User:Tainter

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I have limited internet access and time so my editing will be much decreased. -Tainter

I am 23 years old. I studied anthropology/archaeology at The University of Montana.

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[edit] Archaeology

I am interested in the archaeology of the Southwestern United States. More specifically I am interested in the Anasazi of northwestern Arizona (see Arizona Strip). I'm a member of Wikipedia:WikiProject Anthropology

[edit] Wikipedia

Wikipedia(don't click this link, you're already here) is one of my favorite things on the internet. I often find myself getting lost and wasting hours reading through the articles.

I mostly do minor edits. Recently I have been finding myself editing and improving pages that I have no prior knowledge of and have no real interest in. As of late I have also been doing a lot of edits while not logged in. That's the penalty for not having a computer/internet at my residence.

I also infrequently create stub articles on small UK towns and villages. I don't keep track of these because I have done so many. I'm not sure how many but it is a good amount. It's kind of fun. Not to tough either and the pages need to be created. For heaven's sake, I don't even live in the UK nor have I ever been there.

I participate in the deletion process. It's an interesting thing to be involved with. Some crazy articles. Also I often watch the newpages page. Sure it fun to prod and speedy. When I am feel really lazy I just go through random pages and stub or fix what I can.

I really dislike redundant wikilinks and see also sections. I remove them when I see them.

I don't bite newbies, I nip them.

I am an exclusionist and a deletionist. From messages I have recieved from speedy deleting articles and prod'ing articles I see that a lot of people don't appreciate that. Though an exclusionist I am in support of including churches and schools. I oppose many pages about companies which have no asserted notability besides existing, mainly because I see wikipedia as something which should be as far from a commercial site as possible.

I hate to be a jerk but I get frustrated when people wikilink without checking for disambiguations or just link to an incorrect article. Please check out the tutorial before linking or any other editing for that matter. A lot of the time a specific word is not unique and may mean a whole bunch of things (who woulda thunk it!). So please think about it. If you're feeling adventurous check this page out.

Ok, something else I want to complain about because I can. You only need to wikilink something one time in an article. You don't need to keep creating redunadant wikilinks. Ya dumb poops ...and as Strong Bad would say "learn to, learn to spell..." I remove "see also" sections with some frequency because many are redundant. I remove redundant wikilinks when I see them (which is very often).

Even though it is a pain in the ass I find reading vandalism on wikipedia incredibly funny at times. It's more entertaining than some of the original non-vandalized articles. I don't condone vandalism in the least but I do condone laughing at things that are funny. Here is a good example from the Al Gore article: "In addition, a Gallup poll released in August 2006 showed that nearly half of Americans view Gore as a hillbilly who has 18 toes (48 percent to 45 percent)." Glad it got reverted but damn that is funny. For more check out Wikipedia:Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense.

Attention: If you have come here to complain about me putting a speedy deletion tag on your page please look at the following pages first: Wikipedia:Speedy deletions, Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion, Wikipedia: Deletion policy. Also, please do not remove the tags as that is against wikipedia policy. If you do not want your page to be deleted then type {{hangon}} below the nomination tag. Finally and most importantly: don't take it personally, if your article gets tagged it has nothing to do with you.

I would like to retiterate for editors that MySpace is not a valid secondary resource for an article. It is the essence of a vanity page, so don't use them as reasons for defending notability.

Number of times user page vandalized: 2

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[edit] American Southwest

[edit] Townes Van Zandt albums

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