My name is Phil Mason, and I hale from Auckland, New Zealand.
My name is Phil Mason, and I hale from Auckland, New Zealand.
I've had a particular interest in the ''Jagdwaffe'' - WW2 Luftwaffe Fighter Pilots, and that is where my initial Wikipedia-editing was based around. Sorry I haven't been active there for a while - there are several editors in that WikiProject who have been very difficult to deal with and it becameratherdisheartening. I'm still collecting data & references but I've found my time drawn off to other projects (as you do). Another big interest is sport-car racing and the iconic Le Mans 24 Hours, and I have started writing up race histories for that great event, with a good bunch of knowledgeable editors - an important aspect of Wikipedia's ongoing support and flourishing.
I've had a particular interest in the ''Jagdwaffe'' - WW2 Luftwaffe Fighter Pilots, and that is where my initial Wikipedia-editing was based around. Sorry I haven't been active there for a while - there are several editors in that WikiProject who have been very difficult to deal with and it drained my enjoyment for the topic. I'm still collecting data & references but I've found my time drawn off to other projects (as you do). The other big interest is sport-car racing and the iconic Le Mans 24 Hours, and I have now been writing up race histories for that great event, with a good bunch of knowledgeable Wiki-editors - an important aspect of Wikipedia's ongoing support and flourishing.
My aim has always been to collate information from a range of sources and show interconnection between events and the different people involved - some cause and effect. So the articles are not necessarily written purely biographically,but aim to put into a context with external events that can further explain what happened when, and why
My aim has always been to collate information from a range of sources and show interconnection between events and the different people involved - some cause and effect. So the articles are not necessarily written purely biographically or as bare tables of data. I aim to put the information into a context with external events that can further explain what happened when, and why.
My name is Phil Mason, and I hale from Auckland, New Zealand.
I've had a particular interest in the Jagdwaffe - WW2 Luftwaffe Fighter Pilots, and that is where my initial Wikipedia-editing was based around. Sorry I haven't been active there for a while - there are several editors in that WikiProject who have been very difficult to deal with and it drained my enjoyment for the topic. I'm still collecting data & references but I've found my time drawn off to other projects (as you do). The other big interest is sport-car racing and the iconic Le Mans 24 Hours, and I have now been writing up race histories for that great event, with a good bunch of knowledgeable Wiki-editors - an important aspect of Wikipedia's ongoing support and flourishing.
My aim has always been to collate information from a range of sources and show interconnection between events and the different people involved - some cause and effect. So the articles are not necessarily written purely biographically or as bare tables of data. I aim to put the information into a context with external events that can further explain what happened when, and why.
Comments welcome!
cheers, Phil
About Me
This user has been on Wikipedia for 12 years, 9 months and 19 days.
This user is a preservationist who believes Wikipedians should avoid agressive non-notability deletion and advocates that the notability rule be amended to specify that any subject with some historical value can merit an article. Details here.
Contributions (in a nominal priority)
1) Filling in detail, gaps & references for the 24 Hours of Le Mans - 1920s to 1990s. Already completed are:
4) Compiling articles for sports-car series in the years 1940s to 2000s.
5) Filling in detail, gaps & references for the WW2 Jagdwaffe, the German fighter pilots. Some have subsequently been deemed unimportant people for Wikipedia