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<span style="color:#009900">'''Welcome to my User Page'''</span>

I'm a British retired librarian living in Silverdale, Lancashire, having moved here from Leeds originally to look after my late Mother. I have a range of interests and a tendency to proof-read and correct typos! I used to spend a lot of Wiki-time Stub-sorting, and sometimes start by correcting one link and end up improving a network of related pages. I've worked with :Category:Disambiguation pages in need of cleanup, WP:Suggestions for disambiguation repair, WP:Typo Team and WP:CiterSquad at various times. I contribute to the Women in Red editathons, picking one or two topics which look interesting, or are UK based, or if all else fails have the initial "P": it's a challenge to produce new articles on topics in fields where I don't usually edit, and I keep a list of my WiR contributions, taking great delight when one article fits two or, occasionally, three of the month's editathons. After a superb walk up Black Combe, April 2012, I decided to sort out the WP articles for the Outlying fells, which turned into quite a project. When I attended a meeting in Preston Patrick I found that it, and many other South Lakeland parishes, had no article - so I made them.

I've created a motley collection of articles or stubs, to fill gaps: some sparked off by a red link, others when I look up a topic of interest and find it's not yet got an article. Something on Radio 4 will sometimes inspire me: "Have they got an article?" "If not, are they sourceably notable?" "Let's go." And suddenly it's lunchtime, and I sat down with my breakfast. (Retired life!) I'm very glad that I've kept the list, below, which reminds me why I created each article, and recommend the practice to other editors. Wikipedia has the fascination of an infinite jigsaw puzzle - there's always another piece to fit in.

I'm increasingly worried about gradual deterioration in our articles, through links going dead, information becoming out of date, and accidental or worse damage by later editors. I've decided, 2023, to start looking through the articles, listed below, which I've started: but it's a slow process and can lead down a lot of rabbit-holes of related topics needing attention.



Yes, I know the page looks a bit of a mess at present - will learn about layout sometime and prettify it!

Articles, templates and stubs I've created

Not including umpteen disambiguation pages created while working on Wikipedia:Suggestions for name disambiguation and otherwise, surname pages created as a list of name-holders, a few articles where I've created a "non-infringing stub" to rescue a copyvio article's non-creative elements and its incoming redirects, lots of redirects, etc

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Total articles created in previous years (2007-2024): 1,124.

(Not counting a lot of disambiguation pages, surname pages, and many, many, redirects)

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[[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|20px|GA]] Good Articles I've worked on

