User:SarahRMadden

I am a senior technical writer/editor. As a registered Wikipedian since 2011, I have made hundreds of edits on Wikipedia pages where the grammar, syntax, or facts need a little tweaking. It's fascinating to be able to improve pages that interest me (e.g., the Cyrus Cylinder from ancient Babylon, Moby-Dick, OV-10 Bronco aircraft, Robert Indiana the artist, Daniel the prophet, founding father John Adams, my ancestor Lorenzo Snow, Nellie Bly, political figures, businesses, and a paragraph I wrote on the longest word in the English dictionary: pneumono­ultra­microscopic­silico­volcano­coniosis, inspired no doubt by my globe-trotting mining engineer dad who taught me that very word when I was a young teen and by Stephan Pastis's 2015 use of it). On May 21, 2015, Stephan Pastis, American cartoonist, included pneumono­ultra­microscopic­silico­volcano­coniosis three times in his comic strip “Pearls Before Swine” after explaining that the hardest part of drawing a comic strip is the lack of space for dialogue. This compelled me to update the Cultural Usage section of that word's Wikipedia page.

On January 16, 2020, I made my 1,000th edit on Wikipedia.

Lately I have spent an inordinate amount of time writing on Quora, a question-and-answer site where volunteers write answers about almost anything. You can see my answers here: https://www.quora.com/profile/Sarah-Madden-11

I value clear, thoughtful, unbiased communication, no matter the venue. Many of my Quora answers revolve around detailed grammar questions, Christianity, Red Cross blood drives, banking, writing essays/research papers, how to use Quora, Microsoft Word, etc.