User:Jjron
I am an educator and skilled amateur photographer from Australia, and have many interests, making a wide range of contributions to Wikipedia, but mainly focussing on image work. I started using Wikipedia way back in 2001 or 2002 when it was still pretty new. I created this account in 2005, but only started contributing in May 2006. Some of my photos were attached to articles by another (now retired) user for a while before I started contributing myself, and I have added many more since.
--jjron (talk) 13:29, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
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[edit] My contributions
My original photos were mainly taken using a Canon PowerShot A95, with several being promoted as Featured Pictures. I have since upgraded to Canon DSLRs which has allowed me to contribute images of higher quality and greater variety. While the vast majority of my images are taken using these cameras, I also periodically upload photos taken using other equipment as I have access to a considerable variety of cameras through my employment. After upgrading my cameras many more of my images were subsequently promoted as Featured Pictures, and I continue to contribute high quality images to the encyclopaedia.
Apart from the photos I help out with contributions where I can. I know bits and pieces about lots of things and am pretty good at finding information and picking up errors in articles. I am also rather good at tidying up bad grammar and spelling, and improving layouts. I quite enjoy researching, and either creating new articles or adding considerably to existing articles, but unfortunately I do not have a lot of time to do so due to real life commitments. So I pop up here and there looking to improve things in general. I also make the effort to introduce new contributors to Wikipedia, and when training new users or editing at work I may use an alternative account for privacy reasons; due to this I choose not to link these two accounts or mention this main account on the alternative account, but in the interests of averting claims of sockpuppetry I am happy to provide this information to other trusted users on a need-to-know basis. I have also notified the Arbitration Committee of the existence and identity of both accounts.
[edit] jjron's Image Gallery
My main area of work on Wikipedia is probably to do with contributing images. You can view a gallery of my image contributions in my image Gallery. I have my Gallery divided into a number of subpages which you can access from the Gallery mainpage or from here:
[edit] Featured Picture contributions
I am sporadically active at Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. I believe there are a number of issues to be resolved there still – some of my opinions leading me to take a six-month-plus break from late 2010 can be found here – and I would still like to see some action taken there to address some of these issues. However, following several requests from other users, I have returned to that project, although am not active to the extent I once was; the balance has improved somewhat though, with some previously disruptive editors currently inactive there.
[edit] My Featured Pictures
- I have had twenty-nine of my photos promoted to a Featured Picture. They are displayed below:
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Tulip at Floriade, Canberra -
Metung wharf, Metung, Vic -
Melbourne city panorama from Docklands, Vic -
Japanese Garden panorama, Cowra, NSW -
F-111 fuel dump -
Camel -
Hereford calf -
Lilac flower and leaves -
Broken Hill and Line of Lode Panorama, Broken Hill, NSW -
Eastern bearded dragon -
Brolga -
Royal spoonbill -
Eastern long-neck turtle camouflaged by algae -
Nectarine fruit development -
Common Grass-blue butterfly -
Australian Synchrotron -
Arborist felling a eucalyptus tree -
Nelligen, NSW across the Clyde River -
Mazda6 GG Classic Hatch -
Mazda6 GG Classic Hatch -
Bathing boxes on Melbourne's Brighton Beach, Vic -
Australia's Parliament House in Canberra, ACT -
Sand sculpting at the Dinostory Festival in Frankston, Vic -
Fishermen jigging off the historic Queenscliff Pier, Queenscliff, Vic -
Meat-eater ants (Iridomyrmex purpureus) working cooperatively to devour a cicada -
Robbie McEwen riding for Team Katusha, Geelong, Vic -
Motorcycle policeman, Geelong, Vic -
The Horn panorama, Mt Buffalo National Park, Vic -
Brian Nankervis at a live show in Melbourne -
St Kilda Town Hall
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[edit] Work on other's Featured Pictures
- I have had three of my nominations of other people's pictures that I uploaded to Wikipedia promoted to a Featured Picture:
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Governor Davey's (sic) Proclamation to the Aborigines (also edited prior to nom) -
Alice Manfield - Guide Alice, Mt Buffalo (heavily restored prior to nom) -
Longnose Saw shark - William Buelow Gould, c1832 (also minor edit prior to nom)
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- I have had seven of my nominations of other people's pictures promoted to a Featured Picture:
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Historic Flinders St Station, Melbourne -
Lillian Gish (also edited prior to nom) -
Sun Dogs (also edited prior to nom) -
Wayne Gretzky -
Bicolored Antbird -
Sikh pilgrim at Harmandir Sahib -
Grand Piano diagram
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- I have had twenty-one of my edits of other user's pictures promoted to a Featured Picture:
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Dried Seahorse -
Marmot -
Humpback Whales Feeding -
Gold dust day gecko -
Pancratium zeylanicum flower -
Chris Young at Wrigley Field -
The Trinity Nuclear Test, 1945 -
Mercury by Messenger Spacecraft -
Saddam Hussein at trial -
Eritrean Railway -
Shea Smith Quarterback -
Superb Fairy Wren -
Frieze of Parnassus -
Ty Cobb sliding -
Victorian mounted police -
Black rhinoceros -
Salt farmers, Thailand -
Semenova Ksenia, gymnast -
Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever -
Space Shuttle Discovery STS-120 launch -
Canon EOS 5D MkII
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[edit] Valued Pictures
- I had three of my photos and one nomination of another image promoted to a Valued picture. They are displayed below:
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Jeff Hardy -
Brown falcon -
Red Sand Garden, RBG, Cranbourne -
W. G. Grace (nomination)
[edit] Reference Desk contributions
I contribute to the Wikipedia Reference Desks on a semi-regular basis, tending to go in cycles where I spend a bit of time there, and then not for a while:
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- The Science Reference Desk most often.
