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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.
If you want to know more about who I am, check out *blush* Harald Tveit Alvestrand.
These days, I don't do much Wikipedia stuff - I've been working over at Geni.com instead.
But most of my on-Wiki time is spent on Wikipedia:Find-A-Grave famous people - which started as a list of ~46.000 persons that might or might not have a Wikipedia article, now whittled down to ~13.000 names of people who probably don't have one. I regard this as a perfect channel for the "do something else" urge that tends to strike at inopportune moments - you can do a worthwhile effort (like search for a person under different spellings and note the result) in a minute or two while waiting for something to compile, or you can check out fifty while lending an ear to the evening news.
Other projects I've been dabbling in:
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):
Stuff I look for all the time:
Stuff I've started or significantly edited (kept here because my watchlist is too long):
These are pages I tend to check out when they appear on my watchlist, because of my history with them:
As part of copyvio stuff and dead-end pages work, I've touched a lot of pages. Some of them rather forcefully.
Latest watch: Pepe Iglesias - exists on other Wikipedia, made an extreme-stub with a translate request. Waited to see if someone picks it up before creating more from the F-A-G people with articles on other Wikipedias - it did happen, but it took 6 months. Useful as calibration.
Learn to use {{cite book}} and {{cite journal}} and apply them to pages above
More generic: Wikipedia:Template messages/Sources of articles
OnWikipedia: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 (see Wikipedia:Editcountitis for details).
And - someone's nominated me for adminship. Successfully.
I used to have on my projects list:
But after this discussion, there doesn't seem much point to continuing the work.
Where else should one keep these?
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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) |
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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) |
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What a Brilliant Idea Barnstar | |
| For finding the sources for Merck headquarters, couldn't have done it without you! MBisanz talk 19:49, 12 October 2008 (UTC) |
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The Articles for Creation Barnstar | |
| For helping to complete the OBI missing biographies list!Jokestress (talk) 21:08, 23 April 2009 (UTC) |
 | This user has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian and was awarded his own day. |
