User:Wugapodes

Wugapodes

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Name	Wugapodes
Country	United States
Languages	English (Northern Cities Shift), German, American Sign Language
Time zone	EST
Current time	14:05
Sexuality	Queer
Account statistics
Joined	20 March 2015
First edit	WP:Linguistics
Signature	Wugapodes [thɔk] [ˈkan.ˌʧɻɪbz] 17:14, 24 July 2016 (UTC)

My fields of interest are sociolinguistics and phonetics, especially of signed languages, anthropology of the United States, and legal anthropology. My university gives me access to a large number of resources, both online through institutional access, and offline through its holdings and inter-library loan. I very much believe in making knowledge accessible, and so try to combat FUTON bias by contributing using information that may be holed up behind a paywall or in dusty, old dead trees. Remember: libraries and librarians are your friends! Most of the work I do would be impossible without the wonderful, knowledgeable humans behind the desk. WorldCat is also an amazing resource that can help you find a library and get access to a number of materials offline and off. And, if you haven't guessed by now, I'm a big fan of WP:OFFLINE

Userboxapodes Wikiprojects This user is a member of WikiProject Linguistics. This user is a member of WikiProject Deaf. This user is a member of WikiProject Feminism. This user is a member of the WikiProject U.S. Supreme Court cases About me This user is interested in open access to research literature. This user identifies as queer. This user is fascinated by the philosophy of Immanuel Kant. This user is a huge fan of Noam Chomsky. This user competed in the 2015 GA Cup. This user contributes using Linux. Babel en This user is a native speaker of English. ipa ə This user has a native-like understanding of the International Phonetic Alphabet. de-2 Dieser Benutzer hat fortgeschrittene Deutschkenntnisse. ase-2 This user can communicate at an intermediate level in American Sign Language. This user has pending changes reviewer rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify) they This user prefers to be referred to using singular they.

Stuff I have or am working on

Draftapodes

• /Sociophonetics
• /Ceil Lucas

To Source and/or Expand

• Non-voting members of the United States House of Representatives (Diff)
• English v. General Electric
• List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 578

Significant contributions

• Black American Sign Language
• Heffernan v. City of Paterson
• Electromagnetic articulography
• Linguistic Society of America
• Santosky v. Kramer
• McGruff the Crime Dog

Other Stuff

Wugapodes? What's that?

"Mommy, mommy! The dogapodes are kissing!" -The unfortunate child of a linguist, age 3

It's a (poor) linguistics joke. A wug is a fictional bird-like creature made up by Dr. Jean Berko Gleason to test when children learn English morphology, particularly how to make things plural. She would show a child a card that read "Look, there's a wug" that also showed a picture of one wug. Then she would show a picture of two wugs with the caption "Look, now there are two of them! There are two ____?". The child should respond "wugs" if they know how to pluralize normally in English. Wugapodes is a fictitious pluralization based upon a rare plural form of octopus, octopodes, meaning that, instead of the child learning to make plurals with -s they make it with -podes. Despite my name being plural, there is however only one of me.

Discussions and Dialogue

In his book, Literacy with an Attitude, Patrick Finn outlines the distinction between dialogue and anti-dialogue. While written with the context of education in mind, the work (and particularly descriptions of dialogue) are still applicable to the consensus-based nature of Wikipedia as dialogue allows for respectful discussion and negotiation to come to a mutually beneficial outcome—the purpose of consensus.

Dialogue	Anti-Dialogue
I search for basic agreement.	I search for glaring differences.
I search for strengths in your position.	I search for weaknesses in your position.
I reflect on my position.	I attack your position.
I consider the possibility of finding a better solution than mine or yours.	I defend my solution and exclude yours.
I temporarily suspend my beliefs.	I am invested whole-heartedly in my beliefs
I assume that many people have a piece of the answer.	I assume there is one right answer and I have it.
I want to find common ground.	I want to win.
I submit my best thinking hoping your reflections will improve it.	I submit my best thinking and defend it to show it is right.
I remain open to talk about the subject later on.	I expect to settle this here and now.

Barnstarapodes

Barnstarapodes

The Barnstar of Diplomacy Thank you for your very level-headed contributions that helped solve the dispute over the GA nomination for Amal Women's Training Center and Moroccan Restaurant. It's very much appreciated! Ry's the Guy (talk|contribs) 14:46, 27 July 2015 (UTC) The Good Article Barnstar For your contributions to bring Black American Sign Language to Good Article status.  — Calvin999 19:41, 20 August 2015 (UTC) The Content Creativity Barnstar For Black American Sign Language, a delightful article. BlueSalix (talk) 20:40, 26 August 2015 (UTC) The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar Congratulations on making it all the way to Round 3 of the 2nd Annual GA Cup. Although you didn't make the Final/top 5 (which was very hard), we'd like to commend you with this barnstar. We hope to see you next year! MrWooHoo (talk) 23:52, 1 November 2015 (UTC) The Football Barnstar Thank you very much for taking the time to review the article bicycle kick. The association football project appreciates valuable contributions to the articles, and your GA review was one of them. Thanks again, and we hope you can work with us again!--MarshalN20 Talk 20:01, 13 December 2015 (UTC) Four Award Congratulations! You have been awarded the Four Award for your work from beginning to end on Black American Sign Language. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 22:49, 27 February 2016 (UTC) What a Brilliant Idea Barnstar For your hard work creating Bluebook style citation templates; I have no doubt that they will serve as an invaluable tool for future generations of Wikipedians. -- Notecardforfree (talk) 20:27, 7 May 2016 (UTC) The GA barnstar For tackling the eight Los Espantos related GA reviews at one time, I know that was not an easy task to do and that you were not forced to do so. Each review got the highest scrutiny and were better for it. Truely appreciate your time anx efforts on this.  MPJ-DK  11:58, 28 June 2016 (UTC)