User:Owain.davies

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Main Interests
Particular interests in:
 * Emergency Medicine & Ambulance Care
 * Emergency Services (Police, Fire etc.)
 * First Aid
 * Equestrian
 * Devon, esp local history

Pages I Created

 * A382 road - Road in Devon
 * ABC (medical) - Created this page and ported information out of ABC (first aid), adding additional historical data - also major improvements to the citations and layout
 * Advanced Medical Priority Dispatch System - The system used in the UK and elsewhere to decide clinical priority for the dispatch of ambulances
 * Air Ambulance Kent Surrey Sussex
 * Air source heat pump - major heating technology
 * Airways Flying Club - Created in order to get rid of a red link!
 * Alphred Duport - from research on Exeter Mayors
 * Ambrosia (food) - Food brand i used to work on
 * Angel Delight (album) - DAB from the food
 * Arthur Kipps
 * ASHICE - Ambulance service patient reporting protocol
 * Atora - Food brand i used to work on
 * Baux score - Medical scale for predicting severity of burns
 * Becky Falls - local point of interest
 * Bicton Arena - local equestrian venue
 * Bicton Arena International 5* - major equestrian event
 * Blood bike - emergency vehicle type
 * Bowling for a pig - historic fete game
 * Brian Kellett - DAB
 * British Association for Immediate Care - UK emergency medical charity
 * British Equestrian Federation - UK governing body for equestrian sport
 * British Equestrian Trade Association - member of the British Equestrian Federation
 * British Equestrian Vaulting - member of the British Equestrian Federation
 * British Horseball Association - member of the British Equestrian Federation
 * British Horse Driving Trials Association - member of British Equestrian Federation
 * British Horse Industry Confederation - Overall umbrella body representing equestrian industry to government
 * British Jumping Derby - Showjumping event at All England Jumping Course at Hickstead
 * British Showjumping Association - UK governing body for showjumping
 * Burgess Hill Rugby Football Club - My former rugby club
 * Caduceus as a symbol of medicine - Completed with content from Caduceus and Rod of Asclepius, specifically addressing the confusion between the two
 * Caroline Pratt - 3 day eventer who tragically died competing at Burghley horse trials
 * CHALET - The Emergency Service protocol
 * County show - type of UK event
 * Crocodiles of the World - UK crocodile zoo
 * Defence Fire Training and Development Centre - former defence fire training at RAF Manston
 * Dr Blackall's Drive - local point of interest
 * Drowning chain - The causes of drowning
 * Elektromotive - Created an article on an existing redirect page
 * Emergency - Whilst not technically creating the page, I created the article from what was previously a disambiguation page - awarded a barnstar for this work
 * Emergency bleeding control - Combined articles on Direct Pressure, Pressure point (first aid) and Emergency tourniquet in to one place, and added additional information, including on internal bleeding
 * Emergency care practitioner - Added this advanced paramedic qualification as a stub
 * Emergency medical services in Canada - split from Ambulance
 * Emergency medical services in France - split from Ambulance
 * Emergency medical services in Germany - Created as a split of Ambulance
 * Emergency medical services in Norway - Split from ambulance
 * Emergency medical services in the United Kingdom - UK specific ambulance site, involved closing other pages such as "List of UK Ambulance Services" for comprehensive encyclopaedic page
 * Endurance GB - UK equestrian body
 * Equine dentistry - major missing topic
 * ETHANE - The Emergency Service protocol
 * Exeter Arena - Created to close redlink out
 * Exeter City Fire Brigade - created as daughter from Exeter Theatre Fire
 * Exeter Theatre Royal fire - article about UK'd deadliest ever building fire
 * Five freedoms - animal welfare article
 * FSCTE Manston - MOD Central Fire Training School
 * Former UK Ambulance Services - Addresses changes created by ambulance service restructure
 * Francis Foster (comedian) - host of Triggernometry
 * Gammon (meat) - mmmmmm, pork
 * Gas safe register - The UK gas engineer approval scheme
 * Geoff Billington - British show jumper
 * Guy Williams (equestrian) - British equestrian
 * HMS Express (1874) - close out redlink from Exeter Theatre Fire
 * Hawkmoor Hospital - former sanatorium in Lustleigh
 * Hawley Hospital - linked hospital to Hawkmoor
 * Heavitree hospital - Exeter hospital
 * Heavitree isolation hospital - Former Exeter hospital
 * Honeylands - Former Exeter hospital
 * Hundatorra - deserted medieval village on Dartmoor
