User:JohnI

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This user assumes good faith. This user maintains a strict policy advising against all personal attacks. This user strives to maintain a policy of neutrality on controversial issues.

This user is happy. :-| This user is undecided. This user is melancholy.

en This user is a native speaker of English. GMT ? This user's time zone depends on whenever they decide to get up today. This user comes from Australia.

au This user is a native speaker of Australian English. en- gb-4 This user has a near-native understanding of British English. en- us-3 This user has an advanced understanding of American English.

This user uses Commonwealth spelling. by This user does not like the passive voice. 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!

BCS This user has a Bachelor of Computer Science degree. prog-x This user is merely a humble programmer. This user studies at the University of Life.

cobol This user can program in COBOL. bas This user can program in BASIC. for This user can program in Fortran.

This user is interested in World War I and World War II. This user is interested in the  British Empire.   This user loves the history of the United States.

up Clue dn This user is interested in Crosswords. This user is a Sudoku addict. DT This user has a Digital television set, or tuner box, to receive Digital terrestrial television, such as DVB, ISDB, or ATSC.

PAL This user's television receives PAL/PAL-variant transmissions, or lives in a region where they are broadcast. This user is a fan of The Sopranos CSI This user follows the evidence.

Contents 1 Personal history 2 Overseas Travel 3 My Wikipedia spelling fixes 4 My Wikipedia Standards fixes 5 Wikipedia pages created 6 Wikipedia page updates 7 Notes to Myself 8 Funny pages 9 Interesting pages 10 What should I believe? 11 Reporting Vandalism

[edit] Personal history

I am Australian

from the state of Queensland

born in the town of Monto QLD

Mostly lived in Brisbane QLD

Lived briefly in New South Wales

Lived with gf in South Korea (2001)

Have lived briefly near:

• Monto QLD, Biloela QLD

Have lived briefly in:

• Narrabeen NSW, Gladstone QLD (twice), Kalpowar QLD, Albion Park Rail NSW, Kingaroy QLD, and Toowoomba QLD.

[edit] Overseas Travel

Visited my father in Fiji (Xmas 1969 & Xmas 1970)

Travelled with mate around New Zealand (1990)

Visited friend in Seattle (1996)

Visited gf in South Korea (1998)

Trip to Hong Kong with gf (Mar 2000)

2 Day trip into China Shenzhen & Guangzhou (Mar 2000)

Day trip to Japan Osaka (May 2001)

Trip to China with gf Beijing & Great Wall (Oct 2001)

European Trip with gf (Late Feb - April 2003)

France	Spain	Monaco	Italy	Greece	Switzerland
Budapest, Hungary	Czech Republic	Austria	Germany	Amsterdam, Netherlands	England

North American Trip with gf (Mid-May - June 2006)

USA East & West coasts

Canada Ontario & Quebec

Day trip to Mexico Tijuana

Asia & Middle East Trip with gf (Mid-May - June 2007)

Thailand Bangkok

Iran

Dubai, UAE

[edit] My Wikipedia spelling fixes

Wikipedia:Typo

• disambiguation <- disambig
• Australia <- Austrailia
• Australian <- Austrailian
• Britain (place) <- Britian, Brittain^{Too many}, Brittian
• British <- Brittish
• Briton (person) <- Britian, Britain
• Canada <- Canda
• Canadian <- Candian
• concede <- conceed
• conceded <- conceeded
• concedes <- conceeds
• conceding <- conceeding
• copyright (c) <- copywrite
• Emperor <- Emporer, Emperer, Emporor
• February <- Feburary, Febuary, Februray
• foreword <- foreward
• Philippines <- Philipines, Phillipines, Phillippines
• precede <- preceed
• preceded <- preceeded
• precedes <- preceedes
• preceding <- preceeding
• procedings <- preceedings
• proceed <- procede
• proceeded <- proceded
• proceeds <- procedes
• proceedings <- procedings
• receive <- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=recieve&fulltext=Search recieve]
• Thoroughbred <- Throughbred

[edit] My Wikipedia Standards fixes

• WWI <- WW1 (ie number 1 should be Roman Numeral i)
• WWII <- WW2

[edit] Wikipedia pages created

• Brittain disambiguation page
• Eck disambiguation page
• Stover (disambiguation) page

[edit] Wikipedia page updates

• Rabi disambiguation page
• Mid-air collision

[edit] Notes to Myself

• To add a WikiPage to a WikiCategory, edit the WikiPage & add the WikiCategory at the bottom of the WikiPage
• Talk:The Mighty Kinkle <- good intro page
• &nbsp ; = non-breaking space
• &mdash ; = long dash
• <nowiki> Add-text-not-to-be-wikified-here </nowiki>
• <!-- comment goes here -->

[edit] Funny pages

• Category:Practical jokes <- links to "Category".
• Wikipedia:Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense
• Wikipedia:No climbing the Reichstag dressed as Spider-Man

[edit] Interesting pages

• Deception
• Fraud
• Hoax
• Practical joke
• Robert Hendy-Freegard
• Scam
• Snipe hunt, aka fool's errand or wild goose chase
• Cyclone tracks
• Grand Designs, British house-building series
• Top Gear, British car series
• US Currency

[edit] What should I believe?

• Flying Spaghetti Monster
• Invisible Pink Unicorn
• Parody religion
• Russell's teapot

[edit] Reporting Vandalism

• WP:ANI - Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents