User:RHaworth
Roger W Haworth
I live in Croydon, UK. My web sites are at RHaworth.net.
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" and ticked "enable e-mail from other users".
- 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.
What I do here
New page patrolling
Multi-posting. Sorting new articles by User Id helps me detect cases where an article has been posted multiple times. The record may be twelve copies of Neri vs. Senate. (There was a case of about twenty versions of College of the North Atlantic but these were potentially different articles and the creator had made a tiny change to each version.) When I find a multi-posting I usually merge all the versions together by doing a "forced merge to existing title". Then I restore all the edits. This resulted in me having the dubious honour of being top of the list of restorers for at least a year (2007 July 29 earliest listing available). (NawlinWiki overtook me on 2008 Sept 9 and looks set to stay top of this particular ranking.)
Articles started or heavily hacked about
- Gongoozle - my first tentative step into Wikipedia - 2004 Dec 21 as Anon
- How can a tram route cross a trolley bus route without short circuits - lasted nearly 48 hours before being butchered
- No Man's Heath (four counties)
- No Man's Heath, Cheshire
- 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!
- Subscriber toll dialling to fill empty link
- Trunk vs Toll
- UK STD code 1252
- UK STD code 1438
- Union Bridge - got listed on 'did you know'
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
I had no ambition to figure high up the list of Wikipedians by number of edits but by being around for long enough, I have moved fairly well up it. The growth in my edit count over my first year is given below. I have given up recording it but the current value can be found from this edit counter which includes a count for deletions that even I find difficult to believe. See also E's league table of admins and WikiProject edit counters.
- 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: | RHaworth.me | EditThis | |
| Photo albums: | fotopic | multiply | |
| Pseudo blogs: | Coal & Wine | Phreak | PoSP |
| Other presences: | MySpace | geograph | Furl |