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530:. Carmelite was an amazing person in her own right. I initially received some static from men, who suggested the new page should be deleted because she was not that special and she belong on her husband's page. I thought this was humorous, because I have also created pages concerning Navajo Scouts and the so called Apache Wars with little fanfare. However, the Knowledge (XXG) process continued, the page was not deleted and it received some outstanding editorial help. I redoubled my efforts to provide more documentation about Carmelite's remarkable time in Tarsus Turkey as the only American there during WWI. 189: 689: 159: 107: 684: 710: 644: 679: 131: 57: 649: 674: 618: 613: 669: 654: 623: 337: 297: 664: 659: 639: 608: 216: 694: 241: 266: 513:
I tend to edit first sentences and ethnocentric opinions (usually unintentional insulting words). Usually I give a lot of thought before I reorganize a page or section because my own bias is towards timelines and facts, with a touch of simple English words. I like to think I am sensitive to content
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I am interested in oral history, cross cultural topics, genealogy, and mentoring people who train others using distance learning technologies. Early in my life, I spent 5 years living and working in 3 different cultures. I have used personal computers since 1984 in businesses, hobbies and education.
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Contributors to pages about Somalia, Apache Wars, Navajo History, Indian Scouts, Turkish History can have diverse opinions. For example, considered the words "murdered", "killed", "died" that could describe the same event. Over the years, I have made contributions and edits on these and related
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In Knowledge (XXG), I tend to contribute to pages on history or biographies. Some of these relate to my cultural experiences with Annang-Ibbibio, Navajo and Somali. My other contributions involve genealogical research around my family. I learned a great deal about wiki's and international
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depositions about their service. That re-triggered my interest in oral history. David was the Non-Navajo expert on Navajo settlements and history. He was also generally respected by the Navajo.
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I strongly dislike banners on an article page which are generalities. "This article needs more citations" is completely useless. More better is to take the time to place:
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that I started in my sandbox. I have edited pages of musicians that have collaborated with members of Lake Street Dive and created a few related album pages.
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is "maybe one of the greatest player of all time". The air pressure in a football does not make any quarterback, the greatest or worst of all time.
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that maybe written by non-native speakers of English. Since 2010, I have tried to include references in my edits.
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The userboxes on right should tell you something about me. Evidently pages I cared about in 2018 are related to
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as quarterbacks. After moving to the East Coast, I became Patriots' and Celtic's fan. In my contributions to
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Put this on the top because I use my subpages all the time (being a 'bear with a very little brain'.
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I don't mind banners on the talk page because the talk page is where we discuss opinions.
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and related band members. Took care of some old messages (I still hate bots).
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page, I have tried to keep the dialog factual. I agree with
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WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North America participants
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