My name is John and I'm from North Carolina in the United States.

Please expect me to be slow responding here. I'm often incredibly busy in real life: family, work, farming, and kitties all come before Wikipedia.

If you'd like to contact me or leave a comment, please help yourself to my talk page.

It's okay to leave a note in any language listed in my Babel boxes. I will answer in your language as best I can.

I don't really mind grumpy talk page comments, as I'm often a grump myself.

If you can't find a previous talk page discussion, be sure to check the archive. I rarely outright delete discussions on purpose.

In the past, I've been most active at the biographies of living persons noticeboard, articles for deletion, and articles listed there.

Otherwise, I've authored or edited articles mostly about Bhutan, Pohnpei, and persons who are quite dead. I like history, languages, and law as well.

When I have time, those are the places where I pay the most attention to discussions, edit, or just read to read.

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