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Hi, I'm here because I'm very interested in the goals of Citizendium - especially the part about a ''reliable'' and ''high-quality'' online encyclopaedia - so I'm going to try and do some stuff here, as time allows.

I actually wrote the very first new Citizendium article, at the start of October, 2006: [[Hokusai]]!

I'm a long-time Wikipedian (started there in August, 2003), but I became [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jnc/AstronomerAmateur dissatisfied] with various negative aspects of Wikipedia (as so many other Wikipedians have done - I think of the group of dissatisfied Wikipedians as 'Citizendium's recruiting pool' :-).

My {{WP|User:Jnc|Wikipedia home page}} gives an indication of the kind of things that I am interested in and write about. For more about me, look at my home page here:

: http://www.chiappa.net/~jnc/

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Born in 1956; attended Saltus Grammar School in [[Bermuda]] (which is where I am from), [[Phillips Academy]] (Andover) and [[M.I.T.]] My principal professional field is [[computer]] [[information]] [[system]]s, with a focus in [[computer network]]ing. Most significant professional accomplishment: [http://www.chiappa.net/~jnc/plaque.html participated] in the early development of the [[Internet]] ([[History of the Internet|starting in 1977]]). I have significant and deep interests in many other areas, particularly history (especially military), art (especially [[Asian art|Asian]]) and music.

For more, see an extended biographical note [http://www.chiappa.net/~jnc/jnc_xbio.html here].

==Recent favourite ''bon mots''==

* "Computers = stupid moronic small children who have zero common sense", to Aleta.

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==Articles I created==

* Written from scratch for Citizendium
** [[Hokusai]]
** [[MediaWiki]]
** [[Quantum mechanics]] (base version)
** [[CZ:Article structure]]
** [[CZ:Article-specific subpages]]

* Written from scratch for Wikipedia, uploaded here
** [[Anatoly Marchenko]]

* Created based on a version from Wikipedia
** [[CZ:Namespaces]]

==High-priority articles todo==

Articles I [[CZ:High priority articles for pilot|signed up to do when we were trying to get the project off the ground]], but never did, so I now feel a debt of honour to make them happen.

* [[Vincent van Gogh]]
* [[George Boole]]
* [[Srinivasa Ramanujan]]
* Cryptology
* [[Internet]] (exists, but a stub)

And some more we really need:

* [[Alan Turing]]
* [[Thucydides]]

==Articles I have significantly upgraded==

* [[Prime number]]
* [[Two's complement]]
* [[Special relativity]]
* [[Michael Faraday]]

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