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Introduction
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This contributor to Wikipedia is a male. |
Were this admin to act in a foolish, trollish, or dickish way, he is open to being slapped with a large trout. |
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Hi, I live in London, UK, and even here there are Fayenatics -- i.e. fans of Faye Wong, a singer from China with a remarkable voice. Anyone who loves her scat singing album Fuzao (Restless) is a real Fayenatic.
It was in order to edit Faye's article here that I registered as a Wikipedian in early 2006, but I soon broadened out into a thoroughly generalist editor. I work on some subjects of personal and professional interest, many that are not my own area but where I can figure out what's what, and others of merely passing interest where I see a need that I can fill. As of July 2016 I am among the 300 most active editors on Wikipedia.
- Signature
In February 2012 I became an administrator on English Wikipedia. At that point I added a red L to my signature, meaning to display a Learner plate for a time while I was going through New Admin School. Later I decided to keep it, because in Wikipedia (as in real life) I am still learning all the time. With effect from June 2012, it now links to my contributions, and the remaining letters link to my talk page. The red letter also disguises my omitting to use a capital L for London when I registered as a user.
Origin and destination
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This user is a Christian. |
If you want to know what's most important to me, you could start here.
In real life, I do some Bible teaching in my spare time, but while I'm editing Wikipedia I work hard to be objective from a neutral point of view. I hope that no-one could tell from my edits what particular denomination or theology I might identify with. If there has been notable criticism of a person or body, I will include/restore it in Wikipedia, regardless of whether the subject is "on the same side" as me.
Wikipedia activity
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This user strives to maintain a policy of neutrality on controversial issues. |
This user is an administrator on the English Wikipedia. (verify) |
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This user is one of the 300 most active English Wikipedians of all time. |
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This administrator is open to recall. |
120,000+ |
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This administrator will consider reasonable requests to provide copies of deleted articles. |
Faye Wong is the page that I have edited most, and would like to help get it up to GA quality. I also wikified the article on Wang Chieh, another superb singer.
I have a natural gift as a proofreader, and whatever I spot, I fix. That means in practice that I'm not very focussed!
Portfolio
Here are some examples of my work.
- New articles
People:
- George Gammon Adams • Boyanka Angelova • Zechariah ben Jehoiada • David Bell (composer) • Phil Chang • Nassima el Hor • Sandra Jordan • Li Lili • Li Lingyu • Solomon Male • Barry Mason (cyclist) • Nisha Pillai • Ralph Senensky • Gaétan Siew • Otto Zacharias
- Michael Woodford (executive) (since expanded by others)
Organisations:
- Biblical Creation Society (I hope you find it neutral; I hadn't guessed what a fight I'd have on my hands from an undisclosed-POV deletionist, but in the end he helped to improve the article considerably)
- Homes and Communities Agency • Tenant Services Authority • Places for People • Circle Anglia
- Ancient Order of United Workmen • Leonard Curtis • Tasmanian Land Conservancy • Education Endowment Foundation
- Street pastors • Christian Action Research and Education • City Gateway • St Saviour's Centre for the Deaf
- South African Conciliation Committee • Conference on Indians in the Americas • Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts • Metropolitan Organizing Strategy Enabling Strength
- Countryside Properties • London & Regional Properties • HC-One • United House • Banks Group
Works:
- Restless (Faye Wong album) • Harmony (Sa Dingding album) • Moby Dick (1998 miniseries) • "Calypso Carol • "I Have Decided to Follow Jesus" • Inversion (artwork) • "First Steps" (Elbow song)
- Accountancy Age • Building Design • Revista Brasileira de Psiquiatria • Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament
Places:
- Millennium Mills (in collaboration with 2 other editors)
- King Edward Memorial Park • Troxy • Lindley Library
Lists, replacing categories:
- List of cases of police brutality in the United Kingdom — Argentina — Canada — Iran — Pakistan • List of child abuse cases featuring long-term detention. Writing these was quite a gruelling talk, because of the grim reading required to decide what should be stated in the list.
