About my Wiki-tivity

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Aspirations / Philosophy

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I want to make contributions worthy of Barnstars, but I don't want to receive them. I want my reward for service to be useful, stable, un-vandalized text.


I like to randomly select articles in order to (a) learn something new & (b) find something I can contribute to in grammar, structure or (sometimes) fact. I also enjoy going to external sources to dig up needed citations.


I subscribe to the Wikipedian philosophy of Incrementalism. I wish users would verify an article exists before Wiki-ing a word -- red links are distracting.


Articles - initiated

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Articles - contribute / monitor at least occassionally

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Articles - some I randomly contributed to

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Cool stuff I didn't know about before Wikipedia

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You might want to check them out too.


My tools
my sandbox
Wikipedia:Userboxes - Category:Wikipedia_userboxes - Wiki templates
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About me

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incrThis editor is an incrementalist.
AmEThis user is a native speaker of American English.

but I know what a lorry, a lift, bangers, etc are!


Languages I've studied or dabbled in, but never gotten serious about: Latin, French, Spanish, Russian and Japanese.


Residency:
 
Universe
 
Local Group
 
Milky Way
 
Solar System
 
Earth
 
Western Hemisphere
 
North America
 
USA [1]
 
OK [2]
[3] ]]
Where I might want to live someday:
 
Moon or
 
Mars or
 
space colony!


Interests: Aerospace, Space exploration, Science fiction, Monty Python and Music (particularly Classical and Heavy Metal).


Cultures I find particularly interesting: Japanese, Russian, Scottish and German. My ethnicity is partly made up of the latter two, in fact.


I tend to have a verbose writing style, but try to avoid Doublespeak.