User:saberwyn

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en-au This user is a native speaker of Australian English.

This user helped promote AHS Centaur to featured article status.

This user helped promote Attack on Sydney Harbour to featured article status.

This user helped promote HMAS Melbourne (R21) to featured article status.

This user helped promote HMAS Australia (1911) to featured article status.

This user helped promote Collins class submarine, HMAS Sydney (R17), and HMAS Australia (1911) to A-class status.

This editor is not an administrator and does not wish to be one.

saberwyn is...

• Male
• Australian
• Born in 1986
• Interested in:
  • Naval vessels and incidents
  • Amusement rides
  • Science fiction and fantasy works
  • Video games

Pet Projects

• /The Slab
• /The Workshop
• /The Library
• /RAN ship link list

Active Wikiprojects

Where I tend to officially play

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history
  • Australian military history taskforce
  • Maritime warfare task force
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Ships

My edits also tend to come under the auspices of Wikipedia:WikiProject Amusement Parks, Wikipedia:WikiProject Roller Coasters, Wikipedia:WikiProject Video Games, and Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia (plus subprojects thereof). However, I am not (yet) affiliated with any of these projects.

To-do list

• "Major article work", see below.
• Set up year-of-launch redirect for HMAS Adelaide (LHD 02): HMAS Adelaide (2012)?
• Work out what to do with
  • Operations Reckless and Persecution - each has its own subarticle, but the overarticle is a stub
• /Template:Infobox Ship For Dummies

Major article work

Rewriting/expanding

The articles I'm trying to do some heavy overhauling of (or wish to when a few of the in-progress ones complete)

• HMAS Sydney (D48) and Battle between HMAS Sydney and German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran - Copyedit based on changes at German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran

• Fleet Air Arm (RAN) - Organisation involved in the "RAN Birdfarms" set - redo to focus on squadrons
  • /Fleet Air Arm - (talk)

• Ciaphas Cain - Hero of the Imperium!

• HMAS Armidale (J240) - Needs a rewrite, particularly with all those self-published sources floating around

• Battle of Cocos - Before WWI+100 hits
  • /Battle of Cocos

• Bombing of Darwin

Creating

Subjects I want to create articles for

• Merge of Action stations, General Quarters, and similar articles into a whole.
  • /Degrees of readiness

• 6th Field Engineers or 2/6th Field Engineers - Great grandfather served in

• Catafalque party

• Submarine escape
  • /Submarine escape

• Hotel load
  • /Hotel load

• Newsflesh trilogy
  • /Newsflesh overview
  • /Feed (novel)

• Captain Cook Graving Dock
  • /Captain Cook Graving Dock

Kicking and Screaming

My Major Rewrites (or at least the ones I'm proud of)

• AHS Centaur
• Attack on Sydney Harbour
• HMAS Melbourne (R21) - via
• Luna Park Sydney
• HMAS Onslow
• Serenity (Firefly vessel)
• Collins class submarine and subarticles
• HMAS Sydney (D48)
• Battle between HMAS Sydney and German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran
• German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran
• HMAS Sydney (R17)
• HMAS Australia (D84)
• History of Australian naval aviation

Other major projects

• HMS Ark Royal (91) - Copyediting Benea's baby -
• HMAS Australia (1911) - In concert with Sturmvogel 66

Declared Interests

Like most people, saberwyn has had associations with several organisations. This is a list of those organisations, and a few words on my role within the organisation. In brackets will follow my stance on articles related to that organisation.

DISCLAIMER: The organisations this user associates with have NO influence or impact on the contributions and/or comments made by the user in any/all sections of the English-language Wikipedia. The contributions, actions, and beliefs of the user are the user's alone and do not represent those held by the below organisations and/or their management in any way. No edits will be made to articles that this user belong(s/ed) to beyond spelling/grammar fixes, removal of blatant vandalism, or provision of images, unless specified below.

• Australian National Maritime Museum - Volunteer (Plan to work on articles relation to ships in the museum's collection, and a major expansion of the museum article)
• Luna Park Sydney - Former employee (Have performed a massive rewrite and expansion of the Park's article, with no input by any other members of staff or management. Also created articles on a major incident back in the late 1970s, and the parks former roller coasters. I am willing to go to whatever lengths to keep these as unbiased and NPOV as possible)
• Normanhurst Boys High School - Former student (Will not contribute beyond maintenance, vandalfighting, and the removal of unverifiable information)