User:CatherineMunro

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– Wikipedia founder Jimbo Wales

Who am I?
she thinks not, therefore she is not.


 * I have been an artist, and an INFP, all my life.
 * I have been a gamer since October of 1987.
 * I have been a programmer since the summer of 1998.
 * I have been a mother since June of 2000.
 * I have been a Wikipedian since February 12, 2003.
 * I have been a Wikipediholic since February 19, 2003.
 * I have been a Wikipedia custodian since February 12, 2004.
 * I was promoted to "Gunnery Muse" by User:Func on October 13, 2004. ;)
 * I reached my five thousandth edit in the wee hours of October 30, 2004.
 * I was a Mediator throughout most of 2005.
 * I have been a knitter since 2006.
 * I reached my ten thousandth edit on March 4, 2006, the same week Wikipedia got its millionth article.
 * I worked for Wikia from March 2007 to March 2010.

My sig:
 * Catherine\talk

= Catherine\talk
 * (borrowed from Solitude -- check the "Raw signatures" box to use it)

My contributions

 * I designed the http://www.wikipedia.org/ portal. [1]
 * I sometimes write for the Wikipedia Signpost.
 * I proposed and helped design the Special:Cite page.
 * I wrote, edited, and supervised the climb of the Duran Duran article to featured article status
 * I have done hundreds of disambiguations
 * I have reformatted hundreds of disambiguation pages according to the Manual of Style
 * I have worked on dozens of Missing encyclopedia articles

Duran Duran

 * [[Image:LinkFA-star.png]] Duran Duran (Featured article discussion, Dec. 2004)
 * The Duran Duran constellation - related articles I watch

The many faces of John Taylor


John Taylor: John Taylor (poet), John Taylor (1704-1766), Johnnie Taylor, John Taylor of Caroline, John Taylor (1770-1832), John Whittaker Taylor, John Taylor (1808-1887), John Henry Taylor, John Taylor (American football player), John Mark Taylor, John Taylor (Velocette), Jack Taylor, and still in progress: John Taylor (jazz), John David Taylor, John Taylor (1480-1534), John Taylor (1503-1554), John Taylor (1694-1761), John Taylor (1752-1833), John E. Taylor, John Taylor (Taylor Ham), John Tayler,

Recognized articles

 * [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|Good article|14px]] Ishango bone (Good article)
 * [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|Good article|14px]] Imbrex and tegula (Good article)
 * Crystal personal.svg Sacagawea (B-class Biography)
 * Crystal personal.svg Jonathan Elias (B-class Biography)

Created articles
Other articles I created or contributed to significantly:
 * Gamemaster, Miniature figure painting, Role-playing, Dungeon Master, Dungeon magazine, Universal Studios, Clive Davis, Snoop Doggy Dogg, Tina Turner, Willow (film), Alexandria, The Brocken; several Arachnids: Ricinulei, Palpigradi, Uropygid, Whip scorpion, Opiliones, Schizomid, Amblypygid, Pseudoscorpion; Daddy longlegs, Vickers machine gun, Théophile-Jules Pelouze, Ascanio Sobrero, Benny Urquidez, List of duplicating processes, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang China, Gao Lishi, Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, Handsworth riots, Artificial life, List of species described by the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Brea, California, Holly Knight, OpenID, Forensic anthropology, Thromboelastography, Lower Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge, Congo (disambiguation), Bootleg recording, Ishango bone, Coyote (mythology)...

Contributed articles
Other articles I contributed to (most stumbled upon by Random Article or Cleanup):
 * Blade Runner, consolidated the sprawling Atlas Shrugged articles, added awards lists to Grammy Awards, Pipe, Savannah, Georgia, Stadium, Drug tolerance, They Might Be Giants, Fiver, Milla Jovovich, Scooter, Showtime, Casiquiare canal, Sabadell, Lewis and Clark Expedition, Boot, KLM Constellation air disaster 1948, St. Johns River, Rectocele, Obstetric fistula, My Lai Massacre, Keystone Studios, Chenonceaux, Hryniewiecki, Ammonium chloride, Zebra crossing, Lesch-Nyhan syndrome, Pancho Barnes, Mary Sue fanfiction, Justice, Inc. (role-playing game), Ramesh Sippy, Vera-Ellen, Höfner, Ted LeFevre, Tabar Zin, Sofu Teshigahara, Cholo, Lanzarote, Bebe Buell, Animal shell, more

Plus:
 * John Porter, Robert Thomson, John Thomson, James Thomson, Charles Thomson, William Thompson, Joseph Thompson, John Thompson, James Thompson, George Thompson, Edward Thompson and related disambiguations

Workspace

 * MOST useful widget: Navigation popups
 * Another useful widget: FoxClocks Firefox extension, places additional clock(s) in your status bar or toolbar -- I use it for UTC/Wikipedia time.


 * User:CatherineMunro/monobook.css
 * User:CatherineMunro/monobook.js
 * User:CatherineMunro/Sandbox
 * User:CatherineMunro/Record companies
 * User:CatherineMunro/Copyrights
 * User:CatherineMunro/temp
 * User:CatherineMunro/CJB
 * User:CatherineMunro/Citation


 * User's Guide: Using Tables

To do:
WikiProject Clans of Scotland - Diamond Bar, California, Alex Sadkin, Kajagoogoo, entries on List of duplicating processes

MediaWiki talk:Monobook.css, MediaWiki talk:Standard.css, MediaWiki talk:Cologneblue.css, MediaWiki talk:Nostalgia.css.

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