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&ndash; Wikipedia founder Jimbo Wales [http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/28/1351230]</div></center>

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==Who am I?==
''she thinks not, therefore she is not.''
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* I have been an [[artist]], and an [[INFP]], all my life.  
* I have been a [[role-playing game|gamer]] since October of 1987.
* I have been a [[programmer]] since the summer of 1998.
* I have been a [[mother]] since June of 2000.
* I have been a [[Wikipedia:Wikipedians|Wikipedian]] since February 12, 2003.
* I have been a [[Wikipedia:Wikipediholic|Wikipediholic]] since February 19, 2003.
* I have been a Wikipedia [[Wikipedia:Administrators|custodian]] since [[User:CatherineMunro/RFA|February 12, 2004]].
* I was promoted to "Gunnery Muse" by [[User:Func]] on October 13, 2004.  ;)
* I reached my five thousandth edit in the wee hours of October 30, 2004.
* I was a [[Wikipedia:Mediator|Mediator]] throughout most of 2005.
* I have been a [[knitting|knitter]] since 2006.
* I reached my ten thousandth edit on March 4, 2006, the same week Wikipedia got its [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2006-03-06/Millionth article|millionth article]].
* I worked for [[Wikia]] from March 2007 to March 2010.

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:''(borrowed from [[User:Solitude|Solitude]] -- check the "Raw signatures" box to use it)''  
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===My contributions===
[[Image:Portal proposal new.png|thumb|right|My portal proposal]]
* I designed the http://www.wikipedia.org/ portal. [[/Portal|[1]]]
* I sometimes write for the ''[[Wikipedia:Signpost|Wikipedia Signpost]]''.
* I proposed and helped design the [[Special:Cite]] page.
* I wrote, edited, and supervised the climb of the [[Duran Duran]] article to [[Wikipedia:Featured Article|featured article]] status
* I have done hundreds of [[Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links|disambiguations]]
* I have reformatted hundreds of disambiguation pages according to the [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages)|Manual of Style]]
* I have worked on dozens of [[Wikipedia:Find-A-Grave famous people/T|Missing encyclopedia articles]]


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Image:Wikistress3D 1 v3.jpg|'''Wiki Stress Meter:''' Just Fine
Image:Barnstar_of_Diligence.png|<small>I hereby award CatherineMunro this [[Wikipedia:Barnstars_on_Wikipedia#The Barnstar of Diligence|Barnstar of Diligence]] for her tireless work and dedication to Wikipedia.<br>[[User:Evrik|evrik]] February 2006</small>
Image:Wiki-halo.png|This user has been awarded a '''[[Wikipedia:Wikihalo|Wikihalo]]''' by the [[/Wikihalo|Wikipedia community]] '''For her hard work, key wiki support and her cheerful spirit.''' 
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====Duran Duran====
* [[Image:LinkFA-star.png]] [[Duran Duran]] ([[User:CatherineMunro/Duran Duran Featured Article Discussion|Featured article discussion, Dec. 2004]])
*[[/Duran Duran|The Duran Duran constellation - related articles I watch]]

====The many faces of John Taylor====

:<small>
[[John Taylor (disambiguation)|John Taylor]]: 
[[John Taylor (poet)]], 
[[John Taylor (1704-1766)]], 
[[Johnnie Taylor]], 
[[John Taylor of Caroline]], 
[[John Taylor (1770-1832)]], 
[[John Whittaker Taylor]], 
[[John Taylor (1808-1887)]], 
[[John Henry Taylor]], 
[[John Taylor (American football player)]], 
[[John Mark Taylor]],
[[John Taylor (Velocette)]],  
[[Jack Taylor]], and still in progress: 
[[John Taylor (jazz)]], 
[[John David Taylor]], 
[[John Taylor (1480-1534)]], 
[[John Taylor (1503-1554)]], 
[[John Taylor (1694-1761)]], 
[[John Taylor (1752-1833)]], 
[[John E. Taylor]], 
[[John Taylor (Taylor Ham)]], 
[[John Tayler]], 
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====Recognized articles====
* [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|Good article|14px]] [[Ishango bone]] (Good article)
* [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|Good article|14px]] [[Imbrex and tegula]] (Good article)
* [[File:Crystal personal.svg|B-class Biography|18px]] [[Sacagawea]] (B-class Biography)
* [[File:Crystal personal.svg|B-class Biography|18px]] [[Jonathan Elias]] (B-class Biography)

