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.

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

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

This user uses Commonwealth spelling. byThis user does not use the passive voice. their there they'reThis user thinks that there are too many people who don’t know that they're worse than their own children at spelling!

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

COBOLThis user can program in COBOL. BASICThis user can program in BASIC. forThis user can program in Fortran.

This user is interested in World War I (1914–1918) and World War II (1939–1945). This user is interested in the British Empire. This user is interested in the history of the United States.

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

PALThis 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. CSIThis user follows the evidence.

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.

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

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 <- recieve
• Thoroughbred <- Throughbred

My Wikipedia Standards fixes

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

Wikipedia pages created

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

Wikipedia page updates

• Rabi disambiguation page
• Mid-air collision

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 -->

Funny pages

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

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

What should I believe?

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

Reporting Vandalism

• WP:ANI - Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents