User: Derek Ross
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My name is Derek and I am 46. I lived in the town of Arbroath on the east coast of Scotland for twenty-four years but moved to Calgary, Alberta at the beginning of 2003.
I have a wide range of interests and regularly travel abroad on business. In February, 2002 I visited Hungary for a week. In mid-April I went to the Empty Quarter for three weeks. I was in the Algerian central Sahara from mid-August until September and again in early December. In October 2004 I visited the city of Daqing (pronounced Da tshing) in Northern China for a few weeks.
Thus although I have contributed regularly to the Wikipedia since mid-October 2001, there are times when I don't contribute as much as I would like.
Note that I no longer subscribe to the Wikipedia mailing lists. I found that reading the large volume of posts took up a lot of time and didn't give a corresponding benefit. So bear in mind that I'm only aware of discussions that take place on Wikipedia talk pages (and not even all of them).
I've started a whole lot of articles, including some whose earliest history has unfortunately been lost -- the Anders Hejlsberg article is one of those -- but I don't see any point in putting down a big list here. We've all written plenty of stuff after all. Most of my work tends to be stubs, spelling, grammar and formatting changes since, sadly, I'm too lazy to like the effort involved in writing "big" articles. However I do sometimes forget myself and write a lot when I find a subject that I really like.
Strange but True
It is possible to edit nearly every day for three years on Wikipedia and still be an unknown to other contributors.
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If you want to say something to me, please put it on my talk page.
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