I'm slow with tools and technology; happy with a blue pencil. Enjoy copy-editing, adding useful content, improving articles and tracking vandalism. Particular interests include English literature- and language-related subjects. I like to help out sometimes at the
reference desks and
helpdesks, and I enjoy researching. I try not to
bite, and am happy to help new users if I can, although my knowledge of Wikipedia is by no means comprehensive and I'm still learning myself.
Wikipedia:Don't be a dick sums it up nicely. I prefer a minimal use of the Oxford comma unless context dictates otherwise.
On
12 September,
2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article George Arnald, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the
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July 28, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Daniel Cajanus, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (
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January 8, 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Skimmington, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (
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22 September 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article E. G. Swain, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (
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Awards
The Original Barnstar
A thank you for your work on Disambiguation link repairs... just so you know it was noticed :)
Badgernet (
talk) 10:03, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
The Muncher's Barnstar
For forcing yourself to make tasty treats to provide photos for wiki. Mmmm, what else needs a pic?:)
StickyParkin 16:36, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
User toolbox
This lovely toolbox format was shamelessly stolen from the page of
User:CanadianLinuxUser, and helps me find my way around. He credits it to
User:Fuhghettaboutit, who obviously did all the tedious formatting stuff that I could easily have done if I'd wanted. Really. Honest.