- List of Byzantine Greek words of Latin origin • List of New Zealand repeated place names • List of repeated place names
- List of materials used in Hinduism • Nepalese customary units of measurement • List of under-occupied developments in China
- List of Star Trek production staff • List of Star Trek composers and music (subsequently expanded by another editor with an article on the film themes)
- List of one-eyed creatures (this was also to listify a category, but I had mainly populated it myself. What does it say about us that about 50 people a day look at this page?) • List of animals featuring external asymmetry • List of squid-faced humanoids
Other:
- Text roulette • Suicide bidding • Charitable Incorporated Organisation • Production babies • Nepalese customary units of measurement
- June 2010 United Kingdom budget • 2011 United Kingdom budget
- Expanded from stubs
- Gayle Williams • Zakaria Zubeidi • Michael Perry (hymnwriter) • Na Ying • Stephen Haddrill • Payments Council
- Jahaziel • Jehu (prophet)
- Added sources and expanded/improved significantly
- Fraser's Hill • Bedder • P.S. Longer Letter Later • Refugee and Migrant Justice • Achill-henge
- Patrick (shoe company) • Vantis • Ajax (cleaning product) • Decent Homes Standard
- Shepherds Friendly Society • Ancient Order of Foresters • Independent Order of Foresters
- Rewrote from deletable self-promotion to fairly good articles
- Rescued from proposed deletion by improving somewhat
- Category:Fictional females
- Christian Concern For Our Nation • Dunwich Dynamo • YesAsia
- The Ace Cafe • "He Lives" • Fusion (student movement)
- Articles for Deletion
Although I sometimes turned a deletionist tide, e.g. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Renee Williams (person), I used to find AfD annoying or depressing, so I generally steered clear of it. Now I recognise that nominations are generally made in good faith to implement sensible policies which improve the quality of Wikipedia, and I occasionally nominate articles for deletion.
- Merging
- Judaism in Africa into African Jews
- "See no evil" into Three wise monkeys
- Individual song articles into Songs from Les Misérables, rescuing worthwhile content from deletion
- Industrial and Provident Society with a differently-capitalised article
- List of games in Star Trek - this merged article was described as "very good work" at AfD, an early pat on the back for me.
- List of Star Trek animals • List of Star Trek materials
- Splitting
- Bayat into Bayat (name) and Bayat (disambiguation)
- Likewise, Patrick, Giles, Nathan, Zack, Woods ...
- Copy editing
E.g. Jean Rustin, Sara, Chhibramau, List of Arabic names, GEICO, a school, Singapore, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Mary Dyer
- Most new inbound links for Nike are intended for Nike, Inc. I'm always looking for ways to reduce future maintenance, so I supported a proposal to rename that page, but it failed to gain consensus. So, it keeps needing to be re-done as more bad links get written.
- Zechariah was a big project – over 250 edits – as Zechariah, Zachariah and Zacharias were articles about different people that used to be differentiated only by their KJV spellings, and a lot of inbound links were incorrect.
- There were over 2,000 links to Catholicism but in most cases the intended link is Roman Catholic Church. Sometimes I work my way through another page of them and change the link where the latter is intended. For the record, I have no vested interest in the matter.
- On 20 March 2007 I finished creating a hierarchy to organise the articles within Category:Christian martyrs by era and by major branches of the church. (This has since been further sub-divided by others.)
- I've also enjoyed depopulating the once-bloated Category:Star Trek, creating new sub-categories or lists (see above).
- After Category:Fictional children survived a discussion at WP:CFD, I set up Category:Fictional children by medium and most of its sub-categories.
- I've set up various categories for lists including Category:Entertainment lists by franchise, the contents of which are mostly also my work.
- One evening in 2012 I set up Category:Islands in fiction, Category:Films set on islands, Category:Novels set on islands, Category:Video games set on islands and Category:Fictional castaways, and added to the population of Category:Solitude in fiction – a nice little project.
