User:Safalra
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I'm Safalra. I first became aware of Wikipedia when it started showing up in the referrer logs of my website (http://www.safalra.com). I registered an account on 2nd April 2006.
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[edit] Citing sources
The citation of sources ensures that Wikipedia content is verifiable, with no original research. There are several different citation styles in use in Wikipedia, with the guideline that each article should use a single citation style throughout. My personal preference is to use the footnotes system along with citations following the guidelines described in chapters 16 and 17 of The Chicago Manual of Style (15th edition), but with dates in the neutral yyyy-mm-dd format. The footnotes system is adequated described elsewhere on Wikipedia; here I will explain the citation style.
[edit] Citing books
The format for citing books is:
author, ''title'' (location: publisher, year), pages(s)
For example:
- Percy Russell, A History Of Torquay (Torquay: Devonshire Press Limited, 1960), 168-169
[edit] Citing webpages
The format for citing webpages is:
author, "title", publisher, URL (accessed yyyy-mm-dd)
For example:
- Paul Rincon, "Jawbone hints at earliest Britons", BBC, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4482679.stm (accessed 2006-11-07)
Many websites do not cite the authors of pages; in this case, I use the domain portion of the URL as the author.
[edit] Citing magazine articles
The format for citing magazine articles is:
author, "title", ''magazine'', issue, page(s)
For example:
- Neil Bothwick, "Just the FAQs", Amiga Format, December 1999 (issue 130), 92
Many magazines do not cite the authors of articles; in this case, I use the title of that section of the magazine as the author.
[edit] Editing milestones
These are all powers of two because I'm a computer scientist.
| Edit number | Date | Details |
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| 1 | 2006-04-02 | (diff) Torquay Boys' Grammar School (→Frobisher House) |
| 2 | 2006-04-02 | (diff) Torquay Boys' Grammar School (→School Structure) |
| 4 | 2006-04-04 | (diff) N Shiphay Manor (Article creation) |
| 8 | 2006-04-17 | (diff) Torquay Boys' Grammar School (→Hawkins House - grammar, spelling, and wording) |
| 16 | 2006-07-02 | (diff) m Abyss (Removed duplicate link) |
| 32 | 2006-07-22 | (diff) Elidor (→Allusions/references to other works - cities of the Tuatha Dé Danann) |
| 64 | 2006-08-22 | (diff) Torbay (disambiguation) (Added Torbay (UK Parliament constituency)) |
| 128 | 2006-09-26 | (diff) N User talk:24.73.72.138 ({{subst:blatantvandal}}) |
| 256 | 2006-11-11 | (diff) User:Safalra (added disambiguation repair userbox) |
| 512 | 2006-12-28 | (diff) Amiga Format (→Regular features - added details of the Backstage newsletter) |
[edit] Adding IPA pronunciation guides
Many articles lack pronuncation guides, or feature pronunciation guides that are either incorrect or in a non-standard phonetic system. I've added IPA pronunciation guides to the following articles:
Bishopsteignton, Brixham, Dawlish, Exmouth, Devon, Kingsteignton, Lyme Regis, Paignton, River Teign, Starcross, Teignmouth, Torbay, Torquay, Totnes, Uvula, and Vichyssoise
[edit] Images
[edit] Own work
These images are my own work, and are released into the public domain and made available on Wikimedia Commons.
| Upload date | File name | Description |
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| 2006-06-22 | Image:Exeter-central-railway-station.jpg | Exeter Central Railway Station in Exeter, Devon, England, facing North-West towards Exeter St Davids. The rarely used Platform One, on the Exmouth branchline, is on the far left, with trees in Northernhay Gardens overhanging. The Exeter Central to Barnstable service is currently stopped at Platform Two. Platform Three is empty as the Exeter St Davids to London Waterloo service has just left. The road bridge is obscured by the footbridge. |
| 2006-09-01 | Image:Rubiks-clock.jpg | Rubik's Clock, front face |
| 2006-09-18 | Image:Gdp-and-labour-force-by-sector.png | GDP Composition By Sector and Labour Force By Occupation, produced using data from the CIA World Factbook 2006. The green, red, and blue components of the colours of the countries represent the percentages for the agriculture, industy, and services sectors respectively, as summarised on the colour key - for example, rgb(102,51,201) represents 20% agriculture, 40% industry, and 40% services. |
| 2006-11-20 | Image:Map-of-torquay.png | A map of Torquay. Specifically:
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[edit] Fair use
These images are scans of other people's work, and qualify as fair use in their respective Wikipedia articles.
| Upload date | File name | Description |
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| 2006-09-22 | Image:Weekender-front-page.jpg | Front page of the Weekender Torbay edition. |
| 2006-09-29 | Image:Sudo-logo.png | Logo of the Sudan Social Development Organization. |
| 2006-10-03 | Image:Divine-rights-trip.jpg | Cover of Divine Right's Trip. |
| 2006-12-23 | Image:Magic-user-interface-logo.png | Magic User Interface logo, from http://www.sasg.com/mui/. |
| 2006-12-23 | Image:Ibrowse-logo.png | IBrowse logo, from http://www.ibrowse-dev.net/. |
| 2006-12-23 | Image:Voyager-logo.png | Voyager logo, http://www.vapor.com/voyager/. |
| 2006-12-26 | Image:Af136.jpg | Scan of the final issue (136) of Amiga Format magazine.
(This replaces the previous version, which was missing part of the right-hand side, and was of too high a resolution for a fair use image.) |
| 2006-12-27 | Image:Where-the-humans-eat.jpg | Scan of Where The Humans Eat album cover. |
| 2006-12-28 | Image:Secret-garden-dreamcatcher.jpg | Scan of Dreamcatcher album cover. |
