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Hi! My name is Andrea James. I am a writer and activist based in Los Angeles. My interests on Wikipedia include issues related to film and literature, scientific methodology, consumer fraud and medical quackery, skeptical inquiry, hoaxes, gender, hair removal, humor, and probably several other things since I wrote this. Though I realize the irony of having one in my own user page, I hate seeing a red link in an article, so I usually click on it and start an entry if I can find enough information. I've made over 50,000 edits (among top 800 editors) and started over 2,200 articles (among top 150 editors), many of them biographies. I also do a lot of redirecting and disambiguating of red links. I am a very strong believer in inclusionism here. I believe that deletionism in general and abuse of speedy deletion in particular are grave threats to the project. When the hard work of new editors is deleted, it discourages them from continuing to collaborate on the project. The amount of time wasted on checking the excesses of deletionism is staggering. Wikipedia is at its best when covering obscure topics of limited interest. I loved the free-wheeling dynamism of the project when I started contributing, and it's a shame that bureaucratic calcification seems to be setting in. When not editing here, I work in the film/TV industry. Some recent projects: I directed the short film "Casting Pearls," a Logo Season 4 winner of The Click List: Best in Short Film. I also directed the 2009 short film Transproofed. I was a consulting producer and had an on-camera role in Transamerican Love Story, a competitive dating show. I coached Felicity Huffman for her role in Transamerica and appear at the very beginning of the film. I appeared in the HBO documentary Middle Sexes: Redefining He and She and a Logo documentary about our involvement in V-Day with Eve Ensler and Jane Fonda called Beautiful Daughters. In 2010 I had a cameo in Bullied, about school bullying, which you can order free for your local school. I've had the pleasure of producing some projects for The Walt Disney Company's Disney D23 official fan club over the last couple of years. In 2012, I began production on a puppet show I created called Family Restaurant. I run several websites on consumer issues, and I am a proud affiliate of Quackwatch. I also guest blog on Boing Boing now and then. You can learn more about me and my work at my personal website. Thanks to User:Phaedriel for creating this beautiful customized page template, and thanks to all who have contributed to this important step forward in the propagation of human knowledge! |
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2010 |
Des Moines College ~ Lucky Vanous ~ Hemovanadin ~ Florrie ~ DeVan L. Shumway ~ Ali Bin Fahad Al-Hajri ~ Al-Watan (Qatar) ~ Chicken à la King ~ Elbegdorj Rinchino ~ 2010 California wildfires ~ Dan Karasic ~ Max Taylor (psychologist) ~ William O'Donohue ~ Festival du Film de Paris ~ Association for the Advancement of Psychotherapy ~ Emil Gutheil ~ Benjamin Karpman ~ Otto Larsen (sociology) ~ Fred Berlin ~ Robin Hunter (psychiatrist) ~ Rick Rosner ~ Richard Rosner (psychiatrist) ~ What's your sign? ~ Ruth Norman ~ Allen Frances ~ Steven Sharfstein ~ Joseph LoPiccolo (psychology) ~ Hormizd V ~ Tilbury Town ~ Today sponge ~ Vibeke Sæther ~ Drama (Norwegian band) ~ The Music Lesson (Matisse) ~ La rencontre ~ William O'Reilly (MP) ~ William O'Reilly (educator) ~ Magnolia Shorty ~ Tony Beaver ~ St. Elian ~ Joseph Smitherman ~ Masterplots |
2011 |
