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My name is Mark Chovain. It's an unfortunate name, I know. I've been a registered user of Wikipedia since March 2006.

I'm an IT geek on the east coast of Australia. You may be able to find out a little more about me by looking at my userboxes.

Most of my time is spent doing one or more of the following:

• RC patrolling;
• Reference checking/improving;
• Finding random articles to improve; or
• Getting involved in WP:AfDs

I try to avoid focusing on topic areas in which I know I will have preconceptions. I think my greatest contributions to Wikipedia have been in areas I have needed to research in order to help out. Certainly, this is where I personally gain the most.

I'm always happy to help people out: if you want to ask a question, feel free to post it on my talk page.

During my recent change patrolling, I will sometimes make a mistake and revert a good faith edit. Please let me know if that happens so I can improve. Likewise, I'll sometimes have a bad day and bite a newbie or other editor, or break any one of the other guidelines out there. If I do bite, or you think I could improve my editing, just leave a (preferably polite) message on my talk page so I can make amends.

I enjoy discussing edits on article talk pages. I especially enjoy discussing controversial edits, as long as all sides remain civil. I have very little tolerance when it comes to rudeness and incivility.

• 100^th edit: Linking a reference date in Caesarean Section.^[1]
• 250^th edit: Polite note to remind User:139.168.118.114 to check the factual accuracy of their edits.^[2]
• 500^th edit: Removed duplicate example from Cutout animation.^[3]
• 1000^th edit: Reported Rehaananana (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log) to WP:AIV.^[4]
• 2000^th edit: substed a {{uw-test}} template I had placed on User talk:Aldiny28.^[5]

• /Redoak Brewery

• Favourite engineering failure: The 1814 beer tsunami

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