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Note: To communicate with me right now, here's my Talk page.

Bio

In August 2015 I signed on as staff editor of Wikidelphia. This wide-scope Philadelphia website was in need of someone to pay attention to it long-term and help expand the site more than its busy progenitor Stan could do by himself.

Wikidelphia is one among several information collections efforts I've undertaken:

In late 2018, I decided to expand my World's Fairs bookmarks from a short list to a whole page. It didn't stop there. Once I caught the World's Fair bug, I kept adding and adding until the site grew to more than 30 pages containing what may be more than 10,000 links covering expositions from the Great Exhibition of 1851 until the present day.

In the first decade of this century, 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 spiritual love (agape). 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. In a more specialized vein, 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 Goodwill for computers.

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Stan
Jon Paul Sank's World's Fairs Page
Study Love
Glossary: Sank's Glossary of Linguistics
Glossary: Stratificational Grammar
Linguistics: Glottopedia
Sydney Lamb: Sydney Lamb
NTR: Nonprofit Technology Resources

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-In August 2015, I got a little job editing Wikidelphia, because Wikidelphia needed someone to pay attention to the whole project in a sustained way. One experience that qualifies me to do this job is that I started and have been gradually expanding another reference source. It's called [[Study Love]], and it's about what I consider, and what many Near Death Experiencers call, the most important force in the entire universe: spiritual love.
+''Note:''&nbsp;To communicate with me right now, here's my [[User_talk:PaulSank|Talk page]].
-Since 2011, I have volunteered at many events throughout the Phila-NJ area. Some of the ones I do regularly--and I hope you'll attend or support these--are:
+==Bio==
-*Macy's Family Fun Days at the [[African-American Museum in Philadelphia]], a monthly where I set up and run a "toy zone", a table full of toys from my own large collection. I get a kick out of the fact that I'm often the only white guy there.
-*[[Philadelphia Reading Olympics]], a multi-day, multi-venue annual event where I act like a game show host, asking schoolchildren questions about books they've read. The organizers suggest that volunteers think in terms of Jeopardy, but I make it zany, complete with sound effects and as many laughs as I can extract.
-*[[West Park Arts Fest]], where I act like a concierge in the Children's Pavilion, making sure visitors, performers, and exhibitors have whatever they need throughout the day.
-*Maple Shade Holiday Festival, where I've usually overseen the sales of feed for the petting zoo.
-Something else I do on my personal time is provide five daily Twitter news-and-views services, in:
+In August 2015 I signed on as staff editor of Wikidelphia. This wide-scope Philadelphia website was in need of someone to pay attention to it long-term and help expand the site more than its busy progenitor Stan could do by himself.
-*[http://www.twitter.com/FruitNJ @FruitNJ] "I tweet about the fruit of the Spirit, hoping it'll help me bear some."
-*[http://www.twitter.com/LingFan1 @LingFan1] For linguistics, the scientific study of human language. Surprisingly, this is by far the most popular.
-*[http://www.twitter.com/SayNo2BigGay @SayNo2BigGay] Against the homosexualist agenda. I attack arguments, not persons.
-*[http://www.twitter.com/NetMan3 @NetMan3] Against malaria. "Wild about the idea of covering entire countries with nets!"
-*[http://www.twitter.com/lifenetnews @LifeNetNews] Against poverty. "Continuing the mission of Life-Net News: Covering Poverty Widely In A Net Of Many Voices Since 1997."
-Life-Net News was sometimes monthly, sometimes weekly. I selected stores from the press and elsewhere about poverty, regardless
+Wikidelphia is one among several information collections efforts I've undertaken:
-[http://www.twitter.com/RUCamFan @RUCamFan] For Rutgers University-Camden. "Rutgers-Camden has done so much for me! I'm massively grateful!"
-From 2007 to 2014, I did clerical work, website maintenance, and various other tasks at [[Nonprofit Technology Resources|Nonprofit Technology Resources]].
+In late 2018, I decided to expand my World's Fairs bookmarks from a short list to a whole page. It didn't stop there. Once I caught the World's Fair bug, I kept adding and adding until the site grew to more than 30 pages containing what may be more than 10,000 links covering expositions from the Great Exhibition of 1851 until the present day.
+In the first decade of this century, 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 spiritual love (''agape''). 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. In a more specialized vein, 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 Goodwill for computers.
-Paul, thanks for writing up your personal experience at the Franklin Institute! &nbsp;[[User:Stan|Stan]] 17:31, 7 March 2011 (EST)
+==Info==
+*[[User:Stan|Stan]]
+*[[Jon Paul Sank's World's Fairs Page]]
+*[[Study Love]]
+*Glossary:&nbsp;[http://studylove.org/ling/jpsgloss.html Sank's Glossary of Linguistics]
+*Glossary:&nbsp;[http://www.glottopedia.org/index.php/Category:Stratificational_Grammar Stratificational Grammar]
+*Linguistics:&nbsp;[http://www.glottopedia.org Glottopedia]
+*Sydney Lamb:&nbsp;[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Lamb Sydney Lamb]
+*NTR:&nbsp;[[Nonprofit Technology Resources (NTR) (Now Closed)|Nonprofit Technology Resources]]
+<br>[[User:PaulSank|PaulSank]] ([[User talk:PaulSank|talk]]) 14:30, 25 October 2019 (EDT)