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Hi, I live in London, UK and if you don't know what a Fayenatic is yet, just search Wikipedia! Actually I only acquired the requisite CD in Sept 2006 (and love it), but have been a fan for longer than that.
It was editing Faye's article here that led to my becoming a Wikipedian in early 2006. I wish someone had warned me how addictive it can be...
[edit] Origin and destination
I promise not to bang on about it all the time, but if you want to know what's most important to me, you could start here.
[edit] Wikipedia activity
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!
I am among the 3,000 most active editors on Wikipedia.
[edit] Portfolio
Here are some examples of my work.
- New sections
Faye Wong#Concerts and Faye Wong discography#Cover songs
- New articles
Restless (Faye Wong album); Phil Chang; Jahaziel
- New tabulated lists
List of Star Trek production staff and List of Star Trek composers and music
- Rescued from proposed deletion by improving somewhat
- Merging
- Splitting
- Copy editing
E.g. Jean Rustin, Sara, Chhibramau, List of Arabic names, GEICO, a school, Singapore, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Mary Dyer
- Disambiguating links
- 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 spelling, 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.
- Categories
[edit] WikiProjects
Others that interest me - and to which I am already contributing from time to time - are:
[edit] 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 (the stats show 967 now due to pages being deleted, including some that I nominated). 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. Since then I've slowed down a bit, making fewer minor edits. I still edit every day except when I'm on holiday, and passed 4,000 on 17 August 2007, and 5,000 on 3 November 2007.
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