 * Hunter's Tor, Lustleigh Cleave - Tor on Lustleigh Cleave
 * Independent Ambulance Association - trade association for ambulance providers in England
 * Inset day - Was looking for information, and couldn't find it, so created it
 * King Edward's Place - childrens' activity centre
 * Knurr and spell - historic game that i heard about, so wrote an article!
 * Kursaal (amusement park)
 * Lewes Bonfire - Created article from redirect page
 * List of foxhound packs of the United Kingdom - Following extensive work on Fox hunting
 * List of South East Coast Ambulance Service stations - Created to move information clutter from main article
 * Louise Skelton - British equestrian
 * Lustleigh - A Devon village close to my heart
 * Lustleigh Cleave - natural feature in Lustleigh
 * Lustleigh May Day - village event
 * Lustleigh Show - village event
 * Marshwood Castle - to close out redlink from Lustleigh
 * Metropolis Management and Building Acts Amendment Act 1878 - daughter article for Exeter Theatre Fire
 * Metropolitan Building Act 1855 - daughter article for Exeter Theatre Fire
 * Mounted Games Association of Great Britain - member of the British Equestrian Federation
 * NHS ambulance services
 * Newton Abbot power station - former Devon power station
 * Newton Bushell Turnpike Trust - builders of the A382
 * Operational Research CONsultancy - The targeting system used to measure the performance of UK ambulance trusts
 * Oval Raceway - Local motor racing circuit
 * Pain stimulus - Medical knowledge
 * Paraveterinary workers in Australia
 * Paraveterinary workers in Belgium
 * Paraveterinary workers in Denmark
 * Paraveterinary workers in France
 * Paraveterinary workers in Ireland
 * Paraveterinary workers in Italy
 * Paraveterinary workers in Japan
 * Paraveterinary workers in New Zealand
 * Paraveterinary workers in Norway
 * Paraveterinary workers in South Africa
 * Paraveterinary workers in Sweden
 * Paraveterinary workers in Switzerland
 * Paraveterinary workers in Thailand
 * Paraveterinary workers in Turkey
 * Patient's Charter - NHS charter of service
 * Piggy French - British eventing competitor
 * Police vehicles in the United Kingdom - Created after work on Police car
 * Police vehicles in Belgium
 * Pre 2006 NHS ambulance services - Created after major changes to EMS in the UK when trust boundaries changed, created article to capture old structure
 * Primley House - Created along with work on Paignton Zoo and Herbert Whitley
 * Primley Sceptre - First UK crufts champion
 * RAF Booker - Created with sketchy detail, so needs to expand
 * RAF Chailey
 * RAF Manston - Where I used to be an air cadet (created article from a redirect page)
 * RAF Pocklington - Didn't have an article, and i thought it deserved one...
 * Resuscitation Council (UK) - The UK governing body for resus protocols
 * Richborough Energy Park - At Richborough Power Station near where I grew up
 * Robert Pople - Exeter Mayor
 * Robertson's - Food brand i used to work on, now discontinued
 * Roger Beynim - Exeter Mayor
 * Rowland Glave Saunders - Exeter Mayor
 * Royal International Horse Show - equestrian show at All England Jumping Course at Hickstead
 * Sarah Wilkinson - former NHS chief exec
 * Sheriff of Exeter - Exeter position
 * South of England Show - Local agricultural show
 * Spindles Farm - Detail on major animal cruelty case
 * Stover Country Park - Local destination
 * Sussex Police Air Operations Unit
 * Sutreworde - deserted medieval village in Lustleigh
 * Tail lift - Created as a stub, but hope to expand it. Obviously should have an article, but not a subject expert!
 * Template:Caduceus confusion summary - A short article part intended to harmonise text between Caduceus and Rod of Asclepius and link on to main article
 * The Great Bovine Pestilence - from work on Hundatorra
 * The Horse Whisperer (book) - famous book without a page!
 * The House That Moved - Exeter landmark and one of Europe's oldest buildings
 * The Romany Rye (play) - daughter of Exeter Theatre Royal fire
 * Thomas Blackall - Notable historic Devon person
 * Triggernometry (podcast) - popular podcast
 * Veterinary medicine in the United Kingdom - sensible split/merge of vet, veterinary surgeon
 * Veterinary medicine in the United States - fixing global problems with veterinarian
 * West of England Eye Infirmary - former Exeter hospital
 * Whipton Barton - former Exeter manor
 * Whipton Hospital - Exeter hospital
 * William Prouz - Historic Exeter figure
 * William de Widworthy - historic Devon figure
 * Wonford House Hospital - Exeter hospital
 * Woolstore Theatre - small theatre in Wiltshire
 * Wycombe Air Park - The link between RAF Booker and British Airways flying club!

