User:Derek Andrews
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[edit] Currently working on
Tourism in Canada needs a major overhaul. Tourism in Nunavut, Tourism in the United States, Tourism in Malta, Cape Cod and Tourism in Brazil seem to offer some of the best models for an article like this.
[edit] Things to do
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Somerset/Cleanup listing
- New pages backlog
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Skysmith's list of missing articles
[edit] Research Tools
- British history online
- The Exeter Research and Institutional Content archive (ERIC)
- Hansard 1803-2005
- Images of England
- The Architectural Antiquities of the City of Wells By John Henry Parker
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[edit] Wiki Help
- Help:Wikitext_examples
- User:Derek Andrews/sandbox
- Wikipedia:Userboxes
- Template:GeoTemplate/doc
- Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Somerset
- Wikipedia:Requested pictures
- Wikipedia:Hatnotes
- {{gbmapping|ST756643}}
- {{dmoz|/Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/England/Somerset/Cheddar/|Cheddar}} details
[edit] Adding photos
- [[Image:'''Image name'''|thumb|'''Caption''']]
- <gallery>''image tags''</gallery> see Wikipedia:Gallery tag
- www.geograph.org.uk
- Wikipedia:Uploading images
- Category:Wikipedia image help
- Wikipedia:Extended image syntax
- Wikipedia:Media_copyright_questions#geograph.org.uk
[edit] Adding references
- <ref>{{cite book |last=Allsop |first=Niall |title=The Kennet & Avon Canal |year=1987 |publisher=Millstream Book |location=Bath |id=ISBN 0-948975-15-6 }}</ref>
- <ref>{{cite web | title= | work= | url=http: | accessdate=2008-11-01}}</ref>
- {{Reflist}}
- Wikipedia:Citation templates
- {{refimprove|talk=y|date=October 2008}}
- <ref name=smith>DETAILS OF REF</ref> ... <ref name=smith/>
Images of England Correct url format is http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=267501 (if url has 'search', this only works for logged-in users)
Use {{IoEentry|267501|Church of St Mary the Virgin}} Church of St Mary the Virgin
Chronicle Herald use WebCite with " | archiveurl = | archivedate = "
[edit] Quality Control
- Wikipedia:Cleanup resources / Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup
- Category:Wikipedia_1.0_assessments
- {{WikiProject UK Waterways | imageneeded=yes | mapneeded=yes | class=FA|A|GA|B|Start|Stub|Cat|List|NA | importance=Top|High|Mid|Low}}
- {{Fact|date=October 2007}}
- {{Uncategorized|date=May 2008}}
- {{Unreferenced|date=May 2008}}
- Category:Dispute templates
- Category:Neutrality templates
- {{LocateMeText}}
- {{LocateMeLong}}
- Wikipedia:Good article nominations
- {{inuse}}
- Wikipedia:WARN
[edit] New Page / New User issues
- Special:NewPages
- Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion
- Category:Wikipedia maintenance templates
- Category:Stub categories
- {{expert-subject|project name}} Project List
- Wikipedia:Notability
- Template:Articleissues
- Wikipedia:Your first article
[edit] Stats
[edit] Wiki Interests
My Wikipedia interests include canals and history.
I proposed the formation of Wikipedia:WikiProject Somerset because no one else had. I would like to see my home town of Wells promoted to Good Article status, so what are YOU waiting for? Get to it!
Pages I have started:
- Legging (canals)
- Lydney Canal
- Pidcock's Canal
- Soulanges Canal
- List of canal aqueducts in Great Britain
- List of canal locks in Great Britain
- King's Norton Stop Lock
- Atlantic Gateway
- Meare Pool
- Vicars' Close, Wells DYK march 2009
- Malthouse DYK March 17 2009
- Temple of Jupiter, Damascus
- John Horwood
Pages I have made major contributions too
- Henry Greathead got a DYK Nov 2008
- Portal:UK Waterways
- Millom
- Ponter's Ball Dyke
I made my 1000th Mainspace edit[1] on Monday 10 November 2008 by noting the patron of the Wilts & Berks Canal Trust.