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[edit] Welcome to Figureskatingfan, Christine's userpage
Sums up my Wiki-philosophy, and my goal as an editor
"Leading a poetic wikilife..." [1]
Current time: Wednesday, December 2, 2009, 14:24 (UTC)
The current time in Moscow, Idaho is 06:24 PDT.
My real name is Christine Meyer. Welcome to my Wikipedia "bragging page".
[edit] Wikipedia essays of note
[edit] Quotes
"Like I always say, why let facts get in the way of your opinions?" - Christine W. Meyer (That's me!)
Added : on St. Patrick's Day:
In March 2008, I attended the memorial service of my uncle, Pat Wombacher. His son Dave made the following statement:
- "When people ask me if I'm Irish, I say, 'Well, my dad drinks beer, and my grandmother's name was Murphy, so I guess that makes me Irish." I get to say the same thing, but that my mother's name was Kelly.
"I'm not even my own kids' favorite Wiggle." - Anthony Field [1]
"Evil is insanity." - Kaspar, Exile's Return (Raymond E. Feist)
"Sin makes you stupid." - Mark Shea
"All life is precious." - Henry Duque (Eddie Matos, Cane)
"If there were another man in my life, it would be Oscar. Don't tell Luis". - Sonia Manzano[2]
"If a rule prevents you from improving or maintaining Wikipedia, ignore it." (Wikipedia policy)
In the final words of his autobiography, Steve Martin says the following about the internet. He might as well be speaking of Wikipedia: "... I have learned that people are uploading their lives into cyberspace and am convinced that one day all human knowledge and memory will exist on a suitable hard drive which, for preservation, will be flung out of the solar system to orbit a galaxy far, far away."[3]
[edit] My main contributions
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[edit] Featured articles
The Wiggles are a children's musical group formed in Sydney, Australia in 1991. Their original members were Anthony Field, Murray Cook, Greg Page, Jeff Fatt and Phillip Wilcher. In 2006, Page was forced to retire from the group due to illness and was replaced by understudy Sam Moran. The group combines music and theories of child development in their videos, television programs, and live shows. Since their inception, other regular characters (Captain Feathersword, Dorothy the Dinosaur, Henry the Octopus, and Wags the Dog) and a troupe called "The Wiggly dancers" have toured with them and appeared in their CDs, DVDs, and television programs. They have earned seventeen gold, twelve platinum, three double-platinum, and ten multi-platinum awards for sales of over 17 million DVDs and four million CDs. By 2002, The Wiggles had become the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's (ABC) most successful pre-school television program.
Why I Worked So Hard on The Wiggles
The Wiggles are an important daily part of my household, so I thought that the guys deserved a quality article. Plus, there's the WP:CSB-thing, and anyway, Anthony's awfully cute.
List of people with hepatitis C: Hepatitis C is an infectious disease caused by the hepatitis C virus (HCV), which affects the liver and is transmitted by blood-to-blood contact. The infection is often asymptomatic, but chronic infection can cause inflammation of the liver (chronic hepatitis). This condition can progress to scarring of the liver (fibrosis), and advanced scarring (cirrhosis). In some cases, those with cirrhosis go on to develop liver failure or liver cancer. Although HCV was not discovered until April 1989, an estimated 170 million people worldwide are infected by hepatitis C. It is the leading cause of liver transplant in the United States; 8,000–10,000 people die each year in the US from the disease. No vaccine is available at this time. The symptoms of infection can be medically managed when the disease is diagnosed early, and a proportion of patients can be cleared of the virus by a course of anti-viral medicines. The symptoms of HCV infection, especially in its early stages, can be mild enough to conceal the fact of the disease; thus, some people do not seek treatment. As Live Aid founder Bob Geldof states, "Stigma, shame and fear can suffocate awareness. These barriers prevent people from getting tested, receiving treatment, and clearing themselves of this disease". Celebrities diagnosed with the disease have decided to go public in order to raise awareness about hepatitis C and to encourage more people to get tested for the disease.
