User:Bilby
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![]() Baryte is a mineral consisting of barium sulfate (BaSO4). Generally white or colorless, it is the main source of the element barium, an alkaline earth metal. It is found across the world and can be deposited through biogenic and hydrothermal processes or evaporation. Early records of baryte date to the 16th century, when a radiating form gained notoriety among alchemists for specimens found near Bologna, Italy. Carl Wilhelm Scheele determined that baryte contained a new element in 1774, but elemental barium was not isolated until 1808 by Humphry Davy, using electrolysis of molten barium salts. Modern uses of baryte include oil and gas drilling, oxygen and sulfur isotopic analysis, and radiometric dating. These crystals of baryte on a dolomite crystal matrix was found at Cerro Warihuyn in Miraflores District, Peru. This photograph was focus-stacked from 24 separate images. Photograph credit: Ivar Leidus | |||||||||
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I'm an academic in Information Systems, although my undergraduate and most of my postgraduate work was in philosophy. I'm interested in Fantasy and Science Fiction, Adelaide, Philosophy, Anime and a number of computing and Information Systems subjects — especially as regards Knowledge Management, which is my main area of academic study.
I tend to edit widely, as often I wish to improve articles because I see them as important for Wikipedia, rather than because I'm interested in the topic (although I have rather eclectic tastes and reasonably liberal sentiments). I have access to a number of good databases thanks to academia, so I'm not bad at referencing, and I'm always willing to give it a shot when asked. Generally I'll help wherever I can, and I particularly enjoy that feeling which comes from being useful. :) I've also got one of those new digital camera things, and I enjoy taking photos.
Although she rarely edits (try as I might to convince her otherwise) my wife has been known to use her Ruth-AnneMJ account. So we may edit from the same network location.
Articles
The extent of my involvement in these articles varies — from major editing and almost complete rewrites, to simply adding references to an already excellent page or helping to establish notability. Drive-by-edits, however, where I add just a couple of references or make some small changes, don't make the list — if the article is here, I'm hoping to make some sort of significant input. I've listed them here mostly so that I can get quick access to them when required. I'm also listing the status of the articles, so that I can keep track, but this doesn't mean that I'm claiming credit for the status: it may simply be that it was already a good or featured article, but I added extra information here and there. Plus, the single coolest aspect of Wikipedia, from my perspective, is that articles are collaborative endeavors. :)
Active development
These are articles for which I'm semi-actively editing or researching. This can take a while.
- Artificial stupidity
- Australian Farmer
Belldandy
- Big Lobster
- Big Orange (South Australia)
- Big Rocking Horse
- Blanche Cave
- Cleopatra 2525
- Clovelly Park, South Australia
- Club Penguin
- Euthanasia
- List of ships of the Illawarra Steam Navigation Company
- Kender
Louis Laybourne Smith
- Map the Miner
National War Memorial (South Australia)
- Paladine
- Quentin Bryce
- Senang Hati Foundation
South African War Memorial (South Australia)
- Turing test
- List of Oh My Goddess episodes
- Warriparinga
Recently completed
"Recently Completed" doesn't mean "now at Featured status" so much as "I don't think I can find anything else to add at the moment". These are articles which I feel I can put aside for a bit, unless I stumble across some extra sources with which to expand them further.
Cane toad
- Christian science fiction
Dietrich v The Queen
Frog cake
Illawarra Steam Navigation Company
- Jeff Grubb
- Marion railway station, Adelaide
- Marvel Universe Online
Mount Osmond, South Australia
- Red Hand of Doom
Shrine of Remembrance
Waterfall Gully, South Australia
Future projects
The following articles are ones which I hope to work on in the future. My general policy is that I shouldn't vote to keep an article at AfD unless I'm also willing to help develop the article, (noting that it might not need my help), so some of these are ones which need work but survived AfD, and some are just articles which I'd rather like to work on when time permits.
- Bow High School
- Brain in a vat
- Erik Mona
- Knowledge Management
- Margaret Lindsay (1726 - 1782)
- Marion, South Australia
- Mitchell Park, South Australia
- Oaklands railway station, Adelaide
- Swarnamalya
- The Dresden Files
Useful links
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- Wikipedia:Harvard referencing
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/Today
- Rescue category
- Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace
- Allen Varney
- The Escapist
Useful code
- Book: <ref name="">{{cite book | last = | first = | year = | title = | publisher = | location = | isbn = }}</ref>
- Episode: <ref name="">{{cite episode | title = | episodelink = | series = | serieslink = | airdate = | season = | number = }}</ref>
- Journal: <ref name="">{{cite journal | last = | first = | year = | title = | journal = | volume = | issue = | pages = }}</ref>
- News: <ref name="">{{cite news | last = | first = | date = | title = | work = | location = | page = }}</ref>
- News (online): <ref name="">{{cite news | last = | first = | date = | title = | work = | location = | url = | accessdate = 24 August 2024 }}</ref>
- Web: <ref name="">{{cite web | last = | first = | date = | title = | work = | url = | accessdate = 24 August 2024 }}</ref>
- Welcome: == Welcome! ==<br />{{subst:W-basic}}
- Book (list): ''title'' (year) [[publisher]]: location [[International Standard Book Number|ISBN]] [[Special:BookSources/isbn|isbn]]
Links
Associations
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![]() | This user is a WikiDragon. ...one of the last of a dying breed... |