User:Redvers/Sandbox

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Well, hello there!

Glad you could pop by. I'm Redvers, one of a growing band of people helping make the internet that little bit better by building a free, collaborative encyclopedia that anyone can edit.

I'm interested in British television and radio, the Great War, World War Two and contemporary history in the post-war period. My Wikipedia time contains lots of "just" reading the content (there are over a million pages here, all fascinating), much contributing and tons of tiding up and anti-vandalism... both something of a sad hobby in and of themselves. On 22 March 2006, 105 people decided to give me the keys to the janitor's cupboard and I am now an administrator here.

I'm a Welshman who is to be found dividing my time between North Yorkshire, Merseyside and the beautiful Ieper in Belgium.

I'm also a practicing homosexual - after all, practice makes perfect! I'm hoping one day to win an award for my contributions and dedicated practical research in this particular area.

Thank you so much for giving me the moral support I so desperately needed after all those vandalism attacks. Your light-hearted replies helped me cheer up - and yeah, it does feel good! –- kungming·2 | ^(Talk·^Contact) 20:30, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Everywhere I look there is yet another of your graphics! Ali K 23:07, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

More awards on my awards page.

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ITC WikiProject

Wikipedia:WikiProject ITC Productions is a project to better organize information in articles related to ITC Entertainment Distributions.

Bonkers! • Cannonball (series) • Captain Scarlet vs the Mysterons • Court Martial (series) • Diver Dan • Espionage (series) • From a Bird's Eye View • Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans • Interpol Calling • Kraft Music Hall Presents The Des O'Connor Show • Man of the World • New York Confidential • OSS (series) • Seaway • The Adventurer (series) • The Adventures of Ellery Queen • The Beachcomber (series) • The Buccaneers (series) • The Count of Monte Cristo (series) • The Forest Rangers • The Four Just Men • The Gale Storm Show • The Halls of Ivy • The Invisible Man (1958 series) • The Julie Andrews Hour • The New Adventures of Charlie Chan • The Sentimental Agent • This Is Tom Jones • The Lew List

Military memorials task force

This task force covers all military memorials, monuments, and cemeteries, regardless of the country or conflict to which they relate.

Articles created

Major rewrite

Tyne Cot Cemetery

Clean-ups and major expansions

The good, the bad and the ugly can benefit from a clean-up. These are a small selection of the articles I've cleaned-up, expanded or generally turned around: most of them originally found by clicking the Random article option. Anything I can't clean up goes off to AfD - if an article is so bad it can't be cleaned and the references are so poor it can't be re-researched, then why is it here in the first place?

Der schwarze Kanal for accuracy • Jeff Cooper (broadcaster) removed vanispamcruftisement... an on-going job, it seems • Radio station made readable • WDLT (FM) made readable • SBS Newstech made readable • Thiagarajar College of Engineering made readable and removed advertising • Oscar Deutsch expanded • The Elephant Show made readable • Hermit's Rest expanded • Deutschlandfunk completely rewritten • Victor Weisz made readable and expanded • Free Radio Memphis made readable• Vegetarian nutrition clarified • Val Anthony made readable• Nursing diagnosis polished • Jingling Geordie's Hole made readable... and made to make sense • National institutions for human rights rewritten and condensed to focus • List of Polish language radio stations brought up to date • Lewis B Hershey made readable • Independent Local Radio completely rewritten• Hinze Dam set on the right road for expansion • Sara Kirke made readable • Česká televize set on the right road for expansion • Whitaker's Almanack expanded • Nederlandse Omroep Stichting added a history section that makes sense of the rest of the article • *MTV from advertising to useful stub...

Administrators worry - a lot - about undoing each other's actions. It's known as wheel warring and it drives someone crazy.

For the record: it doesn't bother me. Well, it does when people do it to each other. I mean, it doesn't bother me if other admins wish to undo me. I'm not perfect, have never claimed to be and can't see a Wikipedia rule requiring it!

Disagree with the delete I just did? Undelete it.
Disagree with the block I just did? Unblock.
Disagree with the protection I just did? Unprotect.

It's not wheel-warring, it's just common sense. Feel free to drop me a line (not to explain, just to tell me you've done it) but only if you want to.

The only time I think I'd get peeved is if I was closing an AfD or the like and you didn't agree with my decision and undid it. But even then, I'd likely turn up and talk to you about it rather than stamping my foot or undoing you.