User:Skittleys
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Notorious nitpick of spelling, grammar and punctuation (note the lack of the serial comma). Pharmacy student. Wannabe pathologist. Computer science, life sciences (especially pharmacology and medical genetics), biomedical computing (bioinformatics,computational biology, medical imaging, biomedical engineering and more) and psychology (especially behavioural neuroscience and psychopharmacology) majors. Indecisive (as demonstrated). Regulates lawyers. Researcher. Plays with Wistar rats and lab mice. Canadian. Coder. Perfectionist. Sickie. Musician. (Note that each letter in those last 2 words points to a different article). Userbox obsessee.
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In other words, has a wide range of knowledge and experience to contribute!!!
Always willing to lend a hand. Have a project? Let me know!
I tend to be "sporadically active"—I'll work for days at a time and then disappear! I call these WikiBinges. You'll be able to tell whether I'm around by checking out my contributions.
WikiProjects
I tend to label, rate, and stub/destub a variety of articles from any project. I do teeny things for all kinds of projects. These are just the projects where I've put myself down as a user.
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Maintenance-based
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Other Wikipedia Involvements
As above, these are things I do on a regular basis. I do all sorts of teeny different things, depending on my mood.
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I also repair dead-ends.
Userboxes
Some of my newly-added boxes that I particularly love:
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Current Contributions
I tend to edit pages I stumble upon in one way or another. Usually, when I try to look up one article for a reference, I end up: (a) editing the article with a grammar tweak at minimum, because it's so necessary!; (b) clicking on a wikilink to another article and having to edit THAT one; and (c) attempting to Wikify some links, which leads to seeing problems in the next article, which leads to editing those, which leads to viewing more articles...until I've suddenly got 30+ tabs open and they're ALL Wikipedia edit pages!
Lately (so I say on September 26, 2009, 16 years ago, after about 2 months or so), I have been doing a LOT of:
- Removing duplicate categories from articles
- Diffusing articles/templates to subcategories
- Categorising the uncategorised
- Diffusing stubs
- Creating and cleaning dab pages
- Disambiguating or tagging ambiguous links
- Obeying the WP:Manual of Style
- bolding or unbolding words
- italicizing or deitalicizing words
- Decapitalizing headings
- Adding infoboxes
- Adding taxoboxes
- converting infoboxes
- Converting manually-entered italic hatnote-like text into hatnotes
- Removing inappropriate hatnotes, especially those that are not ambiguous
- Redirecting redirects to the correct article heading
- Making redirects follow the Principle of least astonishment
- Creating new redirects, categorizing redirects
- Practicing drive-by tagging
- Linkifying dead-ends
- Dissuading all Americanisms (and that is purposely leading to a dab)
I also just made a long article about the Leslie L. Dan Pharmacy Building. :)
This is a list of pages I'm currently working on or plan to work on in the very near future. This is really more of a to-do list—it's not really of any importance to anyone else—but I didn't want to use the template. They are either topics I have an extensive background in or they are articles in dire need of updating. These are most certainly not the only pages I will contribute to. They are only ones that I feel somewhat obligated to contribute to, in a way! Also, please do not remove the red links from this section. They are there for a reason.
- Profession (incl. possible split into page for profession in the modern sense (i.e., any career) and 1 for profession in the true sense (i.e., meets the 5 criteria of a "profession"))
- List of pharmaceutical companies
- Pharmacy
- Pharmacist (refs in particular)
- Pharmacy school
- Bachelor of Pharmacy
- Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy (article somehow doesn't exist, and is NOT the same as the BPharm)
- Doctor of Pharmacy - horrifyingly inaccurate!
- Template:User degree/BScPhm (userbox, since PharmD one exists)
- Template:User degree/BPharm (ditto)
- Category:Pharmacy (most articles in this cat need revision)
- Regulation
- Law Society of Upper Canada
- Template:User degree/BSc (Hons) subject (seems silly that the BAH one exists and this doesn't)
- Biomedical Computing (I'm actually surprised it doesn't exist, given the number of Wikipedia-obsessees in the program!)
- Template:User MCAT (since the LSAT one exists)
- Template:User GRE (ditto)
- Template:User GMAT (ditto)
- Template:User SAT (ditto)
This user is quite enjoying filling her profile with userboxes, and will continue to do so. She will create an actual profile and properly organize her userboxes when time permits.
Education
I am currently attending Queen's University (Class of '07) in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. I was originally pursuing two degrees: a Honours Bachelor of Computing in Biomedical Computing, and a Honours Bachelor of Arts in Psychology. However, I was accepted into a Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy program offered by the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Toronto. Due to medical reasons, I was granted a one year deferral; thus, since I can not obtain any of my intended degrees due to my five-year plan, I am now seeking a Bachelor of Science in Life Sciences and a general Bachelor of Computing. In a perfect world, I would be able to receive a residency at Kingston General Hospital and become a clinical pharmacist/hospital pharmacist, where I would not only be able to conduct research and be directly involved in patient care, but also be able to finish my degree in Biomedical Computing and perhaps obtain a general degree in psychology.
Wikipedia History
I officially became a Wikipedian on April 20, 2006. I previously made many minor contributions, mostly fixing blatant grammatical errors. I have been using Wikipedia almost exclusively for research purposes since 2003. I have also made some, but not all, of the edits by 142.57.16.23.
Articles Very Significantly Contributed To
- American and British English spelling differences
- Bachelor of Computing
- Coroner
- First aid
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film)
- Hermione Granger
- John Graves Simcoe
- Joint Honours
- Law Society of Upper Canada
- Library of Congress Classification:Class K -- Law
- List of communities in Ontario
- List of important publications in computer science
- List of pharmacies
- List of Queen's University people
- Lorne Park Secondary School
- Middlesex Centre, Ontario
- Official bilingualism in Canada
- Pharmacy school
- Phoebe Buffay
- Port Credit, Ontario
- Queen's-McGill rivalry
- Queen's School of Computing
- Queen's Jacket Bars
- Queen's School of Computing
- Retainer (orthodontic device)
- Toronto Public Library
- Tubercle (anatomy)
- Veterinarian
- Veterinary medicine
- Veterinary specialties
Articles Created
Articles to be Created/Contributed to in the Future
- Biomedical Computing
Non-article edits
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| Nice work on the redirect categorization overhaul ;) Ϫ 04:26, 29 September 2009 (UTC) |
Why someone would hijack MY account, I do not know, but just in case...: