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Hello! edit

I'm Marc, and I've decided to put my unstoppable talent for spotting spelling and grammar problems to good use.

I also thought I should contribute something new, having some knowledge of:

Biology;
Chemistry;
Computing;
Photography; and
Countless items of random trivia that my brain seems to spend most of its time collecting.

I hope that I can add useful information to a resource that's frequently been of benefit to me, even if it's limited to translating the work of others, or adding coordinates to anything that ~~moves~~ doesn't move.

Ja ne.

Wikipedia:Translation edit

/Translations: articles I've translated or proofread, or I'm currently translating/proofreading.

German to English edit

Wikipedia:Translation/*/Lang/de: all German to English translations, plus Translation Request form.
Category:Translation Request/de: requested translations.
Category:Translation In Progress/de: articles undergoing translation.
Category:Proofreaders Needed/de: translated articles needing proofreaders.
Category:Completed Translation/de: completed translations.
Wikipedia:Translation/*/Featured Articles/German: featured articles that could be translated.

Creations edit

I'm more of a fixer than a creator here, but I have added some new pages, listed below for simplified tracking:

Articles edit

Bremen City Hall: a translation from the German Wikipedia's Bremer Rathaus.
Bremen Roland: another, related translation; technically, still in progress.
José de Guimarães: a Portuguese artist who made tiles for the Berlin U-Bahn.
Jacobsthal number: completing the named Lucas sequence articles.
Ernst Jacobsthal: the mathematician who gave his name to the Jacobsthal numbers.

Redirects edit

Pontycymmer → Pontycymer: an alternative spelling that I personally don't use.
Innsbrucker Platz (Berlin U-Bahn) → Innsbrucker Platz: more of a placeholder in case the target article becomes solely about the square, but also for consistency with other U-Bahn station articles, which generally end " (Berlin U-Bahn)".
Rathaus Spandau (Berlin U-Bahn) → Rathaus Spandau: similar reason to the above.
Jacobsthal numbers → Jacobsthal number: plural form is perhaps just as likely in a search.

Templates edit

Proofreader needed: a template to draw attention to the need for proofreading an article.
Berlin U-Bahn lines: a template to add to the bottom of Berlin U-Bahn line articles (such as U9 (Berlin U-Bahn)) with links to the other lines.

Adverts edit

Wikipedia:Translation wiki-ad: currently displayed at the top of this page.

Milestones edit

Killer Instinct: first accountable edit - a typo fix and minor copy edit.
Saint Thomas Church (Strasbourg): the first translation for Wikipedia - from Thomaskirche (Straßburg).
Henry's law versus Raoult's law: first new information added - clarification and expansion of existing section.
Bremen City Hall: the first page I brought into existence - another translation, from de:Bremer Rathaus.
Template:Proofreader needed: the first template I thought could be useful; used to potentially recruit proofreaders.