====Created articles====
Other articles I created or contributed to significantly:
:<small>[[Gamemaster]], [[Miniature figure painting]], [[Role-playing]], [[Dungeon Master]], [[Dungeon magazine]], [[Universal Studios]], [[Clive Davis]], [[Snoop Doggy Dogg]], [[Tina Turner]], [[Willow (film)]], [[Alexandria]], [[The Brocken]]; several [[Arachnid]]s: [[Ricinulei]], [[Palpigradi]], [[Uropygid]], [[Whip scorpion]], [[Opiliones]], [[Schizomid]], [[Amblypygid]], [[Pseudoscorpion]]; [[Daddy longlegs]], [[Vickers machine gun]], [[Théophile-Jules Pelouze]], [[Ascanio Sobrero]], [[Benny Urquidez]], [[List of duplicating processes]], [[Emperor Xuanzong of Tang China]], [[Gao Lishi]], [[Jean Baptiste Charbonneau]], [[Handsworth riots]], [[Artificial life]], [[List of species described by the Lewis and Clark Expedition]], [[Brea, California]], [[Holly Knight]], [[OpenID]], [[Forensic anthropology]], [[Thromboelastography]], [[Lower Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge]], [[Congo (disambiguation)]], [[Bootleg recording]], [[Ishango bone]], [[Coyote (mythology)]]...</small>

====Contributed articles====
Other articles I contributed to (most stumbled upon by Random Article or Cleanup):
:<small>[[Blade Runner]], consolidated the sprawling [[Atlas Shrugged]] articles, added awards lists to [[Grammy Awards]], [[Pipe]], [[Savannah, Georgia]], [[Stadium]], [[Drug tolerance]], [[They Might Be Giants]], [[Fiver]], [[Milla Jovovich]], [[Scooter]], [[Showtime]], [[Casiquiare canal]], [[Sabadell]], [[Lewis and Clark Expedition]], [[Boot]], [[KLM Constellation air disaster 1948]], [[St. Johns River]], [[Rectocele]], [[Obstetric fistula]], [[My Lai Massacre]], [[Keystone Studios]], [[Chenonceaux]],  [[Hryniewiecki]], [[Ammonium chloride]], [[Zebra crossing]], [[Lesch-Nyhan syndrome]], [[Pancho Barnes]], [[Mary Sue fanfiction]], [[Justice, Inc. (role-playing game)]], [[Ramesh Sippy]], [[Vera-Ellen]], [[Höfner]], [[Ted LeFevre]], [[Tabar Zin]], [[Sofu Teshigahara]], [[Cholo]], [[Lanzarote]], [[Bebe Buell]], [[Animal shell]], more</small>

Plus:
:<small>[[John Porter]], [[Robert Thomson]], [[John Thomson]], [[James Thomson]], [[Charles Thomson]], [[William Thompson]], [[Joseph Thompson]], [[John Thompson]], [[James Thompson]], [[George Thompson]], [[Edward Thompson]] and related disambiguations</small>

==Workspace== 
* MOST useful widget: [[Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation_popups|Navigation popups]]
* Another useful widget: [https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=1117 FoxClocks] Firefox extension, places additional clock(s) in your status bar or toolbar -- I use it for UTC/Wikipedia time.

*[[User:CatherineMunro/monobook.css]]
*[[User:CatherineMunro/monobook.js]]
*[[User:CatherineMunro/Sandbox]]
*[[User:CatherineMunro/Record companies]]
*[[User:CatherineMunro/Copyrights]]
*[[User:CatherineMunro/temp]]
*[[User:CatherineMunro/CJB]]
*[[User:CatherineMunro/Citation]]

* [http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_User%27s_Guide:_Using_tables User's Guide: Using Tables]

===To do:===

[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Clans of Scotland]] - [[Diamond Bar, California]], [[Alex Sadkin]], [[Kajagoogoo]], entries on [[List of duplicating processes]]

[[MediaWiki talk:Monobook.css]], 
[[MediaWiki talk:Standard.css]], 
[[MediaWiki talk:Cologneblue.css]], 
[[MediaWiki talk:Nostalgia.css]].

