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Religion
I've taken an extended vacation from Wikipedia for a while. I will be checking in occasionally still.

I'm a forty-something computer programmer, living approximately six miles west of downtown Ogden, Utah, three miles east of the Great Salt Lake and 30 miles north of Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.A.. I graduated from Weber State College (now a university) with a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science in 1989. I had enough credits that I could have chosen a Bachelor of Arts degree, but I figured that the science degree would work better with my chosen career path. (I still lean more to the artistic side than others in my field.)

I accept Jesus Christ as my personal savior. I am an active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I served a mission in the Argentina, Buenos Aires South Mission, in the cities of Los Hornos, Chivilcoy and La Plata (in that order). I spoke Castilian Spanish fluently, but with an accent. I can still speak passable Spanish, and still with an accent.

Politically, I am both a fiscal and social conservative. There should be as little government as necessary and no more. On the World's Smallest Political Quiz, I score in the libertarian region, close to the conservative region. But I do not affiliate with any political party, especially not the two major political parties in the United States.

No human can be truly unbiased. However, I do truly strive for the Wikipedia NPOV. Other useful Wikipedia knowledge is found here.

Avocations

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I'm an active geocacher with 545 caches found as of October 8, 2007.

I enjoy playing board games. I used to go to the monthly meeting of a board game group in West Valley City, Utah (next to Salt Lake City about four to six times a year. I'd go more often, but it is about an hour away from my house. There is now a board game group forming in Ogden, Utah. Join us.

I hold an active Amateur radio license, technician class.

Major Wikipedia Edits

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I've made some major edits to some topics of which I have personal knowledge. Most have been rewording while adding some additional information. I worry more about editing than keeping this list up to date, so I've missed some major edits. Rather than try to maintain chronology, I have grouped them by topic.

Religion

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Geography

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Politics and History

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  • Legacy Highway: I'm for the Legacy Highway. As a computer programmer and former ISP worker, I recognize the logic of redundancy in network paths. But I stuck to a NPOV.
  • Eddie Aikau: Created this entry because a guy at work has a T-shirt with the phrase "Eddie would go" and some vague recollection of Eddie's story. I decided to look it up and create a Wikipedia stub.

Technology

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Entertainment

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Miscellaneous

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To Do

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This is my own personal list of things to do, when I get time:

Bookmarks

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Articles I want to bookmark for future reference:

Opinions to be considered

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  • Don't Destroy
  • Constructive Criticism on current Wiki Deletion Policy
  • After an article was nominated for the third time for deletion within a few months, I developed a personal policy to automatically vote against deletion unless it had been at least six months since the previous nomination. This went over like a lead balloon when I used it in a recent deletion review, so much so that those desiring deletion didn't read the other reasons I'd given to keep the article. However, in a recent discussion, someone brought up the Wikipedia policy on renominations, so I will now use this with a "six month" limit for "reasonable amount of time".

Problem editors/edits

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These are the voyages...

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...of the user Val42...

Colors of the kingdom of this world
Born and raised:
United States
United States
Utah
Utah
Lived in:
United States
United States
Utah
Utah
Argentina
Argentina
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
Countries set foot in:
United States
United States
Canada
Canada
Argentina
Argentina
... but only in airport:
Mexico
Mexico
Peru
Peru
Brazil
Brazil
States set foot in:
Arizona
Arizona
California
California
Colorado
Colorado
Florida
Florida
Idaho
Idaho
Maine
Maine
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Michigan
Michigan
Montana
Montana
Nevada
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Hampshire
New Mexico
New Mexico
New York
New York
Oregon
Oregon
Utah
Utah
Washington
Washington
Wyoming
Wyoming
... and provinces:
British Columbia
British Columbia
Ontario
Ontario
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
... but only in airport:
Texas
Texas
Illinois
Illinois
Ohio
Ohio
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