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Hi, this is the user page of Wassupwestcoast (talk • contribs • count). Wikipedia is full of surprizes and eye-openers. I've just gone through the worst editing experience ever on Wikipedia. To recover, I will be a WikiSloth. I will contribute to articles solely on hedonistic intellectual enjoyment. As an admin, I can help with silly messes. Vandals may be irritating but are not harmful to Wikipedia's credibility. Silliness is always easy to identify and repair.

[edit] Autographs

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Thanks for signing mine! Bmg916^Speak 13:20, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
All the best from a different west coast! ... dave souza, talk
I wanted to thank you for your interest in the Long poem article. We're newbies, but cool cats like you make it both exciting and more accessible. So thanks again for all your help so early on! Jgroom (talk)
Thanks for all your help on William Wilberforce and cheers from near the east coast! – Bruce Agendum (talk) 10:14, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
OH-DAY-UM! Not number 5!--(NGG)
Thanks for reviewing The Lightning Thief. Pmlinediter ^Talk 08:19, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Projects in which I'm an active participant

I participate in the following projects:

Project	Portal
Wikipedia:WikiProject AP Biology 2008 as an adjunct member	none

[edit] My worthwhile contributions

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Invasive species

This user helped promote the article Invasive species to good article status.

Collaborative to GA. Listed on August 2, 2007.

Dunstan

This user helped promote the article Dunstan to good article status.

Collaborative to GA. Listed on August 20, 2007

Harry and the Potters

This user helped promote the article Harry and the Potters to good article status.

Major or sole contributor of content to GA. Listed on September 6, 2007.

Gene Robinson

This user helped promote the article Gene Robinson to good article status.

Major or sole contributor of content to GA. Listed on December 10, 2007.

Introduction to evolution

This user helped promote the article Introduction to evolution to featured article status.

Collaborative to FA. Listed on January 29, 2008

[edit] Page I'm working on

I'm a participant at Wikipedia:One featured article per quarter.

Article	Goal Class	Sandbox	Watchlist / Editing
North American River Otter.	FA.	none.	yes.

[edit] Sandbox

For my sandbox see here

[edit] Wikipedia helpful pages

For my page of helpful pages see here and here

[edit] About me

I live in southern British Columbia. I received a B.Sc.(Agr) in Plant Protection at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College & Dalhousie University in Bible Hill, Nova Scotia. I once wrote an essay that came in second place in a contest of the Weed Science Society of America. My favourite actors are Leonardo DiCaprio and Tilda Swinton.

[edit] Books

The books I've read in 2009 in the order I most liked them.

