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Pigeonholes

This user is a pirate. Arrr!

This user is a librarian/
information scientist.

This user is a fencer.

This user remembers using
a rotary dial telephone.

1 Who?
2 What I hate about Wikipedia (so far)
3 Original Images
4 Links to useful stuff

[edit] Who?

I live in south-east London. I joined Wikipedia in August 2004. Once an Earth Scientist (BSc, Research Assistant, MSc and never-quite finished PhD, all in Quaternary Science, palynology, sedimentology, geochronology and past climate change), I'm now a librarian and studying for a library MA.

[edit] What I hate about Wikipedia (so far)

This section was originally called what I like about Wikipedia, I guess my intitial enthusiasm has worn thin so I'm resorting to listing everything I don't like instead.

Using number of Google hits to assess the notability of an article. How stupid is this?
Users relying on their personal knowledge to assess notability of an article - I mean come on - how about sticking to what you know about?
More to come...

Articles started;

Culture Shock (band) Dark Star (band) Gerard De Geer Kitchens Of Distinction Incremental dating Levitation Radical Dance Faction Varve

Contributed to;

Brockley Cardiacs Castlerigg stone circle Charles Sorley Coral Crucial Three The Cure Cyclone Mahina Dreadzone Editors Facies geochronology The God Machine Guerrilla gardening Ladywell Linnaean taxonomy List of librarians London Action Resource Centre The Megalithic European micropaleontology Middlesex Murray Bookchin New Cross Newbury bypass palynology paleontology Parliament Square Piltdown Man River Effra River Ravensbourne Silvery Marmoset taphonomy War poet Younger Dryas

To start;

Laminated Sediments

To contribute to;

reclaim the streets, dinoflagellates

[edit] Original Images

[edit] Links to useful stuff

Portal:Earth_sciences

Tip of the day...

What writing style to use

Wikipedia articles are formatted according to the Manual of Style. It sets standards for attributes like link formatting (list external links in their own section at the bottom of an article), capitalization (do not capitalize all words in section headings), punctuation (remember the serial comma), sections (an informative lead section is important), and many other stylistic details. There are separate guidelines for biographies, citations, titles, dates and numbers, and proper names. The naming conventions set standards for titling articles, such as do not capitalize all words and use the singular form wherever possible. You don't have to use all these rules and recommendations when you update an article, but please do not be alarmed if others edit your writing accordingly.