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SurreyJohn
— Wikipedian ♂ —
Name
John
Born
Wirral, Merseyside
NationalityBritish
Country England
Current locationWeybridge, Surrey
Education and employment
OccupationAnalyst
Employer(retired)
High schoolWirral Grammar
CollegeRCS, London
UniversityLondon
Hobbies, interests, and beliefs
HobbiesAncestry, Birds, Classical music, Travel, Video, Wildlife Photography
SurreyJohn subpages
Account statistics
Joined23 April 2012
First edit26 July 2014
Edit countEdit count for SurreyJohn
Signature SurreyJohn   (Talk)
Userboxes
Interests:
This user lives in Surrey.

107		This user has visited 107 of the 205 countries in the world.
This user is interested in birding.
An African Grey Parrot.This person is an African Grey Parrot owner.
This person uses a Sony HX400V bridge camera.
This person uses a Nikon P900 bridge camera.
PH-2This user is able to take good-quality photographs.
GenealogistThis user is a genealogist.
He researches his family tree.
This user is a chemist.
This user is a systems analyst.
This user is a participant in WikiProject Classical music.
This user contributes using a PC they built themselves.
This user has a channel on YouTube.
This user writes reviews in Tripadvisor.
Other Information
This user has been on Wikipedia for 12 years, 6 months and 22 days.
This user contributes using Google Chrome.
Mission:To visit a different country every year.
Edit Summary:General Statistics

I am John, an early-retired Analytical chemist and scientist, born in Merseyside, now living in Surrey and was making good use of my time by addicting extra and hopefully useful information to Wikipedia. For the last 15 years of my working life I was an IT analyst, working for a global pharmaceutical company.

Being analytical and an IT professional in a highly regulated industry I am well suited to the provision of detailed factual information, validation, and compliance so I expect my contributions will be somewhat based on analysis of information form different sources, or addition of some detailed natural photos, since travel, nature and photography are my key hobbies and pastimes. Although a fan of Wikipedia for many years, I only started contributing in July 2014.

Recently I have become despondent with Wikipedia. Factually correct articles have been deleted because someone decided they are not important. Some of my own images removed on copyright grounds, and I and generally fed up with some very difficult and argumentative people. Information which is clearly correct and verifiable from the internet, should not require independent references but it seems too many people (or robot bots) are only too willing to delete hard work done by others. I am therefore taking a back seat and do not intend to write any new articles. Do not be surprised if I do not reply to messages.

Help for Me

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Some of the useful Wikipedia help topics are listed here:

More information will follow!

Pages I've Created

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Page creations and significant revisions:

Articles

Other

Birds

(more to follow)

UserBox Templates (User:UBX NameSpace)
Madagascar's Parks UserBox Templates (Template NameSpace)
Iguana and Reptiles (of Madagascar) My ToDo List
  • Popular Classical Music article
  • Improve Baobab tree article
  • British Birds (ID guide)
  • East-African Birds (ID guide)
  • (and more)
Technology Other Wildlife
Classical Music Animated GIF Files

(*) = Revision

My Photos

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This is a very small selection of the many holiday photos I have taken over the years. I have only added photos where I think they may be useful (or better) than ones already present. I avoid removing other people’s photos, instead adding mine to sit alongside, or as part of a gallery section. If you need a picture, video clip or GIF (mainly of wildlife), just ask and you may be given.

British Birds

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Various photos of British birds (2010 - date)

  • Rook at the cafe, Marwell Zoo
    Rook at the cafe, Marwell Zoo
  • Rook at the cafe, Marwell Zoo
    Rook at the cafe, Marwell Zoo
  • Rook
    Rook

Madagascar Lemurs

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I have been to Madagascar twice; once in 2003 and again in 2014. Most of the photos (and video) concentrate on the lemurs I saw, although there's inevitably a large number of photos of the birds and other wildlife. I have only uploaded photos here used on other WikipediA pages.

Madagascar Birds

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Insects

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Madagascan Reptiles

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Other Birds

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