User:Redrose64

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Just so that you know: I do not appreciate being called a racist or a sexist, even to my face. Evidence is required.

I am a computer programmer by profession, with diverse interests in many apparently unrelated areas. I've tried to show that by means of userboxes; unfortunately, if formatted as a single column, it turned out to be rather long but was still not exhaustive. Since it got a bit silly, I've shunted most of them into a siding. A few have been retained, placed alongside relevant paragraphs as illustration.

My programming skills are mainly in DataFlex and PFXplus (also known as Powerflex). I also have experience in HTML.

This page might look messy; just as I worked out how HTML is done, I find Wikipedia with its strange ways of doing lists, tables etc. - and I can't always find the template that I like. However, hopefully my contributions are much neater.

You won't find me on TubeFace or SpaceBook; I don't tweet, blog, share files or anything else like that. I know that some people have great fun doing such things, but it's not my bag.

Not so long ago it was state of the art. But no longer. I can't keep on buying new kit just because some silly software salesman in Seattle says that their stuff needs it. So, by doing nothing, I move backwards.

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{{quotation|Just at this moment, somehow or other, they began to run.

... they were running hand in hand, and the [Red] Queen went so fast that it was all she [Alice] could do to keep up with her: and still the Queen kept crying 'Faster! Faster!' but Alice felt she could not go faster, though she had no breath left to say so.

The most curious part of the thing was, that the trees and the other things round them never changed their places at all: however fast they went, they never seemed to pass anything.

... till suddenly, just as Alice was getting quite exhausted, they stopped, and she found herself sitting on the ground, breathless and giddy.

The Queen propped her up against a tree, and said kindly, 'You may rest a little now.'

Alice looked round her in great surprise. 'Why, I do believe we've been under this tree the whole time! Everything's just as it was!'

'Of course it is,' said the Queen. ... 'It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!' |Lewis Carroll|Through the Looking Glass, and what Alice found there}}

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• Mozilla Firefox 12.0 (as from 6 May 2012)
• Opera 11.64 (Build 1403)
• Safari 5.1 (7534.50)

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The red rose is the badge of the Duchy of Lancaster and my family mostly come from Lancashire. My favourite football team has a red rose in its badge; my favourite cricket county has a red rose on their cap; and (coincidentally) I have friends in the Welsh village of Rhos-goch. Sometimes, it's because of Burns Night.

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I was born in 1964, and the number 64 seems to come up in my life more often than the law of averages might suggest. It is also an exact power of 2, and therefore significant to a computer programmer.

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I have always lived in England, presently in Didcot. Strangely, my IP address always geolocates to a wildly incorrect location: sometimes it's in Olney, Buckinghamshire; maybe in Ruislip; or Cheapside, London - opposite St Mary-le-Bow; the middle of the Thames at {{coord|51.496399|-0.122400|region:GB_type:city}}; Edgware Road, Kilburn; or even western Sheffield (all being places where I have never lived); but normally it's {{coord|51|30|00|N|0|07|48|W|region:GB_type:city}}, which is the Methodist Central Hall Westminster (work that out if you can) - this is {{convert|79.13|km|mi|disp=flip}} away from the truth (check your own {{plainlinks|http://geoiplookup.net/|here}}). My mother has a different broadband supplier and lives 30 miles from me, but when at home, her laptop's IP address also geolocates to 51° 30′ 0″ N, 0° 7′ 48″ W, which is nuts. I have previously lived at Stonehouse, Corby, Telford, Bolton, Blackburn and Barford St. Michael. When living in Bolton, I lived opposite John Marshall (railway historian).

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• Nearest river: River Thames
• Nearest canal (navigable): Oxford Canal (disused):Wilts & Berks Canal
• Nearest railway line: Great Western Main Line
• Nearest main road: A4130 road
• Nearest secondary road: B4493 road
• Nearest cycle route: National Cycle Route 5, five minutes ride away. Which (if I follow it for {{convert|37|mi|km}}) takes me within one minute's ride of my mother's house.
• Earthquakes felt consciously: 1990 Bishop's Castle earthquake, 2 April 1990, felt at a distance of {{convert|133.2|km|mi|disp=flip}}; also the Warwick Earthquake of 23 September 2000, felt at a distance of {{convert|77.81|km|mi|disp=flip}}.
• Loudest noise heard: Buncefield explosion, 11 December 2005 (the shockwave woke me up, then I heard it) at a distance of {{convert|60.15|km|mi|disp=flip}}

I have been to other countries (always as a tourist), see box at top of section. It's chronological, so sorry to Scots everywhere. I have visited every traditional county in England, the last to be crossed off being Sussex in about 1999. However, I've not yet been to some of the new-fangled counties/unitary authorities such as Cleveland.

