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I'm an early-retired librarian living in Leeds with a range of interests and a tendency to proof-read and correct typos! I make the occasional small improvements here and there, and sometimes do a blitz on something like WP:Suggestions for name disambiguation, WP:typo, WP:WikiProject Categories/uncategorized or WP:WikiProject Stub sorting, or I'll start by correcting one link and end up improving a network of related pages. I've created various articles or stubs, to fill gaps or resolve red links.
Yes, I know the page looks a bit of a mess at present - will learn about layout sometime and prettify it!
[edit]  Good Articles I've worked on
[edit] Did You Know items I've contributed to Wikipedia home page
[edit] Articles, templates, stubs and categories I've created
Not including umpteen disambiguation pages created while working on Wikipedia:Suggestions for name disambiguation
- Summerbridge, North Yorkshire, 17 Sept 2008 and associated dab page, to sort out dab
- New York, North Yorkshire, 17 Sept 2008, because it's there
- Leeds Festival (classical music), 10 Sept 2008, resolving various redlinks
- Knowsthorpe, 28 August 2008, it being in list of places covered by Leeds page of Genuki
- Ryton, Shropshire, 21 August 2008, having established which Ryton William Craven's son "Baron Craven of Ryton" was associated with, decided its redlinks needed to turn blue.
- William Craven (Lord Mayor of London), 20 August 2008, founder of Burnsall village school; also William Craven as a disambiguation page for the many of that name, mostly his descendants
- {{Genukiwry}}, 20 August 2008, template to add link to Genuki pages from articles on West Riding places, with optional parameters; also {{Genukiery}}, {{Genukinry}}, {{Genukiary}} in next couple of days, for East Riding, North Riding, Ainsty of York
- Cicerone (publisher), 8 August 2008, well-known UK publisher of walking guidebooks etc
- {{UK charity}} and {{Scottish charity}}, 2 August 2008, to provide simple links to the records at Charity Commission and Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator respectively.
- James Garth Marshall, 17 July 2008, MP and son of Leeds industrialist, previously a redlink, and the chap who created the Tarn Hows landscape I visited last week
- John Marshall (1797-1836), 16 July 2008, MP and son of Leeds industrialist, previously a redlink
- William Marshall (1796-1872), 16 July 2008, MP and son of Leeds industrialist, previously a redlink
- David Craig (author), 17 June 2008, candidate in forthcoming by-election and author of several books
- Burnley Way, 14 June 2008, another path
- Diocese of Cork, Cloyne and Ross (Church of Ireland), 11 June 2008, in the process of sorting out links from William Bennet (bishop)
- William Bennet (bishop), 11 June 2008, after whom the previous path was named
- Bishop Bennet Way, 10 June 2008, another path
- Ainsty Bounds Walk, 5 June 2008, another path
- Abbeys Amble, 27 May 2008, starting to clear up the redlinks in Long-distance footpaths in the United Kingdom with a view to turning it into a Featured List eventually
- Fountains Fell, 25 May 2008, because it needs an article (and Wikipedia:WikiProject British and Irish hills/Key mountains agrees)
- Simon Fell (Yorkshire Dales), 25 May 2008, stub created as easiest way to disentangle the various links for the mountain which were pointing to the man Simon Fell
- Edmund Schulze, 17 May 2008, after noticing him mentioned but not linked in Meanwood
- Buslingthorpe, Leeds, 25 April 2008, dabbing it from Buslingthorpe in Lincolnshire: I walk along Buslingthorpe Lane twice a week.
- Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, 3 April 2008, created after working on Chapel Allerton Hospital and realising the Trust should have an article
- Scarborough General Hospital, 3 April 2008 - stub created because it was previously a redirect to a Canadian hospital
- Alastair Dunnett, 12 Mar 2008 - stub created to resolve redlink in Dorothy Dunnett and after suggestion in DDRA newsletter that there should be a page for him
- Wothersome, 11 Mar 2008 - stub created to resolve redlink in List of civil parishes in West Yorkshire#City of Leeds
- Doug Goldstein, 27 Feb 2008 - stub created from Wikipedia:Most_wanted_articles#Uncategorized, resolving redlinks for this TV writer
- Codru-Moma Mountains, 27 Feb 2008 - stub created from Wikipedia:Most_wanted_articles#Uncategorized, resolving various redlinks (mostly infoboxes for Romanian rivers which have their sources there)
- Sunndi, 27 Feb 2008 - stub created from Wikipedia:Most_wanted_articles#Uncategorized, resolving various redlinks
- Mount Skollis, 27 Feb 2008 - stub created from Wikipedia:Most_wanted_articles#Uncategorized, resolving redlinks at Mount Scollis, Skollis, and Scollis also.
