User:West London Dweller

Username says it all really. I live in West London and have a technical background.

My contributions are likely to be sporadic, and what I know tends to be broad rather than in-depth.

I'll be doing random minor edits for format, spelling, Wikification etc and adding the (very) occasional article.

Contributing as WLD since 24 August 2004.

Usually making minor, rather than major contributions due to work commitments.

National language variation
For the avoidance of doubt: my preferred variant of English is so-called British English. Any articles I originate should use British English spellings, unless this conflicts with Wikipedia guidelines or policy (e.g. the article is on an American, Australian, New Zealand, Indian, South African etc. topic). Wikipedia guidelines are here.

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Links useful to me

 * User:West London_Dweller/sandbox
 * User:West London Dweller/Box room
 * User:West London Dweller/Gestating article (1) - Telephony Standards
 * User:West London Dweller/Gestating article (2) - List of Latin Abbreviations (rewrite)
 * User:West London Dweller/Gestating article (3)
 * User page

Articles I have originated or to which I have contributed 'significantly' i.e. not minor edits
Not meant as a bragging list - just here for ease of my personal reference.

AAL5

Asynchronous Transfer Mode

Baby transport

Banister Fletcher

Battle of Brentford (1016) (stub)

Baud

Bell 212A

Brentford

Brinkley stick

Britishism

Cable landing point

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Submarine_telecommunications_cables

Champagne (beverage)

Clip and scotch

Compound Document Format - kicked off stub.

Conformance mark

Delphi effect

Dishwasher

Dispensing chemist

Earth station (communications)

Fax

Flipped image

Flopped image

Flour Bomb

Golden Mile, Golden Mile (Brentford)

Hard water

Heidelberger Druckmaschinen

Ion exchange resin

Kilo

Lend-Lease

List of American English words not used in British English

List of British English words not used in American English

List of French phrases

List of device bandwidths

List of words having different meanings in British and American English

Measuring data throughput

Mean Opinion Score

Optician

Pocahontas

Retarder (mechanical engineering)

Segmentation and Reassembly

Shunt fault

Sterilization (microbiology)

Submarine communications cable

Submarine Branching Unit

Sun outage

Syon Abbey

Timeline of telescope technology

Uniform Office Format - kicked off stub.

V.34bis

Visby lenses

Wallis, Gilbert and Partners

Proposal for multiple editing boards and subsequent discussion at the Village pump
Moved into the box room, here. When my square tuits are sufficiently worn, I'll revisit it.

Dealing with Dead External Links
Dead external links

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However, if unsuccessful tag the link with dead link which will notify other editors that the link is dead and optionally provide a link to the Internet Archive. See Citing sources and Using the Wayback Machine.

This page is intended to be a clearing house for all such external links. If you make corrections to the source article to fix a broken link, please indicate so below to prevent a duplication of effort. Also use the following edit summary can help increase the awareness of the problem: