Mensch muß noch Chaos in sich haben, um tanzende Sterne gebären zu können. - Nietzsche
I2nAg, Patron Saint of Pedants
Hello there, I am It's-is-not-a-genitive, named due to my intolerance for incorrect apostrophes, or (ˈɑndʀiɛt ˈpsɑʀiʃ) in real life, which I add out of intrigue for those boxes. Having lived in the English midlands for some years, I now reside in Lleida, Catalonia, though I will soon be going out on a six-month visit to New Caledonia. I work by day as a sociolinguist, specialising in phonology and society. I work by night as a voracious writer, artist, musician, comic, actor/director with a bit of an Orson Welles complex, the whole curious gamut.
I have been contributing to Wikipedia on this account since May 2005, although I contributed to Wikipedia from quite a long time before this through the means of a string of IP accounts. Over time, I have submitted quite a number of articles, either on areas of personal study or interest, or by means of translating them, which has often ended up with me learning quite a bit about new subjects. As an old-fashioned polymath with boundless curiosity and a restless mind, Wikipedia is a natural home for me, and I often love to delve into it hours at a time, exploring the sometimes obscure.
Over here I do a lot of copyediting, some of which worsens my mental health, and I also do a lot of translations - ones that have been requested, if I can get my mitts on them first, and ones that have not but that I consider worthy when browsing another language Wikipedia. I am committed to the eradication of common spelling mistakes and of 'it's' when misused instead of 'its,' something which gets my blood boiling. I am also firmly behind the replacement of horrid and often inaccurate 'phonetic' transcription with the true phonetic system, the IPA, both of which I will almost definitely talk about later.
[edit] Recent Contributions
- 1947-48 Palestinian Civil War
- Cafe Disaffecto
- Miossec
- Adélaïde Dufrénoy
- Anglo-Saxon Commons
- The Invitation
- Pénjamo
- Martians, Go Home
- Pavement Template
- Ambrós
- Bojan
- Génération Écologie
- Bodger and Badger (major wikification, copywriting, etc)
- Debra
- Loser,
- It's All In Your Mind,
- French Guiana Creole
- Manifesto of the Anti-Fascist Intellectuals (from Italian)
- San Antonio de Palé (from Spanish)
- Human Rights in Bangladesh
- Léon Bertrand (from French)
- Bhekimpi Dlamini
- ShamRain
- Luc Etienne Périn
- Bergur Sigurbjörnsson
- Ani DiFranco template
- Either/Or,
- M96 motorway,
- No. 3 Squadron, IAF
- Tramways in Grenoble
- Ami Suzuki (intense copyediting)
- Qusai ibn Kilab,
- Hunting, Fishing, Nature, Tradition
- Girlfriends (magazine)
- Divanee Magazine
- RIHPHC
- E. Balanandan
- Bjarne Hoyer
- Yardley,
- Birmingham Yardley,
- David Davis
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[edit] Barnstars
I also do a lot of removing "it's" where "its" should be, and vice versa. For this, I was really kindly rewarded the minor edits barnstar and the Copyeditor's barnstar. For the combination of strict grammar and humour, I was also very kindly given the barnstar of good humour. Thank you all.
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The Minor Barnstar |
| A Barnstar for doing minor edits of excellent quality, helping the Wikipedia community understand that It's-is-not-a-genitive. -Ambuj Saxena (talk) 13:57, 1 June 2006 (UTC) |
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The Barnstar of Good Humor |
| For coming up with the best username ever. Thanks, you made my day. Melsaran (formerly Salaskаn) 18:21, 3 August 2007 (UTC) |
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The Copyeditor's Barnstar |
| Welcome back to Wikipedia! The number of incorrect "it's" has only grown in your absence. Here's hoping your return will end their reign of terror. :) Firsfron of Ronchester 11:25, 21 June 2009 (UTC) |
