User:Alvestrand

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This user lives in Norway
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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.
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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.

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[edit] Projects

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

I have promised to help with:

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

[edit] References

Stuff I look for all the time:

[edit] Contributions

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

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

As part of copyvio stuff and dead-end pages work, I've touched a lot of pages. Some of them rather forcefully.

I discovered a debate on Unity Church, and became embroiled. See /Unity Church notes.

[edit] TODO list

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

More generic: Wikipedia:Template messages/Sources of articles

[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.

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.... of course, number of edits are meaningless (there's an essay to that effect somewhere on Wikipedia, but I'm too lazy to hunt it down - feel free to point that out in talk).

And - someone's nominated me for adminship.

[edit] In memoriam

I used to have on my projects list:

But after this discussion, there doesn't seem much point to continuing the work.

[edit] And some other stuff

Where else should one keep these?

The Working Man's Barnstar
This well earned barnstar was brought to Alvestrand today by the letter "T". Thank you for all your hard work! — Catherine\talk 20:55, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
The Invisible Barnstar
Thank you for your continued work and assistance on Wikipedia:Copyright problems, reviewing copyright status and generally cleaning up articles that need attention or a referee. Your good work goes unseen unless someone disagrees ;) Jeepday (talk) 12:48, 1 April 2008 (UTC)