User talk:KathleenSeidel

Welcome!
welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Our intro page contains a lot of helpful material for new users—please check it out! If you need help, visit Questions or place   on this page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Ironholds (talk) 03:42, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks particularly for Anaheim Island, California, by the way :). I encountered it when patrolling new pages, and it is so well written it looks like you've been here for months! Ironholds (talk) 03:43, 2 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks very much for your greeting and compliment. I've been reading and citing and generally having fun with WP for years, am mentioned on one page, have had my writing  cited and debated on another, and have been the subject of an  impersonation attempt by an aspiring WP autohagiographer; my  husband and I have even been accused in court of having "seized control of Wikipedia." (The judge was not convinced.) Until recently, I've refrained from creating or editing pages because I've preferred to expend my energy doing original research and expressing my point of view on some fairly controversial topics, rather than get involved in edit wars. But recently, I've been helping to develop  Flu Wiki, have developed some Wikitext skills, and after a visit to California last weekend, decided that my old nabe deserved a page of its own. So there it is -- the fruit of a week's immersion in a little corner of Orange County history. --KathleenSeidel (talk) 12:04, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
 * No problem :). It is always good to edit articles in areas you're familiar with. So that Kathleen Seidel is you? Nice! I've read Autism's False Prophets (I'm autistic myself, although mildly enough that it doesn't tend to get in the way), but I didn't link the name. Ironholds (talk) 12:10, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

Anaheim Island, California
Wow. Impressive first splash in the Wikipool! I was just down there this past Sunday. Your article is extremely informative, and a really nice exemplar of a kind of microcommunity history that I personally find fascinating. Best,--Arxiloxos (talk) 06:10, 4 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks very much. Once I started digging into the subject, I couldn't put it down. When I was just a sprat, running into the street every summer night with my sibs and all the other neighborhood kids to watch the Disneyland fireworks, I had no idea of the social and economic forces that contributed to the creation of my neighborhood's jagged boundary lines and Wild West reputation. BTW, if you're ever visiting again and happen to be talking to any old-timers, could you ask whether, when and how they first heard the term "Gaza Strip," whether they've ever heard the story of the fire, and if so, whether they're aware of any incident that might have given rise to it? It's an awful story, but not necessarily incredible given the history of racial segregation in the area. --KathleenSeidel (talk) 15:32, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

My series of edits to Andrew Solomon page
I've been working as Andrew Solomon's research assistant, and hereby declare my COI with respect to the Wikipedia page about him. I have just posted an extensive revision of the page, weeding out outdated information and adding new information, and incorporating references to as many reliable third-party sources as possible. There are plenty of them; if I have erred in this regard, I have done so in pursuit of verifiability. I have made every effort to make the page accurate, current, encyclopedic, neutral in tone, well-written and well-organized. Hope it's useful. --KathleenSeidel (talk) 21:43, 13 February 2012 (UTC)