User:Worthywords

This user is the author of six books:

Florence Nightingale: A Life Inspired

Gandi: A Life Inspired

The Dalai Lama: A Life Inspired

Clay-foot Titan: An agenda for improving Wikipedia

Essential Tips for Finding a Fixer Upper

The Lazy Woman's Guide to Home Improvement

She has also contributed to four encyclopedias other than Wikipedia: The Sage Encyclopedia of Cancer, The Sage Encyclopedia of Asian-American Leadership, The Victorian Encyclopedia, and Mountainpedia.com.

More than you ever wanted to know about this user

 * far too emotionally involved with her cats, but doesn't intend to change.
 * a promiscuous reader whose 2009 to the present reading calendar started with the Twilight (series) and ended with J. M. Coetzee's Foe.
 * in love with her husband to the point where she doesn't really notice other men at all.

Pages she's created
The articles she's created from scratch are:


 * A Scholar Under Siege
 * Julie Hecht
 * U.S. National Tick Collection
 * A Gate at the Stairs
 * The Lives of Animals
 * Kathleen Meyer
 * Herakut
 * The Lives of Things
 * Gone Girl (novel)

She's also taking nearly full credit for the Charity Girl article because it was a really short stub when she took it over. Otherwise, her contributions are mostly small edits to other articles with relevance to Georgia or English or American literature.

This user is ambivalent about technology, but still embraces it
This user never sat down at a computer until she was thirty. And she's never had a computer class, either. Nevertheless she has, somehow if not triumphantly, learned html coding, Adobe Photoshop, Quark Express, Microsoft Word (grrrrr), and Galileo. She has designed whole newspapers on her ownsome. So, I'm afraid her attitude toward technology is that if she can learn to do this shit, then anybody can.

This user is also a mac owner and unashamed mac snob. "Why would anybody bother to invent any other kind of computer?" pretty much sums up this user's attitude about macs vs. PCs.

This user is starting, very, very slowly, to see the advantages of Mozilla Firefox over Internet Explorer. Among other things, MyGeorgiaSouthern seems to crash less often when one is on Mozilla.

Wikipedia would be a nicer place if

 * the rule on original research were suspended for really obvious literary interpretations that 95 percent of readers would come to without fail. For instance, this user really ought to be able to write that Blazing Saddles is a satire without having to cite a source.
 * the pages on popular culture were not pretty much commandeered by unevolved adolescent administrators.
 * people were chosen to be administrators, not on the fabulous number of articles they have nominated for deletion and on the number of times they have clicked on "undo," but on some kind of demonstrated merit.
 * people who want to troll around deleting articles were required to, first, create two or more new articles of at least 500 words in length.

Wikipedia philosophy of sorts
This user thinks that Wikipedia is what it is: a huge, unwieldy collaborative project run mostly by volunteers. Like any huge, unwieldy collaborative project run mostly by volunteers, it is never going to be perfect. However, this user does think that all those academics grumbling about what crap Wikipedia is should donate two hours of their lives to making it better. Two hours out of your entire life! How much is that to ask?

This user is also a proud supporter of Wikipedia's higher education program. Her students at Georgia Southern created many fine Wikipedia articles. Among them:

Antiviral protein (cited on Wikipedia's "Did You Know?" page) Girl Talk Inc. Granite Bowl Baird Mountains (cited on Wikipedia's "Did You Know?" page) The Big OakFriendly Robotics Sisters' Family Cookbook Team StarKid 100 Monkeys Georgia Southern University baseball Georgia Southern University volleyball Bulloch County Courthouse Godfrey Barnsley 

Languages
This user is a speaker and writer of American English. She also speaks some Spanish and reads Spanish well enough to follow a Spanish sit com if it is subtitled. However, she does not really feel confident enough of her Spanish to do substantial editing on the Spanish Wikipedia pages.

Disclosure
I am, occasionally, paid to edit Wikipedia. I am currently working for the University of South Florida on articles to be titled "The National Academy of Inventors," "Florida Inventors Hall of Fame," "Technology and Innovation" (Journal), and "Paul R. Sanberg." On behalf of Alex Skatell, I am writing an article to be titled "Alex Skatell." Also Brooke de Lench on the Brooke de Lench article and Omar last name unknown on the Adnan Chilwan article and the Dubai Islamic Bank article and the Independent Journal Review article for Alex Skatell. Also working on "Polarion software" for the Polarion Software people and Marc Detmers. Also now working on the "David Lozeau" article for Calavera Company. Now cleaning up the "Mark Lee (British author)" article for Mark Lee (British author). Now working on the "Jack Storms" article for Vivian Storms. Currently working on "PROMIS Clinics" and "Withersdane Hall" for those respective companies. Now working on an article to be titled "Salvi, Schostock, and Pritchard" for the company of the same name, which is closely watching the Clifford Law Offices article for any unequal treatment, and will shortly be cleaning up the "Patrick Salvi" article for Patrick Salvi. Now working on an article titled "Avi Tuschman" for Avi Tuschman. Also updating the Wye College article for accuracy on behalf of Promis Clinics.

AND I'm caching a little code here in case I need it later: Elton John, Patsy Palmer, and Paul Roberts.

If you feel that this disclosure is insufficient or lacks seriousness, you can (if you have not done so already) consult this list: articles created Everything above "Herakut" was commissioned except for the Citizens Rights Watch article and it seems I have a conflict of interest there as well because I'm named as helping to launch the thing even though my contribution was really slim and, as far as I can see, entirely unsuccessful.