My real name is Michael Heggen

Me at a glance This user participates in WikiProject Oregon. talk | recent changes | stubs This user is a three-weapon fencer. This user is an undergraduate student majoring in Biology and minoring in Earth Science. X This user is a member of Generation X. This user is of Norwegian ancestry. This user is of English ancestry. This user has never left the Northern Hemisphere. This user grew up in a rural area. This user lives in the U.S. State of Oregon. This user has no understanding of time and does everything at the last minute.

I live in Salem, Oregon, where I teach fencing. I am also a non-traditional student in the College of Liberal Arts at Willamette University.

I'm still getting my feet wet as a Wikipedian. Actually, I'm still getting my toes damp.

As an aspiring Renaissance man (really more of a philomath, but how many people know what that means? I didn't until five minutes ago...), I am interested in many, many topics. I have no real idea yet how my interests will fit into Wikipedia.
-- Twisted86 21:46, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

How on earth did I get sucked into working on articles related to exercise equipment? Augh. That is NOT what I am interested in -- philomath or not. I'm going to try to make some useful contributions to fencing articles, as that is what I know. I am sure I will be unable to avoid forays into other areas, too. Twisted86 07:41, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

And Category:Oregon in the American Civil War.... I'll be focusing on that, too. Twisted86 09:07, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Non-mental notes

"I would have made a mental note, but I didn't have anything to write on." — my wife

• Create Wikipedia:WikiProject Fencing
• Add Swordmaster reference to lunge (fencing)
• Write article about Robert Martyr
• Write article about Boon's Treasury (the building, not the business)
• Continue working on Category:Fencing
• Develop Category:Oregon in the American Civil War
  • Fort Hoskins
  • Fort Yamhill
  • 4th Regiment of California Infantry
  • 1st Regiment of Oregon Infantry
  • Royal Bensell
  • William Hilleary
• Photos to take
  • Capitol Theater (Salem, Oregon)
  • Zena, Oregon
  • Old West Salem City Hall
  • Fort Hoskins

Articles

In reverse chronological order

New articles/categories/portals/projects

Added/improved content

Tidying

Useful stuff for editing

Citations

• WP:FOOT
• <!--See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Footnotes for an explanation of how to generate footnotes using the <ref> and </ref> tags and the tag below --> <references/>
• Wikipedia:Citation templates

Templates

Categories

• [[Category:Year of birth missing|Doe, Jane]]
• [[Category:Place of birth missing|Doe, Jane]]
• [[Category:Living people|Doe, Jane]]
• [[Category:Year of death missing|Doe, Jane]]

Projects

• {{ WikiProject Oregon}}
• {{ WPBiography}}

External links

In the Department of Full Disclosure and Redundancy Department...

• The Heggen Pages, my personal web site
• Salem Classical Fencing, the nonprofit organization where I teach
• American Fencing League, the national organization for standard fencing, of which I am the president