User:ScottDavis

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This user comes from South Australia

This user is a member of WikiProject Australia.

This user is a member of WikiProject Adelaide.

This user is a member of WikiProject Stub Sorting.

This user repairs links to disambiguation pages - you can help!

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This user has over 17 000 edits on the English Wikipedia.

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I live in the northern suburbs of Adelaide. I had read articles in Wikipedia over several years. I finally joined at the beginning of 2005, and started filling in some gaps in things I know something about. Most of the articles I've created or added to are about South Australian geography - towns, highways, regions, rivers. Most of them are quite short and marked as stubs, in the hopes that someone else will add info I didn't know. I'm gradually expanding my interests to trying to assist with the historic Australian Politics articles and also a few other Australian topics.

1 Wikiprojects
2 Wikipedia milestones
3 My contributions
4 Images/photos I've contributed
5 Things I still want to do
6 My international travels

Wikiprojects

The current Australian Collaboration of the Fortnight is Cricket in Australia.
Every fortnight a different Australia-related topic, stub or non-existent article is picked.
Please read the nomination text and improve the article any way you can.

I contribute to a number of areas of WikiProject Australia:

I am a member of the WikiProject Adelaide, but my interest is really all of South Australia, not just the Adelaide metropolitan area.

WikiProject Australian politics is a project to address the deficiency of articles related to Politics in Australia. Before it was set up I had ensured there was an article for each Governor of South Australia. I intend to also eventually make sure there is an article for each local government area in South Australia, former Premier of South Australia and each of the South Australian House of Assembly electoral districts.

The WikiProject Australian motorsport (formerly WikiProject V8 Supercars) is a project to create, clean up and expand articles about motorsport, series and drivers in the V8 Supercar series and other Australian motorsport.

WikiProject Australian places covers all places in Australia, especially if not under a more specific wikiproject. I actively search for articles on Australian towns and suburbs that are either misnamed or not categorised, and name and categorise them properly. I am also adding coordinates from Geoscience Australia to many of them. The results of coordinate tagging in Wikipedia can be seen by Stefan Kühn having created a Google Earth dataset [2].

WikiProject Australian history
I revived the Australian collaboration of the fortnight which had become sadly neglected through the first part of 2005.

Active Wiki Fixup Projects
Dead-end pages Most wanted stubs Most wanted articles Missing articles Stubsensor Uncategorised articles Orphaned articles Wikification needed Orphaned talk pages Disambig pages w/ links Linkrot Transwiki log cleanup
Main - Inactive - Mini

WikiProject Geographical coordinates has some good ideas about standardising representation of location in articles, and being able to do useful things with locations such as displaying locator maps, maps of places, and maps of areas highlighting links to all Wikipedia articles about things in that area. My main contribution has been to add coordinates to South Australian town articles, and working through other geographic features, and other states, but slower. WikiMiniAtlas is a handy way of checking that coordinates are roughly right, and finding other nearby articles.

I support the Wikiproject Stub Sorting in helping to move stubs and short articles to the stub categories where they might be best noticed by experts. I would encourage all Australians to review the Australia stubs category and its subcategories and see if you can expand a few articles. I also created the Oceania and Caribbean stub categories and put the initial articles in them.

I support but am not a member of WikiProject Formula One, WikiProject A1 Grand Prix and the Australian military history task force.

The Red Link Recovery Project was an interesting way to read more of Wikipedia, and help the project, too.

Wikipedia milestones

I started this table when 1000 edits sounded like a lot. Of course, since then I've become more involved, and joined stub sorting and red link recovery wikiprojects which lead to much larger numbers of smaller edits. Whenever I find an article with no category, I try to add at least one relevant category to it.

Using AWB to fix links to articles that have moved (such as Cork and Bath) also pushes up the edit count quite quickly.

