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| :<font size=3>"It's clean-up duty, mopping up after the dishonest, incompetent, and fanatical. Can't imagine why you'd have a problem with that." </font> | |||
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| *] Ansel Adams I'm not, but I might as well be useful. | |||
| :Yes, I took the picture on the right. Yes, I change it (mostly) every day. Yes, they're all used on Misplaced Pages/Commons. Come back each day for a new, marginally-in-focus picture! Collect them all! | |||
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| I'm a Westerner, living in ], ], where I work as a copy editor/rewriter for a large Japanese electronics company. | |||
| I first became aware of Misplaced Pages when I began using it to look up some technical terms, my being an English literature major screwing around with computers, not vice versa. Being of a copy editor bent, I noticed typos, misspellings, and generally screwy language occasionally, and after a while I realized that I could in fact edit them myself. So I did. Soon, I was hitting the random page button, just for my own amusement, and I got sucked in. | |||
| [[Image:Aerogelbrick.jpg|thumbnail|right|Trying to impart common sense into the clueless is a tough job, one which you do particularly well. | |||
| . As such, you the very first of Raul's common sense bricks. ] 22:58, 29 December 2005 (UTC)]] | |||
| Now, this has turned into a relaxing break from my required copy editing: I get to exercise my pedantic tendencies, without the responsibility of deadlines or deliverables. I've occasionally gotten a little deeper into things, and have written a few articles from scratch. | |||
| This whole project is infectious: hitting the random page button, I encounter whole swatches of text and knowledge areas requiring work, and I suddenly feel compelled to try to do something about it, even if I didn't have any particular interest in the subject to begin with. For example, I did a massive edit (for style, organization, and a general readability) for the submarine ]. I have no particular interest in the military, especially not the Navy, yet I found myself sucked into doing this. Same with entries on community colleges and Booker Prize winners. | |||
| So far I have added a few articles and stubs (and yes, I plan to expand the stubs if I can), but mostly it's janitorial work. As I told one troller: | |||
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| ::''It's clean-up duty, mopping up after the dishonest, incompetent, and fanatical. Can't imagine why you'd have a problem with that.'' | |||
| ==International Travels== | |||
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| |align="left"|<small>''Idea and layout stolen from ''] ''who borrowed it from '']</small> | |||
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| ==User sub-pages== | |||
| Various subpages I have, listed in one place until I get around to doing something about them: | |||
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