Well, since most of us edit Wikipedia under pseudonyms, I can't be certain who anybody is, but I'm pretty sure that Mermade worked with me for some 15 years. Hello!

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• Wikipedia:Meetups are great places to meet other Wikipedians. At these, at Wikimania London 2014, and elsewhere, I have met:
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• There have been others. Sorry, I can't remember everybody's handles. I may have met {{User|Harej}} but can't be sure. I have met some people who have edited under IP addresses - these have been omitted deliberately.

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There are several scattered about this page, partly as illustration of the paragraph alongside, but mainly to brighten the place up a bit. There are well over 100 that I wanted to incorporate, but if formatted as a single column they took up too much space, so most of the rest have been moved to a userboxes sub-page. Some were removed because the Great Renaming Plan of April 2015 turned them into redlinks.

In the UK there are several political parties; I have supported some of them, but not all. In the United States they have two parties, let's hear what one politician from each party has said: {{blockquote |text=And tonight I have the high privilege and distinct honor of my own as the first president to begin the State of the Union message with these words: Madam Speaker. |author=President George W. Bush |source=State of the Union Address, 23 January 2007 }}

{{blockquote |text=Madam Speaker, Madam Vice President. No president has ever said those words from this podium ... And it's about time. |author=President Joe Biden |source=Speech to a joint session of Congress, 28 April 2021 }}

Virtually all my edits have been on either English Wikipedia or Wikimedia Commons. Whether good or (hopefully not) bad, all edits that I have done are recorded as by Redrose64, with the following exceptions:

1. 82.109.193.99 12:53, 29 April 2009 - Matty Grooves Records ({{diff|Matty Grooves Records|286840337|161856078|diff}}); this was before I registered
2. 213.232.79.146 14:59, 21 October 2009 - c:User talk:Redrose64 ({{plain link |url=http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Redrose64&diff=30710915&oldid=30653761 |name=diff}}); I didn't realise that the browser I was using didn't pass on all cookies that it should have
3. 87.114.117.131 13:12, 4 March 2010 - Chaucer coming in contact with Petrarch or Boccaccio ({{diff|Chaucer coming in contact with Petrarch or Boccaccio|347700272|347570150|diff}}); whilst carrying out this edit, I somehow became logged out. No idea why.
4. 194.81.226.131 18:42, 11 November 2016 - Talk:LMS Coronation Class ({{diff|Talk:LMS Coronation Class|prev|749001396|diff}}); in public library, so intentionally not logged in
5. 94.118.5.104 15:29, 21 May 2017 and 15:32, 21 May 2017 - Talk:Senna glycoside ({{diff|Talk:Senna glycoside|781491551|781462619|diff}}); somebody else's mobile device
6. 94.118.94.134 16:56, 21 May 2017 - User talk:RexxS ({{diff|User talk:RexxS|prev|781504027|diff}}); somebody else's mobile device
7. Whispyhistory 14:21, 20 August 2017 - Charles Singer ({{diff|Charles Singer|prev|796389215|diff}}) and 14:34, 20 August 2017 - User talk:Redrose64 ({{diff|User talk:Redrose64|prev|796390539|diff}}); assisting another user at a meetup
8. 46.208.106.114 14:08, 8 October 2024 - Wikipedia talk:Sandbox ({{diff|Wikipedia talk:Sandbox|prev|1250103793|diff}}); testing Reply tool when intentionally logged out

However, no other edits of any page from those IP addresses or accounts were mine. When editing from home, my normal IP address is dynamic, and begins 87; but the other three groups vary on a daily basis.

For the purposes of testing various features under circumstances of low user permissions, I have created account {{user|Redrose64a}}

My alleged misdemeanours, such as they are, are recorded {{plain link |url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:AbuseLog?title=Special:AbuseLog&wpSearchUser=Redrose64 |name=here}}. Despite these, I seem to have been given some {{plain link |url=http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=rights&page=User%3ARedrose64 |name=extra rights}} on 14 June 2010. [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=thanks&page=User%3ARedrose64 It's not all been bad].

