User:ArielGold

About Me

This user is a member of the
Counter-Vandalism Unit.

This user is a recent changes patroller.

It is 19:28:11 on August 3, 2024, according to the server's time and date.

This user wants to be your friend.

This user is female.

XThis user is a member of
Generation X.

Éireannach
This user is Irish.

This user is a graduate student in Psychology.

NHS	This user is a member of National Honor Society.

This user is a history buff.

This user is interested in
ancient civilizations.

This user is interested in
Ancient Egypt.

This user is interested in space sciences.

This user supports sustainable living.

This user admires the tropical rainforests.

This user plays the flute.

This user plays the piano.

AIM-AbleThis user understands AIM talk perfectly well, but does not seriously use it. Ever.

About me:

I've worked in a variety of areas, mostly in medicine, from ICUs and ERs to outpatient clinics or offices, but like many in medicine, I got burned out and frustrated. I've "retired" from medicine, and now I spend my time working on my Master's degree, writing for a variety of web sites, and contributing to sites such as Wikipedia. As for my personal interests, I have a deep interest in space travel/astronomy, and NASA is my browser's home page.

I was a +sysop (System Operator/Admin) for the Microsoft Gaming Zone for many years, so I'm pretty familiar with how to handle vandals :) For the last 3 years I've written articles and columns for IGN.

If I could get a job going around the web correcting spelling and grammar, I would. I personally feel the single most important gift we can give our children is that of education and literacy, and I'm frustrated at the growing trend of children (and even adults) who simply have no concept of correct grammar, or spelling in the world today. "Web-Speak" seems to have infected every corner of the internet, including sadly, Wikipedia, and people simply seem to not care anymore. I've found so many basic, third-grade grammatical errors lately that I wish there was a bot for them! :)

If you get bored, you can always let fate guide your reading. ♥

If you are contributing to this encyclopedia, please learn proper grammar and check your spelling in a spell-checker.

The following list shows the most common errors and mistakes made throughout the Internet, and here on Wikipedia:

Its/It's
There/They're/Their
Then/Than
We're/Were
You're/Your
Effect/Affect
That/Which
Accept/Except

Please, please, if you do not know the correct usage, read this list of frequently misused English words

If you can't find your issue, simply go to Google and type in the two (or more) words that you are confused about, and you'll find several sites that will explain the proper usage and grammatical rules.

For the most part, I dedicate my submissions to finding and correcting these errors, correcting blatant vandalism, and doing minor edits to articles for clarification.

I'd love to have some folks to talk to, so head on over to my Talk Page and say hello!

• Wikipedian since July 24, 2005.

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