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I'm Bunchofgrapes. I used to edit a lot. Heck, I used to be an Administrator. Those were the days. Power corrupts.
If you like Patrick O'Brian then you might know where I took the name from. For the most part, it's meaningless. You may call me Grapes if "Bunchofgrapes" is too much typing.
I'm interested in a lot of things, but my main contributions are to food articles, where I'm especially drawn to the history and science aspects. I've also done some British history stuff. And assorted miscellany.
I'm a computer programmer by trade, but I have little or no interest in contributing in that area. I am a U.S citizen, living in Oregon, male, born in 1970. I earned two computer science engineering degrees from Cornell University, in Ithaca, New York, in the early 1990s.
This is my 10000th edit!
User:IBook of the Revolution is my stepson.
What the critics are saying
"The thing that I want to find out is who's doing the entry for butter. There's an entry for butter! What would motivate someone to do that?"- — essayist Chuck Klosterman, interviewed in Willamette Week
- — Judi Smith, Dave Barry's Research Department, on a blog entry regarding the casu marzu article.
- — Cassandra Jardine, "Fount of all wisdom - and foolery", Telegraph Newspaper Online.
Significant (or not) Contributions
Featured articles
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane • Butter • Black pepper • Cheese
Other stuff
Sonofabitch stew • Sliced bread • Pandora Pinemoth • Elm Farm Ollie • Fried spider • Gibbon's Tennis Court • Lisle's Tennis Court • Cockpit Theatre • Juniper berry • Parachute Jump • Casu Marzu • Cheese fly • Kumis • Red Man • Lincoln Fry • Frybread • Long pepper • Gumboot chiton • Västerbotten cheese • Prästost • Crayfish party • Granita • Smoking (cooking technique) • Garlic press
Works in progress
Some images I uploaded
Rant
Misplaced Pages is a research project. If you are going to add new content to a page, please follow these guidelines:
- If you don't want to do research, but just want to write what you know, or what you think you know, or what sounds good, or how it seems to work in your town, state, or country, STOP. RIGHT. NOW. You will be harming the encyclopedia with your "sharing". Research first. With reliable sources. That means books. If your topic isn't covered in books, that may sometimes be a warning sign that it isn't encyclopedic enough to merit coverage here. If you still believe it is, research with the best sources you can find. Journals. Magazines. Newspapers. Almost never web sites written by some random guy. Mr. random guy probably did as much research as you were going to do, before you read this: none.
- When adding material to an article, cite the sources the information is from. Don't treat this as an optional step. Trying to retrofit citations later in your own work is hard; trying to do it for some piece of text someone else wrote is basically impossible. You might as well get rid of it all and start from scratch, because the information in sources you find will be just different enough from that in the original sources to make you question the whole enterprise.
- Awards: I'm shameless
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I, Wayward, award Bunchofgrapes this Barnstar of Life for his outstanding efforts in helping to bring Cheese to Featured Article status. (Nov. 10, 2005)
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I, BorgQueen, award this Oddball Barnstar to Bunchofgrapes for casu marzu and cheese fly, the only wiki articles ever made me want to vomit. (Dec. 5, 2005)
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I, Durova, award Bunchofgrapes the Editor's Barnstar for identifying copyright violations in a featured article candidate. (20 March 2006)
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Thank you for your helpful and insightful notes on the Torchic FAC, it has now reached Template:FA status! Thanks again, Highway 20:30, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
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For the funniest edit I have seen in ages. I Giano award you the "Comedy Gold Award" for humour
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The Silver Butter knife Award for all your hard work making Butter a FA. Giano (27 June 2006)
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For your assistance in cleaning up the original research from Unreal Engine, I award you with this barnstar. Torinir ( Ding my phone My support calls E-Support Options ) 01:52, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
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I , chrislk02 award you this anti vandalism barnstar for all the vanalized pages I have seen your reversions of! Much apreciated! Chris Kreider - HFF 22:31, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
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I DVD R W give to Bunchofgrapes the Illuminated London Award for your illustrations of featured articles and featured trivia sections. (6 November 2006)
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The Working Man's Barnstar: For your tireless efforts in helping Martial Law, I, Chacor, award you, Bunchofgrapes, with the Working Man's Barnstar. – Chacor 04:50, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
To-do list
Articles I might start someday:
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- Or "Bunch", "BoG", etc. Or try an anagram: "No spa grub, chef!"
- Klosterman's incisive analysis of Bunchofgrapes went on to receive critical acclaim in Februrary of 2006.