User:Carcharoth/Contributions

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This page is a summary of some of the contributions I have made to Wikipedia, including areas I've worked on, and a description of some of the pages I have made major contributions towards. Many of the summaries need dates, and the list is not yet complete. I need to survey my contributions log to update this area.

[edit] Contributions

First edit as Carcharoth was January 2005.
Log of contributions is here.
Hallelujah. A working edit count tool has reappeared (October 2006): see my contributions with the Wannabe Kate tool.

[edit] New approach

[edit] Logs

[edit] Namespaces

[edit] Dates

[edit] Types

There are a range of different areas I have participated in. These include:

[edit] Organisation

Adding, changing and piping category tags
Creating and categorising category pages
Creating redirects
Categorising redirects
Moving pages to new names
Article assessments
WikiProject template tagging
Creating and maintaining disambiguation pages

[edit] Formal discussion

[edit] General discussion

Discussion at my talk page
Discussion at other people's talk pages
Discussion at article talk pages
Discussion at WikiProject talk pages
Discussion at WP:AN
Discussion at WP:ANI
Discussion at policy talk pages
Discussion at Talk:Main Page and associated templates
Discussion at Village pumps

[edit] Layout and design

[edit] Copyediting

General typos
Fixing incorrect links
Disambiguation repair

[edit] Wikipedia community and history

Reading the Signpost and making suggestions
Occassional browsing of the wiki-en-l mailing list through its archives
ArbCom elections 2006
WMF Board Election 2006
- Took place at meta:. See meta:Elections for the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation, 2006/En
Wikipedia Arbitration Committee cases

[edit] Other

Reference Desk questions asked
- Language
  - 31/08/2006 - Names in other languages
- Humanities
  - 21/03/2006 - Was Margaret Beckett Official Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Labour Party?
  - 27/03/2006 - Ptolemies...
  - 05/04/2006 - Most powerful rulers
  - 29/08/2006 - Alexander Westphal - birth and death dates
  - 19/09/2006 - Time periods
Reference Desk questions answered
- Humanities
  - 31/12/2006 - Anyone else go like Saddam?
  - 31/12/2006 - Humans and Monkeys?
  - 05/04/2006 - god
  - 19/09/2006 - Atheist's joke on Islam
  - 19/09/2006 - Whats the meaning of life???
  - 19/09/2006 - Canadians from the Boer War
  - 20/09/2006 - Eastern Europe Peoples
  - 20/09/2006 - Problems with youths.
  - 20/09/2006 - san andreas
  - 20/09/2006 - What is a fat cat salary ?
  - 07/01/2007 - North Korea Solutions
- Entertainment
  - 21/12/2006 - Which Jackie Chan movie?
  - 21/12/2006 - Popular culture?
  - 23/12/2006 - Name that song
- Science
- Miscellaneous
- Wikipedia:Reference desk/Entertainment
- Wikipedia:Reference desk/Humanities
- Wikipedia:Reference desk/Language
- Wikipedia:Reference desk/Miscellaneous
- Wikipedia:Reference desk/Science
Help Desk questions asked
Help Desk questions answered
- Wikipedia:Help desk

[edit] Major activity

Pages to which I have made more than 50 edits (as of 23/03/2007).

(354) Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Middle-earth
(294) User:Carcharoth/Tolkien categories
(209) Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard
(206) Ptolemy (name)
(196) Wikipedia:WikiProject Middle-earth/Images
(174) Talk:Main Page
(156) User:Carcharoth
(141) Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents
(135) Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)
(131) User talk:Carcharoth
(124) Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2006/Candidate statements
(123) Wikipedia talk:Requests for adminship
(113) Middle-earth
(108) The Lord of the Rings
(105) Wikipedia:Help desk
(103) Talk:2006 FIFA World Cup
(94) Wikipedia talk:Attribution
(92) User talk:Geogre
(85) Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)
(84) Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Usability/Main Page/Draft
(83) Wikipedia talk:Criteria for speedy deletion
(82) Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history
(82) J. R. R. Tolkien
(81) 2006 FIFA World Cup
(78) Wikipedia talk:Categorization
(76) Wikipedia:WikiProject Usability/Main Page/Draft
(74) Wikipedia talk:Village pump (proposals)/Sidebar redesign
(73) Template talk:In the news
(68) 7 July 2005 London bombings
(65) La Ferté-sous-Jouarre memorial
(65) User:Carcharoth/Contributions
(62) Wikipedia:Reference desk/Humanities
(60) Talk:J. R. R. Tolkien
(57) User talk:CBDunkerson
(57) Talk:The Lord of the Rings
(52) Wikipedia talk:Requests for adminship/ProtectionBot

