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about me
My name is George Watson, or dendodge if you prefer, and I'm a theoretical physics student at the University of York.

I used to edit Misplaced Pages quite heavily, and I racked up more than 12,000 edits between 2007 and 2011. Eventually, though, the drama drove me away, and I moved to Wikinews, where I wrote a lot of articles and became an editor, administrator, OTRS volunteer, and arbitrator (during a particularly uneventful term that saw literally zero cases). Wikinews subsequently became even worse for drama, and I left the Wikimedia family altogether.

For a while, I worked on OpenGlobe, a Wikinews fork that aimed to fix the perceived problems with the original; unfortunately, after about two years of varying success (during which time I became a project manager), the project closed down due to a lack of funding. I'm still involved in non-traditional journalism as the creative director of LibreGlobe, a project still in its planning phase, and through my contributions to Nouse, the campus broadsheet.

I eventually missed Misplaced Pages, so I decided to resurrect my account here, with the caveat that drama (i.e., every single project-space page) is to be avoided as much as possible. I want to contribute content, and little more. That means I won't allow myself to get dragged into disputes (unless another editor raises an issue with my actions specifically), and I won't attempt to "collect hats"—I'm happy to be a standard member of the editing proletariat for the time being.

University and having a real life keep me pretty busy, so I don't actually have a great deal of time to contribute—and the time I have tends to be spent on less productive things—but I'm generally around to respond to things, and I'm interested in any contributions I can make to content, so please do get in touch if you have a project for me.

dendodge

my featured content

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This user has helped to promote 3 Featured sounds on Misplaced Pages.

• Fitzwilliam Sonatas (set)

• Schubert's Impromptu in B flat (set)

• È scherzo od è follia

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This user has uploaded 1 featured picture on Misplaced Pages.

• Storming the Bastille
  (Also featured on the Turkish Misplaced Pages)

This user has significantly contributed to 3 Wikinews featured articles.

• "Out of space in outer space: Special report on NASA's 'space junk' plans"
• "Tony Blair tells Iraq Inquiry he would invade again"
• "Thirteen dead, several wounded in Fort Hood, Texas shooting"

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good articles

This user has helped promote 2 good articles on Misplaced Pages.

I've only contributed significantly to a couple of good articles so far, so this section looks rather sparse right now. I should definitely rectify that at some point.

• George Harrison
• Kristallnacht

did you know...

• 2008-11-03: ... that John Philip Sousa's "Transit of Venus March" (listen) was rediscovered by a staffer at the Library of Congress in 2003 after it had been believed lost for over 100 years?
• 2009-03-05: ... that George Frideric Handel's Fitzwilliam Sonatas (No. 3 here) were not originally intended to be a set, and were only designated such in 1948?
• 2009-05-17: ... that the plane of the ecliptic (effect pictured) is the imaginary plane which all the planets in our Solar System share as they orbit the Sun?
• 2009-07-25: ... that the longest horn ever recorded on a Marco Polo sheep (mounted head pictured) measured 1.9 m (6.2 ft) and weighed 60 lb (27 kg)?

articles created

This user has created 15 articles on Misplaced Pages.

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• The Beatles at The Cavern Club
• Ecliptic
• Tool use by animals
• Daz 4 Zoe
• Fitzwilliam Sonatas

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• Matthew Humberstone School
• Positive Discipline
• Pretty Little Head (song)
• Stephano (The Tempest)
• Transit of Venus March

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• Bath Oliver
• I'll Keep You Satisfied
• SingaLongaWarYears
• The Beatles timeline
• Silence Dogood

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awards
I appreciate barnstars and things, and I'm (very) flattered to receive them, but I see no point in keeping an archive of them all here—it strikes me as "trophy collecting", and will probably serve only to inflate my ego (although that won't stop me from giving them out when I feel they're deserved!). However, certain awards are probably worth mentioning.

This editor is a Veteran Editor II and is entitled to display this Bronze Editor Star.

Your majesty, it gives me great pleasure to bestow these Imperial triple crown jewels upon Dendodge for your contributions in the areas of WP:DYK, WP:GA, and WP:FC. Cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 04:06, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

This Barnstar goes to Dendodge T\ for his outstanding work on creating and improving new articles related to The Beatles. The project hasn’t seen so much new input and creativity for a long time (although Dendodge has been diligently working on it for ages now, and often all by himself) so I wish the receiver of this Barnstar to feel very proud, and to sing “Yeah, yeah, yeah”.--andreasegde (talk) 18:49, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

This is for all your hard work improving everything connected with The Beatles. Enjoy, because you've earned it...--andreasegde (talk) 12:14, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

For your hard work on the current Misplaced Pages Spotlight article Kristallnacht, now a GA, I award you this barnstar for your quality Misplaced Pages Spotlight participation. Congratulations! JamieS93 12:44, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

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