User:Clayoquot
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"There is no way to peace. Peace is the way." - Mahatma Gandhi
Greetings!
I'm currently working on some articles about cetaceans, and taking a bit of a break from work on the Delayed sleep phase syndrome article. I came to Wikipedia in the spring of 2006, intending to work on science articles. However, I'm a generalist in spirit, and since then I've worked on a variety of topics... I'm easily distracted. I also do some Recent Changes patrol and even some Random Article patrol.
Wikipedia doesn't work in theory, only in practice... And it doesn't work all that well in practice either, but it happens to work better than anything else around.
In real life, I work in the field of software user interface design and usability. Here is my life in userboxes. Clayoquot Sound, pronounced "KLAA-kwot", is a beautiful wilderness area on the west coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia.
Notable moments:
- I once identified a rare plant I'd seen months earler, through some good luck with the "Random article" link.
- The Henrietta the four-legged chicken AfD - an article with a history of only 12 edits drew 27 votes, surely proof that WikiLove exists. The result was the rescue of a single paragraph and two references, and a few of us learned a new scientific word or two in the process.
In progress: User:Clayoquot/Michael Bigg
 Mayne Island, seen from Galiano Island |
 Entrance hall of the Norton Simon Museum |
 An arbutus tree in the Gulf Islands |
 The Stawamus Chief, a granite monolith |
