User:Derek Andrews

After a long break, I am back on Wikipedia.

I am a somewhat eclectic editor and have started articles on a diversive range of topics, including my medieval home town, a railway designed to carry ships overland in my new home province and a nearby environmental mess.

For a quick wiki-fix, I hang out in the back streets of Wikipedia at Category:Uncategorized pages or dead-end pages. This seems to be a good place to find needy articles that have been vandalised, or need a helping hand to look something like a Wikipedia article should look, or just simply put it out of their misery. I will also assign new articles to appropriate WikiProject as I find this usually gets them some immediate attention from an editor with an interest an expertise in subject matter that I can't be bothered with.

Lately I have started working my way through Category:Communities in Nova Scotia by county (Annapolis is done!) updating broken refs, and looking for opportunities to improve these articles, most of which will never be more than a stub, but nonetheless can provide some useful information. I have also been working on a few pages related to indigenous organizations in Nova Scotia, such as Native Council of Nova Scotia and Mi'kmaw Kina'matnewey.

The rest of this page is mainly a reference to (A) Wikipedia policies, guidelines, templates etc, and (B) external reference sources that I use on a regular basis.


 * My Sandbox
 * My BNA contributions
 * presentation

Wikimedia blog

Essential resources

 * Search List of Title Word Abbreviations

Canadian resources

 * Canadiana online
 * Toporama
 * Virtual museum Canada
 * Canadian Architecture Archive
 * Canadian Legal Information Institute
 * Canadian Parliamentary Historical Resources
 * Free Canadian History Publications Online (scroll down)
 * The Ecological Framework of Canada
 * Manual of Style/Canada-related articles

General resources

 * Google newspaper archive
 * Wayback machine
 * WebCite
 * Article stats
 * Open source academic repository
 * History of Science and Technology 1728
 * UN University collections
 * Old Maps Online
 * US Geographic names

Nova Scotia

 * WikiProject Nova Scotia
 * NS Open Data Portal
 * traffic volumes
 * NS civic address locator
 * NS Electoral District Information
 * Members of the NS Legislative Assembly
 * NS legislation
 * NS 2013 election results
 * Nova Scotia archives
 * NS Historical Newspapers
 * MemoryNS
 * NS community museums digitized
 * History NS county boundaries
 * NS Interactive Maps & Apps
 * protected areas map
 * List of designated places in Nova Scotia
 * 2016 census search
 * Category:Lists of historic places in Nova Scotia
 * Collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society
 * Contents vols 1-20
 * Index Vols 1-9
 * Index Vols 1-9

Mi'kmaq

 * Ku'ku'kwes news
 * INAC
 * Tepi’ketuek - Mi’kmaw archives
 * Mi'kmaw Place Names
 * Canadian Aboriginal Law blog
 * First Nation Profiles Interactive Map
 * Mi’kmaw Bands in Nova Scotia (dates for establishment of reserves)

UK resources

 * How to write about UK settlements
 * British history online
 * The Exeter Research and Institutional Content archive (ERIC)
 * Hansard 1803-2005
 * A vision of Britain
 * Heritage gateway
 * ScotlandsPlaces
 * Historic Environment Scotland
 * Scotland's Census
 * Historic England
 * Newspapers @ Library of Wales
 * Britain from above

New article ideas

 * Mi'kmaw Kina'matnewey
 * Eastern Woodland Métis Nation Nova Scotia
 * Sou'West Nova Métis Council
 * Henry Ketchum
 * THE GREAT CHARTULARY OF GLASTONBURY
 * Sir Harry Stephen Meysey-Thompson, 1st Baronet
 * Sir Samuel Mico see Henry Edwards (1820–1897) Richard Mico
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 * Halimote court
 * The coal industry of Pictou County
 * Sable River Migratory Bird Sanctuary

Training

 * Training/doc
 * Category:Wikipedia
 * Criticism of Wikipedia
 * Wikipedia Signpost/2015-10-28/Community letter (facebook link for talk at library?)

Room for improvement

 * all the FN articles for NS
 * Cabot Links tidy + Cabot Cliffs
 * Wells East Somerset railway station
 * Wells Forum
 * Wells Rural District
 * Wells Theological College
 * Wells by-election, 1939
 * The Old Deanery, Wells
 * The Bishop's Barn, Wells
 * The Bishop's Eye, Wells
 * St John's Priory, Wells
 * Peat extraction on the Somerset Levels

Problem articles for review

 * On Naval Timber and Arboriculture review 22 Sep 17

Routine maintenance

 * Category:Wikipedia requested photographs - NS
 * List of lakes in Nova Scotia
 * Missing NS coordinates
 * New Pages
 * Articles for deletion
 * Community portal


 * User:SuggestBot

Pages I have started

 * Antoine Robidoux
 * Atlantic Gateway
 * Aquion Energy
 * Besnard Lake
 * Betty Mouat
 * Boat Harbour, Nova Scotia - from a redirect
 * Bow Fiddle Rock - from a redirect
 * Bromley & Sheppard’s Colleges
 * Chase the Ace (lottery)
 * Chignecto Ship Railway
 * The Gatehouse at Bonds Mill
 * Gerry Cottle
 * John Horwood
 * King's Norton Stop Lock
 * Korean War Memorial, Sydney
 * Larsen trap
 * Legging (canals)
 * List of canal aqueducts in Great Britain
 * List of canal locks in Great Britain
 * List of public art in Halifax, Nova Scotia
 * The Literary World (magazine)
 * Lydney Canal
 * Malthouse DYK March 17 2009
 * Mass mortality event
 * Meare Pool
 * Mi'kmaw Kina'matnewey
 * Military Memorials of National Significance in Australia
 * Native Council of Nova Scotia
 * Nova Scotia Magazine
 * Pictou Harbour
 * Pidcock's Canal
 * Soulanges Canal
 * Temple of Jupiter, Damascus
 * Thomas Hancock Nunn
 * Thunderbird Strike
 * Underwood Quarry
 * Vicars' Close, Wells

Pages I have expanded

 * Henry Greathead
 * Millom
 * Ponter's Ball Dyke
 * Portgordon
 * Thurleigh