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I was a BASIC and Visual Basic programmer back in the day. I have had life-long interests in, and worked as, an entertainer (including stage, radio, and TV, including script-writing, story-boarding, set design and construction, and performing. I still periodically perform as a Radio and Mobile DJ). I am a published genealogist.
I have owned my own businesses; and I have worked in corporate America (diamond sales, retail management), Blue collar (skilled construction); as well as medium to small business enterprises (advertising and entertainment agencies). I write corporate newsletters and have contributed to local and national newspapers, retail catalogs, and broadcast media. This requires a working knowledge of grammar, proper punctuation, and lay-out (including graphic, table, and picture placements).
On Wikipedia, a hobby of mine, history is a very strong interest, as is copy editing, reliable referencing (re.: checks, creation, and inclusions), and article merging. Other Wikipedia interests include:
Creation of Wikipedia articles with meaningful content
Historically accurate place names and dating
A cohesive writing style, with strong adherence to the MoS
† extinct language / ≠ extinct tribe / >< early, obsolete name of Indigenous tribe / ° people absorbed into other tribe(s) / * headquartered in Oklahoma today
The Native American Barnstar is given to the users who contribute cited and balanced content toward articles regarding the Indigenous peoples of the Americas. Thank you for your contributions! ~~~~
"Since decisions [on Wikipedia are made] by those who participate in a localized discussion, leaving cedes the decision-making power to those willing to engage in the least logical and sane response. This incentivizes not just obsessive but also belligerent behavior and even harassment, and empowers those privileged with the time and resources to engage in this behavior ... these techniques are frequently used by political ideologues, ethnic nationalists, and conspiracy theorists. Professor Bryce Peake called this the “hegemony of the asshole consensus." —Robert Fernandez in The Limits of Volunteerism and the Gatekeepers of Team Encarta · Wikipedia @ 20
Understand Notability
"Fame is inheritable, notability is not! (...unless, of course, you're British...)"—GQ
"TANSTAFL!" (There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch) —GQ
It's Called Consensus ArbCom
"Opfer müssen gebracht werden!" ("Sacrifices must be made!") —Otto Lilienthal
"Neutrality is important because it supports independent judgment. It is only independent judgment that can be properly scientific. If you want to force the minds of your readers, then you're just being another flavor of dogmatist ... So, in sum, it is called the neutrality policy for a reason. The original motivation for it was to allow people of radically different points of view--yes, just like the irrational proponents of ID and their dogmatic, arrogant detractors--to work together.
—Larry Sanger, Wikipedia co-originator, Talk Page response, 22 December 2017
Wiki-Fauna Gone Wild
"Good is something you do, not something you talk about. Some medals are pinned to your soul, not to your jacket." —Gino Bartali
"O civile si ergo, fortibus es in ero, o nobile deus trux, votis inem Causan dux." ["Oh see, Willy, see her go; forty busses in a row. Oh no, Billy, they is trucks. What is in 'em? Cows and ducks."] —Lady Mondegreen
"Loyalty is a virtue. Blind loyalty is foolish and dangerous. It enables the worst behavior of the people we support, forces us to change who we are and causes us to lose sight of what matters most. —Robert Glazer
Why it is sometimes tense around here
"The problem with the world is, everybody's a few drinks behind." —Humphrey Bogart
Use facts, not hot air opinion!
"Walk on air against your better judgement." —Seamus Heaney, "The Gravel Walks"
Life, like Wikipedia, isn't always fair (or IS it?)
"There are people who could be upset if they were told that half of all Americans earn less than the median income..." —Thomas Sowell
Category Creations
I no longer create Categories, as I am repeatedly told that Lists are more informative, as once again one of my original 16 categories is getting deleted. I should think, then, that categories are highly redundant and should simply be abandoned as an encyclopedic tool here; they should then all be replaced by a system of List and Index articles. GenQuest"Talk to Me"
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