User:Rodw

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Sunset at Huntington Beach.jpg I'm trying to take a wikibreak and will be back on Wikipedia in a while. Most likely, however, I won't be able to keep away from Wikipedia for that long, and I'll probably be back a lot earlier, possibly even making some small edits every now and then anyway.
Rod helped to make Portal:Somerset a featured portal. Rod helped to make Physical geography of Somerset a featured topic. Rod helped to make Grade I listed buildings in Somerset a featured topic. Rod helped to make Chew Valley Lake a featured article. Rod helped to make Chew Valley a featured article. Rod helped to make Mendip Hills a featured article. Rod helped to make Buildings and architecture of Bristol a featured article. Rod helped to make Chew Stoke a featured article. Rod helped to make Exmoor a featured article. Rod helped to make Somerset a featured article. Rod helped to make Bath, Somerset a featured article. Rod helped to make River Parrett a featured article. Rod helped to make Kennet and Avon Canal a featured article. Rod helped to make List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Somerset a featured list. Rod helped to make Locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal a featured list. Rod helped to make Grade I listed buildings in Bristol a featured list. Rod helped to make Grade I listed buildings in North Somerset a featured list. Rod helped to make Grade I listed buildings in West Somerset a featured list. Rod helped to make Grade I listed buildings in Taunton Deane a featured list. Rod helped to make List of Grade I listed buildings in Sedgemoor a featured list. Rod helped to make Grade I listed buildings in Mendip a featured list. Rod helped to make Grade I listed buildings in South Somerset a featured list. Rod helped to make Grade I listed buildings in Bath and North East Somerset a featured list. Rod helped to make List of civil parishes in Somerset a featured list. Rod helped to make List of museums in Somerset a featured list. Rod helped to make Sweet Track a featured article. Rod helped to make List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in South West England a featured list. Rod helped to make Somerset Levels a featured article.
Rod helped to make Avon Gorge a good article. Rod helped to make Bath Abbey a good article. Rod helped to make Blackdown Hills a good article. Rod helped to make Bridgwater a good article. Rod helped to make Bridgwater and Taunton Canal a good article. Rod helped to make Bristol a good article. Rod helped to make Bristol Harbour a good article. Rod helped to make Bristol Temple Meads railway station a good article. Rod helped to make Buildings and architecture of Bath a good article. Rod helped to make Burnham-on-Sea a good article. Rod helped to make Chard, Somerset a good article. Rod helped to make Cheddar a good article. Rod helped to make Cheddar Gorge a good article. Rod helped to make Chew Magna a good article. Rod helped to make Claverton Pumping Station a good article. Rod helped to make Clevedon a good article. Rod helped to make Crewkerne a good article. Rod helped to make Dunster Castle a good article. Rod helped to make Farleigh Hungerford Castle a good article. Rod helped to make Flat Holm a good article. Rod helped to make Frome, Somerset a good article. Rod helped to make Geology of Somerset a good article. Rod helped to make Glastonbury a good article. Rod helped to make Glastonbury Abbey a good article. Rod helped to make Grade I listed buildings in Somerset a good article. Rod helped to make Grand Western Canal a good article. Rod helped to make History of Somerset a good article. Rod helped to make History of timekeeping devices a good article.
Rod helped to make Kennet and Avon Canal a good article. Rod helped to make Keynsham a good article. Rod helped to make Lundy a good article. Rod helped to make Midsomer Norton a good article. Rod helped to make Minehead a good article. Rod helped to make Nailsea a good article. Rod helped to make Portishead, Somerset a good article. Rod helped to make Quantock Hills a good article. Rod helped to make Radstock a good article. Rod helped to make River Parrett a good article. Rod helped to make Roman Baths (Bath) a good article. Rod helped to make Somerset Coal Canal a good article. Rod helped to make Somerset Levels a good article. Rod helped to make South West Coast Path a good article. Rod helped to make Street, Somerset a good article. Rod helped to make Sweet Track a good article. Rod helped to make Taunton a good article. Rod helped to make The Exchange, Bristol a good article. Rod helped to make Shepton Mallet a good article. Rod helped to make Somerset Coal Canal a good article. Rod helped to make Somerton a good article. Rod helped to make Victoria Rooms (Bristol) a good article. Rod helped to make Wellington, Somerset a good article. Rod helped to make Wells a good article. Rod helped to make Weston-super-Mare a good article. Rod helped to make Worlebury Camp a good article. Rod helped to make Yeovil a good article. United Kingdom


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[edit] About Me

I was born in Ramsgate & brought up in Margate went to the University of Surrey and then trained as a nurse at Frimley Park Hospital before undertaking various courses and jobs in Accident and Emergency in the National Health Service. Qualifications from Bournemouth University and London South Bank University followed along with jobs for the NHS and University of Sheffield.

