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This user understands the difference between its and it's. So should you. |
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This user identifies as queer. |
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Hi! I'm Grace. I chose this username when I joined Wikipedia over a year ago; it's a reference to an old private joke between my sister and me in high school. I've noticed that people assume I'm a man, so I've started signing edits on talk pages with my real name.
This page was vandalized once! Yes, I've reached that level of fame.
Check out the List of books I read in 2006. (Way out of date, will update soon.) You should do one too; it's a great way to find articles to work on.
[edit] About me
I'm an undergraduate student in my final year of cultural studies at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, and I should be too busy to spend time editing Wikipedia. I was born in Austin, Texas in 1984. I've lived in Maturín and Anaco in Venezuela and St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. I am 22 years old and female.
I present the Wednesday morning breakfast show on local community radio station 4ZzZ FM. I've been erroneously described as a "minor celebrity". I have a LiveJournal which I don't update very often, and I have MySpace, of course, and I have a lovely boyfriend.
My father's side of the family can trace its ancestry back, more or less, to awesome Viking types including Sweyn I of Denmark and Gorm the Old. I think that's pretty neat. Naomi Shihab Nye is the only person with a Wikipedia article I know personally. She's a huge inspiration to me (and no, I didn't write her article).
[edit] Articles I've created
Other (mostly minor) contributions here
[edit] What I do on Wikipedia
My first logged-in edit was fixing a typo in October 2005. By now, I've made over 1700 edits. (I use Interiot's edit count tool.) Even today, I am mostly a copyeditor - I can't look at badly written text and not do something about it. (Too often I've found myself reading a newspaper and instinctively reaching for the "edit" tab to fix a misspelling.) I also think I have a good grasp of the neutral point of view policy, and I try to fix it where I can. Even points of view you strongly disagree with can be expressed without inherent criticism. I also help by monitoring and tagging new pages. These days I'm mostly a casual contributor, though.
Many of Wikipedia's pages on current academic media studies and cultural studies could do with some improvement. I try to contribute to these when I get spare time, though this often requires extra research. If you are studying in this area and you work on them yourself, you're a hero!
[edit] Attention!
One usage that gets on my nerves all the time on Wikipedia is "X is strongly criticised for..." What this usually means is that the author is opposed to X and wants the criticism to sound strong. Please don't be tempted to do it, however much you may disagree with X. It tends to sound like you're subtly condemning the subject (because how did you decide how strong the criticism was?).
Lame: She was strongly criticised for "selling out" after her album went platinum.
Better: She was criticised for "selling out" after her album went platinum. (this should be the introductory sentence to a paragraph in which you'll cite examples.)
In fact, think carefully about any adverb you use. Words like incidentally, interestingly, unfortunately, ironically and incredibly are rarely called for. Really and very can usually be done away with, too. As can hopefully meaning I hope.
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The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar |
| For your continued service to Wikipedia. Good job!Sharkface217 21:26, 31 October 2006 (UTC) |
