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This user thinks that too many people have no idea how to use words that they should have learned in grade two.
whom
This user insists upon using whom wherever it is called for, and fixes the errors of whomever he sees.
their there they're
This user thinks that there are too many people who don’t know that they're worse than their own children at spelling!
your you're
This user thinks that if your grammar is incorrect, then you're in need of help.
Subj
This user prefers that the
subjunctive mood be used. Were this user you, he would use it.
. The
This user does not put
two spaces after a full stop.
A, B, and A and B
This user uses the
serial commaunless its inclusion is confusing.
its it's
It's really not that hard to use each word in its proper manner.
’s
Thi's user know's that not every word that end's with
s need's an apostrophe and will remove misused apostrophe's from Wikipedia with extreme prejudice.
"…"
This user favours typewriter style
quotation marks over typographic ones.
This user has eaten MREs and lived to tell the tale.
Userboxen
-xen
This user believes that userbox should always be pluralised
userboxen, and thinks that this is one of the most important and exciting issues of our time.
John Owens lives in
Manchester,
UK since 2016, after moving from
Tucson,
Arizona, and was until recently a student at the
Pima Community College. He is (yet another) computer system and network
administrator, with some knowledge of server administration and a good grasp of
Perl. And he has been voted Number 1 on the "list of bigots to avoid" on
User:Olga Bityerkokoff's page! He came in at number 32 on this month's
Top 200 Countdown, and he'd like to extend his special gratitude to
Michael, who made it all possible.
If you have a
Un*x computer and check
its native-format time, you've got a pretty good idea how old he is, in seconds.
Currently
As a recovering non-Wikipedoholic, I'm starting to edit again, but in moderation, so far. I recently upgraded to a
mirrorless interchangeable-lens camera, so I'm starting to accumulate some pictures for the Wikipediæ. See some of what I've got so far:
/Pet Projects#New pictures from trip. I'm currently focusing on my
astrophotography technique (pun intended).
In things tangentially related to Wikipedia, I've started a project to create an electronic markup format for corrections to all those things that aren't Wiki. With my vast imagination, I've decided to call it the
ProofReading Markup Language, or
PRML for short. (
SourceForge project site)
What he does
Weed whacker extraordinaire, great at spotting typos, too.
I'm now contributing to the
German and
Russian Wikipædiæ in my own small way, too. (And in case you can't tell by my abuse of 'æ's, I just wish there was a Latin Wikipædia for me to contribute to, too.)
I'll be demmed, there is a
Latin Vicipædia!!! :) I always wondered if there was a language code for Latin; never could find one in a list. Now I'm going to have to find out if 'la' is really official, or just what they use because it makes sense.
All contributions of my own work (i.e., excluding only a few photographs snarfed from web sites) excluding items in the User:JohnOwens "userspace" (or whatever the proper term might be) are available under any or all of the following licenses unless stated otherwise: