User:JGF Wilks

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Me and my shadow dad This user is a father. This user opposes racism and admires Martin Luther King, Jr.. This user supports Amnesty International. This user is a music composer. This user enjoys classical music. This user enjoys jazz music. This user is old enough to remember what a typewriter is, and that's all you need to know. :-] This user is polite.

Professional

This user is a bibliophile. PhD This user has a Doctor of Philosophy degree. This user teaches at a university or other institution of higher education. This user is an academic. UK This user uses British English.

Wikipedia

This user is a member of WikiProject Christianity to¦go This user chooses to sometimes use split infinitives. …in. Ending a sentence with a preposition is something that this user is okay with. mankind This user supports the use of gender-neutral language. A, B, and C This user prefers the serial comma. its This user understands the difference between its (of it) and it's (it is). ’s Thi's user know's that not every word that end's with s need's an apostrophe and will remove misused apostrophe's from Wikipedia with extreme prejudice.

Contents 1 This user is… 2 Me and Wikipedia 2.1 Current Projects 2.2 Pages I've created 2.3 Pages I've extensively expanded 2.4 Useful Links I keep forgetting

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…on a Wikiholiday at the moment. I've a book deadline looming, and need to concentrate on that. Probably wont be back until May.

I work as the Director of Open Learning at London School of Theology, London, UK. You can find out a bit more info on me here. I've also studied classical music - composition and piano - and chemistry (but I don't normally talk about that). My main hobbies are photography, orchids, bonsai, and art house and foreign language films.

I was motivated to join the community since an increasing number of my students are using Wikipedia as a primary source for their essays. I'd used Wikipedia myself a fair number of times prior to that, normally arriving here when I followed Google results on a search for information I needed. With the controversy in some of the British media about Wiki's supposed non-reliablity, and counter-claims of equal reliability to Brittania, I realised I needed to sort out what advice should be passed on to students. It didn't take much rooting around to be comfortable with Wiki. I appreciate the philosophy here, believing that the strengths outwwigh the weaknesses, and that the weaknesses will gradually diminish through thoughtful contributions.

I got used to the way the Wiki interface works by concentrating on the copyediting and wikifying requests. Since then I've started making a few tentative contributions on theological issues, and I've also recently joined the Composers' Project and the Christianity Project.

[edit] Me and Wikipedia

[edit] Current Projects

• Wikipedia:WikiProject_Composers
• Wikipedia:WikiProject_Christianity
• Harrison Birtwistle

[edit] Pages I've created

• List of compositions by Harrison Birtwistle
• Gawain (opera)

[edit] Pages I've extensively expanded

• Harrison Birtwistle

[edit] Useful Links I keep forgetting

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Userboxes
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vandalism
• Wikipedia:WikiProject_Opera

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