User:Aridd

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Aridd is forcing himself to take an extended and indefinite wikibreak. He needs to get on with work on his doctoral thesis, and, sadly, editing Wikipedia is too addictive and time-consuming. He shall return, one day. And when he does, he promises he shall cease to refer to himself in the third person, as he is doing now. You can still leave a message for Aridd, but he is unlikely to reply in a timely fashion.

Aridd is watching you. Feel free to leave him a message.

Location: Bry-sur-Marne, France

Misc. information about me:

• vegetarian and antispecist
• former student at the ENS Cachan
• English teacher (teaching British & Commonwealth cultural studies at Paris 7 University)

I'm currently working on my doctoral thesis, on "Britishness" and the development of national identity in Commonwealth countries in Oceania.

I am the author of a published research article entited "Les communautés d'Îliens du Pacifique en Nouvelle-Zélande : Intégration et identité culturelle" (in GERMAIN, Lucienne & LASSALLE, Didier (eds.), Communauté(s), communautarisme(s) : aspects comparatifs, Paris: L'Harmattan, 2008, ISBN 978-2-296-05366-3 [1] [2]).

I contribute more to the French Wikipedia, where there is a relative lack of articles on Pacific countries (there are many important things to add regarding Australia and Fiji, for example).

An article that I created in the English Wikipedia has been mentioned and linked to by a major French newspaper.

In addition to various edits, in the English Wikipedia I've started the following articles:

• Melanesian socialism
• Vava'u Code
• Battle of Kaba
• Commonweal (United Kingdom)
• People's Charter for Change and Progress
• Micronesian Games
• Nukuleka
• Sino-Pacific relations
• National Council of Bhutan
• Tata Güines
• La Bougie du Sapeur
• Samoan nationality law
• Tongan nationality law
• Visesio Moeliku (one line stub)
• Ramire Rosan
• New Zealand-Fiji relations
• Fiji-Tonga relations
• Australia-Papua New Guinea relations
• Australia-Nauru relations
• Vanua
• Tembinok'
• Nauruan nationality law
• Anslom Nakikus
• Timeline of Tongan history
• Ahmad Dhani
• List of Niuean monarchs
• Maori Australians
• American New Zealander
• Samoan New Zealander
• Berenado Vunibobo
• Robert Guba Aisi
• Fekitamoeloa 'Utoikamanu
• Jin Jing
• John Waiko
• Nauruan parliamentary election, 2008
• Chinese in Tonga
• North Korean parliamentary election, 1998
• French–North Korean relations
• French–South Korean relations
• Fiji-South Korean relations
• Jimmy Wilson (handyman)
• Levon Jones
• Arnold Amet
• Ralph Regenvanu
• Sino-Vaticanese relations
• Emma Hunter
• Rachel Ah Koy
• Caroline Pickering Puamau
• Carl Probert
• Gibson Nyandoro
• Epeli Hau'ofa
• The Land Has Eyes
• Vilsoni Hereniko
• Sapeta Taito
• John Pule
• Ake Lianga
• Larry Santana
• Nauru at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
• Nauru at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
• Nauru at the 1990 Commonwealth Games
• Nauru at the Commonwealth Games
• Tuvalu at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
• Tuvalu at the Commonwealth Games
• Tonga at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games
• Tonga at the Commonwealth Games
• Papua New Guinea at the Commonwealth Games
• Reanna Solomon
• Timothy Akis
• British-Sanmarinese relations
• Cinema of Fiji
• Koonalda Cave
• Colin Beck
• Wandjuk Marika
• O'Love Jacobsen
• Nasteh Dahir
• Tonderai Ndira
• Abdul Samad Rohani
• Jacques Chirac Foundation for Sustainable Development and Cultural Dialogue
• The National (Papua New Guinea) (one line stub)

I've also filled in the article on my home town, and created the "Relations in Oceania" section in the article "Foreign relations of Cuba", and the "Relations with the Pacific" section in the article "Foreign relations of Australia". I've added sections to a few other articles, such as the section on the 'Ice Curtain' border in the article on the Bering Strait, the section on Henry Reynolds' role in the Mabo judgement, the section on Aboriginal resistance in Australia, 1788-1850... I've contributed significantly to the article on the 2008 Summer Olympics torch relay; the section on media coverage, in particular, is almost entirely my work. I've updated and completed various articles, mainly relating to Oceania (such as Pacific Solution, Stolen Generations...). Most of the article on Miguel D'Escoto is by me.

Things to do
Create the following articles:

• Australia-Solomon Islands relations
• Australia-Fiji relations
• 2006 riots in the Solomon Islands

See also: Through the hidden door to my subpage

Random comment: What a wonderful place is Wikipedia, where you can find encyclopediae in Latin, Tok Pisin, Klingon (until recently), and Scots!

[edit] The inevitable pointless jumbled infoboxes

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