User:Fayenatic london

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Hi, I live in London, UK, and even here there are Fayenatics -- i.e. fans of Faye Wong, a singer from China with a remarkable voice. Anyone who loves her scat singing album Restless is a real Fayenatic.

It was in order to edit Faye's article here that I registered as a Wikipedian in early 2006, but I have since broadened out into a thoroughly generalist editor. I work on some subjects of personal and professional interest, many that are not my own area but where I can figure out what's what, and others of merely passing interest where I see a need that I can fill.

Origin and destination

This user is a Christian.

If you want to know what's most important to me, you could start here.

In real life, I do some Bible teaching in my spare time, but while I'm editing Wikipedia I work hard to be objective from a neutral point of view. I hope that no-one could tell from my edits what particular denomination or theology I might identify with. If there has been notable criticism of a person or body, I will include/restore it in Wikipedia, regardless of whether the subject is "on the same side" as me.

Wikipedia activity

Faye Wong is the page that I have edited most, and would like to help get it up to GA quality. I also wikified the article on Wang Chieh, another superb singer.

I have a natural gift as a proofreader, and whatever I spot, I fix. That means in practice that I'm not very focussed!

I am among the 900 most active editors on Wikipedia.

I have Reviewer status, and on 19 January 2011 my new pages became autopatrolled (I hadn't realised I had made enough pages, but that credibility took account of the articles that I created as disambiguation pages or splits). Despite offers to nominate me I never bothered applying to be an Administrator, as I was having too much fun just editing, but as of February 2012 watch this space...

Portfolio

Here are some examples of my work.

New sections

• Faye Wong#Concerts

New articles

• Solomon Male, an interesting person whom I first read about in a magazine
• Biblical Creation Society (I hope you find it neutral; I hadn't guessed what a fight I'd have on my hands from an undisclosed-POV deletionist, but in the end he helped to improve the article considerably)
• After that I created articles on (less controversial but still notable) bodies that provide and regulate social housing: Tenant Services Authority  •   Homes and Communities Agency  •   Places for People  •   Circle Anglia
• Phil Chang  •   Li Lingyu  •   Li Lili  •   Nisha Pillai  •   Gaétan Siew  •   Nassima el Hor  •   George Gammon Adams  •   Boyanka Angelova  •   Barry Mason (cyclist) •   Sandra Jordan  •   Michael Woodford (executive)
• Restless (Faye Wong album)  •   Harmony (Sa Dingding album)  •   Moby Dick (1998 miniseries)
• Calypso Carol  •   I Have Decided to Follow Jesus  •   Text roulette  •   Inversion (artwork)  •   Production babies
• Suicide bidding  •   Charitable Incorporated Organisation
• Ancient Order of United Workmen  •   Leonard Curtis  •   Tasmanian Land Conservancy  •   Troxy  •   Lindley Library
• Street pastors  •   Christian Action Research and Education
• South African Conciliation Committee  •   Conference on Indians in the Americas  •   Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts  •   King Edward Memorial Park
• London & Regional Properties  •   HC-One  •   United House
• Accountancy Age  •   Building Design
• June 2010 United Kingdom budget (thought I'd have a go at a current event; I set up the article in advance, and it worked nicely as other editors let me do the main updating just after the speech -- don't we all hate edit conflicts!)  •   2011 United Kingdom budget

Expanded from stubs

• Gayle Williams  •   Zakaria Zubeidi  •   Michael Perry (hymnwriter)  •   Na Ying  •   Stephen Haddrill  •   Payments Council
• Jahaziel  •   Jehu (prophet)

Added sources and expanded/improved significantly

• Fraser's Hill  •   Bedder  •   P.S. Longer Letter Later  •   Refugee and Migrant Justice
• Patrick (shoe company)  •   Vantis  •   Ajax (cleaning product)  •   Decent Homes Standard
• Shepherds Friendly Society  •   Ancient Order of Foresters  •   Independent Order of Foresters
• Millennium Mills (in collaboration with 2 other editors)

Rewrote from deletable self-promotion to fairly good articles

• Greg London  •  Gregory Henriquez‎

New lists

• Tabulated lists replacing deleted categories: List of Star Trek production staff  •   List of Star Trek composers and music (subsequently expanded with an article on the film themes)  •   List of animals featuring external asymmetry
• List of one-eyed creatures was also to listify a category, but I had mainly populated it myself. What does it say about us that about 50 people a day look at this page?

Rescued from proposed deletion by improving somewhat

• Category:Fictional females
• Christian Concern For Our Nation  •   Dunwich Dynamo  •   YesAsia
• The Ace Cafe  •   He Lives‎  •   Empty vessel‎ (that one's still not great)  •   Fusion (student movement)

Articles for Deletion

Although I sometimes turned a deletionist tide, e.g. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Renee Williams (person), I used to find AfD annoying or depressing, so I generally steered clear of it. Now I recognise that nominations are generally made in good faith to implement sensible policies which improve the quality of Wikipedia, and I occasionally nominate articles for deletion.

Merging

• Judaism in Africa into African Jews
• "See no evil" into Three wise monkeys
• Individual song articles into Songs from Les Misérables, rescuing worthwhile content from deletion
• Industrial and Provident Society with a differently-capitalised article
• List of games in Star Trek - this merged article was described as "very good work" at AfD, an early pat on the back for me.
• List of Star Trek animals  •   List of Star Trek materials

Splitting

• Bayat into Bayat (name) and Bayat (disambiguation)
• Likewise, Patrick, Giles, Nathan, Zack, Woods ...

