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==Introduction== ==Introduction==

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Introduction

Hi, I live in London, UK, and even here there are Fayenatics -- i.e. fans of Faye Wong, a singer from China with a remarkable voice. Anyone who loves her scat singing album Restless is a real Fayenatic.

It was in order to edit Faye's article here that I registered as a Wikipedian in early 2006, but I have since broadened out into a thoroughly generalist editor. I work on some subjects of personal and professional interest, many that are not my own area but where I can figure out what's what, and others of merely passing interest where I see a need that I can fill.

Origin and destination

This user is a Christian.


If you want to know what's most important to me, you could start here.

In real life, I do some Bible teaching in my spare time, but while I'm editing Misplaced Pages I work hard to be objective from a neutral point of view. I hope that no-one could tell from my edits what particular denomination or theology I might identify with. If there has been notable criticism of a person or body, I will include/restore it in Misplaced Pages, regardless of whether the subject is "on the same side" as me.

Misplaced Pages activity

Faye Wong is the page that I have edited most, and would like to help get it up to GA quality. I also wikified the article on Wang Chieh, another superb singer.

I have a natural gift as a proofreader, and whatever I spot, I fix. That means in practice that I'm not very focussed!

I am among the 900 most active editors on Misplaced Pages.

I have Reviewer status, and on 19 January 2011 my new pages became autopatrolled (I hadn't realised I had made enough pages, but that credibility took account of the articles that I created as disambiguation pages or splits).

Despite offers to nominate me I never bothered applying to be an Administrator, as I was having too much fun just editing, but as of 17 February 2012 watch this space... it's looking as if I'll shortly be bumping up my edit count with Template:RfA-thanks or such.

Portfolio

Here are some examples of my work.

New sections
New articles
Expanded from stubs
Added sources and expanded/improved significantly
Rewrote from deletable self-promotion to fairly good articles
New lists
Rescued from proposed deletion by improving somewhat
Articles for Deletion

Although I sometimes turned a deletionist tide, e.g. Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Renee Williams (person), I used to find AfD annoying or depressing, so I generally steered clear of it. Now I recognise that nominations are generally made in good faith to implement sensible policies which improve the quality of Misplaced Pages, and I occasionally nominate articles for deletion.

Merging
Splitting
Copy editing

E.g. Jean Rustin, Sara, Chhibramau, List of Arabic names, GEICO, a school, Singapore, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Mary Dyer

Disambiguating links
  • Most new inbound links for Nike are intended for Nike, Inc. I'm always looking for ways to reduce future maintenance, so I supported a proposal to rename that page, but it failed to gain consensus. So, it keeps needing to be re-done as more bad links get written.
  • Zechariah was a big project -- over 250 edits -- as Zechariah, Zachariah and Zacharias were articles about different people that used to be differentiated only by spelling, and a lot of inbound links were incorrect.
  • There were over 2,000 links to Catholicism but in most cases the intended link is Roman Catholic Church. Sometimes I work my way through another page of them and change the link where the latter is intended. For the record, I have no vested interest in the matter.
Categories
Templates for category pages

WikiProjects

This user participates in WikiProject Anthroponymy.
This user participates in WikiProject Categories.


Others that interest me – and to which I contribute from time to time – are:

Milestones

On 14 December 2006 I passed the milestone of 500 edits. A month later I passed 1,000 in main (article) space, partly because I discovered categories! On 27 Jan 2007 I started using Auto Wiki Browser to help me do link/category corrections more quickly (although I've hardly used it since, as it doesn't run on the computers at work or at home). The same day I also passed the milestone of 1,000 unique articles edited, fixing new inbound links for Nike.

I just fell short of 1,000 total edits in the month of Jan 2007 alone. Then, after an unbroken 71 days of constructive edits, I forced myself to take my first Wikibreak on 4 Feb 2007, which was a good idea.

I passed 3,000 edits in mainspace on 21 April. After that I slowed down a bit, making fewer minor edits. I was still editing every day except when on holiday, and passed 4,000 on 17 August 2007, and 5,000 on 3 November 2007. On 15 October 2008 I was categorising lists of Indian politicians when I passed 10,000 edits to articles; at that date my total edits were over 14,000.

October 2008 was the first month in which I made over 1,000 edits, although that included a lot of similar edits to category pages.

I've been given six barnstars (I left them on my talk page and its archives), picked up my first DYK in January 2009 and had my user page vandalised in February 2009 -- I felt that I must have arrived!

I collected a few more DYKs in 2010, and passed 30,000 total edits including 20,000 to articles, but became rather more patchy in my editing habits. I'm still highly active, but can have a gap of a few days without feeling funny.

I had a moment of modest excitement in July 2011 when I realised that the person who had reverted one of my edits, which I admit was only indirectly and subtly cited at the time, was none other than Jimbo Wales.

On 10 August 2011 I joined the list of the 1,000 most prolific editors on Misplaced Pages (based on cumulative number of edits). It was on the day of the English Misplaced Pages blackout that I moved up into the top 900, although I spent that day helping out at Simple. I think Production babies was my first new article to make it into WP:DYKSTATS, that same week in 2012.

This user strives to maintain a policy of neutrality on controversial issues.
This editor is a WikiGnome.
This user is a WikiFairy.
This user repairs links to disambiguation pages.
This user has autopatrolled rights on the English Misplaced Pages. (verify)
40,000+This user has made more than 40,000 contributions to Misplaced Pages, over 25,000 of which were to articles.


Some other interests

This user just LOVES to cycle!
This user is of multiple ancestries.
This user lives in London.
This user listens to World Music.
fan-3This user loves Faye Wong.
This user appreciates progressive rock.
This user is from the planet Earth.
STAR TREKFayenatic london is a fan of Star Trek.ST
Dr WhoThis user has been a
Doctor Who fan since the
Second Doctor.		2nd

5 		This user has set foot in 5 continents of the world.
This user has visited 10 of the 50 United States.10
This user enjoys reading anything.



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