I am now living in the Chew Valley, south of Bristol. I work for the University of the West of England Faculty of Health and Life Sciences specialising in Health Informatics and E-learning. I'm also a member of the British Computer Society, Royal College of Nursing, Higher Education Academy, Avon Wildlife Trust, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and various other bodies. All edits I make to wikipedia, wikicommons, etc are my individual contribution and do not represent my employer or any other organisation I am a member of.

I have four kids with very varied ages and interests, who have all used Wikipedia for homework! Hobbies include juggling, Real ale and travel.

Find out more at RodSpace & my Informaticopia Blog

[edit] Subject matter you might find me writing about

Most of my edits are to articles about South West England, especially Somerset and tend to be about geography, industrial or architectural history and related topics but also relate to other areas of interest and places I've travelled to. I'll edit almost anything as I come across it.

[edit] Current & future stuff

My main current areas of activity are;
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[edit] Miscellaneous stuff & activity

me with Jimmy Wales, Bristol 13 January 2011. Photo by User:Jezhotwells

You can find statistics on my editing activity here I made my first edit on 29th Oct 2004 & as of 12th March 2006 had made 973 edits, including getting one article, Chew Valley Lake to Featured Article Status. During the next few months edits increased (am I becoming a Wikipediholic?) & by July 2006 had over 2000 edits with another article Chew Valley made it to Featured Article Status and a couple of others gaining Good article status. By October 2006 the count was over 4000 edits and two lists List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Somerset and Locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal having achieved featured status. Various edits also made it into the Did you know section. During the later part of 2006 and early 2007 my editing activity increased, particularly around the Mendip Hills, Wikipedia:WikiProject Bristol, particularly Buildings and architecture of Bristol and I also joined Wikipedia:WikiProject UK Waterways. By April 2007 I passed the 9000 edit mark, and helped make Mendip Hills a featured articles and Grade I listed buildings in Bristol a featured list.

My 10,000th edit was the start of a new article on the Bristol Byzantine architectural style & happened on 19 May 2007, and the 11,000th to update my userbox of Good Articles to 8 following the promotion of Somerset Levels on 6th July 2007. 12,000 – 15,000 went past in a hurry during August (although I was on holiday & at a conference in Brisbane where I edited Queensland Maritime Museum amongst others), Sept, Oct 2007 & were mostly related to the creation of Wikipedia:WikiProject Somerset & the initial assessment of approx 2000 articles. During Oct 2007 Buildings and architecture of Bristol became the fourth article on which I had done serious editing to become a Featured article.

The start of 2008 saw Exmoor and Somerset achieving FA status & on 3rd Feb I passed 20,000 edits while creating stubs for villages on the Somerset WikiProject "to do" list. Edits around 22,000 & 23,000 were work on the new Wikipedia:WikiProject Museums particularly setting up templates & guidelines & initial assessment of thousands of articles.

24,000->28,000 edits went past with mostly low level editing, particularly to stubs within Somerset but I did manage to get a few more DYKs & GAs, and maintenance tasks for Wikipedia:WikiProject Somerset & Wikipedia:WikiProject UK geography. One specific achievement during that period was getting Physical geography of Somerset to Featured topic status. 28,000->33,000 included getting all parishes in Somerset to at least start class, and creating new articles (with accompanying DYKs etc which took me past the 50 DYK mark) while working on getting List of Grade I listed buildings in West Somerset and List of Grade I listed buildings in West Somerset to featured list status.

33,000–36,000 continued ion much the same way with DYKs going past 60 and with 5 of the lists at List of Grade I listed buildings in Somerset becoming featured. I also joined the new WP:HSITES. Reaching 37,000 edits included completing the creation or improvement of the articles for all Grade I listed buildings in Somerset & getting the lists of them to FL.

