User:RHaworth
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Roger W Haworth
I live in Croydon, UK. My web sites are at RHaworth.net.
Contents |
Deleted stuff
If you need access to a Wikipedia article that has been deleted, ask me. If it's not a copyright violation, libel, or personal information, and has not been deleted as a suspected WP:BLP violation, I will provide the text for you. Note that:
- you must have set up an e-mail address in "my preferences".
- using the text to recreate a deleted article automatically qualifies it for speedy deletion, and keeping deleted content hanging around in your userspace has gotten editors penalized before. But that's your problem.
Articles started or heavily hacked about
- Agia Paraskevi (disambiguation) to fill empty link created by Pumpie
- Beverley Brook
- Colney Hatch
- Coulsdon
- Curse tablet
- Gongoozle - my first tentative step into Wikipedia - 2004 Dec 21 as Anon
- Hixon, Staffordshire
- How can a tram route cross a trolley bus route without short circuits - lasted nearly 48 hours before being butchered
- IOGT - after writing, found it had filled an empty link in EGTYF
- Killington Beck to fill empty link in Cumbria article
- Lunar House
- No Man's Heath
- Category:Orders of magnitude (population) - actually I just created 1 E5 people. The category and the other articles were created by others within a few hours!
- List of current systems for electric rail traction - remove babel fish babble and use to get rid of silly 600VDC, etc. stubs
- List of postal districts in the United Kingdom
- Postcode#Postcode history - one small section - the subsequent edits to it show Wiki at its best.
- Ribbon development - was a wanted article
- Sedan (nuclear test) - rescued an amusing little article from obscurity by creating links to it
- South Croydon - I have lived here for thirty years but I cannot find much to say about the place!
- Spring line villages
- Subscriber toll dialling to fill empty link
- Trunk vs Toll
- UK railway stations - B - converted to use templates
- UK STD code 1252
- UK STD code 1438
- Underground rivers of London
- Union Bridge - got listed on 'did you know'
- Wandle
- Witwatersrand project - alerted Wikipedians to its existence
Rescued from speedy deletion
- Apple Blossom Flower Fairies. Not my scene at all. I rescued it as a counter to the systemic bias here towards modern kidcruft. Then I discovered a better reason Cicely Mary Barker came from Croydon.
- Boot house - I was surprised that I had never heard of them.
Map link templates
brldb -- brldb prim -- gbmaprim -- GBvoss -- stn art lnk -- mmukpc -- mmukpc prim
Plus {{oscoor}} which enables Egil Kvaleberg's brilliant map sources system to be called using grid references.
I like adding grid refs to articles about GB places and I will also add them to articles about:
- fiction - Llareggub and games - poohsticks
- poetry - Cataract of Lodore and even …
- people - James Hanratty, Mavis Enderby.
Disambiguation exercises
Boi -- Croydon (at the suggestion of Nickj) -- Hendon -- Hixon -- Lee -- Malden (Netherlands does not link to it!) -- Queen's College -- Seven Sisters -- Smithfield -- Sutton -- Uxbridge
Pictures uploaded
A favourite story of mine
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius. Discussed here in rather high-flown language but the parallels between the Encyclopedia of Tlön and Wikipedia are too close to ignore.
Mischief
Pictures
- Athenry
- Reichenbach Falls - holiday snaps!
Links
- L. Dana Wilgress
- Balgownie, New South Wales
- Lunar House
- DeSales High School link to Rochester
- Robert Watkins
- Radio Goethe - lasted a month
- Spring line village - link to Boothby Graffoe (comedian) lasted over a month
- St. John's College, US - links to Hardy and Sutton (at end of Senior Year section) lasted over an hour - and it took the corrector five edits to fix them!
Personal how to's
CharAss -- todo -- more todo -- sandbox -- sb2 -- blocks -- deletes -- protects -- speedy
If you see a vandal at work, slap {{test}} on to the culprit's Talk page as the first action. Simply realising that they are being watched may be enough to put them off.
You can ask for speedy deletion {{db|reason}} of mistake article if you're the only contributor, so I've deleted "Uk std code 1252" for you free of charge. :) Mgm|(talk) 11:12, Jan 6, 2005 (UTC)
Use a leading colon to create a link to a Category table instead of placing the article in that category. Thus: Category:Wikipedia style and how-to - and this is a useful link for other How-To's.
Likewise, use a leading colon to link to an Image description page instead of putting the image into the article. Thus: Image:Adelaide O Bahn guided busway.jpg. Similarly for other language links: nl:Wikings.
See Wikipedia:How to edit a page#Links and URLs for links to Special: pages.
| “ | Text can be small or big. | „ |
Wikipedia:Offline reports is a page I had difficulty finding - it is not in Special:Specialpages nor in Special:Statistics.
Dates will reformat to my own predilections if written as: 6 February 2005 or 6 Feb 2005. But not if written as: 6 February 2005 or 6 February 2005.
{{self2|GFDL|cc-by-2.5}} is recommended for own images
Number of edits
Unlike User:Pumpie who seems to want to be top editor in several different languages, I have no ambition to figure high up the Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits. But I would like to be somewhere - I have just downloaded the CSV file on 2005 Feb 5 and cannot find myself. I have now found this edit counter:
- 11133 (plus 2613 deleted) @ 05:43, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
- 9267 (plus 1693 edits to articles which are now deleted - mainly speedy tags - plus about 4000 deletions - I am an inclusionist really!) @ 04:18, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
- 5731 @ 09:20:03, 2005-08-09 (UTC)
- 2583 @ 2005 Jun 1
- 1026 @ 10:29, 2005 Feb 15 (UTC)
- 924 @ 21:56, 2005 Feb 9
- 2 @ 08:19, 2005 Jan 1 plus a few as Anon before that
Vanity links
| General pages: | EditThis | ucoz | |
| Photo albums: | fotopic | multiply | |
| Pseudo blogs: | Coal & Wine | Phreak | PoSP |
| Other presences: | MySpace | geograph | Furl |
