Pleonic, otherwise known as J A Carter, is a
Wikipedia contributor, in addition to which he also has a
life. He's been mucking about on Wikipedia for years but he really doesn't remember when he started. He writes an odd little blog called
A Few Paragraphs and randomly tweets under the mysterious tweeting name of
@pleonic at
Twitter, where tweets happen. Just in case anybody ever decides to use
Google + he's also got a little place at
+MrPleonic.
Early Life
Pleonic was born in
Indiana back when the world was new, and roved and rambled throughout this great land of ours in the days of his youth. He has stated that his early life was rather like
Leave it to Beaver and involved him in several dangerous escapades that nevertheless ended well[
citation needed]. He has been friends with several
dogs and at least two
cats.
After attending all the usual schools Pleonic moved to Sunny Southern
California and obtained a
Theology degree. This naturally led him into careers in
Mortgage Banking,
Accounting,
Credit Counseling,
Computer Programming, and
Ballet.
Current Life
Pleonic lives contentedly with his
wife,
children,
cat and
step-cat in
Conglomeration,
Texas. At present he divides his time between working as a writer/researcher, learning stuff, and seeing as many things as possible
'before they flare and fade forever.'
Areas of Expertise
His main area of expertise is being
Pleonic. In the process, Pleonic has attained some level of proficiency in
History (particularly 1st & 2nd century
roman culture,
American civil war, and, increasingly,
early middle ages),
Christianity,
Christian History, Historical Christianity, most
English Bible translations, the
biographies of certain people (particularly
US Presidents), Theology, theologians/Bible scholars including
N T Wright,
Thomas Oden,
John Dominic Crossan,
Marcus Borg,
Karl Barth,
John Wesley,
Thomas Aquinas,
St. Augustine,
C S Lewis (yes, I know he's not technically a theologian), certain
movies,
TV shows of the '60's and '70's (particularly
Gilligan's Island and
Star Trek),
films about Jesus, the early
space program (both
US and
USSR flavors),
Bugs Bunny cartoons,
Gumby, mortgage banking, debt management,
software testing,
SQL Servers,
Programming, and is a devotee of
the Doctor (but by no means proficient because no one can be an expert on the Doctor, not even the Doctor).
Probably other stuff too.
Handy Place to Put Stuff I Use So I Don't Have to Hunt For It
Special:PendingChanges
Wikipedia:Template_messages/Cleanup
Wikipedia:Criteria_for_speedy_deletion
Wikipedia:BIO
Archiving refs at the Internet Archive
WP:WBM
Archiving refs on Webcite
WP:WEBCITE
How to do citations from the Loeb Library:
Loeb Citation
Disambiguation Redirect:
When you can use blogs as a reference:
Blog for Refs
and
Self-Published Sources
Top creepiest Wikipedia pages and
600 weirdest Wiki pages
A thing I researched that seems to have met with general accptance in the 'Mysterious Disappearances' page
'Mysterious Disappearances' page
Favorite Stubs
Current Theologian_stubs
Current Early Church Bishops stubs
Christian Theology stubs
Ancient Rome stubs
Ancient Near East Stubs