Derek Andrews

After a long break, I am back on Wikipedia.

I am a somewhat eclectic editor and have started articles on a diversive range of topics, including my medieval home town, a railway designed to carry ships overland in my new home province and a nearby environmental mess.

For a quick wiki-fix, I hang out in the back streets of Wikipedia at Category:Uncategorized pages or dead-end pages. This seems to be a good place to find needy articles that have been vandalised, or need a helping hand to look something like a Wikipedia article should look, or just simply put it out of their misery. I will also assign new articles to appropriate WikiProject as I find this usually gets them some immediate attention from an editor with an interest an expertise in subject matter that I can't be bothered with.

Lately I have started working my way through Category:Communities in Nova Scotia by county (Annapolis is done!) updating broken refs, and looking for opportunities to improve these articles, most of which will never be more than a stub, but nonetheless can provide some useful information. I have also been working on a few pages related to indigenous organizations in Nova Scotia, such as Native Council of Nova Scotia and Mi'kmaw Kina'matnewey.

The rest of this page is mainly a reference to (A) Wikipedia policies, guidelines, templates etc, and (B) external reference sources that I use on a regular basis.

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Search List of Title Word Abbreviations

Policies and guidelines

Notability

Good writing

Wikipedia:Writing better articles

Canadian resources

Canadian Geographical Names Data Base

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Canadian Register of Historic Places

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General resources

Location maps

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Coordinates

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Nova Scotia

Place-Names and Places of Nova Scotia

For use in Further reading use: *{{NSplaces|pagenumber|sectionheading|}}

For an inline reference use:

<ref name="NSplaces">{{NSplaces|pagenumber|sectionheading|21 November 2024}}</ref>

Mi'kmaq

Ku'ku'kwes news
INAC
Tepi’ketuek - Mi’kmaw archives
Mi'kmaw Place Names
Canadian Aboriginal Law blog
First Nation Profiles Interactive Map
Mi’kmaw Bands in Nova Scotia (dates for establishment of reserves)

UK resources

British Newspaper Archive

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Images of England

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My to do list

New article ideas

Mi'kmaw Kina'matnewey
Eastern Woodland Métis Nation Nova Scotia
Sou'West Nova Métis Council
Henry Ketchum
THE GREAT CHARTULARY OF GLASTONBURY [1]
Sir Harry Stephen Meysey-Thompson, 1st Baronet [2][3][4]
Sir Samuel Mico see Henry Edwards (1820–1897) Richard Mico

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Halimote court
The coal industry of Pictou County
Sable River Migratory Bird Sanctuary

Training

Wikipedia:Training/doc
Category:Wikipedia
Criticism of Wikipedia
Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2015-10-28/Community letter (facebook link for talk at library?)

Room for improvement

Problem articles for review

On Naval Timber and Arboriculture review 22 Sep 17

Routine maintenance

User:SuggestBot

Pages I have started

Pages I have expanded

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