[edit] fiction

Schlink, Bernhard; Janeway, Carol Brown (1997). The Reader. New York: Pantheon Books. ISBN 0-679-44279-0. Finished 02 March 2009.
Chevallier, Gabriel (1934). Clochemerle. Vintage. ISBN 0-09-945388-6. Finished 18 February 2009.
Barbey, Muriel; Anderson, Alison (2006). The Elegance of the Hedgehog. Europa Editions. ISBN 978-1-933372-60-0. Finished 5 March 2009.
Riordan, Rick (2005). The Lightning Thief. New York: Miramax Books/Hyperion Books for Children. ISBN 0786856297. Finished 22 May 2009.
Yates, Richard. Revolutionary Road (Movie Tie-in Edition) (Vintage Contemporaries). Vintage. ISBN 978-0-307-45478-2. Finished 25 February 2009.
Eggers, Dave. What Is the What. McSweeney's. ISBN 1-932416-64-1. Finished 20 March 2009.
O'Neill, Joseph P.. Netherland (Vintage Contemporaries). Vintage. ISBN 978-0-307-38877-3. Finished 04 July 2009.
Riordan, Rick (2006). Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Sea of Monsters - Book Two (Percy Jackson and the Olympians). Miramax. ISBN 0786856866. Finished 29 May 2009.
Riordan, Rick (2007). Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Titan's curse - Book 3 (Percy Jackson and the Olympians). Miramax. ISBN 1423101456. Finished 13 June 2009.
Stewart, Ian. The Annotated Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions. Basic Books. ISBN 978-0-465-01123-0. Finished 23 January 2009.
Sisman, Robyn (2008). Hollywood Ending. Penguin Canada. ISBN 0143051245. Finished 30 June 2009
Kerr, P.B. (2008). One Small Step. McElderry. ISBN 978-1-4169-4214-6. Finished 6 July 2009.
Brand, Christianna (1944). Green for Danger. New York: Perennial Library. ISBN 006080551x. Finished 19 May 2009.
Arkell, Reginald (2003). Old herbaceous: a novel of the garden. New York: Modern Library. ISBN 0-8129-6738-0. Finished 24 March 2009
Sara Dowse, ed (2003). Reading the Peninsula: Stories of the Saanich Peninsula. A&E Print. ISBN 0-9733471-0-4. Finished 7 July 2009.
Ajvide Lindqvist, John; Segerberg, Ebba. Let the Right One In: A Novel. St. Martin's Griffin. ISBN 0-312-35529-7. Finished 09 March 2009.
Dunn, Katherine (1989). Geek love. New York: Vintage Books. ISBN 0-375-71334-4. Finished 02 July 2009
Camus, Albert (1993). The stranger. New York : A.A. Knopf. ISBN 0-679-42026-6. Finished 1 April 2009.
Hill, Lawrence (2007). The Book of Negroes. HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. ISBN 1-554-68156-1. Finished 30 March 2009.
Brand, Christianna (1955). Tour De Force. Harpercollins. ISBN 0060805722. Finished 27 May 2009.
Swarup, Vikas. Slumdog Millionaire: A Novel. Scribner. ISBN 978-1-4391-3665-2. Finished 28 February 2009.

[edit] non-fiction

P. Johnson, Johnson. The Armchair Naturalist. Icon Books Ltd. ISBN 1-84046-845-9. Finished 14 January 2009.
Carter, W. Hodding (2008). Off the Deep End: The probably insane idea that I could swim my way through a midlife crisis - and qualify for the Olympics. Algonquin Books. ISBN 9781565125643. Finished 4 May 2009.
Johnson, George B.. The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments. Knopf. ISBN 978-1-4000-4101-5. Finished 27 January 2009.
Marchant, Jo (2009). Decoding the Heavens: A 2,000-Year-Old Computer--and the Century-Long Search to Discover Its Secrets. Da Capo Press. ISBN 9780306817427. Finished 7 May 2009.
Isacoff, Stuart (2001). Temperament: the idea that solved music's greatest riddle. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 0375403558. Finished 10 June 2009.
Fortey, Richard A. (2008). Dry Storeroom No 1 (Paperback). HarperCollins Canada. ISBN 978-0-00-720989-7. Finished 10 April 2009.
Potter, Jennifer (2006). Strange Blooms: The Curious Lives and Adventures of the John Tradescants. Atlantic Books. ISBN 978-1-84354-335-0. Finished 28 April 2009.
Manguel, Alberto. The Library at Night. Vintage Canada. ISBN 978-0-676-97589-5. Finished 01 February 2009.
Weisman, Alan. The World Without Us. Picador. ISBN 0-312-42790-5. Finished 06 January 2009.
Wharton, Peter; Hine, Brent; Justice, Douglas (2005). The jade garden: new & notable plants from Asia. Portland: Timber Press. ISBN 0881927058. Finished 16 May 2009.
Frye, Northrop. Words With Power: Being a Second Study of the Bible and Literature. Penguin. ISBN 0-14-305662-X. Finished 13 February 2009.

[edit] Movies

The films we've seen in 2009: ranked by how much I enjoyed the film.

