User:OlEnglish

elcome to my little corner of this vast space that is Wikipedia! I'm just a regular guy, living in Surrey, BC; don't have much to say about myself. My user page is currently under renovations. If anyone wants to volunteer to help me improve this page or make a helpful suggestion they are most welcome to; leave me a message on my talk page. As for my editing style, I make mostly minor "clean-up" edits to any articles on any subject. I try to find a way to improve any article I come across and generally do a little bit of everything, from patrolling new pages to fighting vandalism, believing it'll improve the whole. I guess I would classify myself as a WikiGnome, albeit a very obsessive-compulsive one. :) Although I'm kind of leery about Wikipedia:Flagged Revisions, I have lots of faith in Wikipedia and its policy of "anyone can edit" and have great hope for the future of Wikipedia. It may be that one anonymous IP making one minor contribution such as fixing a typo is analogous to contributing to the content of the ocean by spitting in it, but when that one contributor is combined with thousands others doing the same thing... when you look it at as a whole picture, then it makes a big difference in the grand scheme of things. So each little contribution from anonymous IP's are useful and worth it and much appreciated by the Wikipedia community.

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Thank you for your note about my being an elder (eldest?) Wikipedia editor. And not only that: it prompted me to visit your very impressive Talk site. CoppBob (talk) 01:37, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

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