Welcome
[edit]Hi, I'm a longtime contributor to Wikipedia with over 50 years of experience in the computer industry, particularly in data storage systems and removable media. I track and contribute to more than 200 articles related to computing, storage devices, interfaces, and related history. I also work and publish material for technical and archival communities, including IEEE venues and the Computer History Museum (CHM), bringing to all venues information that is reliable and historically sourced.
How To Use AI Tools
[edit]AI tools such as ChatGPT can assist in creating material by:
- Summarizing or locating reliable sources.
- Clarifying complex technical or policy-based ideas
- Drafting outlines or preliminary versions of content
- Reducing time spent on formatting or tedious text restructuring
AI does not replace expertise or human review, Everything posted in Wikipedia should be fully reviewed, verified, and sourced by the editor.
On Resolving {{cn}} Tags
[edit]One of my ongoing interests is improving the reliability and sourcing of technical topics here on Wikipedia. In particular, I’ve worked extensively with the “citation needed” tag — especially where it’s been used on content related to computing, storage media, or other well-documented topics.
Based on my research, more than 98% of CN tags in these areas refer to material that is already supported by reliable sources, but identifying those sources (and resolving the tags) can take 15–20 minutes or more per tag. That often leads to long-standing, unresolved CN tags, even when policy-compliant sources are available.
To date, I’ve resolved over 100 such tags by locating and citing external reliable sources the tagger may not have been aware of or removing redundant or unnecessary tags where the source was already present in the article or elsewhere in Wikipedia. Only two resulted in my deleting material from Wikipedia. Thirty of those were in randomly selected articles outside my core expertise — still resolved through reliable sourcing.
I plan to continue actively addressing such tags on articles as part of my ongoing work to support WP:V and improve the readability and credibility of computing topics.