User:Whaatt

Welcome! You may be looking for this page. But perhaps I am the individual you truly seek: my name is Sanjay Kannan and I am a student from Apex, North Carolina. I used to attend Raleigh Charter High School prior to my planned expulsion at the end of four years; now I'm studying some indeterminate mix of subjects at Stanford University. Four years ago and faced with the looming prospect of copious homework, I took an extended WikiVacation. Perhaps I'm back now, but maybe not. So if you're interested in my whereabouts, I actually have a website.

My Experience

In my four years as a Wikipedian, I was occasionally known for my obsessive insistence upon the cleanliness of citations. I suffered a great deal from the plague that is Editcountitis, which, in fact, probably contributed to my burnout and a sense of disillusionment toward my capabilities as an editor. As I attempt my WikiComeBack, I'd like to thank the community of editors that originally encouraged me as an audacious middle schooler trying to contribute to the greatest community-driven project in existence. In particular, I retain a sentimental appreciation of the barnstars on my talk page.

I was primarily concerned with breaking news and current events while possessing an insatiable desire to push articles through the GA review process. I'm particularly proud of my proofing work on 2009 Hudson River mid-air collision and 2008 Mumbai attacks, the latter of which gained me a fleeting mention in the 2008 Wikimedia Foundation Annual Report. According to my personal records, I was also fascinated by the 2010 Haiti earthquake. But then I took my WikiBreak.

I'm primarily a native speaker of English. I grew up in a Tamil-speaking household but lack conversational ability due to disuse; I can, however, understand amounts of colloquial discourse. I'm probably more fluent in German: my six years of classroom experience allows me to comprehend the gist of Der Spiegel articles, speak in slowly-formed but reasonably-varied turns of phrase, and understand fairly-paced stretches of conversational speech.