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Known as User:Army1987 until January 2009

Info

Year of birth: 1987
First edited Wikipedia: 30 August 2004
Standort: Turin, Italy (but I grew up in Rieti and my parents are from Aversa)
Alma mater: University of L'Aquila, Italy
Occupation: researcher at the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (which despite its name is mainly involved in particle physics, and was never involved in either nuclear weapons or nuclear power plants); mainly working on analysing ultra-high-energy cosmic ray data from the Pierre Auger Observatory
Website: http://personalpages.to.infn.it/~adimatte/

Awards & etc.

This user was a participant in the 2009 Great Wikipedia Dramaout, improving articles from July 18–22.

This user was a participant in the 2nd Great Wikipedia Dramaout, improving articles from January 18–22, 2010.

This user participated in the 3rd Great Wikipedia Dramaout, improving articles from July 5–9, 2010.

This user is a participant in WikiProject Physics.

This user is a participant of
WikiProject Measurement.

Barnometer™

	n00b	involved	been around	veteran	seen it all	older than the Cabal itself

Links

WikiChecker - The actuality of Wikipedia
Readability analysis
Cromwell's rule (a fancy way of saying ‘nothing is impossible’)
Wikimedia Visitor Log Analysis Report - Page Views Per Wikipedia Language - Breakdown
Wikipedia:WikiProject Physics/Popular pages
Poe's law (“Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of fundamentalism that someone won't mistake for the real thing.”)
A constructive edit I once made to an article following a suggestion by Grawp.

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-<p>The community of hobbyist{{nbhyph}}editors ought not to concern themselves with the success or failure of Wikipedia. Perhaps Wikipedia will squander the labour of valuable talented volunteers. Perhaps Wikipedia will squander the good will of readers as inferior and worthless articles predominate. Wikipedia is an experiment that may not succeed.</p>
-<p><strong>Be a [[Wikipedia:WikiSloth|WikiSloth]]. Spend time with your family. Write real papers and real articles in the real world. On Wikipedia, enjoy yourself.</strong>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Raymond_arritt/Expert_withdrawal#Undue_weight_to_the_success_of_Wikipedia]</p>
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-<p>[[The Tyger|Tyger]] Tyger. burning bright, <br />In the forests of the night; <br />What immortal hand or eye. <br />Could frame thy fearful symmetry?''</p>
-<p>In what distant deeps or skies. <br />Burnt the fire of thine eyes? <br />On what wings dare he aspire? <br />What the hand, dare sieze the fire?</p>
-<p>And what shoulder, & what art, <br />Could twist the sinews of thy heart? <br />And when thy heart began to beat. <br />What dread hand? & what dread feet?</p>
-<p>What the hammer? what the chain, <br />In what furnace was thy brain? <br />What the anvil? what dread grasp. <br />Dare its deadly terrors clasp!</p>
-<p>When the stars threw down their spears <br />And water'd heaven with their tears: <br />Did he smile his work to see? <br />Did he who made the Lamb make thee?</p>
-<p>Tyger Tyger burning bright. <br />In the forests of the night: <br />What immortal hand or eye. <br />Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?</p>
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-{{cquote|Having a Ph.D. was crucial. It gave me the confidence to believe I could succeed in guessing it. It also adds more than two inches to my perceived height, gains me higher consulting fees, and attracts lovers. Nobody should underestimate the power of having a Doctorate. I never leave home without mine.|4=[[Geoffrey K. Pullum]]<sup>[http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1855#comment-47680]</sup>}}
-I edited as [[User:Army1987]] until I decided to retire (and scrambled my password) in January 2009. See the [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Army1987&oldid=266813702 old version] of my user page. Of course, I couldn't stay without editing Wikipedia so long, so I created this new account soon after. :-)
 ==Info==
 ;Year of birth: [[1987]]
-;Home town: [[Rieti]], [[Italy]]
-;Position: Graduate student of [[astroparticle physics]] at the [[University of L'Aquila]]
 ;First edited Wikipedia: [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Split_infinitive&diff=prev&oldid=5554001 30 August 2004]
+;Location: [[Turin]], Italy (but I grew up in [[Rieti]] and my parents are from [[Aversa]])
-;Height: {{height|m=1.88}}
+;Alma mater: [[University of L'Aquila]], Italy
-;Weight: {{convert|90|kg|lb stlb|0|abbr=on}} {{as of|2011|12|lc=on}}
+;Occupation: researcher at the [[Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare|Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics]] (which despite its name is mainly involved in particle physics, and was never involved in either nuclear weapons or nuclear power plants)
-;Countries I've been to
+:mainly working on analysing [[ultra-high-energy cosmic ray]] data from the [[Pierre Auger Observatory]]
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+;Website: http://personalpages.to.infn.it/~adimatte/
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-:<span class="nowraplinks">[[Roberto Benigni]], [[William Blake]], [[Fyodor Dostoyevsky]], [[Richard Feynman]], [[Galileo Galilei]], [[Beppe Grillo]], [[Douglas Hofstadter]], [[David Icke]], [[Edwin Thompson Jaynes]], [[John Paul II]], [[Stanley Kubrick]], [[Brian May]], [[Jim Morrison]], [[Jimmy Page]], [[Robert Plant]], [[Geoffrey K. Pullum]], [[Leo Tolstoy]], [[Roger Waters]], [[Oscar Wilde]].</span>
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-;How comes you listed yourself as both nap-N and nap-1?
-:My parents are both from the Naples region and mostly speak Neapolitan at home, so I can understand it natively; but I've never lived around Naples for more than a couple of weeks in a row and I seldom speak Neapolitan myself, much less ''write'' it.
-;That list of influences makes no sense; I can't see how can anyone claim to be influenced by people having so little in common. Did you just choose them at random?
-:No, I didn't.
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 *[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Quark&diff=prev&oldid=21135277 A constructive edit] I once made to an article following [[Talk:Quark/Archive 1#Gluons|a suggestion]] by [[WP:LTA/Grawp|Grawp]].
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-<p>Note carefully that I am NOT taking the view that if you can find any instances of something then it's grammatically OK.  Many people write quite badly.  In 44 million words there will be quite a few typographical errors, and some grammatical slips as well. But what I'm saying is that when you find, say, tens of thousands of relevant instances and an eighth of them have some property <em>P</em>, that's way too many for anyone to suggest that property <em>P</em> signals ungrammatical status.  Journalists do commit occasional slips; but not thousands and thousands and thousands of systematically similar and easily detectable ones, in a mere 44 million words. </p>
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-<p>The take-home lesson that I wish we could send to all your past students is not just that there are areas of grammar where the rules don't define a simple cut-and-dried answer that holds in every case; it's that although grammar is thought of as being like religious teaching on morality — where you get told by experts about the content of the eternal rules that you should obey — it is in fact more like a science discipline like chemistry or biology. The grammatical world is complex, and not to be oversimplified or approached through a haze of prejudice or dogma, but <strong>you can do experiments to find out what the world is like</strong>.  That's the key point that linguists are concerned to make about studying grammar. Without (I hope) throwing away the sensibilities of the humanities, they apply to the study of grammar some of the methods of science. </p>
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-<p>Geoff Pullum</p>
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