User:Fishhead64

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Me in a cassock, holding a prayer book, prior to a service at my Anglican parish church.

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INFP

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This user is from Vancouver Island.

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This user might be an aspiring cabalist. If the cabal exists, that is.

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Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which this user will not put.

which & that

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MDiv

This user has a Master of Divinity degree.

MTheol

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Ὅδε ὁ χρήστης δύναται συνεισφέρειν ἀνωτέρᾳ γνώσει τῆς ἀρχαίας ἑλληνικῆς.

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Ὁ χρήστης οὗτος δύναται συνεισφέρειν μετ' ἀνωτέρας γνώσεως τῆς Κοινῆς Ελληνικῆς.

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משתמש זה מסוגל לתרום ברמה בינונית של עברית.

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Hic usor simplici latinitate contribuere potest.

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Hello all! I'm an Anglican priest living in Sechelt, British Columbia. In my spare time, I'm interested in the history of British Columbia - especially the fur-trading & exploration history of the BC interior. I also have an interest in Canadian politics and current affairs. But mostly, I'm interested in ecclesiology in Anglicanism, New Testament theology and ethics, and the like. I consider myself an Anglo-Catholic, and was the founder of the Anglicanism WikiProject. Apart from a Master of Divinity degree, I have a Th.M. in New Testament, and did two years of doctoral work in New Testament ethics at the Graduate Theological Union. My plans and hopes are to begin doing some articles on New Testament themes, especially as they pertain to Paul of Tarsus and ethics.

I find myself distracted by information. I'm a researchophile. I get interested in a subject, and I start researching. It is a great form of procrastination, as I'm sure other Wikipedians can attest. The threads lead me in interesting directions: The rivers of British Columbia and their history, because my father was a freshwater surveyor for the Province of British Columbia. And of course, talking about the history of rivers brings my attention to the Europeans who explored them, which gets me working on their biographies, and then this gets me interested in the colonial history of western British North America.

The Cedar Hill area in which I grew up, photographed about sixty years before my birth

Thinking about all this history gets me homesick for my beloved Vancouver Island (although I'm happy being on the Lower Mainland), and so I start writing about the place in which I grew up — from the general (Victoria) to the specific (Cedar Hill).

And then there is religion. Sigh. Religion. It is a passion, and Wikipedians write about that which they feel passionate!

The Richard Hooker Memorial Barnstar for hard work and diligence on the Anglicanism WikiProject: Look what I got! Thanks, Secisek!

Perhaps the best example of just how much I've been drawn into Wikipedia is the Anglicanism WikiProject, which I designed and initiated. I was motivated by the fact that Google searches on subjects related to Anglicanism and the Anglican Communion typically yield a Wikipedia article in the top five...many of which are (or were) frankly incomplete, inaccurate, or POV-ridden. This fact is combined with the total absence of articles on important Anglican theology, history, institutions, and individuals. I realised I couldn't do it all myself, and was not qualified to do it all myself, anyway. When I compared Anglican-related articles to those of other denominational traditions, especially Roman Catholicism, I felt embarrassed. Hence, the WikiProject. I am delighted that we now have over sixty participants.

Finally, I am an administrator of Wikipedia. Having long thought that sysops were those "other people," my nomination and selection were a complete shock to me. But I am humbled by the confidence shown in me, and have now embarked on a process of learning the scope of my responsibilities.

1 Articles I've created or substantially revised include
2 To Do

[edit] Articles I've created or substantially revised include

Herein, "extensively reworked" means that, following my editing, roughly three-quarters or more of the material in the article was added by me.

[edit] British Columbia Geography

The article on Simon Fraser was in such poor shape, it motivated me to become a Wikipedian and was the first I worked on, and this was the first image I downloaded.