- The Miscellaneous Reference Desk quite often.
- The Computing Reference Desk quite often.
- And the other Wikipedia Reference Desks if I see something I can help with.
[edit] Did You Know? contributions
I sometimes contribute to Wikipedia 'Did you know?' with an occasional review and the odd submission. I have had five articles I have created featured at DYK:
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- William Buelow Gould
- Chloe Hosking
- Alice Manfield (including photo) – qualified for listing at DYK Statistics
- Ricky Hunter (hook botched by uploader)
- Arteriovenous oxygen difference
[edit] Awards
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The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
For all your edits I give you a barnstar. Bewareofdog 18:09, 20 March 2007 (UTC) -
The Photographer's Barnstar
For contributing good pictures and helping out kindly to newbies at FPC. Muhammad Mahdi Karim 17:47, 14 September 2007 (UTC) -
The Photographer's Barnstar
Thank you for ALL your help with the edits and advice that helped me get my first featured picture.Thanks a TON Muhammad Mahdi Karim 17:08, 18 October 2007 (UTC) -
The Photographer's Barnstar
Once I saw your Triple H image I just had to give you this. Keep up the Great work. -- LAX 22:17, 20 November 2007 (UTC) -
The Barnstar of Diligence
Awarded to Jjron for ferreting out a pernicious sockpuppet. Matt Deres (talk) 23:44, 7 March 2008 (UTC) -
The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
Thanks a lot for your help with my picture nomination and in general! Elephantissimo (talk) 22:16, 27 March 2008 -
The Working Man's Barnstar
Thanks for cleaning up after LordSunday and helping clear the backlog and preserving my sanity in the process - things that probably wouldn't have been done (properly) for yonks if you didn't. MER-C 13:12, 29 August 2008 (UTC) -
The Helping Hand Barnstar
For encouragement of new featured pictures contributors at Wikipedia:Picture peer review, myself included once upon a time. Noodle snacks (talk) 13:06, 7 December 2008 (UTC) -
The Working Man's Barnstar
For keeping Picture Peer Review under control and not allowing it to overflow (indeed a laborious and repetitive task), I award you the Working Man's Barnstar. ~ ωαdεstεr16«talkstalk» 16:41, 12 April 2009 (UTC) -
The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
Thanks for your various little bits of help in working on this Ty Cobb FPC! Staxringold talkcontribs 14:33, 28 August 2009 (UTC) -
The Barnstar of Good Humor
For the best support vote I've ever seen, I award you this barnstar. Makeemlighter (talk) 16:39, 3 August 2010 (UTC) -
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
This barnstar is awarded to Jjron for copy editing articles totalling over 20,000 words in the January GOCE Backlog elimination drive. Thank you for participating! Diannaa (Talk) 17:47, 4 February 2011 (UTC) -
The Australian Barnstar of National Merit
For your hard work cleaning and fixing up the Black Saturday bushfires article. It is something that has been long over due!
this WikiAward was given to Jjron by Bidgee (talk) on 06:48, 7 February 2011 (UTC) -
The Cleanup Barnstar
For copy editing 23 articles with a total of 14,230 words (including rollover) during the Guild of Copy Editors' March 2011 Backlog elimination drive. Thanks for all your contributions! SMasters (talk) 05:12, 4 April 2011 (UTC) -
The 10k Copy Edit Barnstar
This barnstar is awarded to jjron for editing at least one article of 10,000 words or more during the Guild of Copy Editors' May 2011 backlog elimination drive. Your efforts are appreciated! – Chaosdruid (talk) 13:09, 6 June 2011 (UTC) -
Leaderboard Award—Article Count—3rd Place
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to jjron for copy editing a total of 62 articles during the Guild of Copy Editors' May 2011 backlog elimination drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions. – Chaosdruid (talk) 13:09, 6 June 2011 (UTC) -
Leaderboard Award—Word Count—4th Place
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to jjron for copy editing a total of 86,334 words during the Guild of Copy Editors' May 2011 backlog elimination drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions. – Chaosdruid (talk) 13:09, 6 June 2011 (UTC) -
Leaderboard Award—5K Articles—2nd Place
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to jjron for copy editing a total of 11 articles of 5,000 words or more during the Guild of Copy Editors' May 2011 backlog elimination drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions. – Chaosdruid (talk) 13:09, 6 June 2011 (UTC) -
The Order of the Superior Scribe of Wikipedia
This Barnstar is awarded to jjron for copy edits totalling over 80,000 words (including rollover words) during the GOCE May copy edit drive.
