Charles01

Wikipedia:Babel

Today is 19 April 2024

This user can contribute with a near-native level of English.

Mix

This user has been influenced by too many dialects of English to use one orthography, vocabulary and grammar consistently.

de-2

Dieser Benutzer hat fortgeschrittene Deutschkenntnisse.

fr-2

Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau intermédiaire en français.

it-1

Questo utente può contribuire con un livello semplice di italiano.

nl-1

Deze gebruiker bezit beginnende kennis van het Nederlands.

la-0

Hic usor linguam latinam non intellegit aut eam intellegit aegre.

den-0

Dieser User findet Denglisch uncool.

This user has been on Wikipedia for 17 years, 9 months and 7 days.

This user contributes using GIMP.

This user knows that 42 is the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.

This user supports the
European Union

This user is in favour of EU enlargement in a westerly direction.

This user wants Zug
to adopt the euro.

This user drinks coffee.

This user has eaten Vegemite and is thankfully still alive.

This user eats fish.

Secondhand smoke is one of this user's pet peeves.

C₂H₅OH-1

This user drinks relatively infrequently. they are probably the better for it.

This user firmly believes that this is a better world because of the presence of dogs.

This user assumes good faith.

This user believes that deletion should only be used for
redundancies and vandalism.

This user thinks that registration should be required to edit articles in categories that attract persistent anonymous trolling.

This user is a Cantabrigian.

This user took part in University Challenge for Downing College in 1976

This user has visited 14 of the 50 United States.

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This user has visited
11 of the 16
Bundesländer of Germany

11

This user has visited 12 of the 20 regions (regioni) of Italy.

12

This user has visited 48 of the 48 counties of England.

48

This user has visited the Vatican City.

This user has visited Wales.

This user knows that
Black Lives Matter.

This user is a participant in
WikiProject Germany.

This user is a participant in WikiProject France.

This user is currently working on
a translation of de:Deidesheim.

This user is a participant in
WikiProject Automobiles.

This user participates in
WikiProject Highways.

This user is currently working on
a translation of Strada Europea E62.

This user loves pasta.

This user knows that bears are Godless killing machines.

This user misses Pluto. May its planethood rest in peace.

103,000+

This user has made more than 103,000 contributions to Wikipedia, over 1 of which were to articles.

(wiki - en)

117,000+

This user has made more than 117,000 contributions to Wikipedia, over 1 of which were to articles.

(wiki - all)

808

This user is ranked 808 on the list of Wikipedians by number of edits.

This user believes that a user's edit count does not necessarily reflect on the value of their contributions to Wikipedia.

This user has helped translate several corresponding articles into English from other-language Wikipedias.

4

This user thinks BBC Radio 4 is worth the licence fee alone.

Diese(r) Benutzer/in fände es toll, einen Dinosaurier als Haustier zu haben.

This user is a recipient of the Editor of the Week award.

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This user had access to HighBeam through The Wikipedia Library.

This user was up all night finding userboxes and now needs to sleep

Mother Tongue edit

British English

Formal Education edit

UK History Degree: MA Hons (Cantab) acquired in return for a BA Hons (Cantab) and a modest fee
UK Accountancy qualification (ACA).

Informal Education edit

Going Places
Listening (the tough one)

Interests edit

Much of what I can understand and some of what I can't and/or don't and/or won't
Historical Context and Perspectives
Places
Languages
Cars
Food
Ancestors

Wiki Strengths / Wiki Weaknesses edit

Interest in Knowledge
Caution about opinions (especially those I don't share)
Caution about unconsidered base assumptions acquired while growing up (or not: especially other folks')
Pedantic
Tolerant (or?...)
Still bad at succinct (but still working on it)
Excessive weakness for ill considered aphorisms (evidenced by the irritating little boxes to the right)
Parentheses (brackets)

Dependencies edit

Coffee
Threat of various incipient wiki related conditions
GeoGuessr

15 minutes edit

University Challenge team member 1975 (recorded) / 1976 (transmitted). 3 rounds won: knocked out by that year's tournament winning team. I know I answered at least one question correctly myself, though that might have been in the practice round...memories fade.

Res gestae edit

My Wikipedia history

Cars edit

I have been photographing cars, in less hectic periods of my life, for more than 40 years. There have been those who have found the habit eccentric or worse. Opportunities presented by Wikipedia induced me to rediscover the addiction with renewed vigo(u)r. The pictures of cars I have uploaded to Wikipedia are uploaded either because I think they are good pictures or because - at least when I uploaded the picture in question - they were "better" than any existing pictures of the car in question on Wikipedia. "Better" here is, of course, in large part a subjective judgement. Naturally I try and take pictures the way I like them: who wouldn't? But lighting conditions and surrounding streetscapes do not always cooperate.

Pictures by Charles01 of cars

1974

1984

2018

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