Why I Worked So Hard on List of people with hepatitis C
I happened upon this list for work, and it was obvious that it needed work, so I cleaned up its sources and made it look pretty. In the process, I made a good friend, hep-C activist Pam, who tells me that this list has done some good in the hep-C community.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is the 1969 autobiography about the early years of African-American writer and poet Maya Angelou. The first in a six-volume series, it is a coming-of-age story that illustrates how strength of character and a love of literature can help overcome racism and trauma. The book begins when three-year-old Maya and her older brother are sent to Stamps, Arkansas, to live with their grandmother and ends when Maya becomes a mother at the age of 17. In the course of Caged Bird, Maya transforms from a victim of racism with an inferiority complex into a self-possessed, dignified young woman capable of responding to prejudice. Caged Bird was nominated for a National Book Award in 1970 and remained on The New York Times paperback bestseller list for two years. It has been used in educational settings from high schools to universities, and the book has been celebrated for creating new literary avenues for the American memoir. However, the book's graphic depiction of childhood rape, racism, and sexuality has caused it to be challenged or banned in some schools and libraries.
Why I Worked So Hard on I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Caged Bird is too important a book to look like this. It also has deep significance for me.
Stanford Memorial Church (also known as MemChu) is located at the center of the Stanford University campus in Stanford, California. It was built during the American Renaissance by Jane Stanford as a memorial to her husband Leland. Designed by architect Charles A. Coolidge, a protegé of Henry Hobson Richardson, the church has been called "the University's architectural crown jewel". Designs for the church were submitted to Jane Stanford and the university trustees in 1898, and it was dedicated in 1903. The building is Romanesque in form and Byzantine in its details, inspired by churches in the region of Venice and, especially, Ravenna. Its stained glass windows and extensive mosaics are based on religious paintings the Stanfords admired in Europe. The church has four pipe organs, which allow musicians to produce many styles of organ music. Stanford Memorial Church has withstood two major earthquakes, in 1906 and 1989, and was extensively renovated after each.
Why I Worked So Hard on Stanford Memorial Church
I happened upon this article while playing in Huggle. I helped mediate a dispute, and then fell in love with the place, even though I have no affiliation with Stanford. I've never stepped foot on campus, much less seen MemChu, but it demonstrates how powerful this church is.
From an idea by my friend and wiki-mentor, Scartol
[edit] Other articles
- Blue's Clues
- Before I edited this article, it had been downgraded from B to Start. I improved (meaning: completely re-wrote) it to bring it back up to B-status, and then as of February 1, 2008, to GA.
- Gather Together in My Name
- Maya Angelou's second autobiography, it reached GA-status on October 30, 2008.
- Maya Angelou
- This article began my involvement with all kinds Maya Angelou on Wikipedia. My long-term WP goal is to have a Maya Angelou featured topic. This article became GA on March 17, 2009.
- Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas
- Angelou's third autobiography, in the on-going quest to improve every one of WP articles. It become GA on September 29, 2009.
- Orthostatic intolerance
- The illness that Greg Page of The Wiggles suffers from.
- American game show winnings records
- Verified its sources, removed tag.
- Terry Gannon
- This was one of the first articles I re-edited for Wikipedia.
- Steve Burns
- The Tipping Point - book by Malcolm Gladwell
- Paul Field - manager of The Wiggles, older brother of Anthony Field
[edit] To-do list
- After the Sesame Street article was downgraded from FA (and rightly so), I decided to take on this complicated project. I started with the history article first, since I figured that was as good a place to start as any. My goal is to get one of these articles up to FA before the 40th anniversary of the show in November 2009.
