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This page is a summary of some of the contributions I have made to Misplaced Pages, including areas I've worked on, and a description of some of the pages I have made major contributions towards. Many of the summaries need dates, and the list is not yet complete. I need to survey my contributions log to update this area.

Contributions

New approach

Logs

Namespaces

Dates

Types

There are a range of different areas I have participated in. These include:

Organisation

  • Adding, changing and piping category tags
  • Creating and categorising category pages
  • Creating redirects
  • Categorising redirects
  • Moving pages to new names
  • Article assessments
  • WikiProject template tagging
  • Creating and maintaining disambiguation pages

Formal discussion

  • Starting deletion reviews

Featured article candidates and reviews

Requests for checkuser

Participation in policy RfCs

Participation may have been on talk pages only.

Participation in user RfCs

Closing discussions

General discussion

Layout and design

Copyediting

  • General typos
  • Fixing incorrect links
  • Disambiguation repair

Misplaced Pages community

Arbitration pages

See User:Carcharoth/Contributions/Arbitration pages

Other

Major activity

Pages to which I have made more than 50 edits (as of 23/03/2007).

Statistics

Discrepancies usually due to edits lost due to deletion of articles or images.

08/07/2008 (up to 11:30)

Generated from the Wikimedia User Edit Counter :

Username: Carcharoth

  • Total edits: 39598
  • Image uploads: 12 (11 cur, 1 old)
  • Distinct pages edited: 10001
  • Edits/page (avg): 3.96
  • Deleted edits: 1023 (browse)
  • First edit: 2005-01-08 03:05:23
  • Edits by namespace:
    • Articles: 10206
    • Talk: 4298
    • User: 1647
    • User talk: 5960
    • Project: 8118
    • Project talk: 6659
    • Image: 412
    • Image talk: 10
    • MediaWiki talk: 4
    • Template: 466
    • Template talk: 515
    • Help: 1
    • Help talk: 3
    • Category: 927
    • Category talk: 261
    • Portal: 76
    • Portal talk: 35

Articles

  • 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.
Extended content
This editing history summary concerns work I did on Ptolemy (disambiguation). This started when I realised that Ptolemaic redirected to Ptolemaic dynasty, as seen here (27/09/2003). 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 Ptolemaic as a disambiguation page (24/03/2006). 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 the list and organised it into mostly historical sections. Over the course of a few days, Ptolemy (disambiguation) went from this (25/03/2006) to this (28/02/2006). During the course of this work I had been delving deeper and deeper into the history of the Ptolemies (see here for 'The House of Ptolemy' by Edwyn Bevan, an enthralling history of the Ptolemies). At some point I also tidied up the disambiguation page at Ptolemais.
The reorganisation of Ptolemy (disambiguation) into historical sections had made me realise that there was a narrative thread here, one that spanned over 2000 years of history. This focused my interest on the etymology of the name Ptolemy, to add to the history of the people bearing the name, and how the name has come to be used in today's world. This accounts for the addition of the etymological section ranging across several languages. By the time of this version (29/03/2006), my earlier fears that the page was no longer a disambiguation page were well and truly confirmed!
At this point, I initiated discussions at various places in Misplaced Pages, to add to the discussions I had already started at places like the Help Desk and the Reference Desk. Here, I provide links to some of these discussions (some discussions may have since been archived, and talk page discussions have not been refactored):
I then spent some time browsing through the Misplaced Pages:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages), and the talk pages there and at Misplaced Pages:Disambiguation. I then posted this summary at the Ptolemy (disambiguation) talk page. I intend to continue the current discussions and, if needed, start discussions at the Misplaced Pages Disambiguation talk page. Eventually, after taking advice and discussing the best way to organise the material, the split (later move) to Ptolemy (name) took place.
  • Serge Voronoff - greatly expanded the Serge Voronoff article. The subject piqued my interest, and I suggested it for the April Fools Day DYK for 2007, and the article was expanded even further by other people, and duly got a mention in WP:DYK (1st April 2007). Maybe WP:FA could be a possibility one day?
  • James I of England and Anne of Denmark - put James up for FAR, which led to another editor extensively rewriting and improving it as I watched. The article retained its featured status. Working with the same editor (I am doing copyediting and minor linking work) on Anne.

Articles created

The ones without a dated initial version link have not been annotated yet. Some were articles created from a pre-existing redirect.

