User:Editorofthewiki

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My bot, EditorBot, was for approval at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/EditorBot, but it failed. The Bot account is reserved, however, and whether or not it will ever be used remains a mystery.

Welcome to my user page. You really should be editing right now. So why are you wasting your time reading this sentence? I could just go on an on about myself, but why should I? Since you are still here right now, I will welcome you under this comfy blanket.

Apparently only 56 or soWikipedians have created more articles than me.

I started editing under this account shortly after the New Year, 2008, after editing under an IP for a while. My username is derived from that of User:Destroyerofthewiki, a sockpuppet of User:DavidYork71. Instead of destroying the wiki, I want to edit it, and I would have chosen a better username, but all the good ones are taken. I think that I did quite well with what's left, don't you think?

I have been active member of Wikipedia:WikiProject Earthquakes. I don't really have much of a liking of these destructive ruptures, in case you're wondering. They are pretty fun to write about however. My time there has not been wasted: I basically wrote FA 2002 Bou'in-Zahra earthquake (with some copyediting help and some small additions, mostly from User:Ceranthor) and GA 1992 Nicaragua earthquake (also written from scratch--this was speedied while a stub!).

I have also been active writing basketball articles, among other subjects.

I will tell you nothing about my personal life, since I don't know who you are, except I am a male human from the Planet Earth who was born sometime in the 20th century.

I am a bit of a linguist, as demonstrated by my languageboxes below:

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I have accounts on the following sister projects:

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	Wikiquote		Wikibooks		Wikisource
	Wikispecies		Wikiversity		Meta-Wiki

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Dirty Dick, real name Nathaniel Bentley (c. 1735 – 1809), was an English merchant known for his filthy appearance. Once nicknamed "the beau of Leadenhall Street", in his late thirties Bentley became parsimonious and stopped cleaning himself and his shop. He and his shop became well known and were lampooned in the press. People visited the outlet to see the squalor and noted that he was polite and had impeccable manners. Rumours circulated that he had not washed since his fiancée had died on their wedding eve and that he had locked the dining room, complete with the wedding feast, and left it to moulder. Bentley moved out of his shop in 1804 and its contents were sold off. A publican purchased some of the contents, including mummified rats and cats, and used them to decorate his pub, which he renamed Dirty Dicks. Bentley died in Scotland. His story was known by the writer Charles Dickens, and Bentley's locked dining room may have inspired the locked room of Miss Havisham in Great Expectations. (Full article...)