User:Tomwsulcer

Welcome
Welcome to my user page. Feel free to leave comments on my user talk page -- click on the word discuss, above, or click here; better yet, write something on my Wikipedia talk page which I check much more often.



My free photos at Wikimedia Commons
Click here to see my latest photos. I generally declare my photos to be public domain.

Jakk's Journey
In my spare time I wrote a science fantasy novel, Jakk's Journey, about a high school boy who builds a spaceship, flies to Betelgeuse, meets sexy aliens, and learns how to become a human (the theme). It is available on Amazon in paperback and on Kindle.

My contributions at Wikipedia
Major revamps. I revamped highly trafficked articles:

United States Congress -- about 5000 readers per day; 2800/day April 2012
 * History of the United States Congress about 100/day; 80/day April 2012
 * U.S. Congress and citizens -- 15/day

Wall Street -- 2500/day.

Dating -- 1500/day. But this one still needs rewriting, revamping, more references. Too much advice in it; trimmed it. In December 2011, readership around 2500/day. 1800/day April 2012.

Hope Diamond -- 1500/day; occasionally spikes into the tens of thousands.

Friend zone -- expansion 2500/day

Handyman -- about 160/day; 200/day April 2012

Statistics New Zealand -- 50/day, revamp a while back

USS Iowa (BB-4) -- a US battleship which saw action in the Spanish American War -- 100/day

Citizenship in the United States -- 600 readers per day; floated this article and it's become a mainstay but it probably needs work sometime soon but I don't know what. 400+ April 2012.

Rodney Bingenheimer -- Interesting personality. 300 readers per day (but spikes at times). 90/day April 2012.

Two-party system -- 750 readers per day. 500+ April 2012.

Lake Erie -- first time I've done a lake. 1000 readers per day. But highly important for me to do a lake. Why? I'm no longer a lake virgin. 850+ April.

Man cave -- 300 readers per day. 200+ April 2012.

Kitchen cabinet -- 600/day; this was mostly a copyedit; didn't find much research on it; not exactly a university level subject. 350/day April 2012.

Allegheny College -- 135 readers per day -- revamp a year or so ago; 150/day April 2012.

Union County College -- 35 readers per day, holding steady.

Filter bubble -- 40/day. Floated this article recently. 150/day in April.

Equality of outcome -- 100/day. Expansion.

Equality of autonomy -- floated, hybrid concept developed by Amartya Sen. Lucky if there's 20/day.

Equal opportunity -- one of the major equalities -- 800/day during weekdays. Have you noticed how the equal opportunity gets huge readership while equality of outcome gets much less? Seems grossly unfair that readership is not equal. Hey let's lodge a complaint with the Equal Opportunity Commission.

Rachid Taha -- 300/day? Revamp. I still have no clue what genre this guy is; number of genres is about 10 I think.

Overlook Hospital -- hospital in New Jersey. 20/day

polyethylene#Uses‎|PEX PEX -- section revamp, 450+day

Ice bath -- brrrrr, floated this article. growing to 125/day -- what's so cool (sorry) about Wikipedia is people read this stuff. Growing to 200+ day, now 350+ a day in May 2012. One of my faster growing ones in terms of readership. 450+/day in June 2012.

Pseudoexfoliation syndrome -- major expansion; eye ailment. 40/day. 60+day. 100+day in May 2012.

Evertune -- newly invented gizmo to keep guitar strings in tune using springs and levers. I want one someday on my guitar.

Ebert test -- can a computer-synthesized voice have enough inflection to make people laugh? Floated; maybe 125/day? 70+day in May 2012.

Community Exchange System -- an alternative bill-less coin-less monetary system working over the Internet which originated in South Africa. About 40/day? 15/day May.

