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<div style="padding: 5px; background: #f9f9f7; border: width: 100px; float: center; font-size: 8pt; text-align: center; font-color: #EEEEFF;">[[Space Shuttle Columbia]]'' lights up the pre-dawn clouds as it lifts off on its 27th flight into space, STS-109.''</div></div>
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I first began visiting Wikipedia in late [[2002]]. Then, it was nearly two years old, but still quite a bit different than it appears today, as indeed, the entire internet is. I continued visiting, reading, but did no edits until [[2005]], and did not create an account until late summer of that year. Since then, while making small edits for obvious mistakes here initially, I watched. I read, and learned policies, and noticed they grew by the month. 

As I tended to "lurk" until I feel I know enough to post something meaningful, or assist in some useful way, my first genuine foray into editing wasn't until nearly two years after creating the account, once I felt I had a good grasp of most of the basic policies, and I had much more time on my hands. Since July of 2007, I've been active in [[WP:RCP|Recent Change patrol]], [[WP:AFC|Articles for Creation]], [[WP:EAR|Editor's Assistance Requests]], [[Wikipedia:Help desk|Wikipedia Help Desk]], [[WP:AFD|Articles for Deletion]], [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Space|WikiProject Space]], and its sub-projects, and a wide variety of other areas. 

I frequently spent time doing [[Special:Random|random page]] edits, doing general cleanup, fixing [[WP:CITE|footnotes]], etc. I really feel that properly cited [[WP:CIT|references]] are the backbone of a really great article, and to that end, I use the citation templates to fix the "simple URL" references in many articles, as they provide information not available by simply looking at a URL with no explanation. I created several articles, including some that went on to become [[WP:GA|good articles]] and were featured in [[WP:DYK|Did you know...?]], but I also enjoyed doing behind-the-scenes work.

I would classify myself as a [[Wikipedia:WikiFairy|WikiFairy]]. I enjoy helping others, even if it is just a simple thing, and there is really nothing that can bring a [[User:ArielGold/Smilies|smile]] faster than a simple "Thank you" from another editor.

In a fun bit of trivia,  The name of the machine that is the master database server for the English Wikipedia is '''[[m:Ariel|Ariel]]''' 

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If you get bored, you can always [[Special:Random|let fate guide your reading]]. <font color="FF69B4">♥</font>
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*[[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|15px]] [[Jay Barbree]]
*[[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|15px]] [[On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog]]
*[[William H. Gerstenmaier]]
*[[William Franklin Draper]]
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*[[Mr. Monk in Outer Space]]
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====Essays====
*[[User:ArielGold/Etiquette2|RC Etiquette guide]]

====Helpful links====
*[[Wikipedia:Tutorial]]
*[[Wikipedia:Help desk]]
*[[Wikipedia:Utilities]]
*[[Wikipedia:Cite your sources]]
*[[Wikipedia:Verifiability]]
*[[Wikipedia:Civility]]
*[[Wikipedia:Neutral point of view]]
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*Scroll down for current RfAs.
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