User:GenQuest
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Member since 06 November 2008. Rollbacker; Article Reviewer; Copy Editor; Newbie Helper and Article Mergers. I was born and raised in Chicago, IL; currently residing in San Antonio, Texas. I have resided in, vacationed in, and/or worked in 49 of the 50 United States. (Alaska, I'm looking at you...)
Interests
[edit]I have had a varied and eclectic work and educational background.
My educational background includes major interests in history; biology; Latin; grammar; astronomy; gemology; and advertising.
I was a BASIC and Visual Basic programmer back in the day. I have had life-long interests in, and worked as, an entertainer (including stage, radio, and TV, including script-writing, story-boarding, set design and construction, and performing. I still periodically perform as a Radio and Mobile DJ). I am a published genealogist.
I have owned my own businesses; and I have worked in corporate America (diamond sales, retail management), Blue collar (skilled construction); as well as medium to small business enterprises (advertising and entertainment agencies). I write corporate newsletters and have contributed to local and national newspapers, retail catalogs, and broadcast media. This requires a working knowledge of grammar, proper punctuation, and lay-out (including graphic, table, and picture placements).
As an active steinologist, I am a true believer of its basic precepts.
On Wikipedia, a hobby of mine, history is a very strong interest, as is copy editing, reliable referencing (re.: checks, creation, and inclusions), and article merging. Other Wikipedia interests include:
- Creation of Wikipedia articles with meaningful content
- Historically accurate place names and dating
- A cohesive writing style, with strong adherence to the MoS
- Proper grammar, punctuation, and written English;
- The War of Independence—(or "American Revolutionary War" for you Brits)
- Colonial, national, territorial and state border developments
- Accurate biographical and immediate family information of article subject(s)
- Illinois – North Carolina – Tennessee – Texas
- Colonial America and Native American interaction
- Helping new articles and new editors get off the ground
- Geographical changes or events
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Works
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PHOTOS by GenQuest
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I no longer create Categories, as I am repeatedly told that Lists are more informative, as once again one of my original 16 categories is getting deleted. I should think, then, that categories are highly redundant and should simply be abandoned as an encyclopedic tool here; they should then all be replaced by a system of List and Index articles. GenQuest "Talk to Me" |
Action needed
[edit]Currently needed 3rd opinions
[edit]Third opinion disputes
- Talk:Cinco Ranch, Texas § Recent changes to article about a planned community Disagreement about whether to include demographics from only half the community, disagreement about whether article is fundamentally about a CDP or a community 22:54, 19 June 2025 (UTC)
- Talk:2025 India–Pakistan conflict § Despite Pakistan's official denial Disagreement over which revision best represents the events as documented in the sources. 14:31, 20 June 2025 (UTC)
- Talk:Ricardo Duchesne § Greatness and Ruin Disagreement over inclusion of content about this book and its publisher. 23:00, 25 June 2025 (UTC)
- Talk:Battle of Hong Kong § The defense and fall of Hong Kong a capitalization question.update,
State of the project
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Wikipedia vandalism information  Low to moderate level of vandalism
2.82 RPM according to DeadbeefBot 20:52, 26 June 2025 (UTC) |
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