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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

Namespaces

Dates

Types

There are several standard types of actions that I have done many times. 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

  • Nominating articles for deletion
  • Nominating categories for renaming or deletion
  • Voting in AfD
  • Voting in CfD
  • Starting deletion reviews
  • Voting in deletion reviews
  • Voting in RfAs

General discussion

  • Discussion at my talk page
  • Discussion at other people's talk pages
  • Discussion at article talk pages
  • Discussion at WikiProject talk pages
  • Discussion at WP:AN
  • Discussion at WP:ANI
  • Discussion at policy talk pages
  • Discussion at Talk:Main Page and associated templates

Layout and design

  • Main Page redesign
  • Sidebar redesign
  • ArbCom December 2006 summary table

Copyediting

  • General typos
  • Fixing incorrect links
  • Disambiguation repair

Misplaced Pages community and history

  • Reading the Signpost
  • Occassional browsing of the wiki-en-l mailing list
  • ArbCom elections 2006
  • WMF Board Election 2006
  • Misplaced Pages Arbitration Committee cases

Statistics

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

03/08/2006 (up to 15:05)

Using Essjay's edit counter:

  • Main: 3578 edits
  • Talk: 929 edits
  • User: 553 edits
  • User talk: 379 edits
  • Misplaced Pages: 1006 edits
  • Misplaced Pages talk: 807 edits
  • Image: 1 edit
  • Image talk: 6 edits
  • Mediawiki: 0 edits
  • Mediawiki talk: 0 edits
  • Template: 148 edits
  • Template talk: 142 edits
  • Help: 0 edits
  • Help talk: 3 edits
  • Category: 445 edits
  • Category talk: 50 edits
  • Portal: 26 edits
  • Portal talk: 4 edits

TOTAL = 8077

22/05/2006 (up to 15:15)

Manual counts, as toolserver tool not working:

  • Main: 2193 edits
  • Talk: 393 edits
  • User: 434 edits
  • User talk: 167 edits
  • Misplaced Pages: 621 edits
  • Misplaced Pages talk: 370 edits
  • Image: 3 edits
  • Image talk: 3 edits
  • MediaWiki: 0 edits
  • MediaWiki talk: 0 edits
  • Template: 111 edits
  • Template talk: 77 edits
  • Help: 0 edits
  • Help talk: 3 edits
  • Category: 327 edits
  • Category talk: 37 edits
  • Portal: 27 edits
  • Portal talk: 4 edits

TOTAL = 4760

Selected contributions

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

A lot of my other work has been on categories:

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.

Creating an article from a disambiguation page

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 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 to Ptolemy (name) will take place.

Links to new discussions will also be added here.

1356 Basel earthquake

Requested a translation from the French Misplaced Pages, and 1356 Basel earthquake was the result. I also succeeded in nominating this for WP:DYK (5th January 2006).

Serge Voronoff

Greatly expanded the Serge Voronoff article. The subject has piqued my interest, so I may try to get this to WP:FA one day, with WP:DYK first.