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[edit] Main Interests
Particular interests in:
- Emergency Medicine & Ambulance Care
- Emergency Services (Police, Fire etc.)
- First Aid
- Equestrian
[edit] Wikipedia Contributions
[edit] Pages I Created
- A382 road (Great Britain) - Road in Devon
- ABC (medical) - Created this page and ported information out of ABC (first aid), adding additional historical data - also major improvements to the citations and layout
- Advanced Medical Priority Dispatch System - The system used in the UK and elsewhere to decide clinical priority for the dispatch of ambulances
- Ambrosia (food) - Food brand i used to work on
- ASHICE - Ambulance service patient reporting protocol
- Atora - Food brand i used to work on
- Baux score - Medical scale for predicting severity of burns
- British Airways flying club - Created in order to get rid of a red link!
- British Equestrian Federation - UK governing body for equestrian sport
- British Equestrian Trade Association - member of the British Equestrian Federation
- British Equestrian Vaulting - member of the British Equestrian Federation
- British Horseball Association - member of the British Equestrian Federation
- British Horse Driving Trials Association - member of British Equestrian Federation
- British Horse Industry Confederation - Overall umbrella body representing equestrian industry to government
- British Jumping Derby - Showjumping event at All England Jumping Course at Hickstead
- British Showjumping Association - UK governing body for showjumping
- Burgess Hill Rugby Football Club - My rugby club
- Caduceus as a symbol of medicine - Completed with content from Caduceus and Rod of Asclepius, specifically addressing the confusion between the two
- Caroline Pratt - 3 day eventer who tragically died competing at Burghley horse trials
- CHALET - The Emergency Service protocol
- Drowning chain - The causes of drowning
- Elektromotive - Created an article on an existing redirect page
- Emergency - Whilst not technically creating the page, I created the article from what was previously a disambiguation page - awarded a barnstar for this work
- Emergency bleeding control - Combined articles on Direct Pressure, Pressure point (first aid) and Emergency tourniquet in to one place, and added additional information, including on internal bleeding
- Emergency care practitioner - Added this advanced paramedic qualification as a stub
- Emergency medical services in Germany - Created as a split of Ambulance
- Emergency medical services in the United Kingdom - UK specific ambulance site, involved closing other pages such as "List of UK Ambulance Services" for comprehensive encyclopaedic page
- Equine dentistry - major missing topic
- ETHANE - The Emergency Service protocol
- Five freedoms - animal welfare article
- FSCTE Manston - MOD Central Fire Training School
- Former UK Ambulance Services - Addresses changes created by ambulance service restructure
- Gas safe register - The UK gas engineer approval scheme
- Geoff Billington - British show jumper
- Hawkmoor County Sanatorium - former sanatorium in Lustleigh
- Hotel 900 - Ambulance and police helicopter for Sussex county
- Inset day - Was looking for information, and couldn't find it, so created it
- Knurr and spell - historic game that i heard about, so wrote an article!
- Lewes Bonfire - Created article from redirect page
- List of fox hunts in the United Kingdom - Following extensive work on Fox hunting
- List of South East Coast Ambulance Service stations - Created to move information clutter from main article
- Lustleigh - A Devon village close to my heart - where I got married!
- Mounted Games Association of Great Britain - member of the British Equestrian Federation
- Operational Research CONsultancy - The targeting system used to measure the performance of UK ambulance trusts
- Oval Raceway - Local motor racing circuit
- Patient's Charter - NHS charter of service
- Piggy French - British eventing competitor
- Police vehicles in the United Kingdom - Created after work on Police car
- Pre 2006 NHS ambulance services - Created after major changes to EMS in the UK when trust boundaries changed, created article to capture old structure
- RAF Booker - Created with sketchy detail, so needs to expand
- RAF Manston - Where I used to be an air cadet (created article from a redirect page)
- RAF Pocklington - Didn't have an article, and i thought it deserved one...
- Resuscitation Council (UK) - The UK governing body for resus protocols
- Robertson's - Food brand i used to work on, now discontinued
- Royal International Horse Show - equestrian show at All England Jumping Course at Hickstead
- South of England Show - Local agricultural show
- Spindles Farm - Detail on major animal cruelty case
- Surrey and Sussex Air Ambulance - Air ambulance service for Surrey and Sussex
- Tail lift - Created as a stub, but hope to expand it. Obviously should have an article, but not a subject expert!
- Template:Caduceus confusion summary - A short article part intended to harmonise text between Caduceus and Rod of Asclepius and link on to main article
- Veterinary medicine in the United Kingdom - sensible split/merge of vet, veterinary surgeon
- Veterinary medicine in the United States - fixing global problems with veterinarian
- Wycombe Air Park - The link between RAF Booker and British Airways flying club!