Fox hunt articles

 * Albrighton Hunt
 * Albrighton Woodland Hunt
 * Ashford Valley Hunt
 * Atherstone Hunt
 * Crawley and Horsham Hunt
 * Old Surrey Burstow and West Kent Hunt
 * Southdown and Eridge Hunt
 * South Devon Hunt

Rugby articles

 * Sussex Rugby Football Union
 * Sussex Spitfire 1
 * London 2 South East
 * London 2 South West
 * London 3 South East

Nav Templates I made

 * Template:UKPower
 * Template:UnderwaterDiving
 * Template:Rugby Union in Sussex
 * Template:British Equestrian Federation

Pages I made major contribution to (main or second contributor)

 * Aerial work platform - Overhauled this article, removing how-to and restructuring the article to improve readability dramatically. Also cut out a lot of duplication
 * Airway management - Added detail and restructured article
 * All England Jumping Course at Hickstead - Restructure and split off daughter articles for two main shows
 * Amateur Transplants - UK comedy band
 * Ambulance - Made major edits to this (about 80% of the article written or re-written), in order to make it in to an excellent resource article. Included splitting out country specific information
 * Artificial respiration - Major overhaul, including bringing in stubs from CPR Mask and Face shield
 * August Bank Holiday - about the day
 * Automated external defibrillator - Added detail and tidied the article up to separate more from Defibrillation
 * AVPU - Added detail to this, making it no longer a stub (IMHO)
 * Bandage - Restructured to make better base for expansion
 * Battenburg markings - Overhauled this fairly new article, and uploaded images I created to illustrate
 * Bed rest - Merged with 'Bedrest' in to a single article, and added additional citations and tidy up
 * Bleeding - Rewrote large sections of this article, and added sections on types of bleeding cause
 * British Association for Immediate Care - This article was on the verge of a speedy delete after creation, but I rescued it to be a good article start
 * British Dressage - UK governing body for dressage
 * British Eventing - UK governing body for eventing
 * British Horse Society - Restructure
 * British Red Cross - Created structure and major copy editing
 * Buckland Beacon - Devon landmark
 * C. J. Phipps - Theatre designer and cause of Exeter Theatre Royal fire
 * Caduceus - Major rewrite to this article to clear up ambiguity around usage (and overlap with rod of asclepius)
 * Cardiopulmonary resuscitation - Added a lot of info, restructured and added loads of references
 * Caroline Pratt - British equestrian
 * Cecil Torr - noted Devon antiquarian
 * Choking - Major additions to this article. removal of lots of how to, and merged abdominal thrusts in
 * Colson's - Exeter department store
 * County Ground Stadium - Former Exeter stadium
 * Defibrillation - Instigated merge with Defibrillator, and managed merge of two articles together to create one much better article with the support of other regular editors
 * Devon Air Ambulance - Asked to look at this by another EMS task force editor, added full inline citation and copy edited
 * Dressing (medical) - Structured article for expansion
 * Edward Whitley (politician) - father of Herbert Whitley
 * Emergency
 * Emergency action principles - Was entirely POV and instruction guide focused, and also entirely based on medical emergencies. 100% rewrite to make more encyclopaedic and more general
 * Emergency medical services - Tough challenge involving an almost total rewrite of a US focused article to reflect a global view
 * Emergency service - This was a very patchy article containing a list added to randomly, and some sub sections which weren't strictly relevant here. Now structured in to core, secondary and civil emergency services
 * Emergency vehicle equipment - Rearranged the structure to try and make this not only global, but add a technical edge
 * Emergency vehicle lighting - Complete overhaul, rewrite and significant addition of extra information and citations.
 * Eyre Massey Shaw first chief of London Fire Brigade
 * Fire - Restructured section on classifying fires
