User:StefenTower

Stevietheman is Steve Magruder from Louisville, Kentucky, USA. Steve is a web application developer (as both direct contractor and subcontractor) specializing in PHP/MySQL-based sites. Steve also writes articles for The Public's Power Base, where he shares thoughts about the state of democratic participation and public sovereignty in the United States of America.

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Steve Magruder, circa December 2004

Authorship

A Wikipedian since March 2004, Steve contributes to many articles and discussions, especially related to computer science and political science. See his full list of contributions.

Philosophy of editing

Beyond correcting obvious spelling, grammar, structure and formatting problems, Steve also takes a strong look at:

• Blatant advertising, esp. of unrelated products/sites, but also of related entities that could eventually get out of hand (e.g., under Internet forum, listing all forums on the web).
• Non-neutral POV
• Lack of encyclopedic relevance—and Google hits aren't enough to prove it! There must be provable common knowledge of the article's subject and a significant number of references outside the article author's sphere of influence.

Articles worked on

Steve has created (*) or otherwise contributed significant edits to the following articles:

Political science

Athenian democracy Constituent* Democracy Democracy (varieties) Direct democracy Direct Democracy (history in US) E-democracy* eGovernment

Internet democracy Jerry E. Abramson Liberal democracy Majoritarianism Minoritarianism* Politics and technology (category)* Redistricting* Right of recall*

Computer science

• Internet forum
• Delphi programming language
• PHP
• Session (computer science)*
• Weblog

Miscellaneous

• Body parts slang*
• Foster Brooks*
• Frederick Law Olmsted
• Glocalization*
• Louisville, Kentucky—I am especially proud of the progress made in this article
• Sexual slang
• Three's Company
• Wikipedia

To Do's

The following are items I'd like to work on in the near future. Of course, feel free to beat me to doing any of these:

• Rework articles containing subjective term "sadly".
• In the Louisville, Kentucky article:
  • Expand the History and Media sections
  • Create a Transportation section
• Expand metro area list in United States metropolitan area from top 25 to top 50.
• Clean up the Majoritarianism article, as it may still contain some original research.
• Expand Other commissions of Olmsted in Frederick Law Olmsted.

Biography

Steve attended J. B. Speed School of Engineering (formerly Speed Scientific School) at the University of Louisville, majoring in Engineering Math and Computer Science (concentrating in Computer Science), and received his B.S. in Engineering Science in 1989. Subsequently, he has worked alternately as a permanent employee and contractor with various firms and organizations as a software developer. He is now pursuing a mix of web development and writing assignments.

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External links

• Google on Steve Magruder

Contact Steve

Steve welcomes suggestions, criticisms, etc. on his talk page (unless it's repetitive or insolent). You may also email Steve or IM him (AIM: wonkawoobie and stevietheman; YIM: stevietheman66).

Licensing

I agree to multi-license all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages and personal images, as described below: