User:WotherspoonSmith

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This user comes from Australia. This user is a Go player. This user is an amateur artist. This user pretends ignorance and stupidity for tactical reasons This user teaches at a university or other institution of higher education. This user is an automath. NPOV This user gets quite annoyed when he/she sees POV in the mainspace.

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My userpage, like my desk, is a messy place where I get work done, leave myself notes, shortcuts and a newspaper. I don't think I should apologise for this.

Contents 1 Citation shortcuts 2 Currently considering 3 Vandalism 4 Religiosity and intelligence

[edit] Citation shortcuts

[1]- shortcut to tutorial on citations
<ref Name="NAME">{{cite web | last = | first = | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = | work = | publisher = | date = | url = | format = | doi = | accessdate = }}</ref> Second cite of same web <ref name="NAME"/><br /> Book Cite <ref Name="NAME">{{cite book | last = | first = | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = | publisher = | date = | location = | pages = | url = | doi = | id = }}</ref> Second cite of same book <ref name="NAME"/>
[[2]]- shortcut to novel template
Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia/To-do/Literature - Australian project to do list
Wikipedia:New articles (Australia) - list of new articles

• {{gutenberg author| id=Miles+Franklin | name=Miles Franklin}} quoting gutenberg by author
• {{gutenberg|no=11620|name=My Brilliant Career}} quoting gutenberg by title

http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A080591b.htm about franklin

[edit] Currently considering

I think this page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Charities_based_in_Australia )needs filling out a bit, perhaps with an official list, or this one: http://www.auscharity.org/charitieswebsites.html

[edit] Vandalism

If you are having trouble with a vandal report them to admin intervention and they'll take care of it. If it doesn't warrant a block you can just warn them as you feel appropriate. See the warning templates page for the codes. If they're obviously vandalizing don't be too nice with them, just go to a level 3 warning or so and then ask to have them blocked if they carry on.

[edit] Religiosity and intelligence

There have been a few calls to dissect Barnam Beckwith's meta analysis, to try to find useful data for this page. There have also been a number of people who said this was more work than they, themselves, wish to do. To assist someone to research this in more depth, I have done some of the initial legwork at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WotherspoonSmith/beckwith Emotional intelligence has also been raised. here's my sandbox http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WotherspoonSmith/EI Anyone wanting to add links, make relevant comments, show that they have read the originals and found them relevant or irrelevant, be my guest. Anyone wanting to add pov, please don't. I'd prefer it if you'd use my general discussion page instead.

Some other studies, that may be relevant, but I haven't checked out yet: "These findings, again, contrast with national norms; national survey data published by the Princeton Religious Research Center indicate that the higher the level of educational attainment, the lower the level of religious zeal. ^[1]
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A recent Gallup International survey indicates this is international levels of atheism decline after age 30 while self-description as "a religious person" rises [3].

The Pew Global Attitudes Project surveyed opinions by nation with the question "How important is religion in your life—very important, somewhat important, not too important, or not at all important?" [4]