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Capsule Bio

In August 2015, I got a little job editing Wikidelphia. Wikidelphia was in need of someone to pay attention to the whole project in a sustained way and help expand it more than its busy progenitor Stan could do by himself.

Politically, I add balance to Wikidelphia. Stan and I, firm allies for decades personally, oppose starkly most of each other's positions politically. That said, we get along more than well enough to build Wikidelphia while we live.

Another experience that qualifies me: I started and have been gradually expanding another reference source. It's called Study Love, and it's a place to learn about or meditate upon the most important force in the universe, as it's called by Christians and near-death experiencers: spiritual love (agape, as opposed to eros or philia). The site is large, detailed, well-organized, and stunningly fast-loading.

Slowly I'm also building a personal glossary of linguistics that I share publicly. When I see a term I don't know (which happens mostly when I go over my notes taken while a spectator at the Penn Linguistics Conference) I look it up and write an entry from what I find, and then post it in my glossary..

In 2009, I started slowly adding the Stratificational Grammar collection of terms to Glottopedia, getting advice from the father of that grammar, Sydney Lamb.

From 2007 to 2014, I held the "chief clerk" job (doing website maintenance, flier creation, operations reports, and various other clerical tasks) at Nonprofit Technology Resources (NTR), which was what I would liken to a one-location Goodwill for computers.

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Stan
Study Love
Glossary: Sank's Glossary of Linguistics
Penn Linguistics Conference
Glossary: Stratificational Grammar
Linguistics: Glottopedia
Sydney Lamb: Sydney Lamb
NTR: Nonprofit Technology Resources
Goodwill: Goodwill of Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey

PaulSank (talk) 09:34, 9 February 2018 (EST)

Paul, thanks for writing up your personal experience at the Franklin Institute! Stan 17:31, 7 March 2011 (EST)

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 ''Capsule Bio''
-In August 2015, I got a little job editing Wikidelphia. Wikidelphia was in need of someone to pay attention to the whole project in a sustained way and help expand it more than its busy progenitor Stan could do by himself. Politically, I add balance to Wikidelphia. Stan and I, firm allies for decades personally, oppose most of each other's positions politically.
+In August 2015, I got a little job editing Wikidelphia. Wikidelphia was in need of someone to pay attention to the whole project in a sustained way and help expand it more than its busy progenitor Stan could do by himself.
-That said, we get along more than well enough to build Wikidelphia.
+Politically, I add balance to Wikidelphia. Stan and I, firm allies for decades personally, oppose starkly most of each other's positions politically. That said, we get along more than well enough to build Wikidelphia while we live.
-Another experience that qualifies me: I started and have been gradually expanding another reference source. It's called Study Love, and it's a place to learn about or meditate upon the most important force in the universe, as said by Christians and near-death experiencers: spiritual love (''agape'', as opposed to ''eros'' or ''philia''). The site is large, detailed, well-organized, easy to use, and  fast-loading.
+Another experience that qualifies me: I started and have been gradually expanding another reference source. It's called Study Love, and it's a place to learn about or meditate upon the most important force in the universe, as it's called  by Christians and near-death experiencers: spiritual love (''agape'', as opposed to ''eros'' or ''philia''). The site is large, detailed, well-organized, and stunningly fast-loading.
-I'm also building a personal glossary of linguistics that I share publicly. When I see a term I don't know (which happens mostly when I go over my notes taken while a spectator at the Penn Linguistics Conference) I look it up and write an entry from what I find, and then post it in my glossary..
+Slowly I'm also building a personal glossary of linguistics that I share publicly. When I see a term I don't know (which happens mostly when I go over my notes taken while a spectator at the Penn Linguistics Conference) I look it up and write an entry from what I find, and then post it in my glossary..
-Back in 2009, I started adding the Stratificational Grammar collection of terms to Glottopedia, getting advice from the father of that grammar, Sydney Lamb.
+In 2009, I started slowly adding the Stratificational Grammar collection of terms to Glottopedia, getting advice from the father of that grammar, Sydney Lamb.
-From 2007 to 2014, I held the "chief clerk" job doing website maintenance, flier creation, operations reports, and various other clerical tasks at Nonprofit Technology Resources, which was founded by Stan.
+From 2007 to 2014, I held the "chief clerk" job (doing website maintenance, flier creation, operations reports, and various other clerical tasks) at Nonprofit Technology Resources (NTR), which was what I would liken to a one-location Goodwill for computers.
 ==Info==
 *[[User:Stan|Stan]]
 *[[Study Love]]
-*Glossary:&nbsp;[http://studylove.org/ling/jpsgloss.html JPS Glossary of Linguistics]
+*Glossary:&nbsp;[http://studylove.org/ling/jpsgloss.html Sank's Glossary of Linguistics]
 *[[Penn Linguistics Conference]]
 *Glossary:&nbsp;[http://www.glottopedia.org/index.php/Category:Stratificational_Grammar Stratificational Grammar]
 *Linguistics:&nbsp;[http://www.glottopedia.org Glottopedia]
-*Lamb:&nbsp;[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Lamb Sydney Lamb]
+*Sydney Lamb:&nbsp;[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Lamb Sydney Lamb]
-*[[Nonprofit Technology Resources (NTR) (Now Closed)|Nonprofit Technology Resources]]
+*NTR:&nbsp;[[Nonprofit Technology Resources (NTR) (Now Closed)|Nonprofit Technology Resources]]
+*Goodwill:&nbsp;[http://goodwillnj.org Goodwill of Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey]
 <br>[[User:PaulSank|PaulSank]] ([[User talk:PaulSank|talk]]) 09:34, 9 February 2018 (EST)