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In Wiki-Land it's guaranteed that there will eventually be another User coming along who's even more superior a being than me. This is as it should be. Some go at an article as I do, using the Edit page, some have discovered the Revert function. Now, imagine that I place a comma, move a period inside
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I'm a grown-up, female, native to the USA and living in
Boulder Colorado for the past ten years or so. I have a degree in neuroscience (PBK distinction) from the University of Colorado at Boulder (chemistry, mathematics, genetics, statistics, physics and histology as well as structure and function of
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02:44, 19 October 2007 (UTC) Did I ever mention that I was once formally written up by a current
Wisconsin VA director for body language? The man was wearing bicycle shorts and clips in the office, by the way. Semiotics, Old School Hampshire College. And I don't make rude gestures, far from it. rlb
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quotation marks, capitalize something, blue a red link, correct a spelling and replace a word with my idea for a better word, and then save the batch. The superior superior being sees the word I've replaced and disagrees, removes my edit to put the old word back, and
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Hampshire College alumn account - they used to put their stamp on anyone who got through their interview process. I suspect they still do...but I don't like to criticize. Just sayin. ~
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copy rather than writing it, I move around an article or a section hunting down the typo, misspell, dangling cut-paste artifacts, whacked grammar and dead links. Sometimes a couple scans are necessary, sometimes fixing one mistake makes another show
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For those who are kept awake at night when a copy editor does more than his or her fair share on an article, I thank you for your concern, but really, it's my pleasure, and it's no inconvenience at all. Hop on in, punctuation is
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Or rather, most answers are. Okay, a lot of answers are, most of the time. Unless you hit a wall, in which case you should grope around. Try a different spelling. Maybe revise your question.
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may find disturbing. If you know a better way to ensure the survival of my little commas and close-quotes without having to do it this way, please send me a note, because I'm still learning.
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I come from a New
England family of soldiers and preachers, so I'm a gamer. I acknowledge no relationship to anyone responsible for the Blodgett swimming pool at Harvard University.
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the human nervous system and brain; #1 Party School, yeah right). I worked in the
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without inadvertently undoing hours of other, perfectly-acceptable, work. An unfortunate by-product of this tactic is a long list of
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the comma, period, capitalization, link, or spelling correction, wipes them off the face of the Earth. Big waste of my time.
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Awarded for your transformative work on the articles about highly notable author
Malorie Blackman.
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