John

Joined 8 January 2006
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Travelling

Lived for years: File:Botswana flag large.png
Visited: File:Germany flag large.png File:England flag large.png File:Netherlands flag large.png File:Luxembourg flag large.png File:Belgium flag large.png File:Spain flag large.png File:Andorra flag large.png File:Denmark flag large.png File:Poland flag large.png File:Austria flag large.png File:Czech flag.png File:Hungary flag large.png File:Yugoslavia flag large.png File:Italy flag large.png File:Switzerland flag large.png File:Wales flag large.png File:Us flag large.png File:Zambia flag large.png
To go some day: File:Russia flag large.png File:Australia flag large.png
Never to go again: File:FlagofTranskei.png File:FlagofCiskei.png File:FlagofLebowa.png File:South Africa flag 1927.png
Idea and layout adapted from User: Punkmorten via User:Coolcat via User:Guettarda via User:Sebastiankessel


My stylistic hates

'Botswanan': in two years living there, I never heard this variant. The preferred adjective is 'Botswana'.
'absent' as shorthand for 'in the absence of'; I always prefer 'without', 'before', 'prior to' etc.

My contributions to Wikipedia

major developments to all the Iain Banks books. Made templates (see below). Made Frozen Gold and Thulahn pages.
made The Bridge (disambiguation), and manually fixed all the links I could find that pointed to it.
translated the Haigerloch page from the German version. (Still needs help moving the images)
started the Tam o' Shanter (Burns poem) page and the Holy Willie's Prayer page; two of my favourite Robert Burns poems. Both could probably do with some review though.
started a few Botswana-related pages such as Sir Seretse Khama International Airport
major edits to Roma people
started Portuguese Air Force and made national insignia
made graphic for Artificial turf and added info
made flags for KwaZulu, Venda, Gazankulu and tidied up all the individual bantustans
copy edit of Polish Air Force order of battle in 1939
ongoing rewrite of Axis plans for invasion of the United States during WWII
ongoing edits and watching of Celtic F.C. and Rangers F.C. for NPOV
watching Hibernian F.C. and reverting vandalism
uploaded some of my photos

My interests

Weapons and war
Aviation
Southern Africa
Scottish Football
Scottish literature and poetry
Punk music
Science, especially Chemistry

My skills

Copyediting
Illustration

Template:Iain M Banks