Margareta

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I have a Master's degree in Environmental Studies and a BA/BS in Biology and International Studies. [http://www.archive.org/details/Rickert_EVE_MES_Thesis_2005 My Master's thesis] was on the environmental effetcs of the coffee crisis, and had a heavy focus on both economic and environmental issues around coffee.

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==About me==

Currently I freelance as a writer and proofreader. I am looking for a full-time job as a writer or editor.

I am a writer and editor with a background in biology and environmental studies. My main concern on Wikipedia is to make sure articles are readable, accessible, grammatically correct and adequately referenced. Occasionally I'll take an interest in the factual content of articles of particular interest to me.

I am rather obsessive about [[WP:V|verifiability of articles]], and adding "citeneeded" and "unreferenced" tags are probably my most common edits. I also like to delete unsourced material, though I try to rein myself in a bit on this point so as not to make too many enemies.

==Pages I can remember having started (mostly stubs)==

I mercilessly change "which" to "that" in restrictive clauses.

*[[Rickert v. Pub. Disclosure Comm'n]]

I am currently most actively involved in [[Coffee]], [[Economics of coffee]] and [[Conservation biology]], though I do not have the time I would like to spend on any of these articles. I am hoping for a major rewrite someday of [[Economics of coffee]].

*''[[Bassia prostrata]]''

*''[[Bacillus sphaericus]]''

*[[Nature deficit disorder]]

*[[Ocean Tracking Network]]

==Some pages in which I sometimes take a more than passing interest==

*[[Coffee]]

*[[Economics of coffee]]

*[[Starbucks]]

*[[Conservation Biology]]

==Pages in which, according to my [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate|Wiki Edit Counts], I've taken a more than passing interest in the past==

*[[Intelligent Design]]

*[[Evolution]]

*[[Tim Sheldon]]

==RANT==

My pet peeve: people who add content without citations. Wikipedia is only useful so far as people can verify what they read here. If, say, I need to know the population of Phoenix, I can look it up here, but I can't actually use whatever figure I find unless I can find the source it came from. If you know something, you got it from somewhere, right? So tell us where! It's not that hard. And if you can't tell us where you know it from, you shouldn't be adding it here in the first place!

In short: don't be lazy.

/RANT

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