User:szyslak

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.

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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":

[ +t, +c, +m, +e ]

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:

• 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."

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Userboxes

About me This user is male. This user lives in or hails from Los Angeles. I love NY This user ♥ NY. This user has visited 23 of the 50 United States. 23 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 BA This user has a Bachelor of Arts degree in linguistics. This user contributes using Safari. This user contributes using Mozilla Firefox. This user runs Mac OS X. This user contributes using an iMac. This user is a Sagittarius. This user is straight but not narrow.

Wikiprojects and philosophy 3 It's really pretty simple: → Mind NPOV | Don't be a dick ← → Ignore all rules ← This user has been a member of Wikipedia since August 10, 2004. A LOT This user has read 3,894,865 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) del This editor is a deletionist. 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". This user was a member of the inactive League of Copyeditors. This user is a member of WikiProject California. UC This user is a member of WikiProject University of California

Languages and usage en This user is a native speaker of English. es-3 Este usuario puede contribuir con un nivel avanzado de español. 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. 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 Add This user is found on many internet communities. f This user diligently maintains a facebook profile 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? Moe This user wants someone to check the Men's Room for a Hugh Jass. CBG This is, without a doubt, the worst userbox ever! LOST 4…8…15…16…23…42… This user is LOST… This user must save the cheerleader to save the world. This user prefers New York-style pizza. This user loves blue cheese. This user does drugs. INO This user knows that In-N-Out is what a hamburger's all about.

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Here are some tasks you can do:

• Wikify: The Magical Bag of Mathematical Tricks, The Impossible Dreamers, Samuel Brewer, George Brewer, Arthur Brett, More...
• Orphans: West Ham Church School, Edgar Earl Christopher, Sárig es kit kígyó, Fred Oldfield, First Act Custom Shop, More...
• Copyedit: Clock ident, Twitch gameplay, Caffeinated alcoholic drinks, SKS Microfinance, Gabriel (missile), More...
• Update: 2010–2012 Southern United States drought, Jumeirah Lake Towers, Matt Krug, Congleton Town F.C., Madrid system, More...
• Style: Anteversion, The Vertebrats, The Iron Heel, Feminist movement, Ravi Varma V, More...
• Translation: Rio–São Paulo high-speed rail, Julio César Chaves, Esteban Manuel de Villegas, Diapori, Lemnos, Magyar Televízió, More...
• Cleanup: Farsala Trilogy, Dan Mintz, Šest dana juna (album), Mozambique national roller hockey team, Tongan mythology, More...
• Verify: The LEAGUE (nonprofit), Charles Gibson, NI Tank, Osteodontornis, Waterloo Tunnel, More...
• Neutrality: Nottingham Trent University, School of Art and Design, Network economy, California National Primate Research Center, Ars Amatoria, Indian Mujahideen, More...
• Original research: La Dolce Vita, Petrocaribe, Civil religion, Ontario Highway 407, Magic in the Greco-Roman world, More...
• Merge: Gaseous fire suppression, Common minimum programme, Artificial kidney, Upper Rhine Plain, Airtecture, More...
• Split: WGN-TV, Web 2.0, Extra Credits, Takashi Yanase, Flame of Hope, More...
• Stubs: Joaquín Vallejo Arbeláez, King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table, James M. Garnett, Alayaya, Eric Ward, More...
• Expand: Segment tree, Zero (video game magazine), UnrealEd, Regulation and monitoring of pollution, Imed Trabelsi, More...
• Article Incubator: Podaa Podi, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (2011 film), Modulus Financial Engineering, Neenyo, Papulankutja Aboriginal artists, More...
• Article deletion discussions: Organizations, United States of America, Deletion, Fictional elements, Websites, More...
• Article Requests: Banking in Colombia, Johanna Dohnal, Geology of Germany, Poverty in Japan, Katz syndrome, More...
• Image Requests: Austrobaileya, Umba River (Tanzania), Utsul, North American Lutheran Church, Corydoras geoffroy, More...
• Mediation Cabal: or Help mediate an open case!

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Multi-licensed into the public domain

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