User:Graham87

About me
I'm Graham Pearce from Perth, Western Australia, now living in Busselton, about 220 km south-west of Perth. I'm interested in music – mostly classical music, number theory and the history and geography of Western Australia. I'm totally blind, and have been so since birth, due to retinopathy of prematurity. I use the screen reader JAWS, with a speech synthesiser, to access the Internet. Most of my contributions to Wikipedia are copyediting and article cleanups, but I also make more substantial edits. I've written a timeline of my activities on this site.

My page history work
I enjoy checking through old history entries in Wikipedia and fixing cut-and-paste moves where needed. I've noted some observations about page-history anomalies at User:Graham87/Page history observations, and I've written some notes about getting information out of old database dumps at User:Graham87/SHA-1. I also enjoy importing old edits from the Nostalgia Wikipedia and other old database dumps; I've written some notes about the procedure I use at User:Graham87/Import.

Articles I've started or expanded
I especially enjoy it when other people make constructive edits related to these articles. The articles are listed chronologically:


 * Bureau of Meteorology
 * Weatherzone (formerly The Weather Company)
 * Davey Johnstone
 * Oombulgurri Community, Western Australia
 * Wyndham, Western Australia
 * Emil Telmányi
 * Mount Bellenden Ker
 * Tony Bullimore
 * Miriam Makeba
 * Bernhard Romberg
 * John Balaban (poet)
 * The history section of French Polynesia
 * Patsy Biscoe
 * The "sports" section of the "blindness" article
 * Such Is Life (novel)
 * Mick Hucknall
 * Dror Paley
 * Theophilos Corydalleus
 * Serenade No. 11 (Mozart)
 * Octet (Beethoven)
 * Émile Bernard (composer)
 * Little Green Apples
 * Catch a Falling Star
 * Sweet Soul Music
 * String Quintet No. 1 (Brahms)
 * They're a Weird Mob (split from article now at They're a Weird Mob (film))
 * Alan Reid (journalist)
 * Samraat (film) (split from Samraat)
 * Joan Armatrading
 * Clarke Peters
 * Twisted (Annie Ross song)
 * Annie Ross
 * Bart Bunting
 * Brian McNicholl
 * Bruce Wallrodt
 * Russell Short
 * Deahnne McIntyre
 * Tracey Cross
 * Julie Russell
 * Peter Homann
 * Christopher Scott (cyclist)
 * Melissa Carlton
 * Anton Flavel
 * Kieran Modra
 * Lyn Lepore
 * Lisa McIntosh
 * Kerry Golding
 * Tania Modra
 * Sarnya Parker
 * Greg Ball (cyclist)
 * Eric Russell (athlete)
 * Julie Higgins
 * Noel Robins
 * Jamie Dunross
 * 1977 America's Cup
 * Lindy Hou
 * Matt Levy
 * Terry Biggs
 * Eric Boulter
 * Helena Brunner
 * the "Paralympic Games for Persons with mental handicap" section of the "1992 Summer Paralympics" article
 * Brendan Burkett
 * Daphne Ceeney
 * Allan Chadwick
 * Malcom Chalmers
 * Charmaine Cree
 * Mark Davies (athlete)
 * Gary Hooper (Paralympian)
 * Alan Dufty
 * Rosemary Eames
 * Pauline English
 * Julie Dowling (athlete)
 * Valentin Yordanov
 * Tracey Freeman
 * Terry Giddy
 * Greg Hammond
 * Brett Holcombe
 * John Kestel
 * David Boldery
 * Stan Kosmala
 * Libby Kosmala
 * Robert McIntyre (Paralympian)
 * Michael Morley (athlete)
 * Kevin Munro
 * Wayne Patchett
 * Vic Renalson
 * Wayne Ryding
 * Donna Smith (athlete)
 * Jan Cameron (coach)
 * Don Talbot
 * Geoff Trappett
 * Robert Walden (swimmer)
 * Mary-Anne Wallace
 * Valerie Woodbridge
 * Eric Magennis
 * Kieran Ault-Connell
 * Ryley Batt
 * Craig Blackburn
 * Scott Brockenshire
 * Amanda Carter
 * Lyn Coleman
 * Carolyn Connors
 * Kerri-Anne Connor
 * Roy Fowler (Paralympian)
 * Lionel Cousens
 * Bryce Lindores
 * Donald Dann
 * Christie Dawes
 * Ben Demery
 * Shaun Hopkins
 * Therese Donovan
 * Don Elgin
 * Nazim Erdem
 * Meredith Evans
 * John Federico
 * Pam Foley
 * Mike Nugent (athlete)
 * Kyrra Grunnsund
 * John Martin (Paralympian)
 * Cherrie Ireland
 * Graham Condon
 * Sandy Blythe
 * John Maclean (sportsperson)
 * Kathryn Ross (rower)
 * Nikolai Liakhoff
 * Joe Egan (Paralympian)
 * Petite Suite (Debussy)
 * Liesl Tesch
 * Carol Cooke
 * Disabled parking permit
 * Jane Sachs
 * Salem Poor
 * Joyce Lester
 * Michelle Martin
 * Peter Montgomery (water polo)
 * Bill Roycroft
 * Wayne Roycroft
 * Classic 100 Baroque and Before
 * Potions in Harry Potter, more of a rescue mission, now merged into
 * Fred Grandy
 * Hejira (album)
 * Neville Holt (sport shooter)
 * Julie Dowling (artist)
 * Kenny Clarke
 * Dante Agostini, partially based on the French Wikipedia article
 * Django (composition)
 * Old Folks (1938 song)
 * You Are Too Beautiful
 * Mike Hennessey, partially based on the German Wikipedia article
 * Modern Jazz Quartet
 * Busselton
 * Henry Yelverton (merchant)
 * Busselton Health Study
 * Bussell Highway
 * M. C. Davies
 * Kevin Cullen (doctor)
 * Wilyabrup, Western Australia
 * Charles Lane Poole
 * Ludlow, Western Australia
 * Vasse, Western Australia
 * Dunsborough, Western Australia
 * Yoongarillup, Western Australia
 * Metricup, Western Australia
 * Busselton Margaret River Airport
 * Yalyalup, Western Australia
 * Abbey, Western Australia
 * Broadwater, Western Australia
 * West Busselton
 * Bovell, Western Australia
 * Geographe, Western Australia
 * Kealy, Western Australia
 * Busselton (suburb)
 * Ruabon, Western Australia
 * Abba River, Western Australia
 * Meelup Regional Park
 * Eagle Bay, Western Australia
 * Yelverton National Park, based on the German Wikipedia article
 * Yelverton, Western Australia
 * Chapman Hill, Western Australia
 * Jindong, Western Australia
 * Maureen Jones
 * Brenton Langbein
 * Bev Harrell
 * Barry Roycroft
 * John Holt (veterinarian)
 * George Bass (archaeologist)
 * Sam Isaacs
 * Yebble, Western Australia
 * James Fitzpatrick (paediatrician)
 * Barbara Holborow
 * Danielle Drady
 * Rodney Martin (squash player)
 * James West (inventor)
 * Cunnamulla Fella
 * Andrew Olle

