User:Alba

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Userboxes: Wikipedia

The English Wikipedia has 7,036,979 articles and 944,531 files.

ubx-4This user is an expert userbox user.

This user loves userboxes.

2,000+This user has made more than 2,000 contributions to Wikipedia.

This user participates in WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles.

This user participates in
WikiProject Mathematics.

This user supports userboxes which don't hinder one's ability to assume good faith.

Many more userboxes: User:Alba/Userboxes

Status: Cautiously creeping back

Hello! On Wikipedia, I am known as Alba. Although this name is a contraction of my real name, it has a long and illustrious history in its own right: it is directly derived from the Proto-Indo-European word for white. It may also have meant mountain (makes sense -- a white, snow-capped mountain, right?) Over the years, it has been used many times as a place-name -- for instance, for the island of Britain, land of my ancestors. (The name survives today in the phrase perfidious Albion.) Alba is the Scottish Gaelic word for Scotland, and also the name of an electronic goods manufacturer.

I'm proud to be the instigator and one of the main implementors of the Wikipedia:Cleanup sorting guideline, which endeavours to make Wikipedia maintenance more efficient. It uses Wikipedia:Pages needing attention as one-stop bot-maintained shopping for Wikipedia maintenance. Kudos to my collaborators: User:Beland (and his bot User:Pearle), User:Eagle 101 (and his bot User:Gnome (Bot)), User:R. S. Shaw, User:Danaman5!

Wikipedia is a wonderful hobby. If you're not already a Wikipedian, why not join us today?

Articles with significant contribution (the trophy list):

• WEEI
• Sons of Sam Horn
• John "maddog" Hall
• The 1 E2 people, etc., sequence
• Columbus, Mississippi
• Esther Dyson
• Dar al-Islam and related terms
• Edmund Kirby Smith
• Dewey, Cheetham, and Howe
• Invasion (now at List of invasions
• Morden (Babylon 5)
• The Number of the Beast (novel)

Projects:

• PlanetMath Exchange:
  • Aristotle
  • truth function
  • Leonhard Euler
  • Jules Poincare
• Missing encyclopedic articles:
  • Pruning Encarta lists
  • 2004 EB redirects and new articles

Latest:

• merger of:
  • Telephone numbering plan
  • Area code
  • New subsidiary pages:
    • List of Brazilian area codes
    • Argentine telephone numbering plan
    • Hong Kong telephone numbering plan
    • Colombian telephone numbering plan
• merger of:
  • First strike
  • First-strike attack
• War Effort
• ancient material for History of Lebanon
• reorganized Habsburg
• Rumford's soup
• Crafthalls of Pern