User:YorkshireLad

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The Journeyman lv 3, Awarded for being a Registered Editor for 9 months and completion of 3,000 edits

Hey, welcome to my user page. Feel free to leave me a message over on my talk page.

I discovered in October 2019 that there's an inactive Wikipedia account with the name "Yorkshire Lad", with a space. That account has nothing to do with me! (It only has three non-userspace edits anyway, from 2006.) I'm also unrelated to Yorkshirelad6, whose existence I discovered in November 2020.

Other accounts: I once had an account many years ago that I've long since forgotten the password to, and this account was very briefly at "YorkshireGold" until I realised that was a violation of WP:USERNAME (Yorkshire Gold is a brand of tea).

Articles I've worked on

• 500 Queer Scientists (created article; appeared on DYK on 22 April 2020)
• Bernadette Perrin-Riou (added sources)
• Clarendon Shopping Centre (added sources, new history section, added new images to Commons: promoted to GA on 16 October 2019 and appeared on DYK on 18 November 2019)
• Confluence (shopping mall) (added sources)
• Minister for the Union (mostly added sources)
• Pride in STEM (created article; appeared on DYK on 14 March 2020)
• Special purpose UK railway stations (after a misadventure in nominating it for deletion, reformatted article as table demonstrating criteria for inclusion)
• Suzette Davenport (expanded from single sentence; appeared on DYK on 7 May 2020)
• Three-tier education (major rewrite)
• Westgate, Oxford (cleanup, added sources, new history section)

Milestones

Milestones for $n\geq 3000$ are the first time my edit counter reached $n$; milestones for $n<3000$ are the $n$th extant live edit as of 22 November 2020 (so it is possible my edit counter hit that number earlier, if some edits that were then live have since been deleted).

• First edit: fixing spelling/grammar in Secondary education in Scotland, on 11 July 2017
• 10th edit: fixing a mistargeted link in Norte Shopping, on 31 March 2018
• 50th edit: fixing broken markup in Lyon tramway, on 30 July 2019
• 100th edit: reverting unexplained blanking of part of Bhadra Wildlife Sanctuary, on 12 August 2019
• 200th edit: attempting to nominate Clarendon Shopping Centre as a good article by editing its talk page, but accidentally just listing as a good article instead, on 21 September 2019
• 500th edit: a level-2 talk page warning for unconstructive edits on an IP's talk page, on 16 October 2019
• 1000th edit: reverting vandalism to Superdry, on 30 November 2019
• 2000th edit: attempting, on United States v. Sandoval, to fix a usage of Template:ussc that linked to the wrong court case, on 20 May 2020 (in the next edit to that article I fixed it properly)
• 3000th edit: category cleanup for The Mynde (Caerleon), on 22 November 2020

Trivia

• My topics of interest are (or at least seem to be, from the above) LGBTQ+ themes and shopping malls.
• I attended the Ada Lovelace Day Wikithon at UCL on 8 October 2019, and the LGBTQ+ Wikithon at the Wellcome Collection on 26 February 2020.
• I have a very small number of barnstars; I'm grateful for all of them.

Useful wikitext that I always forget

• {{tlx}} to quote a template
• {{pb}} for a paragraph break within a list (per WP:INDENTMIX)