User:ProfessorPaul

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1 Greetings to One and All
2 Wikipedia, compared to other forms of human recreation
3 Articles and Wiki-Categories created by ProfessorPaul
4 Favorite "Wiki-haunts"
5 ProfessorPaul's favorite movies
6 Various User Boxes that Describe Me
7 A few more

[edit] Greetings to One and All

I'm "ProfessorPaul," also known as (simply) Paul. I discovered Wikipedia in the spring of 2004 (while I was teaching an Economics class for a community college), but did not realize its real use and potential. I used it over and over again (as a reference source in my American Government class and my U.S. History class), but did not actually join until April, 2006.

Since then, I have made over 3000 edits (3000 edits? Wow! I need to get a life). I enjoy Wikipedia very much; to me, this is "recreation."

[edit] Wikipedia, compared to other forms of human recreation

Wikipedia gets you higher than using illicit drugs;

Wikipedia is safer than safe sex;

Wikipedia is less frustrating than golf;

Wikipedia is more secure than a bond fund;

Wikipedia is the Reason God Made Oklahoma;

Wikipedia is cheaper than Viagra (and Cialis);

Wikipedia is the real reason why Bob is smiling;

Wikipedia is so easy, that even a caveman could edit it;

Wikipedia is must less mysterious than the Da Vinci Code;

Finally, it's not nice to fool Mother Nature, or Wikipedia.

[edit] Articles and Wiki-Categories created by ProfessorPaul

Editing Wikipedia was fun, but Wikipedia also needs people to create articles and categories. So--the list of 43 articles (and 4, now 3 categories) below owe their existence to me; they are in chronological order:

[edit] ProfessorPaul articles

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[edit] ProfessorPaul Wiki Categories

Created Category:the Twilight Zone actors in June 2006; it was deleted on December 1, 2006 (great sorrow);
Created Category:Bermuda Triangle in December 2006; hope it does not get deleted (cross your fingers);
Created Category:Famous Diaries in December 2006; will work on populating it; Category became a candidate for deletion; result was "Rename." Category was renamed: Category:Diaries on February 17, 2007.
Created Category:Hospitals in Oklahoma in January 2007; there are over 150 hospitals in Oklahoma; I will work to populate this category.

[edit] Favorite "Wiki-haunts"

I could be almost ANYWHERE editing, expanding, or creating an article for Wikipedia; lately, I find myself more and more at one of the following locations:

List of people who have disappeared
(Oklahoma Wiki Project) (they need articles; I am working on it)

[edit] ProfessorPaul's favorite movies

OK--I was attempting to compose a "Top Ten List" (as it were) of my favorite movies; these five are all I have so far. I suppose I need to keep working on this.