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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. ] 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.

== Thoughts on disambiguation pages ==

These thoughts are based on work I did on ]. This started when I realised that ] redirected Over the course of a few days I edited ] from (25/03/2006) to (28/02/2006). Most 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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Things to do

  • Look at other user pages and get ideas for layout.
  • Make summary of my contributions to date (including IP addresses).
  • Start using watchlist.
  • Start making bookmark list.

Bookmarks

Contributions

  • First edit as Carcharoth was January 2005.
  • Log of contributions is here.

First article

Spotted a missing article in Category:Chess magazines, and decided to add CHESS magazine. Unfortunately I appear to have just missed out on the honour of creating the 1,000,000th article...

Second article

Baruch Harold Wood might be considered a better attempt at an article, except for the fact that I nicked... translated it from the German Misplaced Pages.

Thoughts on disambiguation pages

These thoughts are based on work I did on Ptolemy (disambiguation). This started when I realised that Ptolemaic redirected Over the course of a few days I edited Ptolemy (disambiguation) from this (25/03/2006) to this (28/02/2006). Most 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 version (29/03/2006), my earlier fears that the page was no longer a disambiguation page were confirmed.