User:Olaf Davis

About me
I'm a citizen of the United States and Kingdom, living in England and working towards a doctorate in astrophysics.

Feel free to contact me on my talk page with requests, comments or anything else and I'll reply in the same place, unless you request otherwise. I'm particularly willing to help new editors who have problems or questions, or with requests that require an admin, like viewing deleted pages.

My interests on Wikipedia
As far as content-writing goes, I'm best-qualified to edit articles on astronomy, mathematics and various other bits of science - but in practice I tend to end up editing in more surprising places. I've also done quite a bit of exciting maintenance work.

"Olaf Davis" is my unified login on all Wikimedia projects. So far as I remember the most significant contributions I've made outside the English Wikipedia are uploading something to Commons and a very little on the Dutch Wikipedia. Mijn Nederlands is niet zo goed, maar ik oefen het graag. Je mag wel 'hoi' zeggen als je dat wilt!

Articles I've created or significantly improved

 * Flatness problem
 * Leonardo de Benedetti
 * Panemone
 * Wrapper function
 * Warm-hot intergalactic medium
 * Lazarus sign
 * Leo Goldberg
 * Ed Johnson (victim of lynching)
 * Alistair Urquhart

New articles / major planned work

 * Scale factor (Universe) and possibly Scale factor - layman's explanation
 * Fingers of God - use Peebles paper to talk about Bullseye effect
 * Natural broadening (and maybe find some refs for Doppler broadening)
 * Expand Slavery reparations scam using the Snopes source on the talk page.
 * Oxford city wall
 * Coincidence Problem or Cosmic Coincidence Problem
 * Opposition to the Iraq War
 * sources for countries opposing. is the closest I've found so far for Norway, and,  for Pakistan.
 * Moving quotes to article body / Wikiquote
 * Use to flesh out European section?
 * Pulsar - misc. section
 * Picture in Baarle-Nassau and Baarle-Hertog -> nl
 * Warm-hot intergalactic medium
 * Measured cosmological mass density in the WHIM: The solution to the "Missing Baryons" problem, Fabrizio Nicastro et. al. Advances in Space Research, 2005 vol. 36 pp. 721
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 * Sachs–Wolfe effect
 * Refs per Articles for deletion/Enochian magic
 * Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
 * SparkNotes
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 * NY Magazine
 * Biography, including comparison to Godot
 * The Secret Cause


 * Matter power spectrum - expand and picture? Use CAMB.
 * Source this
 * KMOS
 * ESO
 * Durham
 * roe
 * paper


 * Merton Street tennis court - fix sources & add picture.
 * Articles for deletion/Mannanthala Anandavaleeswaram Temple - should clean this up since it's been kept.
 * Ed Johnson (victim of lynching)
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 * Void cosmologies
 * Start article
 * Improve void
 * Improve Lemaitre–Tolman metric


 * Luna 5
 * Articles for deletion/Unseen University
 * Militärhistorisches Museum der Bundeswehr

Pictures for

 * Holywell Cemetery
 * Bonn Square
 * Gloucester Green
 * New College School

Check back on

 * Maged N. Kamel Boulos - notability concerns

Useful links

 * Category intersections
 * Stub categories
 * Speedy deletion templates
 * New contributors' help page
 * Help desk
 * Requesting free content
 * Keyboard shortcuts
 * Editors' Index
 * WikiProject Resource Exchange
 * Lost functionalities

Things to read

 * WikiProject Countering systemic bias
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Subsidiary 'Watchlists'

 * Sonnets
 * DYK related
 * User Talk Pages

My Subpages

 * User:Olaf Davis/Coaching
 * Sandbox
 * Sandbox1
 * Sandbox2
 * Wikipoem - poems (deprecated)
 * DYKadmins - listing active DYK admins (deprecated)
 * DYKproblem - template for DYK nominators (deprecated and redirected)
 * Favourite - favourite content
 * Flatness Problem - article work in process (deprecated)
 * DYKTemplate - work on the DYK acknowledgment template (deprecated)
 * DYK_rules - an attempt to build a single, coherent set of rules for DYK

External

 * Page history
 * Page traffic stats
 * Wannabe Kate edit counter (currently inactive)
 * Edit counters:
 * Soxred's
 * Wikimedia
 * Wikichecker
 * Character counter
 * Word/character counter (slower than the above)
 * Shortest path between a pair of articles
 * Reflinks
 * Highest contributors to article
 * Category intersections
 * Wikistalk
 * Intersect Contribs