User:Zeng8r

SEMI-RETIRED

This user is no longer very active on Wikipedia as of June 2012.

A bit about myself and my wiki-philosophy:

I'm an educator, author, and amateur historian living in Tampa, Florida. While out of the classroom on family leave during the 2007-08 school year, I stumbled across Wikipedia and quickly discovered that many articles about subjects that I know well were in dire need of assistance. Since I wasn't teaching in the classroom that year, I spent way too much time sorta-teaching on the internet by creating, expanding, and improving articles about history, my hometown, Florida Gators sports, and a plethora of other random topics that have caught my attention over the years.

While I started out as an eager and prolific contributor, wikilawyering and wiki-politicking took some of the fun out of this project over time. However, as a teacher, I know that Wikipedia has become perhaps the most important research site on the internet. So even though I'm usually pretty busy IRL, I still hang around here to incrementally expand coverage of topics that I know well and to fix vandalism on articles that I've edited in the past.

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This user is one of a handful of actual natives of the state of Florida. This user has deep roots in Tampa, Florida and is a student of its history. This user is of Spanish and Italian ancestory.

This user is interested in the U.S. State of Florida. This user is a member of WikiProject Tampa Bay. UFThis editor is a member of Wikiproject University of Florida.

As a teacher of history, this user is aware that our clocks are ticking. As an English teacher, this user reads Wikipedia with a red pen in hand. This user believes the world would be a better place if everyone had access to a quality, free education.

This user is a member of the History WikiProject. TBThis user is a fan of the Tampa Bay Rays This user is a Gator.

This user believes that one should never stop feeding one's brain. This user makes music. This user is the proud parent of 2 children.

All this user is saying is give peace a chance. NEWSThis user has access to Newspapers.com through The Wikipedia Library This user has been on Wikipedia for 13 years, 1 month and 23 days. This editor is a Veteran Editor and is entitled to display this Iron Editor Star. The Original Barnstar Zen, your knowledge of the history of our metro area is impressive. Nice articles! Blaze33541 (talk) 05:25, 24 November 2007 (UTC) The University of Florida Barnstar For good and thorough work pertaining to articles about the University of Florida. The Barnstar of Diligence To you Warrington (talk) 12:37, 17 December 2008 (UTC) The Teamwork Barnstar for such hard work and making the Tampa Bay Area more visible and talked about on Wikipedia. Moreau36 (talk) 17:32, 17 February 2009 (UTC) The Barnstar of Diplomacy Thanks for watching out for the evil and for the bad doing their work in the dark... Hafspajen (talk) 21:30, 13 December 2013 (UTC) The Real Life Faithful Barnstar The Real Life Barnstar is awarded to editors who make contributions both online and offline, by organizing wiki-related real-life events. What I want to say, if you still watching my page, why don't you jump in leaving some messages sometime and conversating a bit - time to time? Don't be shy! You are very much invited. Hafspajen (talk) 15:56, 15 June 2014 (UTC) This is a Wikipedia user page. If you find this page on a site other than Wikipedia you are viewing a mirror site. The original page is located at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:zeng8r.