This user is a Texas native.
This user lives in or hails from Dallas.
This user's time zone is UTC-6.
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This user was born on August 7.
This user's homeworld is mostly harmless.

Now that I'm teaching full-time, I'm not around Wikipedia on a day-to-day basis anymore, but feel free to leave a note on my Talk page if you have some article ideas to which you think I could make a useful contribution. I'll do what I can during my next bout of wiki-itis. Lawikitejana 03:53, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

A little tiny bit of bragging: The featured biography for Portal:Dallas for April 2007 is Stanley Marcus, summarizing an article I created after someone on the Neiman-Marcus article's Talk page complained that the N-M article overstated his importance to the fashion industry.
A tiny bit more ... an article to which I made substantial contributions, Byron Nelson, has been promoted to Good Article status as of today.Lawikitejana 02:50, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
Yet again ... the "Did you know ...?" feature for August 10, 2007, included an item from the David Leeson article I had written. Lawikitejana 09:05, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
The Stanley Marcus piece is now officially a Good Article!Lawikitejana (talk) 04:11, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

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 This user scored 10122 (previously 3912.1600000000003) on the Wikipediholic test.
 This user has helped promote 2 good articles on Wikipedia.

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I have been experimenting lately with the following tasks:

  • Using the "random article" navigation to find articles to edit, particularly with respect to assessing biographical articles and adding wikilinks to content.
  • Going through sets of book and biography articles to ensure the appropriate WikiProject template has been added to the talk page.
  • Working on a select set of politically and/or religiously charged articles relating to U.S. popular culture (books, TV, major speakers) and controversial issues and trying to improve the NPOV orientation. I believe this is especially important to do with respect to strengthening articles on positions to which one is opposed, because championing a position in the outside non-NPOV world is much more satisfying when one knows other positions have been well portrayed and given the opportunity of serious consideration.
  • Adding U.S. two-year colleges to Category:Two-year colleges in the United States and editing those articles as need arises — volunteer helpers welcomed with joy!

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 This user teaches at a university or other institution of higher education.
TEFLThis user is or was a teacher of English as a foreign language.
PhDThis user has a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Curriculum & Instruction.

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DThis user likes disco music.
 This user enjoys polka music.
 This user listens to World Music.
 This user enjoys country music.
80sThis user rocks out to totally rad 80s new wave music.
XThis user dislikes any kind of metal music.
 This user is tired of reggaetón.
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  This user is an a cappella singer.
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 This user needs more cowbell.

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 This user remembers using
a rotary dial telephone.
SPAThis user's favourite subject is Spanish.
 This user eats chili.
 This user listens to World Music.
 This user sleeps, but not for predictable amounts of time.
d'oh!This user thinks The Simpsons is simply... excellent.
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Ukrainian ancestry.
 This user reads The Dallas Morning News.
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Internet Movie Database.
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