WikiWes77

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This user lives in or hails from the U.S. State of Wyoming.

This user lives in the U.S. State of Utah.

This user is a musician.

This user is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

This user attends or has attended Utah State University.

WThis user attends or has attended Weber State University.

This editor is a WikiGnome.

This user is an intermediate skiier or snowboarder.

UTAThis user is a fan of the
Utah Jazz.

This user plays the piano.

This user has been on Wikipedia for 17 years, 4 months and 9 days.

47YThis Wikipedian was born on 11 July 1977 and is 47 years, 5 months, and 4 days old.

This user is part of the Welcoming Committee.

About SpellcheckW7 WikiWes77

I chose this username because I am likely to make spelling (and grammar) corrections. In my city spelling contest, I placed 4th when I was in the fifth grade, and 2nd when I was in the 6th grade. When I was in a 9th grade English class, my teacher said that he thought I had better grammar than even he did.

I have now changed my username, because my interests have moved beyond mere proofreading. --WikiWes77 (talk) 03:38, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Interests

I like to read articles about scientific and technological advancements, animals, sports, LDS Church related subjects, and sometimes history.

Grammar

USThis user uses American English.

its
it'sIt's really not that hard to use each word in its proper manner.

their
there
they'reThis user thinks that there are too many people who don’t know that they're worse than their own children at spelling!

’sThi's user know's that not every word that end's with s need's an apostrophe and will remove misused apostrophe's from Wikipedia with extreme prejudice.

Current and Planned Article Projects

As of July 12, 2008

Aerobie
Alan Adler
American Literacy Council
Choral Arts Society of Utah
History of Wyoming
List of Wikipedia policy and guideline abbreviations (to help new users who see them on talk pages)
SoundSpel

My Help Page

User:WikiWes77/Wikipedia Editor's Reference and Tools
Note: After looking at existing help pages, I realize that this page is redundant. I no longer provide links to it.

User Edit Count Tool

Toolserver.org counter, lists edits by any given user in different name spaces.
Another one, slow, but thorough

Find people to welcome

Note: I do not welcome new users with no contributions. See Welcoming committee (Users without any edits). Also, I don't think we should usually take the time to post comments on talk pages for anonymous users, except for templates that let administrators and other users know the nature of the edits that are coming from that IP address. I don't think anonymous users read their talk page for their IP address very often.

Warning templates PageName is optional {{subst:uw-vandalism1|PageName}} ~~~~ (unintentional vandalism/test) {{subst:uw-delete1|PageName}} ~~~~ (unintentional removal of content) {{subst:uw-vandalism2|PageName}} ~~~~ (suitable for intentional nonsense or disruption) {{subst:uw-delete2|PageName}} ~~~~ (variant for removal of content) {{subst:uw-vandalism3|PageName}} ~~~~ ("please stop" for use after level 2 warning) {{subst:uw-delete3|PageName}} ~~~~ (please stop removing content) {{subst:uw-vandalism4|PageName}} ~~~~ (last warning for vandalism) {{subst:uw-delete4|PageName}} ~~~~ (last warning for removing content) {{subst:uw-vandalism4im|PageName}} ~~~~ (only warning; for severe or grotesque vandalism only) {{subst:uw-delete4im|PageName}} ~~~~ (only warning; for many blankings in a short period of time) See additional templates and examples of output

Where to find new users
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Welcome editing text:

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