User:TheYearbookTeacher

Yearbook Teacher, The
Yearbook Teacher, The
Education	BA English Lit, Linguistics (minor in philosophy)
Occupation	Secondary English Teacher
Organization(s)	Capybara, Capybara, Capybara & Associates
Notable work	The Cleaning of Reference Sections Far and Wide

The Yearbook Teacher is a Wikipedian not paritcularly of note who is very obsessed with reference sections (properly called bibliographies, but hey, whaddyagonnadoaboutit? The others have spoken before me and so it shall be. This is the spirit of collaboration. When on Wikipedia, you can usually find her cleaning up an obscure reference section, filling out bare URL citations, researching in the Internet Archive, the Google Cache, Google Scholar, or a country/region/nonprofit archival database such as the US National Archive. I also really like archives. Maybe she should have been a Librarian.

Early Life and Education

Born out of bad decisions and 24-hour glitz and sweat there is little known about Yearbook Teacher. Some say she came out of her mother's womb with a martini in one hand and a Parliament cigarette in the other, stopping only to give Mayor Goodman and his showgirls a handshake on baby's first walk to the poker table. Some say she was just born really really cool. Well, it ended there.

A perpetual dweeb in middle and high school, she preferred joining many extracurricular activities, most of which required minimal human contact.

She then moved out of state for college, another dweeb move and studied very dweebish subject. Eventually, she realized she must go home. The smell of retiree's stale cigarettes, the 'pa-ching pa-ching' of slot machines, and the $5.99 shrimp cocktail were just too much to leave behind.

Current Activities

She is currently a public school English teacher is overly passionate about the free, open, and accurate source of information that Wikipedia provides to the world. A very boring person, she is obsessively concerned about source citation styles and the methodology of reference material categorization and authority control. Comparatively, she tolerates photography (picture of hers on this the page).

My favorite systems of source citation, ranked:

Chicago (note, bib)^[1]
Chicago (parenthetical)^[2]
ASA (American Sociological Association)^[3]
APA (American Psychological Association)
Harvard
Bluebook
MLA^[4]

Notes

^ This is how much I love notes.
^ There's nothing wrong with this style of citation. Obviously, sites like Wikipedia benefit from the note-bibliography style, but I see value in this style for journal articles, essays, and other works which rely heavily on dates. Shame on the MLA for not getting the memo. There's no reason to have page numbers cited parenthetically. If they had any sense, they would switch to note-bib and encourage annotated footnotes.
^ I think it's better than APA because it spells things out more, which leads to more clarity and less confusion. #changemymind
^ Sad that an literature teacher is putting this so low. Shame! Shame! Shame!

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[1] This is how much I love notes.

[2] There's nothing wrong with this style of citation. Obviously, sites like Wikipedia benefit from the note-bibliography style, but I see value in this style for journal articles, essays, and other works which rely heavily on dates. Shame on the MLA for not getting the memo. There's no reason to have page numbers cited parenthetically. If they had any sense, they would switch to note-bib and encourage annotated footnotes.

[3] I think it's better than APA because it spells things out more, which leads to more clarity and less confusion. #changemymind

[4] Sad that an literature teacher is putting this so low. Shame! Shame! Shame!

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