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Estarriol

Joined 3 February 2006

About me

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I'm a 30-something English IT consultant living in a leafy suburb of London, although I have a degree in Genetics and a wide variety of interests. I have a fairly low attention span, which means I haven't got close to taking one article to Good or Featured standard, but makes me quite effective as a roving cleaning/anti-vandal/minor article improvement janitor. This roving around Wikipedia has, much like the Marauders of Harry Potter fame, led to my understanding of most of the less-travelled pathways of Wikipedia, and I like to help out on the Helpdesk and New contributors' help page. Other than that, I keep an eye on my watchlist, fix and improve where I can, get frustrated with vandals and try to help with the wikify mountain.

If there's any way I can help you, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page.

Oh, as for the user name, it comes from a supporting character in A Wizard of Earthsea, one of the very best books I read as a child, and one of the more influential on my life.

Incidentally, I am mentoring my girlfriend on Wikipedia, she is User:Lynnathon; should our areas of editing overlap, that is why. Neither of us is a sockpuppet of the other, and we don't always agree of Wikipedia issues! :-)

Interests

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A small cross-section of some the subjects I'm interested in:-

Thanks to everyone who contributes to this great encyclopedia - something that pulled the web out of its first Dark Age, and is likely the greatest collaborative learning experience in human history. 6,911,740 pinpricks of light in the darkness of human ignorance...

That's all for now.


To do

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Articles I promised myself I'd work on at some point

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- http://www.hp-lexicon.org/wizworld/floo_network.html
- http://www.hp-lexicon.org/wizworld/transportation.html
- http://www.hp-lexicon.org/ministry/ministry-transportation.html

General open task template

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You can help improve the articles listed below! This list updates frequently, so check back here for more tasks to try. (See Wikipedia:Maintenance or the Task Center for further information.)

Help counter systemic bias by creating new articles on important women.

Help improve popular pages, especially those of low quality.


Departments and Wikiprojects I (occasionally) do work for

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Wikipedia:Welcoming committee

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I found myself constantly welcoming new users, so thought I may as well sign up here. Lots of useful links on the department page.

WP:WIKIFY

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This is, at the time of writing, the biggest backlog of work in the wiki. Please help out if you can!

Wikipedia:Typo

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This is a list of the typo correction actions I've taken as part of the typo correction team.

  • "noteriety" (23), "fourty" (5), "valueable" (3) — 15:23, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
  • "immitate" (6) --16:40, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
  • "satrical" (5) --23:21, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
  • "Scandanavia" (3) --23:24, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Mixed martial arts

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Tip of the day

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Please proofread the daily tip...

It's displayed below one day early.

Some tips are obsolete. So we need new tips too. Please share your best tips and tip ideas at the Tip of the day department.

edit Tomorrow's tip of the day...

 
How to provide a Google search in a link

Here is an example of a link which activates a Google search: Tip of the day, on Wikipedia

It was built using this wikilink:
[[google:"Tip of the day"+site:en.wiki.x.io|Tip of the day, on Wikipedia]]

Sometimes it is useful to place a link to a Google search directly in a discussion. You can also use links to predefine an entire search session, and then use a tool like WP:LINKY to open the searches all at once into separate web browser tabs.

Read more:
Become a Wikipedia tipster
To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd-tomorrow}}

Tools

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cl:Category:Wikipedians looking for help

Welcome Templates

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The generic tool list

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List of all the WP pages - Other wikipedia links.
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The following tool list is courtesy of User:Martial Law


