User:AVIosad

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Possibly relevant This user reserves the right to completely screw up his or her edits. ipa ə This user fully understands the International Phonetic Alphabet. Oxon. This user is an Oxonian. This user is a member of the Novels WikiProject. This user is a member of WikiProject Russia. This user is a member of WikiProject University of Oxford.

This user's motto is... "Sapere aude!" - Immanuel Kant

Contents 1 General Information 1.1 On the use of Userboxes 2 Coming soon... 3 What have I just done?! 3.1 New pages 3.2 Contributions 4 Miscellanea

[edit] General Information

Good day to thee, stranger. Allow me to introduce myself; perhaps an introduction would add credibility to my words and edits. I was born in 1988 in Moscow, Russia. Currently, I am a second-year undergraduate student at the University of Oxford, reading for a B.A. in Russian (the course is heavily biased toward the study of literature, and I hope in due time to do some major editing in articles concerning Russian writers). My other interests include linguistics, history, and philosophy. You can contact me on my Talk page; I will reply to you on your talk page to make sure you read my answer.

[edit] On the use of Userboxes

While I realise that Userboxes may seem very disruptive to some, I consider them an excellent way of quickly relaying information about me to the visitors of the page and also kind of fun. Obviously, I try not to litter the page with such userboxes as can be considered completely unnecessary, although they do slip through occasionally. Please forgive me for this. Also, it just saves me time writing about myself...

Grammar and stuff... OED This user uses Oxford spelling. its This user understands the difference between its (of it) and it's (it is). their / there / they’re This user thinks that there are too many people who don’t know that they’re worse than their own children at spelling! A, B, and C This user prefers the serial comma. “…” This user favours typographic quotation marks over typewriter style. ; This user is head over heels in love with the semi-colon; he or she uses it far too much.

[edit] Coming soon...

(or as soon as I have time, which might in fact happen to be not very soon at all)

Philology

• Ivan Turgenev — add infobox, check facts, rewrite some bits (biography in particular. add superfluous man?)
• Home of the Gentry — model on Pride and Prejudice, or similar; add infobox. Title?
• Rudin — analysis etc. Suggest for evaluation.
• On the Eve — everything.
• Fathers and Sons — infobox; synopsis?
• Oblomov — infobox, plot.
• Superfluous man — expand.
• Mikhail Zoshchenko — write a new one. Major project.
• Caesura — see if it can be made clearer
• Antiokh Kantemir — expand.
• Satire — expand.
• The Mauritius Command — edit heavily, it largely sucks.

Other things

• Black Caps cricketers are mostly a complete mess.

[edit] What have I just done?!

Hardly relevant at all Floreat Aula! This user is an Aularian. This user is an Anglophile This user is interested in the Romantic period. This user is interested in political science. Which this user is a fan of the Aubrey–Maturin series. This user is a bibliophile. This user is a proud cyclist. This user supports the New Zealand Black Caps This user enjoys writing.

In addition to various minor edits (if not actually m), I contributed fairly significantly to the following pages:

[edit] New pages

• Rudin — wrote the whole article, B-class.
• Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds — a stub.
• The Fatal Eggs

[edit] Contributions

• Oblomov — some clean-up, although not enough.
• Template:Enlightenment

[edit] Miscellanea

/Private Quarters
/Semicolon Template
/Talk Page Template