Edits ( all namespaces) since 2 January 2005 (there were also a few anonymous ones before I created an account):
Edits	Date	Article
1000	14 May 2005	1995 Formula One season
2000	21 June 2005	South Australian Electoral Distrcits (moved a mis-spelling)
3000	26 July 2005	Westminster, Western Australia
4000	9 September 2005	Wikipedia:Australian Collaboration of the Fortnight
5000	16 October 2005	STW-9 (sorting obvious Australia-stubs to Perth-stubs)
4000 in article namespace	25 October 2005	Woodville Football Club (fixed red link, category)
	4 November 2005	Appointed as an administrator
6000 edits	20 November 2005	Pru Goward (categories)
7000 edits	10 February 2006	American River, South Australia (coordinates)
6000 in article namespace	9 March 2006	Electoral district of Mawson (new article before state election)
8000 edits	11 March 2006	Dubai Ports World controversy (disambiguate, clarify, wikilink)
over 10,000		I lost count when the counters were unreliable
over 15,000		Around December 2006
latest	count	latest edit latest non-minor edit

To see a current count for any user, use http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?site=en.wikipedia.org

Good ways of increasing your edit count include

Writing new articles for any red links (like this one) you find
Fixing spelling, grammar and other common mistakes
Fixing wiki syntax
Disambiguating links to disambiguation pages
Stub sorting
Find a category you know something about, and improve all the articles in it
Add categories to articles without any category

Bad ways include edit wars, arguments on project pages, wikivandalism.

My contributions

You can review

My contributions
My user activity log (shows admin activity, uploads and page moves)

Categories I've created

Category:Local Government Areas of South Australia, Category:Motor racing in Australia (later renamed to Category:Motorsport in Australia), Category:Motor racing drivers of Australia (since renamed to Category:Australian racecar drivers), Category:Governors of South Australia, Category:Governors of the Falkland Islands, Category:Governors of Queensland, Category:Governors of Victoria, Category:Governors of Trinidad and Tobago, Category:Oceania-related stubs (later renamed to Category:Oceania stubs), Category:Caribbean stubs Category:Ukrainian people stubs, Category:Royal shows (later renamed to Category:Royal shows in Australia), Category:Wollongong, Category:Electoral divisions of Tasmania

Templates I've created

{{SouthAustraliaPremiers}}, {{Oceania-stub}}, {{Caribbean-stub}}, {{Towns of the Riverland}}, {{Towns of the Clare Valley}}

Articles I've created

Many are marked as stubs, but almost long enough not to be. I will mark an original article as stub if I believe it likely that other people or books could have relevent information that I have not included.

People

Sidney Kidman, Craig Lowndes, Steven Johnson (motor racing), Dick Johnson (Australian auto racing), John Downer, Wylie (person), John Baxter (explorer), John Hindmarsh, Rickard Rydell, Frederick Robe, George Gawler, Henry Young, George Le Hunte, Dominick Daly, Day Bosanquet, Thomas Buxton, Robert O'Hara Burke, William John Wills, James Harrison (Australian governor), Henry Galway, William Weigall, George Bridges, Charles Barclay-Harvey, Edric Bastyan, Donald Dunstan (Australian Governor), Eric Neal, Keith Seaman, Robert George, Barry Seton, Glenn Seton, William Morgan (Australian politician), Thomas Reynolds, Clark Baronets, Jim Richards (race driver) John Cockburn (Australian politician) Geoffrey Reed (judge)

Places

...and others I may have forgotten to add to these lists.

Some of the articles I've added something significant to

I frequently forget to add to this list.

