This is Paul

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Name	Paul
Born	2 July
Current location	Birmingham,United Kingdom
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Hello and welcome to my userpage. I amPaul, an editor from theUK who joined Wikipedia on 14 April 2008. I officially made my 100,000th edit in August 2019.

I originally started out in April 2008 asTheRetroGuy but had wanted a name change for some time. That happened in September 2011 when I becamePaul MacDermott. However, some people began to confuse me with other Paul MacDermotts (I was even once accused of beingPaul MacDermott the Australian comedian, even though I live on the other side of the world), so I decided it was time for another name change. I finally got round to filing a request for a new username in April 2014, and hopefully I won't have to do it again, but you never know...

When I first came here I tended to edit articles related tofilm andtelevision,literature, andpopular music from the present day dating back to the late 1940s and early 50s. It was actually my musical interest, as well as a fondness for classic British television shows that inspired my original username. I'm also very interested inBritish politics,current affairs andUK crime-related topics, so you'll see lots of contributions from me on those subjects. I am an occasionalNew pages patroller, and with over 4,000 articles on my watchlist, I am sometimes able to catch and revertvandalism.

Some major contributions I've made to Wikipedia include creating a complete list of missing articles relating toyears in British andIrish television, and a discography of albums recorded by one of my favourite singers,Jo Stafford. With the onset of theCOVID-19 pandemic, I've been creating and working on articles relating to that, mostly focusing on topics in the UK. These include creatingtimelines for the UK and its constituent countries, as well as events such as theJuly 2020 United Kingdom summer statement.

My first twoGood articles,2009 Royal Mail industrial disputes andPremiership of Gordon Brown, were listed in April 2010. My firstFeatured Article wasRoyal National College for the Blind, which was promoted on 18 August 2010—actually the first time I'd ever nominated something for FAC, so not bad going. The article made history as one of several promoted that day which took Wikipedia to the milestone of3,000 Featured Articles. It later becameToday's Featured Article for 19 October 2011. A full list of my Good and Featured Articles can be found below. There is also a list for those that made Today's Featured Article. In addition to these I've had several articles appear onDid You Know. A list of articles I've taken through the various processes can be foundhere. For a full list of articles I've created, seehere. For a list of articles I haven't created, but which I've significantly contributed to, seehere.

I foundedWikiProject Edinburgh in September 2009, and WikiProjects forHerefordshire andShropshire in April 2010. My most ambitious WikiProject to date isWikiProject Birmingham, started in May 2012, and which is still a work-in-progress. As well as the WikiProjects I helped to establish, I am also involved in a few other WikiProjects, including those relating toPolitics of the United Kingdom andCOVID-19. A full list of these can be seenhere. For a list of my awards for work I've done on Wikipedia, seehere. Check outthis page for a few userboxes which will tell you a little more about me.

My 100,000th edit was made on 18 July 2019, and if I've counted back correctly from the time I noticed I'd passed that particular milestone, thenthis is it, an update I made to thelist of articles I've created. However, according to Wikipediathis is my 100,000th edit, a minor edit to the articleJanet Anderson made on 26 August 2019, and for which I received a congratulatory notification from Wikipedia. Sadly I don't have a record of articles I edited from previous edit count milestones.

I also operate twoalternative accounts which can be foundhere andhere, and which are intended for occasional minor edits. You will also find a few contributions from me on theSimple English andGerman Wikipedias. I should point out that I don't actually speak German but some of my contributions were exported there a while back and I thought it would be useful for anyone finding them and having any questions to navigate to this page.

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