Personal Information
Name
- Doug Glidden
Current Home
- Washington, D.C. metropolitan area
Place of Origin
- Portland, Maine, USA
Background
- Software engineer with two bachelor's degrees in the fields of computer science and computer engineering from LeTourneau University in Longview, Texas. Amateur musician with proficiency in piano and voice and significant interest in composition and conducting.
Areas of Interest
- Articles on subjects related to
automobiles and automobilia, pianos, classical music, and my alma mater, LeTourneau University. As the son of an English teacher and an avid amateur grammarian, I often browse around for ways I can make grammatical and stylistic improvements to existing articles on any subject (typically using the " Random article
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Userboxes
Style Boxes
 | This user employs a more formal style of writing in articles than in talk pages. |
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Grammar and Usage Boxes
| Majority ≠ right
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This user recognizes that even if 300,000,000 people make the same mistake, it's still a mistake.
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| ’s | Thi's user know's that not every word that end's with s need's an apostrophe and will remove misused apostrophe's from Wikipedia with extreme prejudice. |
its
it's | It's really not that hard to use each word in its proper manner. |
their
there
they're | This user thinks that there are too many people who don’t know that they're worse than their own children at spelling! |
your
you're | This user thinks that if your grammar is incorrect, then you're in need of help. |
than
then | This user understands the difference between using "than" and "then." |
| You and Me | This user thinks that if you believe it is incorrect to use "you and me" as the object of a sentence, a little talk needs to be had by you and me... |
| , | This user fixes comma-splices ; they are annoying. |
they
he or she | This user considers the singular they to be substandard English usage. |
| whom | This user insists upon using whom wherever it is called for, and fixes the errors of whomever he sees. |
Latin Plurals: "Data is are..."
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This user uses "data", "media", "memoranda", "criteria", and "agenda" as the plurals of "datum", "medium", "memorandum", "criterion", and "agendum".
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Other Boxes
 | This user is not British, but can speak with a British accent. |
AIM talk perfectly well, and sometimes uses it, but not excessively. |
| cpp-2 | This user is an intermediate C++ programmer. |
| MAT | This user is a MATLAB programmer and user. |
| {{Wiki}} | This user can write in the MediaWiki language. |
| USage decline | This user uses American English, but is appalled at its rapid and continuing deterioration. |
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