User:Alextejthompson



My name is Alex Thompson and I edit Wikipedia, and multiple other projects, as a hobby. I live in Nuneaton, in the UK and I am 26 years old. I am passionate about photography, and I travel a lot. I've recently finished studying photography at college, and work as a sales advisor. I changed my username from Rubbish computer to just be as transparent as possible. I don't like the idea that Wikipedia is secret or a closed system. I don't think that describes Wikipedia anyway, but I want to just be completely open with what I do under my real name and face. Let's make the internet not suck!



Wikipedia editing
I began editing on the day I created my account, November 5, 2014, but had previously contributed as an IP. I edit Wikimedia projects as a hobby in my spare time. My editing is varied: I'm not sure how I would sum it up. I patrol recent changes and new pages frequently; I help revert vandalism, but also welcome new users and help copyedit and categorise articles. I frequently use the semi-automated tools HotCat, Twinkle and Huggle, to assist with this. I've been a pending changes reviewer for several years and patrol pending changes for similar reasons (I am also a new page reviewer). Additionally, I contribute to discussions by the Wikipedia community, such as Articles for deletion and Redirects for discussion. I have created several hundred articles and have the autopatrolled right as a result. I'm trying to create articles more often. I also use AutoWikiBrowser sometimes, mostly to help fix typos, especially using the New Pages feed. Although I use several other wikis fairly regularly (see below), I am most active on this site.

In real life

 * IRL meetups attended: 5
 * Virtual meetups attended: 3
 * Total meetups attended: 8
 * Virtual meetups hosted: 1
 * Wikipedians met:
 * Wikipedians hoping never to meet: Confused.png hoping to run into you one day. I am working on an article "Intelligent Gerbils" they are an imaginary alien race supported by a number of refs. I hope to get it to FA very soon.

Subpages

 * Red links: A list of potential articles, which I will try to keep up to date. I will try to create them, but anyone else is most welcome to contribute.
 * User:Alextejthompson/Red links
 * Saved articles: articles I have prevented from being deleted through improvement
 * User:Alextejthompson/Saved articles
 * Vanity: an awards page for tokens of appreciation for my editing, which I greatly appreciate
 * User:Alextejthompson/Vanity
 * Sandbox: a page for experimentation and notes
 * User:Alextejthompson/sandbox
 * CSD and PROD logs: I previously had these deleted but later asked that they be restored. I disliked having a record of so many pages I had asked to be deleted: however, I restored these for the purpose of keeping an accurate record which would otherwise be much more difficult to track.
 * User:Alextejthompson/CSD log
 * User:Alextejthompson/PROD log
 * Todo: a to-do list, usually of more complex tasks
 * User:Alextejthompson/Todo

Fundamental

 * Welcome
 * Five pillars
 * What Wikipedia is not

Writing articles

 * My first article
 * Articles for creation

Other Wikistuff
Simple English Wikipedia Wikibooks Wikinews Wikivoyage Wikisource Wikiquote Wikiversity Commons Wikidata Wiktionary Wikispecies MediaWiki Meta Outreach
 * Additional: Special:CentralAuth/Rubbish computer - My edits to all Wikimedia Foundation projects



Thanks and happy editing.