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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 [[Great Britain|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 [[WP:BOT|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 [[Wikipedia:Wikipedians|Wikipedian]], why not join us today?

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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:
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Mathematics/PlanetMath_Exchange|PlanetMath Exchange]]:
** [[Aristotle]]
** [[truth function]]
** [[Leonhard Euler]]
** [[Jules Poincare]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Missing_encyclopedic_articles|Missing encyclopedic articles:]]
** Pruning [[Wikipedia:Encarta_Encyclopedia_topics|Encarta lists]]
** [[Wikipedia:2004_Encyclopedia_topics|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]]
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