User:Michaelmas1957

I'm a graduate of Oxford University with ambitions to enter the financial services or commercial law sectors. I've been editing Wikipedia sporadically since October 2010. I largely involve myself with improving the sources of major articles, updating, copyediting and removing vandalism. I've also created a number of articles, mostly focusing on important scientists and new inventions. My major areas of interest on Wikipedia include robotics, medicine, modern history (particularly of China and Cuba), aviation, spaceflight, skyscrapers and global demographics. As far as I'm concerned, Wikipedia's purpose is to educate the reader; its articles should be detailed and well-sourced, offering large amounts of accurate information on as many subjects as possible – within reason, of course.

The name is a reference to Oxford's Michaelmas term, and to 1957, the year my father was born.

I'm currently on an extended Wikibreak, returning at some point in the future.

Articles I have created
(Excluding redirects, talk pages, portals etc. Successful Did you know... articles are marked with [DYK].)


 * Maria Petrou
 * 2013 in science
 * Artificial muscle
 * Knifefish (robot) [DYK]
 * Vanderbilt exoskeleton
 * Michelangelo Hand
 * Nuclear energy in Kazakhstan
 * Alfred Buntru
 * HSwMS Sundsvall (J12)
 * Blood transfusion in Sri Lanka
 * Percy White (nuclear scientist) [DYK]
 * Argus retinal prosthesis
 * Colin Spedding
 * 2014 in science
 * John Findlater
 * Frank Panton
 * Benjamin Milstein
 * Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller (ship)
 * Meisei Electric
 * 6th BRICS summit
 * Milton Silveira
 * Rubby Sherr
 * Lin Chieh-liang
 * On the Steel Breeze
 * Über (comics)
 * Richard Ambler [DYK]
 * John M. Goldman [DYK]
 * Cybathlon
 * William Merton
 * Poseidon's Wake
 * Bluefin Robotics
 * Darek Fidyka
 * Lawrence Hogben [DYK]
 * Raymond Smallman
 * John Duckworth (physicist)
 * Felicia Kentridge
 * Joseph Bryan Nelson [DYK]

My most-edited pages

 * China [GA]
 * One World Trade Center [GA]
 * 2012 in science
 * World population
 * Vietnam
 * Naples
 * 2011 in science
 * History of Wikipedia
 * Besse Cooper
 * Mumbai Metro
 * Syrian civil war
 * Canada [FA]
 * Dragon (spacecraft)
 * Android version history
 * Tiangong-1
 * SpaceShipTwo
 * History of Cuba
 * Cuban Revolution
 * 2012 in spaceflight
 * The Shard
 * Sikkim
 * 2013 in science
 * Shanghai Tower
 * Northrop Grumman X-47B

Edits

 * 25 April 2013: 25,000 live edits.

Articles

 * 1 October 2013: 25 mainspace articles (with On the Steel Breeze).
 * 29 March 2015: 5 Did you know... articles (with Lawrence Hogben).