Rank	Title	Date seen
1	Is Anybody There?	May 18
2	Wendy and Lucy	Feb 21
3	Stone of Destiny (film)	Feb 15
4	Revolutionary Road (film)	Jan 10
5	Inkheart (film)	Jan 24
6	Doubt (2008 film)	Jan 2
7	Vicky Cristina Barcelona	Jan 3
8	The Reader (film)	Jan 2
9	The Class (2008 film)	March 8
10	Adventureland (film)	April 10
11	Lymelife	May 9
12	Appaloosa (film)	Jan 3
13	Public Enemies (2009 film)	July 5
14	Race to Witch Mountain	March 22
15	Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis	Feb 7
16	Hannah Montana: The Movie	April 13
17	Defiance (2008 film)	Jan 17
18	Duplicity (film)	March 21
19	Knowing (film)	March 28
20	The Hangover (film)	June 27
21	Nightwatching	April 5
22	Slumdog Millionaire	Feb 14
23	Gran Torino (film)	Jan 10
24	Angels & Demons (film)	May 17
25	Land of the Lost (film)	June 13
26	New in Town	Jan 31
27	The Wrestler (2008 film)	Jan 17
Plus
	Sharkwater	20 June 2009
	Disneynature's Earth	25 April 2009

The films we've seen in 2008: ranked by how much I enjoyed the film.

Rank	Title
1	The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
2	Son of Rambow
3	Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
4	City of Ember
5	In Bruges
6	The Visitor
7	Kit Kittredge: An American Girl
8	Flight of the Red Balloon
9	Happy-Go-Lucky
10	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
11	The Year My Parent's Went on Vacation
12	Michael Clayton
13	Boy A
14	Valkyrie
15	Burn After Reading
16	Australia
17	The Spiderwick Chronicles
18	Mamma Mia!
19	Swing Vote
20	Nim's Island
21	Ben X
22	Smart People
23	White tuft the little beaver
24	The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep
25	Journey to the Center of the Earth
26	Milk
27	The Counterfeiters
28	The Band's Visit
29	Speed Racer
30	All Hat
31	Starting Out in the Evening
32	There Will Be Blood
33	Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
34	High School Musical 3: Senior Year
35	Twilight
36	Then She Found Me
37	Charlie Bartlett
38	Married Life
39	Stop loss
40	Body of Lies
41	I'm Not There
42	Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull
43	Get Smart
44	Fool's Gold
45	The Happening
46	Iron Man
47	The Dark Knight
Plus	American Teen
	Surfwise
	Morning Light
	The Spirit of the Marathon
	I.O.U.S.A.
	The World according to Monsanto
	Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert in Disney Digital 3-D
	Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?

Every movie we saw at my local theatres in 2007 ranked by my enjoyment of the film.

Rank	Title	Rank	Title	Rank	Title
1	Control	26	December Boys	51	Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
2	Juno	27	Alpha Dog	52	Music and Lyrics
3	Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix	28	Keeping mum	53	The Last Mimzy
4	The Lookout	29	Driving Lessons	54	Astronaut Famer
5	3:10 to Yuma	30	Miss Potter	55	The Number 23
6	Into the Wild	31	Paris:je t'aime	56	Hot Rod
7	The Golden Compass	32	Across the Universe	57	Becoming Jane
8	Bridge to Terabithia	33	Starter for 10	58	Elizabeth : The Golden Age
9	August Rush	34	The Lives of Others	59	Eastern Promises
10	Once	35	The Last Legion	60	Evan Almighty
11	History Boys	36	Sunshine	61	Fracture
12	Waitress	37	No Country for Old Men	62	The Bourne Ultimatum
13	In the Land of Women	38	The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford	63	Hot Fuzz
14	This is England	39	Amazing Grace	64	The Namesake
15	Rocket Science	40	Arthur and the Invisibles	65	Young Triffie's Been Made Away With
16	Year of the Dog	41	The Green Chain	Plus	Sicko
17	The Savages	42	Breach		The 11th Hour
18	Everything's Gone Green	43	Disturbia
19	Martian Child	44	Eagle vs Shark
20	The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising	45	National Treasure: Book of Secrets
21	Alex Rider: Stormbreaker	46	Nancy Drew
22	Firehouse Dog	47	The valet
23	Stardust	48	Avenue Montaigne
24	Perfume: The Story of a Murderer	49	Georgia Rule
25	Surf's Up	50	Superbad

Every movie we saw at my local theatres in 2006 ranked by my enjoyment of the film.

