User:Danspalding
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About Me
[edit]I live in Oakland, California. I teach English as a Second Language and I'm part of the AFT - the American Federation of Teachers. I also work with the Midnight Special Law Collective. I've used wikipedia pages to write a number of one-page stories for my ESL class: Harriet Tubman, Malcolm X, Harvey Milk, and others.
Spirit
[edit]Many of my contributions to Wikipedia involve adding "flavor" to dry writing. For example, see Springfield, Virginia.
Entries (or at least stubs) I've created
[edit]1,112 and Counting - Perhaps the first anti-AIDS essay written by Larry Kramer, perhaps the first anti-AIDS activists
The Edge of the Sea - the third book in Rachel Carson's sea trilogy
Eichmann interrogated - synopsis of Eichmann's pre-trial interrogations
The Long Haul - an autobiography of Myles Horton and the book that has most influenced my teacher
Entries I've improved
[edit]Media, PA - mentioned its connection to COINTELPRO
Entries I've clarified & wikified
[edit]Juan María de Salvatierra - Still not crazy about this one, but I don't have enough info to improve it
University of Minnesota Students Co-op
Entries I think are bullshit
[edit](deleted!) List of neologisms on The Simpsons - An endless list of words like "d'oh!" and "hurty"
Ninja - A page where it's impossible to tell where fact ends and make-believe begins
Wiki Goals
[edit]To create a page about /hip hop references.