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Only joking. Citation's a good boy and we love him.

^[citation unneeded] GMT This user's time zone is GMT. This user has been on Wikipedia for 3 years and 18 days. <ref> This user recognizes the importance of citing sources. This user edits in good faith. This user participates in WikiProject Linguistics. en-∞ This user speaks English at a godlike level. en This user is a native speaker of the English language. ipa ə This user fully understands the International Phonetic Alphabet. This user is not afraid of being wrong (and certainly must be in at least some of his opinions). ain't This user believes that prescriptive grammar rules stem from linguistic ignorance and are used to enforce economic class distinctions. In linguistics, this user prefers descriptivism over prescriptivism. a lot alot This user recognizes that linguistic change is a natural and desirable aspect of human language. This user advocates the logical and consistent reform of English orthography. This user supports the Campaign for the Establishment of a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly. V This user is vegan. NOT MY KING This user is a British republican.

Name

Though my username is clearly a play on a well-know template,^{[citation needed]} it in no way implies that I have any disregard for WP:RS or WP:NOTE (quite the opposite). My aim was to come up with a slightly tongue-in-cheek Wikipedia-adjacent name, and honestly I was surprised by the fact that it wasn't already taken. It probably causes more hassle than it's worth, but it does make quite a cool signature.^{[citation unneeded]} (talk)

Edits

WikiFairy edits

While I hesitate to align myself with any WikiFauna, I have noticed that my average edit to Wikipedia tends to be tidying up an existing article (and often specifically a table), so I'll separate these off in some attempt to avoid pinning myself down as a WikiFairy (though let's face it, I kind of am). I recognise that sometimes I can be too bold in my edits and that there are frequently reasons for things to stay as they are. I'm learning all the time about Wikipedia's policies, so please bear with me if my attempts to make the encyclopaedia easier to read accidentally have the opposite effect!

• Finno-Ugric transcription: flipped table to more conventional layout
• Flag icons for languages: split up into different types of flag icons
• Le Désespéré: moved information across from French Wikipedia
• List of disability-related terms with negative connotations: made bullet points into a table
• List of Latin-script letters: added IPA values (unfinished!)
• Shavian alphabet: formatting of table and copy edits
• Indian English: made phonology description into table
• Sayings of Jesus on the cross: reformatted sayings as table
• List of writing systems: reformatted fictional section as table
• List of language reforms of English: massively expanded and tidied up
• Mont Follick: made spelling system information into table
• Draft:Sound correspondences between English accents: in the process of reorganising to be easier to use and show more information (unfinished!)

Research-based edits

• Kit Hesketh-Harvey: some info
• Traditional Spelling Revised: most info (some probably bordering on OR - check again)
• Republicanism in the United Kingdom: tidied up English Civil War History and restructured arguments section into facts and criticism
• English-language spelling reform: massively expanded advocates section

To do

• List of English irregular verbs
• create English equivalents to the pages linked on List of Latin-script letters + make sure the rest is good
• General Alphabet of Cameroon Languages
• Non-native pronunciations of English
• Draft:Sound correspondences between English accents
  • Add Northeastern elite accent and look at Good American Speech again
  • Add oldest RP alongside oldest spoken RP and SSB
  • Reorder so more accents are grouped, which will show broader tendencies more clearly (e.g. South African, New Zealand, and Australian English grouped together); 'Standard Canadian' and Newfoundland together too.
  • Add pin-pen, thank-think and weak vowel
    • Some Fijian English speakers merge the BATH and COMMA vowels.
    • Some South-West Irish English speakers merge PALM and THOUGHT but distinguish LOT from both.
    • Some SSBE speakers merge CURE and THOUGHT
  • add more dialects from Template:English_dialects
  • add Parry's FIRE & HOUR sets
  • add Don–dawn merger
• Disfranchisement
• Attention schema theory
• The Student Room
• List spelling reformers in a big paragraph like Unitarianism#Notable Unitarians, though that is supported by a list page so...
• Bertrand Russel's criticism (Why I am not a Christian) to Exorcism of the Gerasene demoniac and Cursing of the fig tree
• Images of people in the public domain
• STV
  • What did Tideman do for the Single transferrable vote?
  • When was the actual first STV done?
  • Add info from History section on main page to history and use page
• Mongolian Script talks about English incorrectly and needs more work generally (worse than English?)
• Who was the first documented female spelling reformer?
• Animal Welfare Party stance on Veganism etc.
• Add a Jack the Ripper section on Forensic linguistics
• Add a "who did it" section on the table on Nonviolent resistance
• Add abdication to the List of people who have declined a British honour, renounced list
• Wiktionary code to give inflected forms of verbs their IPA, as generated by the tables
• [1] is out of order
• Update Decreolization with Aitchison, J. (2012). Language death: How languages end. In Language Change: Progress or Decay? (pp. 222–233). chapter, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Homo ferus
• Look at other monarchism in and republicanism in pages to compare to the UK one.
• Charlotte Mary Yonge - Tractarian?
• What is the precedent for disambiguating a work? Type, author or date? Example (book, Adam, or 2020?)
• fix pros and cons for Badger culling in the United Kingdom
• look into Joe Wilson, Paul Hackett, and Craig Preston for Classical tibetan resources
• copy edit Tibetan Buddhist canon

Quote

On languages:

"He who knows one, know none."

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maximen und Reflexionen