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I discovered Wikipedia from searches for information in Google that repeatedly showed results in Wikipedia. After reading a number of articles and discovering what the nature of Wikipedia is, I realised that my own professional skills of proofreading, editing and, as a native speaker of English, revising non-native English, translating from German into English (from 1998 to 2004 I lived in Germany and I hold the relevant standard British qualification, the Institute of Linguists Diploma in Translation) and my interest in general knowledge could be of use to, and find a creative outlet in, Wikipedia. I am glad to be part of an online international community helping to disseminate knowledge throughout the world.

My interests in reading are mainly in European (which also includes English) literature and history, and in the minutiae of European culture to be found, for example, in the combination of information about history, geography, literature, ethnography, languages and politics that one finds in such books as Journey through Europe by John Hillaby; Time of Gifts, Beyond the Woods and the Water and The Broken Road by Patrick Leigh Fermor; Black Sea by Neal Ascherson; Europe by Norman Davies; and Danube by Claudio Magris.CWO (talk) 17:37, 9 July 2022 (UTC)

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-I discovered Wikipedia from searches for information in Google that repeatedly showed results in Wikipedia. After reading a number of articles and discovering what the nature of Wikipedia is, I realised that my own professional skills of proofreading, editing and, as a native speaker of English, translating from German into English and revising non-native English – as well as my own tendency to “flaunt knowledge” (as a friend teasingly put it, resulting in my doing it all the more with him) in the right circumstances – could be of use to, and find a creative outlet in, Wikipedia. I unintentionally gather and retain knowledge that some people may define as useless, e.g. the British king Edward VIII and the American zoologist Alfred Kinsey, better known for his research into human sexual behaviour, were both born on 23 June 1894. I am still (November 2006) learning how to transfer my skills into the format of Wikipedia pages.
+I discovered Wikipedia from searches for information in Google that repeatedly showed results in Wikipedia. After reading a number of articles and discovering what the nature of Wikipedia is, I realised that my own professional skills of proofreading, editing and, as a native speaker of English, revising non-native English, translating from German into English (from 1998 to 2004 I lived in Germany and I hold the relevant standard British qualification, the Institute of Linguists Diploma in Translation) and my interest in general knowledge could be of use to, and find a creative outlet in, Wikipedia. I am glad to be part of an online international community helping to disseminate knowledge throughout the world.
-As a translator, I hold the standard British qualification, the Institute of Linguists Diploma in Translation (in my case, from German into English), and I am particularly interested in translating from the humanities, which was one of the semi-specialist papers I did in the Diploma examination. (This is not an attempt to solicit paid work, but rather a statement that I was trained in, and am qualified in, a skill that Wikipedia's own guidance to potential translators describes as “hard”. Indeed, one of the advantages of doing this voluntarily is the freedom to be entirely arbitrary in my choice of texts to translate.) My interests in reading are mainly in European (which also includes English) and American literature, and in the minutiae of European culture to be found, for example, in the combination of information about history, geography, literature, ethnography, languages and politics that one finds in such books as ''Journey through Europe'' by John Hillaby, ''Time of Gifts'' and ''Beyond the Woods and the Water'' by Patrick Leigh Fermor, ''Black Sea'' by Neal Ascherson, ''Europe'' by Norman Davies and ''Danube'' by Claudio Magris. From 1998 to 2004, I lived in the best-preserved Roman city north of the Alps, Trier (Germany), and since then I have lived in Sheffield (England).
+My interests in reading are mainly in European (which also includes English) literature and history, and in the minutiae of European culture to be found, for example, in the combination of information about history, geography, literature, ethnography, languages and politics that one finds in such books as ''Journey through Europe'' by [[John Hillaby]]; ''Time of Gifts'', ''Beyond the Woods and the Water'' and ''The Broken Road'' by [[Patrick Leigh Fermor]]; ''Black Sea'' by [[Neal Ascherson]]; ''Europe'' by [[Norman Davies]]; and ''Danube'' by [[Claudio Magris]].[[User:CWO|CWO]] ([[User talk:CWO|talk]]) 17:37, 9 July 2022 (UTC)
-I am, as it happens, male and British. Having been born in 1952, I was fortunate to be educated at a time in those pre-Word days when there was no prompting (unless one switches it off) to dumb down a “long sentence” or the “use of the passive” voice and when the ability to write well – grammatically and orthographically accurately; lucidly and, if necessary, cogently; interestingly but without showiness – was seen as part of being an educated person. I wish I could say that I was convinced that it still is seen as such in Britain. I could insert about ten userboxes in relation to my usage of English, but to avoid cluttering the page with userboxes, I am inserting only the ones most important to me.
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