User:Brian Shaposky

Wikipedia:Babel

enThis user is a native speaker of the English language.

de-3Dieser Benutzer hat sehr gute Deutschkenntnisse.

fr-3Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau avancé de français.

es-1Este usuario puede contribuir con un nivel básico de español.

This user lives in Germany.

This user was born in the United States of America.

This user generally supports Mahagaja's Unified English Spelling proposal.

ain'tThis user believes that prescriptive grammar rules stem from linguistic ignorance and are used to enforce economic class distinctions.

A, B, and CThis user prefers the serial comma.

person,
humanityThis editor writes carefully to avoid gender neutrality issues completely.

Latin Plurals: "Data is are..."

This user uses "data", "media", "memoranda", "criteria", and "agenda" as the plurals of "datum", "medium", "memorandum", "criterion", and "agendum".

"…"!
US vs. UKThis user uses "logical quotation marks". Forcing internal punctuation leads to factual errors. It's not a nationalistic style issue!

This user knows that because English is a living language, grammar and syntax are not fixed.

they	This user prefers singular they, and is in good company.

…in.Ending a sentence with a preposition is something that this user is okay with.

;This user knows how to use a semicolon correctly.

…This user is addicted to ellipses and has been known to use them indiscriminately...

byThe passive voice may be used by this user.

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This user believes in using Reliable Sources.

Wikipedia is free content that anyone can use, edit, and distribute

2This user is a WikiChild.

2025 January 1This user always defers to ISO, which says big-endian (year month day) date format2025-01-01

This user is haunted by the times they forgot to use an edit summary.
Out, damned spot! What, will these hands ne'er be clean?

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${\sqrt {2}}$This user knows how to prove that the square root of two is irrational. This user somewhat understands quantum computing. UTCThis user's time zone is UTC. 1/3 ≠ 0.4This user hates Dozenal. 12,025 HEThis user prefers to use the Human Era calendar There are 3 Impostors among us This editor values concise writing. subj This user prefers that the subjunctive mood be used. Were this user you, they would use it.

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WeThis user refers to themselves in the majestic plural. y'allThis user believes that y'all is a real word, but ain't isn't one.ain't

Salutations!

I recently started editing Wikipedia, loving it so far.

I'm in civil engineering, but very interested in all things STEM. I'm fascinated by languages and hope to learn more throughout my life. I grew up in the US but went to a French-German trinational university, with the classes taught in french/german, so I can definitely edit articles/read sources in those languages, except for nuanced copyediting.

I follow international news and I'm very passionate about freely accessible good accurate information, and that knowing the original source of information is critical.

My favorite book is Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach, but this is more of a pensive short story; I also love reading fantasy.

Happy editing! Feel free to talk to me on my talk page.

Wikipedia Links

Pages I use frequently:

• User Page Guidelines for newbies | Wikimedia Commons User Page Guidelines | Userbox gallery
• Help:Getting started | Help:Interwiki linking | Wikipedia sister sites
• All Units in Module:convert | International System of Units
  • US Customary units | Sheet metal gauge | American wire gauge | Pipe Schedule | North American softwoods
• List of cognitive biases
• Energy efficiency in transport
• ISO 8601 Calendar Week Numbering | Length of a year | Chinese Lunar Calendar Months
• Countries
  • ISO 3166-1 Country Codes | ITU-T E.123 E.164 Country Phone Codes | IANA Internet Domains | Other types of country codes
  • US State Codes | US State Phone Codes
  • ISO 4217 Currency Codes/Ticker Symbols
  • ISO 639-1 Language Codes | List of languages by total number of speakers | Languages of the United States | US international keyboard
  • Mains electricity by country | AC power plugs and sockets | Electronic symbols
  • Health care by country | Tobacco use by country
  • Population density | Demographics of the United States | Ethnic groups in Europe
  • Rich and free countries | Countries considered developed on stock markets
• Sustainable Development Goals | Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union
• Treating Fevers | Blood type
• Periodic table presentation forms | List of second moments of area | Greek Letters
• US Interest Rate

Best pictures of the day

Picture of the day

Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life. It is the densest planet in the Solar System and the largest and most massive of its four rocky planets. About 29 percent of Earth's surface is land, with the remaining 71 percent covered with water and much of Earth's polar regions covered in ice. Earth's interior is active with a solid-iron inner core, a liquid outer core that generates Earth's magnetic field, and a convective mantle that drives plate tectonics. Earth formed more than 4.5 billion years ago. Within the first billion years of Earth's history, life appeared in the oceans and began to affect Earth's atmosphere and surface. Since then, the combination of Earth's distance from the Sun, its physical properties and its geological history have allowed life to evolve and thrive, including more than 8 billion humans as of 2024. Earth is orbited by one permanent natural satellite, the Moon, which orbits Earth at a radius of 384,400 km (238,900 mi) and is roughly a quarter as wide as Earth. This photograph of Earth straddling the lunar horizon was taken in 2015 by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter while located 134 km (83 mi) above the crater Compton, visible in the foreground. To capture the image, the spacecraft had to be rolled 67 degrees to its side, and slewed with the direction of travel to maximize the width of the lunar horizon, while traveling more than 1600 m/s (3600 mph) relative to the surface.Photograph credit: NASA / Goddard Space Flight Center / Arizona State University; edited by Bammesk

• Commons:File:Ground agama (Agama aculeata) in water.jpg
• Commons:File:Hortus_Haren._‘10_jaar_Kunst_in_de_Hortus’,_09-10-2020_(d.j.b.)_02.jpg

Quotes and Mottos to live by

• Do to others as you would have done to yourself (the golden rule)
• If you love something, let it go
• One person’s trash is another one’s treasure

Wikipedia Projects, Ideas, etc

Articles to add as sources to relevant Wikipedia pages

• 59 MJ from Nuclear fusion
• PM2.5 particulate limit 8-10 um/m3 in air EPA
• Phasing out single use plastics on federal land
• Structural column 3d printed from mycelium fungi
• EU carbon border tariff, to tax co2 emissions not taxed in countries of origin for products
• China debt trap diplomacy project canceled in sierra lione
• Liquid hydrogen-powered fuel cell powered flight, startup in Germany
• Contributions by country to UN World Food Programme per capita here.
• 3D printed concrete is more carbon efficient, according to Uni of Tehran.
• Environmental impact of seafood, including sea plants.
• ASTM to make PFAS standards.
• Robot to automate strawberry picking, and using UV light to replace fungicide.
• Solar Panels have among the the fastest return on investment, Canadian City retrofitting success story.
• PFAS have surpassed planetary boundary.
• All drones approved by the FAA up until 2022-Sep-08 were military.
• Indian company to develop Nepal hydropower plant left by China.
• India wants to open up lithium mining in quest for batteries.
• Boston adding porous streets and more vegetation to absorb stormwater to city infrastructure plan.
• The BLM estimates that implementation of the measures would cost oil and gas companies around $122 million per year, prevent the waste of $55 million worth of gas per year and generate $39 million in additional royalty revenues annually.
• E-bike standards in US vs EU, Bosch.