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This user knows 250 digits of pi. |
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This user prefers metric units and cannot figure out why Americans have such a hard time with them. |
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This user plays golf. |
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This user believes the world would be a happier, safer and saner place without religion. |
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Not enough people know the difference between loose and lose. Do you? |
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- Have been quietly looking and editing articles for around a year. Would like to have done more, but I do have a job.
- Only now have begun to appreciate what work a good wikipedian does.
- Still learning and discovering all the options and tools.
- The signal to noise ratio is surprisingly good. Logically, wikipedia should not work. This surprises me every day.
- I live in the best place in the world. But I can't tell you where - because if lots of people find out they'll come here and ruin it. It's a long way from most places though.
- I'm an accredited Rules of Golf official.
- I play chess and enjoy chess problems. Is the one I invented below in 1981 the simplest one possible?
- I'm an experienced amateur photographer. Check out http://users.bigpond.net.au/jimpalfreyman for some of my successful shots. If you think a Wikipedia article needs a good photo donated and I am in a position to take it - send me a note.
- Things in wikipedia that annoy me:
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- Poor readability. Especially conversion of units. SI is used across the world and putting little known units in all articles to cater for three countries and 4% of the population (and under 16% of the English speaking population) is just bizarre.
- Non neutral point of view. But I admit it's harder to write than it looks.
- Incorrect use of the apostrophe on words ending in "s":
- Jim's house - the house belongs to Jim.
- James's house - the house belongs to James.
- The student's house - the house belongs to a student.
- The students' house - the house belongs to not one student but a group of students.
- James' house - the house belongs to not one Jame but a group of James. (This only makes sense if Jame is say a surname!)
Jim Palfreyman
Simplest chess problem of all time?
White to move and mate in two.