Rank	Title	Rank	Title	Rank	Title
1	History Boys	26	Flushed Away	51	Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
2	Brick	27	Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit	Plus
3	Hoot	28	Wild	52	An Inconvenient Truth
4	Driving Lessons	29	Scoop	53	Who Killed the Electric?
5	Keeping Mum	30	Death of a President	54	Shut Up and Sing: Dixie Chicks
6	Little Miss Sunshine	31	Illusionist	55	Sketches of Frank Gehry
7	Marie Antoinette	32	United 93	56	The US vs John Lennon
8	Queen	33	Blood Diamond
9	Scanner Darkly	34	Nativity Story
10	Babel	35	Volver
11	Pan's Labyrinth	36	Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
12	On a Clear Day	37	Miami Vice
13	Eight Below	38	Last King of Scotland
14	How to Eat Fried Worms	39	Art School Confidential
15	RV	40	Night at the Museum
16	Science of Sleep	41	Da Vinci Code
17	Step Up	42	Bon Cop Bad Cop
18	Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker	43	American Dreamz
19	Fast Food Nation	44	You, Me and Dupree
20	Little Children	45	Nacho Libre
21	Devil Wears Prada	46	My Super Ex-Girlfriend
22	Eragon	47	Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
23	Prairie Home Companion	48	Pink Panther
24	Sophie Scholl - The Last Days	49	Click
25	Stranger Than Fiction	50	Break-Up

[edit] References

[edit] Barnstar yard

		The Copyeditor's Barnstar
		I, Hpfan9374, hereby award you with for The Copyeditor's Barnstar for excellence in Copyediting, specifically Harry and the Potters. Hpfan9374 (talk) 23:47, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

		The Evolution Award
		Thanks for all the fish, Wassupwestcoast, and for working to dispel the yapping terriers of ignorance, using the simplest of language. dave souza, talk 11:14, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

		Barnstar of Murder, Madness, and Mayhem
		On behalf of Murder, Madness, and Mayhem, this barnstar is to thank you for your hard work and patience in motivating, mentoring, and moulding the work of student editors, and helping them to achieve excellence in research and writing. For your enthusiasm and encouragement, helping us believe that the project's goals were a possibility. Thank you so much! On behalf of the entire class of UBC's SPAN312. --jbmurray (talk\|contribs) 00:46, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

		The Special Barnstar
		to Wassupwestcoast who embodies the true spirit of Wikipedia with his efforts at Wikipedia:WikiProject AP Biology 2008! JimmyButler (talk) 16:11, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

		The Special Barnstar
		Presented to Wassupwestcoast, who embodies the true spirit of Wikipedia with his efforts at Wikipedia:WikiProject AP Biology 2008! Wikitrevor (talk)

		The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
		I am extremely grateful for your help. Without you checking behind (to see if it was submitted properly) it may have been a long time before it made GA. Eulemur2008 (talk) 18:16, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

		The Invisible Barnstar
		For all the unseen work you dedicated to the project: you were key in achieving the success our class enjoyed this year, and your efforts certianly were the moral boost that I, as well as other students, needed during the rough beginning. A personal "thank you" as well, for you have truly made my wikipedia experience a pleasurable one; I hope I can take the friendly nature you have shown me and apply it to strangers in my own life. Cheers! Food_Puma 21:12, 14 May 2009 (UTC)