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Status - Dec 20, 2001:<br> |
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As it is summer here, I will be on vacation until around the end of January. I'll be monitoring [[Wikipedia-L]] but will not be around much apart from that. Wishes to all for a pleasant holiday season and I'll be back in full force by the start of February 2002. - MB |
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An [[Australia|Australian]] living in [[Sydney]], and frequently travelling the world at large. Professionally I am a data architect - I design systems to handle data management within large corporations. My education is as a medical doctor. Prior to that I was a professional guitarist in the USA. '''You''' figure it out. |
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I'm presently 33 and am engaged to a very lovely girl called Lucy from Stirling, [[Scotland]]. I'm rather pleased about that. (Wedding will be in Sydney in Jan 2003). I've even got photos of the two of us up on the web [http://www.geocities.com/manningbartlett2/] |
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I discovered Wikipedia through an article in the International Herald Tribune. I looked up my home state of [[Tasmania]], was appalled at the two-line entry and suddenly found myself writing away... |
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'''Records held''' - I unashamedly claim to hold the record for "The most number of countries a contributor has edited Wikipedia from". So far I have edited articles in four countries - Malaysia, the United Kingdom, Singapore and (now) Australia. (I have no idea if this is actually true or not, but the gauntlet has been thrown down at least). |
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'''What MMGB stands for''' - as a couple of people have asked. The full story... having been born in the late 60's to "creative and free thinking hippies who rejected the yoke of societal oppression and tradition" I got stuck with the unfortuante moniker "Manning", after a leftist professor of Australian History (although it turns out that wasn't his name after all..., my parents could have done a little more research, but no). Then the grandparents got involved and said I had to have an ancestal name... I was the 3rd child and likely to be the only male, so to keep peace between both sides, I got McPhee after my maternal grandfather and "Greig" after my paternal grandfather... well sort of. "Greig" some of you will note is a Norwegian name, and I have no Norwegian ancestry of any kind. It was meant to be the Irish "Grieg", but they misspelled it on my birth certificate. So as if fate wasn't cruel enough, I have to go through life as a spelling error. |
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:You know Manning, you could always apply to have your birth certificate corrected... -- [[SJK]] |
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:: No, because then I'd have to have "professional Spelling Error" removed from my business card. It's one of my only claims to fame! :) - MB |
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:::But Edvard Grieg is the famous Norwegian composer, & I've got Irish Greigs behind me (maternal great-grandmother).... Maybe your grandfather was a spelling error too. |
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email: [email protected], if you feel the need to contact me offline. I'm also on [[Wikipedia-L]], and I would recommend being on the list to all serious 'pedians. I also turn up under the (work) IP of '''205.210.232.xxx''' at times. |
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Dec 5 01 - Oh happy day!! After months of writing, someone finally put something I wrote ([[Joshua A. Norton]]) on [[Brilliant prose]]. It takes so little to keep me happy. |
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:I put your [[Paul Erdos]] there as well. I'm going to have to start writing some more original stuff so I can keep my lead there. --LDC |
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::I'm sure you won't find that hard LDC :) |
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/Contributions <br> |
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/To_Do <br> |
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/WikiProject <br> |
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/Manning_speaks_out <br> |
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[[/Things which are not really words]] |
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/Old_comments<br> |
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/Talk<br> |
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/My_test_page |
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/Naughty_people<br> |
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I've received some flak for this page, as some people believe it only encourages trolls. This has not been my experience so far, and I find it useful as I can open recent changes, do a Ctrl-F and see if they have been active anywhere. |
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'''Pet links''' |
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<br> [[Countries of the world]] |
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<br> [[World capital cities]] |
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<br> [[World capital cities by country]] |
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<br> [[Page titles to be deleted]] |
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<br> [[Joshua A. Norton]] |
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Revision as of 14:35, 26 January 2002
egads..., guess I'll go and find my old page and move it here.