Sturt Highway, Coonawarra, Keith, Swan Hill, Victoria, Yorke Peninsula, Edward John Eyre, Murray River, Sturt's desert pea, Kapunda, South Australia, Mildura, Victoria, Pastoralist, Larry Perkins, Vern Schuppan, Ashmore and Cartier Islands, National Wine Centre of Australia, Adelaide Railway Station, Cape Jervis, South Australia, Ferguson Company, Pipeline transport, Rundle Mall, Adelaide, Tailem Bend, South Australia, List of cities and towns in South Australia, Murray Mouth, List of postcodes in South Australia, Loch Ard Gorge, Hermannsburg Mission, Outback Highway, Glossop, South Australia, List of Governors-General of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Richard Graves MacDonnell, Mike MacDowel, WMC Resources, Grafton Bus Crash, Springwood, New South Wales, Farina, South Australia, British Formula Three Championship, Tony Trimmer, Rikky von Opel, Innes National Park, George Marsden Waterhouse, Agricultural show (and a merged contributor Show (fair)), Wood chopping, Handicapped, Canunda National Park, Ooldea, South Australia, Airlines of South Australia, South Road, Adelaide, S&P/ASX 50, S&P/ASX 200, Saibai Island

...and many other small edits.

Awards and achievements

		The Barnstar of National Merit
		For contributing so many Australian related articles to wikipedia, I hereby award you this barnstar! Enjoy, ßlηguγΣη Have your say!!! 06:56, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

For your help with the May 16, 2005 double redirect cleanup project you are given this award.

		The Liberty Star
		I award this Liberty Star for your work on Philadelphia related articles. --evrik 14:26, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		Mr. Davis- Thanks for helping Wikipedia be a massive place due to your 10,000+ edits! I hereby grant you this barnstar. Good job and thanks! UBXes-Tennis player gallery Wikipediaman123 19:14, 24 September 2006 (UTC)TALK

		The Kindness Award of Ed
		This Wikipedian has received the Kindness Award from Ed for going the extra mile to be kind to another person. Kindness is important so that there may be an improved sense of community here on Wikipedia. As a reward, I offer this user a random piece of food. (I will never give the same food item out twice, so don't be jealous.) You may read a nice story on kindness over here. --Ed ^{¿Cómo estás?} 03:39, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Here, you do deserve a cookie at least! Ga rr ie 20:38, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

I created {{Oceania-stub}} and {{Caribbean-stub}}, the initial articles I found to mark with them are at /Oceania and /Caribbean. They have matching categories Category:Oceania stubs and Category:Caribbean stubs. I also created the Category:Ukrainian people stubs and helped sort {{bio-stub}} into it.

Many of the people for whom I have created articles were Governors of South Australia. I have ensured that the entire set have at least a stub. Most now have as much information as I could find on the internet. A few early ones may not yet have all info from Canadian Dictionary of Biography and Australian Dictionary of Biography, or the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica

I have made sure all the state postcode lists have wikilinks to all the towns.

Images/photos I've contributed

See /Images or an automatic gallery of my contributions to Commons

Things I still want to do

(reminders to myself - feel free to butt in and do them first)

Add to Murray River#River transport about modern commercial boats—houseboats, passengers, historic reenactments.
check the list of Australian wine regions is complete and make sure they are all described.
add some Australian content to Paddle steamer. Perhaps a picture of a sidewheeler, reference to PS Emmylou being built in 1982 (since 1940s which the article says was the end of building them). Reference to paddlewheelers still operating, both steam and diesel. Reference http://www.murrayriver.com.au/members-club/riverboats/steamers_riverboats.htm
Create an article for each of the red links I've made
Monitor and add to Category:Towns in South Australia
- each article should be named "placename, South Australia"
- Each article should have either a redirect or link from "placename" or "placename (disambiguation)"
- Each article should contain
  - its coordinates and population using {{coor title dm...}} - coordinates from Geoscience Australia
  - text description of location
  - description of LGA, state and federal electorates, and postcode
Monitor and add to Category:Geography of South Australia — as above except for naming
Monitor Category:Premiers of South Australia (set is complete)
- Succession box
- {{SouthAustraliaPremiers}}
Keep an eye on any of the categories I created, and expand the articles in them.
The /plain town names list contains all the placenames from the Australian postcode lists, with their state name removed. I can use it to find mis-named new town articles.
Perform some of the tasks and redlinks listed in the templates below.