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  • 20 August 2008 [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Burnsall&diff=prev&oldid=233090379 16,000th edit] - working on Burnsall, up in the Yorkshire Dales
  • 31 July 2008 [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dow_Jones_News_Service&diff=prev&oldid=228970170 15,000th edit] - rescuing Dow Jones News Service after it had been over-speedily deleted
  • 19 July 2008 [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Stub_sorting/Stub_types&diff=prev&oldid=226537357 14,000th edit] - joining in discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types
  • 27 June 2008 [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%C5%9Eevket_Pamuk&diff=prev&oldid=222359698 13,000th edit] - stubsorting and giving sortkey for Şevket Pamuk
  • 18 June 2008 [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Leeds_Teaching_Hospitals_NHS_Trust&diff=prev&oldid=220157878 12,500th edit] - adding links to Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
  • 8 June 2008 [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rotunda_Museum&diff=prev&oldid=217982360 12,000th edit] - updating website address for Rotunda Museum
  • 25 May 2008 [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Simon_Fell_%28Yorkshire_Dales%29&diff=prev&oldid=214832462 11,500th edit] - adding image from Geograph to Simon Fell (Yorkshire Dales)
  • 13 May 2008 [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hamlet_%28disambiguation%29&diff=prev&oldid=212217440 11,000th edit] - adding The Hamlets school to Hamlet (disambiguation)
  • 23 April 2008 [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pendleton_Historic_District&diff=prev&oldid=207673171 10,500th edit] - stubsorting Pendleton Historic District by turning from stub to dab
  • 9 April 2008 [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Requested_moves&diff=prev&oldid=204425730 10,000th edit] - requesting a move from PAUL to Paul (bakery), having come across the latter duplicated article while stubsorting stubs starting with "Pa", as my contribution to the unsorted-stubs backlog!
  • 26 Mar 2008 [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Titus_Salt&diff=prev&oldid=201112345 9,500th edit] - wikifying a reference in Titus Salt
  • 6 Mar 2008 [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marco_V&diff=prev&oldid=196274036 9,000th edit] - using AWB to clear up "was been"
  • 20 Feb 2008 [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Belvedere_academy&diff=prev&oldid=192777726 8,500th edit] - while tidying up The Belvedere Academy, formerly The Belvedere School
  • 17 Feb 2008 [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paul_V._Roberts&diff=prev&oldid=192041772 8,000th edit] - more work with Wikipedia:Suggestions for name disambiguation
  • 5 Feb 2008 [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George_Eldon_Ladd&diff=prev&oldid=189310441 7,500th edit] - adding a hatnote to link to a dab page while working on Wikipedia:Suggestions for name disambiguation
  • 31 Jan 2008 [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William_Gaines&diff=prev&oldid=188115348 7,000th edit] - working on Wikipedia:Suggestions for name disambiguation, which has the appeal of an infinite jigsaw puzzle!
  • 24 Jan 2008 [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yaon%C3%A1huac%2C_Puebla&diff=prev&oldid=186580803 6,500th edit] - continuing the campaign against "is been", inspired by WP:TYPO
  • 16 Jan 2008 [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Valerie_Arkell-Smith&diff=prev&oldid=184721785 6,000th edit] - one of a series of disambiguations of "Grand Hotel", part of a series of tidying which started with The Grand Theatre, Lancaster and went on from there.
  • 9 Jan 2008 [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_characters_in_Tales_of_Symphonia&diff=prev&oldid=183158373 5,500th edit] - one of a series of edits looking for, and fixing, "is been"! (Also did "should of" and similar)
  • 1 Jan 2008 [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Exmoor&diff=prev&oldid=181418758 5,000th edit] - tweaking Exmoor article in its Featured Article candidacy
  • 18 Dec 2007 [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Leeds&diff=prev&oldid=178779052 4,500th edit] - contributing to discussion about Leeds v. City of Leeds article name
  • 5 Dec 2007 [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scarborough_and_Ryedale_Mountain_Rescue_Team&diff=prev&oldid=176043207 4,000th edit] - made a redirect to Scarborough and Ryedale Mountain Rescue Team from different capitalisation
  • 21 Nov 2007 [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=South_West_Coast_Path&diff=prev&oldid=172946886 3,500th edit] - working on the South West Coast Path article, adding transport links
  • 3 Nov 2007 [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Liberal_Democrats_leadership_election%2C_2007&diff=168907749&oldid=168751073 3,000th edit] - corrected spelling mistake in Liberal Democrats leadership election, 2007 (but hit "send" by accident so edit summary incomplete!)
  • 22 Oct 2007 [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pennine_Way&diff=prev&oldid=166377968 2,500th edit] - adding the new "Designation" field, which I'd proposed, to the {{tl|Infobox Hiking trail}} for Pennine Way
  • 12 Oct 2007 [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Adel%2C_Leeds&diff=prev&oldid=163767309 2,000th edit] - improving text moved from trivia section of Adel, Leeds
  • 10 Sept 2007 [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Humber_Bridge&diff=prev&oldid=156896403 1,500th edit] - putting sourced info about Humber Bridge tolls protest to replace deleted info
  • 19 Aug 2007 [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=St._Mary%27s_School%2C_Menston&diff=152218715&oldid=152217039 1,000th edit] - tidying up a Leeds school page (replacing stub category by stub template).
  • 25 June 2007 [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Troutbeck%2C_South_Lakeland&diff=prev&oldid=140473829 500th edit] - part of a disambiguating effort about various "Troutbeck"s
  • 28 May 2007 [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robin_Hood%2C_Leeds&diff=prev&oldid=134036116 100th edit] - made a redirect as part of a general tidying up around "Robin Hood", place in West Yorkshire
  • 9 June 2006 [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_political_party_symbols&diff=prev&oldid=57781835 My first edit] - I can't really remember the circumstances: I guess I looked for the information in WP, didn't find it there, found it elsewhere, and added it; clarified existing links too.

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