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    Moogwrench

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    Hello, I am Moogwrench. If you are wondering what that means, it comes from a misinterpretation of lyrics in a Slayer song (I forget which one). My friend thought he heard that in the lyrics of the song back when we were teenagers. We joked about it, and I have used the nickname ever since.

    About me

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    I am an educator in California, where I teach Biology at a high school. I am fluent in Spanish, and have lived on and off in Honduras for the last 12 years. I have a A.A. in Computer Information Systems, a B.A. in History and Science, an M.A. in Education, and an M.A. in History, with an emphasis on the Middle Ages.

    Not a perfect Wikipedian

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    I am not perfect with regard to the policies and guidelines of Wikipedia (though I try my best), so please, have a little patience with me. I have made many mistakes, a few large ones and a lot of smaller ones, due to ignorance, not maliciousness. Please try to remember that and assume good faith. Thanks! I tend towards being an inclusionist in my editing style but that only goes as far as to include an article whose subject is properly sourced and reasonably notable.

    Honduras

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    Honduras is near and dear to my heart and a second home. My wife happens to be from there, and we visit as often as we can and have many friends there. My wife was in Honduras when the 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis came to a head with the ouster of Manuel Zelaya from the presidency, and I went down there about a couple of weeks later. I try to be neutral but some people are completely wedded to one side or the other of the conflict. My wife's uncle would listen to Radio Globo every day to receive instructions from his "comandante" (Zelaya) and to hear his plans for a return to the presidency, and one of my best friends, a lawyer in Comayagua, was glad that Honduran authorities had finally, in his mind, done the right thing by kicking Zelaya out of office (though he, along with almost everyone else in the country, pro-Zelaya or not, acknowledges that exiling him was the wrong thing to do).

    Here I am near the RNP (Registro Nacional de Personas) in Tegucigalpa, Honduras during the 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis with some anti-golpista graffiti behind me:

    The "MacDonald" in the photo is reference to a political cartoonist who was arrested by the Micheletti government after the "coup." "Don Victor" is a anti-coup figure. You can see part of the words "Golpista Gorilletty" on the left-hand side, a reference to Roberto Micheletti.

    Contributions and items of interest

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    Creations

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    I have created the following pages (not counting redirects and disambiguations, of course):

    Substantial contributions

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    I have contributed substantially to the following pages:

    XfDs

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    XfD's to which I have lent my opinion and/or !vote, or have participated in as a non-admin closer:

    XFD participation
    1. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fluther.com
    2. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tom Walsh (Wyoming politician)
    3. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David Romero Ellner
    4. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mohammed Sami Abugoush
    5. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nidal Malik Hasan
    6. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2009 Honduran coup d'état
    7. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Elizabeth Kucinich (3rd nomination)
    8. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Disappearance of Susan Powell
    9. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Corinna Fugate
    10. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/NE1
    11. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Murder of Alfred Kunz
    12. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Banana Dance (wiki software)
    13. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Urutan makrifat
    14. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/N9NE Group
    15. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kuriakin Zeng
    16. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Endast
    17. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nick Fiedler
    18. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jayesslee*
    19. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lauran Irion
    20. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dominant group (Moon)
    21. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Juts
    22. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Adelberg (Victoria, Australia)*
    23. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Controversy on Stellar Evolution*
    24. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jeff Szusterman
    25. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jeff Szusterman (2nd nomination)
    26. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/School hygiene*
    27. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tamanduá - A Brazilian Opera*
    28. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Oysters Rockefeller (film)
    29. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Randall Denley
    30. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Deauxmae
    31. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rex Lease
    32. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of 9/11 memorials
    33. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mars to Stay
    34. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Welsh comics
    35. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pepper spraying of the Occupy Wall Street demonstrators
    36. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Conservatism
    37. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Relationship activism*
    38. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Theoretical theology*
    • XfDs that I have proposed
    † XfDs that I have closed

    Items of interest

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    Things that I am interested in, but that I am getting around to looking at:

    Items of interest
    1. Articles like William Walker (filibuster) - I did my senior paper for my B.A. on the New York Times treatment of his exploits, and I'd sure like to check it out, plus many, many more, I am sure...
    2. Increasing work at "Did you know..."
    3. Working on developing good articles and featured articles.
    4. Doing some wikifying of new pages
    5. More commenting at ANI and RfCs
    6. Participating in more RfAs, Reference Desk, and other community centers
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    These are a few user pages I have been working on:

    TO DO: