User:Noisy

Milestones

Born on Wikipedia 26 June 2004. Contributed anonymously before, but first signed contribution was to evolutionarily stable strategy.

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Date	08AUG04	09SEP04	24OCT04	25DEC04	09FEB05	17APR05	04JUN05	02OCT05	26NOV05	31JAN06

Current count? Use Wikipedia:Kate's Tool. Alternative: http://faleg.org/cgi-bin/wannabe_kate.

Attended London Wikimeet | pictures on 02DEC04.

Tables and general editing

• Became annoyed with seeing text run right up against tables which are right-justified, and so eventually found some guidance. In Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Numbers, Abigail recommends putting style = "margin-left: 0.5em;" in the table header. Now, I'm on a mission ... [03JUL04]
• Now this is a useful link Wikipedia:How to edit a page! [04JUL04]
• And another useful one Wikipedia:Template messages. [13JUL04]
  • Template:Lifetime {{subst:lifetime|1838|1900|Tuer, Andrew White}} Some people recommend using subst:, but that destroys the whole purpose of a template. I've saved it just in case Bluemoose takes unilateral action without seeking the wishes of the community. [12DEC05]

[[Category:{{{1}}} births|{{{3}}}]] [[Category:{{{2}}} deaths|{{{3}}}]]

• • Use Category:Year of birth missing and/or Category:Year of death missing.

• Tables: what a pain in the neck. In desperation I went to a formal definition of HTML 4.01, specifically Section 11. Fine, so far as it went, but I couldn't find the really interesting stuff, which is what properties can be specified within style. I'll keep looking (in a desultory fashion). [18JUL04]
• Think about M:EasyTimeline. [30MAR05]
• Wikipedia:Persondata. [22JAN06]

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Table links:

• m:Help:Table [23JUL04]
• Wikipedia:How to use tables [14AUG04]

ISS Expedition 10

Mission Insignia
Expedition 10 insignia

[14AUG04] Centring thumbed images in tables takes a lot of doing. The way I achieved it was to create a table within a table, viz.

{| border=1 cellpadding=2 width=350 cellspacing=0 align=right style=margin-left:0.5em;
|+<font size=+1>''' ISS Expedition 10 '''</font>
|-
!colspan=2 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 bgcolor=#FFDEAD|Mission Insignia
|-
|colspan=2 align=center|
{|
|[[Image:Expedition_10_insignia.png|thumb|200px|Expedition 10 insignia]]
|}
|-
|}

Evolution

Hmmm. A lot of good stuff in here about biological evolution, but a lot of confusion as well. How did Genetic drift get to be so crap? I'm not saying it's wrong, but it's not what I expect from an encyclopedia. [04JUL04]

Thanks to User:Graft for the rewrite. [17OCT04]

Wikipedia life

• Useful link Wikipedia:Goings-on. [10JUL04] (upd [06JAN06])
• Did some RC patrol work on HUD Secretaries and Andrew Cuomo - boy was that hard to verify!. [10JUL04]
• Started messing around with Categories. Boy, there's a lot of cleaning up to do! Did you know there were 13,705 categories on 08AUG04? No? Shocking, isn't it. [08AUG04]
• 17167. I'll type that again. 17167. That's the number of categories now. Depressing isn't it, considering that a lot of them have only a couple of entries. Sigh. [29AUG04]
• More useful pages: Wikipedia:Utilities and Wikipedia:Revert. [02OCT04] (upd [06JAN06])
• Got very, very depressed with the actions of a robot that has buggered thousands upon thousands of articles. Don't know if I can take much more of this. [24OCT04]
• Cool links I've just found: Wikipedia:Requests for administrator attention and Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard. [10DEC04] (upd [06JAN06])
• More links: Wikipedia:How to archive a talk page and Wikipedia:Glossary. [25FEB05]
• Here's the Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost! [30MAR05]

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Welcome to Wikipedia! Please create a logon ID for yourself, and start editing!

If you are too timid to start a slash and burn campaign in you subject area of choice, then feel free to play around in the Wikipedia:Sandbox. Other helpful pages are Wikipedia:Tutorial and Wikipedia:Annotated article.

