User:Killing sparrows

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I hope you brought your slingshot, it's time for killing sparrows!

Everybody comes to kill sparrows!

St Paul Island, my summer nesting grounds

Bhaktapur, Nepal The view from my balcony, where I sit and drink milk tea in the morning!

Othello, Washington water tank Thirsty birdies gather here on migratory flyway!

Killing sparrows was part of the People's Republic of China campaign, begun in the 1950's, to wipe out The Four Pests, flies, mosquitos, rats and sparrows. Sparrows were later replaced by bedbugs, as sparrows were seen to be important in controlling insects.

1 About Me
2 Slaying Slews
3 My first (and to date, only) article
4 Stuff I Use Frequently
5 Can O'Worms I have currently open
6 Adoption
7 Factoids and Quotes

[edit] About Me

I migrate seasonally from St Paul Island, Alaska to Bhaktapur Nepal, with refueling stops in Othello, Washington.

Current Location: Othello

[edit] Slaying Slews

I'm going through all instances of the word slew, as in, a slew of, and variants, where the meaning is many, or several, and replacing it with, well, many or several. This is one of my pet peeves in the informal usage in a formal article category. I'd guess 70% of occurrences are in articles for bands and musicians I've never heard of, the rest actors, computer games, misc bio. 2800 hits but many are, so-and-so slew the haighites-type, Seattle Slew, quotes, and a slew of other stuff!

Update! As of March 28th. I am halfway through 2696 total hits for slew!

[edit] My first (and to date, only) article

The Corfu Slide It aint much, but it's mine!

[edit] Stuff I Use Frequently

WP:LoCE League of Copy Editors
WP:Speedy For speedy deletion
WP:PROD For uncontested deletion
WP:AFD For proposing an article for deletion
WP:CSD Various deletion criteria
WP:CV Copyright violation
WP:WPSPAM Spam fighting techniques
WP:RDR How to redirect a page
WP:NOTE Notability guidelines
Pleonasm How not to write
WP:MOS Manual of style
WP:DEP Dead end pages
WP:RC Recent changes
WP:BIAS Countering systemic bias in WP
Slews in need of slaying!
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[edit] Can O'Worms I have currently open

[edit] Adoption

This user has been adopted by coelacan.

I requested adoption after trying to single-handedly and innerantly master the arcana of Wikilore. I highly recommend the program to any newcomer. You can see our scintillating exchanges on our talk page.Thanks coelacan!

[edit] Factoids and Quotes

In Nepal, government expenditure on health care, for 26 million people, is about $125 million a year, or $5 per person. Americans spend $1 billion dollars a year...on cat litter! --Me, WP:OR

"If you don't get caught, it never happened." --My friend, Kitty.

“FARM removes the scales from the eyes of society so they may glimpse the horror on their plates. From the pigpen to the frying pan, from the stockyard to the (backyard) barbecue..." --Paul Watson, President, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. (I improved this quote, fixing misspelling and increasing alliteration. Rabble-rousers should hire English majors for this sort of thing, Goddess knows they need the work.)

"I see inclusionist/deletionist arguments every day, and on that spectrum, I would consider myself on the inclusionist side, but surely there has to be some limit. As an analogy, I would include every instance of man bites dog, but not every instance of dog bites man." --Me, recently.