User:Nick carson
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My name is Nick Carson. I'm a qualified architectural draftsperson, student of architecture at Deakin University and guitarist/vocalist in the Melbourne alternative rock/metal band ZEN.
I was recently featured in the Green Guide section of The Age newspaper in an article about Australian Wikipedians.
I also use: DeviantART, MySpace and Blogger.
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[edit] About Me
I'm interested in Music, Sustainability, Architecture, Graphic Design, Art, Psychology, Philosophy, Epistemology, Cosmology, the Environment, Mountain biking, Sailing, Camping and many other things. I hope to, one day, undertake architecture as a sole practitioner, to design environmentally friendly and energy efficient housing while making it easily available and appeal to everyone. To learn more about me in a quick and fun way, have a look at my Userboxes.
[edit] On Wikipedia
For an example of my work that I consider best illustrates how I edit and write articles on wikipedia, see Somers, Victoria, Montsalvat and Warrandyte, Victoria. I do have alot to learn about wikipedia, I encourage advanced feedback, constructive and to the point, and always suggest things that I can do better, if I do somthing wrong or if I do somthing right tell me about it, if there are any suggestions or disputes or you would like to resolve them and work them out, tell me.
[edit] Articles
On wikipedia I mainly edit articles of general interest to me where I see information that I know of that hasnt already been included. I also edit lots of articles to do with or about somthing in my home town of Melbourne.
[edit] Creation/Expansion
I have created, or expanded from a very small stub, the following articles: Montsalvat - had a Peer Review however, got limited feedback and failed as a Featured Article Candidate due to similar limited feedback reasons, Somers, Victoria c, East Doncaster, Victoria c, Warrandyte, Victoria e, North Warrandyte, Victoria c, Manly, Queensland e, Australian architectural styles c, Ausway c, EastLink e, Metropolitan Ring Road e, RP7 c, Nokia 6820 c, United Petroleum c, Make Poverty History Concert e, Ethanol fuel in Australia c.
- (c) - created
- (e) - expanded
[edit] Adoption
I have adopted the following articles as part of WikiProject Melbourne: Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Somers, Victoria, East Doncaster, Victoria, Warrandyte, Victoria, North Warrandyte, Victoria.
[edit] Other Things
- Very occasionally I write articles on current issues, events and information at my bolg, REAL News Australia.
- Occasionally I submit drawings and photos on DeviantART.
- I can also be found on MySpace.
[edit] Interesting Articles
This has basically become a list of articles I find interesting and just want to remember. Apollo 8, Dark matter, Hubble Deep Field, Hubble Ultra Deep Field, Spacetime, String Theory, Black Hole, Theory of everything, Astrophysics, Unsolved problems in physics, Semantics, Appeal to ignorance, Emotion, Feeling, Fortriu, Tao Te Ching, Yin and Yang, Eastern Philosophy, Dogtown and Z-Boys, Housing in Japan, Minka, Steve Irwin, Don Chipp, John Gorton, Robert Hoddle, Malleus Maleficarum, Mount Augustus, 9/11 (film), Family, 2006 Australian football code crowds, Chicxulub Crater, Silverpit crater, Culture of Japan, An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore, Enough Rope, Andrew Denton, ReBoot, Star Trek, Aleksander Wolszczan, Alcubierre drive, List of nearest stars, Major religious groups, Compact fluorescent lamp, Laser TV, Retro-futurism, PLO, Arab-Israeli conflict, Munich massacre, Proposals for a Palestinian state, Land for peace, Road map for peace, Palestinian state, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, List of metropolitan areas by population, Comparison of file sharing applications, Dewa (band), Mikhail Gorbachev, Bono, Criticism of Microsoft, Operation Wrath of God, Flora of Australia, Granville railway disaster, Columbine High School massacre, Charles Darwin, Battle of Gettysburg, Rapid prototyping, Perpetual motion, Water fuel cell, Who Killed the Electric Car?, Personal rapid transit, Hydrogen vehicle, Epistemology, IPCC Fourth Assessment Report, Soviet submarine K-19, Friedrich Nietzsche, Satori, Agora, Taiga.
[edit] Music
Bass instrument amplification, Guitar effects, Effects unit, Sound recording and reproduction, Recording contract, Guitar speaker, Guitar speaker cabinet, Guitar amplifier, Pickup (music), Humbucker, Effects pedal[1].
[edit] Interesting Pictures
Much the same as interesting articles. Galaxy Cluster Abell 1689, Shuttle Atlantis docked to Space Station Mir, Relatives Chart, Sphinx in 1867, Hiroshima, 1945, Arecibo Radio Telescope
[edit] Useful Links
Original Research Policy, Village Pump, Wikipedia:Verifiability, Wikipedia:The perfect article, Wikipedia:Article Creation and Improvement Drive, Template:Infobox Australian Place.
[edit] Future Stuff
- Incorporate elements of of this user page into my own.
- Find more sources for Montsalvat and get it a peer review.
- Get Warrandyte a peer review.
- Contribute more to Collaboration of the week.
- Research for Ethanol fuel in Australia article.
- Incorporate bushfire table into a new article.