I have done a few, mainly to fix up mistakes by non-English speakers which a 'bot then propagated back to the English article, also to fix up errors copied verbatim from English Wikipedia. I've also set up a number of interlanguage links. They have all gone on as Redrose64 though; these edits on other Wikipedias were mine:

:ar:خاص:مساهمات/Redrose64;

:eu:Berezi:Ekarpenak/Redrose64;

:be:Адмысловае:Contributions/Redrose64;

:bs:Posebno:Doprinos/Redrose64;

:br:Dibar:Degasadennoù/Redrose64;

:bg:Специални:Приноси/Redrose64;

:zh-yue:Special:貢獻/Redrose64;

:ca:Especial:Contribucions/Redrose64;

:zh:Special:用户贡献/Redrose64;

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For some reason, the

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Wikipedias, and

s:ta:சிறப்பு:Contributions/Redrose64

have noticed me. I had difficulty logging in at

:ur:Special:Contributions/87.113.74.125 where I could only edit anonymously.

See also List of WikiMedia accounts;

[//tools.wmflabs.org/quentinv57-tools/tools/sulinfo.php?username=Redrose64&showinactivity=1&showlocked=1 SUL Info] (see bottom for unattached accounts);

[//tools.wmflabs.org/guc/index.php?user=Redrose64 Recent contributions on all projects]

• Commons (watchlist) - besides uploading a few dozen images myself, I've categorised over two thousand images uploaded by others
• Incubator (watchlist) - for some reason, they've noticed me
• MediaWiki (watchlist)
• Meta (watchlist) - mainly for Meetups
• Wikidata (watchlist)
• Wikinews (watchlist)
• Wikivoyage (watchlist)
• Wiktionary (watchlist)

• Wikimedia UK (watchlist)

Most of my editing has been amendments to existing articles. I also fix vandalism as and when I encounter it. However, I do claim to be the creator of:

1. See [http://toolserver.org/~tparis/pages/index.php?name=Redrose64&lang=en&wiki=wikipedia&namespace=0&redirects=noredirects here] for verification. The list produced by this link shows four pages (LNER electric units, 2 January 2011; Alexandra Park railway station, 12 January 2011; Edmund Ward, 1 August 2011; Mid-Kent Railway, 9 December 2011) in addition to the above. These were created as redirects by me but have been expanded either to full articles (Mid-Kent Railway) or to disambiguation pages (others) by other people.

1. For some reason, in some edit counters, articles which are purely redirects also count towards the total, so to resolve the discrepancy, I admit to being responsible for setting up over 150 redirects, some of which were as a result of page moves. See [http://toolserver.org/~tparis/pages/index.php?name=Redrose64&lang=en&wiki=wikipedia&namespace=0&redirects=onlyredirects&getall=1 here] for verification.

To find out how many times an article is accessed daily: [http://stats.grok.se/ Wikipedia article traffic statistics] - make sure that both date and article are filled in suitably. Thanks to Henrik via Piano non troppo.

