User:Heliocentric

My name is Chris Chapman. I am 27 years old, work as an IT slave, and live in the vicinity of Nottingham, UK. I've used Wikipedia as a reference for years, relying on it increasingly (now I look up a dozen or more subjects every day) but only in the past few months have I started editing pages. Most of my edits are minor at the moment, but I intend to work my way up to the big stuff.

I believe that Wikipedia is the internet's biggest redeeming feature.

Interests and Expertise

 * Digital documents/metadata/hypermedia research : the field of my doctoral thesis
 * Local geography : Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, also other parts of the UK, like the Lake District
 * Geek culture : games, films, television, etc.
 * University of Nottingham : spent 7 years there

My Wikipedia milestones
I made a couple of anonymous edits in early 2005, but these dates refer to my Heliocentric account, since they're the only records I have.


 * 2005-05-03 : 100th edit
 * 2005-05-05 : 101th edit
 * 2005-05-06 : first substantive contribution: a major rewrite of River Lathkill
 * 2005-08-10 : first vandalism revert!
 * 2005-10-02 : created my first page: Codnor Castle
 * 2005-10-04 : 102th edit

Pages I've created

 * Codnor Castle - still a lot of work to do on this

Pages I've worked on significantly

 * River Lathkill

Stuff to do

 * Cleanup pass of Ennerdale Water
 * separate out or otherwise signify the 16 'official' lakes on List of lakes in the Lake District
 * Kessler Syndrome needs a rewrite

Stuff I've finished

 * Fix all links to redirected variant spelling/capitalisations of Xbox