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Hello and thank you for visiting my User page.
I started out as a Wikipedia editor in April 2020. Learning my way round this vast system has been a challenge, but after two years I am beginning to get on top of it. I have so far made around 700 edits to some 150 articles (as at April 2022).
As a former journalist and editor, I tend to notice text that needs copy-editing in some way: spelling errors, bad grammar, tautologies (such as a film that "first premièred" in a certain year) or language that simply needs tidying up. I try to correct these when I can. I have also been able to add substantial new material to several articles, and have written a number of articles from scratch.
My interests
- History, especially Scottish.
- Edinburgh, its history, politics and culture.
- Science and technology.
- Modern languages.
Some recent contributions
- Henry Littlejohn: A 19th Century pioneer in public health who made enormous improvements to the health and well-being of the inhabitants of Edinburgh.
- Morningside: Another residential district in my part of the world.
- Sciennes: Yet another residential district.
- Stuart Harris: An Edinburgh historian whose works have proved very useful to me (and to many others).
- Corstorphine Hill: A local nature reserve where there are lots of trees, some interesting wildlife and a Cold War nuclear bunker.
- Swanston: A delightful village at the foot of the Pentland Hills; of interest to fans of Robert Louis Stevenson.
- Duncan Napier: A Victorian botanist who did much to establish herbalism as a recognised branch of medicine.
- Assassination of Nikolay Bobrikov, which took place in Helsinki when Finland was a grand duchy within the Russian Empire.
- John Hope: another interesting person from 19th Century Edinburgh.
Notes
- ^ Only kidding.
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