Thank you for your hard work! Chaosdruid (talk) 13:09, 6 June 2011 (UTC) -
The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar
This barnstar is awarded to jjron for copy editing articles totalling at least 8,000 words in the Guild of Copy Editors July 2011 backlog elimination drive. Thank you for participating! --Slon02 (talk) 03:48, 7 August 2011 (UTC) -
The Modest Barnstar
For your collaboration on this Featured Picture (Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever), which is the lead image in this week's edition of The Signpost. Pinetalk 09:59, 16 August 2011 (UTC) -
The Modest Barnstar
This barnstar is awarded to Jjron for copy editing articles totalling over 4000 words during the GOCE September copy edit drive. Thank you for participating! Dianna (talk) 04:51, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
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| Congratulations! You have been selected as one of Wikipedia's Masters of Photography for your outstanding contributions to the project. --Fir0002 12:04, 1 February 2008 (UTC) |
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[edit] Some useful links
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| Science Reference desk | [[Wikipedia:Reference desk/Science|Science Reference desk]] | |
| Miscellaneous Reference desk | [[Wikipedia:Reference desk/Miscellaneous|Miscellaneous Reference desk]] | |
| Computing Reference desk | [[Wikipedia:Reference desk/Computing|Computing Reference desk]] | |
| Copyediting | ||
| WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors | [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors|WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors]] | |
| Website citations (cite web) | [[Template:Cite web|Website citations (cite web)]] | |
| Template Convert | [[Template:Convert|Template Convert]] | |
| Template messages | [[Wikipedia:Template messages|Template messages]] | |
| Template Multiple issues | [[Template:Multiple issues|Template Multiple issues]] | |
| WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types | [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types|WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types]] | |
| Images | ||
| Wikipedia Graphics Lab | [[Wikipedia:Graphic Lab|Wikipedia Graphics Lab]] | |
| WikiProject Photography | [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Photography|WikiProject Photography]] | |
| Wikipedian Photographers | [[Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Photographers|Wikipedian Photographers]] | |
| WikiProject Photography Photographers | [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Photography/Photographers|WikiProject Photography Photographers]] | |
| Photographic Masters' Guild | [[User:Fir0002/Guild|Photographic Masters' Guild]] | |
| Guild Talkpage | [[User talk:Fir0002/Guild|Guild Talkpage]] | |
| jjron's Image Gallery | [[User:Jjron/Gallery|jjron's Image Gallery]] | |
| Wikipedia requested photographs | [[:Category:Wikipedia requested photographs|Wikipedia requested photographs]] | |
| Multiple image template | [[Template:Multiple image|Multiple image template]] | |
| Others | ||
| Template Infobox Australian place | [[Template:Infobox Australian place|Template Infobox Australian place]] | |
| New Australian Articles | [[Wikipedia:New articles (Australia)|New Australian Articles]] | |
| Automobile conventions | [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Automobiles/Conventions|Automobile conventions]] | |
| List of shortcuts | [[Wikipedia:List of shortcuts|List of shortcuts]] | |
| Creating Wiki Tables | [[Help:Table|Creating Wiki Tables]] | |
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| Xerochrysum subundulatum (Everlasting daisy) |
[edit] Commons
| Commons Mainpage | [[:Commons:Main_Page|Commons Mainpage]] |
| My Commons Userpage | [[:Commons:User:Jjron|My Commons Userpage]] |
| Commons FP | [[:Commons:Featured pictures|Commons FP]] |
| Commons FPC | [[:Commons:Commons:Featured picture candidates|Commons FPC]] |
| Quality images candidates | [[:Commons:Commons:Quality images candidates|Quality images candidates]] |
| Valued image candidates | [[:Commons:Commons:Valued image candidates|Valued image candidates]] |
| Reusing content | [[:Commons:Commons:Reusing content outside Wikimedia|Reusing content]] |
| Freedom of panorama | [[:Commons:Commons:Freedom of panorama|Freedom of panorama]] |
| Photographs of identifiable people | [[:Commons:Commons:Photographs of identifiable people|Photographs of identifiable people]] |
| Commons article tag | {{Commons|Article name}} |
| Commons category tag | {{Commonscat|Category name}} |
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