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Pablo D. Flores
esEste usuario tiene el español como lengua materna.
en-4This user can contribute with a near-native level of English.
de-2Dieser Benutzer hat fortgeschrittene Deutschkenntnisse.
ja-1この利用者は初級日本語ができます。
Only the mediocre are always at their best.Jean Giraudoux

Hi! My name is Pablo David Flores. I live in Rosario (birthplace of Lionel Messi, Fito Páez, Roberto Fontanarrosa and Che Guevara), Argentina (home of tango, the pampas, the dulce de leche, Diego Maradona and the largest national debt default in history).

The Barnstar of National Merit for my work in Argentina-related articles.

I have interests in many fields; here in Wikipedia I've worked on

I've also tried to counter Wikipedia's systemic bias, and taking care of articles about Argentina, and about my little corner of it, Rosario. (See Category:Argentina, Category:Rosario.) I'm a member of WikiProject Argentina.

My native language is Spanish (Rioplatense dialect). I have an advanced level of English, and am currently studying to become a Spanish→English translator.

I studied Japanese at the Japanese Association of Rosario between 2004 and 2007; I took (and passed) the third level (三級 sankyū) of the Japanese Language Proficiency Test (日本語能力試験 Nihongo Nōryoku Shiken). I have also studied German, with a private teacher, up to an intermediate level (I cannot speak the language fluently, but can and do read news and novels in it!) and Portuguese (easy to read for a Spanish speaker, not so easy to use properly).

I'm an amateur photographer. I used to post on Flickr. For a time I also wrote an English-language personal and op-ed blog, D for Disorientation. Then I moved on to a Spanish-language counterpart, Sin calma. I criticized religion at Alerta Religión and wrote about science and skepticism on the now-defunct blog of the Círculo Escéptico Argentino. Nowadays I occasionally post book or film reviews and other trivia at my writer's blog.