User:Aussie Article Writer

I am here to quietly create articles relating to Australia. I collect interesting facts. I edited under User:Chris.sherlock, User:Letsbefiends, User:Ta bu shi da yu and User:Tbsdy lives in the past.

I also try to give words of encouragement to those I see making significant contributions to Wikipedia.

My philosophy around reviewing GA nominations: in the vast majority of cases, the editor has worked hard at improving or expanding the article. What they really need is some pointers to improve the article to get it up to standard, and I will go out of my way towards collaborating with them to improve the article. In fact, I have been known to purchase the odd book to help improve or clarify references, and I don't fear going in and helping with a copyedit every now and again. Basically, I am on the side of any editor who shows they want to improve an article in good faith.

I'm currently taking a wikibreak... well sort of a wikibreak, but doing some wikignoming. I'm fixing references:
 * pass 1: go through the A articles, find any false positives, remove them - done
 * pass 2: go through the A articles, find any articles with only one problem reference, fix them - up to AG
 * pass 3: go through any short A articles, fix them
 * pass 4: go through the A articles, find ones with only a few references with issues
 * pass 5: find all the massive A articles, fix them


 * The process
 * 1) Find the orphaned ref
 * 2) check to see if citation template is correct
 * 3) check if Harvard short cite template is correct
 * 4) check early history to see if the source can be recovered
 * 5) often times, this is not possible. In this case, do binary search for when it was added. When located, if no source:
 * 6) hide ref, add citation needed next to it
 * 7) note action on talk page
 * 8) ask editor who added short ref if they know the source
 * 9) in some cases, it may be possible to use Google to figure out the source, in that case just manually add it

Books I want to read

 * Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies by Charles Perrow
 * History and Achievement A portrait of the Honours Students of Professor George Arnold Wood
 * Three Women of Faith - finally got the book! - Aussie Article Writer (talk) 01:06, 21 July 2021 (UTC)
 * The Mind of God
 * Acting on Conscience - Fr Frank Brennan

Links

 * WikiProject Women/Women in Green/Article alerts
 * User:Chris.sherlock/Australian Women In Red/Australian women
 * Category:Harv and Sfn no-target errors
 * Note to self - if link is working, then add
 * Category:Harv and Sfn multiple-target errors
 * | Category watchlist

Articles written for WiR

 * Amy Hannah Adamson (1893–1963) headmistress
 * May Mabel Adamson (1891–1966) headmistress
 * Margaret Theadora Allan (1889–1968) community worker
 * Marion Ellen Lea Allnutt (1896–1980) welfare worker
 * Florence Anderson (1871-1949) trade unionist
 * Gail Archer, judge
 * Zara Aronson (1864–1944) journalist and charity worker
 * Mary Sophia Alston (1856 – 1932) philanthropist
 * Ida Nancy Ashburn (1909–1980) headmistress
 * Sylvia Rose Ashby (1908-1978) noted market researcher
 * Ellen Atkinson (1894-1965) Australian Aboriginal community leader
 * Charlotte Elizabeth (Lottie) Austin (1878–1933) community leader (unfinished)
 * Ada Winifred Weekes Baker (1866–1949) teacher of singing
 * Kate Baker (1861-1953) - teacher, influential figure of the mid-twentieth century Australian literary scene, and stalwart champion of Joseph Furphy

Articles under research

 * Bessie Anstice Baker

Articles to help with

 * none currently

DYK articles for WiR

 * Sylvia Rose Ashby
 * Kate Baker

Reviewed GAN

 * English Standard Version
 * Mahmud Hasan Deobandi
 * Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind
 * Zina P. Young Card
 * Flora Kaai Hayes
 * Esther Lederberg
 * Anna Sorokin
 * Linda Finch
 * Beverly White
 * Ni Yulan
 * Lilly Daché
 * Regine Velasquez
 * Shooting of Vivian Strong
 * Juliana R. Force
 * Margaret McFarland

Former articles I wrote or majorly contributed to (that I think worthwhile highlighting)

 * Exploding whale (once got to the main page)
 * MDAC
 * Patriot Act
 * Windows Metafile
 * Strathfield

Articles I started

 * Sunday Lecture Society

Things I started

 * citation needed
 * WP:AN (and not necessarily proud of this)