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{{cquote|''Aime la vérité, mais pardonne à l'erreur.''<br>(Love truth, but pardon error.)|author=[[Voltaire]]|source=Sept Discours en Vers sur l'Homme (1738)}}

Iothiania isn't good at writing intros about herself, but does enjoy writing in third person. She started editing/contributing on [[October 30]], [[2004]], and goes by the nickname "Iotha". Her real name is Elizabeth, and is a [[mathematics]] student at the [[University of British Columbia]]. Much of her contributions are of a [[WP:COPYEDIT|copy editing]] nature. She spends a great deal of time reading Wikipedia articles, but generally edits on a rather sporadic basis. 

==My projects==

Projects that I like to contribute to:
* ''Cleanup''
** [[User:Triddle/stubsensor/20070716|Stubsensor 2007/07/16]]
** [[Wikipedia:Typo|Wikipedia Typo Team]]
** [[Wikipedia:Dead_external_links|Linkrot]]
** [[Wikipedia:Disambiguation_pages_with_links|Disambiguation pages with links]]
* ''Collaborative''
** [[Wikipedia:Science_collaboration_of_the_month|Science Collaboration of the Month]]
** [[Wikipedia:Article Creation and Improvement Drive|Article Creation and Improvement Drive]]
* ''Wikiprojects''
** [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Physics|Wikiproject Physics]]
** [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Rocks and minerals|WikiProject Rocks and Minerals]]
* ''Portals''
** [[Portal:Earth sciences]]

I also like to keep an eye on:
* [[Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion]]
* [[Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team]]
* [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost]]

Past projects
* ''Completed''
** [[Wikipedia:Computer help desk/cleanup/stubsensor/20060810 | Stub Sensor 2006/08/10]]
* ''Retired from''
** [[Stub sorting]]

==Other contributions==
I have started a small number of articles; some examples would be:
* [[Portal:Earth sciences]]
* [[Mountain Equipment Co-op]]
* [[Delphin Enjolras]]
* [[...as the Poets affirm]]
* [[Aqueous solution]]

I have created a few userboxes, such as {{tl|User:Iothiania/Template:SD2}} and {{tl|User:Iothiania/Template:User IB Alum}}.

I also took the photograph and labeled Image:Fencingsabre.jpg.

==Wiki-philosophy==
I would consider myself to be an [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Essentialism Essentialist]. I think that articles on academic subjects such as science and history ought to be of a higher priority than popular culture ones (anime, new music, etc). As such, I tend to edit more "academic" articles, but I certainly won't stop myself from editing a pop article if I see something that needs work. On matters of deletion, I generally favour [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mergism mergism]. I think there's a lot of information in the world that merits being in an encyclopedia, but not nearly as much information that merits an article of its own.

==Some Links==
[http://www.ubcmathclub.org/ UBC Math Club]
[http://www.xkcd.com/ xkcd]
[http://www.math.utah.edu/%7Echerk/mathjokes.html Math Jokes]

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