User:Alextejthompson

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My name is Alex Thompson and I edit Wikipedia, and multiple other projects, as a hobby. I live in Nuneaton, in the UK and I am 26 years old. I am passionate about photography, and I travel a lot. I've recently finished studying photography at college, and work as a sales advisor. I changed my username from Rubbish computer to just be as transparent as possible. I don't like the idea that Wikipedia is secret or a closed system. I don't think that describes Wikipedia anyway, but I want to just be completely open with what I do under my real name and face. Let's make the internet not suck!

Wikipedia editing

I began editing on the day I created my account, November 5, 2014, but had previously contributed as an IP. I edit Wikimedia projects as a hobby in my spare time. My editing is varied: I'm not sure how I would sum it up. I patrol recent changes and new pages frequently; I help revert vandalism, but also welcome new users and help copyedit and categorise articles. I frequently use the semi-automated tools HotCat, Twinkle and Huggle, to assist with this. I've been a pending changes reviewer for several years and patrol pending changes for similar reasons (I am also a new page reviewer). Additionally, I contribute to discussions by the Wikipedia community, such as Articles for deletion and Redirects for discussion. I have created several hundred articles and have the autopatrolled right as a result. I'm trying to create articles more often. I also use AutoWikiBrowser sometimes, mostly to help fix typos, especially using the New Pages feed. Although I use several other wikis fairly regularly (see below), I am most active on this site.

In real life

IRL meetups attended: 5
Virtual meetups attended: 3
Total meetups attended: 8
Virtual meetups hosted: 1
Wikipedians^[who?] met: Andreasmperu (talk · contribs) Dcfmyers (talk · contribs) Mainly mazza (talk · contribs) Maproom (talk · contribs) Pintoch (talk · contribs) Redrose64 (talk · contribs) RexxS (talk · contribs) Thryduulf (talk · contribs) Victuallers (talk · contribs) Widefox (talk · contribs) Yaris678 (talk · contribs)
Wikipedians hoping never to meet: Bfpage^{[needs copy edit]} hoping to run into you one day. I am working on an article "Intelligent Gerbils" they are an imaginary alien race supported by a number of refs. I hope to get it to FA very soon. Barbara (WVS)

Subpages

Red links: A list of potential articles, which I will try to keep up to date. I will try to create them, but anyone else is most welcome to contribute.

User:Alextejthompson/Red links

Saved articles: articles I have prevented from being deleted through improvement

User:Alextejthompson/Saved articles

Vanity: an awards page for tokens of appreciation for my editing, which I greatly appreciate

User:Alextejthompson/Vanity

Sandbox: a page for experimentation and notes

User:Alextejthompson/sandbox

CSD and PROD logs: I previously had these deleted but later asked that they be restored. I disliked having a record of so many pages I had asked to be deleted: however, I restored these for the purpose of keeping an accurate record which would otherwise be much more difficult to track.

Todo: a to-do list, usually of more complex tasks

User:Alextejthompson/Todo

Useful Wikipedia pages

Fundamental

Writing articles

References

Other Wikistuff

Simple English Wikipedia Wikibooks Wikinews Wikivoyage Wikisource Wikiquote Wikiversity Commons Wikidata Wiktionary Wikispecies MediaWiki Meta Outreach

Additional: Special:CentralAuth/Rubbish computer - My edits to all Wikimedia Foundation projects

Thanks and happy editing.