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Alan Canon is a Wikipedian from Kentucky in the USA, who chooses to write of himself in the third person on his own User: page.
His areas of interest or of expertise include cave exploration, music, science, computers, the history and geography of Kentucky and film. With other members of the Cave Research Foundation, he is the most recent person to discover a natural entrance to the Mammoth Cave system. He is active in the Louisville performance scene, playing in acts such as Monkey Boy, a junkabilly band which plays music on home-made instruments, and Yodel-Duo-Du, a 1950s-1960s style song revue.
Canon has created or made significant contributions to these Wikipedia articles:
James Graham Brown Henry A. Vogt Martha Ellison, educator
Archimedes of Syracuse Charles Babbage Stephen Bishop Anthony Braxton James Callaghan Arthur C. Clarke Floyd Collins Blythe Danner Paul Dirac Diogenes of Sinope Jacques Derrida Jean Dubuffet Thomas Edison Sergei Eisenstein Michael Faraday Richard Feynman Stan Freberg Virgil I. Grissom Jean-Luc Godard Robert Goddard Bernard Herrmann Douglas R. Hofstadter Grace Hopper Hypatia of Alexandria Akira Ikufube Jean-François Lyotard Stanley Kubrick Tom Lehrer Ada Lovelace Christa McAuliffe Charles Mingus Ellison Onizuka Dorothy Parker Sun Ra Fred Rogers Leonard Rossiter William Schallert Nathan B. Stubblefield Andrei Tarkovsky Valentina Tereshkova Francois Truffaut Alan Mathison Turing Jules Verne H. G. Wells Leonard Wibberley Robert Wise Virginia Woolf
On the subject of Wikipedia, Canon has this to say.
I'm truly blown away by the idea of Wikipedia, and I can't wait to see how it develops. As a child, our World Book Encyclopedia (1959 in literature Edition) at home, and later the Encyclopedia Britannica at school, were sources of endless fascination and pleasure.
I'm also a fan of the Wikipedia guidelines and editorial policies and do my best to adhere to them: I take them very seriously from the NPOV requirements to considerations of English style and usage. I want my contributions to reflect this seriousness.
I am grateful to the several more-experienced Wikipedians who have offered suggestions and helpful criticism on my contributions so far. Please rest assured that I do take your advice quite seriously, and in each case, I have tried my best to improve my past contributions, and to keep your advice in mind as I contemplate new contributions to Wikipedia.
As a fan and contributor to Free/Libre Open Source Software, I see great and lasting value in the sort of "social contract" that is represented by projects such as GPL software, and Wikipedia. We should try to write our GPL code, or our Wikipedia articles) with a quality that is "for the ages," because we don't know how long this project will be available.