• Navboxes: {{tlx|GWR absorbed locos 1922 on}}
• Railway stations: {{tlx|Commuter Stations: Cardiff Local Lines run by Arriva Trains Wales}}; {{tlx|Railway stations in Lancashire}}; {{tlx|Railway stations in Oxfordshire}}; {{tlx|Railway stations in Pembrokeshire}}
• Closed stations: {{tlx|Closed stations Berkshire}}; {{tlx|Closed stations Gloucestershire}}; {{tlx|Closed stations Gloucestershire West}}; {{tlx|Closed stations Greater Manchester}}; {{tlx|Closed stations Oxfordshire}}
• Succ boxes: {{tlx|Future Heritage Rail Insert}}; {{tlx|Future Heritage Rail Start}}; {{tlx|Future rail start}}; {{tlx|Rail line three to two}}; {{tlx|Rail line/doc/colours}}; {{tlx|S-text}}
• Colours for rail succ boxes: {{tlx|AJR colour}}; {{tlx|Anglia colour}}; {{tlx|ArrivaWales colour}}; {{tlx|Barry colour}}; {{tlx|BR(NE) colour}}; {{tlx|BR(S) colour}}; {{tlx|BR(Sc) colour}}; {{tlx|BR(W) colour}}; {{tlx|Cambrian colour}}; {{tlx|Chiltern colour}}; {{tlx|CLC colour}}; {{tlx|CV colour}}; {{tlx|Dutchflyer colour}}; {{tlx|Ferry colour}}; {{tlx|FTPX colour}}; {{tlx|Furness colour}}; {{tlx|GatExp colour}}; {{tlx|GCR colour}}; {{tlx|GER colour}}; {{tlx|GNGE colour}}; {{tlx|GNR colour}}; {{tlx|GrandCentral colour}}; {{tlx|GWGC colour}}; {{tlx|GWLNW colour}}; {{tlx|GWRMR colour}}; {{tlx|HBR colour}}; {{tlx|HeathCon colour}}; {{tlx|HeathExp colour}}; {{tlx|Heritage rail colour}}; {{tlx|LBSCR colour}}; {{tlx|LCDR colour}}; {{tlx|LM colour}}; {{tlx|LNWLY colour}}; {{tlx|LNWMR colour}}; {{tlx|LNWR colour}}; {{tlx|LOR colour}}; {{tlx|LSWR colour}}; {{tlx|LYR colour}}; {{tlx|MCR colour}}; {{tlx|Merseyrail colour}}; {{tlx|MetRly colour}}; {{tlx|MGNJ colour}}; {{tlx|Midland-Metro-colour}}; {{tlx|MR colour}}; {{tlx|MSJA colour}}; {{tlx|MSWJ colour}}; {{tlx|NER colour}}; {{tlx|NET colour}}; {{tlx|Norfolk Orbital colour}}; {{tlx|Northern colour}}; {{tlx|NSE colour}}; {{tlx|NSJ colour}}; {{tlx|Rhymney colour}}; {{tlx|RR colour}}; {{tlx|SDJR colour}}; {{tlx|SECR colour}}; {{tlx|SER colour}}; {{tlx|Sheffield Supertram colour}}; {{tlx|SMJ colour}}; {{tlx|SR colour}}; {{tlx|StanExp colour}}; {{tlx|Temporary rail colour}}; {{tlx|TVR colour}}; {{tlx|VWC colour}}; {{tlx|Wessex colour}}; {{tlx|WirralRly colour}}; {{tlx|WrexSalop colour}}; {{tlx|WW colour}}
• Route Diagrams: {{tlx|Bideford, Westward Ho! and Appledore Railway RDT}}; {{tlx|Cheltenham area RDT}}; {{tlx|Derbyshire Dales Narrow Gauge Railway RDT}}; {{tlx|Dearne Valley Railway RDT}}; {{tlx|Ely Valley Railway RDT}}; {{tlx|Liverpool South Parkway RDT}}; {{tlx|Manchester and Milford Railway}}; {{tlx|Medway Towns RDT}}; {{tlx|North Cornwall Railway RDT}}; {{tlx|Oxford area RDT}}; {{tlx|Railways in Bridgwater RDT}}; {{tlx|Ramsgate and Margate RDT}}; {{tlx|Stoke Ferry Branch RDT}}
• Stubs: {{tlx|1890s-comedy-film-stub}}; {{tlx|1900s-horror-film-stub}}; {{tlx|1910s-horror-film-stub}}; {{tlx|1920s-horror-film-stub}}; {{tlx|1990s-film-stub}}; {{tlx|2000s-US-film-stub}}; {{tlx|2010s-thriller-novel-stub}}; {{tlx|Afghanistan-cuisine-stub}}; {{tlx|Asia-law-stub}}; {{tlx|Austria-railstation-stub}}; {{tlx|Ecuador-road-stub}}; {{tlx|England-steam-loco-stub}}; {{tlx|Hartlepool-geo-stub}}; {{tlx|Kazakhstan-cuisine-stub}}; {{tlx|Kazakhstan-gov-stub}}; {{tlx|Kyrgyzstan-cuisine-stub}}; {{tlx|Kyrgyzstan-gov-stub}}; {{tlx|Kyrgyzstan-newspaper-stub}}; {{tlx|NorthKorea-railstation-stub}}; {{tlx|Pakistan-railstation-stub}}; {{tlx|Portugal-gov-stub}}; {{tlx|Scotland-steam-loco-stub}}; {{tlx|SriLanka-railstation-stub}}; {{tlx|Stockton-geo-stub}}; {{tlx|Syria-gov-stub}}; {{tlx|Tajikistan-cuisine-stub}}; {{tlx|Tajikistan-gov-stub}}; {{tlx|Tajikistan-newspaper-stub}}; {{tlx|Turkmenistan-airport-stub}}; {{tlx|Turkmenistan-gov-stub}}; {{tlx|Turkmenistan-newspaper-stub}}; {{tlx|UK-steam-loco-stub}}; {{tlx|Uzbekistan-cuisine-stub}}; {{tlx|Uzbekistan-gov-stub}}; {{tlx|Uzbekistan-newspaper-stub}}; {{tlx|Uzbekistan-railstation-stub}}; {{tlx|Vietnam-railstation-stub}}
• Books: {{tlx|RCTS-LocosGWR-8}}; {{tlx|RCTS-LocosGWR-10}}; {{tlx|RCTS-LocosLNER-3C}}; {{tlx|RCTS-LocosLNER-6A}}; {{tlx|RCTS-LocosLNER-7}}; {{tlx|RCTS-LocosLNER-8A}}; {{tlx|RCTS-LocosLNER-8B}}; {{tlx|RCTS-LocosLNER-10A}}; {{tlx|RCTS-LocosLNER-10B}}; {{tlx|RCTS-LocosLNER-11}}
