User:Charles01

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Today is 13 June 2008.
en-4 This user speaks English at a near-native level.
Mix This user has been influenced by too many dialects of English to use one orthography, vocabulary and grammar consistently.
de-1 Dieser Benutzer hat grundlegende Deutschkenntnisse.
fr-1 Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau élémentaire de français.
it-0 Questo utente non capisce l'italiano
nl-0 Deze gebruiker begrijpt geen Nederlands.
la-0 Hic usor aut nullo pacto aut aegre Latine intellegere potis est.
This user supports the
English cricket team.
E
 This user reads The Economist.
This user supports the
European Union
This user wants Zug
to adopt the euro.
This user drinks coffee.


This user has eaten Vegemite and is thankfully still alive.
Secondhand smoke is one of this user's pet peeves.
C2H5OH-1 This user drinks relatively infrequently. He or she is probably the better for it.
This user assumes good faith.
This user believes that deletion should only be used for
redundancies and vandalism.


This user is a Cantabrigian.
This user has visited 14 of the 50 States.
 14
WikiProject Germany This user is a member of WikiProject Germany.

This user is currently working on
a translation of de:Deidesheim.
This user is a member of WikiProject Automobiles.
52.5px This user is a member of the WikiProject Highways.

This user is currently working on
a translation of Strada Europea E62.
This user loves pasta.
This user was up all night finding userboxes and now needs to sleep

[edit] Mother Tongue

[edit] Formal Education

  • UK History Degree: MA Hons (Cantab) acquired in return for a BA Hons (Cantab) and a modest fee
  • UK Accountancy qualification (ACA).

[edit] Informal Education

  • Going Places
  • Listening (the tough one)

[edit] Interests

  • Much of what I can understand and some of what I can't and/or don't and/or won't
  • Historical Context and Perspectives
  • Places
  • Languages
  • Cars
  • Food
  • Ancestors

[edit] Wiki Strengths / Wiki Weaknesses

  • Interest in Knowlege
  • Caution about opinions (especially those I don't share)
  • Caution about unconsidered base assumptions acquired while growing up (or not: especially other folks')
  • Pedantic
  • Tolerant (or?...)
  • Still bad at succinct (but still working on it)
  • Excessive weakness for ill considered aphorisms (evidenced by the irritating little boxes to the right)
  • Parentheses (brackets)

[edit] Drug Dependencies

  • Coffee
  • Threat of various incipient wiki related conditions