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Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.
In articles that are not specific to a country, express amounts of money in either
US dollars,
euros, or
pounds sterling (choose one only). Don't link the names or symbols of currencies that are commonly known to English speakers ($, £, €), unless there's a particular reason to do so.
I have added new "Cultural references" sections to articles about mathematical phenomena and artists, connecting mathematics, science, technology, and art. For example, I added a brief section to the article
Peaucellier–Lipkin linkage, linking to a new monumental sculpture in the Netherlands which incorporates the linkage. I overhauled the article on
Infinity mirrors, including adding a new "Cultural references" section referring
Yayoi Kusama,
Josiah McElheny,
Ivan Navarro, and
Taylor Davis as visual artists who have made use of the phenomenon. I have also added a “Cultural references” section to the article on
Trolley pole describing some literary connections to
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. and
James Agee, and added an interesting historical sidelight to the article on
Platform gap. I have added some further literary sidelights to the articles
Typewriter and
IBM Selectric typewriter, as well as extensive technical and historic information.
I have done some very modest editing of the French Wikipedia, crosslinking and importing material to/from the English Wikipedia. I have worked on English Wikipedia articles related to the French language, such as
List of French expressions in English,
verb framing,
Quebec French,
Quebec French profanity, and French cultural artifacts such as
Asterix. I occasionally import material from the German, Italian, Spanish, or other language Wikipedias, but don't edit them much because I am not sufficiently fluent in those languages.
I also have edited the
WP:Manual of Style and various Wikipedia help files and tutorials when I identify common editing issues and errors, or realize that I can make powerful and helpful tools more accessible to all editors, from newbies to experts.
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.
its it's
It's really not that hard to use each word in its proper manner.