User:SGBailey

Intro
It seems sensible to put info about me and about what I'm doing / hoping to do on wikipedia here. If you want to add praise / criticism / comment, could you do it on User talk:SGBailey please.

Info about me can be found on my personal website http://www.stocton.org and, since I may well go through long periods when I don't do anything here - even visit - I can be contacted by email on .

I suspect that my main contribution to wikipedia will be fixing others' spelling mistakes!

My interests include Go (board game), Fairport Convention, Jethro Tull, Folk music, Mathematical games, Maps, UK places.

-- Steve Bailey.

Pages I've created
Go proverb, Bad English, engineering and science contrasted, On Numbers and Games, Budgie, Flexography, Anilox, Sue Townsend, Kit Williams, Eddie Stobart, 1876 in music, 1879 in music, 1880 in music, 1870 in music, 1881 in music, 1882 in music, 1883 in music, 1885 in music, 1886 in music, 1887 in music, Cornish pasty, David Coulthard, List of international call prefixes, Seahenge, Flag fen, Edward German, Zola Budd, BLT, optical tweezers, digital sum, Bowood House, I spy, car game, Find the alphabet, Car numberplate game, Car cricket, FizzBuzz, Scissors (game), University of the Third Age, Stanley Baxter, Palfrey, barn dance, kaylee, kayleigh, kayley, CE mark, Godley (hundred), Pits (game), Josie Dew, Folk club, Hampton Court Palace Flower Show, Tatton Park Flower Show, Emma Maree Urquhart, Riverford, Yvonne Arnaud, Image:Oxford shark.jpg, Amal Movement, Bix (disambiguation), FLS, List of European Union directives, Coutts bank, Pippa Funnell, Mary King (equestrian), Nelson rules, Bruce Rowland (disambiguation), Island Games, Sanjay Shah, Three peaks yacht race, John Mason (diplomat), Wildlife Conservation Society, Family (band), Hann Münden, Hann Munden, Killer Su Doku, Eurotrash (TV show), British Geograph project, UL94, Stacey Moseley, Banba (album), Bleep and Booster, William Timym, George Sinclair (politician), Miyeegombyn Enkhbold, Windows Alt keycodes, Monthly events, 2006, Monthly events, 2005, The Cocktail Cowboy Goes It Alone, Nuts in May (rhyme), Sonja Kristina, Sonja Kristina Linwood, Federation of International Robot-soccer Association, Red Devils (Parachute Regiment), Wey South Path, Anne Golon, Ken Nicol, Oak apple, April 2006 in Britain and Ireland, Jessica Kürten, Endemol UK, Wanborough, Surrey, List of rivers in the Isle of Man, A264 road, A281 road, Monk's Gate, To be a pilgrim, Jason Lewis (adventurer), Richard Durrant, Simon West (disambiguation), Strip the willow, Peter Clarke (Children's Commissioner for Wales), Ferguson's Gang, KenKen, New Zealand standard for school stationery, Darren Kenny, Vancouver Airport Services, Shalford, Essex, Amy Spencer, Template:Flag Institute, Cello scrotum, European route E41

Diagrams
File:ProminenceDiagram.jpg

Pages (/topics) I've substantially altered
Surrey, Guildford, Nim, Electronic color code, List of motorways in the United Kingdom, Dots and Boxes, List of 'years in music', Phutball, Go (board game), Karlstad, Sunne, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Jeremy Taylor, James Stirling, Square root, Peg solitaire, List of people by name Fixing duplicates etc, Two-letter English word, Conway chained arrow, Dot product, Trigonometric identity, List of numbers, Laxey Wheel, Isle of Man, Electromagnetic shielding, Abingdon School, Honda Z, Danzas, DD Direct+

Pages I want to visit often
(aka Favorites - how I hate that spelling in MSIE for Britain!):


 * Special:Lonelypages
 * Village pump
 * Links_to_disambiguating_pages
 * Votes_for_deletion
 * My edits and those of 217.24.129.50

And other curiosities
 * Offline reports
 * Category:Wikipedia maintenance Note the leading colon in the link URL.
 * Today's featured article/July 29, 2024
 * Help:Template
 * User:Reuben List of people with same first and last name (2007-08-08)

Useful stuff that I've learnt about wikpedia recapped

 * &lt;nowiki&gt;...&lt;/nowiki&gt; can be useful
 * signs username and date/time
 *  is italic''
 *  is bold'''
 * External link title should use ==
 * County town lists use ''' even though strictly incorrect.
 * You can include HTML comments in the page, they are hidden from searches and only work at the start of a newline which breaks lists etc. There is one between the horizontal rule and "Useful" above.
 *  #REDIRECT Article name 
 *  Adopted orphan redirects for searching: Redirect article name 
 *   
 * chase
 * http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&q=site%3Aen.wikipedia.org++intitle%3AJanuary++2005+-intitle%3Asports
 * http://tools.wikimedia.de/~escaladix/larticles/larticles.php?user=SGBailey&lang=en
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Humanities&oldid=258885234#Phenomenological_life
 * WP:GL/MAP
 * Hide/Show
 * WP:GL/MAP
 * Hide/Show

Standard wiki code goes in the body.

Example (normal text before) and after.
 * Perl code

Test and Sub pages
User:SGBailey/Sandbox, User:SGBailey/Sandplate, User:SGBailey/Navigation.

Other wikipedia links

 * Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008_September_3 Results speak

I agree to multi-license all my contributions to any U.S. state, county, or city article as described below: