User:Roundtheworld

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Starting by working on pages about the area around my birthplace, Hertford, UK, and my then adopted home, Rome, researching Waterford, Hertfordshire got me interested in stained glass and in particular in the stained glass artists of the Arts and Crafts Movement. I then contributed a few pages on British pacifism. I tried to improve the coverage of the works of the Brazilian writer Jorge Amado and the Portuguese writer José Maria de Eça de Queirós. In 2017 I moved to Cascais and worked on new articles about Portugal, including several on lighthouses, forts and neolithic sites, as well as on museums and other buildings in Cascais, neighbouring Lisbon and wherever my travels took me. In 2020 I joined Women in Red and have since spent much of my time working on articles about women, mainly those with a connection to Portugal, Brazil and Oceania. This alerted me to major gaps in the coverage of Papua New Guinea, which I tried to address in 2022-24.

I prefer starting new pages rather than spending a lot of time on existing ones, although if I spot spelling or grammatical errors I will normally attack them. My particular obsession is putting text into the past tense. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a newspaper. I began by hoping that the pages I created would be rapidly improved by others but in the absence of such a response have now given up bothering, so I guess that makes me a WikiSloth. However, sometimes there is a nice surprise with proof that little acorns can grow on Wikipedia. I started the article on Mary Lowndes with 2,900 bytes. It is now over 14,000.

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