User:Aleta Curry

As a freelance writer and historian resident in Australia, my curriculum vitae spans several countries with extensive experience in research, writing and publishing.

 Where Aleta lives it is approximately: 17:31

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Rabbits and squirrels and cats all have kittens
Some words mean something quite different to Britons
Ambiguous phrases and tax'nomic strings
These are a few of my fa-vour-ite things!

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Areas of expertise are

• The Performing Arts: Dance, film and theatre

• Dogs: History of dog breeds: Working Dogs (herders and terriers); History of Fox Terriers; Dogs in Film and Literature; Dogs and Society; Dogs in Art

• Social History: Domestic service, etiquette, forms and formality

Current interest: History of dog breeds: Specializing in Australian Working Dogs; National dog breeds; Independent dog breeds

BA in history; minor: political theory; minor: film theory. Graduate courses: History. Ten years’ experience in methods analysis and procedural writing. Professional ballroom dance teacher and performer for over 10 years. Co-founder of a theatre performance group.

Current/recent publications

Articles:

• Not just Another Pretty Face: The Working Origins of Australia’s Show Dogs. In Dog’s Life magazine, March-April 2007.

• The Border Collie. Anticipated publication: December, 2007. [Part of a continuing series The All-Australian Dog in the Southern Village View Magazine. Published so far: The Australian Cattle Dog, The Jack Russell Terrier, The Koolie, The Miniature Fox Terrier, The Tenterfield Terrier.

Books

• The 20th Anniversary Show Book: Twenty Years of the Mini Foxie Club of Australia. ISBN: 0-9758380-0-8. Sydney: 2006. Editor and contributor.
• The Registry Handbook. Writing this at the moment.

A Radio Interview:

• http://www.pettalkradio.com/ PTR #183 Seg: 4/5 Not Just A Pretty Face - Aleta Curry

Other

• My name is Greek; it is a variant of Alethea and means "verity" (truth). Someone's always telling me it means "footlose" (free to do as one pleases) or "little winged one", both of which are rather nice as well. My mother is actually erudite and selected it from Alethea--or maybe she wanted me to be truthful and fly free?

• I was hard at work on a novel when September 11th happened and turned my entire universe upside down. I'm getting back into it, but it has been easier to concentrate on non-fiction.

• I wrote and had a reading of a play, Troth, but it has not been published. I also write songs and wrote and performed youth workshops in the theatre group I co-founded. (I was too young to know that that couldn't be done because it's too hard to do.) Almost all my family are into performance, at least as amateurs, my mother and aunt are trained singers and my maternal grandmother was an actress of some note.

• I have very high hopes for Citizendium.

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My CZ

• user:Aleta_Curry/sandbox

I actually wrote this

1. http://en.citizendium.org/wiki?title=Butler&diff=100148511&oldid=100148510
2. http://en.citizendium.org/wiki?title=Jack_Russell&diff=100279769&oldid=100279768

Stuff I'll be working on as I can

• User:Aleta Curry/dogs - I'm organizing dog topics here. Or just jotting things down as I think of them. Or whatever. Feel free to have a look and drop a line.

Funny stuff somebody else wrote

• The unfortunate bit about ...[the Internet] is that previously it was nearly impossible to gather an entire world's worth of stupidity together in a room. Now it is almost a guaranteed hourly phenomenon. Bryce Prewitt Posted Tuesday 4th December 2007 02:49 GMT [1] sourced 6 Dec 2007

• ...Wikipedia has pissed off every known form of sentience, three out of four forces of nature, a water-born fungus in Australia and sixty four species of birds. -Christopher J. Reiss

Helpful hints pour moi

Categories, links formats n stuff

• to add a category: [[:Category:Biology Workgroup]]--with a preceeding colon places the category on the page. Without, it places what you're writing into the category. That is, to link to a category without adding the page you are linking from to that category, say:

Category:bar Or use nowiki--look this up in the edit screen: [[Category:Biology Workgroup]]

• If you want to put a template on a talk page, put a tl| in front of it and it won't act as a template, {{subpages}} --Matt Innis (Talk) 19:53, 17 October 2007 (CDT)

• To include a link to an image on a page, without actually inserting the image, say the following (for image 'foo.fmt') :

Image:foo.fmt

Notice the initial ":" - that's what prevents the image being inserted.

to add myself

• Curry, Aleta

• to sign: three tildes, to sign and date: four tildes

References are an ongoing discussion

<ref> Berkowitz, Howard. When a Russian History Citation Just Isn't Godunov. London: Little Whinging Press, 2008.</ref> and then at the end I put <references/>

Helpful Hint from Howard There are lots of refinements, but let me add one suggestion. Where you wrote <ref>, write <ref name=XXX>, where XXX is some unique identifier like Badunov. If you subsequently want to refer to the citation XXX, all you do is type <ref name=XXX /> (the space before the slash is important) and that will give the same footnote number that will show up under references. Actually, I would like someone to tell me about the differences between <references/> and {{reflist}}. At the Other Place, people I respected said the latter was better, so I never got into the habit of using the former. Got me. Anybody got an answer?