WP:AMA - Among other things, Wikipedia lawyers.
WP:UBX - Userboxes
Wikipedia:Questions - any questions ?
WP:TTALK - Project templates.
WP:AMDB - Admins who will make difficult blocks. Lets hear it for these Admins.
WP:RFI - Request for investigation.
WP:SW - Spoiler Template for films, movies, games.
WP:FU - Fair use guidelines.
Wikipedia:Paranormal Watchers - Wikipedians who have had paranormal experiences, and/or interested in these matters. ( New Wikipedian Organization )
WP:VP - Village Pump - One section links to the Tech area.
WP:CJ - Community Justice (New Wiki-organization )
WP:ASR - Avoid Self References.
WP:WEB - Web Reference guide
WP:QI - Quick index
Uncyclopedia - For those who insist on being a vandal
WP:BIO - Notability(people)
WP:RFAR - Request for arbitration
WP:PP - Protected page protocol
m:Help:Template - create Templates
WP:UP - User page protocol
WP:U - Usernames protocol
WP:FA - Featured Articles
WP:OFFICE - Wikipedia's Offices
WP:PP - Protected page
WP:H - Help
WP:POST - The Signpost: Wikipedia's Newspaper
WP:KC - Wikipedia Kindness campaign
WP:VAND - Spotting, Terminating Vandalisim
WP:BP - Wikipedia's Blocking Protocol
WP:SUB - Sub. Templates
WP:UTM - Warning Templates
WP:TT - Templates
CAT:UW - Warning Templates
WP:SUG- The Wikipedia Welcome Wagon
WP:BAN - Wikipedia Penalty
WP:ARCHIVE - archive things, like the user Talk page.
WP:RS - Reliable resources
WP:AGF - Assume GOOD faith
WP:ABF - Assume BAD faith
WP:HOAX - Hoax aricles.
WP:DR - Resolving disputes
WP:RD - Reference Desk
WP:PR - Peer review.
WP:EL - External links protocol.
WP:BARN - Barnstar awards
WP:FN-Foot notes. CAUTION:This protocol is still under development
WP:PAIN- Personal Attack Intervention Noticeboard
WP:SPAM- Spam protocol
WP:UBX- Userbox protocol
WP:RCP- RC Patrol protocol
WP:MVP- Most Vandalised pages
WP:SD- Speedy Deletions
WP:EW- Edit War protocol
WP:RV- Revert protocol
WP:SB - Sandbox(For the unmentionables)
WP:WTA - Words to AVOID
WP:ANI - Admin. Incident Report Center
WP:BITE - Don't Bite Newbies. Some REALLY need help, NOT scorn, ridicule.
WP:CON - Consensus
WP:FAC - Featured article canidates
WP:VPP - Village pump(policy)
WP:NLT - NO legal threats
Wikipedia policies - Policies and Guidelines
WP:SPP - Semi page protection protocol
WP:RFP - Full Page protection protocol
WP:RFC/SOC - Request for Comments/Wikipedia Society and Law
WP:WQT - Wikipedia Ettiquite
Wikipedia:Introduction - Introduction
Wikipedia:Introduction 2 - More on Introduction
Wikipedia:Introduction 3 - Still more on introduction
Wikipedia:Tutorial - Tutorial
WP:V - VERIFY sources, etc. on this format.
WP:SOCK: Tool usually used by vandals to vandalise votes, articles, attack people.
WP:AN - Noticeboard run by Admins., others. They deal with all manner of things. Caution: They are currently experiencing a backlog.
WP:VIP & WP:VAND - Anti Vandalisim protocol. Incl. policies on newbies as well as on vandals.
WP:CVU- Counter Vandalisim Unit: These people go after vandalism anywhere. To be in this, one must NOT be a vandal.
WP:BJAODN - Bad Jokes and Nonsense on Wikipedia.
WP:WIN - What Wikipedia is 'NOT'
WP:AGF - Assume Good Faith.
Wikipedia:Administrators - Click on the "List of Administrators" to contact a Administrator.
WP:NPA - NO personal attacks
WP:CITE - Cite Sources
WP:RFAr/AER - Request for arbitration/Admin Enforcement Requested
WP:RFAR - Requests for Arbitration
WP:Arb - Wikipedia: request for Arbitration
WP:ArbReq - Wikipedia: Request for Arbitration
Wikipedia:Bug report - Report bugs, such as Why is this site malfunctioning 1/2 the time ?
WP:ANB - Administrators' Noticeboard. See WP:AN
WP:AIV - Administrators intervention against vandalisim
WP:NPOV - Neutral Point of View
WP:RFA - Request for Administratorship. Think this one over people.
WP:GRFA - Want to be a Admin. ?! Read this carefully.
Wikipedia:Bureaucrats - These people have more power than even a Administrator.
m:stewards - creates "user 'bots' ", among other things.
Wikipedia:Requests for page protection - Option employed to protect a article from vandalisim,etc.
WP:POINT - Don't Disrupt Wikipedia to make a point.
WP:IRC - Wikipedia Channels
WP:QI - Quick Index
WP:RPA - Remove Personal attacks.
Wikipedia:Profanity - Profanity protocol.
WP:CIVIL - User Civility protocol.
Wikipedia:Administrators noticeboard/Incidents - used to report incivility, personal attacks.
Wikipedia:Resolving disputes - Protocol to resolve disputes.
Wikipedia:User Bill of Rights - Wikipedia Use protocol for Users.
WP:ArbCom - Arbitration Committee
Jimbo Wales Wikipedia BOSS
m:Board of Trustees - Wiki bosses under User Jimbo Wales.
Wikipedia:Blocking policy
WP:3RR - Three Revert Rule.
WP:AN/3RR - Report Violations of 3 Revert Rule.
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