User:Pbsouthwood
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| image:White Island banner 1.JPG | White Island, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand
| image:Volkner Rocks banner 3.JPG | Volkner Rocks, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand
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| image:Diving in New Zealand banner 3.JPG | Diving in New Zealand
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| image:Great Mercury Island banner 1.JPG | Great Mercury Island, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand
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| image:Glencairn Barge banner 1.jpg | Glencairn barge wreck, Simon,s Town, South Africa
| image:Windmill Beach banner 2.JPG | Windmill Beach, Simon's Town, South Africa
| image:Justin's Caves banner 9.jpg | Justin's Caves, Oudekraal, South Africa
| image:Whirlpool Cove banner 1.jpg | Whirlpool Cove, Rooi-els, South Africa
| image:Blousteen banner 1.jpg | Blousteen, Kogelbaai, South Africa
| image:Pinnacle banner 1.jpg | Pinnacle, Gordon's Bay, South Africa
| image:Whittle Rock banner 1.jpg | Whittle Rock, False Bay, South Africa
| image:Monty's Pinnacle banner 4.JPG | Monty's Pinnacle, Clifton, South Africa
| image:Klein Tafelberg banner 11.JPG | Klein Tafelberg reef, Hout Bay, South Africa
| image:Rambler Rock banner 6.JPG | Rambler Rock, Simon's Town, South Africa
| image:Table Top pinnacle banner 5.JPG | Table Top pinnacle, Hermanus, South Africa
| image:Table Top pinnacle banner 8.JPG | Table Top pinnacle, Hermanus, South Africa
| image:Outer Photographers Reef banner 7.JPG | Outer Photographer's Reef, Simon's Town, South Africa
| image:SAS Transvaal banner 3.JPG | SAS Transvaal wreck, Smitswinkel Bay, South Africa
| image:Shark Alley banner 1.JPG | Shark Alley, Miller's Point, South Africa
| image:Castle Rocks banner 5.JPG | Castle Rocks, False Bay, South Africa
| image:Roman Rock banner 5.JPG | Roman Rock, Simon's Town, South Africa
| image:SAS Pietermaritzburg banner 5.JPG | SAS Pietermaritzburg wreck, Miller's Point, South Africa
| image:Table Mountain banner 1.jpg | Table Mountain, Cape Town, South Africa
| image:Atlantis Reef banner 21.jpg | Atlantis Reef, False Bay, South Africa
| image:South Paw banner 2.JPG | South Paw, Clifton, South Africa
| image:Castle pinnacles banner 1.JPG | Castle Pinnacles, False Bay, South Africa
| image:Rocky bank banner 1.jpg | Rocky Bank, False Bay, South Africa
| image:Justin's Caves banner 5.JPG | Justin's Caves, Oudekraal, South Africa
| image:Dreadlocks Reef banner 1.JPG | Dreadlocks Reef, Oudekraal, South Africa
| image:Percy's Hole banner 1.JPG | Myzostomid on Elegant feather star at Percy's Hole, Rooi-els, South Africa
| image:13th Apostle Reef banner 3.JPG | 13th Apostle Reef, Llandudno, South Africa
| image:Photographers Reef banner 4.JPG | Photographers' Reef, Simon's Town, South Africa
| image:SS Umhlali banner 5.JPG | SS Umhlali wreck, Olifantsbospunt, South Africa
| image:Cape Matapan banner 3.JPG | Cape Matapan wreck, Table Bay, South Africa
| image:SAS Good Hope banner 4.JPG | SAS Good Hope wreck, Smitswinkel Bay, South Africa
| image:Coral Gardens Oudekraal banner 8.JPG | Coral gardens, Oudekraal, South Africa
| image:Franschhoek banner La Motte cellar.JPG | La Motte cellars, Franschhoek, South Africa
| image:Devils Peak (Mozambique) dive site banner Shrimps.JPG | Devil's Peak reef, Mozambique
| image:Cathedral (Aliwal Shoal) banner Peacock mantis shrimp.JPG | Cathedral, Aliwal shoal, South Africa
| image:Mokohinau Islands (NZ) banner Shoreline.JPG | Mokohinau Islands, Hauraki gulf, New Zealand
| image:Bostanquet bay Kawau Island (NZ) banner.JPG | Bostanquet Bay, Kawau Island, New Zealand
| image:Middle Bank (Tsitsikamma) banner Colonial ascidians.JPG | Middle Bank, Tsitsikamma, South Africa
| Rheeders Reef (Tsitsikamma) banner Koester juvenile.JPG | Rheeders Reef, Tsitsikamma, South Africa
| Bacolod (Philippines) banner Masskara.JPG | Festival masks, Bacolod, Philippines
| Rooi-els Point banner Rock lobster.JPG | Rooi-els Point, Rooi-els, South Africa
| Phoenix Shoal dive site banner Seaweeds and feather stars.JPG | Phoenix Shoal, Sinon's Town, South Africa
| Lorry Bay dive site banner Sea fan.JPG | Lorry Bay, Gordon's Bay, South Africa
| Geldkis blinder dive site banner Split-fan kelp with epiphytes.JPG | Geldkis Blinder, Oudekraal, South Africa
| Het Huis te Kraaiestein dive site banner Epiphytes on kelp.JPG | Het Huis te Kraaiestein wreck, Oudekraal, South Africa
| Boulders Beach (Simon's Town) banner Penguins.JPG | Boulders Beach, Simon's Town, South Africa
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File:Diving_from_Blue_Flash_DSC04951.JPG|A tough day at work, but someone has to do it
File:Peter Southwood 2.jpg|Gathering data
File:Percys and Kruis2.png|Artisanal charts - surveyed by hand (OR - not for Wikipedia)
Image:Dive sites of Cape Town.png|My home turf – specially the blue areas
File:Dive sites of the Whittle Rock area Hi-Res for mobile.png|There's someplace that I'd rather be...