Here are some tasks you can do to help with WikiProject Adelaide:

The current Australian collaboration of the fortnight article is Cricket in Australia.
Places and landmarks: Southern Vales, Science Park, Adelaide Town Hall, Sir Samuel Way Building, Torrens Parade Ground, Carrick Hill, Cummins House
Parks and rivers: Henley Square, Peace Park, Sturt River, Patawalonga River,
Events and people: Carnevale in Adelaide, Come Out Festival, SALA Festival, Ian Gilfillan, George Stevenson (editor), Edmund Wright, Sir Edward Hayward
Streets: South Terrace, East Terrace, West Terrace, Hutt Street, Hindley Street,
History: The Chronicle (South Australia), Adelaide Observer, Adelaide Steamship Company, HMS Africaine, History Trust of South Australia, Electoral reform in South Australia
Other: Tandanya, Adelaide Central School of Arts

Open Tasks for Australian politics (Edit this list)
Newly added	Editing / formatting	Missing articles	Expansion
David Bartlett Australian legislative election, 1963 John White (Australian politician) John Aquilina Lara Giddings Eddie Obeid Francis Matthew John Baker Francis Patrick Baker Helen Buckingham Office of the Chief Scientist (Australia) Ministerial Committee	Carl Scully	Alison Anderson Bob Howard (academic)	Iain Evans Fiona Nash Kevin Foley Dean Brown Desley Scott Martin Hamilton-Smith Mark Brindal Joe Scalzi Joan Hall James Killen Terry Smith
Merges	Discussions	Crossreferences
Electoral district of Cunningham	none as yet

I'll remove the following navigation boxes from this page when the articles all exist - with luck I don't have to make them all! I made half of the Governors.

Local Government Areas of South Australia

Adelaide Metropolitan	City of Adelaide \| City of Burnside \| City of Campbelltown \| City of Charles Sturt \| Town of Gawler \| City of Holdfast Bay \| City of Marion \| City of Mitcham \| City of Norwood Payneham & St Peters \| City of Onkaparinga \| City of Playford \| City of Port Adelaide Enfield \| City of Prospect \| City of Salisbury \| City of Tea Tree Gully \| City of Unley \| City of West Torrens \| Town of Walkerville
Aboriginal	Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara \| Gerard \| Maralinga Tjarutja \| Nepabunna \| Yalata
Central SA	Barossa Council \| Barunga West DC \| Clare and Gilbert Valleys DC \| Copper Coast DC \| Flinders Ranges Council \| Goyder RC \| Light RC \| Mallala DC \| Mount Remarkable DC \| Northern Areas Council \| Orroroo Carieton DC \| Peterborough DC \| Port Pirie RC \| Yorke Peninsula DC \| Wakefield RC
Murray Mallee	Berri Barmera Council \| The Coorong DC \| Karoonda East Murray DC \| Loxton Waikerie DC \| Mid Murray Council \| City of Murray Bridge \| Renmark Paringa DC \| Southern Mallee DC
Outback	Coober Pedy DC \| Roxby Downs MC \| Outback Areas CDT
South East	Grant DC \| Kingston RC \| Naracoorte Lucindale Council \| City of Mount Gambier \| Robe DC \| Wattle Range Council \| Tatiara DC
Southern & Hills	Adelaide Hills Council \| Alexandrina Council \| Kangaroo Island Council \| Mount Barker DC \| City of Victor Harbor \| Yankalilla DC
West Coast	Ceduna DC \| Cleve DC \| Elliston DC \| Franklin Harbour DC \| Kimba DC \| Le Hunte DC \| Lower Eyre Peninsula DC \| City of Port Augusta \| City of Port Lincoln \| Streaky Bay DC \| Tumby Bay DC \| City of Whyalla