Franz J. Ingelfinger ~ Clarence Dupnik ~ Randall Gnant ~ Pierre-Joseph ~ Frank Waldman ~ Edgewise ~ HEAT with John Hockenberry ~ Hockenberry (television show) ~ Herbert Ellis (actor) ~ J. Edward McKinley ~ Nichols and May ~ Claude de Bullion ~ La loge (painting) ~ John Daggett Hooker ~ Ellen Douglas ~ Madonna of the Harpies ~ Victoria Wilson ~ The Organization Man ~ Zick Rubin ~ Big Freedia ~ Fritz Klein (historian) ~ Evils of the Night ~ Marvin Shanken ~ Laura Kalpakian ~ Grandmaster Slice ~ Vishnu Jejjala ~ Pravda Pyat ~ Leo B. Bozell ~ American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists ~ William O. Taylor II ~ Richard Pierce (publisher) ~ Journey to the End of the Night (game) ~ Coin-matching game ~ Von Babo's law ~ Achille Pierre Dionis du Séjour ~ Don Nicholl ~ Don and Gee Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting ~ Dennis Clontz ~ ius remonstrandi ~ Samuel Roper (Ku Klux Klan) ~ Peter Fagan ~ Psychiatric Services ~ Richard Pierce (historian) ~ Advances in High Energy Physics ~ Brecknock Society and Museum Friends ~ Robert Newman (sexton) ~ Jonas Clarke ~ John Hancock, Jr. ~ John Hancock, Sr. ~ Monte Cavallino ~ Youthquake! ~ Max B. Miller ~ Max O. Miller ~ Max O. Miller (inventor) ~ The Ship of Souls ~ The Ship of Souls (film) ~ Charles Miller (director) ~ Ranger Bill Miller ~ A Pair of Hellions ~ Edward M. Miller ~ Weapons of Honor ~ Defending the Devil: My Story as Ted Bundy's Last Lawyer ~ Max Gottlieb ~ Sex and Repression in Savage Society ~ Chris Chase ~ Lobster Trap and Fish Tail ~ Fine Clothes to the Jew ~ Waterloo Bridge (play) ~ Tales of the Cochiti Indians ~ Carus Lectures ~ Jacob Loewenberg ~ Arthur Edward Murphy ~ The Roots of Reference ~ Kongi's Harvest (film) ~ Kongi's Harvest ~ Five Canticles ~ Norma Lyon ~ Miles Teller ~ Collège Lionel-Groulx ~ Ronald Langevin ~ Canadian Council for Research in Education ~ Dennis Howitt ~ Stephen T. Wegener ~ James D. Weinrich ~ Igor Grant ~ Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge ~ Phrygionis paradoxata ~ Benjamin Nathan ~ Betty Steiner ~ Frederick L. Whitam ~ Federal Energy Administration ~ John F. O'Leary ~ National Center for Health Services Research ~ Zhao Liang (director) ~ Anna Girò ~ The Seashell Game ~ The Matrixial Gaze ~ Polly Nelson ~ Family of Saltimbanques ~ The Grandissimes: A Story of Creole Life ~ My Ten Years in a Quandary, and How They Grew ~ The Wild Honey Suckle ~ Concerto Grosso No. 1 (Bloch) ~ The Life and Death of Mr Badman ~ The Cult of the Self ~ The Mind of Primitive Man ~ The Singing Cave (Leighton) ~ Margaret Beames ~ The Singing Cave (Beames) ~ The Singing Cave (Dillon) ~ The Mower's Song ~ List of works by Andrew Marvell ~ The Mower ~ All-in professional wrestling ~ Paul A. Walker ~ Samir Khan ~ Expansion path ~ Manfred (Schumann) ~ Hopes and Impediments ~ Piero Calamai ~ Galvanus de Levanto ~ Galvanus de Bettino ~ Yelizaveta Svilova ~ Henry of Gorkum ~ The Oven Bird ~ Lou Maletta ~ Chuck Holmes (entrepreneur) ~ Fear Me Not ~ Proboulos ~ Motion Picture Magazine ~ Instress ~ Halina Perez ~ Freddie Quizon ~ David Raymond Curtiss |
2012 |
Jay Oakerson ~ Mary Mack (comedian) ~ California Proposition 7 (1978) ~ Robert Holland (executive) ~ Rose Totino ~ Zuccone ~ Jacques Marie (footballer) ~ Valerian Fedorovich Pereverzev ~ Literary Encyclopedia ~ Concise Literary Encyclopedia ~ Chernorizets Jacob ~ Jacob the Monk (Lebanon) ~ Federal Prison Camp, Montgomery ~ Paul Jennings (union worker) ~ Un Jin Moon ~ 1976 Chowchilla kidnapping ~ Daniel Lupi ~ JoAnne Sellar ~ Texas Outlaw Comics ~ Killer Beaz ~ Weekh Zalmian ~ Minnesota Museum of American Art ~ Beasts of the Southern Wild and Other Stories ~ 2012 Colorado wildfires ~ Colorado State Forest Service ~ Grape stomping ~ Practicing without a license ~ List of professional driver types ~ Thomas H. Green ~ Alfred Connor Bowman ~ Frank E. Midkiff ~ Delmas H. Nucker ~ James Jewett Carnes ~ Charles Jordan (government official) ~ Maurice W. Goding ~ William R. Norwood ~ The Road to Stardom with Missy Elliott ~ Cooking Under Fire ~ Transformational syntax ~ T-maze ~ Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology ~ Journal of Comparative Psychology ~ The Feast of Herod (Donatello) ~ Houses at l'Estaque ~ Tam O'Shaughnessy ~ Max Fassbender ~ John Draper Perrin ~ Dan T. Cathy ~ Cone top ~ Colin J. Williams ~ Martin S. Weinberg ~ Psychiatric Times ~ American Journal of Preventive Medicine ~ Marjory Mecklenburg ~ A. Albert Yuzpe ~ Something I Can Never Have ~ Family Trilogy ~ Mersenne's laws ~ Melvin