User:Ben W Bell

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This page has been vandalised, 35 times. Lucky old me.

So, here I am. This is my user page. Now what do I want to put here? Hello <waves>.

Born and raised in Northern Ireland where I spent my first 19 years before moving to England to attend university. I ended up in Canterbury (hey it was the furthest university from home and still in the English speaking Europe). Once there I attended University of Kent where I obtained a BSc in Physics with Space Science and Systems. I am now employed in the role I studied for, obviously a Business/Technical Analyst and Developer for a media company, glad the degree proved vital in my everyday life.

My interests vary wildly and I can be found on pages concerning many different topics. Check my contributions to see what I've been altering lately.

I have strong interests in the fields of role-playing games, Japanese and in the neutral portrayal of the articles relating to Northern Ireland.

Of late I seem to have spent most of my time going to random articles and cleaning up anything that needs doing to them, that and removing vandalism when and where I find it. So I seem to be doing more janitorial duties than actual article editing, aw well.

1 WikiProjects
2 Current Projects
3 To Do List
4 Useful Wiki Pages
5 Info pages
6 Appreciation
- 6.1 Recognition I've Received
- 6.2 Recognition I've Awarded
7 Articles
- 7.1 Articles I've started
8 Photographs I've taken and uploaded

[edit] WikiProjects

Wikipedia projects I am a member of.

WikiProject Airlines

[edit] Current Projects

I am currently randomly going through Wikipedia and trying to neutralise the geographical knowledge required by a reader of any of the location articles. By this I mean that an article should not presume that the reader knows, for example, that Ohio is in the United States and that it should state in the opening sentence the country in which a location is located. This allows for easier reading and understanding by Wikipedians all over the world.

[edit] To Do List

Continue with putting national identifiers in any locational articles that need them.

[edit] Useful Wiki Pages

A list of pages within Wikipedia that I find useful in my editing.

[edit] Info pages

Disruptive editting

[edit] Appreciation

All of us on Wikipedia do what we do because we enjoy it and like to contribute to a greater community and not to gain recognition by our peers. However saying that some people do recognise others contributions and I would like to thank them for it.

[edit] Recognition I've Received

I was awarded this Barnstar by SwissCelt for "efforts to add national location to a number of place names in the United States and United Kingdom."

		The Original Barnstar
		Awarded for diligent service despite ad hominem attacks ClairSamoht 02:33, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

		The Original Barnstar
		For your hard work and dedication to improving Wikipedia, I, Sharkface217, hereby award you this Original Barnstar. Good job! Sharkface217 19:49, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Recognition I've Awarded

To User:Necrothesp

		The Original Barnstar
		For dedication to your areas of expertise, your persistence in the face of vandalism and your NPOV and keeping your cool when others launch attacks on you. I think it's a long time coming. Ben W Bell talk 08:23, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Articles

[edit] Articles I've started

Aviation related

Geography related

Food related

Blenz, the Canadian coffee shop chain.
Farl

Science Fiction

Chung Kuo

Others

Ballenberg, an open air museum of traditional buildings in Switzerland.
Thomas Andrews (shipbuilder)

[edit] Photographs I've taken and uploaded

[edit] Aviation related

Austrian Arrows Fokker F100 taking off from Heathrow Airport	De Havilland Canada Beaver in Baxter Aviation livery	De Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter in Harbour Air livery	A Her Majesty's Coastguard helicopter taken over Dorset
Sikorsky S-76A helicopter in HeliJet livery	A Russian Soyuz spacecraft in the National Space Centre, Leicester, England

[edit] Building Related

A rich house from the Bernese Midlands in Switzerland, now on display in Ballenberg open air museum.	Blickling Hall near Aylsham, Norfolk, England	A closeup of thatching on a roof.	Interior of Giger Bar in Gruyeres, Switzerland.
Granville Square building with Canada Place and the Burrard Inlet in the background.	The Shaw Tower in Vancouver	Vancouver Library Square	Interior of Vancouver Library Square showing the library on the left, retail on the right and the office tower straight ahead.
The Westgate, Canterbury showing the opening and traffic.