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I'm Mark A. Mandel, until November 2013 a research administrator at the [http://ldc.upenn.edu Linguistic Data Consortium] of the University of Pennsylvania, now retired. I sometimes style myself

:{{anchor| Whom }}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. {{anchor|lingvoj}}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).{{cite web |title=Welcome to the LDC Language Resource Wiki |url= http://lrwiki.ldc.upenn.edu/mediawiki/ |website=LDC Language Resource Wiki |publisher=Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania |accessdate=19 March 2016 |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20131010055637/http://lrwiki.ldc.upenn.edu/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page |archivedate=2013-10-10 |location=Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |language=English}}

* {{anchor|lingvoj-ne}}But do not speak or write; those are here. ⇒
(Or there ⇑ if you're reading this on the mobile site.)

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Pages created

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 [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions/Thnidu&offset=20050911181035&limit=20&target=Thnidu my first edits], before I started listing them.
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  • 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#Contemporary, table (15.04.04)
  • James Vote Bomford (15.02.18)
  • Herman Badillo (15.02.12)
  • World Robot Olympiad (15.02.07)
  • Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania {{Diff|Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania|645096070|639550433|(15.02.01)}}
  • Luis de Lacy (14.12.20)
  • Jackie Gleason (14.12.19)
  • British National Corpus (14.12.18)
  • Spokane, Washington (14.11.29)
  • 4ZA [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=4ZA&diff=631551356&oldid=630140227 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 ([https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Third_Space_Theory&diff=598064985&oldid=595172586 14.03.04])
  • Hukbalahap Rebellion (14.02.01)

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    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.)

    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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    (same old...)

    Bug reports

    (Similarly...)

    • In MobileBeta front end, clicking in TOC does not go to a subsection whose parent section is unexpanded on the page. ([https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T95122 15.04.05])
    • mobile beta: warning icon ⚠, truncated, is triplicated at the top of a page where it appears ([https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89525 15.02.13])
    • Mobile beta: "Speech balloons" icon on user talk page misgenerates target page name and reports "no conversations" ([https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52165#c12 14.11.15])

    Silly pages

    Well, I think so. That's not a condemnation.

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