 | This Wikipedian is deceased. His user page is preserved here in his memory. |
 | I have beenediting Wikipedia for 21 years, 1 month and 17 days. |
 | This user is aQuaker. |
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| Edits+Deleted | 157677 |
| Pages deleted | 505354 |
| Revisions deleted | 36 |
| Pages restored | 8733 |
| Pages protected | 8376 |
| Pages unprotected | 109 |
| Protections modified | 33 |
| Users blocked | 12070 |
| Users reblocked | 324 |
| Users unblocked | 68 |
| User rights modified | 15 |
| Users created | 1 |
| Pages merged | 7 |
Roger W Haworth
I live inCroydon,UK. My web sites are atRHaworth.net.
I have revised my view on talk page messages as originally expressed in "Parliamentary language" below. Parliamentary language tends to be confrontational. But Wikipedia iscollaborative. So I will try to reflect this in my messages. (Clearly the aspect of parliamentary language that one must comment on the issues, not the person still apply.)
I have a well-justified reputation for blunt speaking on talk pages.But such pages are not a vicar's tea party. I take my standards fromparliamentary language - if a Speaker would allow it then I use it. To summarise it: you must not call the honourable member opposite a fool but you may say that his proposal is foolish. But it would be better to replace "foolish" with a phrase such as "ill conceived" or "totally unworkable". Also, I always try to give positive advice, even if it is only "publish on your own website".
There is a distinct school of thought that anybody can become a Wikipedia editor if you talk to them nicely and nurture them. I disagree: true Wikipedians are a distinct sub-species ofHomo sapiens. People often tell them "get a life" - but Wikipedia is their life!
People come here to promote their company or band and write technically poor articles because they cannot be bothered to waste time learning wiki markup, etc. Are they ever going to become Wikipedians? No - theEthiopian cannot change his spots nor the leopard his skin.
I am hesitant about protecting this page because doing so seems contrary to the spirit of Wikipedia. I have done so for one reason only: to save the good people who have repaired vandalism so many times from wasting their time in future. If you want to be rude to me, myuser talk page is available but even there instead of pointless vandalism such asthis (the IP address had no 'previous' so it was impossible to tell about what they were complaining) explain what your beef is - with alink.
I also protect my talk page archives. This is not to prevent messages - quite the reverse - I want to see them so I can reply. My talk page archives are not on my watchlist so if someone leaves a message there and does not{{ping}} me (and newbies don't know about ping) I will never see the message.
Multi-posting. Sorting new articles by User Id helps me detect cases where an article has been posted multiple times. The record may betwelve copies of Neri vs. Senate. (There was a case ofabout twenty versions of College of the North Atlantic but these were potentially different articles and the creator had made a tiny change to each version.) When I find a multi-posting I usually merge all the versions together by doing a "forced merge to existing title". Then I restore all the edits. This resulted in me having the dubious honour of beingtop of the list of restorers for at least a year (2007 July 29 earliest listing available). (NawlinWiki overtook meon 2008 Sept 9 and looks set to staytop of this particular ranking.)
brldb --brldb prim --gbmaprim --GBvoss --stn art lnk --mmukpc
Plus {{oscoor}} which enables Egil Kvaleberg's brilliant map sources system to be called usinggrid references. Seeoscoor's rank in the most used templates list.
I like adding grid refs to articles about GB places and I will also add them to articles about:
Boi --Croydon (at the suggestion ofNickj) --Hendon --Hixon --Lee --Malden (Netherlands does not link to it!) --Queen's College --Seven Sisters --Smithfield --Sutton --Uxbridge
 | The Original Barnstar |
| Hi RHaworth. I've been working hard on myRobinson Crusoe Economy article. It's come a long way after you first viewed it. Thanks for your help and I hope it's up to Wiki standards now! :)Abhilasha369 (talk) 13:41, 5 September 2011 (UTC) |
| The Hard Worker's Barnstar |
| For tireless speedy deletion of so very many nonsense pages...Yunshui (talk) 14:19, 5 September 2011 (UTC) |
 | The Admin's Barnstar |
| For helping me with problems and being a kind admin...Lord Laitinen (talk) 15:01, 11 March 2014 (UTC) |
 | The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar |
| The world sleeps safely with you aroundWhispyhistory (talk) 21:38, 12 November 2019 (UTC) |
The storyTlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius. Discussed here in rather high-flown language but the parallels between theEncyclopedia of Tlön and Wikipedia are too close to ignore.
Guy Macon's frank admission ofWikipedia bias.
See the admin stats box at the top of this page. I had no ambition to figure high up thelist of Wikipedians by number of edits but by being around for long enough, I have moved fairly well up it. The growth in my edit count over my first year is given below. I have given up recording it but the current value can be found fromthis edit counter. See alsoJamesR's league table of admins andWikiProject edit counters. Some landmarks:
I spend most of my time on this, the English Wikipedia, but despite speaking no other languages, I have madeseveral contributions to other wikis.
| General pages: | RHaworth.net | personal wiki | |
| Photo albums: | main list | older list | flickr |
| Pseudo blogs: | Coal & Wine | Phreak | PoSP |
| Other presences: | geograph | Wikia | full list |
