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== M3TAinfo ==
: ''aka '''Andrew Donald Kennedy'''''
: ''Member from 22 November, 2004''
: ''See [[Wikipedia:Userboxes|userboxes]] for information''

I started writing for [[Wikipedia|wikipedia]] over ten years ago, although I've been lurking and reading for longer. I'm a pretty low-visibility/activity user, having created just a small number of articles, and made less than five hundred edits. I ''do'' think that since I find this a useful resource, I should give something back to the community by contributing my knowledge where I feel I have some expertise or interest. Professionally, I'm involved with [[Information Technology|information technology]] in the areas of open source, computer programming, enterprise software and web applications using [[Java|java]] and [[J2EE|jee]] and information security, particularly [[Penetration Testing|pen-testing]]. I have a personal interest in these topics too, as well as in economics, finance, psychology, cognitive science, risk, statistics, gambling, heroin, philosophy, mathematics, language, reading and a whole bunch of other stuff...

== [[Special:Contributions/M3tainfo|Contributions]] ==

One of my main gripes and therefore cleanups is typos and ,misspelings as well as missing accidentally in articles, as well as missing references and citations or grammatical errors, and I often make one word or one character edits. I believe if everyone fixed these tiny typos then we would have a much higher quality wikipedia. I've also started flagging diagrams that ought to be [[SVG]] vector graphics, and I just need to learn how to use [[Inkscape]] or similar to do them myself.

I would like to help support [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Java|WikiProject Java]] somehow - it aims to better organize information in articles related to the '''Java''' programming language and its platform.

I'm learning a lot about the [[Wikipedia]] process right now, in particular [[Wikipedia:Non-free_use_rationale_guideline|non-free]] image use rationales and [[Wikipedia:Notability|notability]].

===Fixing Minor Planet Categories===

I am trying to fix an issue with old pages still showing up in the category index for minor planet names. The lists of names are all in blocks of 500 for minor planets numbered under 10,000, so the pages for e.g. 5001-6000 that simply include the two pages for 5001-5500 and 5501-6000 are redundant and can be deleted. Additionally, for some reason the 3001-3500 block is split into groups of 100, which I had copied to the 3001-3500 page instead of the include directives, and then deleted the content from the 3001-3100 etc.pages to prevent duplication and confusion.

[[Meanings_of_minor_planet_names]] is the correct category index, but viewing [[:Category:Lists_of_meanings_of_minor_planet_names]] gave some unnecessary duplication. This [[Meanings of minor planet names: 3001–3500]] now contains the data from pages holding groups of 100 names, to conform to the rest of the pages under 10k that are arranged in similarly sized blocks.

The following pages are the source of that content, and can now be deleted:
* [[Meanings of minor planet names: 3001–3100]]
* [[Meanings of minor planet names: 3101–3200]]
* [[Meanings of minor planet names: 3201–3300]]
* [[Meanings of minor planet names: 3301–3400]]
* [[Meanings of minor planet names: 3401–3500]]

These pages simply included two blocks of 500 and can also be deleted:
* [[Meanings of minor planet names: 2001–3000]]
* [[Meanings of minor planet names: 3001–4000]]
* [[Meanings of minor planet names: 4001–5000]]
* [[Meanings of minor planet names: 5001–6000]]
* [[Meanings of minor planet names: 6001–7000]]
* [[Meanings of minor planet names: 7001–8000]]
* [[Meanings of minor planet names: 8001–9000]]
* [[Meanings of minor planet names: 9001–10000]]

=== Edited Pages ===
# [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Java/List_of_articles]] - editing
# Wikipedia: A New Community of Practice? [[User:M3tainfo/Wikipedia_ANCoP_Review|review]] - ([[Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Newsroom/Review_desk|request]])
# [[Wikipedia - A New Community of Practice%3F]] - new page ([[Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Wikipedia_-_A_New_Community_of_Practice%3F|deletion]])
# [[Electronic article surveillance]] - edit
# [[Penetration test]] - edit
# [[Intrusion-detection system]] - edit
# [[Computer security]] - edit
# [[Whitehat]] - edit
# [[Tiger team]] - edit
# [[Penetration Testing]] - new page
# [[Anomaly-based intrusion detection system]] - new page
# [[BIKINI state]] - edit
# [[7166 Kennedy]] - new page ''(this is the minor planet named after my father)''

=== Information Security ===
i think some things like [[SQL injection]] should really be in the computer security category. i'm going to work on some more computer security articles on things that aren't there, maybe like the following:
* [[Signature-based intrusion detection systems]]
* Other types of security exploits, like [[integer sign overflow]]s?
* Security policies and procedures?
* Security risk and threat definitions?
* Scanning and automated scanners?

=== Useful Links ===
these are some useful internal links:
* [[Wikipedia:Policies_and_guidelines]]
* [[Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not]]
* [[Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style]]
* [[Help:Wikitext_examples]]
* [[Wikipedia_database]]
* [[This_article_does_not_cite_any_references_or_sources.]]
* [http://simple.wikipedia.org/ http//simple.wikipedia.org/]
* [[:Category:Articles_needing_additional_references]]
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Physics]]
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Java]]

== Identity ==
Should I [[Wikipedia:Changing_username|change my username]] to '''grkvlt''' to match my other online identities?

{{User committed identity|944d9b89f5a58fdfe1fb5e7cb547a046|MD5|border=#000}}

'''<span style="color:#aaa">—</span> [[User:M3tainfo|<span style="color:#0055dd">M3TA</span>]]<span style="color:#aaa">(</span>[[User_talk:M3tainfo|<span style="color:#0022aa">info</span>]]<span style="color:#aaa">) @</span>''' 18:28, 3 February 2010 (UTC)