Userboxes This user rescues articles for the Article Rescue Squadron. This user has rescued 3 articles by improving them in the face of pending deletion. This user is a member of the Association of Inclusionist Wikipedians. This user is a member of the Scouting WikiProject. This user is a member of the worldwide family of Scouts. This user is a member of the Baden-Powell Scouts' Association. This user is a former member of The Scout Association (UK). This user has climbed Beinn Nibheis (Ben Nevis). This user has climbed Yr Wyddfa (Snowdon). This user has climbed Scarfell Pike. This user is a pyromaniac. This user loves to go camping. This user is a member of WikiProject UK geography This user is a member of the Trains WikiProject This user is a railfan. User is a member of the Museums WikiProject - You can help! This User HATES it when his or her work/pictures get deleted

Userboxes Name This user's name is Richard. This user lives in England. This user is proud to be English. en This user is a native speaker of English. UK This user uses British English. This user is from the planet Earth. This user is not a number, he is a free man. This user graduated from the University of Oxford in Education. BEd This user has a Bachelor of Education degree. This user has worked at Westminster College, Oxford. fr-2 Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau intermédiaire en français. de-2 Dieser Benutzer hat fortgeschrittene Deutschkenntnisse. This user is male. This user is a former member of the Royal Air Force. As a teacher of history, this user is aware that our clocks are ticking. This user is a certified scuba diver. This user is a student aircraft pilot. This pilot doesn't need no stinkin' engine, thank you very much!. This user has been helping to make the Internet not suck since 1994. This useriplays the bass guitar. This user goes on a journey through time and space, to the world of The Mighty Boosh! MB This user rejects your reality and substitutes his own! Blade Runner This user thinks Blade Runner is one of the best science fiction films ever made. This user is a Browncoat. We've done the impossible, and that makes us mighty. BSG This user believes that life here began out there, but is not a fan of that show with the flying bike felgercarb. BSG This user is a fan of the reimagined Battlestar Galactica series.

This page is a disclosure of my occupational and avocational associations and interests in the context of editing Wikipedia. I understand Wikipedia's guidelines on conflict of interest and I pledge to advance the aims of Wikipedia over outside interests.

[edit] About Me

As my name suggests, I am a Scouter and a scuba diver. I hold a PADI Open Water qualification, and really must pull my finger out and complete my Advanced so that I can explore some of the wrecks I am interested in.

I am also a keen flyer, though I hold no license at the moment. I was an officer with the RAF VR(T), which gave me a chance to fly aerobatics the Scottish Aviation Bulldog, which I maintain is the best basic trainer the RAF have ever had. Every pilot should have the chance to have a play with one of these!

I'm a keen historian, and consider my specialist areas to be Roman Britain, East Anglia, the European theatre of WW2, Scouting history and the county of Norfolk. I help run a small museum, which is part of the Mid-Norfolk Railway, where I also work as a member of the volunteer train crew.

I like to assume good-faith, until proven wrong, and try to edit and create articles free from POV and according to Wikipedia policy. I do, however have a problem with duplicity and expect all articles to be treated equally by all editors regardless of their own affiliations or beliefs. Whilst I will always try to remain polite, I will argue strongly against anyone who I feel is using Wikipedia to further their own agenda at the expense of content.

[edit] Subject matter I'm working on

Currently I am concentrating on upgrading the "Independent Scouting" organisation articles to try to match those of the "mainstream" organisations, developing the articles on RAF stations and East Anglian airfields of WW2, and railway facilities in the English county of Norfolk. I am also trying to upgrade some of the stub articles on the smaller towns and villages in my local area.

I am part of the Article Rescue Squadron, and will try to help save worthy articles from deletion when I see them threatened with AfD. I try to keep an eye on a few pages in order to stop vandalism, and have, quite accidentally, become a defender of Tim Westwood!!!

[edit] Pages added to Wikipedia

Although I mostly work on improving existing articles, sometimes those little red links just seem so tempting:

Baden-Powell Award
Beaver Scouts (Baden-Powell Scouts' Association)
East Norfolk Railway
G-ASWI North Sea ditching
Hoe railway station
Jamboree 2008 (Northumberland)
Lynn and Dereham Railway
RAF Bacton
RAF Barton Bendish
RAF Downham Market
RAF Mattishall
RAF Methwold
RAF Langham
RAF Narborough
RAF Weybourne
Scouts (Baden-Powell Scouts' Association)
SS Orbita
The Chief Scouts' Advance Party Report
Senior Scouts (Baden-Powell Scouts' Association)
St. George's Scout
West Norfolk Junction Railway
Wolf Cubs (Baden-Powell Scouts' Association)
Wymondham Junction railway station

Pages added as "User:RedCoat", no longer an active account due to corruption of its password:

British Rail Class 105
British Rail Class 107
Cawston College
Dereham railway station
Fakenham and Dereham Railway Society
Fakenham East railway station
General Aircraft Hotspur
Gunton railway station
Hardingham railway station
Kimberley Park railway station
Norfolk and Suffolk Joint Railway
Norfolk Orbital Railway
North Elmham railway station
Railway stations in Cromer
Roughton Road railway station
Ryburgh railway station
Sheringham railway station
Slingsby Hengist
Thuxton railway station
West Runton railway station
Withburga
Wymondham Abbey railway station
Yaxham railway station

[edit] Pages I have helped save during AfD

Sometimes notable articles are put forward for deletion, when small amounts of work would bring them up to scratch. I'm proud to say that I have, in some way, helped keep the following on Wikipedia:

Girl Scouts of Jamaica
The Book of Time (novel series)
Drift House: The First Voyage
White Lion Inn, Stratford-upon-Avon

[edit] These are the voyages...

...of the user DiverScout...

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