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<font face="Monotype Corsiva" size="+2" color="brown">'''Welcome!'''</font><br>

I'm not a person who likes talking about himself, so I will limit myself to the necessary. My real name is '''Jan van Steenbergen''', I was born on [[June 3]], [[1970]] (on the same day when [[Hjalmar Schacht]] died), and I live in [[Zaandam]], near [[Amsterdam]]. Educated as a specialist on Eastern Europe, mainly Poland, I've worked as a journalist, as a translator, and (currently) as a software engineer in a bank. My main interests are: [[Poland]] and [[Ukraine]]; [[language]], particularly [[constructed language]]s; [[Classical music]]; [[history]]. I am mostly active in the [[:nl:|Dutch Wikipedia]], under user name [[:nl:Gebruiker:IJzeren Jan|IJzeren Jan]]. Here I will probably mostly be dealing with interwiki links, and perhaps small modifications of existing articles. Also, I might dig up interesting stuff to translate into [[Dutch language|Dutch]] or [[Polish language|Polish]].

My user name, '''IJzeren Jan''' literally means ''Iron Jan''. How so? Well, during my student years I used to play computer games from time to time, and "IJzeren Jan" was one of my favourite nicknames I used in highscores. Later I almost automatically used it in my e-mail address, and now as my Wikipedia user name. Only much later I learnt that '''IJzeren Jan''' was also the nickname of my famous countryman [[Jan Pieterszoon Coen]], who also happens to be the symbol of my native town [[Hoorn]].

I am the author of several constructed languages, two of which, [[Wenedyk]] and [[Interslavic]], are listed in the English wiki. More about this and other things can be found on my home page, http://steen.free.fr/ .

<br>Best regards,

<font face="Monotype Corsiva" size="+2" color="brown">'''Jan'''</font>

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