User:Showers

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Showers is taking a short wikibreak and will be back on Wikipedia soon.
About me

Hometown: Burnsville, MN

Religion: Buddhist

This user lives in or hails from the state of Minnesota.
US This user uses American English.
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us-N		 This user is a native speaker of American English.
ja-1 この利用者は少しだけ日本語を話すことができます。
This user is a participant of WikiProject Anime and Manga.
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This user is a bibliophile.

I am Showers. I am a proud Minnesotan and I am a naturally curious person. I have started editing on Wikipedia since 2006. I am an American of mainly Norwegian, Swedish, and German ancestry. I have some English and Irish ancestry as well.

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[edit] Interests/Hobbies

My hobbies include reading, and learning as much as I can about the world.

History (Pretty Much Any Era)
Learning (I read textbooks for fun. yeah, yeah I know. I'm a nerd.)
Reading (Science Fiction, Mysteries, Fantasy, Non-Fiction, Historical Fiction)
Some of my Favorite Books (I have a huge library numbering in the thousands. I read alot)
Anime/Manga (City Hunter, Cowboy Bebop, Full Metal Panic, Great Teacher Onizuka, Inuyasha, Kaze no Stigma, Ranma ½, Urusei Yatsura)
Cooking (I suck at at it but I still enjoy it and that's what counts right?)
Baseball (I love basesball. I don't really play anymore but I still watch. Favorite team is the Minnesota Twins of course.)
Martial Arts (I'm a practioner of Karate. Thinking of taking up Tai Chi)
Music (Classical especially, but Ill enjoy anything)
Poetry (Yeah, I write poetry and read it too. I love Kipling and Basho especially)

[edit] Articles I Edit

Augustus
Bleach (manga)
Burnsville, Minnesota (my hometown and favorite place in the world)
Final Fantasy IX
Full Metal Panic (and various other minor Full Metal Panic articles)
George Washington (One of my personal heroes)
Germany
Timber Wolf (my favorite animal.)
Inner Sphere
InuYasha (and various other minor Inuyasha articles)
Japan
Minnesota (I am a member of WikiProject Minnesota)
Ranma ½ (and various other minor Ranma ½ articles)
Sherlock Holmes
Star Wars: Dark Forces (the first video game I ever owned. still one of my favorites)
Ōoka Tadasuke

[edit] Helpful Bookmarks

User:Showers/sandbox
WP:5P 5 Pillars of Wikipedia
WP:LOP List of Policies
WP:REF Reference
WP: LEAD Lead
WP:MOS Manual of Style
WP:MOS-ANIME Manual of Style-Anime
WP:NPOV Neutral point of view
WP:FURG Non-free use rationale guideline
WP:AIV Administrator intervention against vandalism
WP:NOTE Notability
WP:FICT Notability (fiction)
WP:BRD Bold, Revert, Discuss Cycle

[edit] Awards

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