User:JGorton

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Hello everyone! My name is Jamie Gorton and I'm proud to make (even minor) contributions to Wikipedia. I took my B.A. in English from Saint Michael's College and my Juris Doctor at Boston University School of Law. I was born in Hooksett, New Hampshire and I currently reside outside in Malden, Massachusetts, outside Boston, Massachusetts.

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What I'm Up To

Lawyering: I spend most of my time as an immigration lawyer.

Hobbies: Numismatics and literature.

Music: Umphrey's McGee, The Beatles, Phish, Queen, The Eagles, Kanye West, The New Deal and many more.

Wikipedia and Me

I believe Wikipedia is very valuable, even authoritative on some subjects. I worry that centralization and democratization of knowledge pose problems that we won't fully appreciate for many years but the problems of gentrifying knowledge are well known. I hope Wikipedia will be able to successfully balance accessibility with the richness of expert research and the depth of scholarly literature.

I'm not in a position to bring the weight of scholarly literature to Wikipedia, but I am a Wikipedia:WikiGnome. My writing experience focuses on local rewrites to cut lard from articles and enhance local clarity.


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This user is a native speaker of the English language.

This editor is a WikiGnome.

This user is a Unitarian Universalist.

This user has been on Wikipedia for 19 years, 4 months and 20 days.

This user resides
in the U.S.
State of Vermont.

This user lives in or comes
from Boston.

This user is a lawyer.

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This user attends or attended
Saint Michael's College.

This user is a
Past Master
of his Masonic Lodge

This user is interested in
coin collecting.

This user has publicly declared that they have a conflict of interest regarding the Wikipedia article First_Parish_in_Malden.

I would like to thank User:Jimbo Wales and everyone who helped developed his userspace page, which I am borrowing liberally from to make my own look pretty.

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