For all your improvement of small town UK articles, I, JesseW, award you this Working Man's Barnstar (KC)

Standing beside a trig pillar with a camera in my hand - I like taking geo-taggable photos and posting them here.

Roger W Haworth

I live in Croydon, UK. My web sites are at RHaworth.net.

Deleted stuff

If you need access to a Wikipedia article that has been deleted, ask me. If it's not a copyright violation, libel, or personal information, and has not been deleted as a suspected WP:BLP violation, I will provide the text for you. Note that:

• you must have set up an e-mail address in "my preferences" and ticked "enable e-mail from other users".
• using the text to recreate a deleted article automatically qualifies it for speedy deletion, and keeping deleted content hanging around in your userspace has gotten editors penalized before. But that's your problem.

What I do here

New page patrolling

Multi-posting. Sorting new articles by User Id helps me detect cases where an article has been posted multiple times. The record may be twelve copies of Neri vs. Senate. (There was a case of about twenty versions of College of the North Atlantic but these were potentially different articles and the creator had made a tiny change to each version.) When I find a multi-posting I usually merge all the versions together by doing a "forced merge to existing title". Then I restore all the edits. This resulted in me having the dubious honour of being top of the list of restorers for at least a year (2007 July 29 earliest listing available). (NawlinWiki overtook me on 2008 Sept 9 and looks set to stay top of this particular ranking.)

Articles started or heavily hacked about

• Gongoozle - my first tentative step into Wikipedia - 2004 Dec 21 as Anon. Now at gongoozle in Wiktionary
• How can a tram route cross a trolley bus route without short circuits - lasted nearly 48 hours before being butchered
• International Sand Sculpture Festival (FIESA) - just an excuse to link to some of my holiday snaps
• No Man's Heath (four counties)
• No Man's Heath, Cheshire
• Category:Orders of magnitude (population) - actually I just created 1 E5 people. The category and the other articles were created by others within a few hours!
• Subscriber toll dialling to fill empty link
• Trunk vs Toll
• UK STD code 1252
• UK STD code 1438
• Union Bridge - got listed on 'did you know'

• List of all my creations (and many of my moves) up to 2008 Nov 13

Rescued from speedy deletion

• Apple Blossom Flower Fairies. Not my scene at all. I rescued it as a counter to the systemic bias here towards modern kidcruft. Then I discovered a better reason Cicely Mary Barker came from Croydon.
• Boot house - I was surprised that I had never heard of them.

Map link templates

brldb -- brldb prim -- gbmaprim -- GBvoss -- stn art lnk -- mmukpc

Plus {{oscoor}} which enables Egil Kvaleberg's brilliant map sources system to be called using grid references. See oscoor's rank in the most used templates list.
I like adding grid refs to articles about GB places and I will also add them to articles about:

• fiction - Llareggub and games - poohsticks
• poetry - Cataract of Lodore and even …
• people - James Hanratty, Mavis Enderby.

Disambiguation exercises

Boi -- Croydon (at the suggestion of Nickj) -- Hendon -- Hixon -- Lee -- Malden (Netherlands does not link to it!) -- Queen's College -- Seven Sisters -- Smithfield -- Sutton -- Uxbridge

Pictures uploaded

See pictures I have uploaded.

Notifying of CSD nominations

This is my policy on notifying the authors of articles which I think should be deleted. I will do so …

if I have comments to make in addition to the reasons given in the speedy / prod tag or the AfD nomination and the author shows promise of becoming a regular editor.

Some of my arguments against providing notification in other circumstances are:

• there is or should be a bot to generate notifications
• the authors usually will have very short contribution histories and watch lists (actually most of them won't even know about watch lists!) so they are unlikely to miss the fact that their edits are no longer marked (top)
• if they try to re-create the article, the warnings they get could not be clearer - see this for example
• I do have Twinkle but I don't like it because, even in the worst cases of vandalism, it insists on welcoming the author (!) if it is creating a new user_talk page
• I regularly check my deleted contributions (stuff I have nominated for deletion) and my own deletions and check any that have reverted to blue links.

If this makes me sound like a cantankerous, newbie-biting bugger, then I accept the description. But I will say in mitigation that I am pretty good at responding to "why did you delete" messages on my user_talk page and the remarkably large number that reach me via e-mail.

A favourite story of mine

Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius. Discussed here in rather high-flown language but the parallels between the Encyclopedia of Tlön and Wikipedia are too close to ignore.

Personal how to's

CharAss -- todo -- more todo -- sandbox -- sb2 -- blocks -- deletes -- protects -- speedy

Magnus' Commons upload helper

If you see a vandal at work, slap {{test}} on to the culprit's Talk page as the first action. Simply realising that they are being watched may be enough to put them off.

Use a leading colon to create a link to a Category table instead of placing the article in that category. Thus: Category:Wikipedia style and how-to - and this is a useful link for other How-To's.

Likewise, use a leading colon to link to an Image description page instead of putting the image into the article. Thus: Image:Adelaide O Bahn guided busway.jpg. Similarly for other language links: nl:Wikings.

See Wikipedia:How to edit a page#Links and URLs for links to Special: pages.

Wikipedia:Offline reports is a page I had difficulty finding - it is not in Special:Specialpages nor in Special:Statistics.

{{self2|GFDL|cc-by-2.5}} is recommended for own images

Pathoschild's check of eligibility for Wikimedia elections

Number of edits

I had no ambition to figure high up the list of Wikipedians by number of edits but by being around for long enough, I have moved fairly well up it. The growth in my edit count over my first year is given below. I have given up recording it but the current value can be found from this edit counter which includes a count for deletions that even I find difficult to believe. See also JamesR's league table of admins (on 2009 April 9 I was demoted from 11th to 12th in the league table of deleters) and WikiProject edit counters.

• 11133 (plus 2613 deleted) @ 05:43, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
• 9267 (plus 1693 edits to articles which are now deleted - mainly speedy tags - plus about 4000 deletions - I am an inclusionist really!) @ 04:18, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
• 5731 @ 09:20:03, 2005-08-09 (UTC)
• 2583 @ 2005 Jun 1
• 1026 @ 10:29, 2005 Feb 15 (UTC)
• 924 @ 21:56, 2005 Feb 9
• 2 @ 08:19, 2005 Jan 1 plus a few as Anon before that

Vanity links