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==Things I might work on today:==
{{Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Navigation}}
{| style="border: 1px solid #aaaaaa; font-size: 80%" align="right"   
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! style="background:#cccccc; font-size: 120%;" | '''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation|Proj: Dab's]]''' <br> '''([[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Disambiguation|Talk]])'''
|- align=center style="background:#ffffff;"
| [[Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links|Repair]]\<sup>[[Wikipedia talk:Disambiguation pages with links|Talk]]</sup>
|-align=center style="background:#efefef"
|[[Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages maintenance|Maint.]]\<sup>[[Wikipedia talk:Disambiguation pages maintenance|Talk]]</sup>
|-align=center style="background:#ffffff"
|[[Wikipedia:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages)|MoS]]\<sup>[[Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages)|Talk]]</sup>
|-align=center style="background:#efefef"
|[[Wikipedia:Disambiguation_pages_with_links#Current_Disambiguation_Collaboration|Repair collab.]]
|-align=center style="background:#ffffff"
|[[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Disambiguation#Disambiguation_templates|Template list]]
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|[[:Category:Disambiguation pages in need of cleanup|Cat:Cleanup]]
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|[http://www.wikiwax.com Wikiwax]
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==Interesting quotes==
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| align="left" |Process is an embedded reaction to prior stupidity. When I was CTO of a web design firm, I noticed in staff meetings that we only ever talked about process when we were avoiding talking about people. "We need a process to ensure that the client does not get half-finished design sketches" is code for "Greg fucked up." The problem, of course, is that much of this process nevertheless gets put in place, meaning that an organization slowly forms around avoiding the dumbest behaviors of its mediocre employees, resulting in layers of gunk that keep its best employees from doing interesting work, because they too have to sign The Form Designed to Keep You From Doing The Stupid Thing That One Guy Did Three Years Ago.
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| colspan="3" | <div style="text-align: right;">'''—-[http://many.corante.com/20030801.shtml#50187 Clay Shirky]'''</div>
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| align="left" |Some people come into your life for a lifetime and some come for a season. You have to know which is which. I put everybody that comes into my life in the category of a tree. Some people are leaves on a tree. The wind blows, they go to the left. The wind blows from the other way, they go to the right. They are just unstable. You can't count on them for nothing. All they ever do is take from that tree. What you need to understand about a leaf is that it has a season. It'll wither and die and blow away.There ain't no need to be praying over a leaf to be resurrected. When it's dead it's gone. Let it go! Some people are like that. All the leaf ever does is cool you off every now and then. If you're grown, you know what I'm talking about, because you can call them in the middle of the night and get cooled off. That's the leaf people. They come to take. Then there are people like a branch. You got to be careful with branch people. They come in all different shapes and sizes. You never know how strong they will be in your life. So my advice is to tip out on it slowly. When you're going out on a limb, don't put too much weight on it at once, because it can fall and leave you high and dry. Sometimes, you have to wait for a branch to grow up before it can hold all of the things you want to share with it. Finally, there are people who are like roots at the bottom of the tree. If you find yourself two or three people in your entire lifetime that are like the roots, then you are blessed. The roots don't care nothing about being seen. All they're there to do is hold that tree up, to make sure it stays in the air. It comes from the earth to give that tree everything it needs. That's what relationships should be about. That's what you need, people who want to be in your life for the right reasons. If somebody wants to walk out of your life, you've got to LET THEM GO! When you learn to love yourself, you will end up giving standards to everyone around you. Again, I repeat with emphasis, if they don't meet those standards, you have to let them go, because they might be a leaf. And forgive them with all your might.''
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| colspan="3" | <div style="text-align: right;">'''—-[[Tyler Perry]], "Madea's uninhibited commentaries on love and life"'''</div>
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