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I am a 20 year old Australian living in the Western Australian city of Perth. I have been a Wikipedian since October 2001, and a Wikipedia administrator since July 2004. I have also been an administrator of the WikiEN-l mailing list since mid-2004.

I am a third-year Law/Commerce student at The University of Western Australia. I am an Aquarius, and support the West Coast Eagles football club.

Wikipedistically, I used to consider myself to be a deletionist, however over time I have come to appreciate that the word "encyclopedia" by definition covers all human knowledge. This means that everything has a place in an encyclopedia, and also that an encyclopedia can never really be complete. Wikipedia will always be a work-in-progress.

All my contributions to Wikipedia are licensed under the GFDL only, unless otherwise specified. See User:Mark/Copyrights for more information.

Feel free to leave me a message on my talk page. If your message is abusive or rude, I will feel free to ignore you. For more personal or private communication, I can be readily contacted directly via Wikipedia email.

Name: Mark Ryan
Age: 20
Nationality: Australian
Home town: Perth