This user has a Master's degree in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages and is retired after teaching E.S.L./E.F.L. for many years. She enjoys reading Wikipedia articles, learning as she reads, and correcting errors in syntax, verb tenses, verb forms, word usage, spelling, punctuation, and capitalization. She works carefully to make sentences clear and concise, flow smoothly, and make sense, while not changing the intended meaning. She is interested in history, geography, paleontology, archaeology, geology, mineralogy, plants, animals, ecology, astronomy, crafts, linguistics, and literature. This user knows several languages with varying degrees of fluency.

Assistant coordinator, Guild of Copy Editors
Earth as a pale blue dot in the universe. Photo taken 6 June 1990 by Voyager I from beyond Pluto. NASA
Beautiful blue glass perfume bottle

This linked page contains a collection of images I like from Wikipedia and Commons. Warning: it is a large page. User:Corinne/subpage

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Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Henri-Edmond Cross - The Evening Air - Google Art Project.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 20:27, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
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Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Vincent van Gogh - Houses at Auvers - Google Art Project.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 02:37, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
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Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French - The Large Bathers - Google Art Project.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 23:38, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
Barnstars and other awards. Click on [show] to reveal →
The Barnstar of Diligence
For your advices on grammar, and the incredible kind way you offer it! Joshua Jonathan -Let's talk! 16:16, 25 January 2014 (UTC)
The Barnstar of Diplomacy
For helping resolve a conflict between myself, Til, Christina and others that occupied the better part of our day! Λuα (Operibus anteire) 00:47, 16 February 2014 (UTC)
The Teamwork Barnstar
Thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia! Kind regards, DA Sonnenfeld (talk) 23:37, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
Bonus star
The Original Barnstar
And this is the real stuff! Hafspajen (talk) 17:45, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar
For your immaculate copy-editing. Rothorpe (talk) 13:33, 21 September 2014 (UTC)

Precious

teaching English to speakers of other languages
Thank you for quality collaborative contributions to articles such as Cucurbita, teaching English to speakers of other languages, achieving to make "sentences clear and concise, flow smoothly, and make sense", for exquisite edit summaries, for a bounty of inspiration on your user page full of colourful and peaceful images, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:56, 14 November 2014 (UTC)

Copy editing Barnstar

The Copyeditor's Barnstar
A hearty THANK YOU for a SUPERB job on copy editing Cucurbita while some of us are trying to get it to featured status! HalfGig talk 00:01, 20 November 2014 (UTC)
The Teamwork Barnstar
The Teamwork Barnstar is awarded when several editors work together to improve an article. Thanks for your edits! Hafspajen (talk) 07:44, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
The Copyeditor's Barnstar
CorinneSD, I hereby award you The Copyeditor's Barnstar for your extraordinary copyedits of Flag of West Virginia and John Collins Covell. It was a sincere privilege to have you undertake these copyedits of two my articles, and I'm greatly appreciative of your hard work! Thank you for your continued contributions to ensuring and improving upon the quality of Wikipedia's content. -- West Virginian (talk) 04:22, 20 July 2015 (UTC)

Oh, and this is a little belated, but it's better late than never! Thank you again for your outstanding copyedits! -- West Virginian (talk) 16:17, 2 August 2015 (UTC)

The West Virginia Barnstar
CorinneSD, I hereby award you The West Virginia Barnstar for your outstanding copyedits of seven articles relating to the following West Virginia-related persons and symbol: John Collins Covell, Samuel Lightfoot Flournoy (West Virginia senator), Henry Bell Gilkeson, Gabriel Jones (Virginia), James Sloan Kuykendall, Thomas Bryan Martin, and Flag of West Virginia. Through your efforts, these articles meet a higher standard of quality and are in a better position to be promoted to Featured Article status in the future. Thank you for all your time and hard work! -- West Virginian (talk) 16:17, 2 August 2015 (UTC)
The Epic Barnstar
Corinne, it is another sincere privilege for me to award you The Epic Barnstar for your tremendous copyedits of Angus McDonald (Virginia militiaman), Old Pine Church, Isaac Parsons (American military officer), Isaac Parsons (Virginia politician), Valley, West Virginia, Eugenia Washington, and Lawrence Berry Washington. I appreciate your continued guidance and assistance in improving these articles so that they can be future Featured Article candidates! Thank you for a job well done! -- West Virginian (talk) 02:44, 20 August 2015 (UTC)
The Premium Reviewer Barnstar
Corinne, I hereby award you The Premium Reviewer Barnstar for your extraordinary copyedits and reviews of Samuel Lightfoot Flournoy (West Virginia senator), Samuel Lightfoot Flournoy (West Virginia lawyer), Literary Hall, Thayer Melvin, Romney Academy, Romney Classical Institute, Joseph Sprigg (attorney general), John Baker White (clerk of court), John Baker White (West Virginia politician), Robert White (judge), Charles M. Williams (academic), and Joshua Soule Zimmerman. Your precision, diligence, and grammatical prowess are greatly cherished, and the WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors is an even more valuable resource because you are a part of it! -- West Virginian (talk) 14:20, 17 September 2015 (UTC)
The Copyeditor's Barnstar
For your excellent work on Kingdom of Hungary (1000–1301). Thank you. Have a nice week! Borsoka (talk) 04:46, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