File:Diver with leafy sea dragon P2023159.JPG|Taking photos
File:The_workplace_P1288189.JPG|Uploading data
Quotes and aphorisms
{{quote|The more I think about language, the more it amazes me that people ever understand each other at all. Kurt Gödel.{{cite book| last=Wang| first=Hao| title=A Logical Journey: From Gödel to Philosophy| publisher=The MIT Press| year=1997| url=https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0262261251}} (A discussion of Gödel's views on logical intuition is woven throughout the book; the quote appears on page 75.)}}
{{quote|We strive for truth, we settle for verifiability.}}
{{quote|The price of cooperation is effective communication.}}
{{quote|Wikipedia is neither straight nor narrow. }}
{{quote|Always in the shit. Only the depth varies. Unknown diver}}
{{quote|Justice and fairness:
- Justice and fairness are philosophical concepts. When they occur it is due to cooperation of people. They have overlap, but are not the same thing.
- There is no natural justice, but sometimes cause and effect can look that way.
- Coincidence can be mistaken for unfairness or injustice. It can also be mistaken for justice or fairness.
:This does not mean that we should not strive for fairness and justice, but we should not be overly surprised when they do not occur.
:Toleration of intolerance is neither fair nor just.}}
{{quote|Before RfA, chop wood, carry water.
:After RfA, chop wood, carry water.}}
{{quote|We have met the enemy, and he is us. Walt Kelly/Pogo}}
{{quote|Good faith is no guarantee of good work. Great harm can be done by those who mean well. It is likely that far more harm is done by those who know they are right than by those who think they may be wrong. See also: The road to hell is paved with good intentions, and Dunning–Kruger effect.}}
{{quote|The first rule of the Dunning–Kruger club is you don't know you're a member of the Dunning–Kruger club. David Dunning}}
{{quote|Life is full of unintended consequences, some were avoidable. Shit happens.}}
{{quote|Large language models: Simulated knowledge generators or artificial incompetence? Were they really expecting something better? Connections with reality may be purely coincidental. New tools to provide unreliable information at an unprecedented rate. }}
{{quote|Admins should be held to a higher standard of behaviour. So should everyone else.}}
{{quote|Judge people by what they do, not by what you think they think. }}
{{quote|Labelling other people is dehumanising, labelling oneself is self-identification, expecting other people to understand what one means by a label is unrealistic.}}
{{quote|Experience does not necessarily imply competence.}}
{{quote|Reality is not obliged to be plausible, so we assess the evidence.}}
{{quote|History is what really happened, it does not change. Our knowledge of history changes, and is generally incomplete, and can be very inaccurate.}}
{{quote|Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.…
Winston S Churchill, 11 November 1947}}
{{quote|The economy appears to be driven by greed and stupidity. Politics is much the same but with added spite.}}
{{quote|Beware the bite of the mad doge.}}
General notice of affiliations, CoI etc
{{notice|header = Diving affiliations and certification:|Recreational:
CMAS-ISA/SAUU: 4* Diver, Normoxic trimix diver, Gas blender. 3* Instructor back in the 1980s
NAUI: Nitrox diver, Semi-closed rebreather diver. Instructor back in the 1980s
Commercial/scientific:
SADoL Class III commercial diving instructor (not currently employed in this capacity), Member of SA Diving Advisory Board. This is a voluntary appointment - they do not pay me, though flight and hotel expenses are covered for long distance trips. Probably not any more, as the regulations have changed, though they have not bothered to notify me. So it goes. About 15 years of voluntary work and they don't even bother to say its over. That is the government for you.
Other:
Southern Underwater Research Group (SURG) for Surveys and Mapping and Diver Education is basically me. It earns me nothing and costs a lot. A bit like Wikipedia, but wetter, and more expensive.
Just in case anyone wonders, I am a member of DAN SA in that I use them for travel/diving accident insurance, and I am on friendly speaking terms with a few of the staff and ex staff, and have met some of the research staff of DAN Europe at a workshop.
I have written and been part of the team for writing training manuals, policies, assessment tools and standards for diving and diving related skills at agency and national levels, but have never been paid for this work, and have occasionally cited documents that I was involved in creating. I also upload dive records for crowdsourced research, as one of the crowd.