[edit] Fox hunt articles
[edit] Rugby articles
[edit] Nav Templates I made
[edit] Pages I made major contribution to
- Aerial work platform - Overhauled this article, removing how-to and restructuring the article to improve readability dramatically. Also cut out a lot of duplication
- Airway management - Added detail and restructured article
- All England Jumping Course at Hickstead - Restructure and split off daughter articles for two main shows
- Ambulance - Made major edits to this (about 80% of the article written or re-written), in order to make it in to an excellent resource article. Included splitting out country specific information
- Artificial respiration - Major overhaul, including bringing in stubs from CPR Mask and Face shield
- Automated external defibrillator - Added detail and tidied the article up to separate more from Defibrillation
- AVPU - Added detail to this, making it no longer a stub (IMHO)
- Bandage - Restructured to make better base for expansion
- Battenburg markings - Overhauled this fairly new article, and uploaded images I created to illustrate
- Bed rest - Merged with 'Bedrest' in to a single article, and added additional citations and tidy up
- Bleeding - Rewrote large sections of this article, and added sections on types of bleeding cause
- British Association for Immediate Care - This article was on the verge of a speedy delete after creation, but I rescued it to be a good article start
- British Dressage - UK governing body for dressage
- British Eventing - UK governing body for eventing
- British Horse Society - Restructure
- British Red Cross - Created structure and major copy editing
- Caduceus - Major rewrite to this article to clear up ambiguity around usage (and overlap with rod of asclepius)
- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation - Added a lot of info, restructured and added loads of references
- Choking - Major additions to this article. removal of lots of how to, and merged abdominal thrusts in
- Defibrillation - Instigated merge with Defibrillator, and managed merge of two articles together to create one much better article with the support of other regular editors
- Devon Air Ambulance - Asked to look at this by another EMS task force editor, added full inline citation and copy edited
- Dressing (medical) - Structured article for expansion
- Emergency action principles - Was entirely POV and instruction guide focused, and also entirely based on medical emergencies. 100% rewrite to make more encyclopaedic and more general
- Emergency medical services - Tough challenge involving an almost total rewrite of a US focused article to reflect a global view
- Emergency service - This was a very patchy article containing a list added to randomly, and some sub sections which weren't strictly relevant here. Now structured in to core, secondary and civil emergency services
- Emergency vehicle equipment - Rearranged the structure to try and make this not only global, but add a technical edge
- Emergency vehicle lighting - Complete overhaul, rewrite and significant addition of extra information and citations.
- Fire - Restructured section on classifying fires
- Fire apparatus - Following heavy work on police car and ambulance, i overhauled fire apparatus. Clearly separated out types of apparatus to distinguish for the lay reader
- Fire prevention - Added table comparing European and US fire classfication systems
- First aid - Quite a stubby article, so added lots of info and Wikilinks
- First aid kit - Worked on article to try and make clear distinctions between types and bring some structure
- Fox hunting - Very disjointed article with a lot of repetition and POV, tidied up and started adding much needed citations
- Glasgow coma scale - Copy editing and tabulating main features
- Horse teeth - Major overhaul
- Kent Air Ambulance - Copy editing and best practice from other air ambulance articles
- Kent International Airport - Airport on the site of RAF Manston (see above)
- Lifeguard - Complete rewrite of Lifeguard article as it was not a single coherent view, but a collection of statements which didn't really link to together, and contained a lot of WP:OR
- Oropharyngeal airway - Overhaul on this article, including merging Guedal Pattern airway article in to it
- OPQRST - Restructured to make it more readable and moved first person voice. Good basis for more expansion here
- Oxygen therapy - Complete rewrite and restructure of this article
- Nitrous oxide and oxygen - Complete rewrite and move away from focus on Entonox, which is a trade name. Added pictures (as gallery below).
- Police car - Was a dreadful article, all split by country twice! Wrote significant amount of text to bring global and generic perspective
- Police dog - Add much needed citations and some clean up
- Police van - merged with colloquial article 'paddywagon' and edits
- RHM - Added lots of company info while I worked there
- Rod of asclepius - Restructured this article to make it easier to read, and adding additional information to separate from Caduceus
- Rollkur - a controversial technique in horse training
- Scott Mills - Radio 1 DJ - restructured and turned it in to more encyclopaedic article
- Shire Horse - Major article overhaul, adding additional information and references
- Simon says - Article overhaul, split out DAB page (Simon says (disambiguation))
- Smelling salts - Changed stubby unreferenced article in to new structure with strong initial references
- Star of life - added major information to this article, including explanatory picture
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[edit] Images ported under Creative Commons from Flickr
[edit] Fair use images i've added
- File:Cd ireland.jpg
- File:Ilcor logo.gif
- File:Resuscouncil flash.gif
- File:RAF Manston.jpg
- File:Edfenergy logo.gif
- File:SPlogo.gif
[edit] My awards
Wow, I actually got a barnstar!
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The Barnstar of Life |
| The barnstar of life is hereby awarded to Owain.davies for a particularly fine job of creating and editing the article emergency. The Transhumanist 20:03, 15 May 2007 (UTC) |
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The Medicine Barnstar |
| For your hard work improving the quality of EMS and fire-related aritcles, I hereby award you this medicine barnstar. Thanks also for taking time to work with and provide guidance to new users while ensuring quality content. delldot talk 19:38, 20 August 2008 (UTC) |
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