User:Heidi Pusey BYU

Duration

This user has been on Wikipedia for 1 year, 2 months and 9 days.

About me

I am a student at BYU studying English, with an emphasis in creative writing and a minor in editing. I enjoy learning about various literary aspects of literature, such as syntax, metaphors, and rhyme. I ask my fellow editors to be patient with me as I continue to grow as a writer and collaborator.

COI

This user, in accordance with the Terms of Use, discloses that she has been paid by BYU to edit Wikipedia.

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**Apprentice Editor**
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Conflict of interest statement and TBAN

I am employed and paid hourly by the Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University to edit Wikipedia and my supervisor is Rachel Helps (BYU). I am also a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Many of my contributions have involved the Book of Mormon, but I am now moving to non-LDS topics because my team has been banned from editing any such topics. See the discussion here.

I have taken a class from Kimberly Johnson and am a member of Y-Fiction. As an English major and aspiring novelist I come to appreciate the literature pages I edit. I seek to be neutral in my writing, but as I've been cited before for not using a neutral wiki voice, it is very well possible that my appreciation of literature will inadvertently come out in my edits. If this ever threatens the integrity of the articles I edit, please send me a polite message on my talk page.

My goals

I seek to raise poor Wikipedia articles to a higher standard. Because of this, I prefer working with stubs, start-class, and c-class articles, though I sometimes work on b-class articles. I am interested in expanding the articles with relevant, accurately-represented information and sources. I acknowledge that I have not always done, do not always, nor will always do a good job at this. I also seek to be a collaborative editor. Though I develop a relationship with what I write, I do not own the articles and am open to other editors joining me or giving polite feedback.

Literary Interests

This user is a Bibliophile.

This user enjoys classic literature

This user enjoys reading fiction.

This user enjoys reading humorous literature.

This user enjoys reading poetry.

This user enjoys reading short stories.

This user reads self-help books.

This user listens to
audio books.

This user is a novelist.

Contributions

Book of Mormon

Louisa May Alcott

Film

Miscellaneous

Ranulf Higden

Pages created

Current projects

George Pollard Jr.

Reviews I've done

GA

Quotes

John Keats

"I was never afraid of failure; for I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest."

Percy Bysshe Shelley

"I have drunken deep of joy,

And I will taste no other wine tonight."

~The Cenci

Tolkein

"'What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!'

"'Pity? It was Pity that stayed his hand. Pity, and Mercy: not to strike without need. And he has been well rewarded, Frodo. Be sure that he took so little hurt from the evil, and escaped in the end, because he began his ownership of the Ring so. With Pity.'" ~The Fellowship of the Ring

Milton

"The mind is its own place, and in itself

Can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n."

~Paradise Lost, Book 1

"Good, the more

Communicated, more abundant grows."

~Paradise Lost, Book 5

Jane Austen

"'An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.'"

~Pride and Prejudice