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I opened an account with an eye towards filling in gaps I perceived in the under-representation of women in science fiction, but immediately ran into conflicts regarding agreement on notability. I could not fathom how certain science fiction authors were intensely scrutinized for notability while others were included with insignificant, unsourced credentials. I chose to pull back and spend some time reading and understanding more of the culture here. Talk page discourse exhausts me rather than invigorate me. I tend to make minor edits unless participating in an edit-a-thon or cleaning citations/sources, or if I have found a particularly neglected area that I understand how to navigate.

About Me

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I'm from a WEIRD (White, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic)[1] society. Specifically, I am:

However, I have or have had membership in several marginalized groups:

And I have chosen some other things that have led to playing life on a harder mode, to whit:

  • I was first-generation college--of a sort; my parents both received degrees before I received mine, each one piecing together bachelor's degrees over decades of night-school; I was the first to attend college as a traditional student at a 4-year university, and it showed.
  • While I believe being monogamous is something of an orientation, I have chosen an openly polyamorous life. Which parts of polyamory are inborn and which parts are choice aren't agreed upon.

And some things that are true about me that are merely irregular, some of which are helpful to editing, and some of which are unhelpful, and some of which are unimportant:

I think this is all important to understand and acknowledge about myself when participating in the work of this community.

Working on

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Vermiculite/Samantha_Henderson

Notes to Self

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Stole this idea from User:Bacchiad :

To get right into proper cleanup: use the link to the pages with the "cleanup" message at the top, so you don't have to filter through a jillion good articles with a stray { { fact } } tag. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:Cleanup

  1. ^ "Are your findings 'WEIRD'?". www.apa.org. Retrieved 2024-01-28.