User:Wugapodes

About me
In meatspace, I am a linguist who specializes in language variation and sociophonetics. I believe the knowledge academics produce should be accessible, and so try to combat FUTON bias by contributing using information that may be holed up behind a paywall or in dusty, old dead trees. If you need access to offline sources to verify my citations or improve an article you're working on, consider asking at the resource exchange or feel free to ask me directly.

Selected contributions

 * Black American Sign Language
 * Heffernan v. City of Paterson
 * Electromagnetic articulography
 * Santosky v. Kramer
 * Sociophonetics
 * Template:Interactive COVID-19 maps
 * Taking stock of the GA Backlog (Special Report in The Signpost)
 * India Walton (with )
 * Homobiles (with )
 * Taking stock of the GA Backlog (Special Report in The Signpost)
 * India Walton (with )
 * Homobiles (with )
 * Homobiles (with )

My front lawn
Some people like grass; I prefer my lawn covered in a random collection of things I find cool.

About my username
A wug is a fictional bird-like creature made up by Dr. Jean Berko Gleason to test when children learn English morphology. She would show a child a card that read "Look, there's a wug" that also showed a picture of one wug. Then she would show a picture of two wugs with the caption "Look, now there are two of them! There are two ____?". The child should respond "wugs" if they know how to pluralize normally in English. Wugapodes is a joke plural based on a rare plural form of octopus, octopodes; the joke being that, instead of the child learning to make plurals with -s, they learned to make it with -podes.

Many people ask me how to pronounce it: you don't.

Links of one kind or another
• GA Review Template

• Assessment Template

• Cite LSA

• Module:Cite LSA

• WP:Disability Style Guide

• WikiCup Submissions

• SCOTUS pages

• FrontLawn

• DanglingLink

• AccidentalLinking

• ReplaceQuestionWithAnswer

• ThreadModeConsideredHarmful

• Edit this proposal

• User:GreenMeansGo/WP:Death by template

• 100,000 feature-quality articles

• DissuadeInteraction

• Pay actions forward

• User:Risker/Risker's checklist for content-creation extensions

• User:DangerousPanda/Essays/OnCivility

• SixThinkingHats

• WikiCooperationArticle