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Black Kite

The Black Kite (Milvus migrans) is a medium-sized bird of prey easily identifiable by its angled wing and distinctive forked tail. It is widely distributed through the temperate and tropical parts of Eurasia and parts of Australasia and Oceania, with the temperate region populations tending to be migratory.

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Bilby is really Adam Jenkins in disguise — I'm a lecturer in Information Systems at the University of South Australia, although my undergraduate and most of my postgraduate work was in philosophy. I'm interested in Fantasy and Science Fiction, Adelaide, Philosophy, Anime and a number of computing and Information Systems subjects — especially as regards Knowledge Management, which is my main area of academic study.

I tend to edit widely, as often I wish to improve articles because I see them as important for Wikipedia, rather than because I'm interested in the topic (although I have rather eclectic tastes and reasonably liberal sentiments). I have access to a number of good databases thanks to academia, so I'm not bad at referencing, and I'm always willing to give it a shot when asked. Generally I'll help wherever I can, and I particularly enjoy that feeling which comes from being useful. :) I've also got one of those new digital camera things, and I enjoy taking photos.

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The extent of my involvement in these articles varies — from major editing and almost complete rewrites, to simply adding references to an already excellent page or helping to establish notability. Drive-by-edits, however, where I add just a couple of references or make some small changes, don't make the list — if the article is here, I'm hoping to make some sort of significant input. I've listed them here mostly so that I can get quick access to them when required. I'm also listing the status of the articles, so that I can keep track, but this doesn't mean that I'm claiming credit for the status: it may simply be that it was already a good or featured article, but I added extra information here and there. Plus, the single coolest aspect of Wikipedia, from my perspective, is that articles are collaborative endeavors. :)

[edit] Active development

These are articles for which I'm actively editing or researching. This can take a while.

[edit] Recently completed

"Recently Completed" doesn't mean "now at Featured status" so much as "I don't think I can find anything else to add at the moment". These are articles which I feel I can put aside for a bit, unless I stumble across some extra sources with which to expand them further.

[edit] Future projects

The following articles are ones which I hope to work on in the future. My general policy is that I shouldn't vote to keep an article at AfD unless I'm also willing to help develop the article, (noting that it might not need my help), so some of these are ones which need work but survived AfD, and some are just articles which I'd rather like to work on when time permits.

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  • Episode: <ref name="">{{cite episode | title =  | episodelink =  | series =  | serieslink =  | airdate =  | season =  | number =  }}</ref>
  • Journal: <ref name="">{{cite journal | last =  | first =  | year =  | title =  | journal =  | volume =  | issue =  | pages =  }}</ref>
  • News: <ref name="">{{cite news | last =  | first =  | date =  | title =  | work =  | location =  | page =  }}</ref>
  • News (online): <ref name="">{{cite news | last =  | first =  | date =  | title =  | work =  | location =  | url =  | accessdate = 2 February 2012 }}</ref>
  • Web: <ref name="">{{cite web | last =  | first =  | date =  | title =  | work =  | url =  | accessdate = 2 February 2012 }}</ref>
  • Welcome: == Welcome! ==<br />{{subst:W-basic}}
  • Book (list): ''title'' (year) [[publisher]]: location [[International Standard Book Number|ISBN]] [[Special:BookSources/isbn|isbn]]


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