User:szyslak
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My name's Ben
- As a Wikipedian, I'm really nothing special. All I do is fix typos, edit pages on useless pop culture topics and other wastes of time. I'm lazy, so I don't do anything useful. I have no featured articles and never will.
- I'm named after this fictional character.
About my old sig
- Q: What are those ugly characters in your sig? Why can't my browser display them properly?
- A: My former sig is an International Phonetic Alphabet transcription of my user name, with links to my talk and contribution pages written in "phonological feature notation":
- Before November 9, 2005, I used the IPA template to generate the IPA characters while avoiding the Unicode display problems in Internet Exploder 6 for Windows and older browsers. I switched to an image because, at the time, I thought an image would be less of a drain on the servers than a template-generated signature. Talk page comments made before I changed to an image may not display properly in some older browsers and operating systems.
- The special characters represent the following sounds:
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ɪ: this small capital "I" represents the English "short I" sound, as in "bin." æ: this symbol, the a-e ligature or "ash," stands for the English "short A," as in "hat."
Userboxes
About me
This user is male.
This user lives in or hails from Los Angeles.I love NY This user ♥ NY.
This user is left-handed.
This user was born during the Carter administration
This user is of Irish ancestry.UCSC This user attends or attended the
University of California,
Santa Cruz
University of California,
Santa Cruz
BA This user has a Bachelor of Arts degree in linguistics.
This user contributes using Mozilla Firefox.
This user runs Mac OS X.G4 This user still uses a Power Mac G4.
This user is a Sagittarius.
Wikiprojects and philosophy
3 It's really pretty simple:
→ Mind NPOV â†
→ Don't be a dick â†
→ Ignore all rules â†
→ Mind NPOV â†
→ Don't be a dick â†
→ Ignore all rules â†
This user has been a member of Wikipedia since August 10, 2004.
A LOT This user has read 2,627,096 Wikipedia articles.
Wikipedia is not censored.
This editor is not an administrator and does not wish to be one.admin+ This user feels that criteria for adminship are generally too high
This user has rollback rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify)
This user values the quality of Wikipedia articles over the quantity and thus supports the merging of related content and deletion of articles that violate policies and guidelines.1RR This user prefers discussing changes on the talkpage rather than engaging in an edit war.
Chicago,
Illinois This user thinks articles about large U.S. cities should be titled simply "City", not "City, State".
Illinois
This user was a member of the inactive League of Copyeditors.
This user is a member ofWikiProject California.
UC This user is a member of
WikiProject
University of California
WikiProject
University of California
Languages and usage
de-1 Dieser Benutzer hat grundlegende Deutschkenntnisse.
la-1 Hic usor simplici latinitate contribuere potest.
they… This user considers singular they standard, modern, informal English usage, so avoids it on Wikipedia.
to¦go This user chooses to sometimes use split infinitives.
by The passive voice may be used by this user.
to / too
/ two This user thinks that too many people have no idea how to use words that they should have learned in grade two.
/ two This user thinks that too many people have no idea how to use words that they should have learned in grade two.
which & that This user joins with Dickens, Melville, and other great writers[1] in rejecting the canard that which may not be used for restrictive relative clauses.
their / there / they’re This user thinks that there are too many people who don’t know that they’re worse than their own children at spelling!
its & it’s This user understands the difference between its and it’s. So should you.
’s Thi's user know's that not every word that end's with s need's an apostrophe and will remove misused apostrophe's from Wikipedia with extreme prejudice.
Just for fun
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d'oh! This user thinks The Simpsons is simply...excellent.
Lisa If anyone wants this user, they'll be in their room...
What kind of userbox is that?
What kind of userbox is that?
CBG This is, without a doubt, the worst userbox ever!
This user must save the cheerleader to save the world.
This user loves blue cheese.
This user does drugs.INO
This user knows that In-N-Out is what a hamburger's all about.
This user knows that In-N-Out is what a hamburger's all about.
Here are some tasks you can do:
Wikify: Practising Law Institute, Sunil Verma, Dennis Foon, Westside Barbell, Limite (film), Decebalus Treasure, More... Copyedit: Emai people, Zuria, Radu Ştefan Mazăre, Jordan Opoku, The Hearts (W.I.T.C.H.), Sherif Arafa, More... Update: Daz Eden, Sandy Thomas, Toni Daggert, Militaria, Debbie Dingle, Chas Dingle, More... Style: O2 Optix, Geist, Lipoid congenital adrenal hyperplasia, Metapneumovirus, Babylon's Ark, European Movement UK, More... Cleanup: Mason's Invariant, European tort law, Max Hamburger, Access Point Name, Classic Empire (computer game), Taikichi Irie, More... Verify: Metronome, Oil Platforms (Islamic Republic of Iran v. United States of America), Qur'an, Eligmodontia, Muscomorpha, Caledonia Opera House, More... Neutrality: Aka Adek Mba, Cricket 07, Graham Bell (singer), Ethel Walker School, Military Covenant, Iraq–United States relations, More... Original research: Wedge Antilles, Ghostbusters (franchise), The Centurions (TV series), Euro-Trance, Jeff Tortora, African Unification Front, Carbon tax, Meritocracy, Entryism, Exit number, More... Merge: Silk, Access to the Region’s Core, Trans-Hudson Express Tunnel, Witchcraft in Italy, Grace Jones discography, Grace Jones singles discography, More... Articles to be split: Republican People's Party (Turkey), More... Stubs: Measurement standards laboratory, Mid-volume transaction output, Marketing Fair, Institute for the Management of Information Systems, Linkage principle, Meriam Report, More... Expand: Friedrich Georg Hendel, Shawnta Rogers, Raise the Roof (Luke song), Terfeziaceae, FAME Studios, Emergency care assistant, Modal verb, Invasive species in the British Isles, More... Article Requests: Brillouin's theorem, Ewald Weibel, Islamic liturgy, Batwing Coral Crab, Constitution of Kenya, Ashre, Trevor disease, Piet Botha, Cucurbita mixta, Olympic Australis, More... Image Requests: Mount Naeba, Fat choy, Norwegian Royal Regalia, AstroTurf, Rio Cuarto craters, Poisar River, Europorte 2, Australian Catholic University, More... Mediation Cabal: Space music, DCEETA, Homosexual transsexual, or Help mediate an open case!
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