User:Thnidu

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I'm Mark A. Mandel, until November 2013 a research administrator at the Linguistic Data Consortium of the University of Pennsylvania, now retired. I sometimes style myself
 * Dr. Whom, Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, Orthoëpist, and Philological Busybody

I am still interested in languages, as well as folk music, filk music, science fiction, and other things. Including my cat.

I wrote my dissertation on American Sign Language (Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of California at Berkeley), and I've studied lots more languages to a greater or lesser degree. Languages I've worked with in recent years* include Thai, Tagalog, Pashto, Tigrinya, Moroccan Berber, Yoruba, Bengali, Tamil, and Urdu. I also developed and maintained the LDC's Language Resource Wiki (now defunct).

* But do not speak or write; those are here. &rArr; (Or there &uArr; if you're reading this on the mobile site.)

Wikipeda favicon for desktop
I just created File:Wikipedia W favicon on white background.png from the official File:Wikipedia's W.svg so I could use it on my personal desktop, and uploaded it to Commons so anyone else can use it, too. ☺ Not under any copyright, but note potential trademark limitations.

Guild of Copy Editors
 My section in September 2016 blitz

Pages created

 * Filiative nomen (17.04.12)

Pages significantly copyedited
''Note: I didn't stop "significant" copyediting in November 2018, I just quit logging it here. If you're really interested in my editing history (which I seriously doubt), you can look it up in my contribution list, although that won't distinguish copyedits from significant content edits. (14:21, 17 May 2021 (UTC))''

Latest on top. Also, lots more since my first edits, before I started listing them. Use     to get
 * Nociception (18.11.11)
 * Conway polyhedron notation (18.10.29)
 * Tiresias (18.10.14)
 * Gunsmoke (18.09.30)
 * Moldovan language (18.09.25)
 * Coldrain (18.09.10)
 * Hāfu (18.09.10)
 * (big lacuna, edits not logged)
 * Pigeonhole principle (18.04.17)
 * Gladiator-At-Law (18.04.04)
 * Kitsune (18.04.04)
 * Haggadah (18.04.04)
 * Help:Link (18.03.31)
 * Sita (18.03.27)
 * Why create an account? (18.03.26)
 * Template:Voice type (18.03.23)
 * Japanese street fashion (18.03.14)
 * Ganges (18.03.02)


 * Philadelphia Tribune (17.12.07)
 * Quechuan languages (17.11.30)
 * Party Monster (film) (17.11.30)
 * A Woman of No Importance (17.11.30)
 * Porch sitting (17.11.23)
 * Pandora Radio (17.11.19)
 * Cognate (17.11.19)
 * Talk:Ghazal (17.11.19)
 * Moharam (family) (17.08.25)
 * Waldbröl (17.08.14)
 * Filiative nomen (17.07.10–11)
 * Natalya Sats (17.06.30)
 * Ocho Rios (17.05.11)
 * Fluyt (17.05.11)
 * Henry Kučera (17.05.10)
 * Soramimi (17.05.07)
 * Mondegreen (17.05.07)
 * Berry Global, Inc. (17.04.27)
 * Helen Gym (17.04.20 — mostly refs))
 * Grottasöngr (17.04.12)
 * Qureshi (17.03.31)
 * Wharton Esherick (17.03.28)
 * Tasya Fantasya (17.03.06)
 * Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Comilla (17.03.02)
 * Oricon (17.01.14)
 * Cob (material) (17.01.13)
 * My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fandom (17.01.13)
 * Gujarati cinema (17.01.11 and ongoing)
 * Al Hirschfeld (17.01.05)
 * Minas Tirith (16.12.24)
 * University of Benghazi (16.12.06)
 * Catherine Butler, including move from Charles Butler (author) (16.12.04)
 * Al Hirschfeld (16.12.03)
 * Vila do Corvo (16.12.02)
 * Krampus + film  +  musical (16.11.19–21)
 * Hurricane Kate (1985) (16.11.15)
 * The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (16.11.05)
 * Daigou (16.10.28)
 * Pandava (16.10.25)
 * LGBT rights protests surrounding the 2014 Winter Olympics (16.10.24)
 * List of minor places in Middle-earth, A-E (16.10.09)
 * Georgian lari (16.10.05)
 * Pers Z S (16.09.19)
 * Dammam (16.09.02)
 * Khobar (16.09.02)
 * Dammam metropolitan area (16.09.02)
 * Rose Hill, Fairfax County, Virginia (16.08.03)
 * Jubilee Bridge (India) (16.08.02)
 * Saints John Neumann and Maria Goretti Catholic High School (16.08.02)
 * Quantum Break (16.07.15–31)
 * Max Payne (16.07.30)
 * Cinnamon challenge (16.07.26)
 * 2016 Kashmir unrest (16.07.25, 16.08.23)
 * (Lots more in here, gotta fill 'em in) (No, I don't play Pokémon Go)
 * New Echota (16.06.27)
 * Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace (16.06.17)
 * Malia O Ka Malu (16.06.17)
 * Domari language (16.06.16)
 * Romani language (16.06.16)
 * WWE (16.06.13)
 * Code-switching (16.06.13)
 * Autobacs Seven (16.05.13) (mostly refs)
 * Prince Mohammad bin Fahd University (16.05.13)
 * Tai Tham alphabet (16.05.09)
 * Undercover Cat (16.05.06)
 * Woozle effect (16.05.05)
 * Teachers' Day (16.05.03)
 * Kerala State Film Award for Best Actor (16.04.24)
 * Rommel myth (16.04.23)
 * Belarusian language (16.04.21; still in progress)
 * Yaosang (16.04.02)
 * Solar dial (16.03.22)
 * Small European Postal Administration Cooperation (16.03.13)
 * Yun Chi-wang (16.03.09)
 * Sacred Hill (16.03.09)
 * Lord Byron (16.03.05)
 * Hayk (16.03.05)
 * Blue Stockings (play) (16.03.04)
 * Portuguese heraldry (16.02.03, still working)
 * Wasakaka (16.02.01)
 * Chimichurri (16.01.31)
 * Tatra Mountains (16.01.31)
 * Tatra National Park, Slovakia (16.01.31)
 * Tatra National Park, Poland (16.01.31)
 * Peggy King (16.01.16–17); see the Talk page there
 * Charles Perrault (16.01.12)
 * Guang people (16.01.06)
 * The Fens (Boston, Massachusetts) (16.01.02)
 * List of L.A. Noire characters (15.12.27)
 * The Sutton Academy (15.12.24)
 * Civil defense (15.12.17)
 * Master Chief (Halo) (15.12.01)
 * 1922 American Cup (15.11.30)
 * El Centro de Oro (15.11.08)
 * O Menino Maluquinho (15.11.08)
 * Renfield (15.11.02)
 * The Groke (15.10.24)
 * Henry Kučera (corrected, redirected, and fixed in-links from "Kucera") (15.10.19)
 * Emily Rosa (15.10.19)
 * Kota Bharu (15.10.18)
 * Phenetics (No, not phonetics) (15.09.20)
 * Ingress (video game) (ongoing)
 * Nida Lighthouse (15.09.13)
 * created Angélique Mezzara as part of Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminism/ —declined for WP:Notability (15-09-02) 


