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:''This is a Misplaced Pages user page. For the fictional wolf of this name, see ].'' |
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== Things to do == |
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==Preamble== |
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Section for notices and other matters. |
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*For details of content work, see links below. |
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==Userspace== |
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* Look at other user pages and get ideas for layout. |
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*], of which the currently most relevant links are: |
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* Make summary of my contributions to date (including IP addresses). |
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* Start using watchlist. |
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* Start making bookmark list. |
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== Bookmarks == |
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==Other accounts== |
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{{User Wikipedian For|year=2005|month=1|day=8}} |
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*First edit as ] was January 2005. |
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== First article == |
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Spotted a missing article in ], and decided to add ]. Unfortunately I appear to have just missed out on the honour of creating the 1,000,000th article... |
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== Second article == |
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] might be considered a better attempt at an article, except for the fact that I <s>nicked</s>... translated it from the German Misplaced Pages. |
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== Creating an article from a disambiguation page == |
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These thoughts are based on work I did on ]. This started when I realised that ] redirected to ], as seen . This rang a warning bell in my mind, as I realised that many people would link Ptolemiac in articles referring to Claudius Ptolemaeus, the famous astronomer of the 2nd century AD, not the Egyptian ruling dynasty (of Macedonian origin) of the 3rd to 1st centuries BC. Clicking on "What links here" confirmed my fears. I eventually got round to tidying up those links and redid ] as a disambiguation page. While changing those links, I had got interested in the history of the Ptolemies, and the confusing tangle of Ptolemies in the Ptolemaic dynasty. I then gradually started tidying up the disambiguation page by adding descriptions to help people find the Ptolemy they needed. Previously, a reader had to click back and forth between different Ptolemies, and try and mentally keep track of where and when these Ptolemies existed. I also expanded Over the course of a few days I edited ] from (25/03/2006) to (28/02/2006). During the course of this work I had been delving deeper and deeper into the history of the Ptolemies. See for 'The House of Ptolemy' by Edwyn Bevan, an enthralling history of the Ptolemies. Part of the work involved organising the Ptolemies into sections, and early on I settled on a historical scheme to help make sense of this. Following on from that, I became interested in the etymology of Ptolemy, and the history of the name and the people bearing the name, and how the name has come to be used in today's world. This accounts for the etymological section, and the expansion into other languages. By the time of this (29/03/2006), my earlier fears that the page was no longer a disambiguation page were confirmed. |
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