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Hi everyone! My name's Josh Gordon. I've got a ton of different interests and possibly interesting experiences that might or might not result in useful and informative additions to Wikipedia. For example, I've worked atIMSAI (my first job out of college),Autodesk (my longest job) andeBay (where I was Chief Engineer) as aprogrammer; I was lead trumpet for theMystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo for a couple of years in the '70s; I'm an occasionally working musician in several genres and on several instruments including piano, bass, and ukulele; I've lived inNew York City,Alexandria, VA,Munich, Germany,Eugene, Oregon,Tarzana,Berkeley,San Francisco,Carmel-by-the-Sea, andLas Vegas. I now live inKernville, California, my wife's hometown and my adopted hometown. I spent many years onThe Well, for a long time as conference host of several of the most popular forums (Current Events and Politics, for example), and I'm an utter fanatic for encyclopedias and dictionaries of all sorts.

I've collected comic books most of my life, though not much since the '90s -- my old friends kept getting killed off or replaced with children, so to hell with it. I do have a nice collection of original art byJohn Byrne,Neal Adams,Scott McCloud, andChris Ware. I also collect photography, and have some lovely prints byHenri Cartier-Bresson,Ansel Adams,Edward Weston,Ruth Bernhard,Paul Caponigro, andDiane Arbus (the "Jewish Giant" was my cousinEddie Carmel).

And just out of sheer weirdness, I decided just before my 71st birthday to attendlaw school.

I appeared onAntiques Roadshow on the show premiering May 12, 2008. I'm showing someWoody Guthrie drawings my Dad was given when he interviewed Woody for aNew York Times story in 1949 or so.

Here's the appearance.

I'm now maintaining mybird list offsite. These are all birds I've sighted from my home on theKern River in California. Number 55 is theSummer Tanager; I think I saw the red female morph. Number 56 is theBlack-headed grosbeak. Number 57 is theCedar waxwing. Number 58 is theSpotted Towhee. Number 59 is theNorthern mockingbird; they've been absent from the immediate vicinity for well over a decade, but hopefully they are re-establishing their presence. Number 60 is theCommon poorwill; we heard it but haven't seen it. I wonder if anyone in the world besides me looks at that page? Let me know if you do; only one person has done so since I started it in 2005 or so.

Mostly I'm doingjanitorialwork around here. It comes naturally to me; I was "code cop" at Autodesk and at eBay, so browsing other people's work is quick, easy, and pleasurable.

I became anadministrator on Nov. 26, 2004. I have been named a "monster admin" by a fellow editor atWP:RfAr[3] -- I don't think it was meant as praise, though.

I was named to theArbitration Committee on December 25, 2006. I resigned a year early; three years is too long. I hated it.

And now a decade later (2019), I find myself overwhelmingly relieved not to be part of the governance of this operation.

I'm the inventor of the conceptWikipedia:Wikipedia is not therapy, though I don't think it should be part ofWP:NOT.

I'm currently on a crusade against "ironically". And now "interestingly" is also on my list -- I found one sentence starting, "Interestingly and ironically", which was just proof to me that my sword is insufficiently swift. But I'm letting "interestingly" stay in video game and other pop culture sorts of articles, because, really, who cares.

I don't like adverbs in general, it would appear. "Indeed" is now on my list too.

Oh, and, "reportedly". What the hell does that mean? To my hear, it casts doubts as to the validity of the following statement; it rarely has any information-increasing value.

It should be noted that it is noteworthy that it should be mentioned that I also have a bug up my ass about "It should be noted" and other such wastes of bits.

Random lists of covers of standards. For example, there are hundreds of recordings by different artists ofOver The Rainbow; that's the whole point of a standard -- it gets recorded a lot. So there's no need forOver the Rainbow to have a list of artists that have covered the song; it suffices to say the song has been widely covered, and pick out a few that are notable such asBruddah Iz. And for gosh sake, lets not have a list including episodes of TV shows that have included the songs. Criminy.

Popular culture sections are bad enough trivia collections as is, but I do draw the line at "The topic of this article is mentioned in Episode #23 of The Fanboy Webcomic". "Is mentioned in" is an immediate clue that the rest of the sentence is subtrivia.

When you're talking about something that happened 150 years ago, do you really need to refer to Lincoln as "then-President Lincoln"? New sport: thenectomy.

I'm tired of seeing "openly gay" for contemporary BLP subjects. There are a contexts where it might be appropriate, such as in countries where it's a serious risk to be publicly identified as gay and the subject is unusual for being "openly" gay. But we don't refer to living people as gay unless they have self-identified as such, underWP:BLP; if we're going to mention someone is gay, then they of course are "openly" gay. Times have changed, and this is a place where we can actually reflect that change by our editorial choices without any risk of violating NPOV.

A good example of really pointless text: inAlfred P. Murrah Federal Building, we findthe building was the target of theOklahoma City bombing, which killed 168 people, 19 of whom were children under the age of six. This might be language you'd see in tabloids and such, but I don't see what's in the least bit encyclopedic about such blather. How many were under the age of 10? How many were under the age of 18? How many were over 70? What's the point of this verbiage?

I think "convicted felon" almost never belongs in a BLP lede. We should be either more specific when it's an critical part of their biography (Harvey Weinstein gets "convicted sex offender",Ted Kaczynski gets "domestic terrorist"). But "convicted felon" doesn't really impart any illumination.

Like, is there some other sort of first? If I notice these outside of direct quotes, I provide a veryectomy.

I'm thinking it would be odd fun to have a Kwanzaa pool. How early in the season will the idiots start vandalizingKwanzaa? My definition would be the first edit that warrants a RBI.

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I had the privilege and pleasure of making two Atlantic crossings, in theSS United States and theSS America.

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Thank you for beginning quality articles such asRuth Bernhard, for fighting "wastes of bits", for "I find myself overwhelmingly relieved not to be part of the governance of this operation", forimages of life, for missing Sarah SV, - Josh, repeating from 11 November 2008: you are anawesome Wikipedian!

You are recipient no.2593 of Precious, a prize ofQAI. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:03, 14 May 2021 (UTC)

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