User:Bkell

This user is a native speaker of the English language.

Este usuario puede contribuir con un nivel avanzado de español.

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I'm a lazy college kid who lives in Nebraska. I joined Wikipedia on 29 November 2003, when I made my first edit, a few minor corrections to Superphénix. Since then it has become a habit of mine to edit Wikipedia articles whenever I'm putting off something useful.

My largest Wikipedia contributions to date are the article about indigo dye, of which I wrote the majority, and the list of solar system objects by mass, which I began. I have also uploaded some images, which anyone may use however they like, as outlined below.

Of course, I have made a few other contributions as well. It seems that most of my edits are minor spelling or grammatical tweaks that I do in passing. But I hope to someday have something listed in Brilliant prose.

I know Hschimke, Stack, Stolee, and Swid. I also know Mbeerman and Wnorton, but they don't have user pages yet.

Intellectual property issues

Licensing hassles annoy me, so I release, abandon, renounce, relinquish, waive, and otherwise disavow all exclusive rights to all my textual contributions on Wikipedia in all languages. I similarly release all exclusive rights that I hold to any images or other non-textual contributions that I upload to Wikipedia in any language, unless I specifically indicate otherwise. (I don't think I've specifically indicated otherwise to date, but I'll keep my options open.) Anyone may freely use, reproduce, distribute, or modify, for commercial or non-commercial use, with or without attribution, anything I wrote or uploaded to Wikipedia to which I have released my exclusive rights. (Ideally I would just release everything into the public domain, but I guess I can't do that. It is unnecessarily difficult to give up rights you don't want.)

As a corollary, if you want to license anything to which I have given up my exclusive rights (if, say, you need a license for some technical legal reason), you may do so under whatever license you want. Pick one that suits your needs. If you need me to officially "agree", send me an e-mail, or post on my talk page.

All rights released to all contributions
I agree to release all rights, unless otherwise stated, to all my contributions (both text and images) to the English Wikipedia, enabling anyone to use them for any purpose. Please be aware that other contributors might not do the same, so if you want to use my contributions under free use terms, please check the Multi-licensing guide.

Know thine image formats

A big personal annoyance for me is images in JPEG format that should be PNGs (and vice versa, though that doesn't happen as often). Things like maps and diagrams should always be PNGs, unless they were scanned from a hard copy, in which case PNG still isn't a bad idea.

There is a category for images with inappropriate JPEG compression. I also have my own list of images in the wrong format. If you have some graphics software and want to help, please do so.

Userboxes

I find many userboxes to be frivolous. Hence, this section contains only userboxes that place me in categories that might help other Wikipedians to find me if they need someone with a specific skill or background.

bas-3

This user is able to contribute with an advanced level of Basaa.

bat-3

This user is an advanced Batch programmer.

C-3

This user is an advanced C programmer.

C++-2

This user is an intermediate C++ programmer.

C#-1

This user is a beginning C# programmer.

hs

This user can program in Haskell.