user:Peter coxhead

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"Wikipedia: The encyclopedia that anyone who understands the norms, socializes him or herself, dodges the impersonal wall of semi-automated rejection and still wants to voluntarily contribute his or her time and energy can edit." (From [http://phys.org/news/2013-01-wikipedia-editors.html#jCp "Wikipedia losing editors, study says"], phys.org)

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Why is there information about me here? Because I'm very uneasy about anonymous editing. I understand why in some countries there are good reasons for editors to be anonymous. However, this doesn't apply to most regular editors on the English Wikipedia. In all blogs and wikis, anonymity appears to encourage aggression and abuse; sadly Wikipedia is far from being an exception.

I am now fully retired from the School of Computer Science at the University of Birmingham, UK. My retirement interests include:

• botany of all kinds
• gardening – as a plantsman rather than a designer
• natural history in general
• taxonomy – I studied zoology at University many years ago, and maintained an interest in taxonomy through computational statistics, including numerical taxonomy.

• Edit raw watchlist
• Subpages – Work page – Useful templates – Sources – Useful old sources online – Lua test module
• Taxoboxes: Autotaxobox cleanup {{User:Peter coxhead/N check|{{PAGESINCAT:Automatic taxobox cleanup}}|0}} – No taxobox color {{User:Peter coxhead/N check|{{PAGESINCAT:Taxoboxes with no color}}|1}} – Error taxobox colour {{User:Peter coxhead/N check|{{PAGESINCAT:Taxoboxes with the error color}}|0}} – Others {{User:Peter coxhead/N check|{{#expr:{{PAGESINCAT:Virusboxes_with_incorrect_parameters_that_specify_taxon}}+{{PAGESINCAT:Speciesboxes with incorrect parameters specifying the taxon}}+{{PAGESINCAT:Speciesboxes relying on page title}}+{{PAGESINCAT:Automatic taxoboxes relying on page title}}}}|0}}
  • Taxonomy templates: Unrecognized ranks {{User:Peter coxhead/N check|{{PAGESINCAT:Taxonomy templates using unrecognized rank parameters}}|0}} – Anomalous ranks {{User:Peter coxhead/N check|{{PAGESINCAT:Taxonomy templates showing anomalous ranks}}|0}} – Others {{User:Peter coxhead/N check|{{#expr:{{PAGESINCAT:Taxonomy templates with inconsistent extinct values}}+{{PAGESINCAT:Taxonomy templates using capitalized rank parameters}}+{{PAGESINCAT:Pages using speciesbox with unknown parameters}}}}|0}} – Unmatched name and link text {{User:Peter coxhead/N check|{{PAGESINCAT:Taxonomy templates with name and link text not matching}}|0}}
    • [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=hastemplate%3ASpeciesbox+insource%3Aparent+-A%22genus%3AA%22+AND+-A%22ichnogenus%3AA%22&title=Special%3ASearch&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&ns0=1 Speciesboxes with apparently bad parent parameter]
    • Plant articles: [https://petscan.wmflabs.org/?language=en&project=wikipedia&depth=20&categories=Taxonbar%20templates%20without%20from%20parameter%0D%0APlants%20by%20classification&ns%5B0%5D=1&interface_language=en&active_tab=&doit= without from para in taxonbar], [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=hastemplate:Taxobox+%22Kingdom+Plantae%22+Poaceae Possibly fixable species articles with manual taxoboxes]
    • Spider articles: [https://petscan.wmflabs.org/?psid=19066141 possibly missing a taxonbar], [https://petscan.wmflabs.org/?psid=19066148 missing a taxonbar], [https://petscan.wmflabs.org/?language=en&project=wikipedia&depth=20&categories=Taxonbar%20templates%20without%20from%20parameter%0D%0ASpiders&ns%5B0%5D=1&interface_language=en&active_tab=&doit= without from para in taxonbar], [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=hastemplate%3ATaxobox+%22Order+Araneae%22 with manual taxoboxes]
    • Example of many taxonbar paras: Pseudognaphalium gaudichaudianum
    • Knowledgeable about copyvios: User:Diannaa, User:JBW
    • mw:Help:ChangeContentModel

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