- I assembled Category:Sports champions by sport as part of my contribution to the 2012 London Olympics.
- Building Category:Deaths by country took a bit of time in 2013.
- I particularly enjoy participating at WP:CFD. It's very satisfying to find a creative way to balance different policies and precedents while making the encyclopedia easier to navigate and understand.
- On and off I've been working at simplifying the many tiers of religious leaders, see Category talk:Religious leaders#Clergy categories.
- In 2015–16 I spent a good while reversing a series of CFD closures categorising biographies of ancient people by date of death, as required following Wikipedia_talk:Categorization_of_people#RfC:_BC_births_and_deaths_categorization_scheme, and as detailed at Wikipedia:Bot_requests#BC_births_and_deaths_categorizations. I hadn't intended to do it alone, but nobody else jumped in, and even the others who had contributed to the situation omitted to reply to the invitations recorded there.
- I've created templates to help to manage, populate and link category pages for subjects outside my own areas of interest, including Template:Balletdecade, Template:FictionSetDecade and Template:Adult model.
- I also made some useful navigation templates such as {{Gangnam Style}}.
- I learned from m:Help:Parser functions to use conditional logic, and used this to suppress redlinks to non-existent categories from {{BC year in topic}}, {{Decadebox}}, {{StateestdecadeBC}}, {{DeathdecadeBC}}, {{EstcatBC}}, {{EstablishmentsInDecadeBC}}, {{DeathyrBC}}, and to display portals in {{EstcatCountryDecade}} and {{Year in country category}}.
- I also padded the century number in {{EstcatCountryDecade}} in a category sort key so that first-millennium decades appear first, e.g. in Category:Establishments in Sri Lanka by decade. See m:Help:String functions.
- I added further parameters to that set of templates for a country's new name where that is used in parent categories (see Template talk:EstcatCountry).
- I added a conditional line in {{Year nav topic5}} so that architecture-in-year pages have a link to buildings and structures completed in that year.
- Likewise, I added links to portals. e.g. in {{DecadeCategoryNav}}.
WikiProjects
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This user is a member of WikiProject Editor Retention |
Cat | This user is part of WikiProject Categories, which aims to improve article categorization on Wikipedia. |
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This user participates in WikiProject Anthroponymy. |
Wikipedia:WikiProject Editor Retention is a great idea. I first read about it in October 2012 and recognised that I do some of those things already.
Others that interest me – and to which I contribute from time to time – are:
- Wikipedia:WikiProject proposed deletion patrolling
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Red Link Recovery
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Bible
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Christianity
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Christianity
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Chinese-language entertainment
Milestones
On 14 December 2006 I passed the milestone of 500 edits. A month later I passed 1,000 in main (article) space, partly because I discovered categories! On 27 Jan 2007 I started using Auto Wiki Browser to help me do link/category corrections more quickly (although I've hardly used it since, as it doesn't run on the computers at work or at home). The same day I also passed the milestone of 1,000 unique articles edited, fixing new inbound links for Nike.
I just fell short of 1,000 total edits in the month of Jan 2007 alone. Then, after an unbroken 71 days of constructive edits, I forced myself to take my first Wikibreak on 4 Feb 2007, which was a good idea.
I passed 3,000 edits in mainspace on 21 April. After that I slowed down a bit, making fewer minor edits. I was still editing every day except when on holiday, and passed 4,000 on 17 August 2007, and 5,000 on 3 November 2007. On 15 October 2008 I was categorising lists of Indian politicians when I passed 10,000 edits to articles; at that date my total edits were over 14,000.
October 2008 was the first month in which I made over 1,000 edits, although that included a lot of similar edits to category pages.
I've been given seven barnstars (I left them on my talk page and its archives), picked up my first DYK in January 2009 and had my user page vandalised in February 2009 – I felt that I must have arrived!
