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First edit: 6th Dec 2004

1000th edit: 8th Feb 2005 (all namespaces)

1000th article edit: 16th Feb 2005: started John Kovalic mini-bio. One of my rare (somewhat) original contributions, as opposed to the more usual pedantry-at-large.

Current fixations

• EliminatingReducingTrying to keep vaguely in touch with the oversized stub categories
  • All stub categories, from database dump
• Expunge all instances of "recieve" and ancillary non-parts of speech from the 'pedia ([1]), [2]).
• Likewise, "seperate" ([3], [4], [5])
• and "the the" (as opposed to The The).
• "accomodation" ([6], [7], [8])
• "aquire" ([9], [10])

As you may imagine, Sam Hocevar is my hero...

To-do

• Square the circle of LDS preferences and stylistic objections with regard to "The" Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. (What have I let myself in for?)
• Expand constraint satisfaction problem and related topics.
• Expand HeroQuest (role-playing game) and Gloranthan material.
• Dumbarton, Dumbarton Rock, Dumbarton Castle, Dumbarton F.C.
• Sean Kelly

Barnstars... und bier!

Hi, I wanted to drop by and give you this barnstar for you extensive work on VfDs. Take care, Molotov (talk) 19:26, 13 September 2005 (UTC)	Thanks for going through the extremely dull work of sorting the stubs categories of the heap of articles I've created recently, my dear Alai! You deserve a rest and a cold beer for the task. [...] Shauri smile! 00:48, 24 October 2005 (UTC)	Hi, Alai, Congratulations on Becoming a Sysop [...] =Nichalp «Talk»= 14:32, 5 November 2005 (UTC)	The Working Man's Barnstar Awarded to Alai for endless pedantry-at-large, through which Wikipedia is largely better off. - CrazyRussian talk/contribs/email 04:03, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
And YOU get the first one. ♥ Her Pegship♥ 22:27, 27 July 2006 (UTC) To Alai, for stub crowd control, I award the first WikiProject Stub Sorting Barnstar.	The Working Man's Barnstar Shifting through all the WikiStub proposals and allowing me to enrich Wiki with a needed stub category. Awarded by Bakaman 23:36, 14 August 2006 (UTC)	A Barnstar of Diligence for your efforts in sticking to the point on the Palestine-stub discussion. Cheers! Pegship 16:46, 1 November 2006 (UTC)	The Barnstar of Good Humor For unexpected humor when it was really needed [...]. Thanks. —Doug Bell talk 20:33, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar Wonderful work.The4532 (talk) 17:18, 11 December 2007 (UTC)	The Special Barnstar YOU ARE SPECIAL!The4532 (talk) 17:18, 11 December 2007 (UTC)	I, Javitomad, give you this Barnstar for contributing for a better Spanish-English Wikipedia. May 31st, 2008.

Babel and related silliness

en This user is a native speaker of the English language.	sco This uiser haes Scots as a mither tung.	blz-2 This user is an intermediate speaker of blazon.
fr-1 Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau élémentaire de français.	de-1 Dieser Benutzer hat grundlegende Deutschkenntnisse.	la-1 Hic usor simplici latinitate contribuere potest.
	This user has a ton of edits.	This user lives in Ireland.

This is probably being a little harsh on my French, which is merely mediocre and very rusty, and kind to my Latin and German, which are Certified Atrocious.

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