User:Hroðulf

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Perhaps you're looking for Hrodulf? (not Hroðulf aka Hrothulf) See User:Hroðulf/disambuigation

This is the user page for Hroðulf (or Hrothulf), a small-time pseudonymous volunteer editor of Wikipedia. You can use it to find out more about me, and in particularly, some of the 'hows' and 'whys' of what I do on Wikipedia. Nothing I write here, or anywhere else, is officially sanctioned by Wikimedia (or anyone else!)

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[edit] Links

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[edit] Can you help?

[edit] Article improvement list

Feeding yours and my addiction to Wikipedia. In my humble opinion, the encyclopedia would benefit if you call by one of these articles, and contribute your skills or knowledge.

Medium projects:

Small projects:

[edit] Anglican doctrine

To-do list for Anglican doctrine:

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  • Expand the section on Unofficial doctrine to include paragraphs on
  • Write a section on doctrinal issues related to ordination of women
  • Write a section on homosexuality doctrine
  • Reference as many facts as possible
  • Remove article stub tag
I think the above items would be sufficient to remove the article stub tag. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 15:43, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Write a short list of books for further reading (this would also be helpful to editors to research new sections for the article)
  • Rewrite the lead section as a summary of all the article
  • Expand the pararaph on the doctrinal controversies related to Pietism and the Methodist schism
  • Get linked from relevant articles elsewhere in Wikipedia
  • Explain how some provinces have used church legislation to distance themselves from some implications of the Thirty-Nine Articles
  • Expand the stub of E.L. Mascall
  • Explain the Anglican ecclesiologies, as they were prior to the pastoral oversight experiments (probably in the 'unofficial doctrine' section)
  • Write a section on the Nonjuring schism
  • Expand the Book of Common Prayer section
  • Expand post-reformation history of formal doctrine
  • Review the list of notable contemparary advocates to ensure representative coverage
  • Write a section on Anglican Eucharistic theology
  • Write a section on the History of Calvinist-Arminian debate in Anglicanism
  • Write about the doctrines of Anglican sacraments
  • Write about the Chicago-Lambeth Quadrilateral
  • Write about the Bangorian Controversy
If you take on one of these tasks, please write “in progress” next to it and sign your name with ~~~~ (four tildes). If you want to pass on the baton for a task, just delete your in progress marker. When a task is done, just strike it out with <s> at the start of the line.

[edit] Magee College

To-do list for Magee College:

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*Write a fair use rationale for the fair use images in the article. In progress. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 09:13, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

  • Add Number of students to infobox (with source)
  • Write a balanced account of recent development work (such as new buildings, departments, courses, institutes)
  • Remove stub tags (when above 2 tasks are done.)
  • More images
(suggestions:
  • new buildings,
  • historic photos,
  • architect's sketches,
  • location map
  • students and staff in action)
  • Add number of faculty to infobox (with source)
  • Write new section on campus social and sporting life
  • Add several more notable alumni and honorary degrees
  • Scour Wikipedia for pages that should be linking here.

[edit] Contributions

[edit] Selected pages I have started

[edit] Contributions I am proud of

[edit] Other interesting contributions

[edit] Embarrassing self-reverts and screwups

  • Too many to list here.

[edit] Languages

I am interested in languages, but I am certainly not an expert linguist. My native tongue is English, and I mostly use the Standard British variety of this language. I can write and speak French language fairly competently, and I have some knowledge of Scots, German and Standard Mandarin.

Inspired by this interest, I will try to do some cautious editing work on language-related articles. Of course, expect to see me attempting to contribute to other articles where I feel I can improve coverage of a topic. You may even see me attempt rough translations of articles to or from the above languages. --Hroðulf 11:11, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Is it a language or a dialect?

I don't really care if you prefer to call a communication system a language or a dialect. Please don't fight about it in the encyclopaedia articles. Before you fill up the talk pages with this debate, think about this:

  1. If 2 languages are closely related, language experts probably don't agree on whether they are 2 languages or 2 dialects.
  2. Across the world, many language promotion efforts produce strong opposition. This seems to be because promotion of a language (which often involves using the word language to describe what was previously known as a dialect) can be combined with separatist, nationalist or imperialist movements. The same applies to language persecution.
  3. On every language talk page on Wikipedia, someone says "It is a dialect not a language, because language X is very similar to it." What is your point, exactly?
  4. Your local languages and dialects do not have unusual status, and neither do mine.
  5. Similar arguments apply to language reform and spelling reform movements. I do not care.

The Wikipedia article on Dialect covers the whole issue in a much less emotive manner than I do. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 12:10, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Not really a language?

Do you feel like calling someone else's language just .... something?

just an excuse to exclude us... just a way to get government grants... just a dialect... just another part of your evil separatist/nationalist/imperialist movement... just the language of the gutter... just my language with bad spelling and bad grammar... just a made-up language... just some words and slang from my language spoken in a funny accent... just another brick in the wall.

  1. Count to ten.
  2. You are not alone.
  3. Don't expect me, or any other reasonable Wikipedian, to be sympathetic. We have heard it all before.

--11:11, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] British spelling

Many British readers find American spelling grating, and the other way round. Wikipedia encourages both, and other typical English spellings. Me? I don't really care, and you will find me using both British and American.

Test yourself: Which is right in Britain?

Did you notice that spelling for some English words is not yet standardized, even in the authoritative dictionaries? It bugs me if you try to "correct" my spelling to your preferred one. If you catch me "correcting" yours, revert it, and complain to me.--11:11, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Who is Hroðulf?

I am not User:Hrodulf who has the same name spelled slightly differently, but is a different real-life person. See: User:Hroðulf/disambuigation

I chose my username, Hroðulf (or Hrothulf), from the Anglo-Saxon or Old English language epic poem Beowulf. It was a little presumptuous of me, as the only West Germanic languages I know are modern English and modern Scots. I actually understand much less of Beowulf than I do of the modern West Frisian language, which isn't that much. Wikipedia has an article about the literary and historical character Hroðulf, which I did not write.

[edit] What is that funny letter ð in your username?

That is the letter Eth, used in Germanic and Celtic (Irish) alphabets. My username comes from the Old English language, where ð represents the th sound in modern English (as in the words that and the). It really is a Latin character, listed in the ISO/IEC 8859-1 standard character encoding, and is used in some modern Nordic languages, so most computer applications developed in the last ten to fifteen years support it. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 10:11, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Scratchpad

Useful boilerplate

  • {{speedy-image-c|[[2006-11-07]]}}<br />{{replacethisimage}} article page
  • {{subst:rfu}} image page
  • rm image that has no fair use rationale - see [[Help:Image page#Fair use rationale]] edit summary

[edit] To do

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