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This page is a summary of some of the contributions I have made to Wikipedia, including areas I've worked on, and a description of some of the pages I have made major contributions towards. Many of the summaries need dates, and the list is not yet complete. I need to survey my contributions log to update this area.

Contributions

New approach

Logs

Namespaces

Dates

Types

There are a range of different areas I have participated in. These include:

Organisation

  • Adding, changing and piping category tags
  • Creating and categorising category pages
  • Creating redirects
  • Categorising redirects
  • Moving pages to new names
  • Article assessments
  • WikiProject template tagging
  • Creating and maintaining disambiguation pages

Formal discussion

  • Starting deletion reviews

General discussion

Layout and design

Copyediting

  • General typos
  • Fixing incorrect links
  • Disambiguation repair

Wikipedia community and history

Other

Major activity

Pages to which I have made more than 50 edits (as of 23/03/2007).

Statistics

Discrepancies usually due to edits lost due to deletion of articles or images.

08/07/2008 (up to 11:30)

Generated from the Wikimedia User Edit Counter [1]:

Username: Carcharoth

  • Total edits: 39598
  • Image uploads: 12 (11 cur, 1 old)
  • Distinct pages edited: 10001
  • Edits/page (avg): 3.96
  • Deleted edits: 1023 (browse)
  • First edit: 2005-01-08 03:05:23
  • Edits by namespace:
    • Articles: 10206
    • Talk: 4298
    • User: 1647
    • User talk: 5960
    • Project: 8118
    • Project talk: 6659
    • Image: 412
    • Image talk: 10
    • MediaWiki talk: 4
    • Template: 466
    • Template talk: 515
    • Help: 1
    • Help talk: 3
    • Category: 927
    • Category talk: 261
    • Portal: 76
    • Portal talk: 35

Articles

  • CHESS magazine - First-ever article I created. I spotted a missing article in Category:Chess magazines, and decided to add CHESS magazine. Unfortunately I appear to have just missed out on the honour of creating the 1,000,000th article...
  • Baruch Harold Wood might be considered a better attempt at an article, except for the fact that I nicked... translated it from the German Wikipedia.
  • Ptolemy (name) - created an article from a disambiguation page.
Extended content
This editing history summary concerns work I did on Ptolemy (disambiguation). This started when I realised that Ptolemaic redirected to Ptolemaic dynasty, as seen here (27/09/2003). This rang a warning bell in my mind, as I realised that many people would link Ptolemiac in articles referring to Claudius Ptolemaeus, the famous astronomer of the 2nd century AD, not the Egyptian ruling dynasty (of Macedonian origin) of the 3rd to 1st centuries BC. Clicking on "What links here" confirmed my fears. I eventually got round to tidying up those links and redid Ptolemaic as a disambiguation page (24/03/2006). While changing those links, I had got interested in the history of the Ptolemies, and the confusing tangle of Ptolemies in the Ptolemaic dynasty. I then gradually started tidying up the disambiguation page by adding descriptions to help people find the Ptolemy they needed. Previously, a reader had to click back and forth between different Ptolemies, and try and mentally keep track of where and when these Ptolemies existed. I also expanded the list and organised it into mostly historical sections. Over the course of a few days, Ptolemy (disambiguation) went from this (25/03/2006) to this (28/02/2006). During the course of this work I had been delving deeper and deeper into the history of the Ptolemies (see here for 'The House of Ptolemy' by Edwyn Bevan, an enthralling history of the Ptolemies). At some point I also tidied up the disambiguation page at Ptolemais.
The reorganisation of Ptolemy (disambiguation) into historical sections had made me realise that there was a narrative thread here, one that spanned over 2000 years of history. This focused my interest on the etymology of the name Ptolemy, to add to the history of the people bearing the name, and how the name has come to be used in today's world. This accounts for the addition of the etymological section ranging across several languages. By the time of this version (29/03/2006), my earlier fears that the page was no longer a disambiguation page were well and truly confirmed!
At this point, I initiated discussions at various places in Wikipedia, to add to the discussions I had already started at places like the Help Desk and the Reference Desk. Here, I provide links to some of these discussions (some discussions may have since been archived, and talk page discussions have not been refactored):
I then spent some time browsing through the Wikipedia:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages), and the talk pages there and at Wikipedia:Disambiguation. I then posted this summary at the Ptolemy (disambiguation) talk page. I intend to continue the current discussions and, if needed, start discussions at the Wikipedia Disambiguation talk page. Eventually, after taking advice and discussing the best way to organise the material, the split (later move) to Ptolemy (name) took place.
  • Serge Voronoff - greatly expanded the Serge Voronoff article. The subject piqued my interest, and I suggested it for the April Fools Day DYK for 2007, and the article was expanded even further by other people, and duly got a mention in WP:DYK (1st April 2007). Maybe WP:FA could be a possibility one day?
  • James I of England and Anne of Denmark - put James up for FAR, which led to another editor extensively rewriting and improving it as I watched. The article retained its featured status. Working with the same editor (I am doing copyediting and minor linking work) on Anne.
Not the most pleasant of subjects, but based this part of the category structure on Category:Women and death, and populated it with pre-existing categories and also with some relevant articles.

Articles created

The ones without a dated initial version link have not been annotated yet.

...and later redirected

Need to find these from the above and list here instead.

Disambiguation pages created

Some may have been created from existing pages after a move (see following section). This section also includes "name" pages that help to disambiguate those with the same surname (useful if you only have surname and initials). These are included here because there is sometimes overlap between name pages and disambiguation pages (e.g. when a name page includes a non-name entry).

Disambiguation pages created from existing page

Some of these are still listed above in the previous section.

Redirects created

Quite a lot...

Redirects created that were later turned into articles

Usually turned into articles by others (not always correctly, in my opinion, though in other cases they are good examples of a redirect with possibilities being turned into an article).

Did you know?

Tried to aim for one a month at one point, but that never seemed to happen.

Other selected contributions

(Outdated section)

From an initial pass through my contributions log, the articles and talk pages I have contributed to are (in chronological order):

A lot of my other work has been on categories:

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