Let me be clear about nowiki, which I am deliberately not putting in angle brackets here. I forgot that the forum software doesn't respond to wiki formatting commands. This is a mistake that I made when someone first used one in an example.

Assume you wanted to tell someone, on a wiki page, to use three single quotes to bold something. If you just wrote the three quotes, the Wiki software would start bolding at that point, and never unbold.

nowiki ---Wiki formatting stuff -- slash nowiki allows "Wiki formatting stuff" to be seen on the formatted page. You can only see nowiki when you are in edit mode.

So, nowiki wasn't necessary for the example on the forum, but if I wanted to show you the citation commands here, I'd have to use them on the wiki page. Clearer? Howard C. Berkowitz 19:50, 27 May 2008 (CDT)

Help!!!

• When disaster strikes: Matt and Stephen

• Active Editors one can count on for an answer in a hurry (usually a really good one!): **user_talk: Martin Baldwin-Edwards

• user talk: Richard Jensen
• user_talk: Roger Lohmann
• user_talk: Anthony.Sebastian
• user_talk: Chris Day

(and I'd be happier if Russel and Nancy were back </pity party>

• Other very smart folks - oh, too many to name, but start with:

General opinions from the kids

• user talk: Denis Cavanagh
• user_talk: Joe Quick
• user_talk: Robert W King

Style/grammar/usage

• user_talk: Hayford Peirce (particularly good at arguing over which hunts, you are warned)
• user:Ro Thorpe

English language rules

• user talk:Derek Harkness
• user talk: John Stephenson

Computer kerflooie

• user talk: J. Noel Chiappa

Internationalisation

• user talk:Jitse Niesen
• user talk: Pierre-Alain Gouanvic

Wiki Conversion

• user talk:Aleksander Stos
• user talk: Louise Valmoria

Sympathetic ear (or, go on, have a whinge)

Everyone, plus me

• user talk:Aleta Curry

The Buck Stops Here Over There

• user talk:Larry Sanger

Pages I can never find when I need them

• CZ:Monthly_Write-a-Thon
• CZ:Geography Workgroup/Gazetteer
• All Citizendium policies
• CZ:The Article Checklist
• http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:Ready_for_approval

• Aleks pointed me to this WP author template:

	NOTICE, please do not remove from top of page.
	In lieu of WP notice: My understanding is that since I wrote this text, I do not need to put a "from Wikipedia" message on this text, but instead should leave a notice stating that this was based on my original work for WP and I intend to maintain it.
	Aleta Curry 22:59, 16 July 2007 (CDT)

(If you leave it blank and leave out four tiles, you get a form message.)

	NOTICE, please do not remove from top of page.
	Check the history of edits to see who inserted this notice.

or, you can type in any text you want:

	NOTICE, please do not remove from top of page.
	Aleta the Magnificent wrote this last year. Amazing, what?
	Aleta Curry 21:05, 19 October 2007 (CDT)

Workgroups

Larry says this about the hierarchy:

As a general rule, article placement in workgroups should not depend on who is there now but whether the scholars in a discipline study the subject (whether they are represented here, yet, or not).

The order, however--sociology then anthro or vice-versa--is completely irrelevant to anything. We haven't yet established any hierarchy of workgroups. Order of listing is meaningless. --Larry Sanger 08:59, 3 November 2007 (CDT)

Subpages are here!

(And it's getting easier to use them all the time! The present, almost-completely automated version is:)

1. In the edit screen of your article's main page, type or paste the code {{subpages}} at the top of the page, in your editing screen, above the text.
2. Depress 'enter' and Save. Note: if you've done it all right, you'll now get prompts directing you to create a metadata page, a talk page and write a definition. Just follow the prompts. Or don't; it's not here to make you crazy. Just type your text, save and leave it if you're feeling queasy at this point.
3. Whoo-hoo! You're done!

Helpful links

• (still working on how to use this one) Aleta, download http://sunnybar.dynip.com/pub/wikicite.exe and cite away with ease. —Stephen Ewen (Talk) 22:21, 5 August 2007 (CDT)

Aleta Curry is specialist editor for dog breeds, within the Hobbies Workgroup. --Larry Sanger