User:JustDerek

JustDerek
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Name	JustDerek
Born	A January evening in the 1970s; San Francisco Bay area
Country	United States
Current location	Los Angeles, California
Time zone	Pacific
Ethnicity	Wasi'chu
Race	Human
Height	Pretty average
Weight	OMG, how dare you
Hair	Still there
Eyes	nearsighted
Sexuality	is a good and natural thing
Education and employment
Occupation	Professional genealogist
Education	Public
High school	Palo Alto High School
University	U.C. Irvine
Hobbies, favourites and beliefs
Religion	Agnostic/anti-dogmatist
Politics	Solidly Liberal
JustDerek subpages
	Userboxes I have made

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This user is a native speaker of the English language.

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This user can contribute with a professional level of English.

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JustDerek is an American genealogist, writer, editor, and erstwhile professional actor. Everything else he cares to reveal about himself can be gleaned hereafter.

Why he Wikipediates[edit]

Growing up as the child of two English teachers had the effect of making JustDerek a persnickety copy editor. As a genealogist, the standard of proof required for publication in that field impressed upon him the crucial importance of accurate source citation and verifiability of reference materials.

The recent rise of social networking has, in JustDerek's opinion, led to an increasing number of people creating articles on themselves or their own projects or causes — presumably viewing Wikipedia as simply another web megaphone with which they may promote themselves, as they do on Facebook or Twitter. This trend has led JustDerek to keep handy for cutting-and-pasting purposes a few polite, pre-written discussion page messages about the Notability and What Wikipedia is Not policies.

Self-portrait in userboxes[edit]

Basics

Profession(s)

This user is a citizen of the United States of America.

This user is a Genealogist.

This user lives in or hails from the
San Francisco Bay Area.

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This user is a professional editor.

This user lives in or hails from Los Angeles.

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This user is a member of
Generation X.

PALY

This user attends or attended Palo Alto High School.

UCI

This user attends or attended the
University of California, Irvine

Editing Practices

Wikipedia Community

This user employs a more formal style of writing in articles than in talk pages.

This user has been on Wikipedia for 17 years, 5 months and 5 days.

This user believes in civility and assuming good faith.

This user has made over
1,000 edits to Wikipedia.

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This user recognizes the importance of citing sources.

This user participates in
WikiProject Biography.

This user respects copyright and other intellectual property rights.

This user is a participant in WikiProject Reliability.

This user believes all public domain images should be moved to the Commons.

This user is a member of WikiProject Theatre.

WP:RS

This user believes in using
Reliable Sources.

This user is a member of
WikiProject Baseball.

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Thi's user know's that not every word that end's with s need's an apostrophe and will remove misused apostrophe's from Wikipedia with extreme prejudice.

This user contributes images to Wikimedia Commons.

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A and B

This user uses the serial comma unless its inclusion is confusing.

This user contributes using a MacBook Pro.

This user values the quality of Wikipedia articles over the quantity and thus supports the merging of related content and deletion of articles that violate policies and guidelines.