[edit] Statistics

Discrepancies usually due to edits lost due to deletion of articles or images.

[edit] 03/08/2006 (up to 15:05)

Using Essjay's edit counter:

Main: 3578 edits
Talk: 929 edits
User: 553 edits
User talk: 379 edits
Wikipedia: 1006 edits
Wikipedia talk: 807 edits
Image: 1 edit
Image talk: 6 edits
Mediawiki: 0 edits
Mediawiki talk: 0 edits
Template: 148 edits
Template talk: 142 edits
Help: 0 edits
Help talk: 3 edits
Category: 445 edits
Category talk: 50 edits
Portal: 26 edits
Portal talk: 4 edits

TOTAL = 8077

[edit] 22/05/2006 (up to 15:15)

Manual counts, as toolserver tool not working:

Main: 2193 edits
Talk: 393 edits
User: 434 edits
User talk: 167 edits
Wikipedia: 621 edits
Wikipedia talk: 370 edits
Image: 3 edits
Image talk: 3 edits
MediaWiki: 0 edits
MediaWiki talk: 0 edits
Template: 111 edits
Template talk: 77 edits
Help: 0 edits
Help talk: 3 edits
Category: 327 edits
Category talk: 37 edits
Portal: 27 edits
Portal talk: 4 edits

TOTAL = 4760

[edit] 19/01/2007 (up to 05:12)

Generated by Titoxd with Flcelloguy's Tool

Main: 4254
Talk: 1708
User: 828
User talk: 1208
Wikipedia: 2263
Wikipedia talk: 1924
Image: 2
Image talk: 4
Template: 177
Template talk: 245
Help talk: 3
Category: 549
Category talk: 85
Portal: 34
Portal talk: 9

Total edits: 13293

w/ edit summary: 12492 (93.97%*)

w/ manual edit summary: 9572 (72.0%*)

Minor edits: 1394 (10.48%*)

First known edit: Jan 7, 2005

* - percentages are rounded down to the nearest hundredth.

[edit] 23/03/2007 (up to 11:42)

Generated by Carcharoth with the Wannabe Kate tool.

Mainspace - 5060
Wikipedia - 2497
Wikipedia talk - 2345
Talk - 2306
User talk - 1400
User - 885
Category - 565
Template talk - 293
Template - 196
Category talk - 111
Portal - 42
Portal talk - 21
Image talk - 4
Image - 4
Help talk - 3
MediaWiki talk - 2
avg edits per article - 3.27
earliest edit - 03:05, 8 January 2005
number of unique pages - 4807
total - 15734

[edit] Selected contributions

From an initial pass through my contributions log, the articles and talk pages I have contributed to are (in chronological order):

A lot of my other work has been on categories:

Much sorting of Category:Disasters and Category:Natural disasters

[edit] First article

Spotted a missing article in Category:Chess magazines, and decided to add CHESS magazine. Unfortunately I appear to have just missed out on the honour of creating the 1,000,000th article...

[edit] Second article

Baruch Harold Wood might be considered a better attempt at an article, except for the fact that I ~~nicked~~... translated it from the German Wikipedia.