- Wilhelm Sulpiz Kurz, 27 Feb 2008 - stub created from Wikipedia:Most_wanted_articles#Uncategorized
- Ranjit Bolt, 23 Feb 2008 - having tonight been to see The Grouch which he translated from Molière, decided he merited a page
- Peter Lampl - while tidying up The Belvedere Academy, realised that this philanthropist should have an article
- Calders, 4 Feb 2008 - Spanish location, to disambiguate from Calders (Yorkshire Dales)
- George Corson, 23 Jan 2008 - Leeds architect who needs an article
- St Chad's Church, Far Headingley, 18 Jan 2008 - after exploring possible infoboxes etc for Headingley Parish Church which another editor recently created
- David Bowe (politician), 18 Jan 2008 - to resolve various redlinks after another editor had disambiguated him (former MEP, as opposed to actor of same name)
- Category:History of the textile industry, 19 Dec 2007 - after Category:textiles was removed from Salts Mill, felt the need for this new cat
- Marcus Morris, 10 Dec 2007 - saw him referred to as a notable person not yet in WP, researched a bit, created stub article to resolve several existing redlinks
- William Beckett (disambiguation), 29 Nov 2007 - while tidying up some dabs around Leeds MPs
- Rowland Barran, 27 Nov 2007 - MP for Leeds North, previously redlinked several places with and without middle name Hirst
- John Barran (a dab page) and George Goodman (disambiguation), 27 Nov 2007 - tidying up links for Leeds MPs
- Cistercian Way, 25 Nov 2007 - a disambiguation page to link to the English and Welsh paths
- Francis John Hyde Wollaston, 25 Nov 2007 - leading on from exploring links around the Williams Wollaston led me to this man who seems distinctly notable, made a stub for him
- William Wollaston (disambiguation), 24 Nov 2007 - came across the pair of MPs for Ipswich via Richard Richardson while researching North Bierley which may become an article some time
- Mainstream Publishing, 22 Nov 2007 - Scottish publisher of several G Brown books and others, seemed notable
- Courage: Eight Portraits, 22 Nov 2007 - article on Cicely Saunders said she was mentioned, I wondered who the other 7 were, researched, added as footnote to the book's entry in author G Brown's bibliog, then decided to make it an article
- South West Coast Path Association, 21 Nov 2007 - notable organisation needing an article, after major improvement work done on the article on the path itself
- Ian Brown (theatre director) 14 Nov 2007 - while expanding the West Yorkshire Playhouse article
- Emmaville, New South Wales 7 Nov 2007 - it needs a page, even though the population is only 303 (correction: that was 2001 census, it's down to 247 in 2006!), and was already redlinked from the "Cities and towns in the New England region of New South Wales" navbox
- Emmaville, 5 Nov 2007 - a dab page. Some of my Cornish in-laws lived a few years in the NSW settlement.
- Lady Elizabeth Hastings, 1 Nov 2007 - after seeing her unlinked mention in Ledsham page; also stub for her father Theophilus Hastings, 7th Earl of Huntingdon and dab page at Elizabeth Hastings
- St Gregory's Minster, 15 Oct 2007 - read about it while researching Kirkdale Cave following a link from York Museum Gardens, found it to be grade I listed with a noteworthy sundial, and worth a page: created a stub.
- York Art Gallery, 12 Oct 2007 - just a stub because it needs to be there and was a red link in the GA candidate York Museum Gardens.
- A660 road, 11 Oct 2007 - it was previously a redirect. There are articles about many other roads, and this is my local main road.
- Edward Brotherton, 1st Baron Brotherton 24 Sept 2007 - short article because he needs to be there, and then Arthur Harold Marshall stub to resolve red links in succession box.
- Robert Blackburn (aviation pioneer) 20 Sept 2007 - stub created to resolve red link in Roundhay Park, but various other sources and several categories added
- Golden Acre Park, Woodkirk, Ebor Way, Meanwood Valley Trail, Wike, Cockersdale, Mickletown 19 Sept 2007 - stubs created, to resolve red links in Leeds Country Way
- Leeds Country Way 16 Sept 2007 - 62-mile footpath around Leeds - Good Article
- Gragareth 10 Sept 2007 - hill on Yorkshire/Lancashire border, one of the claimants for "county top" of Lancashire
- Documentary Educational Resources 20 July 2007 stub - article on most wanted articles list after predecessor was deleted as copyvio
- Abbey House Museum, Leeds Art Gallery and Leeds City Museum (due in Aug 2008),16 July 2007 as a result of tidying up the "Museums" section of Leeds
- Leeds International Pianoforte Competition 23 June 2007 - surprised it's not there, various red links to it already
- James Sharples 11 June 2007 - a red link from another editor's addition to the below
- John "Walking" Stewart 8 June 2007 - a red link from Wordsworth,
- Leeds Parish Church 1 June 2007 - needs to be there
- Crigglestone 29 May 2007 - stub created while tidying links from West Yorkshire
- Leeds Thomas Danby and Leeds College of Building 29 May 2007 - because they were the only 2 FE colleges mentioned but not linked from Education section of Leeds
- Barrie Rutter, Northern Broadsides, Dean Clough 29 May 2007 - because they were red links from Halifax, West Yorkshire. And then Rutter disambiguation.
