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The lunatics have taken over the asylum. You can all fuck off. All attempts to communicate with me will be palmed off as harassment for my own convenience. |
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Martin Richard Gardner __NOTOC__<br> |
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Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom<br> |
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19/09/1983<br> |
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=====A bit about me===== |
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Learning/speaking French more than half of my life. Put myself as fr-4 but am definitely getting rusty. Have studied Spanish at the University of Leeds, and have studied German in the past; Old French, Middle French and archaic Modern French are my current passions. I'm currently reading [[:s:fr:Lancelot ou le Chevalier de la charrette (Édition de Foulet et Uitti)|Lancelot ou le Chevalier de la charrette]] and El lenguaje del cuerpo by Allan Pease (translation into Spanish by Maricel Ford). |
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I also used to play Scrabble at competition level in English and in French. My current passion is juggling (YouTube video [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXbVcl1UTt8 now actually exists!]). November 10 2010, 7 balls for 7 catches. May 23 2012, 8 balls for 8 catches. |
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Now using Chrome instead of Firefox for technical reasons. |
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I'm an [[Wiktionary:Administrators|administrator of the English Wiktionary]], since about the end of the Crimean War. |
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I'm making an effort to spend less time on the Internet. Wiktionary will be high on the list of things to do less of. |
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=====On Wiktionary===== |
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* Trying to spend less time on here and do 'proper' grown up things instead. |
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* Current task: bot formatting the entries in [[:Category:French verb forms]]. And then other verb forms, such as Italian, Portuguese, etc. |
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* First started using Wiktionary to look up obscure Scrabble words. For the ones that didn't exist, I started creating them myself. |
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* Overly obsessed with neatness and regularity. This is mostly good for Wiktionary, as dictionaries should be neat and regular. |
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* I make a lot of minor edits, lots of them using the auto-formatting functions of [[User:Mglovesfun/vector.js]]. I tend not to write edit summaries for these, as I would literally spend twice as long writing edit summaries as I would doing actual formatting. So by just clicking the minor button and hitting enter, I can format more entries per hour. |
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* Stuff I've taken an interest in and therefore can contribute a bit to includes baseball, basketball, juggling, poker and Scrabble. |
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* You can edit my user page and subpages like any other Wiktionary page. I too may edit your pages for broken links, typos, broken English and whatnot. Do feel free to revert without any explanation, and I will do the same. |
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* I spend more time correcting stuff and updating stuff than making new articles. A dictionary is about quality and quantity, so correcting the entries we already have is very important. |
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* Per above, I nominate a lot of things for deletion, on the grounds that a quality dictionary does not contain "anything and everything". |
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* I do edit languages I don't speak, but only in terms of formatting (spacing, punctuation, correct use of templates). |
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* I sometimes edit Portuguese, Italian, Occitan and Catalan which I don't really 'speak' but they're very similar to French and Spanish. |
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* I like a joke. Life is short, this is a website, but if I make a joke I will revert myself. |
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* Learnt some Old French at the [[w:University of Leeds|University of Leeds]] doing a one year course entitled ''Love, Laughter and Chivalry''. Beyond that am self-taught, have taught myself by reading as many texts as possible, many of them more than once. Anyone with more experience is very much welcome to check my edits. |
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* Note: I only create accelerated Middle French forms when I can find an attestation. Dead languages can be a bit unpredictable, and there's nothing worse than creating a batch of accelerated entries to discover they're not used anywhere. |
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* I operate {{user|MglovesfunBot}}, which mainly bypasses redirects, removes categories and templates that fail our [[WT:RFDO|deletion]] process, corrects spacing, etc. |
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* Similarly, I monitor [[Special:Contributions/KassadBot]]. |
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* Believe it or not, I don't really give two hoots about Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian and Serbo-Croatian. I just think where a norm exists it should be used as widely as possible, even if I disagree with that norm. |
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* Trivia: great grandson of [[w:John Maconnachie|John Maconnachie]]. |
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=====Areas of interest===== |
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* [[suffix|Suffixes]] and [[prefix]]es. |
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* [[etymology|Etymologies]], especially Latin ones. |
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* [[Wiktionary:Requests for deletion|Deleting]] pages that shouldn't be here. |
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* I do a lot of boring stuff like managing categories, uncategorized pages, fixing broken links, etc. |
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* I don't usually block users unless the vandalism is severe (such as spam or attack pages) or repeated. |
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* If I make typos or stupid errors, correct them without asking me, or even revert me. |
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=====Working CFI===== |
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Stuff that <u>I think</u> are common practices but aren't in any Wiktionary policies |
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* Single words (with no spaces) aren't nominated for deletion as 'sum of parts' |
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* Sum of parts entries that meet [[WT:CFI#Idiomaticity]] are usually deleted, or at least nominated for deletion. |
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=====Subpages===== |
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=====External links===== |
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* [[s:fr:Portail:Textes_médiévaux|Portail:Textes médiévaux (French Wikisource, medieval texts)]] |
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* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/tv/features/norman-season/ Norman season on the BBC], televized material (UK only) |
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* [http://mglovesfun.livejournal.com/ My blog (very little Wiktionary related)] |
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* [http://www.youtube.com/user/renardmigrant YouTube channel] (nothing Wiktionary related) |
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* [https://twitter.com/mglovesfun @Mglovesfun] on Twitter (little or nothing Wiktionary related) |
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Revision as of 22:20, 9 January 2014
The lunatics have taken over the asylum. You can all fuck off. All attempts to communicate with me will be palmed off as harassment for my own convenience.