User:ProfessorPaul

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."

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 much less mysterious than the Da Vinci Code;

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

Creating articles and Wiki-Categories

Editing Wikipedia is fun, but Wikipedia also needs people to create articles and categories. So--the list of 57 articles (and 4, now 3 categories) below owe their existence to me. Creating an article is not without its pratfalls: out of 59 articles I have written, 2 have been deleted. Don't let the potential of deletion discourage you, gentle reader.

ProfessorPaul articles

The 58 articles I have written (in chronological order) are:

Lyle H. Boren (combined and redirected to Lyle Boren)
Clem McSpadden
Oklahoma Democratic Party
Oklahoma Congressional Districts
Mike Padden
Henry D. Irwin
KSKY (AM)
Murray State College
Gary Richardson
Area code 580
Area code 417
Area code 636
Politics of Oklahoma
Oklahoma Republican Party
Eusebius J. Beltran
Sooner Catholic
Eastern Oklahoma Catholic
Edward James Slattery
Holy Family Cathedral in Tulsa
William K. Brewster
Gypsy moth Republican
Thomas R. Dye
Tom Steed
Glen D. Johnson
Nikki Finke
Ardmore Higher Education Center
James Robert Jones
Oklahoma congressional elections, 2006
Andrew Carnegie Whitfield
Curtis Chillingworth
Michael Anthony Hughes
Tulsa (movie)
Joseph C. Battaglia
Irene Craigmile Bolam
Conspiracy?
Master of Physical Therapy
Operation Gold (disambiguation)
The List: What's In and Out
Reasor's Grocery
List of hospitals in Oklahoma
Sierra Springs
Oklahoma Statehood Stamp
Loomis Fargo Bank Robbery (1997)
Heidi (the 1937 Shirley Temple film)
List of most expensive divorces
List of American Entrepreneurs (it was deleted; I may try again)
The Last Days of Patton (my father served under Patton in World War II)
Esoterica
Bridge program
Urban Legends
Hat tip
Dameron (disambiguation)
Dameron (surname)
Smart Money (it was deleted; I may try again)
Century leap year
Chiasso financial smuggling case
List of black holes
List of largest U.S. bank failures
Goldline International, Inc.

Four redirects

Co Q-ten
Co Q-10
Lieutenant Governor of Florida (in the Charlie Crist article)
Bridge program

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.

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: