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Hello there! I'm an Old Millennial woman (she/her/hers) living in the U.S. I have been editing Wikipedia since 2004, when I was introduced to the project by Timwi. I'm currently not quite as active for the silliest of reasons: I am too lazy to keep turning my VPN off. (Getting blocked on Commons for forgetting to turn it off was bad enough; I don't want to go through that here, too...) My username is meaningless; it goes back to a long-held policy of mine to use usernames that aren't easily Googled. On a personal level, I'm a big fan of road trips, lurking around museums and libraries, non-fiction books, and watching way more sports than can be healthy.
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Hello there! I'm an Old Millennial woman (she/her/hers) living in the U.S. I have been editing Wikipedia since 2004, when I was introduced to the project by Timwi.
I'm currently not quite as active for the silliest of reasons: I am too lazy to keep turning my VPN off. (Getting blocked on Commons for forgetting to turn it off was bad enough; I don't want to go through that here, too...)
My username is meaningless; it goes back to a long-held policy of mine to use usernames that aren't easily Googled.
On a personal level, I'm a big fan of road trips, lurking around museums and libraries, non-fiction books, and watching way more sports than can be healthy.
Interests
[edit]I have varied interests and don't tend to focus on specific topics, with a few exceptions:
- Women's colleges in the United States -- I did a lot of the work building many of these colleges' pages, especially the defunct institutions
- History of higher education in the United States -- related to the above, I'm deeply interested in the social and economic evolution of colleges, especially defunct ones
- Indigenous peoples of the Americas -- I'm especially interested in Native New England, but also other Indigenous topics
- Newspapers -- I've created or expanded pages for a number of smaller newspapers, especially ones serving rural and/or minority communities
I also try to do a lot of disambiguating, style clean-up, and categorizing. I am a fan of the Oxford comma.
I love using Citation Hunt to fulfill needed citations -- especially ones that can be answered with JSTOR or Newspapers.com, two of my favorite databases.
Barnstars
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| For your excellent work in cleaning up the Virginia Women's Institute for Leadership article. Good job! SchuminWeb (Talk) 22:52, 20 May 2006 (UTC) |
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| This barnstar is to thank you for the article about Mount Saint Agnes College, where I taught for a few years in the 1960s. Later when I wondered what had become of that college, I searched in vain for any information. Today when I checked Wikipedia, I found all I needed to know! I gather you have done similar work for many other closed women's colleges. This is appreciated by far more people than you will ever know. MelanieN (talk) 16:53, 7 March 2015 (UTC) |