User:Mike Peel

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I am a student of Physics and Astrophysics at the University of Manchester. I've just finished a Masters course, and have recently started a PhD course at Jodrell Bank, looking at the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect. For more info about me, see my personal webpage at MikePeel.net.

1 Wikipedia activities
2 Bookmarks
3 Things I think every Wikipedian should read
4 Disclaimers

[edit] Wikipedia activities

My current ~~Stress (physics)~~ stress level. Finding that I need more time in the day to do everything.

I mainly edit (astro-)physics articles, although I don't confine myself to them. A lot of my editing is related to references for the articles - which is currently one of Wikipedia's biggest weak points, in my opinion.

If you've replied to a comment of mine on a talk page of an article, or started one about an edit I've made, and I haven't responded, that's most likely because I don't watch all of the pages that I've edited. Sorry. Please poke me on my talk page, and I'll reply to your comment.

I operate Peelbot, which I hope to use for a variety of things. I'm currently using it to tag the talk pages of physics-related articles with Template:Physics.

I also have an account at Wikimedia Commons: commons:User:Mike Peel, which I use to upload pictures to Wikipedia (under CC-BY-SA), and another on Wikinews: wikinews:User:Mike Peel.

I don't like external links sections; I feel that their content is generally best placed under either the References section, or Further Reading, or in an infobox in the case of official links. I find that external links sections invite spam, which is generally bad.

On 30 November 2006, I was the 2566th user in a list of Wikipedians by number of edits. My bot, User:Peelbot, was 3136th.

This user is a participant of
WikiProject Physics.

This user is a member of the Astronomical Object WikiProject.

This user is a member of the Astronomy WikiProject

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This user can and does contribute to the template namespace with confidence.

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This user can use and program conditional templates.

[edit] Observations

Over the last few weeks (November 2006), I've noticed a number of editors giving correct edit summaries while vandalising articles. For example, [1] shows an editor giving an edit summary of "spelling errors", while introducing spelling errors into the article! (NB: this is separate from Wikipedia:Automatic edit summaries.)
Over the last few months (Oct-Nov 2006), I've also noticed an increase in the number of anonymous editors either adding wikilinks to articles, or removing some, with no other changes.
Wikipedia is a bottomless pit, or at least it's a close approximation to one. As aptly illustrated by the way that "bottomless pit" is currently (jan 2007) a red link.
The aims of wikipedians seem to be askew. We seem to have in-depth articles on Pokémon, and all its' characters, yet a disorganized and incomplete set of articles on physics and astronomy, among many other important topics. Huh?
The template namespace is a mess

[edit] Works in progress

User:Mike Peel/References guide — A guide to the technical aspects of referencing on Wikipedia
User:Mike Peel/Physics categories — A list of categories holding Physics articles, for tagging with Template:Physics

[edit] To do

Sort through categorization of templates, in Category:Wikipedia templates
- Sort through Category:Uncategorized templates
- Sort through Category:WikiProject templates, removing non-WP templates
- Find uncategorized templates. Use Peelbot?

[edit] Bookmarks

These are Wikipedia pages I either find useful but don't edit, or that I do edit but don't want cluttering up my watchlist. Since Wikipedia doesn't have a proper bookmarking system, this seems to be the logical place to put them.

Wikipedia:Template_messages/User_talk_namespace
User:Interiot/Tool2/code.js (Edit counter, requires some javascript to work. If you want to use it, read this page.)

[edit] Special pages

Special:Allpages
Special:Prefixindex
Special:Unusedtemplates really needs clearing out. That'll be a fun job for quiet century.

[edit] Places to watch

Mainly for updating Wikipedia:WikiProject Physics/Current activity

[edit] Wikipedia 1.0

[edit] Really, really odd things

[edit] Not quite so odd things

Wikipedia:Rouge admin

[edit] Things I think every Wikipedian should read

(Have you read them all?)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias. Note that I fall straight into the "average wikipedian" category.
Wikipedia:Manual of Style
- If you're writing about fiction, then Wikipedia:Manual of Style (writing about fiction) is a worthwhile read.
Wikipedia:Citing sources

[edit] Disclaimers

This is a Wikipedia user page.

This is not an encyclopedia article. If you find this page on any site other than Wikipedia, you are viewing a mirror site. Be aware that the page may be outdated and that the user this page belongs to may have no personal affiliation with any site other than Wikipedia itself. The original page is located at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mike_Peel.

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