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Member since 06 November 2008. Rollbacker; Article Reviewer; Copy Editor; Newbie Helper and Article Mergers. I was born and raised in Chicago, IL; currently residing in San Antonio, Texas. I have resided in, vacationed in, and/or worked in 49 of the 50 United States. (Alaska, I'm looking at you...)

Interests
I have had a varied and eclectic work and educational background.

My educational background includes major interests in history; biology; Latin; grammar; astronomy; gemology; and advertising.

I was a BASIC and Visual Basic programmer back in the day. I have had life-long interests in, and worked as, an entertainer (including stage, radio, and TV, including script-writing, story-boarding, set design and construction, and performing. I still periodically perform as a Radio and Mobile DJ). I am a published genealogist.

I have owned my own businesses; and I have worked in corporate America (diamond sales, retail management), Blue collar (skilled construction); as well as medium to small business enterprises (advertising and entertainment agencies). I write corporate newsletters and have contributed to local and national newspapers, retail catalogs, and broadcast media. This requires a working knowledge of grammar, proper punctuation, and lay-out (including graphic, table, and picture placements).

As an active steinologist, I am a true believer of its basic precepts.

On Wikipedia, a hobby of mine, history is a very strong interest, as is copy editing, reliable referencing (re.: checks, creation, and inclusions), and article merging. Other Wikipedia interests include:
 * Creation of Wikipedia articles with meaningful content
 * Historically accurate place names and dating
 * A cohesive writing style, with strong adherence to the MoS
 * Proper grammar, punctuation, and written English;
 * The War of Independence—(or "American Revolutionary War" for you Brits)
 * Colonial, national, territorial and state border developments
 * Accurate biographical and immediate family information of article subject(s)
 * Illinois – North Carolina – Tennessee – Texas
 * Colonial America and Native American interaction
 * Helping new articles and new editors get off the ground
 * Geographical changes or events



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 * Take a Breath Before That Edit
 * "It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has all the data. Insensibly, one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts." –Sherlock Holmes (A.C. Doyle), The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes


 * Skip the Contentious Editing
 * "Gentlemen! You can't fight in here; this is the war room!" —Dr. Strangelove


 * Understand Notability
 * "Fame is inheritable, notability is not! (...unless, of course, you're British...)"—GQ


 * Take a Look in the Editor's Mirror
 * "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds..." —Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance


 * Always Being Right Has Its Cost
 * "TANSTAFL!" (There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch) —GQ

'''It's Called Consensus ArbCom
 * "Opfer müssen gebracht werden!" ("Sacrifices must be made!") —Otto Lilienthal


 * Wiki-Fauna Gone Wild
 * "Good is something you do, not something you talk about. Some medals are pinned to your soul, not to your jacket." —Gino Bartali


 * Put That Thing Away
 * "Damn it, Jim; It's an encyclopedia, not a collection of random trivia!" —(apologies to) Dr. McCoy (DeForest Kelley), Star Trek


 * Understanding Another Point of View?
 * "O civile si ergo, fortibus es in ero, o nobile deus trux, votis inem Causan dux." ["Oh see, Willy, see her go; forty busses in a row. Oh no, Billy, they is trucks.  What is in 'em?  Cows and ducks."] —Lady Mondegreen
 * Neutral?!?
 * "Neutrality is hard!" —GQ
 * "Loyalty is a virtue. Blind loyalty is foolish and dangerous. It enables the worst behavior of the people we support, forces us to change who we are and causes us to lose sight of what matters most. —Robert Glazer


 * Why it is sometimes tense around here
 * "The problem with the world is, everybody's a few drinks behind." —Humphrey Bogart


 * Use facts, not hot air opinion!
 * "Walk on air against your better judgement." —Seamus Heaney, "The Gravel Walks"


 * Life, like Wikipedia, isn't always fair (or IS it?)
 * "There are people who could be upset if they were told that half of all Americans earn less than the median income..." —Thomas Sowell

I no longer create Categories, as I am repeatedly told that Lists are more informative, as once again one of my original 16 categories is getting deleted. I should think, then, that categories are highly redundant and should simply be abandoned as an encyclopedic tool here; they should then all be replaced by a system of List and Index articles. GenQuest "Talk to Me"


 * Category:Cherokee Nation (1794–1907)
 * Category:Chickamauga Cherokee
 * Category:People from the State of Franklin
 * Category:Signers of the Articles of Confederation
 * Category:Signers of the Fincastle Resolutions
 * Category:Signers of the Tryon Resolves
 * Category:Supernatural legends

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Third opinion disputes [ update],

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