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About me.

I live in Hadlow, Kent. My hobbies and interests include molinology, deltiology, civil aircraft, railways and Dutch. I have been researching the windmills, millers and millwrights of Norwich for a number of years. The results of my research can be found on the Norfolk Mills website. I have been an admin on Wikipedia since 26 September 2009. I have an alternate account for use when away from my own computer and not in need of admin's tools - Mjroots2 (talk · contribs).

I am (distantly) related to a number of Wikinotable people, including Jane Austen, Flora Twort, Frank Merrick, Frederick Twort and William Vousden VC.

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Useful admin-related stuff	My userboxes.	My Did You Know's and In The News's
Sandboxes:- General, Mills, Ships, List	Barnstars I've been awarded.	Articles I've created or worked upon.

As of 1 August 2014, this user has started 894 new articles and 437 new lists, on the English Wikipedia, 2 new articles on the Dutch Wikipedia and 9 new lists on the German Wikipedia.

DYK Medal

		The 200 DYK Medal
		The D.Y.K. Project thanks you for your tireless contributions. The Interior (Talk) 17:48, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

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Windmills - to do list

Create lists for each country:-
 Done Australia, Belgium, Canada, Channel Islands, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Ireland, Isle of Man, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Scotland, South Africa, United Kingdom, USA, Wales
 Not done Portugal, Spain, Italy, Sweden, Russia, New Zealand
 Doing...
UK - create lists for each county with 20 or more windmills:-
 Done Anglesey, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Cornwall, Devon, East Sussex, Essex, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Isle of Wight, Kent, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Middlesex, Norfolk (drainage), Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Shropshire, Somerset, Staffordshire, Suffolk, Surrey, Warwickshire, West Sussex, Wiltshire, Yorkshire (North, South, East and West)
create articles on surviving windmills:-
 Done Essex, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Isle of Wight, Kent, London, Suffolk, Sussex, Surrey,
 Not done Lincolnshire, Yorkshire, Northumberland, Durham, Nottinghamshire, Lancashire, Anglesey, Somerset
 On hold Norfolk

Europe

Create articles for all surviving windmills
 Doing... Friesland
 Done Drenthe

Common names for windmills:- Black Mill, White Mill, Upper Mill, Lower Mill, Great Mill, Little Mill, New Mill, Old Mill, North Mill, East Mill, South Mill, West Mill, Town Mill, Union Mill.

Infobox Windmill

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