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James Hyett

Joined 6 July 2012

Thanks to a final project in Dr Suzi Lima's course PRT368H Brazilian Indigenous Languages in the Fall of 2017 at the University of Toronto, I've gotten into contributing to Wikipedia. Since then I've been mainly focused on various democratic processes within Canada, and articles relating to Indigenous peoples and languages (again, mostly in Canada). I really like Shakespeare and puzzles.

I'm a rollbacker ("rowbacker") on Scots Wikipedia since the controversy in late August 2020, where I've been helping to revert vandalism.

Activity

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Ongoing

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Continuing to poke around pages relating to the First Nations of Canada.

Past

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I've done a lot of work to update and shape up the article for Fort Albany First Nation, including the creation of Fort Albany (Ontario), List of chiefs of Fort Albany First Nation and List of Chief Factors of Fort Albany.

I have also spent some time improving the article on the Grand River land dispute.

In the summer of 2020, I was focusing on adding more content to articles related to Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte First Nation, and other First Nations and indigenous groups in Canada, including a vast expansion of the page on the West Moberly First Nations, the Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service, as well as a history of the chiefs and councils of the Six Nations of the Grand River, currently parked in my sandbox.

Previously that year, and occasionally still, I was working on pages relating to 2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests (including the Timeline), and the pages regarding the Wetʼsuwetʼen and the Wetʼsuwetʼen first nation bands.

For a while I was trying to expand the documentation page for Template:Infobox First Nation, as well as to insert it into pages it pertains to.

I was an active member of Wikipedia:WikiProject Orphanage from 29 December 2018 til about March 2019. Check below for pages I've successfully de-orphaned.

2018 Ontario election

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I worked on updating candidate lists for various ridings in the 2018 Ontario general election, to reflect the candidacy of candidates from minor parties, such as NOTA, The Peoples Political Party, Party of Objective Truth, and the Stop the New Sex-Ed Agenda Party.

Terra Ignota

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For a time I was helping to expand the page for Ada Palmer's book series.

I created a summary of the second book, Seven Surrenders, added sections on the representations of multiple languages as well as gendered language in the series.

Brazilian Indigenous Languages Pages

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In 2017, as part of a course at the University of Toronto, some students and I were tasked with fleshing out pages for indigenous languages in Brazil. There are over 170 indigenous languages in Brazil but most don't have very detailed pages on Wikipedia, nor easily-accessible public information for non-linguists. I think that making knowledge publicly available helps provide a touchpoint for those interested in issues of linguistic discrimination and language revitalization. Plus, I think these languages are super cool!

I've primarily assembled the pages:

I've helped with some content updates and formatting on:

  • none yet

And I'm presently working on creating a page for, or updating:

  • none yet

(format ripped lovingly from User:Calahagus)

WikiProject Orphanage

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When I was active in the Orphanage, I was focusing mainly on de-orphaning as many Orphaned articles from August 2011 as I could. Here are the pages I "Successfully de-orphaned! WikiProject:Orphanage: you can help!"

While the project of de-orphaning is not about keeping score, it is helpful to keep a list of what I've done in order to come back to them in the future and integrate them better into the web.

Articles successfully de-orphaned

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Aparimitāyurnāma sūtra 29 December 2018
Cerato-platanin 29 December 2018

30 December 2018

Jérôme Catz Street Art 30 December 2018 Discovered French Wikipedia has an article on "Board culture" that doesn't exist in any other languages?
Characteristic based product configurator 30 December 2018 Gosh, Characteristic based product configurator is a page with a lot of issues. I tried to clean it up a bit, but there are no sources for it anywhere.
Chief reputation officer 30 December 2018 Listed it under Occupations on the disambiguation page CRO
Chilberg 31 December 2018 Discovered User:Tim1357/Low-hanging fruit, which is an excellent resource for WikiProject Orphanage created by a now-retired user, which I will now have a go at using...
Autogenesis 31 December 2018 This one wasn't even tagged, I just discovered it through Tim1357's list. De-orphaning disambiguation pages is interesting!
Aviation in Iowa 31 December 2018 Found using Tim1357's list
Azerbaijani-language poets 31 December 2018 Azerbaijani-language poets should probably be renamed "List of..." or something like that
List of battles of the Russo-Japanese War 31 December 2018 Found using Tim1357's list
Balloon Man 1 January 2019 Found using Tim1357's list
BarentsWatch Kongsberg Spacetec 1 January 2019 Found using Tim1357's list
Isaac Chueke Alhambra Orchestra 1 January 2019
Copper Wimmin The L Word 1 January 2019
Robert Crucian Characters of the Cthulhu Mythos 1 January 2019
Edson Alvarado (footballer, born 1998) 1 January 2019
Kenny Blaq Ejigbo 1 January 2019
Brookline TAB 1 January 2019
Sean Banerjee 1 January 2019 And then the article was deleted two days later. Update: it's back, as a redirect to the first article from which I had linked to it.
Mitchell Dawson 7 January 2019
DNA/RNA non-specific endonuclease Endonuclease 27 January 2019
Exint pod British Aerospace Sea Harrier 27 January 2019
Hollywood Lie Oslo Airport, Fornebu 8 February 2019
Homeless Joe 8 February 2019
Diana Huebert 12 February 2019
T. V. Kamalaswamy T.V. Kamalaswamy (redirect page, which had a link to it already from List of Rajya Sabha members from Tamil Nadu) 13 February 2019
Rafael Lopez Guzman Huelma 14 February 2019 Found this page to link from from the Spanish Wikipedia page for Guzman. The other possible ones were pages on Mudéjar architecture that referenced his books and linked to him in the reference entry.
The Mighty Sprouts Disney Junior (UK and Ireland) 14 February 2019
Brian Stutland Fast Money (talk show) 19 March 2019
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Automobiles Chatenet Microcar (reverted for notability) 31 December 2018 Found using Tim1357's list
Aubette de Meulan Avernes 31 December 2018 Found using Tim1357's list
Audio Diaries Mockumentary 31 December 2018 Found using Tim1357's list
Bad Idea 31 December 2018

1 January 2019

Found using Tim1357's list
Bahera 1 January 2019 Found using Tim1357's list
Bamanhat Bamanhat railway station 1 January 2019 Found using Tim1357's list
Barcampbank Jesse Robbins (reverted for notability) 1 January 2019 Found using Tim1357's list
Bathua Chenopodium album 1 January 2019 Found using Tim1357's list
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Heather Dale

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I have been paid by Heather Dale on behalf of herself to create and write an article about her.

  This user, in accordance with the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use, discloses that he has been paid by Heather Dale for his contributions to Wikipedia.

Kingston Theatre Alliance

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I have been paid by the Kingston Theatre Alliance on behalf of itself to create and write an article about The Kick & Push Festival.

  This user, in accordance with the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use, discloses that he has been paid by Kingston Theatre Alliance for his contributions to Wikipedia.

Committed identity: fda52cfe5699a332e95231617cd3152d970f1e07b86e75ee8428415e19bb2fee581d7ca514f32a45eea1114f96d61fe7ef1159068a908aa7de637c8ca7d7153e is a sha512 commitment to this user's real-life identity.
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