• Editnotices: {{tlx|Attack on Titan editnotice}}; {{tlx|Editnotices/Namespace/Book talk}}; {{tlx|Editnotices/Namespace/TimedText talk}}; {{tlx|Editnotices/Page/2014 FIFA World Cup Group A}}; {{tlx|Editnotices/Page/2014 FIFA World Cup Group B}}; {{tlx|Editnotices/Page/2014 FIFA World Cup Group C}}; {{tlx|Editnotices/Page/2014 FIFA World Cup Group D}}; {{tlx|Editnotices/Page/2014 FIFA World Cup Group E}}; {{tlx|Editnotices/Page/2014 FIFA World Cup Group F}}; {{tlx|Editnotices/Page/2014 FIFA World Cup Group G}}; {{tlx|Editnotices/Page/2014 FIFA World Cup Group H}}; {{tlx|Editnotices/Page/2014 FIFA World Cup squads}}; {{tlx|Editnotices/Page/2014 FIFA World Cup}}; {{tlx|Editnotices/Page/An Unearthly Child}}; {{tlx|Editnotices/Page/Attack on Titan}}; {{tlx|Editnotices/Page/Doctor Who (series 7)}}; {{tlx|Editnotices/Page/Elizabethan era}}; {{tlx|Editnotices/Page/Fallon Fox}}; {{tlx|Editnotices/Page/Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual/Editing, Creating, and Maintaining Articles/Creating a New Article}}; {{tlx|Editnotices/Page/Lemonade Mouth}}; {{tlx|Editnotices/Page/List of 2014 FIFA World Cup matches}}; {{tlx|Editnotices/Page/List of Attack on Titan chapters}}; {{tlx|Editnotices/Page/List of Attack on Titan characters}}; {{tlx|Editnotices/Page/List of Attack on Titan episodes}}; {{tlx|Editnotices/Page/List of Christian hip hop and rap artists}}; {{tlx|Editnotices/Page/List of Christian rock bands}}; {{tlx|Editnotices/Page/List of Doctor Who serials}}; {{tlx|Editnotices/Page/List of gymnasts}}; {{tlx|Editnotices/Page/List of Jains}}; {{tlx|Editnotices/Page/List of Major League Baseball players with 300 career stolen bases}}; {{tlx|Editnotices/Page/List of Major League Baseball pitchers with 200 career wins}}; {{tlx|Editnotices/Page/List of Major League Baseball players with 1,000 runs}}; {{tlx|Editnotices/Page/List of Major League Baseball players with 1,000 runs batted in}}; {{tlx|Editnotices/Page/List of Major League Baseball players with 2,000 hits}}; {{tlx|Editnotices/Page/List of Major League Baseball players with 4,000 total bases}}; {{tlx|Editnotices/Page/List of neo-Nazi organizations}}; {{tlx|Editnotices/Page/List of pedophiles}}; {{tlx|Editnotices/Page/List of Power Rangers Megaforce characters}}; {{tlx|Editnotices/Page/List of scale-model industry people}}; {{tlx|Editnotices/Page/List of top 100 Major League Baseball strikeout pitchers}}; {{tlx|Editnotices/Page/List of top 300 Major League Baseball home run hitters}}; {{tlx|Editnotices/Page/Paris}}; {{tlx|Editnotices/Page/Power Rangers Megaforce}}; {{tlx|Editnotices/Page/Template talk:Citation needed}}; {{tlx|Editnotices/Page/Template:2014 FIFA World Cup Group A table}}; {{tlx|Editnotices/Page/Template:2014 FIFA World Cup Group B table}}; {{tlx|Editnotices/Page/Template:2014 FIFA World Cup Group C table}}; {{tlx|Editnotices/Page/Template:2014 FIFA World Cup Group D table}}; {{tlx|Editnotices/Page/Template:2014 FIFA World Cup Group E table}}; {{tlx|Editnotices/Page/Template:2014 FIFA World Cup Group F table}}; {{tlx|Editnotices/Page/Template:2014 FIFA World Cup Group G table}}; {{tlx|Editnotices/Page/Template:2014 FIFA World Cup Group H table}}; {{tlx|Editnotices/Page/The Enchanted Wood (novel)}}; {{tlx|Editnotices/Page/The Faraway Tree}}; {{tlx|Editnotices/Page/The Folk of the Faraway Tree}}; {{tlx|Editnotices/Page/The Magic Faraway Tree (novel)}}; {{tlx|Editnotices/Page/Wah-wah (music)}}; {{tlx|Editnotices/Page/Wikipedia talk:Categorization}}; {{tlx|Editnotices/Page/Wikipedia talk:Chemical infobox}}; {{tlx|Editnotices/Page/Wikipedia talk:Requests for permissions}}; {{tlx|Editnotices/Page/Wikipedia:Notability/Noticeboard}}; {{tlx|Editnotices/Page/Wikipedia:Simple guide to creating your first article}}; {{tlx|List of Major League Baseball players editnotice}}; {{tlx|The Faraway Tree editnotice}}
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• Longest interval between {{diff|Talk:Saw (franchise)|prev|470461119|making a fix}} and its effects being {{diff|Talk:Saw (franchise)|prev|788894821|first seen}}: {{frac|5|1|2}} years.
• I've created several all-capitals shortcots in Project namespace. Here they are: {{-r|WP:CITEBEGIN}} (December 2011); {{-r|WP:CFR/S}} (May 2016); {{-r|WP:EDITORIALISING}} (November 2013); {{-r|WP:LISTGAP}} (July 2011); {{-r|WP:MFDHOW}} (August 2021); {{-r|WP:MFDHOWTO}} (August 2021); {{-r|WP:MONTAGE}} (May 2011); {{-r|WP:NC (UK stations)}} (November 2013); {{-r|WP:NOTSALES}} (October 2013); {{-r|WP:OPCOORD}} (February 2011); {{-r|WP:RFCBEFORE}} (March 2018); {{-r|WP:RFCBRIEF}} (March 2019); {{-r|WP:RFCNOT}} (June 2019); and {{-r|WP:TFM}} (August 2013). I'm rather surprised at just how many I'd forgotten creating, even though I've used most of them several times recently - I'd assumed that they had been created by others. Of those I do recall creating, it's gratifying to see so many in widespread usage.

