User:DaveMellor/sandbox

OK - not sure why I am here? I am new user - but I created the account because I thought I was a user in the 1970's/1980's. But I cannot now remember!

I wanted to search the User database to see if I could find an entry belonging to an older version of me! The curse of Alzheimers - or just a poor memory.

First question - is there a 'user' search function that allows a search of users (current and old)?

How do you use that search function and how refined/advanced can the search be?

Is there an automatic delete of accounts in Wikipedia if they are not used? Can you search for deleted accounts?

The usual computer nerd questions occur to me. I should know the answers but either I've forgotten them or I never knew them in the first place.

Dave Mellor (64+ - Age IS an excuse by the way). Thank you.

PS: Reasons for creating account I was listening to the radio (BBC Worldservice). I heard the 'Living with the Gods'program that referred to the prehistoric statue 'The Lion Man' found in Germany in 1939 and restored up to the present day using the most modern tools available. Fascinating in its own right.

In a Wikipedia article on the statue their is a reference to the program that I had just listened to.

That was quick - I thought. Who created the page?

I wanted to find out its attribution. I wanted to see its Page History.

I was using an Android system + Chrome but there was no Page History tab visible! Shock.

Then I remembered that back in the day (when I first worked on computers - 1970's) not everybody had the same terminal, so pages couldn't always be rendered in the same way - they looked different on certain terminals. A programmer just had to make the best attempt to render pages so that they could work on all devices.

On the Android + Chrome system the Page History tab isn't rendered.

So I switched to Windows + Chrome. This led me to here and a search of users and attributions - ultimately a search for truth. Who is presenting this version of events, who can you trust?

What constitutes 'fake' news IF it exists in any meaningful way? To answer this question means following up page attributes in Wikipedia.

Who said that and can I trust what was said.

PPS: Case Sensitive Page References

In Wikipedia page references/searches are case sensitive. So a reference to 'Living With The Gods' differs from 'Living with the Gods' because case in Page Titles is significant. Maybe it shouldn't be (I know there is probably an advanced search option that ignores case capitalisation - but I can't remember it).