Tumin ~ When I Was One-and-Twenty ~ Nakoula Basseley Nakoula ~ Alan Roberts (filmmaker) ~ Thomas J. C. Martyn ~ Jacques Sébastien François Léonce Marie Paul Fagot ~ Jump, Jive an' Wail ~ The Amazons (play) ~ The Amazons (1917 film) ~ François Peraldi ~ Cornhole (slang) ~ Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act ~ Jerome Biblical Commentary ~ Coincidence (1921 film) ~ Michael Richards (sculptor) ~ Charles Tylor ~ Jack O'Connell (diplomat) ~ Fred Humphreys ~ Fishtail (tool) ~ Doris Fleischman ~ Jane Stewart (executive) ~ John W. Hill ~ Don Knowlton ~ John Mapes ~ Printer's Ink ~ George P. Rowell ~ Tim Durham ~ Dan Laikin ~ Melville Reuben Bissell ~ Timur ruby ~ Boruth ~ Jock Semple ~ Alexandre Bourdeau ~ Jocelyne Caron ~ Pierre Descoteaux ~ Léandre Dion ~ Normand Jutras ~ The Epic of the Wheat ~ Victor Heerman ~ Stars and Bars (1917 film) ~ Sarah Y. Mason ~ Iturbide, Nuevo León ~ Jeff Millar ~ The Palace at 4 a.m. ~ Charlotte Bacon ~ Gerald Sampson ~ Diane Leblanc ~ Éric Mercier ~ Jean-Pierre Paquin ~ Luc Thériault ~ John Lettice ~ Richard Adams (activist) ~ The Untold History of the United States ~ Rebecca Sharp (horse) ~ A Boy's Will ~ George S. Fleming ~ Execution of Czolgosz with Panorama of Auburn Prison ~ Histoire d'un crime (film) ~ The Lighthouse by the Sea (1911 film) ~ Silver Threads Among the Gold (1915 film) ~ Pirate (sexual slang) ~ Hot Karl (slang) ~ Annabelle Serpentine Dance ~ Annabelle Moore ~ A Night of Terror (1911 film) ~ Sandow (film) ~ Ethel Person ~ By the Light of the Moon (film) ~ Love by the Light of the Moon ~ Day at the Circus (1901 film) ~ Faust and Marguerite (1900 film) ~ Parsifal (1904 film) ~ The Miller's Daughter (1905 film) ~ Dream of a Rarebit Fiend (1906 film) ~ Midge Richardson ~ Daniel Boone (1907 film) ~ Waiting at the Church (1906 film) |
2013 |
Northwest Africa 7034 ~ Bernard Glueck, Sr. ~ Bernard Glueck, Jr. ~ Emanuel Hammer ~ International Association for the Treatment of Sexual Offenders ~ Bruce Rind ~ Vernon Quinsey ~ Canary Conn ~ Deposit Insurance Corporation of Japan ~ Jimmy O'Neill (DJ) ~ Daniel Edelman ~ Rosie DiManno ~ Pandora's Box (nightclub) ~ Deborah Hartin ~ Kayla Tausche ~ Anton Tausche ~ Robert Relyea ~ Nellie A. Brown ~ Mary K. Bryan ~ Edna H. Fawcett ~ John Hendley Barnhart ~ Agnes J. Quirk ~ Helen Morgenthau Fox ~ Alice Haskins ~ Ursula B. Marvin ~ Roxie Collie Laybourne ~ Florence Hedges ~ Lucia McCulloch ~ Devra G. Kleiman ~ Adelmar Faria Coimbra-Filho ~ Courrier sud (novel) ~ Courrier sud (film) ~ Eleanor K. Baum ~ Susan Kelly-Dreiss ~ The Miller's Daughter (1934 film) ~ Kathleen Mavourneen (1906 film) ~ Alfred Fischer (botanist) ~ Clarissine Church (Bratislava) ~ McCandlish Phillips ~ Martyl Langsdorf ~ Alexander Langsdorf, Jr. ~ Gloria Yerkovich ~ Château de Joyeuse Garde |
Some articles to which I significantly contributed |
Hans Jenny (cymatics) ~ Penile plethysmograph ~ Clio Awards ~ George Washington University Law School ~ W. Mark Felt ~ Howard Simons ~ Rand McNally ~ race and intelligence ~ Wicker ~ Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District ~ Jane Fonda ~ Charlie Rose ~ Paul Barresi ~ Candy Barr ~ Anecdotal evidence ~ List of advertising agencies ~ Nixon's Enemies List and master list of Nixon political opponents ~ Leo Stoller ~ Lewis Libby ~ Jack Bee Garland ~ Leon Botha ~ United Airlines Flight 663 ~ Cooks Source infringement controversy ~ The Party (film) ~ Thousand Island dressing ~ John Fare |
Online research tools I find useful |
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Some favorite Wikipedia moments |
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My favorite Wikipedia moment (so far) |
For some reason, I got all fascinated with the revelation that W. Mark Felt was Deep Throat in late May 2005, which led to a great collaboration on his biography with dozens of other Wikipedians. The article was even mentioned in the Washington Post the next day:
I hope you will get involved and make additions or corrections when you see an opportunity. Drop me a note on my talk page! |