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Go through the whole of Wikipedia and check that it's 100% correct. Failing that, concentrate on improving the stubs.

• If I get bored of that, here are some hidden categories that ought to be empty, but never are: :Category:Articles using citation needed template with unnamed parameter; {{cl|Articles with inconsistent citation formats}}; {{cl|Articles with incorrect citation syntax}}; {{cl|Articles with invalid ISBNs}}; {{cl|Pages containing cite templates with deprecated parameters}}; {{cl|Pages using citations with accessdate and no URL}}; {{cl|Pages using multiple issues with incorrect parameters}}; {{cl|Pages with empty citations}}; :Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting; {{cl|Pages with malformed coordinate tags}}; :Category:Pages with missing references list; :Category:ParserFunction errors; {{cl|References with multiple page specifications}}; :Category:Stub message boxes needing attention; :Category:United Kingdom railway station stubs; :Category:Unreferenced rail transport articles; :Category:Unusual parameters of Infobox locomotive template; :Category:Unusual parameters of Infobox train template; [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Unusual_parameters_of_Infobox_station_template&pagefrom=A#mw-pages Category:Unusual parameters of Infobox station template (from A)].
• Also, some generated lists (which do age) selected from Wikipedia:Database reports:
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• Wikipedia:Database reports/Broken WikiProject templates - {{Wikipedia:Database reports/Broken WikiProject templates}};
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Railway Electrification prior to 1956 - based on notes originally placed in Talk:Sale, Greater Manchester

