User:Worthywords

This user is the author of Clay-foot Titan: An agenda for improving Wikipedia published in 2013 by Kona Publishing and Media Group.

This user has published peer-reviewed articles in academic journals.

God made this user an atheist. Do you question his wisdom?

This user is a participant in
WikiProject Poetry.

More than you ever wanted to know about this user

• far too emotionally involved with her cats, but doesn't intend to change.
• a promiscuous reader whose 2009 to the present reading calendar started with the Twilight (series) and ended with J. M. Coetzee's Foe.
• in love with her husband to the point where she doesn't really notice other men at all.

This user is owned by one or more cats.

Alba
This user is of Scottish ancestry.

⚤This user is straight
but not narrow.

This user remembers using
a rotary dial telephone.

This user supports the use of green energy.

This user regards Colony Collapse Disorder as a serious problem.

Pages she's created

The articles she's created from scratch are:

• A Scholar Under Siege
• Julie Hecht
• U.S. National Tick Collection
• A Gate at the Stairs
• The Lives of Animals
• Kathleen Meyer
• Herakut
• The Lives of Things
• Gone Girl (novel)

She's also taking nearly full credit for the Charity Girl article because it was a really short stub when she took it over. Otherwise, her contributions are mostly small edits to other articles with relevance to Georgia or English or American literature.

This user is ambivalent about technology, but still embraces it

This user never sat down at a computer until she was thirty. And she's never had a computer class, either. Nevertheless she has, somehow if not triumphantly, learned html coding, Adobe Photoshop, Quark Express, Microsoft Word (grrrrr), and Galileo. She has designed whole newspapers on her ownsome. So, I'm afraid her attitude toward technology is that if she can learn to do this shit, then anybody can.

This user is also a mac owner and unashamed mac snob. "Why would anybody bother to invent any other kind of computer?" pretty much sums up this user's attitude about macs vs. PCs.

This user is starting, very, very slowly, to see the advantages of Mozilla Firefox over Internet Explorer. Among other things, MyGeorgiaSouthern seems to crash less often when one is on Mozilla.

Wikipedia would be a nicer place if

• the rule on original research were suspended for really obvious literary interpretations that 95 percent of readers would come to without fail. For instance, this user really ought to be able to write that Blazing Saddles is a satire without having to cite a source.
• the pages on popular culture were not pretty much commandeered by unevolved adolescent administrators.
• people were chosen to be administrators, not on the fabulous number of articles they have nominated for deletion and on the number of times they have clicked on "undo," but on some kind of demonstrated merit.
• people who want to troll around deleting articles were required to, first, create two or more new articles of at least 500 words in length.

Wikipedia philosophy of sorts

This user thinks that Wikipedia is what it is: a huge, unwieldy collaborative project run mostly by volunteers. Like any huge, unwieldy collaborative project run mostly by volunteers, it is never going to be perfect. However, this user does think that all those academics grumbling about what crap Wikipedia is should donate two hours of their lives to making it better. Two hours out of your entire life! How much is that to ask?

This user is also a proud supporter of Wikipedia's higher education program. Her students at Georgia Southern created many fine Wikipedia articles. Among them:

Antiviral protein (cited on Wikipedia's "Did You Know?" page)

Girl Talk Inc.

Granite Bowl

Baird Mountains (cited on Wikipedia's "Did You Know?" page)

The Big Oak

Friendly Robotics

Sisters' Family Cookbook

Team StarKid

100 Monkeys

Georgia Southern University baseball

Georgia Southern University volleyball

Bulloch County Courthouse

Godfrey Barnsley

Her students at the University of Pikeville created or made major contributions to these articles:

Chondrocladia lyra

Antenatal depression

Hillbilly Days

Scott Gustafson

Water Capacitor

USC Women's Basketball Team

Writing for the internet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:AustinBaldwin/sandbox

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enThis user is a native speaker of the English language.

Languages

This user is a speaker and writer of American English. She also speaks some Spanish and reads Spanish well enough to follow a Spanish sit com if it is subtitled. However, she does not really feel confident enough of her Spanish to do substantial editing on the Spanish Wikipedia pages. Disclosure: I am, occasionally, paid to edit Wikipedia. I am currently working for the University of South Florida on articles to be titled "The National Academy of Inventors," "Florida Inventors Hall of Fame," and "Paul R. Sanberg."

Why this user thinks she's a better writer than you are

There, she said it. Yes, she does think she's probably a better writer than you are, unless you are one of a handful of people on Wikipedia who write better than she. The only one she can actually name is Good Olfactory. This would probably be a good time for this user to humbly note that she is NOT a technician, and she therefore welcomes more expert editors to scrounge around in her work and correct the codes and the documentation format. Have at it. Sweep away.

But she HATES having her writing edited. So, respectfully, before you rewrite something she's written or insist that (finger up nose) your definition of neutrality is better than hers, please consult the following Reader's Digest condensed list of her writing credentials:

• A presentation titled "Article Creation in the Composition Classroom" at the international Wikimedia Conference in Haifa which you can read here: Article creation in the composition classroom
• Five National Federation of Press Women At-Large Communications Contest awards, two of them first place for her first-person column, "Nothing Sacred."
• Eight years as an every-issue contributing reviewer for BookPage.
• An English major and a Ph.D. in English literature with a 3.85 grade point average at the graduate level.
• Editor of her local alternative weekly newspaper (Creative Loafing, Savannah), 1998-1999.
• Editor and publisher of The Tybee News for eight years.
• Articles published in E, the Environmental Magazine, Troika, Art Papers, Grit, the Savannah Morning News, the Hilton Head Island Packet, and many others.

This user looks at a screwdriver and thinks "ooh, this could be a little more sonic!"

BoeThis user knows that the Face of Boe is Captain Jack Harkness.Jack

This user loves espresso.

This user is currently reading Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver.

This user only drinks bottles of wine closed with Cork Stoppers.

This user firmly believes that this is a better world because of the presence of dogs.

This user is car-free.^‡

ORGThis user would rather eat
organic food
than tampered-with food

This user has reduced their
body mass.

Calvin

This user enjoys sports where the rules are always changing.

This user is a Pisces.

ORGThis user would rather eat
organic food
than tampered-with food

This user celebrates towel day (May 25th). R.I.P. D.N.A.

kzoThis user plays the kazoo.