I have done voluntary work for some projects run by South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) as a citizen scientist. I know several staff members, and have provided some of their projects with a large number of free-licenced underwater photographs and other data. No reward beyond lunch at conferences has been provided.
I have no connection with the NSRI other than knowing several members through diving, was once on a boat they assisted, and once had a dive interrupted by them because someone on shore thought I might be in difficulty, and they had to check.
I know the owner and staff of Wreckless Marine, the work they do aligns with the work I do, without conflict of interest. I sometimes dive with Wreckless Divers.
I give advice on editing Wikipedia to people who ask for it. If doing research for someone else would put me significantly out of pocket, I might ask for my costs to be covered. I do not consider this unreasonable, inappropriate, or unethical. }}
{{notice|header = Alternative accounts:|User:Wee Free Pictsie is an alternative account for teaching purposes}}
[https://open.spotify.com/show/60miI4qrAg3KqiZWHD0OlK?uri=spotify%3Aepisode%3A3c0jK2nP5uOzk1tUI6ZFJb Podcast interview by Aoife McKiernan on Maritime Radio], see episode #4 The man of many words....that you've probably read. Tuesday 14 January 2025, 22min 29sec.
[https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising/Donor_love Some comments from donors]
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Miscellaneous stuff
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Resources:
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Wikipedia projects:
Work on Wikiversity - Commercial diver training:
- https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Commercial_diving
FA analysis:
Project statistics:
- [http://tools.wmflabs.org/enwp10/cgi-bin/update.fcgi Run the update project data bot]
- [https://tools.wmflabs.org/siteviews/?platform=mobile-app&source=pageviews&agent=user&range=latest-20&sites=en.wikipedia.org Siteviews Analysis] Comparison of total pageviews or unique devices across multiple projects
- :Category:Lists of Wikipedians by number of edits
Readability:
- [https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikipedia-readability/ Readability of pages in English Wikipedia]
- [https://tools.wmflabs.org/most-readable-pages/ Readability of pages in a category]
Searching across articles:
- [http://petscan.wmflabs.org/ Petscan] - finding stuff like templates over a category or similar
RfA:
[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Featured_article_criteria&oldid=1080722157#Clarification_request_on_FA_criterion_2.c Discussion on referencing styles for FA]
Short descriptions - Petscan filters
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Interesting reaearch articles
- [https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=341176#reg Wikitruth Through Wikiorder] David A. Hoffman and Salil Mehra Emory Law Journal, Vol. 59, 2010, Temple University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2009-17.
Wikipedia:Tools/Optimum tool set
Chatbot searches – perplexity.ai:
"-site:en.wikipedia.org" to exclude Wikipedia
Edit summary for RRR fixes
- remove links to archive site with abstract only that links directly to usurped site.
Regex
Search and replace in the wikitext editor which will find missing closing square brackets for a wikilink after a two-word title and add them, for example:
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Lists of stuff
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bufu7pOLQI8&list=PLNXuyLsCTX6hHS3newpcROfJ_JiI27q3C&index=30&ab_channel=TheHumanDiver HF in Diving Conference 2021]
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*SURG (sɒrdʒ), (acronym of Southern Underwater Research Group). An organisation to promote underwater research in the southern hemisphere, based in Cape Town, South Africa.
;Purpose: :*Publish field guides to the underwater marine environment, particularly of the Cape Peninsula and False Bay :*Provide an intermediary between marine science and recreational divers in the Western Cape :*Maintain a website to inform recreational divers about the underwater marine environment. :*Map and photographically record the underwater environment, particularly of the Cape Peninsula and False Bay :*Technical, commercial and scientific diver training and assessment materials and advice on diver training and assessment to the South African Department of Labour :*Support marine researchers on a volunteer basis :*Research and development, design and manufacture of special purpose underwater research tools and equipment, and diving equipment. ;Reef Atlas Project refs: :{{cite book|url=https://www.nedbank.co.za/content/dam/nedbank/site-assets/AboutUs/Affinities/Green/Supporting_Docs/WWF_Nedbank_GreenTrust_25Years.pdf |title=The WWF Nedbank Green Trust - 25 Years of foresight last= |publisher=Nedbank Green Trust |date=2015 |chapter=South Africa’s first Reef Atlas |pages=59–61 |accessdate= 13 August 2018 }} :{{cite report|last1=Majiedt |first1=PA |last2=Sink |first2=KJ |date=2011 |title=Reef Atlas Project: Reef Classification Report.|publisher=South African National Biodiversity Institute (Unpublished report) |location=Cape Town }} :{{cite web|url=https://meam.openchannels.org/news/meam/how-detailed-mapping-sea-floor-informing-ecosystem-based-management |title=How Detailed Mapping of the Sea Floor Is Informing Ecosystem-Based Management |date=20 December 2011 |editor-first=Sarah |editor-last=Carr |publisher=Marine Ecosystems and Management |accessdate= 13 August 2018 }} ;Publications:
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