C.Fred

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Once owned by aDachshund, always owned by a Dachshund.

This user is anaccountant.

NCSU	This user is a graduate ofNorth Carolina State University.

MAC	This user has aMaster of Accounting degree.

This user comes from the U.S.state of Georgia.

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C.Fred/siːfrɛd/, alternately spelledcfred when the namespace does not allow periods, is the online ID I've been using since 1990.

I have been an active user on Wikipedia since 2006 and an administrator since 2007.

My preferred pronouns arehe/him/his, but since I do not think gender is relevant to the qualifications of an editor, I will not take offence if you usethey/them/their when referring to me in a discussion. (If I am unsure of another user's preferred pronouns, I usethey/them/their.)

I have been posting in Wikipedia so far on areas that interest me.

• Highways, specifically theInterstate Highway System and theU.S. Interstate Highways WikiProject.
• Sports, particularly football:Canadian football,Comparison of Canadian and American football, andAmerican football rules. Additionally, I'll be looking at things inTemplate:American football concepts.

I also contribute to Wikipedia by helping to maintain the article space, both in editing articles that I read (especially grammar, referencing and citations, etc.) andpatrolling proposed deletions.

In the course of wielding the administrator's mop, I also delete a fair number of articles. Most are about the editor's band, girlfriend, school club, story idea, or MMORPG guild. Some articles have a shred of hope to them, so I leave them around to see if there is future development on them. While I keep them on my watchlist, I've also got alist of articles to revisit to see if progress has been made on them.

Article ideas in various formative states, which may or may not be in mypersonal sandbox:

Comparison of American football rules

There are three major codes for football in the US: NFL, NCAA, and Federation (high school). The rules differ among them, e.g. kickoffs from the30 35, 35, and 40, respectively. Akin to other comparison articles, I envision two tables: one with general rules differences (goalpost width, hash marks, missed field goals, try-for-point distance, etc.) and one with penalty enforcement differences (pass interference, holding, intentional grounding, encroachment/offside, etc.)

I was mentioned by username in anAll Things Considered radio story on 10 January 2011—by the host, inan interview with Jimmy Wales. It's in the audio version of the story only, around the 4:00 mark. This is howmy user page appeared at the time of the story.

As of 22 January 2025:

• I have not been directly remunerated, had placed in my job duties, or through "other duties as assigned" been instructed, to edit the article related to my direct employing agency ("my employer"), nor has my employer directed me to make any edit on Wikipedia.
  • I have edited the article about my employer. The most recent edit was over three years ago, it removed unsourced information from the article, and I believe it passes an "any reasonable editor" litmus test.
• I have not been employed by any entity for the purpose of editing its article on Wikipedia nor been directed to edit its article as part of my job duties.
• I have not, as a self-employed individual, business owner, or independent contractor, been remunerated to make edits to Wikipedia. I have neither offered Wikipedia editing as a paid service nor solicited clients with the intention of entering into a paid editing agreement. I do not intend to offer such services.
• As a business owner, I have not attempted to add my own business anywhere in Wikipedia outside of this user page.
• In regard tothis comment atWP:RPP/I, where I refrained from taking administrative action on an article related toThe Episcopal Church, I have never been employed by the Church or a diocese or parish thereof, and any compensation received was reimbursement for travel expenses while on parish business. I have served on the vestry of a church in theEpiscopal Diocese of Atlanta, and I serve on committees related to its social media and communication. Following election to my parish's vestry (a three year term that has expired), I have not edited the diocese's article, other than some minor edits related to category sorting; the closest I would come to editing an article about my parish would be telling the person who suggested creating an article that we do not meetWP:Notability. 😀

In all the above, "Wikipedia" includes the English Wikipedia, other language Wikipedias, and Wikimedia Commons.

I graduated fromNorth Carolina State University with bachelor's and master's degrees in accounting. I am licensed as aCPA.

I also took a copyediting class in college. I did well in the class and enjoyed it.

Readers paying close attention may also note that I have a tendency to drift intoCanadian English, especially with regard to certain spellings (e.g.,colour). All my education was in the U.S. However, I've been in 10+ years of relationships with Canadians or daughters of British subjects, and I worked a year at a Big Four accounting firm that used Commonwealth spelling in certain internal documents (e.g.,audit programme). As a result, Canadian/Commonwealth spelling has rubbed off on me. I'm aware of it enough to turn back on American English when the article warrants.

I am a high-school football official. Hence the interest above in articles about football and sports in general. I have also called varsity contests in volleyball and softball; I have called recreational-league baseball and basketball; and I called intramural soccer in college.

I am a rampant, if sometimes old-school, computer geek. It shows when I get involved with an article headed to AfD here: my Usenet background leads to a discuss-first, vote-later philosophy, from the practice of RFDs and CFVs (Requests for Discussion and Calls for Votes, respectively) on Usenet group creations. This sometimes runs counter to the act-first-and-then-discuss philosophy that gets applied often on Wikipedia. (However, I have no qualmsspeedily deleting an article if it meets the criteria, and I have been known to practice theBOLD-revert-discuss cycle editing style.)

Speaking of the old-school-ness, I still frequent a fewMUSHes, particularlyTinyTIM.

I adopted two dogs from shelters/rescue organizations: a black-and-tan short-hair dachshund and a terrier mix who appeared to have a large fraction of Jack Russell in her. The terrier passed away in 2012, and the dachshund in 2016.

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