teaching English to speakers of other languages
Thank you for quality collaborative contributions to articles such as Cucurbita, teaching English to speakers of other languages, achieving to make "sentences clear and concise, flow smoothly, and make sense", for exquisite edit summaries, for a bounty of inspiration on your user page full of colourful and peaceful images, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:56, 14 November 2014 (UTC)

A year ago, you were recipient no. 1032 of Precious, a prize of QAI! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:47, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

Gerda Arendt Thank you so much, Gerda! You cheered me up. Your recognition and praise mean a lot to me. Thank you for thinking of me. I hope you are well and enjoying the fall. Best regards, Corinne (talk) 16:25, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
The Copyeditor's Barnstar
For improving Trevor Kincaid. LavaBaron (talk) 00:49, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
The Surreal Barnstar
Awarded to: Corinne
In Special Appreciation and Thanks - for recent edits and needed corrections improving articles on several members of the Hemingway family. --- Professor JR (talk) 12:30, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
The Copyeditor's Barnstar
Thank you for improving the article on Jainism  :) Nimit (talk) 15:48, 23 February 2016 (UTC)
The Copyeditor's Barnstar
Thank you Corinne for improving the Szczecin article -- Marek.69 talk 01:29, 25 February 2016 (UTC)
The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
Thank you for the help and suggestions. Vinegarymass911 (talk) 22:23, 28 February 2016 (UTC)
The Teamwork Barnstar
Thank you for your spot-on efforts to copy edit the Planned Parenthood article directly resulting in its promotion to Good Article status. {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 04:37, 12 March 2016 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar
Thank you Corinne for you great translation work on Insular Chile. -- Marek.69 talk 01:09, 24 March 2016 (UTC)
The Million Award
For your contributions to bring Planned Parenthood
(estimated annual readership: 1,793,486) to Good Article status, I hereby present you the Million Award. Congratulations on this rare accomplishment, and thanks for all you do for Wikipedia's readers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 04:38, 21 April 2016 (UTC)
The Copyeditor's Barnstar
Thank you for improving the Olivia de Havilland article. Sincerely, Bede735 (talk) 08:57, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Copyeditor's Barnstar
Hi, Corinne. Here's something for your excellent work on the list of Presidents of the Philippines. Really appreciated it! Thank you, Corinne :-) — Mediran [talk] 05:26, 8 July 2016 (UTC)
The Editor's Barnstar
To Corinne for copyediting Elmer McCollum. Finally Wikipedia has a good biography for him. -SusanLesch (talk) 18:32, 12 August 2016 (UTC)

Editor of the Week [20 August 2016]

Editor of the Week
Your ongoing efforts to improve the encyclopedia have not gone unnoticed: You have been selected as Editor of the Week for exceptional copyediting. Thank you for the great contributions! (courtesy of the Wikipedia Editor Retention Project)
The Civility Barnstar
Exceptionally graceful in moments of potential conflict -- a model of proper civility on Wikipedia. Jasphetamine (talk) 03:17, 18 April 2017 (UTC)
The Copyeditor's Barnstar
Thank you very much for such an amazing copy-editing on the mallard! Adityavagarwal (talk) 21:02, 18 July 2017 (UTC)
The Special Barnstar
Thank you very much for your fine ce and great (really cool) catch on Columbidae. You must have really put in great effort, and this is for you! Adityavagarwal (talk) 10:48, 25 July 2017 (UTC)

A nice cup of tea

The Copyeditor's Barnstar
For copyediting and helping me to correct Tauqeer Raza Khan article. RRD (talk) 10:48, 19 October 2017 (UTC)
For being there
Our Thanksgiving: we are thankful for Corinne. {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 03:50, 24 November 2017 (UTC)
The Copyeditor's Barnstar
Thanks a lot for the work on Burebista! Codrin.B (talk) 13:06, 24 November 2017 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar
Thank you for your review of the Buck Ruxton article, Corinne, and your modification/insertion to the talk page. I find populating articles of this nature (and other topics) so rewarding. All the best to you.Kieronoldham (talk) 01:45, 30 November 2017 (UTC)


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