User:Joyous!
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A little about me
I teach elementary school math, which means I have lots of time on my hands during summer vacation. This summer, a lot of that time is being wasted utilized here at Wikipedia.
I stumbled across an entry in a friend's LiveJournal about Wikipedia, and dropped by to take a look. One of the first articles I looked at contained a poorly worded sentence. I fixed it. Soon, I found a typo. I fixed it. Thus began my addiction.... I've created a few articles, but the bulk of my time is spent fixing spelling, grammar, de-orphaning articles, and fixing those links that direct to disambiguation pages. I also Live To Copyedit.
Since everyone here must have a Controversial Opinion on something, here is mine: I hate the cut/paste jobs from the 1881 Household Cyclopedia.
Articles to Research
- Indirect mosaic
- Waverly Root
- Up the Down Staircase
- basal reader
- Chartreuse
- Therblig
- Norman Island
- Windjammer Cruises
Articles Created
- Gardenia
- Miniature Schnauzer
- Virgin Gorda
- Snellen chart
- Powdery mildew
- Retinal detachment
- Anegada
- Little White House
Major Contribution
- Obsessive-compulsive Personality Disorder (complete re-write)
- The Wizard of Oz (1939 movie)
- Kutia
- Afterimage (Re-write)
- Blight (re-write of an 1881 Household Cyclopedia article)
- Bougainvillea
- Floater
- Buddy Clark
- Popples (I can't believe I spent a fair bit of time on an irritating saccharine cartoon that I never watched. Wikipedia casts a weird spell!)
- Van Morrison
- Prune belly syndrome