User:Moogwrench

Moogwrench
Hello, I am Moogwrench. If you are wondering what that means, it comes from a misinterpretation of lyrics in a Slayer song (I forget which one). My friend thought he heard that in the lyrics of the song back when we were teenagers. We joked about it, and I have used the nickname ever since.

About me
I am an educator in California, where I teach Biology at a high school. I am fluent in Spanish, and have lived on and off in Honduras for the last 12 years. I have a A.A. in Computer Information Systems, a B.A. in History and Science, an M.A. in Education, and an M.A. in History, with an emphasis on the Middle Ages.

Not a perfect Wikipedian
I am not perfect with regard to the policies and guidelines of Wikipedia (though I try my best), so please, have a little patience with me. I have made many mistakes, a few large ones and a lot of smaller ones, due to ignorance, not maliciousness. Please try to remember that and assume good faith. Thanks! I tend towards being an inclusionist in my editing style but that only goes as far as to include an article whose subject is properly sourced and reasonably notable.

Honduras
Honduras is near and dear to my heart and a second home. My wife happens to be from there, and we visit as often as we can and have many friends there. My wife was in Honduras when the 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis came to a head with the ouster of Manuel Zelaya from the presidency, and I went down there about a couple of weeks later. I try to be neutral but some people are completely wedded to one side or the other of the conflict. My wife's uncle would listen to Radio Globo every day to receive instructions from his "comandante" (Zelaya) and to hear his plans for a return to the presidency, and one of my best friends, a lawyer in Comayagua, was glad that Honduran authorities had finally, in his mind, done the right thing by kicking Zelaya out of office (though he, along with almost everyone else in the country, pro-Zelaya or not, acknowledges that exiling him was the wrong thing to do).

Here I am near the RNP (Registro Nacional de Personas) in Tegucigalpa, Honduras during the 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis with some anti-golpista graffiti behind me:

The "MacDonald" in the photo is reference to a political cartoonist who was arrested by the Micheletti government after the "coup." "Don Victor" is a anti-coup figure. You can see part of the words "Golpista Gorilletty" on the left-hand side, a reference to Roberto Micheletti.

Creations
I have created the following pages (not counting redirects and disambiguations, of course):


 * 1) Jeffrey Birnbaum
 * 2) Law Library of Congress report on the 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis
 * 3) Guaymuras dialogue - Tegucigalpa/San José accord
 * 4) Template:Heads of State in Central America
 * 5) La Estrella de Panamá
 * 6) Nicaraguan fourth ballot box
 * 7) María Antonieta de Bográn
 * 8) Template:User WikiProject Honduras
 * 9) James Willard Schultz
 * 10) Susan Powell (missing woman)
 * 11) Mesa Verde High School
 * 12) San Juan High School
 * Category:High schools in Citrus Heights, California
 * 1) The Martha's Vineyard Times
 * 2) Mortgage elimination
 * 3) Jairo Miguel
 * 4) Gaube Lake
 * 5) Robert Krentz DYK medal.png
 * 6) ‎Recessional agriculture
 * 7) Flashing (technology)
 * 8) Colostomy reversal
 * 9) Charles Monnett
 * 10) Liborio Guarulla
 * 11) Bob Beckwith DYK medal.png
 * 12) American School Hygiene Association DYK medal.png


 * DYK medal.png denotes an article that received a Did you know? mention

Substantial contributions
I have contributed substantially to the following pages:


 * 1) 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis
 * 2) Honduran fourth ballot box referendum
 * 3) 2009 Honduran coup d'état
 * 4) Interim Presidency of Roberto Micheletti
 * 5) International reaction to the 2009 Honduran coup d'état
 * 6) Chronology of the 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis
 * 7) Roberto Micheletti
 * 8) Manuel Zelaya
 * 9) School hygiene

XfDs
XfD's to which I have lent my opinion and/or !vote, or have participated in as a non-admin closer:


 * 1) Articles for deletion/Fluther.com
 * 2) Articles for deletion/Tom Walsh (Wyoming politician)
 * 3) Articles for deletion/David Romero Ellner
 * 4) Articles for deletion/Mohammed Sami Abugoush
 * 5) Articles for deletion/Nidal Malik Hasan
 * 6) Articles for deletion/2009 Honduran coup d'état
 * 7) Articles for deletion/Elizabeth Kucinich (3rd nomination)
 * 8) Articles for deletion/Disappearance of Susan Powell
 * 9) Articles for deletion/Corinna Fugate
 * 10) Articles for deletion/NE1
 * 11) Articles for deletion/Murder of Alfred Kunz
 * 12) Articles for deletion/Banana Dance (wiki software)
 * 13) Articles for deletion/Urutan makrifat
 * 14) Articles for deletion/N9NE Group
 * 15) Articles for deletion/Kuriakin Zeng
 * 16) Articles for deletion/Endast
 * 17) Articles for deletion/Nick Fiedler
 * 18) Articles for deletion/Jayesslee*
 * 19) Articles for deletion/Lauran Irion
 * 20) Articles for deletion/Dominant group (Moon)
 * 21) Articles for deletion/Juts
 * 22) Articles for deletion/Adelberg (Victoria, Australia)*
 * 23) Articles for deletion/Controversy on Stellar Evolution*
 * 24) Articles for deletion/Jeff Szusterman
 * 25) Articles for deletion/Jeff Szusterman (2nd nomination)
 * 26) Articles for deletion/School hygiene*
 * 27) Articles for deletion/Tamanduá - A Brazilian Opera*
 * 28) Articles for deletion/Oysters Rockefeller (film)
 * 29) Articles for deletion/Randall Denley
 * 30) Articles for deletion/Deauxmae
 * 31) Articles for deletion/Rex Lease
 * 32) Articles for deletion/List of 9/11 memorials†
 * 33) Articles for deletion/Mars to Stay†
 * 34) Articles for deletion/Welsh comics†
 * 35) Articles for deletion/Pepper spraying of the Occupy Wall Street demonstrators†
 * 36) Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Conservatism
 * 37) Articles for deletion/Relationship activism*
 * 38) Articles for deletion/Theoretical theology*
 * XfDs that I have proposed
 * † XfDs that I have closed
 * † XfDs that I have closed

Items of interest
Things that I am interested in, but that I am getting around to looking at:


 * 1) Articles like William Walker (filibuster) - I did my senior paper for my B.A. on the New York Times treatment of his exploits, and I'd sure like to check it out, plus many, many more, I am sure...
 * 2) Increasing work at "Did you know..."
 * 3) Working on developing good articles and featured articles.
 * 4) Doing some wikifying of new pages
 * 5) More commenting at ANI and RfCs
 * 6) Participating in more RfAs, Reference Desk, and other community centers

User pages and other useful links
These are a few user pages I have been working on:
 * Useful templates - A collection of useful templates, for mainspace and userspace editing
 * User:Moogwrench/CSD log - Log of all Twinkle CSDs from 9/19/2011 onward
 * Soxred93's tools on toolserver.org
 * Snottywong's tools on toolserver.org
 * External links/Perennial websites - Useful discussion regarding perrenially discussed websites as sources

TO DO:
 * work on List of spiders of India and species' pages