User:Mike Peel

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This is the Wikipedia user page on Mike Peel. For Mike Peel, see real life.

I am a student of Physics and Astrophysics at the University of Manchester. I've just finished a Masters course, and have recently started a PhD course at Jodrell Bank, looking at the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect. For more info about me, see my personal webpage at MikePeel.net.

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[edit] Wikipedia activities

My current Stress (physics) stress level
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My current Stress (physics) stress level

I mainly edit (astro-)physics articles, although I don't confine myself to them. A lot of my editing is related to references for the articles - which is currently one of Wikipedia's biggest weak points, in my opinion.

If you've replied to a comment of mine on a talk page of an article, or started one about an edit I've made, and I haven't responded, that's most likely because I don't watch all of the pages that I've edited. Sorry. Please poke me on my talk page, and I'll reply to your comment.

I operate Peelbot, which I hope to use for a variety of things. I'm currently using it to tag the talk pages of physics-related articles with Template:Physics.

I also have an account at Wikimedia Commons: commons:User:Mike Peel, which I use to upload pictures to Wikipedia (under CC-BY-SA), and another on Wikinews: wikinews:User:Mike Peel.

I don't like external links sections; I feel that their content is generally best placed under either the References section, or Further Reading, or in an infobox in the case of official links. I find that external links sections invite spam, which is generally bad.

This user is a participant of
WikiProject Physics.
This user is a member of the Astronomical Object WikiProject.

[edit] Observations

  • Over the last few weeks (November 2006), I've noticed a number of editors giving correct edit summaries while vandalising articles. For example, [1] shows an editor giving an edit summary of "spelling errors", while introducing spelling errors into the article!
  • Over the last few months (Oct-Nov 2006), I've also noticed an increase in the number of anonymous editors either adding wikilinks to articles, or removing some, with no other changes.

[edit] Works in progress

[edit] Bookmarks

These are Wikipedia pages I either find useful but don't edit, or that I do edit but don't want cluttering up my watchlist. Since Wikipedia doesn't have a proper bookmarking system, this seems to be the logical place to put them.

[edit] Places to watch

Mainly for updating Wikipedia:WikiProject Physics/Current activity

[edit] Wikipedia 1.0

[edit] Things I think every Wikipedian should read

(Have you read them all?)


[edit] Disclaimers

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