[edit] Bushfires
This is a test of a table I am compiling of the most significant bushfire events in Australian history. I want to create an article about the most significant bushfires in Australia, current project. If you care, let me know what you think. Compiled from many various sources.
| Fires | Location | Deaths | Date | Notes |
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| Black Thursday | Westernport to Wimmera, Victoria | 12 | 6th of February, 1851 | 1 million sheep lost. |
| Red Tuesday | Victoria | 12 | 1st of February, 1898 | 2000 buildings destroyed. |
| 1926 Victorian bushfires | Dandenongs & Gippsland, Victoria | 81 | February - March 1926 | 60 died in the Dandenongs, 31 died around Warburton. |
| 1932 Gippsland bushfires | Gippsland, Victoria | 9 | 1932 | 9 died in Gippsland bushland. |
| Black Friday | Victoria | 71 | 13th of January, 1939 | 2 million hectares burnt. Warrandyte & Yarra Glen worst hit. |
| December 1943 bushfires | Wangaratta, Victoria | 10 | 22nd of December, 1943 | |
| 1944 Victorian bushfires | Victoria | 15-20 | January - February, 1944 | 500 homes destroyed, vast stock losses. |
| 1952 Victorian bushfires | Benalla, Victoria | Unknown | 5th of February, 1952 | Several people died in fires near Benalla. |
| Dwellingup fires | Southwest Western Australia | 0 | January, 1961 | 123 people left homeless, 4500 km2 burnt. |
| 1962 Victorian bushfires | North & East of Melbourne, Victoria | 30 | 14th - 16th of January, 1962 | 450 homes destroyed. |
| 1965 Gippsland bushfires | Longwood & Gippsland, Victoria | 7 | January - March, 1965 | 7 died in Longwood, 300,000 hectares burnt in Gippsland. |
| Chatsbury bushfire | Southern Highlands, New South Wales | 3 | March, 1965 | 59 homes destroyed in Tallong & Wingello. |
| Black Tuesday (1967 Tasmanian bushfires) | Tasmania | 62 | 7th of February, 1967 | Hobart worst hit with 52 deaths and 1400 homes destroyed. |
| 1968 Dandenong bushfires | Dandenongs, Victoria | 0 | 19th of February, 1968 | 53 homes destroyed around The Basin & Upwey. |
| January 1969 bushfires | Central Victoria | 23 | 8th of January, 1969 | 230 homes destroyed, 17 motorists died in fires in Lara on the Melbourne-Geelong Road. |
| 1972 Mount Buffalo bushfire | Mount Buffalo, Victoria | 0 | 14th of December, 1972 | 11,920 hectares burnt at Mount Buffalo over 12 days. |
| 1977 Victorian bushfires | Victoria | 4 | 12th of February, 1977 | 116 homes destroyed in Western District. |
| Northern Sydney bushfires | New South Wales | Unknown | 1979 | |
| 1980/1981 Victorian bushfires | Northwest Victoria | 0 | 28th of December 1980 - 8th of January, 1981 | 119,000 hectares burnt in the Sunset Country and the Big Desert after a lightning strike. |
| Ash Wednesday | Victoria & South Australia | 75 | 16th of February, 1983 | 28 died in SA, 47 in Victoria and 2000 homes destroyed. Mt Macedon, the Otways & the Dandenongs worst affected. |
| 1985 Victorian bushfires | Central Victoria | 3 | 14th of January, 1985 | 180 homes destroyed. |
| 1994 New South Wales bushfires | New South Wales | Unknown | 1994 | |
| 1997 Victorian bushfires | Victoria | 3 | 21st of January, 1997 | 41 homes destroyed in Dandenong, Arthurs Seat, Eildon, Gippsland & Creswick. |
| 1997/1998 Bushfire Season | Victoria | 0 | 31st of December 1997 - 9th of January 1998 | 54,000 hectares burnt, caused by an uncontrolled campfire. |
| Linton bushfire | Linton, Victoria | 5 | 2nd of December 1998 | 5 volunteer firefighters died after an abrupt wind change altered conditions of the fire. |
| 2001 New South Wales bushfires | New South Wales | 0 | 2001 | First use of Erickson S-64 Air-Crane helicopter dubbed "Elvis" |
| 2002/2003 Bushfire Season | Victoria | 0 | December 2002 | Fires caused by lightning in Victoria burn 1.4 million hectares across the state's morthwest & alpine regions. |
| 2003 Eastern Victorian alpine bushfires | Victoria | 0 | January - February 2003 | 87 fires caused by lightning join and burn 13,000 km² for 59 days destroying 41 homes. |
| 2003 Canberra bushfires | Australian Capital Territory | 4 | January 2003 | 500 homes destroyed, 70% of ACT bushland burnt. |
| Black Tuesday (2005 South Australian bushfires) | South Australia | 9 | 11th of January 2005 | Worst bushfires in South Australia since Ash Wednessday. |
| 2006 Central Coast bushfires | New South Wales | Unknown | 1st of January 2006 | |
| Jail Break Inn Fire | New South Wales | 0 | 1st of January 2006 | Stock losses of 20,000, 7 homes destroyed, fire started by cigarette butt. |
| 2006 Grampians bushfire | Victoria | 2 | 19th of January - 9th of February 2006 | 100,000 hectares burnt & 50,000 sheep lost, fire started by lightning. |
| Pulletop bushfire | Wagga Wagga, New South Wales | 0 | 6th of February 2006 | 90 km² burnt, 2,500 sheep lost, fire started by sparks from a tractor. |
| 2006/2007 Australian bushfire season | Australia wide | 2 | September 2006 - present | Most extensive bushfire season in recorded history, 1 million hectares burnt in Victoria over 48 days. |
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