Hi, I'm Joel. I'm an applied linguist and I work at a university. (Or do I???) (Yes.)
I used to think it was important to try to keep wikipedia accurate but I don't really think so any more.
These are the only pages I've made significant contributions to:
Sixpence None the Richer - I wrote the basic outline for this page years ago.
Chinglish - I started following this page when I was working in China. I used to try to keep it from getting out of control, but I gave up, because people just like to put funny things they've seen on signs here rather than actually trying to objectively describe the phenomenon.
Songs from the Black Hole - The lost/unreleased Weezer album. I've tried to add sources and remove rumors.
I also keep an eye on these and occasionally make changes:
SIL International, a Christian linguistics organization. This entry tends to attract vocal critics and defenders of the organization.
Non-native pronunciations of English I was on a crusade to remove the phrase "imperfectly learning" from this entry, to no avail. I had to give up.
Chinese Pidgin English - there's a lot of speculation here. I tried to add sources or remove things
I hope to someday create a Ge Chuangui page.
preliminary work on Ge Chuangui page edit
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Gĕ Chuánguī (simplified Chinese: 葛传椝; traditional Chinese: 葛傳椝; 1906-1992) was a pioneer of English education in 20th-century China. He is best known for his work on the New Chinese-English Dictionary[1] and for coining the term "China English."[2] His English-language works from the 1930s were republished by Shanghai Translation Publishing in the 2010s.
Ge's correspondence with Fowler and some other anecdotes (chinese and english mixed) http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_4ccb8cc80100lsiq.html
Anecdote about Ge from the preface to one of the editions of the dictionary: http://hi.baidu.com/garywang1982/blog/item/0e2a1a1a2d056f108618bffc.html
A short essay attributed to Ge: http://www.stph.com.cn/mybbs/Announce/textview.asp?BoardID=18&ID=231192
Discussion about his books: http://yiwen.com.cn/mybbs/Announce/Announce.asp?BoardID=18&ID=158199&q=7&r=127616
intro to a book: http://www.mrbook.net/book_3779041.html