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paul2520
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Minneapolis, MN
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JoinedJuly 5, 2013 (my first edit came before that)

Hi, I'm Paul! My

pronouns are he/him. Why pronouns matter
.

I joined Wikipedia in 2013 after having experience with an internal MediaWiki site for an organization I worked for (it's worth noting that I'm happy to discuss why your organization or company might use a wiki as their intranet site/for internal documentation).

I enjoy

Did you know...
. Let me know if you are interested in collaborating!

My editing preference is to use the

Wiki Markup). I know it well & sometimes use tools like Sublime Text, vim, and Notepad++ for more tedious tasks like finding & replacing text throughout a page's source.[b]

archive.is, Megalodon.jp (a.k.a. gyo.tc), and/or ghostarchive.org.[c] If you are in search of such a reference that I've cited/updated/etc. and cannot find it in one of these fantastic archival resources, let me know. I am an amateur archivist and recommend you check out Archive Team
if you are interested to learn more.

My bookmarks/current tasks

diacritic command examples
accent ⌥ Option+e (+ letter) Á/á, É/é, Í/í, Ó/ó, Ú/ú
tilde ⌥ Option+n (+ letter) Ñ/ñ
umlauts ⌥ Option+u (+ letter) Ä/ä, Ë/ë, Ï/ï, Ö/ö, Ü/ü
Edit summary templates:
added [[:Category:Pages with missing references list|missing notes list]]
added missing notes list -- you can help @ [[:Category:Pages with missing references list]]
added missing notes list (article was listed in [[:Category:Pages with missing references list]])
fixed [[:Category:CS1 maint: unrecognized language|unrecognized language error]]

>Very low pending changes backlog: 3 pages according to DatBot as of 02:15, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

Updated reference title so it's not the [[:Category:CS1 maint: archived copy as title|generic/default "Archived copy"]]
filled-in __ reference(s) that had [[:Category:CS1 maint: archived copy as title|"Archived copy" as title]]

Contributions

See articles I've created, etc. @ User:Paul2520/contributions

Awards and other WikiLove

See User:Paul2520/awards

Meetup participation

Contest participation

Things that make me happy [about Wikipedia]

Opinion

I tend to empathize with User:Geo Swan/opinions/If you are considering initiating an xfd on material I started.

Other projects

I also contribute to

Esolangs wiki and Fandom. While I typically use this username, I have seen cases of other people using this name on other websites.[d]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Earning my master's degree influenced my strong value for referencing
  2. ^ For example, see these edits.
  3. ^ WebCite used to be on this list.
  4. ^ ...including the site formerly known as Twitter.

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