User:Thryduulf

About me
I am a man from the United Kingdom, I currently live on the Isle of Dogs, London, England

I have been a Wikipedian since 26 December 2004 and an administrator since 2 June 2005.

I was an administrator at the Wikimedia Commons from 10 December 2005, and at Wiktionary from 6 August 2007 until 21 July 2021, although these have now lapsed due to inactivity policies on those projects.

From May to August 2014 I was employed by Wikimedia UK to help deliver Wikimania 2014 in London. See User:Chris McKenna (WMUK) for my contributions as a staff member.

I am not User:Thrydwulf.

How to contact me

 * 1) My talk page

I use different email addresses for different purposes. Please read /Contact before sending me an email.

About my username
My user name is Anglo-Saxon (rather than Scandinavian as has been suggested) and has the following story behind it: Ages (years) ago a new forum was set up for fans of history and archaeology, because some members of an existing forum were sick of all the off-topic postings (the new forum is now sadly defunct, the original one still remains). For some reason the regulars all chose historical names, principally Roman. The Romans have never been a particular interest of mine, and wanting to be a bit different I decided to go with an Anglo-Saxon name (I'm English, btw). I searched the net for Anglo-Saxon names, and found a site (I've not been able to find this online now) with a huge list of them, I browsed the list and decided I liked the look of the name Thryduulf, and so I chose that as my username. I've used it intermittently since. My other (more regular) username is Awkward42 (because I am awkward, and as Awkward was taken at hotmail, I chose Awkward42 (42 being The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything). User:Awkward42 on here is also me, see below and the Awkward42 user page.

Chiswick Chap kindly looked up the meaning of "Thryduulf" in Old English and it means "Wolf-strength".

Typos & Spelling errors
I make typos and spelling errors frequently. Please feel free to correct any that you spot, including on my user page and in any comments I post. However, please note that I write in British English, normally using -ise spellings - colour and realise are not spelling errors! (Liscence on the other hand is a spelling error I make frequently, this should be corrected to licence). See American and British English differences. Occasionally I might spell something intentionally wrong to make a point, but this should be obvious from the context.

Dual Licensing
Notes: This applies to my text contributions to all wikipedias, except as noted below. Any work in progress sub-pages in my userspace (e.g. /geonamesongs) are dual licenced in to the public domain as above unless it is detailed differently below.

Exceptions:
 * 1) This page is not public domain.
 * 2) My talk page is not public domain.
 * 3) User:Awkward42's page and associated talk page are not public domain.
 * 4) My /Contact page is not public domain.

Images: All images that I upload will be individually licensed, check the image description page for details. I have lots of photographs on my website. If you want to use one of these images here or elsewhere, please email me at cmckenna@sucs.org. By default I retain copyright on all my photos on that site, but in most cases I will dual licence (usually to a Creative Commons licence) if they can be of use here or elsewhere.

Awkward42: Everything above applies to User:Awkward42 with no exceptions. -Thryduulf

last updated: 18:01, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Awkward42
Awkward42 is my legitimate alternate account (see WP:SOCK). As of December 2018 I use it for:
 * Testing.
 * When I need to see something from the perspective of a non-admin.
 * When on mobile and other (potentially) insecure connections.

Chris McKenna (WMUK)
From May to August 2014 I was employed by Wikimedia UK to help deliver Wikimania 2014. I used user:Chris McKenna (WMUK) for edits made in my capacity as a staff member (mostly to Commons and the Wikimania 2014 wiki) while continuing to use Thryduulf for personal editing.

Chris McKenna
I registered this account to prevent it being registered by someone else and used to impersonate me for any reason. I do not intend to use it for editing. I do not control the similarly named user:Chris Mckenna (with a lowercase "k").

Thryduulf2
This account was created to test whether account names of this pattern are permitted by the similarity detection algorithm. It will not be used for editing.

Doppelgängers
Before new account names were subject to spoofing checks, it was possible for anyone to register an account with a deceptively similar username. To avoid this I created several Doppelgänger accounts, e.g. user:ThryduuIf. I don't remember all of them now (they were created in 2005, it is now 2014), but they are all marked as doppelgängers, are never used and some (all?) are blocked from editing anyway.

Recommended places
These are a few highlights of Wikipedia that I recommend you pay a visit to
 * User:Silversmith/The Fabdabulous Wikipedians page long since deleted
 * Department of Fun
 * Ignore all rules is for uncommon situations - a very short essay I wrote

Shortcuts
These are my shortcuts to pages I visit frequently, and whose titles I don't seem to remember
 * Category:Articles that need to be wikified
 * WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types
 * Special:Allpages/user:Thryduulf - all the subpages of my userspace (otherwise I'll never remember them all)
 * Special:Allpages/user talk:Thryduulf - ditto for talk pages.

Work in progress
These are articles that I'm working outside of the main article space (e.g. trial versions of proposed changes).
 * None currently

Photo galleries
These are galleries of photographs that I have uploaded to Wikipedia or Wikimedia Commons. More galleries are on my website, see above for copyright information regarding these.
 * /Wikimeets/London3
 * Gallery of my photographs I've contributed to the commons.

Useful stuff

 * templates to generate collapsible sections with multiple columns - User:Thryduulf/hidden columns top / User:Thryduulf/hidden columns mid / User:Thryduulf/hidden columns bottom. Feel free to use.
 * Code to show edit and edit source links without hover . Useful until is fixed. Thryduulf (talk) 15:50, 22 July 2013 (UTC)
 * How to upload screenshots of Wikipedia - does exactly what it says on the tin. Useful for bug reports.

Random stuff
I couldn't fit this stuff anywhere else!
 * /Country naming conventions pop-quiz answers Answers to the "pop quiz" at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (country-specific topics)
 * this is probably my greatest legacy here ;)
 * possibly my best word association, certainly the only one described as "Genius".

All times on this page are UK local time - Greenwich Mean Time (UTC±00:00) or British Summer Time (UTC+01:00) - unless specified otherwise.

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