User:R Lowry

Hello from somewhere in England.

I'm a sort of eternal student with a Masters in Literature and an interest in most Arts subjects: History, Philosophy, etcetera. I read on one of the Wikipedia introductory pages that these are subjects that tend to be under-represented here, so maybe I can be of some use. Then again (like a lot of people here), I have one of those grasshopper minds that can get interested in just about anything, so I've also been poking about here and there and seeing what else I can contribute. And wondering how long I can stay in the top 500 contributors without developing repetitive strain injury.

I occasionally edit anonymously when I'm at work; the record for those edits is at 194.66.229.8. I can only take credit / blame for some of the edits on that list, though &mdash; evidently, other people (don't know who) also edit from the same IP address. Most of mine were between 14th December '04 and 27th May '05, though frankly I'm damned if I can remember exactly which ones. R Lowry (Talk)

A handy link or two for general reference

 * Dash_(punctuation), to remind me of the difference between


 * en dash &amp;ndash; –


 * and


 * em dash &amp;mdash; &mdash;


 * which frankly I didn't know about until I read the above article.


 * Dispute resolution and Dealing with vandalism


 * Manual of Style


 * Avoid self-references


 * Words to avoid


 * Miscellaneous boilerplate text.


 * Image use policy and Image markup

Not necessarily stuff that I've worked on, just interesting-looking articles to check out some day

 * List of sustainable agriculture topics


 * Gary Snyder


 * History of free trade


 * Political liberalism


 * John Ruskin


 * Chartism


 * Leet


 * Consumerium

Putting these links here because I can't think of anywhere else to put them just now

 * Veblen -- Why is Economics Not an Evolutionary Science


 * Intermittent Reinforcement
 * Dialectical Behaviour Therapy
 * on BDP