User:Hyperman 42



Greetings
I am a scientist and engineer based in the UK. I was very impressed with what I saw in Wikipedia and strongly support its NPOV ideals. So I began editing pages in February 2006 based both on my work and spare time interests, and enjoyed both adding further material and learning from the unique and expanding body of wikiknowledge. It is good to see how many thousands of people all over the world who have deep knowledge of their special interests and hobbies, but who would never get round to writing a book on them, are now able to share this with others. When I was a child I used to imagine a magic computer that would tell me everything I wanted to know about any subject; Wikipedia has got further towards this than I ever thought possible!

However Wikipedia has its limitations and I reduced my active editing from the middle of 2007 for two reasons. Firstly, I found that a small number of users with a strong POV could repeatedly edit a page so that it became very hard and time-consuming work to keep things balanced. Secondly, the open access to editing meant that some popular pages were frequently added to and lost their "shape" - this was the case with the main list of railway accidents, where lots of trivial incidents were added and obscured the key historic events. This is the price paid for not having an overall editor or group in charge of pages. Nevertheless the gains from wide sharing of knowledge outweigh the losses - as long as we sometimes take wikiarticles with a pinch of salt... I continue to edit articles and add to the Wikipedia body of knowledge on an ad hoc basis.

Pages I have originated

 * Electrical sensitivity
 * Electrosensitivity/Electromagnetic hypersensitivity
 * Cosham
 * Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition, Esmé Quartet, Marmen Quartet, Leonkoro_Quartet
 * Draft:Hyeyoon Park
 * Garry Nelson
 * Process integration, Pinch analysis
 * Classification of railway accidents, Books on British railway accidents
 * Rail crashes at Bourne End, Goswick, South Croydon, Hither Green, Welwyn Garden City, Grantham, Glasgow St Enoch, Glasgow Queen Street


 * Philadelphia (UK) boiler explosion 1815, Charing Cross roof collapse
 * Tube crashes at Charing Cross, Stratford,
 * List of rail accidents of major historic significance
 * TSMV Brading, TSMV Southsea
 * If I Could Tell You (poem)

Pages I am helping edit/build

 * Drying
 * Candidiasis/Food allergy
 * Portsmouth/Mayfield School (Portsmouth)
 * Contract bridge/Acol/Strong two bid/Duplicate bridge movements
 * List of rail accidents and various individual accidents
 * Boiler explosion

Where have I been?
Funny how they add up - 4 home nations, 30 other countries, and just for fun, 35 US states (can't find how to represent Washington D.C. or Georgia)…