User:Seb Patrick/WikiWork
My Work on Wikipedia[edit]
- First edit (13th February, 2006)
- (Added book title information on Red Dwarf)
- 100th edit (27th April, 2006)
- (Added citations to, and removed contentious and unsourced "award" reference from, Steven Gerrard)
- 500th edit (11th June, 2006)
- (Minor copyedit on Roy of the Rovers)
- 1000th edit (23rd July, 2006)
- (Added wikilink to Johnny Dexter in RotR)
I'm currently on a bit of a WikiBreak until I either get internet access at my new flat, or regular access at my new job.
On 23rd July 2006, I made my one-thousandth edit (in all namespaces) on Wikipedia!
On 3rd August 2006, Damon Hill was on the front page as the Featured Article of the Day. This marks the first article that I've made contributions to to get on the front page (I wasn't one of the main contributors, but when it came through Peer Review I did a fair bit of copyediting and chopping, in addition to supplementing some of it).
On 13th August 2006, Roy of the Rovers became my first Featured Article.
My main pet project is Roy of the Rovers. Along with ChrisTheDude, I've turned this article from a stub into a Featured Article (my first) in just a few months. I've also done much to expand its companion article, Melchester Rovers, although that one is still some way from being Good as there's a lot of tidying needs doing.
Other articles I've been putting in some work on lately :
- Renford Rejects
- Frank Quitely
- Nerf Herder (also created Parry Gripp as redirect, and turned Justin Fisher into dab page)
- Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive (each week I update this article with the guestlist for the forthcoming week's episode, courtesy of watching the preview episodes online)
Articles I hope to get some substantial work done on at some point soon :
I also keep a vigilant eye on Red Dwarf. When I first got here, it needed a lot of work, but a number of editors (including myself) have chipped away at it. It's not in too bad a state now, but it needs watching simply because so many people tend to drop in inaccurate or unnecessary information.
Other than that, I bounce around keeping an eye on things that I'm interested in and that seem to need attention. In particular, I'm aware of how much vandalism football-related articles get from rival fans, so I constantly watch Liverpool F.C. and Steven Gerrard and look to revert trouble as quickly as possible. I also watch the new pages in order to try and filter the unnecessary rubbish, and I hang out on AfD quite a lot, as well. In some ways I'm an inclusionist - a lot of the criteria that people judge "notability" by are quite outdated, and some have an annoying tendency to make assumptions about fields (particularly of the media) that they're not necessarily that knowledgeable about. My opinion is that if you've done something notable, and if it's verifiable by one decent source, then you're alright. But I don't like to see completely NN people like teenaged gaming clans or vanity-published authors trying to sneak in, so I keep an eye out for them. I've begun to try and offer helpful comments on Peer Review, too, at least on articles where I'm actually interested in the subject matter.
I also made this, for the Melchester Rovers article :
