Note on languages: I can read Danish, Swedish and Nynorsk pretty fluently (especially nynorsk) - everyone who speaks Norwegian will do, because of how closely the languages are related. But asking me to write Danish and Swedish will be a disaster. In German, which I've studied for years in high school, I get the sense of the text, more or less.

If you want to know more about who I am, check out *blush* Harald Tveit Alvestrand.

Projects

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These days, I don't do much Wikipedia stuff - I've been working over at Geni.com instead.

But most of my on-Wiki time is spent on Wikipedia:Find-A-Grave famous people - which started as a list of ~46.000 persons that might or might not have a Wikipedia article, now whittled down to ~13.000 names of people who probably don't have one. I regard this as a perfect channel for the "do something else" urge that tends to strike at inopportune moments - you can do a worthwhile effort (like search for a person under different spellings and note the result) in a minute or two while waiting for something to compile, or you can check out fifty while lending an ear to the evening news.

Other projects I've been dabbling in:

The only excuse for my obsession with that particular letter is my middle name....

I have promised to help with:

Also (things that I note here so that I do not forget):

References

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Stuff I look for all the time:

Contributions

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Stuff I've started or significantly edited (kept here because my watchlist is too long):

Pages I watch

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These are pages I tend to check out when they appear on my watchlist, because of my history with them:

As part of copyvio stuff and dead-end pages work, I've touched a lot of pages. Some of them rather forcefully.

Latest watch: Pepe Iglesias - exists on other Wikipedia, made an extreme-stub with a translate request. Waited to see if someone picks it up before creating more from the F-A-G people with articles on other Wikipedias - it did happen, but it took 6 months. Useful as calibration.

TODO list

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Learn to use {{cite book}} and {{cite journal}} and apply them to pages above

More generic: Wikipedia:Template messages/Sources of articles

Signs of serious brain damage

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On Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits of September 23, 2006, I was listed as #2210, with 4366 edits.

  • Nov 4, 2006: #2045 - 5262. Worse and worse.
  • Nov 30, 2006: #1892 - 5965.
  • 9 February 2007: #1798 - 7065
  • 27 May 2007: #1660 - 8956
  • 2 August 2007: #1639 - 9793
  • 1 November 2007: #1410 - 12349
  • 20 January 2008: #1251 - 14604
  • 23 July 2008: #1410 - 15462 (hooray - finally falling!)
  • 25 February 2009: #1154 - 21538 (ouch. Up again.)
  • 22 April 2009: #1134 - 22417
  • 19 February 2011: #1381 - 26,136. 2010 was a quiet year

The signs of brain damage is that I care enough to note it, and that my user page is the first place I think of to jot down that fact.... of course, number of edits are meaningless (see Wikipedia:Editcountitis for details).

And - someone's nominated me for adminship. Successfully.

In memoriam

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I used to have on my projects list:

But after this discussion, there doesn't seem much point to continuing the work.

And some other stuff

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Where else should one keep these?

  The Working Man's Barnstar
This well earned barnstar was brought to Alvestrand today by the letter "T". Thank you for all your hard work! — Catherine\talk 20:55, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
  The Invisible Barnstar
Thank you for your continued work and assistance on Wikipedia:Copyright problems, reviewing copyright status and generally cleaning up articles that need attention or a referee. Your good work goes unseen unless someone disagrees ;) Jeepday (talk) 12:48, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
  What a Brilliant Idea Barnstar
For finding the sources for Merck headquarters, couldn't have done it without you! MBisanz talk 19:49, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
  The Articles for Creation Barnstar
For helping to complete the OBI missing biographies list! Jokestress (talk) 21:08, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
 
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