User:NathanHawking

Introduction

A zeedonk in South Africa

Hello:

I'm Nathan Hawking. Among other things, I write. Contact me on my talk page. Direct personal communication through the Wikipedia email channel.

There seems to be no shortage of editors on Wikipedia, so I focus on writing new articles, or substantially modifying needy existing material. My contributions may reflect my interests, or not. One link leads to another.

I joined the Wikipedia gang on September 25, 2004, making modest revisions to an article about the offspring of a union between a donkey and a zebra.

Donkey liaisons are not prominent in my thoughts—honest!—so what took me to that article? I don't remember; perhaps that random page link to your left.

Wikipedia is a wonderful place to wander, and of no other place can it be more aptly urged:

"If you come to a fork in the road, take it."—Yogi Berra

Contributions—major

• Article on Captain Stubby and the Buccaneers
• Article on Roto-Rooter
• Article on Steve Reeves
• Article on List of redundant expressions
• Article on Prolixity
• Article on List of heteronyms
• Proposal for Wikipedia pronunciation guide
• Rewrote and refactored much of Serial comma
• Intro to War
• "Costs and benefits of war" section of War
• "Language" section in Redundancy
• Refactored Pronunciation
• Addition to and clarification of Zone system
• Major edit of Suicide to remove POV problems with "commit" terminology and bloated language

Links

Personal

• User:NathanHawking/Images01
• User:NathanHawking/Personal style sheet
• User:NathanHawking/Prototype01
• User:NathanHawking/Templates

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• Category: Wikipedia official policy

• Special:Upload

• Wikipedia:Cleanup
• Wikipedia:Copyright

1. Wikipedia:Boilerplate request for permission

• Wikipedia:Help desk
• Wikipedia:Ignore all rules
• Wikipedia:Image copyright tags
• Wikipedia:How to edit a page

1. {{PermissionAndFairUse}}
2. {{CopyrightedFreeUse}}
3. {{CopyrightedFreeUseProvided}}
4. {{logo}}

• Wikipedia:Manual of Style
• Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines
• Wikipedia:Redirect
• Wikipedia:Template messages

1. {{inuse}}
2. {{Inusefor|time (message)}}
3. {{Inusefor|45 minutes (Please check again AT HALF PAST THE HOUR--~~~~}}

• Wikipedia:Village pump

Quotes

Albert Einstein: Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Groucho Marx: Outside of a dog, books are a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.

Max Planck: A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

Ian Wright--Globe Trekker: Just because somebody lives in a remote village doesn't mean they aren't a complete twit.