User:Pete Hobbs
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What's in a username? "A rose/prose/nose by any other name would smell as sweet", et-hetera-setterer.. I'm a veteran pc-user who recently got tired of spotting errors on Wikipedia and decided to learn how to correct them, right at the same moment as a) wanting to identify a particular early steam locomotive seen on the Fernsehapparat, and b) wanting a sudden break from endless charitable web designing, magazine editing and typesetting.
If and when my interest in Wikipedia's surprisingly effective capabilities increases further (or declines!), I'll doubtless amend my "lo-file" profile accordingly. Until then, this'll have to do!
Contributor (+500 chars) to articles on
- People:
- John Braithwaite (engineer)
- John Ericsson
- Nils Ericson
- William Lewis (chess player)
- Hitler family
- Geoffrey Jellicoe
- Stephen Harriman Long
- A. E. Matthews
- Grandma Moses
- Lothar Schmid
- Margaret Scudamore
- Merian family
- Minnie Tittell Brune
- Places:
- List of Restoration candidates
- Rotherhithe railway station
- Wotton House, Surrey
- Things:
- Catch Me Who Can
- Cousin
- Davis Submerged Escape Apparatus
- Derby cheese
- Doomsday rule
- Foster, Rastrick and Company
- Fifteen Guinea Special
- GWR Star Class
- Lighthouse of Alexandria
- List of fictional police detectives
- Okta
- Portrait of Vincent Nubiola
- Sage Derby
- Statue of Zeus at Olympia
- Stockton and Darlington Railway
- Works by Banksy damaged or destroyed
- Volunteer Officers' Decoration
- Yellowstone Expedition
- Categories:
- :Category:Early steam locomotives
Starter of articles on
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Talk back bites
The wikipedia community seem like a nice bunch of hundreds and thousands, post a talk note or enquiry and you almost always get a helpful reply with guidance etc. Almost always, but there are rare exceptions.
- Talk:Mary Leakey#Edit request - Excavations info is shallow. I'd described a dozen good reasons why a Mary Leakey article was (on her highlighted centenary) pretty poor. Had one unhelpful (albeit humorous) reply, but my posting did inspire someone else to improve the article a great deal almost immediately. So - talk is good.
Where to put a Sandbox userbox?
{{My sandbox}} Right here for now. Apparently if I put a bracketed "My sandbox|
Having now created my first User sub-page, I need to access it. So: