User:MarkS

MarkS
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I live in Hampshire, UK

I work in pensions so I am trying to share some of that knowledge where suitable.

Things I might be doing at the moment

I currently looking at the following:

• Geographic coordinates - these look genuinely useful and a different way to access information on wikipedia.
• Sorting out some the religious categories. The basics are right but they aren't always consistent between countries and religions
• Vandal fighting I might be using Lupin's anti-vandal, VandalProof and popups./

Tools

Details of Extra Edit Buttons can be found on the sub-page User:MarkS/Extra_edit_buttons. For other tools see Wikipedia:Tools/Editing_tools.

Subpages

• /election
• /templates - templates I tend to use

Wiki Links

• Main Page
• Wikipedia:Community_Portal
• Recent Changes
• Uncategorized pages
• Dead end pages or Wikipedia:Deadend_pages
• Featured Article Candidate
• Wikipedia:WikiGnome
• WP:AFD

Useful tools

• Category search

Wiki Syntax

• EasyTimeline Syntax

Sockpuppets

• MarkS2 - used to view pages on a Netgem box using a heavily modified monobook.css

Significant Contributions

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• Actuarial notation
• Christopher Daykin
• Government Actuary's Department
• Minimum funding requirement
• Pensions Act 1995
• State Earnings-Related Pension Scheme
• 1930 British Empire Games - Event medal tables
• 1934 British Empire Games - Event medal tables
• 1938 British Empire Games - Event medal tables
• 1950 British Empire Games - Event medal tables
• 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games - Event medal tables
• 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games - Event medal tables
• 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games - Event medal tables
• 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games - Event medal tables

Edit Count

This user believes that a user's edit count does not necessarily reflect on the value of their contributions to Wikipedia.

I use to count my edits but don't anymore. Some might say this is because I do not make that many edits and I have spells of "time off" from Wikipedia. However, three weeks preparing the medal tables for the Commonwealth games which resulted in few edits but a lot of information convinced me it is quality not quantity.

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I also have some accounts on Wikipedia in other languages. I set these up for two reasons: (1) So if I do contribute they go under my username (and not by IP) and (2) To protect my username. Contributions on other languages are likely to be limited to ensuring consistency with the English wikipeida, adding inter wiki links or adding geographic coordiantes.

French - MarkS

Simple - MarkS

German - SMark - note: There is a german user with the username MarkS, this is not me.

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