User:Shortiefourten

 "...too lively." - medical school primary advisor in regards to my dissertation

 "The palpable excitement of your paper was distracting." - thesis supervisor, same room, same meeting

 "The humor did not help." - associate dean and secondary supervisor, two seconds later

Trust in local news...and WP:LOCAL![edit]

Trust that local news sources can report from a more nuanced, detailed perspective and recognizing that value so that smaller cities, towns, and areas (especially in suburban, semi-rural, rural fringe, and rural communities!) maintain the ability, if not the right, for the expansion of their own Wiki articles.

Ugh...it's déjà vu all over again[edit]

Oh, yeah, this'll help women feel safer online -

Supreme Court vacates Colorado man’s stalking conviction in ‘true threat’ First Amendment decision

Husband is an editor, too[edit]

Ah, the communication between wife and husband! My betrothed of who-knows-how-long decided to briefly mention to me, in between him scowling at the flatscreen as if the tv is at fault for the latest Mariner's blunder and telling me about how he's going to paint the garage this weekend completely-out-of-the-blue, that he created a Wikipedia account for the first time after being an anonymous editor for over a decade. So, per WP:FAMILY, just wanted to make sure I put that out there. He's promised not to edit any pages I am involved in, and despite my annoyance towards him for a great many things, seeing as how he leaves my Ben & Jerry's alone, I know he'll do as he says.

Since he knows my stalked history (personal life and incidents here) and my want to stay an un-doxxed, anonymous editor, I won't be listing his username. I hope that's acceptable.

Article works[edit]

Drafts I'm working on (feel free to help out!)[edit]

Articles that I'm proud to have worked on[edit]

Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge, let us not leave out the history of indigenous people!
Centralia, Washington
Centralia College
Chehalis, Washington
Chehalis–Centralia Airport
Chehalis River (Washington)
Chehalis School District
Chehalis Western Trail, umm...Chehalis much?
Claquato Church
Jackson House State Park Heritage Site
Lewis County, Washington
Obadiah B. McFadden
South Sound Speedway, calling on racing experts to add there!
W. F. West High School
Willie Keil's Grave State Park Heritage Site, the Pickled Pioneer!
Yelm–Rainier–Tenino Trail and the Chehalis Western Trail, can only choose my fave bike trail depending on the number of other people using it!

and...

Towns and cities in Lewis County, Washington (especially Toledo and Ethel...really, who is Ethel?!)
Towns and small cities in Thurston County, Washington
A few baseball articles at the insistence of my sports dork husband, if only for the presents I know he owes me at the holidays

Articles that I helped to build[edit]

Biographies[edit]

Barbara Feigin, one awesome woman

Events[edit]

2023 South Coldwater Slide, guess I'm just hiking the Coldwater, Elk Bench, and Hummocks trails only until 2026!

History[edit]

Flood history in Chehalis, Washington, a long, but thankfully not disastrous in terms of lives lost, history

Lists[edit]

Parks and recreation in Chehalis, Washington and all it's inclusionary articles
Parks and recreation in Centralia, Washington, some of the parks being worked on for their own articles!

Places[edit]

Chehalis Theater, a close second fave of mine and so much more to add about the history of movie houses in Chehalis
Green Hill School (Chehalis, Washington), surprised the article was never built before
Mary's Corner, Washington, three state parks in this tiny area!
Matilda N. Jackson State Park Heritage Site, named for Washington's Grand Lady and one awesome pioneer woman!
Millett Field, my personal fave (check out the Chehalis Gophers page while you're at it; great editor who helped me out a ton)
O. K. Palmer House, the rich history...his lumber company still exists...the house is gorgeous...
O. B. McFadden House, they sure did like using initials back then...what's wrong with going about using your given name, eh, Obadiah and Osmer?
Willapa Hills Trail, a gorgeous rail trail
Wilson, Washington
Winston, Washington

Articles that didn't make it[edit]

Ruth, Washington, waylaid by WP:GNIS, deleted due to it being only a rail station and not a community, but fret not, it may rise again (in a combo article, but still!)

Honors and stuff[edit]

**Goofy achievements but proud anyways!**
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No way I'm getting to Ephoros of the Encyclopedia unless I copyedit my own work.

This user has been on Wikipedia for 4 years, 8 months and 6 days.

Brief times that I've been away, explained![edit]

In case it might matter at some time, me and the hubs took a long...and I mean looooonnngggg...and well deserved vacation at the end of 2023 into early 2024. Thanks to an enormous PTO bank we both saved up during Covid-19, we splurged. First day, we ran off the airplane, ran to the hotel, and ran into my now sworn enemy, a 9 year-old boy, who slammed a door into my hand, shattering a number of phalanges. So, wasn't able to edit because typing one-handed is depressingly slow and I'm already slow enough with two working hands. Healing well and its easier to type now. Glad to be back so let's get to it!

An addendum - surgery on the hand in early March kept me out of the loop!

Message to announce my return in 2023

On the drive back from a well-earned vacation, gaining the ability to rest after three years of Covid, anti-vaxxers, I'm-not-a-doctor/scientist-know-it-alls, rude and threatening family members of patients, and far too many patients in denial (IT"S ALL A HOAX! DOWN WITH FAUCI!!!), led to a realization that I was able to stand up to them all, professionally and with compassion. I was able to stand my ground stoically and factually with all my patients, even worn out nurses and doctors and admins. Many were men who outweigh me (assuming I'm not full up on a Taco Time burrito) between one hundred and two hundred pounds. Many out-heighting me by a 12, 14, 16 inches and plenty more...and yet I still held firm.

And if I could do that during the worst health crisis in my lifetime outside HIV/AIDS, why did I quit here because I could not find the same stoicism when my joy of editing was slowly sucked out of my experience?

So, I'm back. Haven't told the husband yet, but as long as I keep him distracted with ringing doorbells due to delivery after delivery of purchase after purchase of clothes and shoes and handbags that I "forget" to tell him about, I might be able to go quite a long time before he catches on and begins to ask me to edit yet another baseball player's page.

Plans are to tighten up my scope...concentrating exclusively on Thurston and Lewis counties here in Washington state...and expanding those area's presence and importance in the world here at Wikipedia. Maybe a slight jaunt to some of my favorite spots in Washington state!

Oh, and still plan to stand up for small communities throughout Washington state but to do so respectfully as I agreed to near the end of my masonry wall of text at the AfD desk. However, I still know that the easily misinterpreted and misapplied not-really-so-gray areas that exist in many WP's don't give permission for other editors (ahem, Wikipedia guardians...) to run roughshod over that respect.

Glad to be back, now let's get to work!

My temporary retirement in 2022-2023

Openly, I originally left because I felt hounded by one editor. Decided it wasn't worth it during Covid and gave in. Then I noticed a November 29, 2022 edit run on articles I created so...I'm geared up and ready to get back to work.

Well, looks like I'm gonna walk away. Maybe when I become a more crotchety old woman in my retirement 30 years from now, I'll come back because all the cats have died and the husband has finally learned to leave me be...and with some peace and quiet all I'll have left to do is come on here again and go to town on some editing and screw up some coding.

A big, true thanks to a great many editors here, whether they interacted with me or even knew me, for all the lessons that I've learned (and borrowed!) that helped me become a good-ish editor on my own. Keep up the awesome work - I truly believe that providing knowledge to the world is one of the most important duties we have. Now, after that brief interlude of pretention, get back to work!