Lake Keowee, a man-made lake in South Carolina -- 50/day

Second Constitutional Convention of the United States -- proposal by small cadre of top academics (usually in law) for substantive political reform 40/day

College admissions in the United States -- 80/day April but hopefully will grow; revamp done May 3 2012. Regularly 250+, sometimes over 300 as of June 2012.
 * Yield (college admissions) -- 10/day
 * Wait list -- 10/day
 * Transfer admissions in the United States -- no idea how this one will go over -- 80/day in early winter 2013
 * FAFSA position -- probably 10/day, colleges data-mine it to screen applicants without their knowledge

Partnership at Drugfree.org -- you know, a nonprofit advertising agency to unsell drugs. Remember the egg in the frying pan commercial? This is your brain. This is drugs. This is your brain on drugs. Revamp. Hopefully this one will get 40 to 50 per day. 140/day in late April; probably some kind of promotion by PDFA.

Lobbying in the United States -- 400/day maybe, not about tennis; that's "Lobbing in the United States"

History of citizenship -- no idea how well this one will do; just floated in February 2012; so far 60/day; 40/day in April; pushing 400/day in November 2012

Jon Wiener -- cool bio of a guy who can sing "I fought the law and I won", unlike most everybody else -- hopefully 30/day after the dust settles

Science 2.0 -- wondering what kind of viewership this one will get; I'm guessing 35/day.

Authority control -- term in library science, rewrite, 400/day. Would be a cool name for a music group.

Medical tricorder -- possible device being built based on the science fiction TV show Star Trek. Probably 40/day

Big History -- cool course and academic discipline. Not the history of obesity but rather the Big Bang to the present. Hopefully 100-200/day. Also I revamped David Christian (historian), founder of the Big History movement, about 60/day.

Judicial interpretation -- about 40/day

Corporate anniversary -- wrote this one; probably 40/day if lucky

Utah Data Center -- varies; much interest in April 2013; I rewrote sections and added references plus did the diagram. Surprisingly, this kind of solution to terrorism is something I wrote about in my book Common Sense II, but it is only one part.

Foodscaping -- not veal parmigiana slithering off the plate to escape, but turning your front lawn into your farm. I'm guessing 10/day, if that.

Biographies. I like to write about folks with unusual occupations. If you have ideas of people to create Wikipedia articles for, please click talk:Tomwsulcer here and write them at the bottom of my user talk page. Biographies I've worked on: Evi Gkotzaridis, Bill Cunliffe, Julian Hatton, Zoya Phan, Heather Mac Donald, Karl Kirchwey, Priscilla Martel, Peter Kapetan, Nate Lee, Sara Nelson, Karyn Marshall, Gar Waterman, Dana Delany, Peter Currie, Sloane Citron, Gary Lee (journalist); Charles T. Howard; Arnold Hiatt; Randy Wayne (biologist); many more. Ones I am considering writing include: Earl Killian, Sara Wedeman, Peter Rysavy, Bill Lewis, Joe Malone.

Wikiproject United States. I'm working with folks on this project.

My interests. Lots of stuff. Sorry, don't know much.

Music. I've worked on articles such as David Wilcox (American musician), Jonatha Brooke, Mountain Man (music group, Offbeats (music group), Elaine Christy, and others. I play guitar.

Handyman stuff. I've been fingerwagged by folks wondering why I write about what I know nothing about and not what I do know about like handyman stuff. Why am I writing about Lake Erie -- they say: you've never been to Lake Erie (true; never been). Why not write about mortar? Sheesh. Okay, okay. I'm trying to contribute more pictures, tips and tool information. Maybe it will keep some homeowner from chopping off a finger.

My free POV writings
These are my POV-oriented writings which contain stuff that generally doesn't belong in Wikipedia. Sorry, people, but Knol is shutting down in May so I'll have to find new venues for them. They can help humans do stuff. They are free documents, generally, with a few exceptions. Photos will perhaps be added soon. I ported some documents to Wordpress or Participedia but haven't figured out how to add photos. Again, if interested, email me and I'll send a text copy to you.


 * Mentally healthy mind (ie positive psychology) This was my hottest knol getting about 150 readers each week, about 9000 until Knol shut down. It's advice about life. I really wish I had known this stuff when I was 21.