- Robin Hood, West Yorkshire 28 May 2007 stub, - to avoid confusion between place and legendary person
- Mary Robinson (Maid of Buttermere) 23 May 2007 - having witnessed confusion between her and the poet of same name, among students studying Romantic poetry. Not a long article, but a bid to disambiguate them - links provided from various relevant places. Hope it all hangs together properly and is in proper Wiki style: the article could and should probably be longer, will get round to that some time.
[edit] Ongoing projects
[edit] Milestones
- 20 August 2008 16,000th edit - working on Burnsall, up in the Yorkshire Dales
- 31 July 2008 15,000th edit - rescuing Dow Jones News Service after it had been over-speedily deleted
- 19 July 2008 14,000th edit - joining in discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types
- 27 June 2008 13,000th edit - stubsorting and giving sortkey for Şevket Pamuk
- 18 June 2008 12,500th edit - adding links to Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
- 8 June 2008 12,000th edit - updating website address for Rotunda Museum
- 25 May 2008 11,500th edit - adding image from Geograph to Simon Fell (Yorkshire Dales)
- 13 May 2008 11,000th edit - adding The Hamlets school to Hamlet (disambiguation)
- 23 April 2008 10,500th edit - stubsorting Pendleton Historic District by turning from stub to dab
- 9 April 2008 10,000th edit - requesting a move from PAUL to Paul (bakery), having come across the latter duplicated article while stubsorting stubs starting with "Pa", as my contribution to the unsorted-stubs backlog!
- 26 Mar 2008 9,500th edit - wikifying a reference in Titus Salt
- 6 Mar 2008 9,000th edit - using AWB to clear up "was been"
- 20 Feb 2008 8,500th edit - while tidying up The Belvedere Academy, formerly The Belvedere School
- 17 Feb 2008 8,000th edit - more work with Wikipedia:Suggestions for name disambiguation
- 5 Feb 2008 7,500th edit - adding a hatnote to link to a dab page while working on Wikipedia:Suggestions for name disambiguation
- 31 Jan 2008 7,000th edit - working on Wikipedia:Suggestions for name disambiguation, which has the appeal of an infinite jigsaw puzzle!
- 24 Jan 2008 6,500th edit - continuing the campaign against "is been", inspired by WP:TYPO
- 16 Jan 2008 6,000th edit - one of a series of disambiguations of "Grand Hotel", part of a series of tidying which started with The Grand Theatre, Lancaster and went on from there.
- 9 Jan 2008 5,500th edit - one of a series of edits looking for, and fixing, "is been"! (Also did "should of" and similar)
- 1 Jan 2008 5,000th edit - tweaking Exmoor article in its Featured Article candidacy
- 18 Dec 2007 4,500th edit - contributing to discussion about Leeds v. City of Leeds article name
- 5 Dec 2007 4,000th edit - made a redirect to Scarborough and Ryedale Mountain Rescue Team from different capitalisation
- 21 Nov 2007 3,500th edit - working on the South West Coast Path article, adding transport links
- 3 Nov 2007 3,000th edit - corrected spelling mistake in Liberal Democrats leadership election, 2007 (but hit "send" by accident so edit summary incomplete!)
- 22 Oct 2007 2,500th edit - adding the new "Designation" field, which I'd proposed, to the {{Infobox Hiking trail}} for Pennine Way
- 12 Oct 2007 2,000th edit - improving text moved from trivia section of Adel, Leeds
- 10 Sept 2007 1,500th edit - putting sourced info about Humber Bridge tolls protest to replace deleted info
- 19 Aug 2007 1,000th edit - tidying up a Leeds school page (replacing stub category by stub template).
- 25 June 2007 500th edit - part of a disambiguating effort about various "Troutbeck"s
- 28 May 2007 100th edit - made a redirect as part of a general tidying up around "Robin Hood", place in West Yorkshire
- 20 May 2006 My first edit - I can't really remember the circumstances: I guess I looked for the information in WP, didn't find it there, found it elsewhere, and added it; clarified existing links too.
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