User:Willthorpe

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File:Bust of Sarah Wentworth.png, a fascinating Australian]]

My editorship of Wikipedia reflects a desire to contribute to the wealth of societally-beneficial public and freely accessible information. I am a journalist, writing for a community newspaper called City Hub, and have been published in the Star Observer as well as in my university's student newspaper Honi Soit, and have self-published articles on Substack.

Once a priest, always a priest; once a Mason, always a Mason; but once a journalist, always and for ever a journalist. – Rudyard Kipling

Sometimes it is necessary to cull content to improve the encyclopaedia, but likewise it is sometimes necessary to substantially improve content with the addition of easily located sources and rewriting.

Wikipedia contributors are spread too thin, with there being about 54 articles for every active editor. It would be ideal to have more editors, but equally important is adhering to good editorial standards, ensuring the content we compose is well-written and appropriately sourced – and not overly time-sensitive.

• 1788 by Lieutenant General Watkin Tench
• William Charles Wentworth: Australia's greatest native son by Andrew Tink MP
• Sarah Wentworth: Mistress of Vaucluse by Carol Liston {{postnominals|country=AUS|AO||sep=comma|size=}}
• The Seahorse and the Wanderer: Ben Boyd in Australia by Marion Diamond

• The Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner
• Sybil, or The Two Nations by Benjamin Disraeli {{postnominals|country=UK|MP||sep=comma|size=}}
• Numerous of Rudyard Kipling's short stories published in Twenty-One Tales and elsewhere
• Baa Baa, Black Sheep; On the City Wall; On Greenhow Hill; The Finest Story in the World; A Matter of Fact; The Bridge-Builders
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

• Jan Christian Smuts by his son Jannie Smuts
• The Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner

Feminism

• A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
• Concerning Wollstonecraft's strong republicanism and negative outlook toward landed wealth, it is fitting to read her essay within a close time frame of Disraeli's Sybil, a book which impresses me with its feminist themes and representations of powerful women. Both Wollstonecraft and Disraeli, from very different perspectives, paint compelling pictures representative of the lives and lifestyles of those they write about.
• The Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner

• Romance of Australian Railways by Patsy Adam-Smith {{postnominals|country=AUS|AO|OBE|sep=comma|size=}}

Australian politics

• The Liberal Case for National Reconciliation by Andrew Bragg {{postnominals|country=AUS|MP||sep=comma|size=}}

Poetry

• Numerous of Kipling's poems, including Late Came the God, The Appeal, The Song of the Lathes, The Virginity, The Nurses, Our Lady of the Snows, If–, et. cetera
• The Song of the Women as an example of humanitarianism
• Invictus by William Earnest Henley; this I do not have among my library but I do have it printed out and stuck to my wall!

• The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

The creation of some of these articles involved substantial amounts of copyediting.

Sandown railway station, Hardies railway station, Goodyear railway station, Cream Of Tartar Works railway station, Nanardine railway station, Fish Hoek railway station, Pippita railway station, Enfield Loco railway station, Somersby Airfield, Forster (Wallis Island) Airport, Airly

[https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=1xaD_WvA7ROBqR8fegYNImAbXTMjQ6sI&usp=sharing Map of subjects of articles I've written]

List of Commonwealth organisations (largely re-wrote to reflect correct terminology)

• Sarah Wentworth
• Statue of James Cook, Hyde Park
• Hunter River Railway Company
• Railways in Canberra
• The Naulahka: A Story of West and East

File:Mudgee station 8.png]]File:William Charles Wentworth, Wentworth Falls 3.png, a great Australian]]I have made significant contributions to various articles, including:

• Railway-related articles, including:
• High-speed rail in Australia
• Railways in Sydney
• Light rail
• Articles related to light rail in Sydney, particularly concerning light rail stations
• Resurrected the articles for Lilyfield and Wentworth Park light rail stations whilst attempting to better integrate light rail at heavy rail stations (see Dulwich Hill)
• Improved the adjacent stations module for Sydney light rail services
• Mudgee railway station
• I have made some contributions to articles concerning the South African railways
• Commonwealth-related articles, including:
• English in the Commonwealth of Nations
• Liberalism in South Africa
• British influence in Pakistan
• A number of article related to South Africa, India and other Commonwealth countries
• Australian history articles, including:
• William Wentworth and articles related to him and his family
• Honi Soit, the student newspaper for the University of Sydney

The authoring of the article for the Hunter River Railway Company was an interesting task, combining my love of history – in this case, Australian colonial history – with my love of railways. More specifically, it combined my fascination with railways with my fascination with the colonial-era statesman William Charles Wentworth, who I have discovered was among many other things something of a railway pioneer like his great-grandson. Articles I've written about railways in Sydney and most particularly in the Inner West where I reside also reflect a convergence of interests!

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