Copy editing

E.g. Jean Rustin, Sara, Chhibramau, List of Arabic names, GEICO, a school, Singapore, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Mary Dyer

Disambiguating links

• Most new inbound links for Nike are intended for Nike, Inc. I'm always looking for ways to reduce future maintenance, so I supported a proposal to rename that page, but it failed to gain consensus. So, it keeps needing to be re-done as more bad links get written.
• Zechariah was a big project -- over 250 edits -- as Zechariah, Zachariah and Zacharias were articles about different people that used to be differentiated only by spelling, and a lot of inbound links were incorrect.
• There were over 2,000 links to Catholicism but in most cases the intended link is Roman Catholic Church. Sometimes I work my way through another page of them and change the link where the latter is intended. For the record, I have no vested interest in the matter.

Categories

• On 20 March 2007 I finished creating a hierarchy to organise the articles within Category:Christian martyrs by era and by major branches of the church. (This has since been further sub-divided by others.)
• I've also enjoyed depopulating the once-bloated Category:Star Trek, creating new sub-categories or lists (see above).
• After Category:Fictional children survived a discussion at WP:CFD, I set up Category:Fictional children by medium and most of its sub-categories.
• I've set up various categories for lists including Category:Entertainment lists by franchise, the contents of which are mostly also my work.
• I particularly enjoy participating at WP:CFD. It's very satisfying to find a creative way to balance different policies and precedents while making the encyclopedia easier to navigate and understand.

Templates for category pages

• I've created templates to help to manage, populate and link category pages for subjects outside my own areas of interest, including Template:Balletdecade, Template:FictionSetDecade and Template:Adult model.

WikiProjects

	This user participates in WikiProject Anthroponymy.

Cat	This user is part of WikiProject Categories, which aims to improve article categorization on Wikipedia.

Others that interest me – and to which I contribute from time to time – are:

• Wikipedia:WikiProject proposed deletion patrolling
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Red Link Recovery
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Bible
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Christianity
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Christianity
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Chinese-language entertainment

Milestones

On 14 December 2006 I passed the milestone of 500 edits. A month later I passed 1,000 in main (article) space, partly because I discovered categories! On 27 Jan 2007 I started using Auto Wiki Browser to help me do link/category corrections more quickly (although I've hardly used it since, as it doesn't run on the computers at work or at home). The same day I also passed the milestone of 1,000 unique articles edited, fixing new inbound links for Nike.

I just fell short of 1,000 total edits in the month of Jan 2007 alone. Then, after an unbroken 71 days of constructive edits, I forced myself to take my first Wikibreak on 4 Feb 2007, which was a good idea.

I passed 3,000 edits in mainspace on 21 April. After that I slowed down a bit, making fewer minor edits. I was still editing every day except when on holiday, and passed 4,000 on 17 August 2007, and 5,000 on 3 November 2007. On 15 October 2008 I was categorising lists of Indian politicians when I passed 10,000 edits to articles; at that date my total edits were over 14,000.

October 2008 was the first month in which I made over 1,000 edits, although that included a lot of similar edits to category pages.

I've been given six barnstars (I left them on my talk page and its archives), picked up my first DYK in January 2009 and had my user page vandalised in February 2009 -- I felt that I must have arrived!

I collected a few more DYKs in 2010, and passed 30,000 total edits including 20,000 to articles, but became rather more patchy in my editing habits. I'm still highly active, but can have a gap of a few days without feeling funny.

I had a moment of modest excitement in July 2011 when I realised that the person who had reverted one of my edits, which I admit was only indirectly and subtly cited at the time, was none other than Jimbo Wales.

On 10 August 2011 I joined the list of the 1,000 most prolific editors on Wikipedia (based on cumulative number of edits). It was on the day of the English Wikipedia blackout that I moved up into the top 900, although I spent that day helping out at Simple. I think Production babies was my first new article to make it into WP:DYKSTATS, that same week in 2012.

	This user strives to maintain a policy of neutrality on controversial issues.

	This editor is a WikiGnome.

	This user is a WikiFairy.

	This user repairs links to disambiguation pages.

	This user has autopatrolled rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify)

40,000+	This user has made over 40,000 contributions to Wikipedia, over 25000 of which were to articles.

Some other interests

	This user just LOVES to cycle!

	This user is of multiple ancestries.

	This user lives in London.

	This user listens to World Music

fan-3	This user loves Faye Wong.

	This user appreciates progressive rock.

	This user is from the planet Earth.

STAR TREK	This user is a fan of Star Trek.	ST

Dr. Who	This user has been a Doctor Who fan since the Second Doctor.	2nd

5	This user has set foot in 5 continents of the world.

	This user has visited 10 of the 50 United States.	10

This user enjoys reading anything.

Places to find work

• Special:OldReviewedPages - pages with pending changes
• User:DumbBOT/ProdSummary
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion#Current discussions
• Wikipedia:Categories for discussion#Current discussions
• Special:Uncategorizedcategories
• Category:Merge by month

Tools

• Template:Otheruses
• User:Xiner
• User:Good_Olfactory/CFD - manual list of CFD precedents
• Special:Search/intitle: - append search term
• Cite web using archived version: {{cite web |url= |title= |accessdate= 2012-02-12 |author= |date= |work= |publisher= |archiveurl= |archivedate= 2012-02-12 }}
• Just add WebCitation.org link: {{WebCite|url= |date= |title=Copy at AllAfrica.com }}
• Just add archive.org link: {{Wayback|url= |title= |date= }} (format: yyyymmddtttttt)
• Auto-breaking columns: {{Div col |cols=2}} {{Div col end}}
• Easy columns: {{top}}  • {{mid}}  • {{bottom}}
• More columns: {{col-begin}}  • {{col-4}}  • {{col-4}}  • {{col-4}}  • {{col-4}}  • {{col-end}}
• MetaWikiPedia:Interwiki map
• User:R. Baley/Free photo essay
• Reference generator
• Category intersection
• Tactful advice on copyright