User:Alvestrand

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Stuff This user lives in Norway Wikipedia:Babel no Denne brukeren har norsk som morsmål. en-4 This user speaks English at a near-native level. nn-2 Denne brukaren har god kjennskap til nynorsk. de-1 Dieser Benutzer hat grundlegende Deutschkenntnisse. da-1 Denne bruger har et grundlæggende kendskab til dansk. sv-1 Denna användare har grundläggande kunskaper i svenska. Search user languages This user knows that 42 is the answer to life, the Universe, and everything.

(this user page is existent, but empty of text) (like my head).

Note on languages: I can read Danish, Swedish and Nynorsk pretty fluently (especially nynorsk) - everyone who speaks Norwegian will do, because of how closely the languages are related. But asking me to write Danish and Swedish will be a disaster. In German, which I've studied for years in high school, I get the sense of the text, more or less.

Contents 1 Projects 2 References 3 Contributions 4 TODO list 5 Signs of serious brain damage

[edit] Projects

• Linking all looose pages starting with T
• Looking at dead people starting with T
• Why not T missing articles?
• Keep an eye on Wikipedia:Dead-end pages/L-Z#T
• Wikify pages needing wikification at T
• Programmatically inserting names into people named T...., filling in from the list of living people starting at T - see User:Alvestrand/LoP Experiment
• Merge tags left around for a while starting at T (ouch - that's a LOT)

The only excuse for my obsession with that particular letter is my middle name....

Also (things that I note here so that I do not forget):

• Trying to document that Aage Kvalbein satisfies the criteria at Wikipedia:Notability (music)
• Tracking down details on Benjamin Chew Tilghman
• Remove disambiguation pages from Special:Lonelypages

[edit] References

Stuff I look for all the time:

• Wikipedia:Vandalism - what to do if the vandals strike again
• Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion - getting rid of some strange stuff
• WP:WSS/ST - stub hierarchy for marking short articles
• WP:PROD - how to mark an unworthy article for deletion in a week or so
• Category:Fundamental is the top of the category hierarchy
• WP:CSD#Deletion_templates - what to do for really nonsense articles

[edit] Contributions

Stuff I've started or significantly edited (kept here because my watchlist is too long):

• Relativity priority disputes
• John Seely Brown
• List of computer size categories
• Bell (wind)
• Howie Weinberg
• Royal C. Taft

I've become embroiled in a February 2006 dispute over Albert Einstein, Henri Poincaré and David Hilbert - my notes on the dispute are here.

[edit] TODO list

Learn to use {{cite book}} and {{cite journal}} and apply them to pages above

[edit] Signs of serious brain damage

On Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits of September 23, 2006, I was listed as #2210, with 4366 edits.

• Nov 4, 2006: #2045 - 5262. Worse and worse.
• Nov 30, 2006: #1892 - 5965.

The signs of brain damage is that I care enough to note it, and that my user page is the first place I think of to jot down that fact....