  1. 1887 Yellow River flood (11 September 2005)
  2. CHESS magazine (1 March 2006)
  3. Baruch Harold Wood (1 March 2006)
  4. The Lord of the Rings (1979 radio series) (6 July 2006)
  5. Tolkien's Legendarium (13 November 2006)
  6. 1938 Banda Sea earthquake (4 January 2007)
  7. Place du Châtelet (10 March 2007)
  8. La Ferté-sous-Jouarre memorial (12 March 2007)
  9. John Chamberlain (letter writer) (17 April 2007)
  10. John Curtis Chamberlain (19 April 2007)
  11. Shawn Hornbeck Foundation (6 June 2007)
  12. central retinal vein (11 July 2007)
  13. Ramsay Heatley Traquair (18 July 2007)
  14. Joseph Spence (author) (25 July 2007)
  15. Health Economics (26 August 2007)
  16. List of 20th Century Pictures films (1 September 2007)
  17. List of pre-1940 Fox films (1 September 2007)
  18. List of Númenóreans (9 December 2007)
  19. Augustus Matthiessen (20 April 2008)
  20. George Fownes (21 April 2008)
  21. Thomas Snow Beck (21 April 2008)
  22. Martin Barry (21 April 2008)
  23. John Allan Broun (22 April 2008)
  24. Henry John Carter (24 April 2008)
  25. Arthur William Rucker (27 April 2008)
  26. Walter Gardiner (27 April 2008)
  27. William Carmichael McIntosh (27 April 2008)
  28. William Mitchinson Hicks (27 April 2008)
  29. Harold Baily Dixon (27 April 2008)
  30. Thomas Lewis (cardiologist) (28 April 2008)
  31. William the Englishman (13 May 2008)
  32. Frieze of Parnassus (18 May 2008, started earlier in userspace)
  33. List of Arctic expeditions (11 August 2008)
  34. Robert Muir (pathologist) (14 October 2008)
  35. Robert E. M. Hedges (14 October 2008)
  36. Lister Medal (14 October 2008)
  37. Norman Moore (medical historian) (22 October 2008)
  38. Heinrich Wieland Prize (26 October 2008)
  39. Bergius process and Haber-Bosch process (26 October 2008)
  40. Annales de chimie et de physique (31 December 2008)
  41. Geoffrey Jefferson (8 March 2009)
  42. Norman W. Moore (10 May 2009)
  43. Natural World Book Prize (14 May 2009)
  44. Howard N. Potts Medal (31 July 2009)
  45. Benjamin Franklin Medal (Franklin Institute) (1 August 2009)
  46. Franklin Medal (1 August 2009)
  47. Linus Pauling Award (4 August 2009)
  48. Laurent Joubert (30 August 2009)
  49. Arthur P. Luff (8 September 2009)
  50. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History (31 October 2009)
  51. Neuve-Chapelle Indian Memorial (30 November 2009)
  52. Phillips & Drew Kings (12 December 2009)
  53. Karen Grigorian (24 December 2009)
  54. American Chess Bulletin (24 December 2009)
  55. Arras Memorial (29 December 2009)
  56. Le Touret Memorial (29 December 2009, created from a redirect)
  57. Pozieres Memorial (29 December 2009)
  58. Loos Memorial (30 December 2009, created from a redirect)
  59. Vis-en-Artois Memorial (30 December 2009)
  60. List of Commonwealth War Graves Commission World War I memorials to the missing in Belgium and France (29 December 2009, started earlier in userspace)
  61. Villers–Bretonneux Australian National Memorial (30 December 2009)
  62. Soissons Memorial (31 December 2009)
  63. For Services Rendered (2 January 2010)
  64. List of FIDE chess world number ones (5 January 2010, started earlier in userspace)
  65. Stone of Remembrance (7 January 2010)
  66. The King's Pilgrimage (8 January 2010)
  67. The Muse in Arms (10 January 2010)
  68. Delville Wood South African National Memorial (11 January 2010)
  69. The Ypres League (16 January 2010)
  70. Louis Vaughan (18 January 2010)
  71. Gilbert Dyett (22 January 2010)
  72. Gilbert Clayton (25 January 2010)
  73. Nieuport Memorial (10 February 2010)
  74. Buttes New British Cemetery (New Zealand) Memorial (10 February 2010)
  75. Memorial Gates (Constitution Hill) (12 March 2010)
  76. Memorial gates and arches (13 March 2010)
  77. Bruce Lyttelton Richmond (2 April 2010)
  78. Adolf Gaston Eugen Fick (20 April 2010)
  79. Star and Garter Hotel, Richmond (21 April 2010)
  80. Janssen Medal (French Academy of Sciences) (24 January 2011)
  81. James Learmonth (12 February 2011)
  82. Eric Rideal (19 February 2011)
  83. Messines Ridge (New Zealand) Memorial (22 February 2011)
  84. Kenneth Street, Jr. (6 March 2011)
  85. Alexander Rankine (20 April 2011)
  86. Victor Negus (2 January 2012, started earlier in userspace)
  87. Transit of Venus, 1874 (7 June 2012)

...and later redirected

Articles created from material from other articles

Need to find these from the above and list here instead.

Disambiguation pages created

Some may have been created from existing pages after a move (see following section). This section also includes "name" pages that help to disambiguate those with the same surname (useful if you only have surname and initials). These are included here because there is sometimes overlap between name pages and disambiguation pages (e.g. when a name page includes a non-name entry).

Disambiguation pages created from existing page

Some of these are still listed above in the previous section.

Redirects created

Quite a lot...

Redirects created that were later turned into articles

Usually turned into articles by others (not always correctly, in my opinion, though in other cases they are good examples of a redirect with possibilities being turned into an article).

Did you know?

Tried to aim for one a month at one point, but that never seemed to happen.

Misplaced Pages:Did you know?:

possibly more

In the news

Translations requested

Some done through Misplaced Pages:Translation, others by other requests.

Other selected contributions

(Outdated section)

From an initial pass through my contributions log, the articles and talk pages I have contributed to are (in chronological order):

Categories

A lot of my other work has been on categories. Both category creations and work on organising category structures is covered here. The work on categorising articles appears in my contributions in the main namespace.

Bit of an oddball set of categories, but seems to have survived so far.

Not the most pleasant of subjects, but I based this part of the "Children" category structure on the already-existing Category:Women and death, and populated it with pre-existing categories and also with some relevant articles.

For some reason, collecting user essays on contentious subjects into categories seems to help people see a wider range of views than just their own, or the ones espoused in the latest thread on something. Created three such categories so far.

Should create list of all categories created (can do this for redirects as well, and other namespaces).

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