User:Rich Farmbrough

Rich_Farmbrough (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights) has been a Wikipedian for about 94 months and an admin for about 85.

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I have a bot army (actually all are unarmed, and only 2 have ever edited) Helpful Pixie Bot (talk · contribs) (formerly SmackBot (talk · contribs)), Mirror Bot (talk · contribs), Chron Bot (talk · contribs), Translate Bot (talk · contribs),

and smallest of all Femto Bot (talk · contribs).

Template guides

WP:UTM User talk

A few of the pages I've started

Main page: User:Rich Farmbrough/Pages started

• List of Ace Double Novels Thelin Clofarabine Myeloblast William H Nation 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment Spaghetti House siege Category:Royal residences in the United Kingdom Fundamental theorem of projective geometry Charles Fambrough Muckle Flugga Vernon Kell (and other MI5 DGs) Kemal Monteno Category:Lost BBC episodes List of Goon Show episodes - well it was part of The Goon Show when I created it. Peter Glaze Ohio House of Representatives Projective frame.

Interesting things

• Most websites have the wrong dates for some episodes of Doomwatch. We don't.
• http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4648659

Date project

I have worked to get date formatting and (de)-linking up to scratch, and standardised. But blow me down with a feather, Wikipedia keeps growing and changing, so there's as much to do now as when I started!

For more details on this topic, see /dates.

Barnstars et al.

I have some and I like getting them. I have also given some out.

For more details on this topic, see /Barnstars.

Things that stayed too long

• SE 194W
• Who has the real diamond? [1] 6 weeks.
• Mañana Será Otro Dia 5 months
• Street racer ski 9 weeks.
• Hardin County, Ohio was a country for nearly six months.
• Rautavaara wrote "ASDF" Etudes for nearly six months.
• Parts of this edit took a month to fix.
• The (imaginary) Belgian Bun Companion guide [2]. Over eight months.
• The lower-case professor [3], about six months.
• Irina Simagina was a man [4] for 10 months.
• Gé van Aelst, mix-up entry, 1 month.
• Parts of this edit stayed for over eight months.
• Link to non existent congressman [5] over nine months.
• Zach Hansen born in 1736. Three weeks.
  • Saying Zach Hansen when the vandalism said "Zach Dillon, Jarek Petras, and Austin Hansen". December 2007 to July 2009.
• Prince Albert Day, six days.
• Ever heard of "Aka Amir khosro Ahmadi"? [6] Probably not. Stayed for 17 months.[7] And what's this about?
• Accidental page blanking stood for a year.
• Islamic flags were "pink blue and rainbow" for nearly 2 months. Which was nice.
• Married to a wanker from September 2008 to June 2009.
• A chef worked at "Noob's" for 19 months, from November 2006 to July 2008
• Possibly Kosvinsky Mountain
• There was excrement on a talk page for 38 months, from November 2006 to January 2010
• Wrong date of death for three years, until he actually died!
• 34 children for two years - then they all left at the same time.
• The Protestant Cruse family was made Jewish for two-and-a-half years, from the article's creation in April 2009 to October 2011. Based on the false information on Wikipedia, family members were listed on an antisemitic website.

Database dumps

Latest dump.

Disambiguation

I have also disambiguated "British" (several times), please correct any mistakes you come across. See User:Rich Farmbrough/Disambig scripts for a tool I used to help with disambiguation.

WP errors

There are so many ways WP can fail.

Main page: User:Rich Farmbrough/wikierrors

Useful style guides etc.

• WP:MOSNUM
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Location Format
• /Curly brackets

Edits

Generalist.

I would like to be writing great articles, but actually I'm an inveterate "fixer" of anything that I see that looks wrong - mainly links and copyedits. I have spent some time on GFDLing about 3000 images, and on some specific articles. for example Spaghetti House siege and Pedro Lopez. I also migrated a fair few biographies from DNB.

• [8] was edit 750,000.

Todo

Main article: /todo

Bits and bobs

Here's a nice stub.

• Disc activity driving you crazy on Vista? Try http://download.sysinternals.com/Files/ProcessMonitor.zip to determine the cause.

This excludes my user pages.

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