:User:10mmsocket

Anyone with the most basic mechanical experience will know that 10 millimetre sockets and spanners are the ones that you can never find when you need them. They are treacherous little things that turn up when you don't expect them. They cannot be trusted.

You will mostly find me improving UK emergency service & NHS articles.

I dabble in railway articles but I am not a trainspotter. Ditto car and motorcycle articles.

I also do a bit of vandal patrolling, especially around newly registered users who have a conflict of interest / are only here to spam Wikipedia.

I come from North East England and have a home in South West England.

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1. I loathe original research with a passion - it goes right against the grain of what Wikipedia stands for. I will do everything I can to remove OR, especially in examples like the UK fire services articles below where it simply attracts low level wiki-fiddling as people make changes to reflect their personal knowledge - thus a bad section of content (not typically the whole article) gets worse and worse over time.
2. More recently I have developed a loathing for wanksocks sockpuppets and sockpuppetry.
3. Conflict of interest / paid editors.

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• Wikipedia:External links - spam fighting
• WP:PROMOTION - Wikipedia is not a soapbox or means of promotion/advertising
• WP:NOTFORUM - Wikipedia is not a publisher of original thought
• WP:NPOV - Neutral point of view
• WP:AGF - Assume good faith
• WP:ENGVAR - National varieties of English
• WP:CRYSTALBALL - Wikipedia is not a crystal ball
• WP:NOTCENSORED - Wikipedia is not censored
• WP:AIV - Administrator intervention against vandalism
• WP:ANI - Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents
• Template Parser Functions (conditional elements etc) [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:ParserFunctions]

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Policies/MOS:

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• WP:NCPEER
• MOS:HONORIFIC
• MOS:POSTNOM

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• [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:LinkSearch External link search] (remember wildcard at start)
• [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:NewPagesFeed New pages feed - user pages]
• [https://tools.wmflabs.org/copyvios/ Earwig's Copyvio Detector Tool]
• [https://tools.wmflabs.org/sigma/editorinteract.py Editor Interaction Analyser]
• [https://afdstats.toolforge.org/ AfD Stats] ([https://afdstats.toolforge.org/afdstats.py?name=10mmsocket&max=500 mine])
• Edit filter logs [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:AbuseLog&wpSearchFilter=148 148] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:AbuseLog&wpSearchFilter=149 149]
• Stepford [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=%22stepford+express%22&title=Special:Search&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&ns0=1 Express] / [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=%22stepford+connect%22&title=Special:Search&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&ns0=1 Connect]

I shall be making use of this page heavily Wikipedia:Template index/Cleanup

Spam stuff

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