User:Phantomsteve

About Me
I live in Croydon, England.

England is awesome

I was a primary school teacher for 15 years, but now work as a security officer. Amongst my previous jobs was that of being a security officer at Battersea Dogs and Cats Home.

I have used the English Wikipedia for research, and joined on the 25th May 2005, when I wanted to add to the entry on Thornton Heath to update the information about the Pond!

I received my first vandalism on this page on 27th July 2009 - from an IP whose edits I had reverted for presumed vandalism. I'm guessing that shows that I was right about it being vandalism!

On this Wikipedia, I am an admin. I used to use the account creation request interface to help create new accounts on Wikipedia, but have not done so in a long time, due to family and work commitments eating into my time! I also like to answer questions on the Help Desk (although these days this is pretty infrequent) and have been known to on the IRC #wikipedia-en-help channel. I was also an Oversighter from 27th August 2010 to 4th May 2011 - I asked for the Oversight permission to be removed from my account, as due to work and family commitments, I cannot spend the time working on Oversight.

General

 * My "Deletions" contributions (articles tagged with CSD, PRODed or xfD'd)
 * My "RfA/B" contributions
 * My Page Protection Requests
 * My RfA standards
 * My admin actions

My work on Wikipedia
(Both as of 27 April 2010)
 * Bold indicates that I have been the main (or one of the main) contributors.
 * An asterisk next to the article name indicates that I have been the only contributor.


 * Please note that the diffs shown are between the version immediately before I started expanding the article and my final edit in the time period. Other editors may have made edits during the same period.

Recognition on Wikipedia
These are based on the results obtained at 's tool on toolserver. Thee script does not count deleted edits, so these milestones may change if pages I have edited get deleted or merged. Tangotango's account has expired, until it is renewed the tool is temporarily unavailable.

Tools

 * SUL utility (...for me)
 * Magnus's Wiki To Do Tool - find a random article, and fix the identified problems!
 * Daniel's Category Intersect - find for articles in two common categories
 * Magnus's CatScan 2
 * Magnus's PersonData generator
 * Pietrodn's Intersect Contribs - find out what articles two specified users have both edited.
 * Template Filler - for ISBNs, URLs plus other specialised citations
 * MzMcbride's Wikistalk - find articles edited by up to 10 specified editors
 * Magnus's Make Ref
 * LegoKTM's Ref Links - generate a ref citation from a URL

To do - when I get the time

 * National Consumer Council - add info to Consumer Focus about history, etc
 * William Stanley (inventor) - add info from Inwards; try for FA

Maintenance tasks and articles that can be improved

 * Database reports (various)
 * As of
 * Recent Changes
 * Short Pages
 * Category needed
 * Deadend Pages
 * Dusty articles
 * Articles for Deletion
 * Articles lacking in-text citations
 * Articles lacking sources
 * List of new users
 * Deletion Log
 * New User contributions
 * Candidates for speedy deletion
 * Wikiquette alerts
 * Recent changes patrol
 * New pages patrol
 * Admin's Noticeboard
 * ANI
 * Requests for Comment
 * Wikipedians looking for help
 * New contributors' help page
 * Help Desk

Other Stuff

 * User:Phantomsteve/Interesting essays and humour

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