User:MCB
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About
MCB is Michael C. Berch, born October 10, 1956 in Los Angeles, California, presently residing in Pleasanton, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area.
I am a retired attorney, IT consultant, writer, longtime UNIX geek, longtime Internet geek, former magazine editor, food & travel enthusiast, California native.
My Wikipedia interests mostly involve
WikiProject San Francisco Bay Area, and helped restart WikiProject Food and Drink
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Languages
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Admin requests
I have retired as an
administrator
on the English-language Wikipedia. I enjoyed my time as an admin but it was time to pass the baton to the new generation.
Languages
I do have
Babel boxes and ISO 15924 boxes, but they're really not quite descriptive enough to be useful, especially at the lower ability levels (like mine). Basically, I'm a native English speaker, not fluent in any other language, but I can get along reasonably well in reading/writing French (and occasionally edit the fr Wikipedia); I can make fairly decent sense out of written Spanish; I have about a semester each of Russian, Japanese, and Hebrew, and am presently studying Mandarin Chinese at a beginning level, using simplified Chinese characters
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Articles I created
Aaron Durley • ALM Flight 980 • Anaheim Ice • Arthur Bryant's • Cape Town Treaty • Chuck steak • Court of Historical Review • Cruz Reynoso • Darius Ogden Mills •
Dogpatch, San Francisco, California
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Erebus: The Aftermath •
Financier (pastry)
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Fresh Choice •
Gougère •
Hamilton Camp •
Hôtel Lutetia •
Karen Dior •
Kenny Buttrey •
Lacey Fosburgh •
Mailgram •
Mussel Rock •
North American Meat Processors Association •
ORBIS International
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Oxtail •
Pleasanton Weekly •
Polidor •
Ray Kidder •
Swiss steak •
Tomales Bay State Park •
Tombstone (advertising) •
Veeraswamy
Travel
Countries, territories, colonies, possessions, and specially-administered regions I've been to, in order of first visit
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