User:Pete Hobbs

What's in a username? "A rose/prose/nose by any other name would smell as sweet", et-hetera-setterer.. I'm a veteran pc-user who recently got tired of spotting errors on Wikipedia and decided to learn how to correct them, right at the same moment as a) wanting to identify a particular early steam locomotive seen on the Fernsehapparat, and b) wanting a sudden break from endless charitable web designing, magazine editing and typesetting.

If and when my interest in Wikipedia's surprisingly effective capabilities increases further (or declines!), I'll doubtless amend my "lo-file" profile accordingly. Until then, this'll have to do!

Contributor (+500 chars) to articles on

 * People:
 * John Braithwaite (engineer)
 * John Ericsson
 * Nils Ericson
 * William Lewis (chess player)
 * Hitler family
 * Geoffrey Jellicoe
 * Stephen Harriman Long
 * A. E. Matthews
 * Grandma Moses
 * Lothar Schmid
 * Margaret Scudamore
 * Merian family
 * Minnie Tittell Brune
 * Places:
 * List of Restoration candidates
 * Rotherhithe railway station
 * Wotton House, Surrey
 * Things:
 * Catch Me Who Can
 * Cousin
 * Davis Submerged Escape Apparatus
 * Derby cheese
 * Doomsday rule
 * Foster, Rastrick and Company
 * Fifteen Guinea Special
 * GWR Star Class
 * Lighthouse of Alexandria
 * List of fictional police detectives
 * Okta
 * Portrait of Vincent Nubiola
 * Sage Derby
 * Statue of Zeus at Olympia
 * Stockton and Darlington Railway
 * Works by Banksy damaged or destroyed
 * Volunteer Officers' Decoration
 * Yellowstone Expedition
 * Categories:
 * Category:Early steam locomotives

Starter of articles on

 * People:
 * None as yet...!
 * Places:
 * None as yet...!


 * Things:
 * None as yet...!
 * Categories:
 * None as yet...!

Talk back bites
The wikipedia community seem like a nice bunch of hundreds and thousands, post a talk note or enquiry and you almost always get a helpful reply with guidance etc. Almost always, but there are rare exceptions.
 * Talk:Mary Leakey. I'd described a dozen good reasons why a Mary Leakey article was (on her highlighted centenary) pretty poor. Had one unhelpful (albeit humorous) reply, but my posting did inspire someone else to improve the article a great deal almost immediately. So - talk is good.

Where to put a Sandbox userbox?
Right here for now. Apparently if I put a bracketed "My sandbox| " with my name substituted as a label, ie., it will enable others to view/check/comment on anything I test. Which might be a good thing, or might be a bad idea... not yet decided. But I'll put it here in readiness for potential use.

Having now created my first User sub-page, I need to access it. So: Special:Prefixindex/User:Pete Hobbs