There are many things to learn here: if you want a few pointers then come and visit me at User: Noisy, or leave a message on my talk page. Otherwise, the only tips I give are

• that you sign your name with three tildes (~~~), and leave name and timestamp with four tildes.
• <nowiki> </nowiki> around text will stop it being interpreted.
• Play around with your 'preferences' to change the way that your screen is displayed.
• And finally ... I recommend that you use the 'Show preview' button as a matter of habit before saving your edits.

Category:Industrial Revolution

Needed a lot more material, so I started playing around a few weeks ago. Started off in the main article, but found that I needed to fill out the supporting articles before the main section can be robustified. Here are the articles in question (n = newly created by me; m = major edits; r = redirect created by me) [08AUG04]:

• Industrial Revolution
• Textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution
• Metallurgy during the Industrial Revolution
• Steam power during the Industrial Revolution
• Transport during the Industrial Revolution

Resources

Questia Toynbee lectures

About.com	Quarry Bank Mill	Spartacus Educational - textile industry
Chronology	Essay by Peter Landry	North East England history pages - railways
Lunar Society	Tilt hammer - Sheffield and steel	Science Museum - making the modern world
Rempel essay	Cotton Times (don't use Netscape)	BBC 'In Our Time' audio on the Lunar Society
Encarta article	Internet history sourcebooks project	Arkwright and Cartwright on Grimshaw family website
Montagna essay	SchoolHistory.co.uk Year 9 material	Engines of Our Ingenuity on the Lunar Society - text of audio
Neo-Tech article	CottonTown (Blackburn with Darwen)	TeachersFirst's Inventors Workshop - US - primary school level

Thornber on Arkwright Bartleby on spinning Essay by Clark 1911 on cotton manufacture Essay Keen on spinning and weaving British history online A history of the growth of the steam-engine Eckilson on Samuel Slater links Open Door

Wikilinks

Themes	People	Places	Invention/Technology	Reference
Coal Coal mining Coke (fuel) Cotton Factory Industrial unrest Industry Iron Machine Manufacturing Metallurgy Railway Steel Textile Transport Water power Workforce	m Richard Arkwright Thomas Boulsover James Brindley Isambard Kingdom Brunel Marc Isambard Brunel Edmund Cartwright mHenry Cort Samuel Crompton mAbraham Darby Francis_Egerton, 3rd_Duke_of_Bridgewater,    3rd Duke of Bridgewater,    Duke of Bridgewater Samuel Greg Samuel Greg (junior) James Hargreaves Thomas Highs Benjamin Huntsman Joseph Marie Jacquard William Jessop Thomas Johnson (dressing frame) N John Kay (flying shuttle) N John Kay (spinning frame) Francis Cabot Lowell Henry Maudslay Thomas Newcomen Louis Paul,    Lewis Paul William Radcliffe Jesse Ramsden Richard Roberts Thomas Savery John Smeaton George Stephenson Robert Stephenson Jedediah Strutt Thomas Telford Richard Trevithick James Watt Eli Whitney John Wilkinson John Wyatt	Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet Bridgewater Canal Coalbrookdale n Cromford Derwent Valley Mills Ironbridge Ironbridge Gorge Portsmouth Block Mills Quarry Bank Mill Soho Foundry Stockton_and_Darlington_Railway Surrey Iron Railway Swansea and Mumbles Railway,    Mumbles - Swansea Railway,    nOystermouth Railway,    nMumbles Train	Blast furnace Canal n Cotton mill Crucible steel 1740 Dressing frame,    Dressing Frame n Flying Shuttle,    Flying shuttle Newcomen_steam_engine Power loom,    Power looms Puddling furnace Sheffield plate 1743 Spinning Frame,    Spinning frame Spinning Jenny,    Spinning jenny n Water Frame,    Water frame Watt steam engine	History of science and technology History of the British canal system History of rail transport in Great Britain Industrial archaeology List_of_United_Kingdom-related_topics Timeline_of clothing_and_textiles_technology Timeline of invention Timeline of steam power
				Terminology
				Blister steel Frame Loom Navigation Pig iron Power transmission Rolling Shuttle Spindle Spinning (textiles) Staple (textiles) Textile manufacturing terminology Twisting Warp,    Warp (disambiguation) Weft
				Other
				Boulton_and_Watt Charlotte Dundas Luddite Lunar Society Smethwick engine Spinning (textiles) Steam engine Stephenson's Rocket Weaving

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