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{{service awards|year=2004|month=5|day=26|edits=8418}}[[Image:WikiMedal for Janitorial Services.png|frame|left|The Wikimedal for Janitorial Services - awarded to Kevyn by Topbanana,<br>8-NOV-2004]]

My name is Kevyn Jacobs. I am 56 years old, and I live in a [[motorhome]] in the [[Western United States]]. I am a [[Digital nomad]], and [[Seasonal human migration|migrate]] my home with the seasons. I usually [[winter]] in [[Arizona]], and [[summer]] in [[Pacific Northwest|Cascadia]].

I am an alumni of [[Western Washington University]] with a [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] in [[Bachelor of General Studies|General Studies]], with an emphasis on [[Technical communication|Technical Communication]], [[New Media]] Management, [[Editing]], [[Journalism]], [[Page layout|Layout]] and [[Graphic Design]], and [[International education|International Studies]]. I also studied at [[Kansas State University]], the [[University of Louisville]] - [[Ft. Knox]], [[Elizabethtown Community College]], [[Augusta State University]], and [[Semester  at Sea|Semester at Sea Fall '97 voyage]]. I graduated from [[Ft. Knox High School]] in 1986, and also attended 2 years at [[Silver Valley High School|Silver Valley High]] in [[California]].

Ethnically, I am a [[Volga German]] (''Wolgadeutsche''), born in [[Kansas]]. My hometown is [[Manhattan, Kansas|Manhattan]].  My maternal line is a [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/m%C3%A9lange mélange] of [[Germany|German]], [[Blessed_Virgin_Mary_(Roman_Catholic)|Marian]] [[France|French]], [[Anglo-Saxon]], [[North Germanic peoples|Scandanavian]], [[Black Irish]] and [[Scotland|Scottish]]. I am >3% [[Neanderthal]]. Spiritually, I am an [[Agnosticism|Agnostic]] [[Atheism|Atheist]]. Politically, I prefer the [[Green party]].

I am a native speaker of [[English language|English]], have a working knowledge of [[German language|German]] (having spent a good part of my childhood in [[Nürnberg]]), and have studied [[Spanish language|Spanish]] and [[French language|French]] at university. I'm a self-confessed [[Canada|Canadiophile]].

I find Wikipedia addicting, and I love the fact that it's free, open-source and user-run. It has become a constant tool in my life, and I am always improving it as I explore. I constantly copy edit, creating redirects from misspellings I discover. I have a personal rule: If I come across a [[RedLink]], I have to start the article off, even if just a stub. 

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=My Contributions=
== All my Wikipedia edits are Public Domain ==
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== Editing ==
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Even though I am a good writer, I enjoy editing more than writing. Consequently, most of the work I do on Wikipedia is general-purpose editing -- [[copy editing]], formatting, clarifying, [[Wikipedia:Glossary|wikifying]], fixing links, creating [[redirect]]s, etc.  

I have done an immense amount of work on [[Wikipedia:Disambiguation|disambiguation pages]] in my time here. I have a knack for organizing [[information]], and I put this skill to use in working on disambiguation pages. (Other people play [[solitaire]] on their computers; I go through pages, checking and fixing links. It's a hobby.)

==Articles that I have written, or at least started==

*[[ACNielsen]]
*[[Balurghat College]]
*[[Calf Creek culture]]
*[[CH2M HILL]]
*[[Danish modern]]
*[[Ellen]]
*[[Ellen (TV show)]]
*[[Fifth Third Bank]]
*[[Frontier Flying Service]]
*[[Ggantija]]
*[[Gray Peak (Antarctica)]]
*[[Grays Peak (British Columbia)]]
*[[Hit-for-hit]]
*[[Lumalive]]
*[[Miller-Motte Technical College]]
*[[Millesgården]]
*[[Nielsen Media Research]]
*[[Olza S.A.]]
*[[Prince Albert Impact Crater]]
*[[Red Alert (novel)]]
*[[Silver Ring Thing]]
*[[The Crimson Permanent Assurance]]
*[[The Lampshade: A Holocaust Detective Story from Buchenwald to New Orleans]]
*[[Thomas Van Orden]]
*[[Tilt-A-Whirl]]
*[[Van Orden v. Perry]]
*[[What They Did to Princess Paragon]]

''Plus too many disambig and redirect pages to count.''

==Significant contributions to articles==

*[[AMBER Alert]]
*[[Charter for Compassion]]
*[[Cu Chi tunnels]]
*[[George Miller Beard]]
*[[Greg Abbott]]
*[[Haskelite Manufacturing Corporation]]
*[[McCreary County v. ACLU of Kentucky]]
*[[Planchette]]
*[[Supernova remnant G1.9+0.3]]
*[[Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport]] (I used to work there)
*[[Texas State Capitol]]
*[[Fujiya Co.]]

==Photo contributions==

[[commons:User:Kevyn|My photo contributions to Wikipedia may be seen on my Wikimedia Commons page.]]

=Topics of Interest=

==Chronicling the Universe==

:''"I will tell you a great secret, Captain. Perhaps the greatest of all time. The molecules of your body are the same molecules that make up this station and the nebula outside, that burn inside the stars themselves. We are starstuff, we are the Universe made manifest, trying to figure itself out."'' -[[Delenn]], [[Babylon 5]] Episode ''[[A Distant Star]]''

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