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My name's Ben. I just graduated from the [[University of California, Santa Cruz]] with a BA in [[linguistics]]. Thus ends my career as a perpetual student. My next career will be as an overseas [[English language|English]] teacher, partly because I want to spend some time out of this country. (As an American, I feel obliged to remind non-Americans that not all of us like [[George W. Bush|Bush]].) |
My name's Ben. I just graduated from the [[University of California, Santa Cruz]] with a BA in [[linguistics]]. Thus ends my career as a perpetual student. My next career will be as an overseas [[English language|English]] teacher, partly because I want to spend some time out of this country. (As an American, I feel obliged to remind non-Americans that not all of us like [[George W. Bush|Bush]].) |
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My name's Ben. I just graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz with a BA in linguistics. Thus ends my career as a perpetual student. My next career will be as an overseas English teacher, partly because I want to spend some time out of this country. (As an American, I feel obliged to remind non-Americans that not all of us like Bush.)
My hometown is the foggy beach town of Ventura, California. The thing I like best about Ventura is that it's not Oxnard.
I'm named after this fictional character.
Bio
- Wikipedian since: August 2004
- Hobbies: Reading Wikipedia, writing Wikipedia and, uh, renewing Wikipedia. (That's loosely based on a line from this really cool TV show. It's called The Simpsons. Have you heard about that show? You should check it out.)
- My score on the Are You a Wikipediholic test: 144 and going up every day
My brag list
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Pages I've created
- Extension conflict - Did You Know feature for May 25, 2005
- Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk
- Template:Ling-stub
- Vector Marketing
Pages I've done a lot of work on
- Christopher Collins
- Jim Ladd
- The articles about UCSC's residential colleges: Cowell, Stevenson, Crown, Merrill, Porter, Kresge, Oakes, College Eight, College Nine and College Ten
- My current projects
Though I've created my share of new articles, a good part of my work here has been those dreary but important jobs that keep Wikipedia running smoothly and looking pretty: copyediting, cleanup, RC patrol and vandal reverts. My biggest copyedit project to date has been Great ape language, which I spent three hours changing from this daunting, ungrammatical, POV-ridden mess to this more readable version.
I'm also a regular at the AfD page, with the goal of purging Wikipedia of vanity, fancruft and other nonsense. My basic principle as far as that goes is improving Wikipedia's overall quality as much as possible and getting rid of non-notable stuff. I'm a moderate deletionist, but I tend to be soft on lists and trivia-type articles.
About my sig
Q: What are those ugly characters in your sig? Why can't my browser display them properly?
A: In a homage to the great discipline of linguistics, my 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 to avoid the server drain of 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."
You can help improve the articles listed below! This list updates frequently, so check back here for more tasks to try. (See Wikipedia:Maintenance or the Task Center for further information.)
Help counter systemic bias by creating new articles on important women.
Help improve popular pages, especially those of low quality.