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 This editor is a Senior Editor, and is entitled to display this Platinum Editor Star. Hi. I'm familiarly known as Bill. I've been living on the Philippine island of Boracay since retiring here 1996. My wife, Solina, and I used to own and operate a small Boracay resort/hotel called Michelle's Bungalows, but that was one of the several resorts destroyed in the Boracay fire of January 21, 2005. At present, I'm mostly a layabout. I did spend some time in 2006 putting up a Boracay website (www.boracayinfo.net) and I currently maintain that site although, due to flagging interest on my part, I announced to interested parties in June of 2008 the impending demise of the site. Most probably, the site will not survive past 2008. I used to be fairly active in the soc.culture.filipino usenet newsgroup, where I'm still known as Boracay Bill. My participation level there has dropped off severely since senseless name-calling and flame wars have become the rule rather than the exception. Before I gave up working for a living, I had a long hardware/software engineering/technical career with Motorola. Even earlier, I was a Philco TechRep for about nine years, mostly doing contract work for various US Govt agencies in Vietnam during the unpleasantness there. I was one of the early members of the Debian Linux project, working on the project for its first three years or so in 1993-1996. Creating this Wikipedia user page seemed to me to be the proper thing to do after I found myself occasionally creating and editing various Wikipedia content pages. I created this user page in 2004, but my activity level on WP was pretty low up until mid-2006. Since then, I've been increasingly active. Wikipedia articles I have created (excluding disambiguation pages) include the following:
I've also contributed heavily to some articles started by others, most of those having to do with the Philippines. These include:
and others. Most of my edits, though, tend to touch the edited articles lightly. Quite a lot of my edits don't touch article content at all, focusing on cleanup of footnotes and citations. My watchlist contains over 500 articles in several subject areas, and I generally review changes to watchlisted articles on a daily basis.
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