I collected a few more DYKs in 2010, and passed 30,000 total edits including 20,000 to articles, but became rather more patchy in my editing habits for a while. I'm still highly active, but can have a gap of a few days without feeling funny.
On 19 January 2011 my new pages became autopatrolled (I hadn't realised I had made enough pages, but that credibility took account of the articles that I created as disambiguation pages or splits).
I had a moment of modest excitement in July 2011 when I realised that the person who had reverted one of my edits, which I admit was only indirectly and subtly cited at the time, was none other than Jimbo Wales.
On 10 August 2011 I joined the list of the 1,000 most prolific editors on Wikipedia (based on cumulative number of edits). It was on the day of the English Wikipedia blackout that I moved up into the top 900, although I spent that day helping out at Simple. I think Production babies was my first new article to make it into WP:DYKSTATS, that same week in 2012.
The next month I was finally talked into standing for adminship, after saying for years that I was having too much fun just editing. The process concluded on 18 February 2012 with a very encouraging result. I wasn't in a rush to use my new powers, but took my first admin action on 21 February before I'd even finished leaving my thank-you notes.
On 12 September 2012, WP:WBE counted my edits as over 50,000, by which time I was in the top 700. On 7 August 2013 I reached the top 500.
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This user has earned the 100,000 Edits Award. |
Since July 2014 I have been doing a lot of work at WP:CFD, as most other experienced closers seem to have moved on to other things, and in August 2015 I passed 100,000 edits in English wikipedia.
Alternative accounts
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Before the advent of unified login I used "Fayenatic londres" on French, Portuguese and Spanish Wikipedias, and "Fayenatic londra" on Italian (these links are to my old contributions). Those accounts are no longer in use.
Some other interests
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This user just LOVES to cycle! |
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This user listens to World Music |
fan-3 | This user loves Faye Wong. |
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This user appreciates progressive rock. |
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STAR TREK | Fayenatic london is a fan of Star Trek. | ST |
Dr. Who | This user has been a Doctor Who fan since the Second Doctor. | 2nd |
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This user has set foot in 5 continents of the world. |
This user has visited 19 of the 50 United States. | 19 |
Places to find work
- Category:Empty categories awaiting deletion
- Wikipedia:Categories for discussion#Current discussions
- Wikipedia:Database reports/Uncategorized categories
- Special:PendingChanges
- User:DumbBOT/ProdSummary
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion#Current discussions
- Category:Merge by month
Tools
- Wikidata contributions
- Commons contributions
- Template:Otheruses
- User:Xiner
- Talk page message about citation tools:
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- User:Good_Olfactory/CFD - manual list of CFD precedents
- Duesentrieb's CatScan – tool designed to show category hierarchies, and list articles within them
- Special:Search/intitle: - append search term
- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3APrefixIndex&prefix=The&namespace=14 - search for categories with prefix
- Cite web using archived version: {{cite web |url= |title= |accessdate= 2016-09-09 |author= |date= |work= |publisher= |archiveurl= |archivedate= 2016-09-09 }}
- Just add WebCitation.org link: {{WebCite|url= |date= |title=Copy at AllAfrica.com }}
- Just add archive.org link: {{Wayback|url= |title= |date= }} (format: yyyymmddtttttt)
- Auto-breaking columns: {{Div col |cols=2}} {{Div col end}}
- Easy columns:
{{top}}
•{{mid}}
•{{bottom}}
- More columns:
{{col-begin}}
•{{col-4}}
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•{{col-end}}
- {{interlanguage link}}
- MetaWikiPedia:Interwiki map
- User:R. Baley/Free photo essay
- Reference generator
- Category intersection
- Tactful advice on copyright
- Homer
- ifexist test for templates
- Category:2nd-millennium establishments templates by country, could usefully be expanded. For a century example, see Category:19th-century establishments in the Batavian Republic
- Category:20th-century establishments templates by country
- {{NLA seasons}} for date-dependent logic