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!
Did You Know items I've contributed to Wikipedia home page
... that Muphry's law states that "if you write anything criticizing editing or proofreading, there will be a fault of some kind in what you have written"? 23 July 2008 (article I expanded and nominated)
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.
{{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
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
Ongoing projects
Purge "is been", "should of" and similar, regularly, using WP:AWB, for WP:TYPO
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!
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
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.
Good Articles I've worked on
