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Richardcavell is Richard Cavell, a man from Melbourne, Australia.
You may email him by clicking here and leaving a message.
I'm a doctor with interests in anatomy/radiology and medical law/forensics/administration. I like to make small corrections every now and then. I also occasionally contribute articles on medical topics. I'm interested in Aussie showbusiness, particularly community access television, such as Channel 31 Australia. I often create stubs and initiate new parts of articles.
I hate paedophiles and I enjoy shaming them. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
Here are some articles that I've contributed substantially to:
- Agro
- Amiga
- Amiga software
- Amiga demos
- Ankole-Watusi (cattle)
- Authorised and unauthorised law reports
- Ballarat Base Hospital
- Bernard King (television)
- Bert's Family Feud
- BTK/Dennis Rader
- Danny Boy (comedian)
- Dennis Ferguson
- Esophagectomy
- Greg Domaszewicz
- Harold Luntz
- Inferior mesenteric artery
- Jayant Patel
- John-Michael Howson
- Kerryn Phelps
- Kim Buchanan
- Lee Torney
- Madman Diplomacy
- Max Green
- Michael Charles Glennon
- Neal Winter
- not for profit (needs to be somehow merged with non-profit)
- peptic
- peptic ulcer
- Peter Hore
- Peter James Knight
- Pocket Aces
- Robert 'Dolly' Dunn
- Siam Ozerkam
- Surgical specialties
- Tine (metal)
- William Stuart Brown
The contributions that I'm most proud of, though, are grammatical/spelling/usage upgrades. Although you may see this as pedantic and unhelpful, I think that it is important to use the language correctly. It gives so much credibility to wikipedia to have precise, concise expression.
I believe that Requests for Administration are being used as a forum to indulge in editcountitis. It seems to me that the principal criterion for supporting Administrator requests is a person's edit count, regardless of the quality of those edits. This means that Administrator status is being used as a kind of automatic reward for time-serving. The principal criterion should be whether or not Misplaced Pages would benefit from the candidate being given the admin tools. I have therefore been spending time at RfA.
I'm taking a break from RfA for now - I'll only drop by to support exceptional candidates - and I'll be spending time at AfD instead. Although I probably come across as a deletionist, the truth is that I consider myself an inclusionist.
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