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[edit] About Me
I'm a Wikipedia lover and have taken advantage of it for research for a long time, but I'm fairly new to the editor role - I joined and began editing in early February 2007. I'm currently a senior in high school near Denver, Colorado, USA, and searching out edits that I can make is a great way to avoid my homework! I'm planning on beginning a degree in computer science at Coe College in the fall, and I'm hoping that college life will provide some much-needed spare time for a number of pursuits, Wikipedia included.
[edit] Tea and Knowledge
The en.Wikipedia Main Page is set as one of my (tabbed) homepages, and each morning, a cup of loosebrew tea in hand, I sit down to read the Featured Article, Did you know..., and On this day... sections before I leave. After all, knowledge is power! Now that I'm registered as a member, I tend to find at least one easy edit to be made on the new articles each day. If every editor improved one of the articles there every day, we'd have a lot more featured articles in no time at all!
[edit] How I Wiki
I'm the rare person that actually delights in learning, and one of my favorite things to do is follow a "breadcrumb path" of links from article to article, checking out things I've never heard of before. Sometimes I do it intentionally, sometimes it just... happens... but I often find myself with five or six different Wikipedia tabs open. At times it seems I'm opening new articles as fast as I can read them!
I'm a WikiGnome, and it's amazing how much the form and function of the article base can be improved by adding a redirect or link here and there, or spending a few minutes working on grammar and punctuation.
My editing interests are wide and varied; I definitely don't restrict myself to any one area. Some of my particular hobbies are military technology, especially submarines and aircraft, as well as rock and roll music and sci-fi literature.
I've created articles on hafting and thermogenic plants, and contributed significantly to articles on everything from "I Am the Walrus" (a song by the Beatles) to "Lisa the Vegetarian" (an episode of The Simpsons) to Lenny Loosejocks (the rather odd, spacefaring Australian game character). I'm particularly proud of my contributions to the article on the ocean sunfish, which I essentially reorganized and referenced.
[edit] Future Prospects
These are articles I am planning to create, or edits I'm planning to make, as soon as I can find the time. Some may be well-explained; others might look like gibberish. That's because this list often acts as a "notepad" for me, where I can stick ideas I have when I'm away from home or busy with another project, and don't have the time to make an edit right away.
Sometimes it seems like I'm adding articles to this list much faster than I'm taking them off - I just love the Special:Random feature too much! I'd appreciate it if you'd give me time to get to them before doing them yourself, but if we've got a similar interest, maybe we can collaborate!
To expand my list, just click [show] over there on the right.
[edit] Ongoing projects
These are big projects that will take a while to complete, or may never be completed at all because they address ongoing problems.
[edit] New Pages
There are many notable subjects out there that don't yet have an associated Wikipedia article. I've run across these as terms in other articles, or when I'm doing outside research and I can't find a Wikipedia page on the topic.
[edit] Copyediting, wikification, and expansion
Simply creating articles isn't enough; Wikipedia can't live up to its potential if articles are not informative, easily readable, and interlinked with other related topics. These are pages that need some attention!
- Clean up Arms race
- Copyedit As I Was Going to St Ives
- Clean up Aztec sun stone
- Expand Benito Mussolini to include information on the Battle for Births
- Convert external links into references at Blueberry
- Copyedit Brand New
- Expand Boarding (attack) to include modern methods of boarding (speedboats) and reasons (inspections, etc)
- Clean up Bullets (song)
- Expand RMS Capetown Castle with an infobox, image, categories, etc
- Verify facts and sources at Caroline Herschel
- Clean up Casey Jones (TMNT)
- Clean up Cesare Battisti (1954-)
- Clean up Cherry Pink (and Apple Blossom White)
- Add one link per line to Cobra (roller coaster)
- Clean up Command & Conquer series - WOW, this one's bad!
- Expand, clean up Computer accessibility, Web accessibility (incl. http://www.knowbility.org/air/, etc)
- Correct italics & quotation marks starting with Cowgirl (Live) and moving backwards through the Underworld chronology
- Clean up Cuba-United States relations
- Copyedit, reference, and POV EKO Cobra
- Clean up Elysium (add links, subdivide cultural references into music, gaming, etc)
- Expand Finite deterrence (beyond the current redirect)
- Edit Fry to conform to DAB page guidelines
- Clean up / add links to Kenny Rogers
- Link hafting to projectile point
- Finish copyediting Harry Houdini
- Clean up HMS Albion (L14)
- Copyedit Lisa the Greek
- Expand manta ray to include information from Baby manta ray at Japan aquarium dies
- Clean up Modern Romance (band)
- Clean up Navy
- Standardize references at Nintendo GameCube
- Clean up Nuclear arms race
- Add an image to Pacific sleeper shark
- Edit Pit to conform to DAB guidelines
- Copyedit pork
- Copyedit Post-traumatic stress disorder
- Copyedit Raglan Road
- Merge Rosy boa into Rosy Boa, or vice-versa, depending on the verdict at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Tree of Life
- Expand Strawberry Poison-dart Frog to include information about toxic mite diet ([2])
- Clean up Teleportation (incl. misspelling Alladin --> Aladdin)
- Expand, clean up Smoky Hill High School
- Edit SMS (disambiguation) to conform to disambiguation pages policies
- Copyedit Stephen Colbert and Stephen Colbert (character)
- Clean up Stuart Little 2
- Expand Surface ship
- Redirect or write an article for Tony Hughes (currently redirects inappropriately)
- Clean up U.N. Squadron
[edit] Contact me
I do my best to respond to posts at my talk page as soon as humanly possible - usually, this means within 24 hours, as I am rarely away from Wikipedia for more than a full day.
If it's urgent, you can also email me through my contact form at Anonomi; however, all Wikipedia business should be conducted at Wikipedia for reasons of verificaiton and recordkeeping, so please treat the email as simply a method of notification, and expand on the actual issue at User talk:PaladinWhite.