 * Fire apparatus - Following heavy work on police car and ambulance, i overhauled fire apparatus. Clearly separated out types of apparatus to distinguish for the lay reader
 * Fire prevention - Added table comparing European and US fire classfication systems
 * First aid - Quite a stubby article, so added lots of info and Wikilinks
 * First aid kit - Worked on article to try and make clear distinctions between types and bring some structure
 * Fox hunting - Very disjointed article with a lot of repetition and POV, tidied up and started adding much needed citations
 * Frances Helen Prideaux - pioneering female doctor
 * Geoff Billington - British equestrian
 * Glasgow coma scale - Copy editing and tabulating main features
 * Herbert Whitley - founder of Paignton Zoo
 * Horse teeth - Major overhaul
 * Hugh Wood (landowner)
 * John Blackaller - Devon historic figure
 * Kelly Mine, Devon - mine in Lustleigh
 * Kent Air Ambulance - Copy editing and best practice from other air ambulance articles
 * Kent International Airport - Airport on the site of RAF Manston (see above)
 * Lewes Bonfire - annual celebration
 * Lifeguard - Complete rewrite of Lifeguard article as it was not a single coherent view, but a collection of statements which didn't really link to together, and contained a lot of WP:OR
 * Man versus Horse Marathon
 * Mayor of Exeter - converted from list to article
 * Miles Thomas - former Morris motors managing director
 * Monty Roberts - Significant improvements to article
 * Moretonhampstead - Devon village
 * NHS Digital - former UK NHS body
 * Natural horsemanship - Complete rewrite of POV and OR article
 * Nitrous oxide and oxygen - Complete rewrite and move away from focus on Entonox, which is a trade name. Added pictures (as gallery below).
 * Nuffield Press - former Morris company
 * Oropharyngeal airway - Overhaul on this article, including merging Guedal Pattern airway article in to it
 * OPQRST - Restructured to make it more readable and moved first person voice. Good basis for more expansion here
 * Oxygen therapy - Complete rewrite and restructure of this article
 * Paignton Zoo
 * Police car - Was a dreadful article, all split by country twice! Wrote significant amount of text to bring global and generic perspective
 * Police dog - Add much needed citations and some clean up
 * Police van - merged with colloquial article 'paddywagon' and edits
 * Prestcold - historic Morris company
 * Princess Royal Hospital, Haywards Heath - Sussex hospital
 * RAF Membury - detail of what is now a motorway services
 * RAF Pocklington - former RAF airbase
 * RHM - Added lots of company info while I worked there
 * River Bovey - Devon river
 * River Teign - Devon river
 * Rod of Asclepius - Restructured this article to make it easier to read, and adding additional information to separate from Caduceus
 * Rollkur - a controversial technique in horse training
 * Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital - Exeter hospital
 * Scott Mills - Radio 1 DJ - restructured and turned it in to more encyclopaedic article
 * Shire Horse - Major article overhaul, adding additional information and references
 * Simon says - Article overhaul, split out DAB page (Simon says (disambiguation))
 * Smelling salts - Changed stubby unreferenced article in to new structure with strong initial references
 * Star of life - added major information to this article, including explanatory picture
 * Stover Country Park - Devon attraction
 * Them There - UK acting collective, converted from previous informal name
 * Simon Farnaby
 * Mathew Baynton
 * Martha Howe-Douglas
 * Jim Howick
 * Laurence Rickard
 * Ben Willbond
 * Trailwalker - annual fundraising walk
 * William Hurst (MP) - Exeter MP and mayor

Pages I watch and edit

 * Cardiac arrest
 * Star of Life
 * Bag valve mask
 * Paramedic
 * Medical emergency
 * Emergency management
 * Opqrst
 * Natural disaster

Fair use images i've added

 * File:Cd ireland.jpg
 * File:Ilcor logo.gif
 * File:Resuscouncil flash.gif
 * File:RAF Manston.jpg
 * File:Edfenergy logo.gif
 * File:SPlogo.gif

My awards
Wow, I actually got a barnstar!

To-do list

 * Simon says
 * Knurr and Spell