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Member since 06 November 2008. Rollbacker; Article Reviewer; Copy Editor; Newbie Helper and Article Mergers. I was born and raised in Chicago, IL; currently residing in San Antonio, Texas. I have resided in, vacationed in, and/or worked in 49 of the 50 United States. (Alaska, I'm looking at you...)

I have had a varied and eclectic work and educational background.

My educational background includes major interests in history; biology; Latin; grammar; astronomy; gemology; and advertising.

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).

As an active steinologist, I am a true believer of its basic precepts.

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:

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Take a Breath Before That Edit "It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has all the data. Insensibly, one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts." –Sherlock Holmes (A.C. Doyle), The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Skip the Contentious Editing "Gentlemen! You can't fight in here; this is the war room!" —Dr. Strangelove "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 Take a Look in the Editor's Mirror "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds..." —Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance Always Being Right Has Its Cost "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 Put That Thing Away "Damn it, Jim; It's an encyclopedia, not a collection of random trivia!" —(apologies to) Dr. McCoy (DeForest Kelley), Star Trek Understanding Another Point of View? "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 Neutral?!? "Neutrality is hard!" —GQ "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

Third opinion disputes

1. Talk:Science § 3O: "The scientific method soon played a greater role in knowledge creation" Disagreement regarding the diction of a particular sentence in the lead. 00:53, 26 February 2025 (UTC)
2. Talk:Geography § World map for geography page. Disagreement on which world map is suitable for the geography page. 23:44, 21 February 2025 (UTC)
3. Talk:Harla people § Relationship of the Harla to the Walasma and Their Origins. Disagreement on methodology and inclusion of sources.13:31, 22 February 2025 (UTC)
4. Talk:Laura Harmon § "Irrelevant" month in infobox image caption. Disagreement about whether or not the month of the image should be included in the infobox. 22:07, 25 February 2025 (UTC), Purge

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