User:Westendgirl

Westendgirl's academic interests include diffusion of innovations, communication theory, history of communication, and social capital, as well as the culture of hockey in Canada.

I am currently working on adding biographies of Canadian women to Wikipedia, per the Wiki Women in Red project.

Some of my contributions include:

Hockey & Sports

 * Billy Coutu
 * NHL Violence
 * Eddie Shore
 * Edouard Lalonde
 * Sylvio Mantha
 * Sprague Cleghorn
 * Providence Reds
 * Edmonton Eskimos (hockey)
 * Western Canada Hockey League
 * Lady Byng Memorial Trophy (substantially re-wrote a pre-existing article that may have violated copyright; also added new content)
 * Violence in sports
 * Canadian Junior A Hockey League
 * Sports card (hockey card section only)

Diffusion of Innovation

 * Diffusion of innovations
 * Everett Rogers

Miscellaneous

 * A._Y._Jackson
 * Room of One's Own
 * Sunday shopping
 * Sneneymuxw
 * Banach measure
 * Bard High School Early College
 * Peter Borwein
 * Dietmar Saupe
 * Urysohn measure, which has mysteriously disappeared from the Wiki universe
 * Constitution of Aruba
 * Royal Green Jackets Museum

Black Canadians

 * Cheryl Foggo
 * Obadiah Bowen
 * Oliver Bowen
 * Willis Reese Bowen
 * Violet King Henry
 * Chloe Cooley
 * Sylvia Stark

Canadian Women

 * Annita McPhee
 * Joy Leach
 * Andrea Holmes
 * Sonya Erasmus
 * Victoria Cartier

Sites I Read

 * Vancouver Marketing Consultant blog
 * Globe and Mail
 * Google News
 * Become a Consultant - Consultant Journal