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IguanaScales
is my wikihandle...
A/K/A
138.88.161.142 (before I got this account)
The (Very Few) Pages I Have Helped Rehabilitate from Stubdom edit
( ...or at least elevate from Stubdom to Stubplusdom )
- Half Japanese, the lovable bedroom band
- Topiary — mainly because I like hedge mazes and Edward Scissorhands and topiary is kind of fun (if sort of tacky)
- Photorealism — actually, I kind of created the first bona fide version of this page, since the existing page was not about the art movement but about (surprise) CGI
- (BTW, I'm not a huge Photorealism fan or anything, but it definitely deserved a better entry than the original.)
- Elizabeth Glaser — I fleshed this entry out a bit so I don't think it can be called a stub anymore. But any Wikipedian is free to disagree and re-label it a stub if they want.
Pages (Stubs) I've Started edit
Ways I'd Like to Contribute to Wikipedia edit
I'd be willing to make graphics/images that I find worthwhile or useful.
I could research topics of interest in more "conventional" sources.
- (I live in the Washington, DC metropolitan area and I'm lucky to have ready access to the Library of Congress and the National Archives, among other venerable fonts of knowledge).)
I can be a nit-picky spell-checker and/or grammar cop since that's an itch that I have to scratch sometimes. Of course, some days I feel I could use a refresher course myself. But The Elements of Style is never far from my computer, for sure.
Interests and Miscellany edit
- learning languages (as a person who has a bit trouble with language acquisition — I'm far better at formal and written language than colloquial and oral language acquisition)
- I am ethnically half-Japanese but I was not taught Japanese as a child and I have barely a rudimentary grasp of it. Hence, I am very motivated to learn it since it is a part of my heritage and someday I would like to be able to converse with my maternal relatives in their native tongue. (If you read the section above you know that I also like the band Half Japanese but that's just a coincidence, I swear.)
- translating articles from other languages of interest into English (a good exercise in learning a language in formal terms)
- etymology — especially cross-pollination of words between cultures/subcultures
- (a favorite Wiki section: the inventory of negative connotations associated with terms for left-handedness)
- politics and society, but I try to resist the temptation to get caught up in things — too draining and people have a tendency to read each other wrong. A lot of politics are highly visceral and personal, too, which muddies the waters quickly
Links edit
- My French Wikipedia user page
- My German Wikipedia user page
- My (English language) Wiktionary user page