User:Girth Summit



Countries I've worked in
 * [[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|40px|The US of A]] [[Image:Flag of Mexico.svg|40px|Mexico]] [[Image:Flag of Brazil.svg|40px|Brazil]] [[Image:Flag of Iceland.svg|40px|Iceland]] [[Image:Flag of England.svg|40px|England]] [[Image:Flag of Scotland.svg|40px|God's own country]] [[Image:Flag of Wales (1959).svg|40px|Wales]] [[Image:Flag of Ireland.svg|40px|Ireland]] [[Image:Flag of France.svg|40px|France]] [[Image:Flag of Monaco.svg|40px|Monaco]] [[Image:Flag of Greece.svg|40px|Greece]] [[Image:Flag of Turkey.svg|40px|Turkey]] [[Image:Flag of Germany.svg|40px|Germany]] [[Image:Flag of the Netherlands.svg|40px|The Netherlands]] [[Image:Flag of Belgium.svg|40px|Belgium]] [[Image:Flag of Luxembourg.svg|40px|Luxembourg]] [[Image:Flag of Italy.svg|40px|Italy]] [[Image:Flag of Spain.svg|40px|Spain]] [[Image:Flag of Denmark.svg|40px|Denmark]] [[Image:Flag of Norway.svg|40px|Norway]] [[Image:Flag of Sweden.svg|40px|Sweden]] [[Image:Flag of Finland.svg|40px|Finland]] [[Image:Flag of Portugal.svg|40px|Portugal]] [[Image:Flag of Slovenia.svg|40px|Slovenia]] [[Image:Flag of Egypt.svg|40px|Egypt]] [[Image:Flag of Nigeria.svg|40px|Nigeria]] [[Image:Flag of Ivory Coast.svg|40px|Ivory Coast]] [[Image:Flag of Ghana.svg|40px|Ghana]] [[Image:Flag of Cameroon.svg|40px|Cameroon]] [[Image:Flag of the United Arab Emirates.svg|40px|UAE]] [[Image:Flag of Qatar.svg|40px|Qatar]] [[Image:Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg|40px|Saudi Arabia]] [[Image:Flag of Israel.svg|40px|Israel]] [[Image:Flag of India.svg|40px|India]] [[Image:Flag of China.svg|40px|China]] [[Image:Flag of Taiwan.svg|40px|Taiwan]] [[Image:Flag of Hong Kong.svg|40px|Hong Kong]] [[Image:Flag of Japan.svg|40px|Japan]] [[Image:Flag of South Korea.svg|40px|South Korea]] [[Image:Flag of Singapore.svg|40px|Singapore]] [[Image:Flag of Malaysia.svg|40px|Malaysia]] [[Image:Flag of Indonesia.svg|40px|Indonesia]] [[Image:Flag of Australia.svg|40px|Australia]] [[Image:Flag of South Africa.svg|40px|South Africa]] [[Image:Flag of Gibraltar.svg|40px|Gibraltar]]

Me
I am Scottish, but live in York. I studied geology at university, and spent the early part of my career (about fifteen years) in marine geophysics, working in offshore and nearshore engineering projects in various far-flung (and near-flung) parts of the world. Tired of the constant travel, I retrained, and now work on dry land, teaching maths, geography, and coding to small people.

Girth Summit is a pseudonym. Girth is a nickname I go by in real life, and Summit is a reference to mountains, which I enjoy climbing when I can find the time. For more discussion of my username, click here.

I have an alternate account,. I don't generally edit with it, I use it to remind me what editing Wikipedia is like when you don't have a bunch of scripts and advanced permissions, so I can give better advice to new editors.

Communication

 * Most of my Wikipedia-related communications happens on here - feel free to leave me a note on my talk page.
 * I use IRC occasionally, and have recently moved over to the new Libera channels. You might find me hanging around in channels like #wikipedia-en-help or in the admin/revdel channels, under the name GirthSummit.
 * I do not use Discord, Twitter, Facebook, or other any other social media type things. Anyone posting under the name Girth Summit anywhere outside of Wikimedia projects and IRC is not me.
 * I occasionally read threads on Wikipediocracy, and I have to acknowledge that the contributors there sometimes pick things up that we (myself included) miss here, e.g. this post, and this thread about my judgment. I have recently registered an account there in case I ever wish to contribute; I don't know how much I'll use it.
 * You are welcome to e-mail me using the Wikipedia e-mail system, but be aware that I tend only to reply by e-mail to people I already know. Please don't be surprised or offended if I reply on your talk page, rather than directly to the e-mail.