User:Zeng8r

A bit about myself and my wiki-philosophy:

I'm an educator, author, and amateur historian living in Tampa, Florida. While out of the classroom on family leave during the 2007-08 school year, I stumbled across Wikipedia and quickly discovered that many articles about subjects that I know well were in dire need of assistance. Since I wasn't teaching in the classroom that year, I spent way too much time sorta-teaching on the internet by creating, expanding, and improving articles about history, my hometown, Florida Gators sports, and a plethora of other random topics that have caught my attention over the years.

While I started out as an eager and prolific contributor, wikilawyering and wiki-politicking took some of the fun out of this project over time. However, as a teacher, I know that Wikipedia has become perhaps the most important research site on the internet. So even though I'm usually pretty busy IRL, I still hang around here to incrementally expand coverage of topics that I know well and to fix vandalism on articles that I've edited in the past.

This user is one of a handful of actual natives of the state of Florida.

This user has deep roots in Tampa and is a student of its history.

This user is of Spanish and Italian ancestory.

This user is interested in the U.S. State of Florida.

This user is a member of WikiProject Tampa Bay.

UF

This editor is a member of Wikiproject University of Florida.

As a teacher of history, this user is aware that our clocks are ticking.

As an English teacher, this user reads Wikipedia with a red pen in hand.

This user believes the world would be a better place if everyone had access to a quality, free education.

This user is a participant in WikiProject History.

TB

This user is a fan of the
Tampa Bay Rays

This user is a Gator.

This user believes that one should never stop feeding one's brain.

This user makes music.

This user is the proud parent of 2 children.

All this user is saying is give peace a chance.

NEWS

This user has access to Newspapers.com through The Wikipedia Library.

This user has been on Wikipedia for 17 years, 3 months and 27 days.

This editor is a
**Veteran Editor**
and is entitled to display this
**Iron Editor Star**.

		The Original Barnstar
		Zen, your knowledge of the history of our metro area is impressive. Nice articles! Blaze33541 (talk) 05:25, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

		The University of Florida Barnstar
		For good and thorough work pertaining to articles about the University of Florida.

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		To you Warrington (talk) 12:37, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

		The Teamwork Barnstar
		for such hard work and making the Tampa Bay Area* more visible and talked about on Wikipedia.* Moreau36 (talk) 17:32, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

	The Barnstar of Diplomacy
	Thanks for watching out for the evil and for the bad doing their work in the dark... Hafspajen (talk) 21:30, 13 December 2013 (UTC)

	The Real Life Faithful Barnstar
	The Real Life Barnstar is awarded to editors who make contributions both online and offline, by organizing wiki-related real-life events. What I want to say, if you still watching my page, why don't you jump in leaving some messages sometime and conversating a bit - time to time? Don't be shy! You are very much invited. Hafspajen (talk) 15:56, 15 June 2014 (UTC)

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