User:RexxS/Archive

I live in the West Midlands, England and was born on 27 April 1952. Although I studied Natural Sciences and the Electrical Sciences Tripos, I only worked for a year in the Electronics industry before becoming a teacher. After 24 years of teaching in Secondary schools (11-18+), I have spent my time since 1997 working on IT-related projects.

My main hobby is Scuba diving and I've been involved in instruction of recreational diving for well over 20 years to date as an SAA National Instructor.

Having looked at the Wikipedia articles on Scuba and related topics, I felt obliged to create an account to take part in improving the topic to the best of my abilities.

Lua

 * /Sandbox/Lua
 * Module:Sandbox/RexxS/SayHello

Helpful links
Citation templates

List of templates

List of formatting templates

(thanks to User:Keeper76 )

Grammar and Style Checklist

Manual of Style

Extended Image Syntax

How to fix bunched-up edit links

User:Shanes/Why tags are evil

Template:Uw-vandalism1

Awards

Welcome_template_table

WP:Administrator intervention against vandalism reason --~

Resources
Robert Wood's multi-lingual scuba dictionary

cite book


 * - Citation for Bennett and Elliott


 * - Citation for "Decompression Theory" in Bennett and Elliott


 * - Citation for "High Pressure Nervous Syndrome" in Bennett and Elliott


 * - Oxygen toxicity citation for Bennett and Elliott


 * - Citation for SAA Manual



WikiProject United States Public Policy/Assessment

IRC/Cloaks

Things to do

 * Recruit more active editors for WikiProject SCUBA
 * Diving regulator - still needs to distinguish between performance delta with depth and perf delta with cylinder press; ++ a lot more
 * Diving cylinder‎ - needs a US version of the breathing time calc
 * Nitrogen narcosis - may need to delete "acclimation" & "breathing techniques"
 * Scuba diving - proof-read again - there's a problem with organisation of sections
 * Find how to include pic without breaking the section in Diving cylinder‎
 * Ear clearing - expand - names of manoeuvres
 * Scuba set - Air cylinders
 * Diving suits - how they work
 * Ear clearing - sources
 * Isobaric counterdiffusion - fix the ambient pressure link when it arrives in Wiktionary as ambient pressure
 * Oxygen toxicity - revisit to copyedit as suggested by the GA review
 * Hyperoxia - rewrite in sub-page User:RexxS/Hyperoxia
 * Diving club - create over redirect
 * Diving center - create
 * Cold water diving - create
 * Investigate setting "ts_alternate_row_colors = true;" in skin.css
 * WikiProject United States Public Policy/Assessment/RexxS
 * WP:Manual of Style (accessibility) – Italic text
 * WP:MOS and WP:ACCESS "To avoid accessibility problems, headings should not normally contain links"
 * Help:Section: "An internal link in a section heading does not give complications in terms of section linking"

Subpages

 * /B-class assessment
 * /Cite multiple pages
 * /Accessibility


 * /DateTest
 * /Sandbox


 * /Editcounter
 * /monobook.js
 * /monobook.css

Geogre
Geogre was among the finest editors Wikipedia has known.

It seems to me a real pity that we don't do more to celebrate his contributions.

Instead the system tends to eradicate them by erosion. To me it is as if we had decided to place Michelangelo's David outside a factory in the acid rain.

It is, in some ways, worse to see how the author himself is being turned into a 'non-person'. The damnatio memoriae of Geogre is no more apparent than in.