 * Fédération Française des clubs alpins et de montagne (15.09.01), together with moving it from the old name of the club
 * Pelgorskoye peat narrow gauge railway (15.08.28)
 * Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland Pittsburgh Branch (15.08.27)
 * OGAE (15.08.27)
 * Fermi paradox (15.08.21)
 * Lots of work on the articles about Ursula K. Le Guin's works, mostly not specifically copyediting. (15.08.13)
 * Turn Off the Lights (extension) (15.08.08)
 * The Matter of Seggri (15.08.07)
 * Edelstam Prize (15.08.06)
 * The Mote in God's Eye (15.07.27)
 * Willow flute (15.07.21)
 * Social nudity in Seattle (15.07.17)
 * Corbin, Kentucky (15.07.17)
 * Hiranyakashipu (15.07.16)
 * Holi
 * Formosa Fun Coast explosion
 * Philadelphia Phillies (15.06.19 and ongoing)
 * Lyke-Wake Dirge, §§ Fire and fleet, Allusions to the song (15.06.12)
 * Tagea Brandt Rejselegat and Tagea Brandt (15.05.13)
 * Emergency bleeding control (15.05.10)
 * Federation, table (15.04.04)
 * James Vote Bomford (15.02.18)
 * Herman Badillo (15.02.12)
 * World Robot Olympiad (15.02.07)
 * Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania
 * Luis de Lacy (14.12.20)
 * Jackie Gleason (14.12.19)
 * British National Corpus (14.12.18)
 * Spokane, Washington (14.11.29)
 * 4ZA diff (14.10.28)
 * Hatfield Christian Church [since deleted]̦ (14.06.08)
 * Acrostic, §§ (Talk), Examples (Talk) and Multiple acrostics (Talk) (14.05.19-24)
 * tt-ification of Klingon grammar (14.04.07)
 * List of circulating currencies, table (14.04.05) and ongoing
 * Third Space Theory (14.03.04)
 * Hukbalahap Rebellion (14.02.01)

Doing
(Again, latest on top, and since I started listing them. Once I'm done, I move 'em from here to the appropriate ↑ ↓ other section of this page. That is, if I finish them and if I remember to move them.)


 * editing Two-handed_manual_alphabets
 * creating stub User:Thnidu/Georgi Izvekov
 * creating User:Thnidu/Dorsai Irregulars

Other significant edits
Oh, heck, for a year I've just been putting them under copyediting or not bothering to list them at all.


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 * Taíno (15.11.24)
 * Taíno language (15.11.24)
 * List of circulating currencies (14.12.28)
 * Luis de Lacy (14.12.20)
 * Solano Thunderbirds (14.12.12)
 * True name (14.12.07)
 * The Speech (14.12.07)
 * Filk music (14.11.18–20)
 * Ĉekbanko esperantista (14.11.13)
 * Malaysia Hindudharma Mamandram (14.11.12)
 * Cognate (14.11.06)
 * Žvejybos uostas (14.11.05)
 * Bantu languages (see Talk:Bantu languages) (14.09.07)
 * Gertrudiskerk (14.07.13)
 * Books Through Bars (14.06.30)
 * The West Pole, Texas (14.06.17)
 * Thinset (14.06.14)
 * Acrostic (14.05.19, 19, 20, 20)
 * Gerger, Azerbaijan (14.04.07)
 * The Blorenge (14.03.08)
 * Gods' Man (14.03.04)

Bug reports
(Similarly...)


 * In MobileBeta front end, clicking in TOC does not go to a subsection whose parent section is unexpanded on the page. (15.04.05)
 * mobile beta: warning icon ⚠, truncated, is triplicated at the top of a page where it appears (15.02.13)
 * Mobile beta: "Speech balloons" icon on user talk page misgenerates target page name and reports "no conversations" (14.11.15)

Silly pages
Well, I think so. That's not a condemnation.
 * Category:Fictional orangutans

Scratch
fixture, def. 4