MCB

About

MCB is Michael C. Berch, born October 10, 1956 in Los Angeles, California, presently residing in Pleasanton, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area.

I am a retired attorney, IT consultant, writer, longtime UNIX geek, longtime Internet geek, former magazine editor, food & travel enthusiast, California native.

My Wikipedia interests mostly involve food, cooking, restaurants, travel and tourism, hotels, transportation (especially airlines/airports/aircraft), geography, history, and legal topics. I am a member of WikiProject Aviation and a number of its sub-projects, WikiProject San Francisco Bay Area, and helped restart WikiProject Food and Drink.

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Languages

Wikipedia:Babel

enThis user is a native speaker of the English language.

fr-2Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau intermédiaire en français.

es-1Este usuario puede contribuir con un nivel básico de español.

zh-1該用戶能以基本的中文進行交流。
该用户能以基本的中文进行交流。

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ДThis user has a basic understanding of the Cyrillic script.

Hebr-1
ש‎This user has a basic understanding of the Hebrew alphabet.

Hrkt-1
あThis user has a basic understanding of the Katakana or Hiragana.

Hans-1
语This user has a basic understanding of the Simplified Chinese characters.

这个用户认为汉字简化对汉字发展起了正面作用。
This user thinks that Simplified Chinese characters are a positive step in the development of Chinese characters.

Admin requests

I have retired as an administrator on the English-language Wikipedia. I enjoyed my time as an admin but it was time to pass the baton to the new generation.

Languages

I do have Babel boxes and ISO 15924 boxes, but they're really not quite descriptive enough to be useful, especially at the lower ability levels (like mine). Basically, I'm a native English speaker, not fluent in any other language, but I can get along reasonably well in reading/writing French (and occasionally edit the fr Wikipedia); I can make fairly decent sense out of written Spanish; I have about a semester each of Russian, Japanese, and Hebrew, and am presently studying Mandarin Chinese at a beginning level, using simplified Chinese characters.

Articles I created

Aaron Durley • ALM Flight 980 • Anaheim Ice • Arthur Bryant's • Cape Town Treaty • Chuck steak • Court of Historical Review • Cruz Reynoso • Darius Ogden Mills • Dogpatch, San Francisco, California • Erebus: The Aftermath • Financier (pastry) • Fresh Choice • Gougère • Hamilton Camp • Hôtel Lutetia • Karen Dior • Kenny Buttrey • Lacey Fosburgh • Mailgram • Mussel Rock • North American Meat Processors Association • ORBIS International • Oxtail • Pleasanton Weekly • Polidor • Ray Kidder • Swiss steak • Tomales Bay State Park • Tombstone (advertising) • Veeraswamy