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| article_name = Clarendon Shopping Centre

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| date = 22 April 2020

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| date = 7 May 2020

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Hey, welcome to my user page. Feel free to leave me a message over on my talk page.

I discovered in October 2019 that there's an inactive Wikipedia account with the name "Yorkshire Lad", with a space. That account has nothing to do with me! (It only has three non-userspace edits anyway, from 2006.) I'm also unrelated to {{u|Yorkshirelad6}}, whose existence I discovered in November 2020.

Other accounts: I once had an account many years ago that I've long since forgotten the password to, and this account was very briefly at "YorkshireGold" until I realised that was a violation of WP:USERNAME (Yorkshire Gold is a brand of tea).

Articles I've worked on

Milestones

Milestones for n\geq 3000 are the first time my edit counter reached n; milestones for n<3000 are the nth extant live edit as of 22 November 2020 (so it is possible my edit counter hit that number earlier, if some edits that were then live have since been deleted).

  • {{diff|Secondary education in Scotland|prev|790126896|First edit}}: fixing spelling/grammar in Secondary education in Scotland, on 11 July 2017
  • {{diff|Norte Shopping|prev|833357624|10th edit}}: fixing a mistargeted link in Norte Shopping, on 31 March 2018
  • {{diff|Lyon tramway|prev|908621499|50th edit}}: fixing broken markup in Lyon tramway, on 30 July 2019
  • {{diff|Bhadra Wildlife Sanctuary|prev|910488602|100th edit}}: reverting unexplained blanking of part of Bhadra Wildlife Sanctuary, on 12 August 2019
  • {{diff|Talk:Clarendon Shopping Centre|prev|917012584|200th edit}}: attempting to nominate Clarendon Shopping Centre as a good article by editing its talk page, but accidentally just listing as a good article instead, on 21 September 2019
  • {{diff|User talk:68.133.38.231|prev|921582277|500th edit}}: a level-2 talk page warning for unconstructive edits on an IP's talk page, on 16 October 2019
  • {{diff|Special:Contributions/YorkshireLad|||1000th edit}}: reverting vandalism to Superdry, on 30 November 2019
  • {{diff|United States v. Sandoval|prev|957816175|2000th edit}}: attempting, on United States v. Sandoval, to fix a usage of Template:ussc that linked to the wrong court case, on 20 May 2020 (in the next edit to that article I fixed it properly)
  • {{diff|The Mynde (Caerleon)|prev|990070074|3000th edit}}: category cleanup for The Mynde (Caerleon), on 22 November 2020

Trivia

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| date = August 2020

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Useful wikitext that I always forget

  • {{tlx|tlx}} to quote a template
  • {{tlx|pb}} for a paragraph break within a list (per WP:INDENTMIX)