User:CatDeville.Llewellyn

CatDeville Llewellyn, aka CatDeville, aka Catherine Deville joined Wikipedia May 3, 2006, to participate in a deletion discussion. Cat intends to contribute to some of the stubs and ongoing projects as time permits, but has been far too busy to do so. Cat has been fascinated by the success of Wikipedia as a project, and as an academic (a student, with ambitions to one day be a professional academic), she has found Wikipedia to be an invaluable jumping off point for research and hopes to make useful contributions to the community in the long run.

CatDeville has not yet made any major contributions to Wikipedia, as she is currently learning about Wiki formats, layout and editing guidelines. This user space is currently a disclosure of her major interests both as an aid in evaluating where her body of knowledge resides and in exposing any unintentional bias which might creep into her contributions. It is also intended as practice in formatting prior to attempting more ambitious contributions. Cat would have the reader know that she is committed to following Wikipedia's NPOV guidelines and she hopes that this disclosure will help to achieve that goal.

CatDeville has been a member of the online community since the mid-80s, has been a member of the Internet since 1992, and has used the "handle" CatDeville or Catherine Deville since she first assisted her roommate as a co-sysop on his BBS, managing the discussion lists. She is not to be confused with anyone whose real life or stage identity is "CatDeville", "Cat Deville" or "Catherine Deville." Her handle expanded to "CatDeville Llewellyn" when she joined Second Life, which insisted that she use a last name available on their (then) predesignated surname list. Having an affinity for Celtic culture, she chose "Llewellyn", and has since used "CatDeville Llewellyn" to help differentiate her from the other "Cat Deville"s and "Catherine Deville"s now in the 'net-verse.

In 2010 CatDeville moved from San Diego back to her hometown in Nashville, TN and lost access to her Cox account, and subsequently to her original CatDeville Wikipedia user account. This new page replaces the old page which went with that user account as of 6/22/2013. Content on that page is in the process of being redirected/linked to this page.