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Hello and a warm welcome to all my fellow Wikipedians. How nice of you to drop in to see who I am!

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Wikipedia & me:

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How I discovered Wikipedia, I do not remember. But from being a reader I slowly became a contributor. Although I don't work that much on Wikipedia I do see myself as a Wikipedian. I don't go searching on Wikipedia what I can edit next, I edit what I find and want to do. This means I add and mainly improve a lot of small things and only rarely I make large edits.

My work:

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My list of contributions

Articles I've started on Wikipedia:

Images I made for Wikipedia:

Article guide:

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A list of articles worth looking at, if one can find them:

And there's always the Random article


And to all citizens of the European Union, please read this: Oneseat.eu


News

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Portrait photo of Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah
Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah

Selected anniversaries

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December 6: Saint Nicholas's Day (Western Christianity); Independence Day in Finland (1917)

Blast cloud from the Halifax Explosion
Blast cloud from the Halifax Explosion
More anniversaries:

Did you know...

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Kang Ju-hyeok
Kang Ju-hyeok


Today's featured article

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Memorial plaque to the victims of the massacre
Memorial plaque to the victims of the massacre

The École Polytechnique massacre was an antifeminist mass shooting that occurred on December 6, 1989, at the École Polytechnique in Montreal, Canada. Fourteen women were murdered; another ten women and four men were injured. The perpetrator, Marc Lépine, entered a mechanical engineering class and separated the male and female students, ordering the men to leave. He shot all nine women in the room, killing six. The shooter then moved throughout the building, killing eight more women and wounding students before fatally shooting himself. The massacre is regarded as misogynist terrorism and representative of wider societal violence against women. In response to the massacre, the Canadian parliament passed more stringent gun control laws. It also led to policy changes in emergency services protocols for shootings, such as police intervening immediately to reduce casualties. The anniversary of the massacre is commemorated annually as White Ribbon Day. (Full article...)


Great Yarmouth Town Hall
Great Yarmouth Town Hall is a municipal building on Hall Plain in Great Yarmouth, in Norfolk, England. It is the meeting place of Great Yarmouth Borough Council and is a Grade II* listed building. The town hall was designed by John Bond Pearce in the Queen Anne Revival style, with terracotta facings and a 110-foot-tall (34-metre) clock tower with a lantern above. It was opened by Edward, Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII), on 31 May 1882. The building served as the headquarters of Great Yarmouth County Borough Council for much of the 20th century and has continued to operate as the local seat of government following the formation of the enlarged borough council in 1974. This hand-colored photochrom shows Great Yarmouth Town Hall in the 1890s, seen from opposite the River Yare.Photograph credit: Detroit Publishing Company; restored by Adam Cuerden