Rewrite UK-relevant portions of Right- and left-hand traffic#Trains to describe gradual change from RHD to LHD, particularly in case of large boiler and left-hand signals. Mention Milton 1955. Mention also that some rlys were RH running, such as M&B. Mention early GWR rule about direction on each line. In Bidirectional traffic#Railways, see what can be done for referencing, particularly UK.

Checking/significant expansion req: Ainsworth Road Halt railway station, Baguley railway station, Barton Moss railway station, Cheadle LNWR railway station, Cross Lane railway station, Ellenbrook railway station, Worsley, Maltby railway station, Malvern Link railway station, Pendleton Bridge railway station, Seedley railway station, The Happiness Patrol, Weaste railway station

Could do with an article Railways in Oxfordshire.

Navboxes for open/closed stations for single county or unitary authority may be found in :Category:Rail transport navigational boxes of the United Kingdom or its subcats. Several are categorised as stubs, but in the wrong stub category. Berks, Bucks, Hants and Oxon should be in {{tlx|SouthEastEngland-railstation-stub}}; Glos and Wilts in {{tlx|SouthWestEngland-railstation-stub}}; Northants in {{tlx|EastMidlands-railstation-stub}}; Worcs and Warks in {{tlx|WestMidlands-railstation-stub}}.

On the Talk page, use the TWP banner (removing parameter pairs as required):

{{WikiProject Trains |class= |importance= |stations=yes |UK=yes |UK-importance=

|Scotland=yes |Scotland-importance=

|Underground=yes |LUL-importance=

|imageneeded=yes |Imagedetails=

}}

WikiProject banners for counties include {{tlx|WikiProject Berkshire}}; {{tlx|WikiProject Buckinghamshire}}; {{tlx|WikiProject Hampshire}}; {{tlx|WikiProject Northamptonshire}}; {{tlx|WikiProject Wiltshire}} (see also projects within :Category:WikiProject England)

Line and station closed

Line closed, station open

Line open, station closed

Line and station open
use final name of station per Butt 1995 p.xxx and WP:NC (UK stations)

To find links to a page that don't go through a navbox, use the query linksto:"Foo railway station" insource:/\[\[Foo railway station/ - of course that fails to find those that go through {{tlx|stnlnk}} and similar.

Why do these two villages - which have three articles between them - warrant so much less total coverage than neighbouring South Newington? I've nothing against the latter place - I just feel that the Barfords could get a bit more. St. John has more than St. Michael - and it's tiny by comparison.

Idea for that: go to field (the old cricket field) in Barford St. John, stand on N bank of river near the water pipe or the weir, and take photo showing bridge, and if poss, include Woodworm Studios in the shot. Put it on the Barford St. John and St. Michael page. Caption it Bridge over the River Swere connecting Barford St. John to Barford St. Michael. Add comment stating that the bridge is a multiple hazard to motoring; the road narrows at this point, turns through a sharp bend, and the bridge is hump-backed. Both parapets show signs of frequent repair as motorists misjudge the road. In winter, the road often floods across its whole width for some distance either side of the bridge. If poss, also note that the Woodworm Studios is on the left of the picture.

Get something about the river from Peter Sheasby's book. Also on the two churches from that book "Churches of the Banbury Area". Is there something on St. Mary's, Cropredy in that? Is there any "Field Names Survey" stuff left (Bond, J. and others).

I try to cite my sources when editing. It's not always possible; but I do have literally hundreds of books.

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