User:ProfessorPaul

Greetings to One and All
I'm "ProfessorPaul," also known as (simply) Paul. I discovered Wikipedia in the spring of 2004 (while I was teaching an Economics class for a community college), but did not realize its real use and potential. I used it over and over again (as a reference source in my American Government class and my U.S. History class), but did not actually join until April, 2006.

Since then, I have made over 3000 edits (3000 edits? Wow!  I need to get a life). I enjoy Wikipedia very much; to me, this is "recreation."

Wikipedia, compared to other forms of human recreation

 * Wikipedia gets you higher than using illicit drugs;


 * Wikipedia is safer than safe sex;


 * Wikipedia is less frustrating than golf;


 * Wikipedia is more secure than a bond fund;


 * Wikipedia is the Reason God Made Oklahoma;


 * Wikipedia is cheaper than Viagra (and Cialis);


 * Wikipedia is the real reason why Bob is smiling;


 * Wikipedia is so easy, that even a caveman could edit it;


 * Wikipedia is much less mysterious than the Da Vinci Code;


 * Finally, it's not nice to fool Mother Nature, or Wikipedia.

Creating articles and Wiki-Categories
Editing Wikipedia is fun, but Wikipedia also needs people to create articles and categories. So--the list of 57 articles (and 4, now 3 categories) below owe their existence to me. Creating an article is not without its pratfalls: out of 59 articles I have written, 2 have been deleted. Don't let the potential of deletion discourage you, gentle reader.

ProfessorPaul articles
The 58 articles I have written (in chronological order) are:


 * Lyle H. Boren (combined and redirected to Lyle Boren)
 * Clem McSpadden
 * Oklahoma Democratic Party
 * Oklahoma Congressional Districts
 * Mike Padden
 * Henry D. Irwin
 * KSKY (AM)
 * Murray State College
 * Gary Richardson
 * Area code 580
 * Area code 417
 * Area code 636
 * Politics of Oklahoma
 * Oklahoma Republican Party
 * Eusebius J. Beltran
 * Sooner Catholic
 * Eastern Oklahoma Catholic
 * Edward James Slattery
 * Holy Family Cathedral in Tulsa
 * William K. Brewster
 * Gypsy moth Republican
 * Thomas R. Dye
 * Tom Steed
 * Glen D. Johnson
 * Nikki Finke
 * Ardmore Higher Education Center
 * James Robert Jones
 * Oklahoma congressional elections, 2006
 * Andrew Carnegie Whitfield
 * Curtis Chillingworth
 * Michael Anthony Hughes
 * Tulsa (movie)
 * Joseph C. Battaglia
 * Irene Craigmile Bolam
 * Conspiracy?
 * Master of Physical Therapy
 * Operation Gold (disambiguation)
 * The List: What's In and Out
 * Reasor's Grocery
 * List of hospitals in Oklahoma
 * Sierra Springs
 * Oklahoma Statehood Stamp
 * Loomis Fargo Bank Robbery (1997)
 * Heidi (the 1937 Shirley Temple film)
 * List of most expensive divorces
 * List of American Entrepreneurs (it was deleted; I may try again)
 * The Last Days of Patton (my father served under Patton in World War II)
 * Esoterica
 * Bridge program
 * Urban Legends
 * Hat tip
 * Dameron (disambiguation)
 * Dameron (surname)
 * Smart Money (it was deleted; I may try again)
 * Century leap year
 * Chiasso financial smuggling case
 * List of black holes
 * List of largest U.S. bank failures
 * Goldline International, Inc.

Four redirects

 * Co Q-ten
 * Co Q-10
 * Lieutenant Governor of Florida (in the Charlie Crist article)
 * Bridge program

ProfessorPaul Wiki Categories

 * Created Category:the Twilight Zone actors in June 2006; it was deleted on December 1, 2006 (great sorrow);
 * Created Category:Bermuda Triangle in December 2006; hope it does not get deleted (cross your fingers);
 * Created Category:Famous Diaries in December 2006; will work on populating it; Category became a candidate for deletion; result was "Rename." Category was renamed:  Category:Diaries on February 17, 2007.
 * Created Category:Hospitals in Oklahoma in January 2007; there are over 150 hospitals in Oklahoma; I will work to populate this category.

Favorite "Wiki-haunts"
I could be almost ANYWHERE editing, expanding, or creating an article for Wikipedia; lately, I find myself more and more at one of the following locations:


 * List of people who have disappeared
 * (Oklahoma Wiki Project) (they need articles; I am working on it)

ProfessorPaul's favorite movies
OK--I was attempting to compose a "Top Ten List" (as it were) of my favorite movies--and it only took me a year to figure it out. Enjoy.


 * 1. The Ten Commandments
 * 2. The Sound of Music
 * 3. Patton
 * 4. It's a Wonderful Life
 * 5. Fiddler on the Roof
 * 6. Armageddon
 * 7. Sister Act
 * 8. Going My Way
 * 9. Amadeus
 * 10. Snow White and the Seven Dwarves