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This user lives in Idaho. |
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This user is of German ancestry. |
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This user adores the sport of figure skating. |
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This user will use Google before asking dumb questions. |
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This user broadcasts themselves on YouTube. |
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This user edits Wikipedia by following her nose. |
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[edit] Welcome to Figureskatingfan
Current time: Monday, June 9, 2008, 10:37 (UTC)
The current time in Moscow, Idaho is 03:59 PDT.
My real name is Christine Meyer. My user name is "figureskatingfan" because that's what it is on YouTube, which I use primarily to view and download figure skating videos. I also have a blogof the same name, dedicated to amongst other things--wait for it--figure skating. (At this time, this blog is pretty much inactive, due to real life concerns and my newfound obsession with Wikipedia.)
I suppose that after a year of editing and over 1,000 edits, I am no longer a newbie. I've found that as a newbie, I made all kinds of mistakes, like trying to download non-free images. I've also found that as I've become more committed to editing and contributing to Wikipedia, I'm beginning to develop a "Wiki-philosophy." I've noticed that there are tons of people, mostly administrators (which is the reason I have very little interesting in becoming one), who spend all their time trolling for recent changes and vandalism. I think that has a place in Wikipedia, and I've done my share of reverts, but I think it's a mistake to be vigilant about it. Let the bots do their job, I say.
The reverts I've done are usually on my "pet" projects, like the ones listed below. I get a great deal of satisfaction from taking an article, doing some research, and seeing it pass to higher status. There are so many articles out there that could benefit from dedicated editors working on improving them and ensuring that they improve in quality. That can only make WP the encyclopedia it should be, and dispel the prejudice out there about WP.
[edit] Wikipedia essays of note
Wikipedia:Vandals versus Trolls
- See this; it may substantiate the above.
Wikipedia:Ignore all rules
[edit] Quotes
"Like I always say, why let facts get in the way of your opinions?" - Christine W. Meyer (That's me!)
Added on St. Patrick's Day:
In March 2008, I attended the memorial service of my uncle, Pat Wombacher. His son Dave made the following statement:
- "When people ask me if I'm Irish, I say, 'Well, my dad drinks beer, and my grandmother's name was Murphy, so I guess that makes me Irish."
I say the same thing, plus I get to say that my mother's name was Kelly.
"I'm not even my own kids' favorite Wiggle." - Anthony Field [1]
"Evil is insanity." - Kaspar, Exile's Return (Raymond E. Feist)
"Sin makes you stupid." - Mark Shea
"All life is precious." - Henry Duque (Eddie Matos, Cane)
"If a rule prevents you from improving or maintaining Wikipedia, ignore it." (Wikipedia policy)
In the final words of his autobiography, Steve Martin says the following about the internet. He might as well be speaking of Wikipedia: "... I have learned that people are uploading their lives into cyberspace and am convinced that one day all human knowledge and memory will exist on a suitable hard drive which, for preservation, will be flung out of the solar system to orbit a galaxy far, far away."[2]
[edit] My main contributions
This was the first article I (almost single-handily) led to Featured Article-status, through the sheer force of my will. On January 18, 2008, this article was upgraded to good-article status; on May 24, 2008, it became FA. I'm also mainly responsible for most pages associated with The Wiggles.
Before I edited this article, it had been downgraded from B to Start. I improved (meaning: completely re-wrote) it to bring it back up to B-status, and then as of February 1, 2008, to GA.
The illness that Greg Page of The Wiggles suffers from.
I ran into this page while doing research for work. I verified its sources and cleaned it up.
Verified its sources, removed tag.
This was one of the first articles I re-edited for Wikipedia.
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Re-vamped article, verified sources, removed tags.
[edit] Articles created by me
[edit] To-Do list
[edit] Blog posts
I'm blogging about my Wiki-experiences. See below:
[edit] My Projects
Welcome, replacename!
[edit] My Sandboxes
I believe in writing drafts, and then keeping them. I look fondly back on the days before computers/word processors, when you could keep multiple drafts of a project. In that light:
Sandbox 1
Sandbox 2
Sandbox 3
[edit] References
- ^ Iacuzio, Tom. "What's up with The Wiggles?", Daytona Beach News-journal, 2007-11-15. Retrieved on 2007-11-16.
- ^ Martin, Steve (2007). Born standing up: A comic's life. New York: Scribner, 207. ISBN 1-4165-5364-9.
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