 * The Second Constitution of the United States This rewrite of the US Constitution has (1) superior foreign policy architecture (2) citizenship defined (3) federalism restored (4) many other goodies such as privacy, removal of gerrymandering, term limits for congresspersons (& Supreme Court justices too!). It needs intelligent criticism from sharp thinkers, of course, but I think it's loads better than our current United States Constitution. It is a public domain document -- just as well, since I lifted huge chunks from the existing US Constitution.


 * History of citizenship in the United States This began on Wikipedia, moved to Citizendium, moved to Google knol, and is now in Participedia. It's my best guess about why Americans don't participate in politics, and what caused this. Since working on articles in Wikipedia such as History of citizenship, I continue to learn more about this topic. It can also be seen History of citizenship in the United States on Wordpress.


 * How to prevent violence A strategy to prevent crime and violence and terrorism like the Boston Marathon bombing, the Newtown Connecticut shootings, Virginia Tech shootings, Washington DC snipers, Unabomber attacks and pretty much all violence, and rethinks privacy, rights, citizenship in a general way.


 * How to install wire closet shelving -- Home improvement advice.


 * Why women are beautiful (problem is, haven't figured this out yet). So, I didn't write it. But I am bumping into biological and psychological aspects of physical attractiveness; for example, I have a theory about why symmetrical features are often correlated with beauty. Since it is my guess, or as Wikipedians say, "original research", I can not publish it here but I still think that I'm right. Here is my hypothesis about this subject, if interested.


 * Dating and mating in the twenty tens Frank advice for heterosexual men and women seeking love.


 * An American's perspective on New Zealand -- Travel account.


 * Behavioral Economics -- overview of this subject.


 * Philosophy of Spinoza An introduction. Snooze. Boring. Zzzzzzz. Not my most popular piece.


 * Fifteenth Reunion an original screenplay with mild sexual and language content; younger readers please avoid. A romantic comedy. It would be cool if a high school or college drama group did my screenplay. I give permission for groups to use it for small-scale not-for-profit productions, if interested.


 * Ideas on improving Wikipedia. I may write this sooner or later.


 * Amazing humans: Karyn Marshall Interesting story about Karyn Marshall. Weightlifter + chiropractor + woman => champion ==> cool human.


 * Screenplay saga "Americaiad". I'm working on this one too. Themes => America + Spinoza + Aeneid. Heroine is "Kate", an Irish woman who travels Odysseus-like to get back to her family in America and help write the Constitution. That sort of thing. She'll have a guitar bow for singing as well as letting arrows fly at the bad guys! On hold right now.


 * Screenplay "Polar Planet". Outline written. Sexual science fiction. I mapped out the idea, but when I started writing it, it sounded boring and formulaic; so right now it's on hold unless I can make it feel fresh somehow. Ditched it.


 * Jakk's Journey. Science fiction novel about a high schooler who flies to Betelgeuse and meets sexy aliens! Should be fun. Hopefully finished by June. In May 2014, it is on the third draft.


 * Stair Repair -- A handyman project fixing a stair. It's a public domain document, including pictures; feel free to use them for handyman-related articles.


 * Handyman project: mortaring bricks to seal out rain Pictures and text are public domain; feel free to use them for handyman-related articles if interested.


 * Wheeled Wonders A handyman project to de-clutter a packed basement by using movable shelf-carts and psychology.


 * Swapping out a bathroom sink Handyman project on a leaky bathroom sink


 * Keeping raccoons from re-entering a house Yes, this was a recent handyman project which had me learning all about those nocturnal bandit-like creatures. I met a different animal instead.

Interests
I am interested in different subjects and am open to collaborating with people to learn new stuff if they leave comments on my talk page. Stuff I'm interested in: beauty, philosophy, love, being human, psychology, building stuff, simple handyman-level math (easy on the equations), statistics, marketing, buildings, history, politics, and other stuff which I am clueless about, that is, pretty much everything.