User:Localzuk

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[edit] News

I've moved now but don't have a landline - so I am only connecting via a GPRS connection... Latency is high, speeds are low...

[edit] Main pages I have worked on

• Warhammer 40,000 - restructure and re-write (and split off)
• Warhammer 40,000 species - created
• Warhammer 40,000 spin-offs - created
• Planets of Warhammer 40,000 - created from a merge of other pages
• Space Marine Scouts - major tidy
• Weapons, Equipment and Vehicles of the Imperium (Warhammer 40,000) - Split into:

• Weapons and Equipment of the Imperium (Warhammer 40,000)
• Vehicles of the Imperium (Warhammer 40,000)

• List of Space Marine Chapters - general maintenance
• Template:Warhammer 40,000 - created
• StarCraft - general cleaning
• Ubuntu Linux
• Kubuntu
• Xubuntu
• Animal testing
• Animal Liberation Front
• Michael (parish) - created
• Onchan
• Ballaugh - created
• Jurby - created
• Rushen - created
• Lancaster University
• Scan (Newspaper) - created (from the ruins of POV filled mess IIRC), and was subsequently deleted as NN
• Homer Simpson - major tidy and fancruft removal
• Animal rights
• Crime and Disorder Act 1998 - created

[edit] To Do List

1. Change reference styles in any articles I work on to use the footnotes style rather than the current mix of inline and non-inline. Especially all those articles in Category:Animal rights and its subcategorys.

[edit] Userboxes

Counts and Things vn-7 This userpage has been vandalized 7 times. 6 000 This user has over 6 000 edits on the English Wikipedia. This user is a member of the Animal rights WikiProject. This user scored 1076.8917527765343 on the Wikipediholic test.

Barnstar awarded by 9cds for working on keeping Wikipedia NPOV, managing wiki-vandals, and somehow keeping sane at the same time.

For your calm disposition on controversial pages, and for your ability and willingness to dig out good sources, it's my great privilege to award you the Original Barnstar. SlimVirgin ^(talk) 14:42, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Things that I have come to realise

1. That it is not necessary to alter links to redirects in articles - shortly after going on a 'fixing' spree. You live and learn.
2. That it is hard for some people, including myself occasionally, to read someone's comments/edits in good faith. It can be difficult to try and overcome this but it is important to do so.
3. That revealing my age would be a negative thing. From what I have seen on various talk pages, there is a definate 'ageist' atmosphere that appears. This has manifested itself by people not respecting the knowledge of younger editors and also some referring to older editors, and more traditional methods of producing articles as being old timers... This does not seem conducive to a positive atmosphere so I have chosen to keep it unavailable and would ask anyone that the knows me to not add it either. Also remember that even though I have stated that I am a student, this does not necessarily mean that I am of a certain age, or mentality.
4. Degrees are not the be-all and end-all of civilisation. They are just a set of initials to show that you have put up with 3 years or more of mostly nonsense.
5. That working within the system can be the best way of doing things - violence doesn't get you anywhere. I believe that protest is being unduly cracked down upon, but the only way to combat this is to be peaceful. Terrorism is not the answer.-Localzuk^(talk) 20:57, 12 November 2006 (UTC)