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Map of Norway from 1668

Interests

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I've been editing Wikipedia since adding my first article 19 years, 9 months and 7 days ago and am proud to have started 430 surviving articles of Wikipedia's 6,921,561 articles, as well as contributing to a few others. I'm currently wandering about Wikipedia, fixing things when the urge hits me, and adding articles when they seem needed. I'm mostly interested in things Scandinavian/Baltic and North American.

Introduction to Williamborg

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Favorite quotes

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"Everything's wrong on Wikipedia." Gore Vidal

"Don't take life so serious, son, it ain't nohow permanent." Walt Kelly

"Zurück geht kein Weg", sagte er ernst und freundlich, "man muß immer vorwärtsgehen, wenn man die Welt ergründen will." Herman Hesse 'Märchen'

Here is Edward Bear coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way . . . if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it!A.A. Milne Winnie-the-pooh

"De store seire er aldri vunnet i det første slag." Johan Falkberget

"La perfection est atteinte, non pas lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à ajouter, mais lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à retirer." Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900 - 1944)

"One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born." Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"Dimidium facti qui coepit habet: sapere aude" ("He who has begun is half done: dare to know!"). Epistle II of Horace's Epistularum liber primus, line 40]

"A leader is best when people barely know that he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worst when they despise him. Fail to honor people, They fail to honor you. But of a good leader, who talks little, when his work is done, his aims fulfilled, they will all say, `We did this ourselves.`" Laozi

Mainspace contributions

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Affiliations

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Williamborg (talk · contribs · count) Williamborg (talkcontribsnon-automated contribswikicheckercounttotallogspage movesblock logemail)

This user is a member of
WikiProject Norway.
This user is a member of the WikiProject Sweden.
This user is a participant of WikiProject Physics.
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WikiProject Engineering

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WikiProject Geology.






Thoughts on administration by various folks

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This list plagurizes (in the best Wikipedia user-left tradition) part of Petros471's list.

Tools

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Monday December 9 10:15 2024

Category:Wikipedia tools
Category:Wikipedia backlog
Wikipedia:Template messages/Sources of articles
Help:Formula
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