[edit] Creating an article from a disambiguation page

This editing history summary concerns work I did on Ptolemy (disambiguation). This started when I realised that Ptolemaic redirected to Ptolemaic dynasty, as seen here (27/09/2003). This rang a warning bell in my mind, as I realised that many people would link Ptolemiac in articles referring to Claudius Ptolemaeus, the famous astronomer of the 2nd century AD, not the Egyptian ruling dynasty (of Macedonian origin) of the 3rd to 1st centuries BC. Clicking on "What links here" confirmed my fears. I eventually got round to tidying up those links and redid Ptolemaic as a disambiguation page (24/03/2006). While changing those links, I had got interested in the history of the Ptolemies, and the confusing tangle of Ptolemies in the Ptolemaic dynasty. I then gradually started tidying up the disambiguation page by adding descriptions to help people find the Ptolemy they needed. Previously, a reader had to click back and forth between different Ptolemies, and try and mentally keep track of where and when these Ptolemies existed. I also expanded the list and organised it into mostly historical sections. Over the course of a few days, Ptolemy (disambiguation) went from this (25/03/2006) to this (28/02/2006). During the course of this work I had been delving deeper and deeper into the history of the Ptolemies (see here for 'The House of Ptolemy' by Edwyn Bevan, an enthralling history of the Ptolemies). At some point I also tidied up the disambiguation page at Ptolemais.

The reorganisation of Ptolemy (disambiguation) into historical sections had made me realise that there was a narrative thread here, one that spanned over 2000 years of history. This focused my interest on the etymology of the name Ptolemy, to add to the history of the people bearing the name, and how the name has come to be used in today's world. This accounts for the addition of the etymological section ranging across several languages. By the time of this version (29/03/2006), my earlier fears that the page was no longer a disambiguation page were well and truly confirmed!

At this point, I initiated discussions at various places in Wikipedia, to add to the discussions I had already started at places like the Help Desk and the Reference Desk. Here, I provide links to some of these discussions (some discussions may have since been archived, and talk page discussions have not been refactored):

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Humanities#Ptolemies... - appeal for more examples of Ptolemies.

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Language#Etymology_of_Greek_Ptolemaios_and_Italian_Tolomeo - asking about the etymology.

Wikipedia:Help_desk#Name_etymologies/histories_on_Wikipedia - asking for advice on what to do with Ptolemy (disambiguation), which was getting out of control. No authoritative advice, but suggestions led me to look at similar disambiguation pages.

Wikipedia:Help_desk#Disambiguation_page_styles - another Help Desk request for advice after looking at other name disambiguation pages. Response led me to the disambiguation Manual of Style.

Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Biography#Disambiguation_page_styles_for_people - repeat of question from the Help Desk, posted at the Wikiproject Biography talk page - no response as of 29/03/2006.

Category_talk:Lists_of_ambiguous_human_names - repeat of question from the Help Desk, posted at the talk page for the category for ambiguous human names. Advice there confirmed my thought that Ptolemy (disambiguation) should be reduced back to an organised list, after moving material to Ptolemy (name). Example of how to do this split was given for Robert (name), which was split off from Robert.

User_talk:Carcharoth#Ptolemy - User:Macrakis points out that Ptolemy (disambiguation) includes more information that is needed.

Talk:Ptolemy (disambiguation) - page history summaries, and discussions, on the talk page for Ptolemy (disambiguation).

I then spent some time browsing through the Manual of Style (disambiguation pages), and the talk pages there and at Wikipedia:Disambiguation. I then posted this summary at the Ptolemy (disambiguation) talk page. I intend to continue the current discussions and, if needed, start discussions at the Wikipedia Disambiguation talk page. Eventually, after taking advice and discussing the best way to organise the material, the split to Ptolemy (name) will take place.

Links to new discussions will also be added here.

[edit] 1356 Basel earthquake

Requested a translation from the French Wikipedia, and 1356 Basel earthquake was the result. I also succeeded in nominating this for WP:DYK (5th January 2006).

[edit] Serge Voronoff

Greatly expanded the Serge Voronoff article. The subject has piqued my interest, so I may try to get this to WP:FA one day, with WP:DYK first.

[edit] Royal Medal

Did a lot of tidying and checking on Royal Medal (see the talk page).

[edit] La Ferté-sous-Jouarre memorial

Started La Ferté-sous-Jouarre memorial.

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