I live in England. I am a native English speaker, and retain some schoolboy French. I have a science degree.
I can program in Prolog, Perl, and PHP, and write raw html.
I like maps.
I have an account on Wikimedia Commons.
Contents
Interactive maps
Interactive maps are a new tool being developed by the Wikimedia Foundation – see Maps/Conversation and mapbox gallery. They rely on Template:Mapframe, which is already running here on en:Wikipedia, and on some javascript, which is not. To get the javascript working, I copied it from here to User:Maproom/common.js. You can get it working for you by doing the same, using your own username. Once you have done that, you will be able to look at the specimens in this test page.
Cayley graphs
I have added two Cayley graphs to articles. You can see one to the right, and at Pauli group. If you think it would be useful to have more such Cayley graphs of small groups in articles, please let me know, and I will provide them.
Articles created
- 110-vertex Iofinova-Ivanov graph
- András Bereznay
- Chian diaspora
- Dimension (graph theory)
- Four shire stone
- International Playing-Card Society
- Karl Spruner von Merz
- Klein graph
- Robert Schimke
Under development:
- Liedertafel (paused)
Subpages
- New users and new articles
- Regular map images, contributed to Commons by Carlo Séquin
- Some location maps in use in Wikipedia
- My barnstars
- The words "hemi-hosohedron" and "hemi-dihedron"
- guide to Wikipedia deletion process
A cladogram
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Thanks for edits
Maybe you have come here because I thanked you for an edit, and you are wondering what motivated me. I have certainly wondered what has motivated some of the thanks that I have received.
If I have thanked you for reverting an edit I made, it was to acknowledge that you were right to do so. Otherwise, it might be because I saw your edit, and thought "that is a conspicuously good contribution to Wikipedia." Or maybe your edit made me think "I wish I had said that." Or even both.
Taraxacum
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This is here to remind me how to use "crop" within a gallery.
The Right to be Forgotten
These English Wikipedia articles
- Are All Men Pedophiles?
- Dylan Evans
- Gerry Hutch
- Jake Speight
- List of Big Brother 2 housemates (UK)
- Nadia Almada
- Oxford Mail
- Robinson Ekspeditionen 1998
- Silver Ring Thing
- Thomas Goolnik
- Van Wees v Karkour
and these Commons images
are the subjects of removal notices from the European Union to Google under "Right to be forgotten" legislation, as listed here. (That source also lists other items which are not mentioned above, because they have been removed from Wikipedia, to comply with other saner laws.)
Miscellaneous
No amount of editing can overcome a lack of notability
tool to convert an Amazon book URL to a Wikipedia reference
Concealed text
Fractions: 5⁄8 5/8
Reading list
Articles which I plan to read and hope to understand:
- Commutative_diagram#Symbols, Exact sequence
- bourgeonal, list of essential oils, oak moss, wine fault, OR6A2, cis-3-Hexenal
To do
Wikipedia articles which I have promised to improve, and not got around to:
Templates
These are here for my own use.
[[WP:AIV]]
[[WP:CRYSTAL]]
[[WP:COI|conflict of interest]]
[[WP:N|notable]]
[[WP:OWN|ownership]]
[[WP:Referencing for beginners|Referencing for beginners]]
[[WP:RA|requested articles]]
[[WP:Your first article|Your first article]]
{{copypaste | url=insert URL here, if known}}
{{subst:submit|username}}
{{WP:SPOILER}}
{{keypress|Ctrl|F}}
{{Backwardscopy|title=http://www.foo.com}} (goes in header of talk page)
{{la|Article}}
{{failedverification}}
{{Collapsetop|title=title goes here}}leave content here{{Collapsebottom}}
{{efn|text of the note}} ... {{notelist}}
The general notability guideline is at WP:GNG. The notability criteria for people is at WP:BIO.
Wikipedia:MATH for how to use <math> tags.
reliable sources, notable, conflict of interest, neutral point of view, WP:CBALL
Wikipedia:No amount of editing can overcome a lack of notability
Templates useful at the Help Desk
convert Google book link to Wp-style reference
Animated gif
I find this image quite disconcerting, as it appears to rotate one way for several turns and then, for no reason, start rotating the other way.