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March 2012

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Born in Derry. I studied in Derry [1] [2] [3], Manchester [4], Belfast [5]. I have worked in Derry, Les Landes, Croydon, Guernsey, Dublin and Edinburgh. I now live and work in Perth, Western Australia. I reckon the BBC website sets a standard in quality. I enjoy adding my own images to wiki (as appropriate) to help illustrate the articles here.

Why do I do Wiki? "Cos I can....."

International Travel

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Wikipedia content
Neutral point of view No original research Citing sources Reliable sources Verifiability Countering systemic bias External links Manual of Style Conflict of interest Content forking Footnotes Avoid weasel words

• I joined the Wikipedia on 22 Mar 2005.
• older edits (I stopped updating)...
• I'm not a fan of impersonal deletion templates on my talk page.

How You Can Help

Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual

• Geographical coordinates
• If you haven't got pop-ups yet - get this.
• References are important,

<ref>{{Harv|MacCambridge|1997|pp=5-8, 160}}.</ref>

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_web
• http://diberri.dyndns.org/wikipedia/templates/ -automate urls to cite templates

I borrowed this:

• Review the list of newest articles (offset by 10,000). These articles are around 3-5 days old, depending on volume, but still lots to clean up and improve there.
• Visit and comment on AfD nominations with a low number of evaluations. It's difficult to reach consensus with only two or three opinions, so your input would be greatly appreciated.
• Dive into WikiProject: Fact and Reference Check. There is a huge backlog over there, and we are in desperate need of good researchers and fact checkers.
• Look over the lists at Requested Articles. If you see something you're familiar with, take a stab at creating a new article.

Handy

{{reqphoto}} <div style="column-count:2;-moz-column-count:2;-webkit-column-count:2"> {{colbegin|3}} {{colend}}

Standardizing Layout : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Layout

• language - (Spanish) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Language_icons

Wikipedia:How to fix bunched up edit links

• Reset formatting <br clear="both" />
• #REDIRECT [[Robin Miller]]
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jengod#Some_common_objections_to_featured_status_and_how_to_avoid_them
• featured article in another language? {{FAOL|Italian|it:Donegal (contea)}}
• Wikipedia:Utilities
• Wikipedia:Stub categories
• Wikipedia:Image copyright tags
• Wikipedia:Boilerplate request for permission
• Help:Renaming (moving) a page
• Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Tree of Life help identifying pics of flora/fauna

• [[Wikipedia:Welcome, newcomers|welcome]]
• [[Category:Images of Australia]]
• {{GFDL}} {{PD-USGov-NASA}} {{noncommercial-ESA}} {{PD-USGov-HHS-NIH}}
• {{Albumcover}}
• {{Ireland-geo-stub}}
• [[Image:IMAGENAME.jpg|thumb|LEFTorRIGHT|200px|TITLE_ALTtext]]
• [[Category:Towns in Donegal]]

<nowiki>wiki code to show on page here</nowiki>

• {{Book reference | Author=AUTHOR | Title=TITLE | Publisher=PUBLISHER: Printing Press | Year=YEAR| ID=ISBN NUMBERS}}

• {{db|reason for marking page for deletion}}

• Copyright problem? Put this on this page {{copyvio|url=''http://the url that was copied''}}~~~~

then click the link to add to the list of issues and add **[[The page in wiki]] from [http://the url that was copied] ~~~~

Wiki getting ripped off with no attribution: Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks/GFDL Compliance

<gallery>Image:Giants_boot_Dec2004_SeanMcClean.jpg|The Giants Boot, N. Ireland. Image:Club_Tropicana_Havana_SeanMcClean.jpg|Club Tropicana Dancers, Havana, Cuba.</gallery>

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The source goes in here

{{Quote_box| width=100% |align=center |quote=The quote goes in here |source=The source goes in here|}}

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Template_messages/Cleanup#Specific_issues

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External links

• Did you know google does maths and conversions? - This has conversions that google doesn't do yet
• Don't feed Trolls
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Tango_project
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Nuvola_icons
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:NoSeptember/Smilies

DYK

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2007/October#4_October_2007 Photo - Kangaroo Paw
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2006/February#2_February_2006 Photo & Article - Robin Miller

Pic of the day

The Falkirk Wheel is a rotating boat lift connecting the Forth and Clyde Canal with the Union Canal near Falkirk in central Scotland. It consists of two diametrically opposed caissons which rotate to lift boats between the two canals through a height of 35 metres. The wheel is always perfectly balanced and, despite its enormous mass, rotates through 180° in less

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