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About me
This page is mostly just some notes for my own use. Many of my Wikipedia contributions are light copy editing. But I'm getting bolder about adding substantive content, and article creation and merging. Perhaps I'm a WikiGnome.

Subpages: Earthly's sandbox, Ben Weaver. See also Userspace:subpages.

Personal notes
Check out WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors

Use Wikiquette alerts to ask for help with troublesome editors.
 * rework page with  , to replace:
 * (to use, remove space in eg. '} }' )
 * for linebreak (no vertical gap after para)

initial space creates this box. What for?

Maybe put dates in 1984-03-26 format, to show in user's preferred format (1984-03-26, in my case) - but it generates linked dates, which is cluttered. Consider.

References, citations, formatting etc
Main stuff: Laying out a basic page, Citing sources

See Citation_templates and remember to a) delete unused data items, and b) to close up data items into a continuous line Merging_and_moving_pages

Reference list - small font (and close '<' marks)  Here is the quote. "Here is the quote."

Citation in reference :

See Manual_of_Style

Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style_(dates_and_numbers)/Archive_29

Repeated use of same reference Oddie was brought up by his father. Oddie has no memory of his mother, Lilian. As a child she worked in a cotton mill.

 For separate page references''' within the same work, see Treacher–Collins syndrome or poss Seasick Steve.

Tabular/column structure, see examples at English plural and Contemporary_art

Units display according to user settings: 39 m or 1862 km2
 * It is 39 m high. Note to self: why is this rounding to nearest 10'?
 * The area is 1862 km2. (rounded to nearest 10 - '-1')(unlinked) Omit commas.
 * Remove final 'lk=on', if present. (it links pointlessly to the entry on the unit), eg. 1200 km2

À=== Content issues ===
 * 1) Numbered list item
 * 1) REDIRECT Insert non-formatted text here

Wikipedia guidelines: Community Portal and Editor's index to Wikipedia

Requires copy editing

Citation needed See Fact template

(See also Unreferenced template): Also remove this template from articles that do have references.

section lacks references :

lacks inline citations (even tho has references/links) :


 * For articles with merely inadequate sources, use : or  :

US-biased or similar

(see worldview template)

insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject

Don't touch page while I'm working on it!

Multiple issues

Who said this? :

Neutrality / point of view: Template:NPOV-section



ie. MJST changed message content

Stubs, eg - see WikiProject_Stub_sorting/Stub_types


 * Add stub templates to short articles that obviously need them; a good list can be found at WP:WSS.


 * Add categories to pages that need them, particularly uncategorised articles, and biographies of living people lacking Cat:Living people. Add WikiProject templates to Talk pages where relevant.

Page-level editing
How to delete a page: PROD. If discussion is required, beyond a quick exchange (eg. with the page creator), use Deletion_review. Use Explain the reason here

Stuff to do
At Bicycle sharing system article, create new article listing schemes, possibly using sortable table (for example, see List of countries by sex ratio). See Talk page.

Much, much in HK Government departments. Start here, for duties, budgets and headcounts.

Add population figures, et al, to district and HK-wide articles. see Projections of Population Distribution, 2004-2013. Also, search HK Gov on population, districts.

Add 'Cycling' to Transport_in_Hong_Kong Steer Lady to proper balance of generic and nobility uses.

Find a good PD source at Wikisource and create/develop plenty articles.

Add links at Gold Bauhinia Star et al

Keep an eye on Canadian International School of Hong Kong - I added templates.

uni history, eg

Use British territory, not 'colony', except in historical senses. eg. British territory

Check out: English English, British English

Bill Oddie, esp depression. Ref this and this.

List of American words not widely used in the United Kingdom

Republic

Mir Hossein Mousavi - write up about his marriage, and make use of this other substantial material, from The New Republic

rename PARKnSHOP to ? ParknShop ? Park'n'Shop. check Economist style etc.

Merge history of Yahoo into Yahoo Talk:History_of_Yahoo%21

Finalise "Yet Another .." under Yahoo name

Revise 'Grog' etymology, based on Quinion, 15 Mar 08.other refs: http://www.google.com.hk/search?hl=en&q=%22Daniel+Defoe%22+grog&btnG=Google+Search&meta=&aq=f http://www.piratesinfo.com/mysql/phorum/read.php?1,155137,page=1 http://www.piratebrethren.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=1283&p=13899

$ and other currencies No mention of the ghastly 'USD' is found in anywhere in Wikipedia guidelines. Search more for discussion, and set to rights.

Causeway Bay / East Point - need attention Search out and amend 'Hong Kong, China'

Create new pages

Write "Democratic camp in Hong Kong" page.

Create page or category for 'Hong Kong (HK$?) billionaires, or tycoons, or 'movers and shakers' or something, for Lee Ka Shing, Lee Shau Kee, Stanley Ho the Kwok brothers et al. (See eg. Category:Chinese shipping tycoons)

Create 'William Tang' page

WikiPeople
Spartaz - active and seemingly deletionist admin. Corrected a blip of mine.

Notes and tools
Zhonghua minzu is 'the Chinese nation' or nationals. eg. Anson Chan was the first Chinese to be Chief Secretary.

Culturally significant words and phrases from The Simpsons  - now only an archive

Tools Intersect Contribs - shows the pages edited by two specified users.

Signpost issues from Aug/Sept 08
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