The 40,000 edit mark was during December 2009 and included getting Grade I listed buildings in Somerset to GA & getting all of these to Featured Topic, and various other maintenance and development work almost exclusively relates to Somerset articles. Edits 40-45,000 involved a personal challenge to get all settlements in Somerset with over 5,000 population to GA and getting River Parrett to FA along with various other edits to Somerset geography, museum and similar articles, including more DYKs.

45,000-50,000 continued in the same vein including getting Sweet Track to FA and nearly completing the challenge of getting settlements in Somerset with over 5,000 population to GA and various further DYKs. I also helped WikiProject Wiltshire up and running and started some articles for churches under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. My 50,000th edit was putting up List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in South West England.

In January 2011 I got an opportunity to meet Jimmy Wales and local wikipedians in Bristol and attend his public talk at the Victoria Rooms. One of the purposes of the day, apart from celebrating wikipedia's 10th birthday was to encourage outreach and as part of that I was interviewed by BBC Focus & the New Statesman. The city council has webcast the talk - my question is at 53:22. There are also videos of interviews with MartinPoulter, Ghmyrtle and myself on the same day

On March 19th I participated in the first Bristol Wiki Academy. (see my blog post).

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Real name: Rod Ward Email: rod@rodspace.co.uk Home page: http://www.rodspace.co.uk Location: Chew Valley, UK
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[edit] Awards etc

Your majesty, it gives me great pleasure to bestow these Alexander the Great triple crown jewels upon Rodw for your contributions to articles in yer neck of the woods in the areas of WP:DYK, WP:GA, and WP:FC. Well done, Casliber (talk · contribs) 14:40, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
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I just wanted to say that I was very proud to see a fellow Wikipedian being so helpful without being asked. A fine example we should all try and emulate. Have an ASCII barnstar! Best, Neil ☎ 15:30, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Special edition triple crown

Congratulations, Rodw is the first winner of the 2008 triple crown race!

Your Fleet-fingered Majesty, thank you very much for disproving the better/cheaper/faster theory by doing superb editing work lickety-split and free licensing it. Now all of Wikipedia's readers will need to take speed reading lessons to catch up with you. ;) DurovaCharge! 23:11, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
Dyk50.png The 50 DYK Medal   
For your efforts in creating or contributing to 50 DYKs, I award you this medal. Wear it with pride. Chris (talk) 02:58, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
Globe-barnstar2.png The Geography Barnstar
For all your tireless and impeccable work on the geography of Chew Valley, Somerset and the United Kingdom! Keep it up, we need you! – Jza84 · (talk) 16:16, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
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Thanks for all your work helping me promote my first good article, Worlebury Camp. I'm pretty sure I would not have been able to do it without you. Thanks again!
Reaper Eternal (talk) 01:55, 25 December 2010 (UTC)
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I can't tell you how impressed I am with your contributions, esp. the recent series on Somerset archeological sites. I wish we had a Thomas Hardy-award for you. Drmies (talk) 19:35, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
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Given the number of FAs you have created, this appears to be long overdue. Very Well done. MrMedal (talk) 15:02, 14 May 2011 (UTC)
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Given the number of FLs you have created, this also appears to be long overdue. Very Well done.MrMedal (talk) 15:02, 14 May 2011 (UTC)
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For your exceptional efforts to write Somerset and Bristol articles to a high standard and for creating decent articles on missing Somerset villages, geo features and buildings. If only we could clone you for other English counties!! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:23, 20 July 2011 (UTC)
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Thanks Rodw for helping to make Bath Abbey a Good Article. Keep up the good work. Sp33dyphil "Ad astra" 03:29, 29 September 2011 (UTC)
Dyk100CE.svg The 100 DYK Creation and Expansion Medal
Many congratulations are in order, as you have become one of the few Wikipedians to contribute one hundred or more newly created or expanded articles to the Main page in the "Did you know?" section. You have made a huge impact on our coverage of Somerset, in particular, and are a great asset to the encyclopedia. Moonraker (talk) 23:09, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
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A belated thank you for helping to raise Ely, Cambridgeshire to GA status --Senra (talk) 13:06, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

[edit] Achievements in the format for "Crown Awards"

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