User:Aleta Curry

As a freelance writer and historian resident in Australia, my curriculum vitae spans several countries with extensive experience in research, writing and publishing.

Areas of expertise are

• The Performing Arts: Dance, film and theatre

• Dogs: History of dog breeds: Working Dogs (herders and terriers); History of Fox Terriers; Dogs in Film and Literature; Dogs and Society; Dogs in Art

• Social History: Domestic service, etiquette, forms and formality

Current interest: History of dog breeds: Specializing in Australian Working Dogs; National dog breeds; Independent dog breeds

BA in history; minor: political theory; minor: film theory. Graduate courses: History. Ten years’ experience in methods analysis and procedural writing. Professional ballroom dance teacher and performer for over 10 years. Co-founder of a theatre performance group.

Current/recent publications

Articles:

• Not just Another Pretty Face: The Working Origins of Australia’s Show Dogs. In Dog’s Life magazine, March-April 2007.

• The Border Collie. Anticipated publication: December, 2007. [Part of a continuing series The All-Australian Dog in the Southern Village View Magazine. Published so far: The Australian Cattle Dog, The Jack Russell Terrier, The Koolie, The Miniature Fox Terrier, The Tenterfield Terrier.

Books

• The 20th Anniversary Show Book: Twenty Years of the Mini Foxie Club of Australia. ISBN: 0-9758380-0-8. Sydney: 2006. Editor and contributor.
• The Registry Handbook. Writing this at the moment.

A Radio Interview:

• http://www.pettalkradio.com/ PTR #183 Seg: 4/5 Not Just A Pretty Face - Aleta Curry

Other

• My name is Greek; it is a variant of Alethea and means "verity" (truth). Someone's always telling me it means "footlose" (free to do as one pleases) or "little winged one", both of which are rather nice as well. My mother is actually erudite and selected it from Alethea--or maybe she wanted me to be truthful and fly free?

• I was hard at work on a novel when September 11th happened and turned my entire universe upside down. I'm getting back into it, but it has been easier to concentrate on non-fiction.

• I wrote and had a reading of a play, Troth, but it has not been published. I also write songs and wrote and performed youth workshops in the theatre group I co-founded. (I was too young to know that that couldn't be done because it's too hard to do.) Almost all my family are into performance, at least as amateurs, my mother and aunt are trained singers and my maternal grandmother was an actress of some note.

• I have very high hopes for Citizendium.

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My CZ

• I actually wrote this:

1. http://en.citizendium.org/wiki?title=Butler&diff=100148511&oldid=100148510

Stuff I'll be working on as I can:

• User:Aleta Curry/dogs - I'm organizing dog topics here. Or just jotting things down as I think of them. Or whatever. Feel free to have a look and drop a line.

Helpful hints pour moi:

• to add a category: [[:Category:Biology Workgroup]]--with a preceeding colon places the category on the page. Without, it places what you're writing into the category. Or use nowiki--look this up in the edit screen: [[Category:Biology Workgroup]]

• If you want to put a template on a talk page, put a tl| in front of it and it won't act as a template, {{subpages}} --Matt Innis (Talk) 19:53, 17 October 2007 (CDT)

• to add myself: Curry, Aleta

• When disaster strikes: Matt and Stephen

• Active Editors in my areas are: user talk: Russell Potter and user talk: Richard Jensen

• Aleks pointed me to this WP author template:

	NOTICE, please do not remove from top of page.
	In lieu of WP notice: My understanding is that since I wrote this text, I do not need to put a "from Wikipedia" message on this text, but instead should leave a notice stating that this was based on my original work for WP and I intend to maintain it.
	Aleta Curry 22:59, 16 July 2007 (CDT)

Why is the pen image wonky above? Can't figure it out.

(If you leave it blank and leave out four tiles, you get a form message.)

	NOTICE, please do not remove from top of page.
	Check the history of edits to see who inserted this notice.

or, you can type in any text you want:

	NOTICE, please do not remove from top of page.
	Aleta the Magnificent wrote this last year. Amazing, what?
	Aleta Curry 21:05, 19 October 2007 (CDT)

Subpages are here!

1. In the edit screen of your article's main page, type or paste the text {{subpages9}} at the top of the page, above the text.

2. Depress 'enter' and Save.

3. In the edit screen of your article's discussion page, type or paste the text {{subpages9}} at the top of the page, above the text.

4. Depress 'enter' and Save.

5. Retrieve metadata stuff (access [1]; select & copy metadata for pasting to your article's metadata page.)

6. Return to your article's main page and click on the yellow button marked "M".

Note: this will take you to the metadata page edit screen.

7. Paste copied data. Fill in the pagename with the article's name.

8. Depress 'enter' and Save.

Helpful links

• All Citizendium policies
• CZ:The Article Checklist
• (still working on how to use this one) Aleta, download http://sunnybar.dynip.com/pub/wikicite.exe and cite away with ease. —Stephen Ewen (Talk) 22:21, 5 August 2007 (CDT)