User:David Underdown

For the historian and cricket-writer, see David Underdown.

Unified login: David Underdown is the unique login of this user for all public Wikimedia projects.

Currently living and working in south-west London, I'm originally from north-west England (with a Welsh father).

I've a strong interest in classical music, singing tenor in several choirs, and formerly playing the trombone. I started singing as a choir boy in Anglican church choirs, whilst not really being a practicing Anglican these days, I have strong family ties to the Church of England (and indeed the Church in Wales). One of the choirs I sing with serves primarily as a "Visiting choir", filling in for English Cathedral choirs when they are on holiday, and occasionally touring European cathedrals (and other large churches). As a result of this I've been editing various articles related to this topic, and I'm currently trying to straighten out the Morning Prayer article here.

Whilst a maths student at Imperial College, I started going to The Proms as a prommer in 1997, and that was the first article I edited in Wikipedia (as one of many people at IP 81.19.57.130 since I hadn't created an account then).

I've also been involved in field hockey, playing during my teens and early twenties and subsequently umpiring in Surrey. Other than than that I'm a change ringer and will read just about any book I can lay my hands on. Combining an interest in ringing and military history, I've been researching the men named on a First World War roll of honour, http://halfmuffled.wordpress.com

I also spent some years living in Peterborough, which explains the occasional edits I've made to articles about there.

Other than those areas of interest, I like browsing around using Random article, and occasionally make the odd copy-edit or comment on a talk-page if I spot something particularly glaring.

I am, so far as I know, unrelated to David Underdown.

To do

Create Robert King (conductor) - move Robert King to Robert King (athlete) to create disambig page - this would give us 4 'Robert King's, no-one of which seems to have an outstanding claim to priority.

Sort out Andrew Carwood

Create David Stogdon article, see http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2008/feb/26/2 - maybe also Ian Harvey (airline pilot), see http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1467912/Captain-Ian-Harvey.html

Go through this list and convert links to the London Gazette (or Edinburgh or Belfast) to {{LondonGazette}}, particularly for articles which use the old (now broken) url format. Also convert these

Re-write The Proms, probably create new articles on History of the Proms, Last Night of the Proms (currently a redirect) and possibly other. Sandbox and reference collection here User:David Underdown/Proms

Finish David Campbell (British Army officer), see [1], one of the last British Army casualties of the lance.

Continue work on Norman Douglas Holbrook.

Useful links

AfD

Awards etc

This user helped promote Henry Chadwick (theologian) to good article status.

This user helped promote Tim Cross to good article status.

		The Original Barnstar
		For your excellent research and contributions relating to John Durnford-Slater. Thanks very much! AustralianRupert (talk) 00:58, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

		The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		For your valiant efforts in reverting and correcting the vandalism and misguided edits on the article Harry Murray during its appearance as Today's Featured Article on 19 August 2009, I am proud to present the Anti-Vandalism Barnstar to David Underdown. Thanks! Abraham, B.S. (talk) 09:10, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

On August 30, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Ronnie Tod, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

— Jake Wartenberg 23:16, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

		The Guidance Barnstar
		The Guidance Barnstar may be awarded to editors who help others locate valuable resources, information, or assistance. Thank you for the help with locating Gazette refs and all the other fixes you've made to "my" articles over the last few weeks. Best, HJ Mitchell | fancy a chat? 22:19, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

		The Barnstar of Integrity
		For helping me out with the bits of cricketers lives that are unimportant to me.. such as winning World Wars! Seriously, you've given me a hand everytime I've asked for it and never said no or ignored my request; a true gent! Harrias (talk) 23:04, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

		The Goat Star
		For contributions to Caprinae Solidarius Lance Corporal William Windsor salutes you! Thank you for correcting me on William Windsor (goat) re. WP:MOSCAPS#Military terms. Have a goatstar; there's not many of 'em out there!  Chzz  ►  11:34, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

YOU CAN NEVER HAVE TOO MANY BARNSTARS Thanks and kudos for your frequent contributions to copyeditting DYK entries and other things you do for Wikipedia. See...people do notice! - Victuallers (talk) 20:04, 25 March 2010 (UTC))

		The Helping Hand Barnstar
		For helping a fledging wikipedia editor find his way. Very much appreciated! Noelypole 09:19, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

		The WikiChevrons
		For your consistent improvement of World War I biographical articles; which you scrutinise and question which forces others to think. I salute your work. FruitMonkey (talk) 10:48, 24 August 2010 (UTC)