
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I had already made a few edits here from the time I first discovered Wikipedia to the time I decided to join.

I've noticed that I don't have quite as high an edit count as most people who have been members as long as I have.  My philosophy is that a high edit count doesn't make you better than anyone else, it just means you don't know how to use the preview button.

Most of my edits here have involved creating and fixing up articles about important places and things in my home state, [[Maryland]], particularly the [[Maryland Eastern Shore|Eastern Shore region]].  My first ever edit was making the word [[Annapolis]] into a link in the [[Chesapeake Bay Bridge]] article (this has since been edited over), this edit can be found [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chesapeake_Bay_Bridge&diff=prev&oldid=10956187 here].  Another edit I was pretty proud of in my earlier days was fixing two broken external links in the [[Flag of Maryland]] article.  My first full article, which I created after joining, was for [[Kent Island, Maryland]], where I live.  I have also worked on creating articles for [[List of Maryland state highways|Maryland state highways]].  Though a lot of them are either stubs or pretty short, the way I see it, even if an article is just a stub, it's still worth creating since it is likely to get expanded by someone.  I've found highway articles pretty easy to create, since it is pretty easy to find alot of factual information on them.

===Some of My Major Contributions===
Some pages I have made major contributions to:
*[[Kent Island, Maryland]]
*[[Chesapeake Bay Bridge]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Roads in Maryland|Roads in Maryland]] articles
*[[U.S. Route 50]]

===Planned Contributions===
====Articles====
*[[Kent Island South Trail]]
*Trying to achieve GA status for [[Chesapeake Bay Bridge]]

====Images====
*[[:Image:MD Key Bridge.svg|Key Bridge route marker]] - not started (still haven't found spec)
*[[:Image:Capital Beltway sign.svg|Capital Beltway route marker]] - not started (still haven't found spec)

==Essays==
*[[/The purpose of WikiProjects]] - An older essay on WikiProjects, no longer maintained
*[[/How we disambiguate on Wikipedia]] - An essay on disambiguation
*[[/What WikiProjects are not]] - A newer essay on WikiProjects
*[[/What ever happened to Jeff02?]] - Why I left, and what I've been up to since leaving

==How I became a Wikipedian==
My online history can be summed up as one big chain reaction.  I started out posting at the PokeMasters forums in November 2004.  Later on, on those forums, I was basically invited to join Bulbapedia by Bulbagarden's webmaster, Archaic (after I made a complaint about a couple of mistakes on the 'pedia).  Shortly thereafter, I joined the Bulbagarden Forums (which are the forums whose members started Bulbapedia), and eventually, my work on Bulbapedia inspired me to join Wikipedia.

==About me==
===Interests===
====Programming====
One of my favorite hobbies is programming, As far as programming languages go, I only know [[C programming language|C]], [[C++]], [[D programming language|D]], and [[Java programming language|Java]] (but I wouldn't claim fluency in Java though).  I've done some research to start learning some other languages (mostly here at [[Wikipedia]]), but haven't experimented with them.

====Video games====
I'm also a fan of video games, especially [[Pokémon]] games.  Yes, I am a proud adult Pokémon fan!  I am a member of the Pokémon online community, where I go by simply as Jeff.  I am a member of both [http://www.thepokemasters.net/ The PokéMasters] (TPM) and [http://bmgf.bulbagarden.net/ the Bulbagarden forums].  I also maintain TPM's website.

====Roads====
One time, on one of my usual trips to UMBC (thankfully, it wasn't for a class), I accidentally missed the exit from [[Maryland Route 295]] onto [[Interstate 195 (Maryland)|I-195]].  Since I hadn't been going to the school that long I didn't realize anything was wrong for a while, but when I did notice I was off course I panicked and just kept driving.  I eventually wound up in [[Baltimore, Maryland|Baltimore]] and got as far as [[M&T Bank Stadium]] when I finally pulled myself together and found somewhere to turn around.  After that, I began studying maps of the area to make sure that I didn't get lost again, this is likely what sparked my interest in highways.  I'm still a "[[Google Earth]] enthusiast" as I like to call myself and have started the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Roads in Maryland|Roads in Maryland WikiProject]].  One of my largest contributions to that project is the uploading of [[Commons:Category:Diagrams_of_road_signs_of_Maryland|SVGs]] of road signs that are used in Maryland.

===Places I have visited===
*[[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|25px]] [[United States]]
**[[Image:Flag of Maryland.svg|25px]] [[Maryland]]
**[[Image:Flag of Delaware.svg|25px]] [[Delaware]]
**[[Image:Flag of Florida.svg|25px]] [[Florida]]
**[[Image:Flag of New Jersey.svg|25px]] [[New Jersey]]
**[[Image:Flag of New York.svg|25px]] [[New York (state)|New York]]
**[[Image:Flag of Pennsylvania.svg|25px]] [[Pennsylvania]]
**[[Image:Flag of South Carolina.svg|25px]] [[South Carolina]]
**[[Image:Flag of Virginia.svg|25px]] [[Virginia]]
**[[Image:Flag of West Virginia.svg|25px]] [[West Virginia]]

==Maryland road did you know facts==
A collection of facts that could be used on either the U.S. Roads Portal or the Maryland Portal.
*...that '''[[business route|business routes]]''' in [[Maryland]] use a different style of route marker than their parent routes?
*...that due to a gap in '''[[West Virginia Route 46]]''' motorists traveling along the route, must cross the [[Potomac River]] into [[Maryland]] and follow a 2-mile (3 km) section of [[Maryland Route 135]] and brief portion of [[Maryland Route 36]] before crossing back over the river and continuing on WV 46? ''(random note: Interestingly enough, Google Earth identifies the section in Maryland with Route 46 markers alongside the Route 135 markers.  Not sure what the signage there indicates though.)''
*...that '''[[Route 54 (Delaware–Maryland)|DE/MD 54]]''' switches maintanance between [[Delaware]] and [[Maryland]] a total of 5 times?
''or a possible alternative for one of the U.S. Roads Portal's April Fools' Day entries''
*...that drivers on '''[[Route 54 (Delaware–Maryland)|Route 54]]''' have trouble figuring out what state they're in?

==Links Placed Here for My Convenience==
*[[/test page]]
*[[/monobook.js]]
*http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/kentisland (unfortunately many of the good ones aren't WMC-compatible yet) :(

==Sites I'm A Member of==
*'''Wikipedia''' as Jeff02
*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Jeff02 Wikimedia Commons] as Jeff02
*[http://wikitravel.org/en/User:Jeff02 Wikitravel] as Jeff02
*[http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/User:Jeff Bulbapedia] as Jeff
*[http://www.xanga.com/Jeff_02 Xanga] as Jeff_02
*And some others