Articles I find interesting
These are articles that pique my interest for some reason. If you find an article that you think might interest me, feel free to let me know.


 * Asperger syndrome
 * Australian electoral system
 * Collatz conjecture
 * Extremes on Earth
 * George Winston
 * German Requiem
 * Hồ Xuân Hương
 * Marble Bar, Western Australia
 * Harold McCluskey
 * Hellé Nice
 * Fernão Mendes Pinto
 * Felisa Rincón de Gautier
 * Stairway
 * Telephone numbering plan
 * Vehicle registration plate

Pages about Wikipedia that I find interesting

 * Signpost
 * Goings-on
 * Wikipedia NEWS
 * Wikipedia talk:List of Wikipedians in order of arrival/Archive 1
 * Nofollow
 * Requests for adminship/Inactive1
 * Requests for adminship/Inactive2
 * special:contributions/217.168.172.202, over 5,000 contributions between June and October 2002, all the while getting only 1 message addressed to them – haven't times changed?
 * User:Feature Historian
 * Village pump/Wikipedia chat – some of these discussions seem disturbingly familiar after more than five years ...
 * Dirty laundry
 * Software updates and its talk page

Barnstars



 * I award this to you, Graham87, with humbleness and awe. You’ve done what I truly can not. Greg L (talk) 00:26, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

For preserving Wikipedia's history, User:Graham87/Import and just for being such a great Wikiarcheologist :) &oelig; &trade; 11:26, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

For your contributions to Wikipedia and humanity in general, you are hereby granted the coveted Random Smiley Award. (Explanation and Disclaimer) ♠  TomasBat  02:29, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

A kitten for you! For all your editing work on my DYKs! :D Trust me, the kitten is cute. Everyone loves cute kittens as a reward for doing good work. and yes, you do good stuff. :D

LauraHale (talk) 10:42, 13 November 2011 (UTC) 

Thanks for all the additions!

Wikinium (talk) 20:30, 16 August 2014 (UTC) 

 🎶 Thank you! 🎶 Your support and participation were instrumental to the Wikimedia Sound Logo contest. Thank you for playing a major role in the global call for the Sound of all Human Knowledge! The Sound Logo Team

thank you for ceaseless help over almost 14 years --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:35, 6 June 2023 (UTC)

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 * style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | Hi Graham87, I wanted to award you this barnstar for your excellent efforts dealing with the less obvious vandals, such as that Guatemala date-changing vandal. You even reverted edits that became superseded by later edits from other editors. All this while you have a vision impairment - awesome! — AP 499D25  (talk)  07:31, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
 * style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | Hi Graham87, I wanted to award you this barnstar for your excellent efforts dealing with the less obvious vandals, such as that Guatemala date-changing vandal. You even reverted edits that became superseded by later edits from other editors. All this while you have a vision impairment - awesome! — AP 499D25  (talk)  07:31, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

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