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Welcome to my little corner of this vast space that is Misplaced Pages! I'm just a regular guy, living in Surrey, BC, don't have much to say about myself. My user page is currently under renovations. If anyone wants to volunteer to help me improve this page or make a helpful suggestion they are most welcome to; leave me a message on my talk page. As for my editing style, I make mostly minor clean-up edits to any articles on any subject. I try to find a way to improve any article I come across and generally do a little bit of everything, from patrolling new pages to fighting vandalism, believing it'll improve the whole. I guess I would classify myself as a WikiGnome, albeit a very obsessive-compulsive one. :) Although I'm kind of leery about Misplaced Pages:Flagged Revisions, I have lots of faith in Misplaced Pages and its policy of "anyone can edit" and have great hope for the future of Misplaced Pages. It may be that one anonymous IP making one minor contribution such as fixing a typo is analagous to contributing to the content of the ocean by spitting in it, but when that one contributor is combined with thousands others doing the same thing... when you look it at as a whole picture, then it makes a big difference in the grand scheme of things. So each little contribution from anonymous IP's are useful and worth it and much appreciated by the Misplaced Pages community.

This user has asked for Wikipedians to give him feedback at an editor review. You may comment on his edits at Misplaced Pages:Editor review/OlEnglish.

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Since anyone can edit almost any Misplaced Pages article, it is possible for biased, out of date, or incorrect information to be added to Misplaced Pages. To improve Misplaced Pages's reliability, fix these problems by doing the following:

1. As often as you can, monitor and check changes made to articles. Your Watchlist, and the Related changes and Recent changes features are useful for this.
2. Clean up vandalism and report vandals to Administrator intervention against vandalism (WP:AIV). Many vandalism clean-up tools are available to assist you.
3. Fix mistakes:
   • Fix typos, and grammatical and spelling errors. Join the Typo Team and learn their methods.
   • Fix factual errors. You could also join the Fact and Reference Check Project.
   • Fix bias. See Misplaced Pages:Systemic bias.
4. For dubious statements that are not sourced or are likely to be challenged, hunt for references that are reliable, relevant, accurate, objective, and timely. Add citations for these to the article.
5. Read the references provided by articles and check them for reliability, relevance, accuracy, objectivity, and timeliness. That is, read the source material cited, and remove irrelevant or unreliable citations.

A look at my life through userboxes

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This user has been a member of Misplaced Pages since May 2008.

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This user prefers to use Misplaced Pages over Citizendium, or any other online encyclopedia.

This editor is a WikiGnome.

This user spends WAY too much time on Misplaced Pages and really needs to get off the computer... after one more edit.

Groups

This user is a member of WikiProject Vancouver.

This user is a member of the Guild of Copy Editors.

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This user is a member of the WikiProject Unreferenced articles.

Life, status, and situation

This user is of Polish ancestry.

This user is a proud Canadian.

This user lives in Western Canada AND IS PROUD OF IT!

This user is endlessly chasing the dragon.

This user sometimes wishes that he/she were British.

This user might or might not have an academic degree, and considers the distinction irrelevant on Misplaced Pages.

This user is interested in religion as an anthropological and historical phenomenon.

This user is interested in Christianity.

This user is skeptical of the Zodiac.

This user has no understanding of time and does everything at the last minute.

This user BOINCs.

This user loves using Google Earth.

Interests and Tastes

This user is a cat lover.

This user eats chicken.

This user would rather drink tea than coffee.

This user prefers Pepsi over Coca Cola

This user drinks. Period.

Beer respects me.

This user enjoys chess.

This user is addicted to Texas Hold 'em and is going all in with pocket aces.

This user enjoys playing Big 2.

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This user enjoys playing retro games.

This user is interested in retrocomputing.

This user supports 2600 and the hacking community.

This user is interested in history.

This user is interested in World War II

This user is interested in ancient civilizations.

This user loves to read.

This user enjoys reading thrillers.

This user enjoys the works of Isaac Asimov.

This user likes to read Tintin comic albums and books about Tintin.

This user loves knowledge.

This user is interested in maps.

This user needs more userboxes. MORE, I tell you, more!!! Muhahaha!

This user likes to spin pens.

The Eye is watching this user.

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This user really enjoys dark and stormy nights.

This user knows your mother (and will say "hi" to her for you)

This user is madly in love with Canadian girls.

This user likes U.S. customary units of measurement, especially the pint.

This user knows you have to keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

As far back as this user can remember, they've always wanted to be a gangster.

They should have left this user alone.

This user is an Indiana Jones fan.

This user provides information using userboxes to contact other Wikipedians with similar interests.

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This user listens to Coast to Coast AM.

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This user is interested in science.

This user is interested in space sciences.

This user is glad that Pluto isn't a planet.

This user would like to know what a black hole looks like from inside, but doesn't want to investigate it personally.

Music

This user enjoys hip-hop and R&B music.

This user enjoys Classical music.

This user's favorite composer is Frédéric Chopin.

This user enjoys smooth jazz.

This user enjoys R&B and soul music.

Sports

This user does weight training.

Politics

This user identifies as a centrist.

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This user is anti-abortion and pro-choice.

This user supports recycling.

This user realises that what we take for granted today may not be here for our children.

This user supports public transit.

This user supports universal health care.

Just for Fun

This user is standing behind you.

This user had a flux capacitor seized by the FBI.

This Userbox doesn't exist, you're just crazy.

This user believes that it is destiny you saw his user page.

If you actually looked at and read every single one of my userboxes congratulations, you either are obsessed with me or have too much time on your hands :)

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