User:Twisted86

My real name is Michael Heggen
I live in Salem, Oregon, where I teach fencing. I am also a non-traditional student in the College of Liberal Arts at Willamette University.

I'm still getting my feet wet as a Wikipedian. Actually, I'm still getting my toes damp.

As an aspiring Renaissance man (really more of a philomath, but how many people know what that means? I didn't until five minutes ago...), I am interested in many, many topics. I have no real idea yet how my interests will fit into Wikipedia. --Twisted86 21:46, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

How on earth did I get sucked into working on articles related to exercise equipment? Augh. That is NOT what I am interested in -- philomath or not. I'm going to try to make some useful contributions to fencing articles, as that is what I know. I am sure I will be unable to avoid forays into other areas, too. Twisted86 07:41, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

And Category:Oregon in the American Civil War.... I'll be focusing on that, too. Twisted86 09:07, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Non-mental notes
"I would have made a mental note, but I didn't have anything to write on." &mdash; my wife
 * Create WikiProject Fencing
 * Add Swordmaster reference to lunge (fencing)
 * Write article about Robert Martyr
 * Write article about Boon's Treasury (the building, not the business)
 * Continue working on Category:Fencing
 * Develop Category:Oregon in the American Civil War
 * Fort Hoskins
 * Fort Yamhill
 * 4th Regiment of California Infantry
 * 1st Regiment of Oregon Infantry
 * Royal Bensell
 * William Hilleary
 * Photos to take
 * Capitol Theater (Salem, Oregon)
 * Zena, Oregon
 * Old West Salem City Hall
 * Fort Hoskins

Articles
In reverse chronological order

Useful stuff for editing
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Policies

 * Wikipedia official policies
 * WP:BIO — Notability (people)
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Guidelines

 * WP:MOS
 * WP:MOSDAB
 * WP:LAYOUT
 * WP:MOSHEAD
 * WP:EL
 * WP:MOS-T — Manual of Style (titles)
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Templates
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Use as-is

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Use subst

 * Template messages/User talk namespace
 * welcome
 * anon (welcome anons)
 * thanks (for IPs)
 * UTC-7
 * Spam
 * Anon vandal
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Projects

 * WikiProject Oregon
 * WPBiography