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Thesquire is an alumnus of the [[University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign]], having received a [[Bachelor of Science]] in Liberal Arts and Sciences in  Molecular and Cellular [[Biology]] from UIUC's [[UIUC College of Liberal Arts and Sciences|College of Liberal Arts and Sciences]] in 2006.  After working a stint in a research lab, he is currently studying [[nursing]] as a graduate student at [[DePaul University]] in [[Chicago]].  He recieved his [[Eagle Scout (Boy Scouts of America)|Eagle Scout]] award in [[2002]], and has spent many summers working at [[Owasippe Scout Reservation]].  Thesquire is prone to edit minor typos that he comes across, as well as any page that relates to his university, vocational or avocational interests, or things he just knows stuff about.  As an adherent of [[meta:deletionism|deletionism]], he is predisposed to revert or remove crappy edits rather than completely rewriting them, and will [[WP:AFD|vote for deletion]] without batting an eye.  Thesquire's preferred method of finding articles for deletion is to use the [[Special:Random|Random article]] function. In this way, he hopes to help ensure that those unencyclopedic articles which somehow made it passed those Wikipedians on [[Wikipedia:Recent changes patrol|Recent changes patrol]] will eventually be deleted.

==Awards and Recognitions==
<gallery>Image:WikiProject_Scouting_barnstar.jpg| '''The Scouting Barnstar'''<p>A hearty thank you for your steadfast, tireless, and quality contributions to Scouting articles. [[User:Rlevse|Rlevse]] 01:07, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
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==User's stance on blog articles==
There are a number of noteworthy [[blog]]s out there, which influence public and [[political blog|political]] thinking within the US and around the world.  Chances are, blog X is not one of them.  I have no problem with [[Daily Kos]] or, gag, [[Little Green Footballs]] having articles in wikipedia but, unless you're [[Atrios|Duncan B. Black]] or [[Glenn Reynolds]], your blog doesn't belong here.
==User's stance on U.S. school articles==
I belong firmly in the camp that most [[Secondary education in the United States|High Schools]], if they do not merit their own articles, should at least take up a large segment of the page of their district or the their town.  In fact, there are many places in the US where more can be said about its high school than the rest of the town combined.  Private high schools, especially those that effectively serve as magnet schools for a local area, are also significant and deserve their own articles.

[[Primary education|Elementary]] and [[Middle school|Middle Schools/Junior Highs]], collectively known as ''grade schools'', are mostly cookie-cutter institutions.  If you've been to one, you've been to them all, and instruction generally doesn't vary between schools, especially between schools in the same district.  While there are some grade schools that are notable due to major events that happened in them or otherwise involved them ([[Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site|Monroe Elementary School]] being the best example I can think of), the vast majority of grade schools aren't significant enough to merit their own articles, and at most should have a word or two put on their district's or town's article.

Also, just because I consider High Schools to be notable doesn't mean that I think that a highschool merits fifty-bazillion sub-articles.  Those I have no problems merging or deleting.

==Articles every Wikipedian should read==
;[[Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not for things made up in school one day]]
;[[Wikipedia:Vanispamcruftisement]]
;[[Wikipedia:Guide to deletion]]
;[[User:RasputinAXP/FFINN]] Fan Fiction Is Not Notable

==Other assorted crap==
[[User:Thesquire/Sandbox|User's personal sandbox]] - Wiggle your toes if you like.

[[User:Thesquire/How to convince the AfD editors to delete an article without trying to]] - A bunch of personal observations I've made about things novice editors do to seemingly ensure that their vanity articles are deleted.

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