[edit] Blog posts
I'm blogging about my Wiki-experiences. See below:
[edit] Awards
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WikiCookie |
| I am awarding you this WikiCookie for your constructive edits on Wikipedia. --LAAFan 16:05, 23 May 2008 (UTC) |
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A Rose From Dorothy |
| Dorothy the Dinosaur (and I) are truly impressed that you got The Wiggles up to FA quality. You were darn persistent and did a great job!Balloonman (talk) 04:20, 25 May 2008 (UTC) |
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Tireless Contributor Barnstar |
| For battling four FACs to get The Wiggles to featured status. You should be very proud. :) After reading through those links, and thinking about what it must've been like for the article to pass on its fourth attempt, I think you deserve this! Seriously, a lot of editors wouldn't have had the diligence to go through more than one FAC, and you have my absolute respect (you and Dorothy, of course!). PeterSymonds (talk) 18:28, 6 June 2008 (UTC) |
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The Writer's Barnstar |
| I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is well on its way to becoming one of Wikipedia's stellar articles. Your determination to make sure that this article clearly explains Maya Angelou's autobiography to the inquiring user is an obvious labor of love and Wikipedia is the richer for it. Thank you. Awadewit (talk) 10:23, 14 February 2009 (UTC) |
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The Literary Barnstar |
| For your erstwhile and indefatigable devotion to I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, I award you this Barnstar of Literary Merit. Kudos to you! Scartol • Tok 14:59, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
What a happy sight to see that glimmering star on the Caged Bird article! As Ms. Angelou said: "The work is all there is. And when it's done, then you can laugh, have a pot of beans, stroke some child's head, or skip down the street." I daresay you've earned the right to one or more of these tiny pleasures. Scartol • Tok 14:59, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
- Well, I've done two: I've laughed and I've stroked two children's heads. This morning, while I'm at home with the kids because it's Spring Break, I'm making chocolate chip cookies! --Figureskatingfan (talk) 17:00, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
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[edit] DYK hooks
- ...that although Gather Together in My Name, the second book in Maya Angelou's six autobiographies, was not as critically acclaimed as the first one, it continues the same themes of racism and sexism? (February 22, 2008)
- ... that the musical group The Wiggles' first album was dedicated to their general operations manager Paul Field's infant daughter, whose death ultimately led to the formation of the group? (June 29, 2008)
- ... that Maya Angelou wrote one of her characters in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings to demonstrate how she survived her childhood as a black in a white-dominated world? (July 20, 2008)
- ... that Dharmachari Aryadaka was the first paid Buddhist prison chaplain in Washington state? (August 15, 2008)
- ... that I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, one of Maya Angelou's works, was nominated for a National Book Award? (August 24, 2008)
- ... that photojournalist Stanley Greene's image of a tutu-clad girl with a champagne bottle became a symbol of the fall of the Berlin Wall? (September 28, 2008)
- ... that according to Street Gang, a discussion at a dinner party, hosted by Joan Ganz Cooney in 1966, led to the creation of the children's television show, Sesame Street? (April 12, 2009)
- ... that according to her autobiography Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas, Marguerite Johnson changed her name to Maya Angelou because it sounded more exotic? (May 4, 2009)
- ... that there are 20 international co-productions of Sesame Street, seen in over 140 countries? (November 10, 2009)
[edit] My Projects
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- An ellipsis (...) should always be preceded by a non-breaking space (" ")
- Emdash: & followed by mdash;
- Ref notes: "less than" then ref group=note then "more than" closed by </ref>
- Adding images: left brackets, than name of image|left or right|250px|thumb|appropriate caption then right brackets
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[edit] References
- ^ Iacuzio, Tom (2007-11-15). "What's up with The Wiggles?". Daytona Beach News-journal. http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/Entertainment/Music/entMUS01111307.htm. Retrieved 2007-11-16.
- ^ Borgenicht, David (1998). Sesame Street unpaved. New York: Hyperion Publishing. pp. 110. ISBN 0-7868-6460-95.
- ^ Martin, Steve (2007). Born standing up: A comic's life. New York: Scribner. pp. 207. ISBN 1-4165-5364-9.
The Wiggles are a children's musical group formed in Sydney, Australia in 1991. Their original members were Anthony Field, Murray Cook, Greg Page, Jeff Fatt and Phillip Wilcher. In 2006, Page was forced to retire from the group due to illness and was replaced by understudy Sam Moran. The group combines music and theories of child development in their videos, television programs, and live shows. Since their inception, other regular characters (Captain Feathersword, Dorothy the Dinosaur, Henry the Octopus, and Wags the Dog) and a troupe called "The Wiggly dancers" have toured with them and appeared in their CDs, DVDs, and television programs. They have earned seventeen gold, twelve platinum, three double-platinum, and ten multi-platinum awards for sales of over 17 million DVDs and four million CDs. By 2002, The Wiggles had become the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's (ABC) most successful pre-school television program.
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